05/11/2012 Inside Out East Midlands

Hello. Tonight Inside Out is in Derby to remember 20 years of

Toyota. Turning Japanese how oriental

manufacturing came to Derbyshire. Most people but do not work here

think we do karate. I have not experienced it in any other place I

have worked that. Also tonight, a story of courage

and incredible endurance from start to finish line. I did not expect it.

And new hope for people with Alzheimers. We were looking forward

to a retirement. It changes all of that.

I'm Marie Ashby and this is Inside It's 20 years since Toyota's first

car came off the production line just up the road from here at

Burnaston in Derbyshire. It's now one of our biggest employers, but

back in 1992, not many people knew much about the Japanese-owned

company. Tonight Mike O' Sullivan investigates how Toyota changed

lives, overturned old prejudices and introduced a new way of working

that some say British industry can This car has got to be a star.

Unveiled at the Paris Motor Show, updated, sportier, Toyota's new

Auris. It has been built at Burnaston, a factory that has come

We did have to seriously to cut ourselves, the volumes after the

financial crisis, they completely collapsed. We say, for the last

three years, we have been in survival and revival phase. We have

managed the survival and we are now one the revival with the new Auris.

How did where to come to Derbyshire in the first place? It was like a

spaceship had landed -- how did Twitter. What is it like to work

there? 20 years ago, we made a car every two minutes. Now we make a

car every 66 seconds. Survival has been achieved the Toyota away.

After the global financial crisis for years ago, there were big cuts

in production. 750 voluntary redundancies after negotiations

with the single union on site. The revival means Toyota is recruiting

again. The new Auris is bringing up to 1500 new jobs, half of them now

filled. Already 12,500 people have applied. New recruits will find

Toyota is a company like no other. For a start, there is the morning

exercises. Professional footballers warm-up before the start of a game.

We need to do the same. Some of the actions with the body we need to do

to perform their the manufacturing. Most people think we do karate. But

no, I have not experienced it in any other place I have worked fact.

The new recruits starting today go through what is called in English a

training school. They have to complete key skills were then a

certain number of seconds. everyone is from a manufacturing

background. I was a chef for 10 years. Toyota was hiring and I

thought I would try it. A new challenge. A Creative Career for me

as well. I am hoping I will be here until I retire, hopefully. Prior

to's first car came off the production line in Burnaston 20

years ago in 1992. That was this car, it was not just a car. It was

a manufacturing revolution on four wheels. Toyota wanted to change the

way production-line workers thought as well as how they worked. They

call... We constantly look for it in our processes so we look to make

it more efficient both four-member and for machinery. The time should

constantly come down. -- for the worker and the machinery. We were

allowed exclusive access to a Bilbo for the new Auris, ahead of main

production. -- build day. Support teams keep a close watch on the

Assembly line. Ideas for the Gold of efficiency do not just come from

the top, but everyone at the factory. -- the goal of efficiency.

We look for as little as 0.1 of a second. We want to reduce every

movement our employees are making. That means moving the parts closer

to the line, the tools closer, and as you will see behind me, we have

automatic guided vehicles which deliver the parts to the employee

one by one just as they need them. This is where the whole process of

making a car begins. Huge coils of steel arrive. They're going to be

pressed into the body parts. When the body is ready on the Assembly

line, everything else arrives, just in time. Back in 1989, Derbyshire

had just three months to convince Toyota it was the place for its

first European factory. The stakes are high. The plant will produce

200,000 cars a year and the possible investment represents

around �800 million. Hopefully we will make the short left added

people see a lot of Japanese people in the area, be nice to them. --

the short list. Wales and Humberside were also in the race.

Player to chose Derbyshire with its manufacturing skills dating back to

the Industrial Revolution. They paid �22.5 million for the

Burnaston airfield near Derby. We are reunited two former political

rivals who played a part in bringing Puerto to Derbyshire. The

Labour leader of the county council led the negotiations. Edwina Currie

was the Conservative MP for South Derbyshire. They shared memories in

Derby. But they could not agree on everything. Like weather one

meeting recalled by Edwina Currie actually happened. Where are the

notes? Where was the meeting? think you should look in the

archives. Where was the meeting? both did rather well out of this

and the people of Derbyshire did exceptionally well out of it.

did agree on Toyota's impact. was like a spaceship had landed. It

was an astonishing experience, even before the factory opened, when

they started recruiting. reaction was not good in places. We

got racism. We fought the Second World War again over at it. If I

compare it then to now, we actually live on a different planet. A

number of people there are still at Puerto. Toyota was also

transforming lives. 20 years ago, this man from the East End of

London got a job but Toyota. He has been there ever since. He left

behind Ford in Dagenham where he had been an apprentice. He has

become a maintenance group leader and he is also the Conservative

mayor. You were a number at Ford. But when you went to broker, you

became a person. It was more of a family atmosphere of -- when you

went to Toyota. You could have a better impact on the quality. At

Ford, they were not interested in you. I have been there for 20 years.

From the 20 year celebrations, there are about 300 of us that have

been there for all of those years. But my say something about the

company. -- that must say. Today was the start of the production of

the new Auris and their visit by Vince Cable. Next year the

production target goes up by 70,000 to 190,000 vehicles. As Toyota and

the rest of the car industry ride out the peaks and troughs of of

consumer confidence. When Claire Lomas signed up for the

London Marathon, she was not aiming to break any records. She knew

getting to the finish line would be a mammoth undertaking. With the

help of a panic suit, she set out to complete the 26th 0.2 miles -- a

bionic suit. the 22 -- the 26.2 miles.

A talented equestrian rider, Claire Lomas had a bright future in front

of her. In May 2007, her life changed forever. While eventing at

Horse trials, she was thrown from her horse. Her spinal cord was

severed, paralysing her from the chest down. It was hard to start

with. Some very dark days. Then you push on and I had to find new

things to do because eventing I could not do. It took a while to

get my life that contract. You just have to give yourself time and keep

making you do little things -- my life back on track. Claire Lomas is

not most people. Since the accident, she has met and married her and her

husband, given birth and learnt to ski. -- her now husband. Her

background in sport gave her the detain the -- determination to

carry on. Eventing is more dedication than most sports because

you have horses and they need to ring on Christmas Day and all of

the time. I am used to putting that effort in. And effort would really

be put to the test after she decided to attempt the London

Marathon with the help of an advanced robotics soup to raise

money for Spinal Research. -- The pressure was harder because it

was not liked training normally calls up I had to do this close-up

the first steps began. Up the first steps of the marathon were taken

near Hull where the company that makes her sit are based. We had the

target of the marathon and that was quite a lot of pressure.

robotics it uses lightweight bass is to support the legs and rotate

the joints. The Back Pack contains an eight hour battery. Having

worked with her over the period, it is a genuine opportunity for people

to do this. I decided to get myself fit and as in practice as I could.

In the fours in abundance as a race they came around. -- belief was in

abundance. Getting ready for the challenge. When I think of it now,

it makes me still feel very emotional because I did not expect

it. When you have that kind of response, you cannot fail. She has

an absolute inspiration and puts it on to the spectre false up the idea

of running for five hours is nothing when you consider what she

is going to do. -- puts it into perspective. As nearly 30,000

runners were cured through the streets, she waited patiently for

her harrowing moment to start. -- her own moment. The cheering went

on for almost the first mile which at the speed I am going is quite

some time. She knows it is going to become long time to it but she has

the strength and determination to get to the end. Up the response is

just unbelievable. It meant so much to me. It is the first time that

anyone had attempted to complete the London Marathon by this means

both up it will take her between two and Bea weeks to complete the

26 mile course. Four days in an her target of two miles a day was

proving difficult as the uphill trek took its toll. its feels like

you have luck so far but it is still so far away. I just think it

is extraordinary what she is doing so wanted to come and show my

support to help motivate her. the morning, it was raining again

and I did not feel like it but what I really wanted to do was to sit

down at the end of the day and I wanted to get up again fulls the

day on Tower Bridge was one to remember. Up it was raining and

Wendy and I was almost blown over at a couple of points. I read in a

magazine that she was doing this and had to come down to support her.

Up everything in her life from 2007 until now has been positive. There

are so many people here to support her today. Those people do not have

to come. They have not committed to anything but they decided to come.

Eight days in, she crosses the River Thames. It marks the halfway

Clyde of her journey and despite the horizontal rain and wind,

spirits are buoyed up by the ever present support. I am getting there

so we'll keep marching on. They 13 and she pursues on to canny the

worse, the London financial district. -- Canary Wharf's. The

money keeps rolling in. That is extremely kind of you, thank you

very much. She is normally just treading along in the garage so

this is a lot better! The finishing line is nearly insight on day 15.

There had been a handful of press at the start of the journey but

there was unprecedented attention on the final day. We cannot put in

words out proud we are, quite an emotional morning. Then the end was

finally in sight. I guard of honour from the Household Cavalry escort

in her over the finishing line. was great fun but they do not

expect it to be quite like that. Six months on, she has already set

her sights on the next challenge. In April, I will cycle 400 miles

around various parts of England. I will stop off in schools and

deliver up tops so hopefully they will get behind me for some fund

raising. I am going to get some use out of my LX. If anyone can do it,

Claire Lomas can. She is certainly one determined

lady and we wish her the very best. Beng diagnosed with dementia can be

a shock, even if you were expecting it, and can be a worrying time for

you and your family. The tests can be difficult and

expensive but at team from the University of Nottingham may now

have an answer. It's very hard to say you have

dementia and that is it. The end game is what everyone is worried

about. Your life doesn't finish just because of the diagnosis.

were looking forward to spending our retirement together but it

changes all that. In the UK, over 820,000 people are living with

dementia. Over the next 10 years in the East Midlands, the number of

people with it is expected to reach nearly 70,000. Four years ago, Gary

Musson from Calverton was diagnosed with dementia. How does it make you

feel? You seem to cope very well with all of Miss... Set. -- sick.

There are lot of things you want to do but you cannot do them so you

have to sit in the House sometimes. Dementia literally means the loss

of the mind and it is a very diverse condition and there are a

lot of different types. The most common type involves loss of memory,

and that his loss of short-term memory to begin with. That is the

type that encompasses Alzheimer's dementia. I have to think, work it

out, a brain. Dementia doesn't only affect the elderly. Heather Roberts

was diagnosed with a form of Alzheimer's at 50. It took me Agate

pre-match years to get a diagnosis. I had a long and hard fight to get

somebody to appreciate that somebody it of the age of 50 could

have a problem. She had to weave her work and she could not cope

with it and found it difficult to deal with. The people I was working

with notice that I was not doing my work correctly. I could do some

bits of the job but I had to come out of it because I did not want to

kill anybody. I worked in electrics. My son and I gotta wear with his

friend and he was an really good friend and it upset him as well. My

daughter broke down crying. We will work it out.

Dr Nin Bajaj, a neurologist at the Working Age Dementia Clinic at

Nottingham's QMC specialises in working with people under the age

of 65. If we do not tackle it, it is likely that the number of cases

out there will keep on increasing and that will become even more of a

social and economic burden. Since her diagnosis at a relatively young

age, Heather Roberts with her husband Dave has worked endlessly

to raise awareness of dementia. Today they travelled from home in

Derby to the international Alzheimer's conference in London.

Increasingly, conferences are being put together where people with

dementia can play a much more active part. I think that is very

important when you have academics and health care professionals who,

if they're not careful, can live inside a theoretical bubble.

most high profile person with dementia is a man who makes his

living from words. Terry Pratchett has sold 70 million books. One of

our most successful authors. But five years ago he was diagnosed

with early onset of dementia. you read, you turn the pages

automatically and that is how it works. The brain that joins up the

writing in your head does not seem to work. I can get away with all of

this because I have a personal assistant and various computer

programs look up my life is not that different to the life of the

average writer. I knew something was wrong in advance of a diagnosis.

Dementia care is costly. It's estimated that we spend �23 billion

every year looking after those with the condition. At the moment, it

costs several hundred pounds to accurately diagnose dementia. It

takes time. Now the team at the University of Nottingham are

developing a technique which makes it easier. It's hoped that for less

than �5 the machine will be able to detect the existence of dementia

from a simple blood test taken in your GP's surgery. Because the

screen is a relatively cheap, we are essentially changing the way

the health service works in that you will be monitoring health

rather than reacting to disease. We can see the disease and the very

early stages and treat it early on rather than reacting to a problem

when it becomes more serious letter on. Gary as part of the testing

colt -- programme in Nottingham. He is here to get more blood samples

and will be taking part in a memory test. The test will take about 20

minutes and when we have finished the test, we will send you to the

blood clinic to have your blood test. Can you tell me what day it

is today? Today? Can you take seven away from 100. The raw a clock face

with all the numbers on it. -- draw. You had some tests last week and

they were quite challenging. did you feel any went? I cannot

remember. How does it affect your daily life? Finding his way around

the House. I can tell him where to go to get a pair of socks from and

then the next time he does not know. Every time he needs something

different, each time I have to tell him exactly where it is. Down the

corridor and which set of doors. He will sometimes ask where the

bedroom is. If this machine works as well as we think it will, it

will have a global impact. The diagnostic market in dementia is

worth billions of dollars and that is a reflection of the burden of

this disease around the world. ability to detect dementia earlier

in the future banks to do work here in Nottingham will mean people can

help live a normal life for longer and that means rather than just

adding years to your life, you will add life to your years. We have

gone through it together. I know you're little ways. This is your

wake-up call. Lovely to the full with that person well you can. --

live life to the full. I would continue to do the work and we will

apply it our way onwards. Death in things happen to different people

and lots of people have to cope with different illnesses. This is

just one of them. Thanks to everyone for sharing their personal

experiences. That is it from us this week.