:00:03. > :00:13.Hello. Tonight's Inside Out is at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Coming up
:00:13. > :00:31.
:00:31. > :00:34.in the next half hour What happens when a fairground ride goes wrong?
:00:34. > :00:44.We investigate fairground safety. Also tonight - the hidden army of
:00:44. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :01:03.And can you learn to sink in 48 hours? John turns tender. -- --
:01:03. > :01:10.
:01:10. > :01:14.tenor. Fairground rides are designed to thrill and millions
:01:15. > :01:24.rides them at theme-park and at the seaside but sometimes they go wrong
:01:25. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:49.Since the millennium, it's been reported around 700 workers and
:01:49. > :01:51.1,400 people have been injured around amusement rides. Some deadly,
:01:51. > :01:54.some involving life changing injuries and others resulting in
:01:54. > :02:00.nothing more than cuts and bruises. But the question is, how safe are
:02:00. > :02:03.we when we go to the fair? During the summer Leicestershire's Billy
:02:03. > :02:08.Bates fair, who've been in the business for six generations, hit
:02:08. > :02:16.the headlines. Two teenagers were badly injured when the Mega Frog
:02:16. > :02:19.Bounce ride went wrong. I got on it, I remember going round
:02:19. > :02:24.about three times and the next thing there was a buying. I
:02:24. > :02:29.remember my face smashing against the barriers and I ended up on the
:02:29. > :02:34.floor. I heard people around me and I knew it was quite bad.
:02:34. > :02:38.coincidence, some the was filming it. This is the footage. We were
:02:38. > :02:45.talking as normal while the right was going around picking up some
:02:45. > :02:51.speed, and then suddenly it collapses on us. That really did
:02:51. > :02:56.come off. You came away with serious injuries. I had 80 stables,
:02:56. > :03:04.stents -- 10 stitches on my chin, five in my tongue, a punctured lung
:03:04. > :03:09.and a fractured rib. It is shocking, it really? It is. We do go on at
:03:09. > :03:16.fairground ride again? I think about it all the time. It just
:03:16. > :03:19.seems like a massive nightmare, really. Billy Bates Funfair first
:03:19. > :03:29.agreed, and then pulled out of an interview. In a statement they
:03:29. > :03:42.
:03:42. > :03:47.Even now, it's still unclear how the accident happened. The HSE are
:03:47. > :03:52.still investigating. Elsewhere at other fairs, the Health and Safety
:03:52. > :03:56.Executive is concerned about the way rides are designed. Miami Trip
:03:56. > :03:59.threw two riders out last year, and Tagada is a ride which has no
:03:59. > :04:08.passenger restraints. It's injured dozens of people over the past few
:04:08. > :04:13.years. The HSE has made compulsory changes to the design of both. Next,
:04:13. > :04:17.I'm with James Mellor. He owns some of the best rides in the business,
:04:18. > :04:20.and has a good safety record. He's the main man behind Nottingham's
:04:20. > :04:26.Goose Fair and a spokesperson for the Showman's Guild, who represent
:04:26. > :04:35.20,000 travelling workers. I want to ask him how his industry has
:04:35. > :04:40.reacted to recent safety scares. Whenever you hear an accident,
:04:40. > :04:44.something happened on a ride, the home industry feed us down. Until
:04:44. > :04:50.we find because of what has actually happened, we are all very
:04:50. > :04:55.cautious. Nobody wants to see anybody injured at off. How have
:04:55. > :05:00.things changed over the last 10 or 12 years? 2000 was a bad year.
:05:00. > :05:06.was about gear and reflected badly on us. There is a lot more people
:05:06. > :05:11.work now. There are certain as it ever gets that have all got to be
:05:11. > :05:15.completed before the actual fare. There is an examination of the
:05:15. > :05:25.rides, every year, just like an MoT. It is much more stringent, I would
:05:25. > :05:27.
:05:27. > :05:32.say, than an MoT. When is a ride to old? How can you say that? If you
:05:32. > :05:40.keep the quality of, it is up to yourself, you know? If you want to
:05:40. > :05:50.replace something, you can do it. Most people are changing them
:05:50. > :05:51.
:05:51. > :05:54.frequently. It is a question, when is it too old? Along with many
:05:54. > :05:57.theme parks, every ride at the Goose Fair and every member of the
:05:57. > :06:07.Showman's Guild are compelled to undertake a yearly inspection -
:06:07. > :06:08.
:06:08. > :06:11.basically, an MOT for fairground equipment. We've come to Skegness
:06:11. > :06:14.to meet Nicola Foss, who's from Derby. Her daughter Paige was on a
:06:14. > :06:23.ride operated by the Pleasure Beach, when it malfunctioned with very
:06:23. > :06:27.serious consequences. You witnessed the accident. What went wrong?
:06:27. > :06:32.don't know. I heard this clicking noise, as if something was not
:06:32. > :06:37.connected properly. They went around twice, and then the side
:06:37. > :06:41.fail. This was a ride that went round 360 degrees and you were
:06:41. > :06:49.meant to stay horizontal in the carriage as he went round. When we
:06:49. > :06:54.got to the top beside just went. a mother watching your daughter on
:06:54. > :06:57.the right, it must have been terrifying. It was really
:06:57. > :07:02.terrifying, especially when I had to pretend that I was not scared.
:07:02. > :07:06.You have to try to be calm and try not to cry. I felt like crying my
:07:06. > :07:13.eyes out. Nicola's daughter Paige is autistic and was traumatized
:07:13. > :07:18.after she was trapped on the ride with injured people. There was one
:07:18. > :07:25.woman on the right you were very concerned about? Yeah, I actually
:07:25. > :07:28.thought she was dead. It was really bad. She looked dead. I've thought
:07:28. > :07:36.they were trying to work on her to save her. It is like something you
:07:36. > :07:39.see on TV, not real life. You don't expect to go on holiday and retired
:07:39. > :07:42.come home and not be have to ring about it. We contacted Skegness
:07:42. > :07:45.Pleasure Beach, who didn't want to be interviewed. The faulty ride in
:07:45. > :07:55.question has since been removed. So, serious accidents continue to
:07:55. > :07:58.
:07:58. > :08:01.happen. But are funfair rides safer now than a decade ago? Melvin
:08:01. > :08:04.Sandell from the Health and Safety Executive works out what went wrong,
:08:04. > :08:09.how accidents can be prevented and who or what is to blame. Their
:08:09. > :08:14.national data can tell us whether safety has improved. Have things
:08:14. > :08:18.improved since 2000? They have. No fair grounds are a safe place to be,
:08:18. > :08:23.I think. You stand a far greater chance of being heard on your
:08:23. > :08:28.weight to the fairground than worst on the affair. How can the public
:08:28. > :08:38.protect themselves? The public can be reasonably sure that they will
:08:38. > :08:46.be OK. When they act -- when they are at large organised first. --
:08:46. > :08:50.scarce. All of the rights will have been tested. What I would say to
:08:50. > :08:55.parents is have a look at the machines. If it looks nice and
:08:55. > :09:01.clean and tidy and well run, it probably is well run. Stick to the
:09:01. > :09:04.big fairgrounds and you will generally be all right. Sifting
:09:04. > :09:10.through the stats, yearly incidents at funfairs are less than half of
:09:11. > :09:14.what they were back in the dark days of 2000. But it's mixed news
:09:14. > :09:22.as there have been years when accidents have gone up as well as
:09:22. > :09:24.down, and the HSE admits many incidents may simply go unreported.
:09:24. > :09:31.But crackdowns on less diligent operators, heavy fines and
:09:31. > :09:34.redesigning problematic rides all seems to have helped. So are fairs
:09:34. > :09:44.safer now than they were a decade ago? Well, the good news is, the
:09:44. > :09:47.
:09:47. > :09:50.answer seems to be yes. Official figures say there are a
:09:50. > :09:54.175,000 youngsters under the age of 18 who provide some level of unpaid
:09:54. > :09:57.care for their families in the UK. But recent research suggests the
:09:57. > :10:03.actual figure could be four times that, because so many don't come
:10:03. > :10:06.forward and ask for help. Radio Leicester's Jim Davis has been
:10:06. > :10:16.finding out what life is really like when you're left to cope on
:10:16. > :10:18.
:10:18. > :10:24.your own. Looking after a loved one comes
:10:24. > :10:30.naturally to children. For some, caring for brothers and sisters,
:10:30. > :10:33.mums and dads, is a full time job. But many are too scared to tell
:10:33. > :10:43.people what they do. Worried they'll be judged, bullied or
:10:43. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:52.humiliated. They might talk behind my back so I would rather not tell
:10:52. > :11:02.them and they might not do it. There are people on this street,
:11:02. > :11:05.say no names, but they have been so evil to us. Some deal with the
:11:05. > :11:15.pressure by harming themselves. These were mainly done with razor
:11:15. > :11:17.blades, dug in with the corner. But now there's a group of young carers
:11:17. > :11:21.in Leicester who've had enough. They're getting together to support
:11:21. > :11:24.each other. I want to know what it's like for these young carers.
:11:24. > :11:29.What sort of burdens are they carrying and what sort of help is
:11:29. > :11:39.out there for them? Jhon is 13 years old and looks
:11:39. > :11:41.
:11:41. > :11:44.after his deaf and disabled mother. Hello? Yes. How long have you had
:11:44. > :11:47.the condition? I was born with osteogenesis, and I've probably
:11:47. > :11:55.been going deaf since I was about six. Jhon's always been there for
:11:55. > :11:59.his mum, but has found very few people have been there for him.
:11:59. > :12:05.awareness in the community, places like schools, hospitals, things
:12:05. > :12:10.like that, they don't understand what young carers are and what they
:12:10. > :12:12.do. Jhon's got the same medical condition as his mum and can't walk
:12:12. > :12:22.far without using a wheelchair himself. But despite this, he's
:12:22. > :12:32.
:12:33. > :12:37.been helping his dad to care for Why don't you try having these
:12:37. > :12:43.things to deal with and then see if that little think means so it's --
:12:43. > :12:47.so much to you to moan about? to find a word to say what it makes
:12:47. > :12:57.me feel like and there is not one. He is experiences have made him
:12:57. > :12:57.
:12:57. > :13:00.determined to make a difference. -- his experiences. He is meeting
:13:00. > :13:10.other young carers at Water Shed Community Centre in Leicester. They
:13:10. > :13:16.have set up a support group. It is called Labelled. He is one of the
:13:16. > :13:23.founding members along with Lotte, who started caring for her father
:13:23. > :13:27.when he suffered a nervous breakdown ten years ago. It -- it
:13:27. > :13:32.is about empowering young carers. We do not take away
:13:32. > :13:37.responsibilities. A lot do not want us to take it away, they want
:13:37. > :13:42.support to do it themselves. Recognising you are a young carer
:13:42. > :13:46.is one of the biggest challenges. Men the carers who come here, they
:13:46. > :13:53.only realise they are one when they came here. We had volunteers. After
:13:53. > :14:00.speaking to them, they were like, I am a carer. One of the people they
:14:00. > :14:07.are helping his Jasmin, who has been attending since her father
:14:07. > :14:11.died three months ago. She lives on the New Parks estate in Leicester.
:14:11. > :14:15.She lives with her sister and mother, who suffers from depression.
:14:15. > :14:21.She had been helping to care for her father since she had learned to
:14:21. > :14:27.walk. He had a disease of the spine that affected his mobility. One
:14:27. > :14:31.morning he collapsed in agony at home. She gave him CPR until
:14:31. > :14:37.paramedics arrived but it was too late and he died from a blood clot
:14:37. > :14:47.on the lungs. The paramedic said he had gone. She fell to the floor. We
:14:47. > :14:48.
:14:48. > :14:53.cried together. It was horrible. I wish he was here now. She is doing
:14:53. > :14:58.her best to help her mother through this. Mother does not like sleeping
:14:58. > :15:05.and -- sleeping on her own, partly because of everything going through
:15:05. > :15:12.her mind, and also that she is used to having somebody next to her. It
:15:12. > :15:17.is a comfort thing. She has been left to manage her mother, who
:15:17. > :15:23.suffers from a mental health condition which means share can --
:15:23. > :15:29.she can be very high or low. times, I feel I want to go out to
:15:29. > :15:36.see friends, but I do not feel I can because I want to make sure mum
:15:36. > :15:40.is OK. And they are now having to move house. The council meet their
:15:40. > :15:46.adapted house for somebody else who is disabled. If you believe
:15:46. > :15:52.official figures there are 175,000 children who provide unpaid care to
:15:52. > :16:02.a family member. A survey by the BBC found the actual number is four
:16:02. > :16:02.
:16:02. > :16:12.times that because many do not have been to support services. -- key in
:16:12. > :16:20.
:16:20. > :16:24.to support services. Reece has autism, ADHD, and he has fits and
:16:24. > :16:33.he is an asthmatic, he has allergies, he suffers from chest
:16:33. > :16:36.infections. The fight he has in him surprises me. This 13-year-old
:16:36. > :16:43.struggles school life with looking after her brother. She tries to
:16:43. > :16:49.keep it secret because she has been bullied in the past. Judgments they
:16:49. > :16:55.make, they talk behind my back, so I would rather not tell them about
:16:55. > :17:00.him and they might not do it and I will keep it to myself. At one
:17:00. > :17:07.point I could not have done this without her. Being ill myself. I
:17:08. > :17:11.could not have done it. These children from Nottingham care for a
:17:12. > :17:17.loved one at home and have come a long tour cooking class to learn to
:17:17. > :17:22.make nutritious meals, which was organised by a charity, Carers
:17:22. > :17:27.Federation. It was set up to support carers of all ages in the
:17:27. > :17:32.East Midlands. Some of those from Labelled have come to get advice on
:17:33. > :17:42.how to run their service. We are talking to them about how they make
:17:42. > :17:46.their voices heard particularly in the corridors of power. It has been
:17:46. > :17:51.some weeks since they went to Carers Federation and they are now
:17:51. > :17:55.running a self-defence class. And they have invited the head of
:17:55. > :18:05.family services from the Council and also a representative from
:18:05. > :18:15.
:18:15. > :18:25.Barnardo's. Are you glad you came down? I am very glad. It is
:18:25. > :18:34.humbling in many respects. Jasmin, her mother and sister have a new
:18:34. > :18:38.home from the council and they are moving in today. It has been a
:18:38. > :18:42.rough road, but things are looking up. They have quite a lot of work
:18:42. > :18:51.to do to make this close home, but with the right support I think
:18:51. > :18:54.things are looking up. The support group now have 50 young
:18:55. > :18:58.carers on their books and they are in talks with Leicester City
:18:58. > :19:08.football club to become one of their official charities. Tonight,
:19:08. > :19:17.more people are getting together in amateur choirs. Our reporter tried
:19:17. > :19:27.it out for himself. The Albert Hall, Nottingham, and an anniversary
:19:27. > :19:28.
:19:28. > :19:31.performance is about to start. Tickets are hard to get. But this
:19:31. > :19:41.is no ordinary concert. And this is no ordinary choir. In fact you
:19:41. > :19:42.
:19:42. > :19:46.could be one of the singers. That is what I am going to do. It is
:19:46. > :19:51.first time also for Harry and Harriet. It was only a week before
:19:51. > :19:59.the concert when they met at Nottingham Trent University. It was
:19:59. > :20:07.the first rehearsal and everybody else -- for them and everybody else.
:20:07. > :20:12.It is daunting. We have met a lot of people who did it before. I have
:20:12. > :20:22.not done anything on this scale. I thought I would give it a bash.
:20:22. > :20:31.have signed up for the Music For Everyone, a Nottinghamshire based
:20:31. > :20:38.choir that Angela Kay has been running for years. This is
:20:38. > :20:44.different. She has 48 hours to get us ready to perform Verdi's Requiem
:20:44. > :20:51.at the Albert Hall in Nottingham. If anyone can find my voice, it
:20:51. > :20:58.will be Angela. This will be a nerve-racking experience. Somehow,
:20:58. > :21:07.you have to will people to sing well. And it works. It is a magical
:21:07. > :21:17.moment. It is early morning and up with the lark is Karen Attwood, who
:21:17. > :21:17.
:21:17. > :21:23.runs a business baking cakes. For this former computer manager, choir
:21:23. > :21:28.singing helped to ease her through a career change. You gather the
:21:28. > :21:33.stresses of the day and everything you are worried about. Singing, you
:21:33. > :21:41.get is all-out. It is a marvellous way of getting it all out and
:21:41. > :21:48.relaxing. Need Daytime Voices of Southwell, musically stirred and
:21:48. > :21:57.not shaken. -- meat. Angela brings her Midas touch to tease out golden
:21:57. > :22:03.harmonies. You are meant to be muted trumpets. This is one of
:22:03. > :22:08.several groups she runs. This gives them confidence. They then think
:22:08. > :22:15.they fancy singing with a big choir and orchestra. We do not have to
:22:15. > :22:25.have an audition. It is good finding out you can sing.
:22:25. > :22:25.
:22:25. > :22:31.auditions, no pressure, that is the philosophy of Angela. At her home,
:22:31. > :22:39.she records musical notes on to a CD. Her next big choir project is a
:22:40. > :22:45.concert performance of Verdi's Requiem. It is a monster of a work.
:22:45. > :22:52.30 years after the first concert, 300 people taking part now are sent
:22:52. > :22:58.the CD. By sending out the rehearsal CDs and the score and the
:22:58. > :23:08.publicity, you get excitement going. We find that people prepare, they
:23:08. > :23:11.
:23:11. > :23:19.listen at home. At home, I am giving the distance learning ago.
:23:19. > :23:24.Maybe I need advice, especially if my voice is going to the dogs!
:23:24. > :23:30.Robin Reece Crawford is an actor, a professional storyteller and a
:23:30. > :23:35.veteran of the group. He sang at the first concert of Music For
:23:35. > :23:41.Everyone 30 years ago. It is a strange feeling when you sing with
:23:41. > :23:46.the aid group, there is a sense of community, that we are battling to
:23:46. > :23:53.the same end result. There is something about the physical aspect
:23:53. > :23:58.that is very good for you as a person. Are there health benefits?
:23:58. > :24:07.At Duffield in Derbyshire, choir singing run by the Alzheimer's
:24:07. > :24:17.Society. As the brain deteriorates, the pressure of the dementia occurs.
:24:17. > :24:20.
:24:20. > :24:24.One thing that seems to remain his emotion. Emotion is linked to music.
:24:24. > :24:30.It can be transformative to the person with dementia and also to
:24:30. > :24:40.their friends and family and carers. They see another side of the person
:24:40. > :24:42.
:24:42. > :24:49.with dementia. That is a good one to begin with. At Nottingham Trent
:24:49. > :24:55.University, the first rehearsal. Harry Willis and Harriet Card make
:24:55. > :25:04.a cautious start. Karen is struggling with a cold. Robin and
:25:04. > :25:11.the bases sound good. It is a worrying time when they first come
:25:11. > :25:19.in. Will they have prepared? Do they know how it is meant to go?
:25:19. > :25:27.The Victoria Rooms in Bristol and James, one of Angela's discoveries
:25:27. > :25:33.is rehearsing with the city's Sinfonia Orchestra. Angela, she
:25:34. > :25:41.spots talent. She saw me and a few months later I got a telephone call
:25:41. > :25:49.inviting me to play for one of her choir concert. Her energy and
:25:49. > :25:52.passion for music ignites people. It makes people want to be involved.
:25:52. > :25:57.Nottingham's Albert Hall and the concert is about to begin. The
:25:57. > :26:03.choir members are not the only ones who are nervous, and this is my big
:26:03. > :26:10.moment also. How is your voice? is great. It is back and I am
:26:10. > :26:17.raring to go. Will we keep up the orchestra? What Angela. There is a
:26:17. > :26:21.lot of change of mood and tempo. -- watch. You cannot be a conductor
:26:21. > :26:31.and be a pessimist. You have to believe it will work. Many times I
:26:31. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :27:17.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds
:27:17. > :27:27.have thought I am I doing this, THEY SING.
:27:27. > :27:27.
:27:27. > :27:35.APPLAUSE. It was brilliant. I enjoyed doing
:27:35. > :27:45.it. Everybody put so much into it. How is the boys? It has gone a
:27:45. > :27:48.
:27:48. > :27:54.little bit. -- I must have been straining -- voice. It was
:27:54. > :28:00.fantastic. Congratulations. Thanks, you were wonderful. How did it
:28:00. > :28:07.sound? Fantastic. Very tight and powerful and musical. That is what
:28:07. > :28:17.I like about it. From scratch to performance in 48 hours, it has
:28:17. > :28:23.
:28:23. > :28:28.been Angela's approach for 30 years and it sounds pretty good.