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Hello and welcome to a special anniversary programme. Tonight | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
we're at the BBC in Leicester, celebrating ten years of Inside Out | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
East Midlands. So do you remember this? My family and my friends | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
thought I might die but I know I would get better. 9-year-old Abbey | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
was the star of our first programme - 10 years on we find out how she | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
is now, and we will be digging out How long are you going to spend | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
trying to evade justice, Mr Roberts? What the BLEEP's it got to | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
do with you? You have been found guilty before, haven't you, of | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
conning people? Nice car you've got, you have a nice villa up the road. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Are you prepared for a winter's night on the town? Not really! | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
are going out with no shoes on? should have some in the boot in | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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case I break down. You're having a Before we look back at the last 10 | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
years of Inside Out, it's also the 50th anniversary of Jamaican | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
independence. Like thousands of others, Des Coleman's parents | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
joined the wave of migrants who came here after the war to fill | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Britain's chronic labour shortage. But the welcome they got wasn't | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
always a warm one. Tonight Des tells the story of the people who | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
came here to settle in the East Derby is my home town. It is where | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
I grew up and a place that holds so many childhood memories. In fact | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
most of my family still live here. It is now a multicultural | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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metropolis, somewhere I feel safe, And like thousands of others of | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Jamaican descent, I celebrate my family's heritage in style. However, | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
when my mum first arrived in Derby, it was a very different place. This | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
road in Derby was the inner-city neighbourhood that became known as | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Little Kingston for a while. In fact, Mum, you'll remember this. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
This is where we used to live and this is where I was born. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
remember it well, these were houses those days. We have come along to | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
meet an old friend who arrived in this gritty industrialised town | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
It was 20 years after the first wave of Jamaican immigrants arrived | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
on the Empire Windrush and the colour of communities in Derby was | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
changing. But many white natives were still nervous of the so-called | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
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"newcomers". George! Good to see My mum's mate George Mighty arrived | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
in Derby 50 years ago. Since then his commitment to the city's | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Caribbean community has been unrivalled. He's even been honoured | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
for his contribution to racial harmony, but in those early days, | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
times were tough. I had relatives here, living all along this area, | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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but it wasn't easy because where you worked, it wasn't an easy place. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
You worked at a gas forge. That's right, one of my first jobs. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
did they treat you? The workers were terrible, some of them. They | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
made comments that was totally uncalled for. You had a similar | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
reception to other Jamaicans that came over. Yeah, I'm sure I did. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
It's just that I was able to probably manage it better than | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
other people. It was sold to the Jamaican people that it was a land | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
of opportunity. There was an advert going around in the early days, to | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
say, come to England, England is your Mother country and it needs | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
you. And I for one came on that advert, as soon as I'm old enough | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
I'll go to England. So it was a real slap in the face when you got | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
here? Yeah, you see the reception wasn't there. And the cold! It was | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
so cold! Good thing my husband bought me a coat but it still | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
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George and my mum's story were similar. When they arrived jobs | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
were plentiful in Britain and Derby was their promised land. People | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
were settling down and starting families, but racism was everywhere. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Difficult to get work, and I had some difficulty in getting | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
accommodation also, which I attribute to colour prejudice, | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
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I want to understand the hostility and the mindset of the native | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Midlanders back then so I'm having lunch with author and historian | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Kerry Young. She is of Chinese- Jamaican descent and now lives in | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
Leicestershire. Her latest book is set in a Jamaica under British rule. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
So it seemed as though your parents and mine both arrived in the UK at | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
the same time, but the welcome they received wasn't as warm as they had | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
expected. No, because by that point, we are talking the Sixties, there | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
was so many Caribbean settlers in Britain that there was already | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
racial tension. So you have got new neighbours, growing, increasing in | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
number, often increasing in poorer communities, who you feel are | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
putting a drain on employment and welfare services. So was it fair to | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
say the government wanted us over here but the people didn't? | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
government wanted the workers. But the people didn't necessarily want | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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to live with those people once we Word was getting back to Jamaica | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
that although things weren't easy in the UK, there were still | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
opportunities, so people arrived in their thousands and headed for the | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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country's manufacturing heartland, So what was it like for families | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
like mine, torn in two and living thousands of miles apart, and what | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
was happening in Jamaica to push these people to leave? I have | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
arrived in my mum's homeland, days after Hurricane Sandy ripped across | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
Jamaica. Many people were still mopping up the mess. My first port | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
of call is the small village of Bamboo, the place my mum was born | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
and where she grew up. It's been a ten-hour flight and a long drive, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
but finally I have arrived in the village of Bamboo, and this is the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
house where my mum grew up. It is a long way from a James Bond beach | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
and bikini-clad girls. This is what I call the real Jamaica. And guess | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
what, it's raining! Joining me is my mum's cousin Val, who decided to | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
stay and make his living from farming. While many of his | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
relatives left, even his daughter emigrated to Japan, Val vowed to | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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stay. I want to know what it was like for people left behind. This | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
is you when you was a baby. This is when my mum went to England. So | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
when people were leaving to go to England, was there any jealousy? | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Well, some husband might feel that them wife not going to come back to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
them, wife feel their husband not coming back to them, so there was a | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
jealousy in between. Did it split marriages up? Of course it did, | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
because people go to the UK and them find a better life, so don't | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
remember them immediate family, them start a new relationship and | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
carry on with their life while some in Jamaica have to wait, so them | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
have to move on. People still leaving to search for a better life | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
right now. So many educated people leave and never come back. It was a | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
I am one of an estimated 2.5 million Jamaicans and their | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
descendants who now live abroad. Despite its political stability, | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
Jamaica is still a poor country. So was it poverty that made Jamaicans | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
want to leave their homeland for places like Derby or something | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
else? To find out, I am meeting Khitanya Petgrave, a lecturer in | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
the University of West Indies and an expert on migration during the | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
Forties, Fifties and Sixties. Until 1962, Jamaica was under British | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
rule and prejudice wasn't just confined to UK shores. What was | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
going on in Jamaica in the Sixties that made people want to leave? | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Locally, there were some social problems, a lot of people who left | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
were black, of urban working-class background, and they were the | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
target of anti-black discrimination. A lot of opportunities were not | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
available for them. That coincided with the pull factor, you have to | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
understand that Jamaica in this period was nearly 300 years under | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
British rule. These people had been socialised to believe themselves to | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
be subject of the British Empire and belonging to it, very much so. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
So they were inundated with the idea of the veneration of British | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
monarchy, British heroes, they read books, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
all these things were things they believed were theirs. So it seemed | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
to me that they were going home, in many ways, almost like a mother | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
country. So the dream was to go to England, make life yourself and | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
then come back to Jamaica. Did many people aspire to that? | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
So the black working-class is being held back in this British colony | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
and the only way to better your prospects is to leave and try your | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
luck in the motherland. To end my journey, I have tracked down a | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
former Derby postman. Caleb and his wife, now in their eighties, loved | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
their life in the UK, despite its challenges. But after 40 years, it | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
was their dream to retire back home. I have tracked Caleb Brown to his | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
new home in Tolgate, Jamaica. Before you went to England you | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
classed yourself as Jamaican. Then you stayed in in England for 40 | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
years, what did you class yourself as? Jamaican. So that never changed. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
When you came back to Jamaica, did the Jamaicans treat you | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
differently? People would rip you off. Coming from abroad, so it is | :10:41. | :10:51. | |
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almost like a reverse prejudice. In So you moved over to England to | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
make better prospects for yourself, you did that and come back to | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Jamaica. Would you say you have lived the dream of most Jamaicans? | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
I would say so, yes. I went there, I made a living and I came back | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
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It is 50 years since Jamaica got its independence, but everywhere | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
there are places that emphasise its bond with Britain, Grantham, | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Spalding, and not Derbyshire's Peak District, but the Derby peak, out | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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there somewhere. A mountain of some It's time now to leave my family | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
and friends in Jamaica. Back home I am reminded that Derby has come a | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
long way since the day my mum arrived. While is clear that | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
prejudice can be a problem wherever you go, my city has become more | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
tolerant, more accepting. It now celebrates its Caribbean culture. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
But as Derby and the UK became stronger, Jamaica paid the price, | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
with the loss of labour, talent and the breaking up of families. What a | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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Des Coleman, one of our familiar faces here on Inside Out Midlands, | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
and there have been a fair few of them. We have met some amazing | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
people and told some remarkable stories right across the East | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Midlands. Tonight we are looking back at 10 years on air, and it all | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
began in September 2002, with a brand new look and a different face. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
This is the first inside Out, a programme which brings you | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
surprising stories from the East Midlands. We've made nearly 600 | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
films since then. Used our journalism to get you answers. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
long are you going to evade justice? You been found guilty | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
before of conning people? Nice car you have got there. Not shied away | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
from difficult subjects. Why are you here? I'm from Leicester, yeah, | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
and I was born in the place and it is now run by Islamic BLEEP. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
England went to war with Jamaica which army would you be in? | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
British Army. You are British them. Would you then allow me into your | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
party? No. Taken you behind the scenes to ask the big questions. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
you know who owns the club? I know one of them. He seems to be very | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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real. Been right there as the big Well, over the last decade we have | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
never been short of stories. From the rolling hills of the Derbyshire | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Dales to the heart of our inner cities, it's the people and places | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
who make Inside Out East Midlands what it is. What do you like about | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
the programme? I like the variety. I think it is good for people to | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
find out the true stories. We have done our best to hold people to | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
account and find out what is really going on. We have worked under | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
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Exposed the car clockers turning back the mileage to make a profit. | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
It changes it straight away. told you about the serial fraudster | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
who claimed he had big connections in TV so he could fleece people out | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
of thousands. A visit to our Nottingham studios could very soon | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
put you in the picture. In 2007 we went on the trail of this man. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Peter Roberts, or Maggot Pete, as he became known. He thought he had | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
got away with a multi-million pound food scam turning diseased chicken | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
into pre-packed meat for supermarkets and care homes. That | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
was until we caught up with him in Northern Cyprus. Do you think you | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
can stay here forever? Are you proud of what you did, Mr Roberts? | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
Are you using the money to run this business? I told you BEEP off. I'll | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
knock you spark out in a minute. told the Foreign and Commonwealth | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
Office where Roberts was and within weeks he was extradited back to the | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
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UK, handcuffed and ready to start a Last year we enlisted the help of | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
veteran journalist Roger Cook for a special investigation. We followed | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
the trail of a paedophile. Derek Slade, a former headmaster from | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
Mickleover in Derbyshire. A man who had managed to con a Leicester | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
charity out of thousands of pounds so he could set up a school in | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
India, where he abused children. How many of you were beaten by | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
Slade? All of you? The pupils we found in India are now suing for | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
There are plenty of places here in the East Midlands that most of us | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
would never get to see. Inside Out has opened the doors to some of | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
them. We do not knowingly admit atheists or agnostics. We've delved | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
into the secret world of the Masons. This is the bench where people are | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
initiated. The kneeling stool. Filmed inside the most secure | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
hospital in the country. We're not full of monsters. People like to | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
think it's full of monsters. followed one hospital's fight to | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
keep their children's heart surgery unit in Leicester. Without cardiac | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
surgery here, this intensive care unit would close. In 2006 we went | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
undercover at the largest security firm in the world, G4S. We wanted | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
to find the truth about how it monitored tagged offenders in the | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
East Midlands. Tagged offenders wear an electronic device around | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
their ankles that's monitored by a box where they live. It is an | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
alternative to prison designed to keep them off our streets. But what | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
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we found was shocking. Equipment Staff believed dangerous offenders | :17:21. | :17:31. | |
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Really? Jesus. And we caught some managers prepared to lie to meet | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
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G4S sacked five employees following our programme and said it would | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
make changes to its procedures. Anti-social behaviour has been a | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
problem we have tackled many times. And we have been there as it has | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
happened, including one eventful Christmas night out. In Mansfield. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
A recent report highlighted this town has a drinking problem. The | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
highest numbers of alcohol-related hospital admissions. And the | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
highest levels of alcohol related crime in Nottinghamshire. So we're | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
out with the boys and girls in blue on one of the busiest nights of the | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
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year. And we are in for a rough ride. I've told you once, I will | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
not tell you again. In 2008 we were contacted by residents who told us | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
they had enough of living in the student neighbourhood and students | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
complaining about poor accommodation. Mattresses left | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
outside. It looks like bits of carpet. The kitchen cupboards. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
Everything piled up. This is a classic example. Having said that, | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
it's not the only example. Basically, when we first heard | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
about the property and saw the house, the landlord told us the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
whole thing would be redone and it was to be painted and decorated the | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
way we chose. None of that was done. Since our programme, Nottingham | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
City Council has tightened up planning rules for houses with | :19:06. | :19:15. | |
multiple occupancy to try to clean We East Midlanders love a good moan | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
about the weather and over the last ten years it's been pretty wild at | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
times. But it was the big freeze that got you all watching. While | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
you were all toasty at home, we were in the thick of it! In 2010 we | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
had the heaviest snowfall for a generation in the East Midlands. | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
The last time we had weather like this was 1981. We spent the day and | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
night finding out how it was affecting you. You're going out | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
with the shoes on? You are having a laugh. Are you really prepared for | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
a winter's night out in Nottingham? Not really. Where's your coat? | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Those tiny little straps will not keep you warm. And these pictures | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
are becoming disturbingly familiar. When rivers flood, we want to know | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
what's being done to protect us. 10 years after the worst floods, we | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
wanted to find out what the authorities had done to prevent the | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
damage and destruction from happening all over again. What we | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
found was a postcode lottery. do some places get better | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
protection than others? If you've got a lot of properties at risk, | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
protecting those, there's more value in doing that than some of | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
the others. It sounds quite harsh but if we've got public money to | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
spend we need to target it as It's not just the weather that | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
grabs the headlines. When the East Midlands finds itself at the centre | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
of a story, we've been there to dig a little bit deeper. In 2009 the | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
strangest tale began to emerge at Notts County. Our cameras were | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
behind the scenes from the start. It started as a dream. Untold | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
riches, big name signings, plans for the Premiere League in five | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
years' time. The target is also to make the name Notts County bigger | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
outside England. I have already been on one trip to Asia. Talking | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
about Notts County and things like that. But the money they spent | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
didn't exist and they had to fight for their survival. Selling the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
club for a pound. They were talking about getting Beckham, Roberto | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
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Carlos, fantasy land. Notts County was in a serious financial position. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
The new owners said they would call the police and after uncovering �7 | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
million in debt and unpaid bills. The likelihood of 25 to �50 million | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
investment, which has been bandied about, was never likely to happen. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
Earlier this year the English Defence League came to Leicester. | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
And we were there. It's hard to tell how many have turned out for | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
this demonstration today. Early estimates were saying 300 to 400. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
But when you look down on it like this, it looks much more like maybe | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
1000. We were in the thick of it, gauging your reactions. And | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
investigating what impact it would have on the image of a city with | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
such a diverse population. I don't know what they stand for and I | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
don't care what they stand for, but they don't belong in Leicester. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
are here at the Devil's Cars. Before I joined seven years ago, a | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
familiar face in the East Midlands fronted Inside Out for around 50 | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
shows. What have we got in store tonight? Excuse me, we're from the | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
BBC. Can I ask you what you think about congestion charges? It's a | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
bad idea. Over the last few months I have spent a little bit of time | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
with some of the band members as they prepare for this amazing | :23:06. | :23:16. | |
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From Mansfield to Market Harborough, the places where we live really are | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
something to celebrate. Over the last ten years we've pretty much | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
been everywhere in the East Midlands and that's what you say | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
makes Inside Out so special. get to know what's going on in your | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
own region. But it's nice to highlight the local issues because | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
the national issues always overlook the local issues. And local | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
traditions as well. Seeing they're being carried on. In 2005 we | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
recorded the rich differences in dialects across our region. And met | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
the people trying to keep traditions alive. Aye up me duck. | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Aye up me duck. Aye up me duck, how're you doing? Aye up me duck is | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
our most famous phrase here in the East Midlands but it's not the only | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
one is it? You've got plenty if you listen out, you'll probably here | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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someone say it's going a bit black The Marmaris villages were | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
flooded... -- numerous villages. 2003 we told you of the communities | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
that have been lost to make way for reservoirs. During the creation of | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
these huge water reserves, many families across the East Midlands | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
paid the ultimate price. They lost her ancestral homes and businesses | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
beneath the surface of these new man-made lakes. People come around | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
and say isn't it beautiful now but it's nothing to what it was before. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
It's all man-made now isn't it? was such a lovely place down there, | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
everybody, all the locals used to come and visit us and cups of tea, | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
laughing and happy times. We had a wonderful life. We got everything | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
anybody could have ever wished for down that valley. Some of the | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
stories we've told have certainly made us think differently about | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
where we live. In 2003 we first came across something that, if true, | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
would change the tourist map for people in one part of | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
Leicestershire. King Richard III was the last English monarch to die | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
in battle. He lost his life trying to save his crown. It's always been | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
thought that this happened at Bosworth in Leicesterhire but in | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
2003 this was challenged. This is the official site where Richard met | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
his end and called, a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
That's if you believe Shakespeare. But one historian said he died in | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
what is now a lay bay with a burger van. -- layby. Two years ago, after | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
an intense search, they came up with a third site 2.5 miles south | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
west of where the history books had previously put it. And conclusive | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
evidence that Richard actually died here. It's a badge given by Richard | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
III to one of his retinue. And because it's silver gilt, that has | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
to be a knight or someone of higher status. That person would have | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
ridden with Richard to his death in the battle. What do you | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
particularly enjoy? I think it's important to get across the amazing | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
work that people do because otherwise it's unknown and people | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
wouldn't know or recognise the achievements. I think the people, | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
finding out about people's lives and how people live. Over the years | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
we've met some remarkable people living immensely challenging lives. | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
In 2009 we told you the story of Liam Smith, a primordial dwarf and | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
one of the rarest children in the world. We met his family and took | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
them to America to a very special convention. It was a once-in-a- | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
lifetime chance for them to meet other people like their son to | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
realise that they're not alone. Seeing him with other children was | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
priceless. I feel more confident about bringing him up and more | :27:03. | :27:13. | |
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privileged. Ten years gone in a flash. But before we go, let's go | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
back to that very first programme. A young girl was making the news | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
not just here in the East Midlands but across the country. Abbey was | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
only nine when her heart stopped working because of blood poisoning. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
She desperately needed a heart transplant. For 18 dark days, | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
doctors kept her alive in intensive care at Great Ormond Street in | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
London. Then a suitable heart donor was found and Abbey was saved. | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
family and friends thought I was going to die but I knew I would get | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
better. We followed Abbey's recovery and she was the star of | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
our first programme. It'll never be back to normal normal as I've got | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
to take drugs for the rest of my life. It's amazing what the doctors | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
at Great Ormond Street can do. it really is amazing because this | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
is Abbey now. Do you remember us filming you all those years ago? | :28:10. | :28:17. | |
remember little bits. We went to a theme park. I went to a teddy bear | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
factory and made my own teddy bear. You're a student now. I'm at | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
Coventry University in my second year. You look really well. | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
medical problems. I take my medication twice a day and apart | :28:34. | :28:35. |