:00:05. > :00:10.Tonight, Inside Out East Midlands is in Leicester. Coming up in the
:00:10. > :00:15.next half-hour: At the end of their tether - how do you deal with noisy
:00:15. > :00:21.neighbours? I just feel like crying. I don't want to be coming down
:00:21. > :00:26.banging on doors and complaining, I just want some sleep! After Richard
:00:26. > :00:29.III, what other hidden gems lie under our feet? This is just such a
:00:29. > :00:37.wonderful opportunity to tell the story of Richard, but also to
:00:37. > :00:40.relate that to the very long and rich history of our city. And the
:00:40. > :00:50.young singer from Derby who's making all the right noises in the
:00:50. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:09.We've all heard about nosy neighbours, but what about the
:01:09. > :01:13.noisy ones? And what can you do when the people next door are
:01:14. > :01:16.making your life a misery? Derby has become the first place in the
:01:16. > :01:19.East Midlands to run a night-time noisy neighbour response service.
:01:19. > :01:23.And since it started, the number of enforcement notices has gone up
:01:23. > :01:33.dramatically. Sarah Sturdey has been investigating how to tackle
:01:33. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:42.The noise... You can't switch off. It's 24/7. I feel like a broken
:01:42. > :01:50.person. They say "love thy neighbour". But sometimes that's
:01:51. > :02:00.hard. There is no escape. If anybody tells me "You can just move
:02:01. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:06.Is this one way to silence the racket? Sarah here, calling from
:02:06. > :02:11.the response service at Derby City Council. A rapid response to catch
:02:11. > :02:17.the culprits. There's no such thing as a quiet night for the noise
:02:17. > :02:25.patrol. It's a Saturday evening and Sarah and Dan aren't just listening
:02:26. > :02:30.to the complaint, they are hearing the evidence. What you're listening
:02:30. > :02:36.to now, it is nothing, it gets louder and louder. Is it always
:02:36. > :02:44.this sort of music, or does it vary? A lot of bad language. What
:02:44. > :02:47.time does it usually go on till? have rung up at one in the morning
:02:47. > :02:51.before. Because this is quite excessive, this would constitute a
:02:51. > :02:54.statutory nuisance. So what we are going to do is serve a legal notice
:02:54. > :02:57.on him. Since the late night service started, noise abatement
:02:57. > :03:02.notices like this telling people to pipe down have gone up by almost
:03:02. > :03:09.500 per cent. By being there as it happens, the officers can respond
:03:09. > :03:15.quickly, right on the spot. music is up flipping loud, they
:03:15. > :03:20.can't hear us. All right, Derby City Council. It's about your music.
:03:20. > :03:24.I need you to turn it down. If you continue to cause a nuisance, we
:03:24. > :03:27.continue to monitor it and hear it and witness it, we can go to court
:03:27. > :03:33.and get a warrant, come into your property and seize all your
:03:33. > :03:37.equipment. You don't want that, do you? Not really. It's no empty
:03:37. > :03:41.threat. The owners of this lot upset the neighbours once too often
:03:41. > :03:44.and ignored the legal warning. It's been seized by the council and sold
:03:44. > :03:47.at auction. People can get stressed and depressed if they feel they're
:03:48. > :03:51.not in control of their own neighbourhoods and environment.
:03:51. > :03:55.This is a way of showing that if they complain about something,
:03:56. > :03:58.action will be taken which will make a difference to them.
:03:58. > :04:07.response team doesn't always get there quick enough to hear the
:04:07. > :04:11.noise. Without proof, it's hard to take action. I just feel like
:04:11. > :04:17.crying. I don't want to be coming down, banging on doors and
:04:18. > :04:25.complaining, I just want some sleep. Thank you very much, all right,
:04:25. > :04:33.cheers. I'm going to be hard pushed to say "your dog is causing a
:04:33. > :04:36.nuisance". If they say, "can you hear him?", I can't, actually.
:04:36. > :04:39.There are other options. Next stop, the home of Lesley Mannion, who
:04:39. > :04:49.claims she has had years of sleepless nights from various
:04:49. > :04:49.
:04:49. > :04:54.tenants next door. Now at her wits' end, she is hoping noise recording
:04:54. > :04:59.equipment can help her gather evidence. The television is right
:04:59. > :05:04.in this corner. Just here. And they put it on full. My television in my
:05:04. > :05:08.room is not as loud as their television. I got earplugs in on
:05:08. > :05:18.Christmas Eve, you can still hear it, how can you sleep through that?
:05:18. > :05:25.You can't switch off. It's almost 24/7. Sometimes I just want to have
:05:25. > :05:29.a tantrum and scream, "shut up, please, for God's sake!" It's made
:05:29. > :05:34.me so ill. And it's down to the neighbours? It's down to the
:05:34. > :05:38.neighbours. Help from the authorities is too late for Dr
:05:38. > :05:43.Suzanne Dow. For more than a year she complained to her local council
:05:43. > :05:46.and police about noise, abuse, drug taking and violence next door. The
:05:46. > :05:50.council gave the tenants in Beeston near Nottingham a final warning or
:05:50. > :05:56.face eviction. In a three-page letter, the lecturer told the
:05:56. > :06:02.council it was affecting her mental and physical health. She had
:06:02. > :06:10.reached her limits with the situation and the council. Two
:06:10. > :06:12.weeks later, she killed herself. Broxtowe Borough Council says it
:06:12. > :06:20.has reviewed its anti-social behaviour policy and introduced a
:06:20. > :06:24.new complaint handling system to identify vulnerable people. So who
:06:24. > :06:28.should you call? If it's more than loud noise, it could be a police
:06:28. > :06:33.matter. In Sleaford in Lincolnshire, the council and police worked
:06:33. > :06:36.together with residents in this close. At 17, Josh Sargeant won 1/2
:06:36. > :06:42.million pounds on a scratchcard jackpot, bought a four-bedroom
:06:42. > :06:47.house and a hot tub. Then the trouble began. Revving engines,
:06:47. > :06:50.loud parties, even street brawls. It was chaos in the close. At one
:06:51. > :06:55.point more than 20 residents packed a front room to decide how to
:06:55. > :06:59.tackle the constant disruption. When they finally had their day in
:06:59. > :07:04.court, just three gave evidence. Now it's quiet, no one wants to
:07:04. > :07:07.talk on camera. After all, they still have to live here. One couple
:07:07. > :07:11.gave up trying to sell their home. They didn't want to involve the
:07:11. > :07:16.police. Another was prepared to tell the court their lives had been
:07:16. > :07:21.made a misery. It was making people ill. Because you never knew when it
:07:21. > :07:24.was going to stop, when it was going to start. It was really hard.
:07:24. > :07:30.Really hard. Sargeant, now 19, received a two-year anti-social
:07:30. > :07:36.behaviour order with a ban on loud music and large gatherings. He told
:07:36. > :07:39.the court he had got rid of all the hangers-on. Tackling noisy
:07:39. > :07:43.neighbours often needs joined-up thinking. In Sleaford, complaints
:07:43. > :07:47.are dealt with in a new way. The council shares all the information
:07:47. > :07:52.with Lincolnshire police. The idea is to spot repeat offenders and
:07:52. > :07:56.those most vulnerable. What may upset one person won't bother
:07:56. > :07:59.someone else. So we fully understand that people can be
:07:59. > :08:06.scared, we understand it impacts on people not wanting to leave their
:08:06. > :08:08.home, we understand it makes people feel very vulnerable and sensitive.
:08:08. > :08:13.The Lincolnshire pilot was developed by Chief Inspector Mark
:08:13. > :08:19.Housley. In the last few months, we've seen noise nuisance increase
:08:19. > :08:23.by 33 per cent, that is a third. So it's a real issue, and we need to
:08:23. > :08:25.work together as a partnership. trial is one of eight introduced
:08:25. > :08:30.nationally after Fiona Pilkington killed herself and her disabled
:08:30. > :08:36.daughter in Leicestershire. They had suffered years of neighbourhood
:08:36. > :08:39.abuse. We cannot treat this issue lightly. We are aware the
:08:40. > :08:42.escalation, and it can escalate to serious offences. If people are
:08:42. > :08:47.frustrated that the public sector, the local services aren't
:08:47. > :08:53.delivering for them, I understand that. We're trying to get better at
:08:53. > :08:57.that. Back in Derby, in the early hours of Sunday morning, party
:08:57. > :09:02.revellers upsetting the neighbours finally answer the door. We're from
:09:02. > :09:06.Environmental Response Service, Derby City Council. We have had a
:09:06. > :09:13.complaint regarding the noise you're making. You need to pipe
:09:13. > :09:23.down because you're causing a nuisance to your neighbours. OK, no
:09:23. > :09:24.
:09:24. > :09:27.problem. You live in a residential area. Thanks for your time. There
:09:27. > :09:32.are children trying to sleep. It is 20 past one in the morning. All
:09:32. > :09:36.being well, the warning should work. All you need do is press that
:09:36. > :09:39.little red button, write it down and give us a brief idea. Lesley is
:09:39. > :09:44.hoping that with evidence, the Council act and her cries for help
:09:44. > :09:50.will finally lead to some peace. There's no escape. And if anybody
:09:50. > :09:53.tells me, "you can just move out", I'll scream. It's just like, I feel
:09:53. > :10:03.sometimes the only choice is to either win the lottery and move, or
:10:03. > :10:03.
:10:03. > :10:13.And if you need advice about noisy neighbours, there is more
:10:13. > :10:16.
:10:16. > :10:19.The discovery of the remains of King Richard III right here in
:10:19. > :10:22.Leicester is still making headlines around the world and drawing the
:10:22. > :10:25.crowds and no wonder, because this is one of the most important and
:10:25. > :10:29.exciting recent archaeological finds. But it takes hours of
:10:29. > :10:31.painstaking work to build up a picture of our past - work that's
:10:31. > :10:41.going on all the time really by professional and amateur
:10:41. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:53.archaeologists, all trying to find It's big news. The world's media
:10:53. > :10:55.descends on Leicester. The skeleton of a king has been found under the
:10:55. > :11:05.Social Services Car Park by archaeologists from the University
:11:05. > :11:21.
:11:21. > :11:24.of Leicester. This is where the great discovery was made. Had the
:11:24. > :11:28.be tureens built a little bit further that way, there would be
:11:29. > :11:31.nothing to find. But here in the East Midlands, we have no shortage
:11:32. > :11:39.of important archaeological finds, and we pass by some of them every
:11:39. > :11:49.Not far from where Richard III was buried is the Jewry Wall on the
:11:49. > :12:02.
:12:02. > :12:06.other side of Leicester's ring road. Romans would have got here to
:12:06. > :12:09.socialise, to do business, it is a social hub. It was found when the
:12:09. > :12:11.foundations were being dug for a swimming pool, excavated in the
:12:12. > :12:14.1930s by archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon, who thought at
:12:15. > :12:24.first she'd found the Roman Forum and, well, some things don't seem
:12:25. > :12:29.
:12:29. > :12:37.There was a lot of press coverage, the people of Leicester found it
:12:37. > :12:41.exciting, to watch. This is of huge significance in terms of scale, it
:12:41. > :12:47.is the tallest Roman monument left in this country, which is pretty
:12:47. > :12:51.impressive. We are looking at 24 ft in height, it is no mean feat to
:12:51. > :12:54.have this in a city centre. Other development work in the city over
:12:54. > :13:03.the years has also given archaeologists a chance to excavate
:13:04. > :13:08.previously inaccessible areas. are very lucky, we have some of the
:13:08. > :13:14.most beautiful Roman mosaics in the country. This is the Blackfriars
:13:14. > :13:18.pavement, referred to by some experts as one of the nicest. It
:13:18. > :13:24.was found during the development worker for the building of the
:13:24. > :13:27.Great Central Railway. So, the more holes they can dig, the more
:13:27. > :13:34.archaeologists can find out, and it's not just in Leicester but all
:13:34. > :13:38.over the East Midlands that they're looking for clues to the past.
:13:38. > :13:41.have dug 90 pits. In Southwell, students from the Universities of
:13:41. > :13:50.Leicester and Nottingham have a novel way of doing it. They're
:13:50. > :13:53.taking archaeology into back gardens. The children are very
:13:53. > :13:56.interested, they thought it was a fantastic opportunity to seek
:13:56. > :14:03.Archaeology in action. Each year, they advertise for as many people
:14:03. > :14:07.as they can get to have a small pit dug in their garden. We hope to
:14:07. > :14:11.build up a database of hundreds from around the town, and only with
:14:11. > :14:14.that number can you get the complete history, the complete
:14:14. > :14:18.picture, because different parts of the town have been occupied in
:14:18. > :14:22.different periods, and have grown at different times. At the local
:14:22. > :14:32.fun day, it might seem strange to see a test pit being dug amongst
:14:32. > :14:32.
:14:32. > :14:38.the stalls and rides. We want the community to be engaged, digging,
:14:38. > :14:41.said this is a great place to be. It is the air of mystery and
:14:41. > :14:47.excitement, finding things that have never been seen for thousands
:14:47. > :14:51.of years. Some wonderful pottery, it is or medieval. You might think
:14:51. > :14:58.you could drop a flowerpot and have this, but this is really special.
:14:58. > :15:05.Each piece has a story. Maybe with this piece, a Saxon mother was
:15:05. > :15:09.cooking some stew and she dropped the pot, perhaps. There it is, of
:15:09. > :15:12.1000 years later, in our pit. They're hoping some of the
:15:12. > :15:21.youngsters here get the archaeology bug. Maybe they'll be the making
:15:21. > :15:25.the big finds of the future. switched the metal detector on, I
:15:25. > :15:31.got a huge signal. Just down the road in Newark is a tree surgeon
:15:31. > :15:37.who became interested in archaeology when he was a teenager.
:15:37. > :15:42.If anybody had seen me, they would have thought I was crazy, it was
:15:42. > :15:49.raining, dark, and I was scratching at the hole. Maurice made the news
:15:49. > :15:57.with a find in 2005. I scooped at, and I saw Gold Cup I could feel my
:15:57. > :16:02.heart beating faster. I saw this Nicholas appearing. Now, I've
:16:02. > :16:12.realised, I have hit the jackpot. Maurice had found an Iron Age torc
:16:12. > :16:13.
:16:13. > :16:18.worth �350,000. We put it in a box, in a carrier bag. We took it to the
:16:18. > :16:21.coroner's office. It went on from there. Valuable finds are assessed
:16:21. > :16:29.by the coroner. It was classed as treasure trove, so half of the
:16:29. > :16:33.proceeds went to Maurice and half to the landowner. I do not do it
:16:33. > :16:37.for money, I never have done. Everything I have found is either
:16:37. > :16:42.in museums or in my collection at home. But there's always one thing
:16:42. > :16:47.people are curious about. They always want to know where it was
:16:47. > :16:52.found. It has got to be fair for the farmer, because if everybody
:16:52. > :16:56.found out, they would be contacting him, wanting to go on the land.
:16:56. > :17:00.They never will find out from the! The torc's now in the British
:17:00. > :17:10.Museum, but there are plans to bring it back to a new museum in
:17:10. > :17:13.Newark, where it will be the star exhibit. I have been doing this for
:17:13. > :17:20.2 1/2 years. It's a constant dilemma for archaeologists. What do
:17:20. > :17:23.you do with the finds once you have them? These buildings are based on
:17:23. > :17:26.excavations, and all of the interpretations that people have
:17:26. > :17:29.done. Back in Leicester, the very old meets the very new. Students
:17:29. > :17:32.from De Montfort University are developing an app for the Jewry
:17:32. > :17:39.Wall museum that visitors can use to bring the Jewry Wall bathhouse
:17:39. > :17:44.back to life. At the moment, it is not completely accurate, but we are
:17:44. > :17:49.getting there. That is the main entrance. The plan is to be able to
:17:49. > :17:56.walk around the site and see what was there in Roman times. If my --
:17:56. > :18:02.I moved to the right, those are the baths, from Roman Leicester. This
:18:02. > :18:08.is so much fun! When you see the things coming to life, and you can
:18:08. > :18:15.work with them, it is really exciting. You will be able to work
:18:15. > :18:20.-- walk inside the Bath, and look at how they were, the grandiose
:18:20. > :18:27.baths. So it's up to the city to make sure the public know about the
:18:27. > :18:31.treasures on its doorstep, or ring road. When the visitor centre opens,
:18:31. > :18:34.we are expecting some queues. Richard III will bring tourists to
:18:34. > :18:42.Leicester, and the hope is some of them will visit the Jewry Wall
:18:42. > :18:47.museum too. The city mayor has got plans for the gardens. They will
:18:47. > :18:51.start to open this side of the town up. He is looking to connect
:18:51. > :18:55.Leicester, to connect this historic part of the city with the modern
:18:55. > :19:02.retail heart, which is just over the ring road. There are plans for
:19:02. > :19:08.this to become a permanent Richard III exhibition. This is a wonderful
:19:08. > :19:12.opportunity. To tell the story of Richard but also to relate it to
:19:12. > :19:15.the long and rich history of our city. It is an important chapter in
:19:15. > :19:18.it, but only one of many. archaeologists, whether
:19:18. > :19:26.professional or doing it for fun, will keep digging, keep making
:19:26. > :19:36.discoveries and keep finding out For years, people were using this
:19:36. > :19:41.
:19:41. > :19:44.as a car park. Who knows what else And here he is, the man of the
:19:44. > :19:47.moment, King Richard III. Now, there aren't many people who choose
:19:47. > :19:49.to make their living from folk singing, but in Derby a young
:19:50. > :19:52.musician called Lucy Ward has decided to do just that. She's
:19:53. > :19:57.already released one album, won a Radio 2 folk award and travels
:19:57. > :20:07.thousands of miles a year playing the music she loves. Well, over the
:20:07. > :20:10.
:20:10. > :20:19.past 12 months we've been following This is Lucy Ward, she's 23, from
:20:19. > :20:22.Derby, and is an award-winning folk singer. This next song is a true
:20:23. > :20:25.story from Derby. She juggles a hectic schedule, writing and
:20:25. > :20:33.recording new songs and playing over 100 concerts a year, including
:20:33. > :20:38.some of the biggest festivals on the folk circuit. It is such a
:20:38. > :20:48.dirty word for so many people, they imagine socks and sandals, but
:20:48. > :20:50.
:20:50. > :20:54.there are so many young people. It's Southwell Folk Festival. The
:20:54. > :21:01.festival season's getting under way and Lucy tries to go to as many as
:21:01. > :21:05.possible. You cannot help but know everybody! The beer tent is well
:21:05. > :21:14.attended, as per usual! Over the summer she'll play at 24 festivals.
:21:14. > :21:20.The trouble is, some of them are on the same weekend. Tomorrow, I am
:21:20. > :21:29.going to Cumbria. That is a four hour drive. Then, at a four-hour
:21:29. > :21:34.drive back here. Am I mad? I am not sure! For somebody who decided she
:21:34. > :21:44.would come into folk music rather than go to university, and make a
:21:44. > :21:51.
:21:51. > :21:54.career out of it, she has come a The audiences have been getting
:21:54. > :22:04.bigger since Lucy won the Radio 2 Horizon award for best folk
:22:04. > :22:06.
:22:06. > :22:13.newcomer last year. The award goes to Lucy Ward. Winning that award,
:22:13. > :22:17.just getting nominated, to be honest, sent everything crazy. To
:22:17. > :22:22.just be recognised with all of these other fantastic musicians his
:22:22. > :22:27.mind blowing up, so two of the people who take a chance on younger
:22:27. > :22:29.and emerging people, it is very helpful, I can tell you. Young folk
:22:29. > :22:32.singers like Lucy are carrying on a centuries-old tradition. Songs are
:22:33. > :22:42.passed down the generations, and it was because of some of the people
:22:43. > :22:44.
:22:44. > :22:51.here, like June Tabor and John Tams, that Lucy got into folk music.
:22:51. > :22:54.opening theme from the Napoleonic War Series. A friend of mine from
:22:54. > :23:01.Matlock. John Tams is from Derbyshire too, he's been playing
:23:01. > :23:07.folk music for over 40 years. faced -- I first came across her
:23:07. > :23:09.when she was 14 or 15, she played a concert in a church hall. You could
:23:09. > :23:19.tell already that there was something there that was very
:23:19. > :23:22.
:23:22. > :23:31.special. Sugar? Two. I was going to the music but in Repton, I started
:23:31. > :23:41.hearing folksongs. I said, I quite like this. Folk music tells truths.
:23:41. > :23:46.
:23:46. > :23:53.Nobody knows who made them, the Those traditional songs began as
:23:53. > :23:58.songs of the people. People over 405 hundred years have changed
:23:58. > :24:03.dramatically, but we are still bothered about lost loves, and all
:24:03. > :24:06.of the stuff that folksongs talk about. As well as singing
:24:06. > :24:16.traditional songs, Lucy started writing her own, and some of them
:24:16. > :24:26.
:24:26. > :24:32.The stories are like small movies, they are wonderful tales. I never
:24:32. > :24:39.set out to write songs specifically about Darbyshire, but it just
:24:39. > :24:45.happened. If it is a good story, and the song comes out, it is there,
:24:45. > :24:48.people are free to listen and see their own surroundings in it.
:24:48. > :24:52.Lucy's first album has gone down well, and there's a chance before
:24:52. > :25:01.her next gig to catch up with Drew from her record company to plan the
:25:01. > :25:07.next one. The first album went all right. It has gone really well.
:25:07. > :25:12.think we should do another one! Very presumptuous! I agree, it has
:25:12. > :25:21.gone really well, you have got to take a lot of credit. The reviews
:25:21. > :25:25.have been fantastic. Nobody was more astounded than me. People
:25:25. > :25:29.should realise how much hard work needs to go into setting up a
:25:29. > :25:38.record and building did that for a wind. Other people could learn a
:25:38. > :25:42.lot. If we could get a time line together, we can start making plans
:25:42. > :25:48.to release the second Lucy Ward album this year. It is all
:25:48. > :25:53.exciting! Thank you! Let's get a cup of tea. Let's get a pint!
:25:53. > :25:57.better! For a folk artist, this is the most important festival in the
:25:57. > :26:05.country, and Lucy has been asked to perform for the first time. It's
:26:05. > :26:09.the Cambridge Folk Festival. It has taken me a few years of e-mails and
:26:09. > :26:14.knock backs to be in a position where they wanted me, and it is
:26:14. > :26:19.exciting to be here. I am starting to get nervous, I am hoping I will
:26:19. > :26:27.do the best job I can. It is a bit scared the! All of this stuff that
:26:27. > :26:31.has been going on, it led me to think, if I was Prime Minister...
:26:31. > :26:39.You have got to love a sentence that starts like that, especially
:26:39. > :26:47.from somebody with blue hair. If you say to people you are a
:26:47. > :26:57.musician, they perceive you are singing in front of a mirror. They
:26:57. > :27:00.
:27:00. > :27:06.do not think you are actually doing It is a very exciting thing it, you
:27:06. > :27:11.can say that you have played Cambridge, it means a lot. It is
:27:11. > :27:15.important that the new young singers model the songs in their
:27:15. > :27:18.language and take them forward for the next generation. It's been a
:27:18. > :27:22.year of firsts for Lucy. She's played in Holland, her first gigs
:27:22. > :27:32.abroad, and has written music for a film, as well as doing 105 concerts
:27:32. > :27:32.
:27:32. > :27:38.and covering 16,000 miles. To some degree, it becomes your job, you
:27:38. > :27:44.have got to leave at 4 o'clock and you will not get back until 3 am.
:27:44. > :27:49.But there are moments, like when I see one of my CDs in a shop, it has
:27:49. > :27:59.only happened a few times, but when you get recognised, that is when it
:27:59. > :28:05.
:28:05. > :28:08.Whatever she sets her mind to, she will make a good job of it.
:28:08. > :28:13.Thankfully, she has decided to settle on folk music. All the
:28:13. > :28:18.better for it. In all of the creative industries, he cannot
:28:18. > :28:28.presume it will be like this. One day, I might have to get a proper
:28:28. > :28:34.
:28:34. > :28:36.Lucy Ward, ladies and gentlemen! Good luck, Lucy! And that's it for