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Tonight, Inside Out East Midlands is in Leicester. Coming up in the

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next half-hour: At the end of their tether - how do you deal with noisy

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neighbours? I just feel like crying. I don't want to be coming down

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banging on doors and complaining, I just want some sleep! After Richard

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III, what other hidden gems lie under our feet? This is just such a

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wonderful opportunity to tell the story of Richard, but also to

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relate that to the very long and rich history of our city. And the

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young singer from Derby who's making all the right noises in the

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We've all heard about nosy neighbours, but what about the

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noisy ones? And what can you do when the people next door are

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making your life a misery? Derby has become the first place in the

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East Midlands to run a night-time noisy neighbour response service.

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And since it started, the number of enforcement notices has gone up

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dramatically. Sarah Sturdey has been investigating how to tackle

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The noise... You can't switch off. It's 24/7. I feel like a broken

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person. They say "love thy neighbour". But sometimes that's

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hard. There is no escape. If anybody tells me "You can just move

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Is this one way to silence the racket? Sarah here, calling from

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the response service at Derby City Council. A rapid response to catch

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the culprits. There's no such thing as a quiet night for the noise

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patrol. It's a Saturday evening and Sarah and Dan aren't just listening

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to the complaint, they are hearing the evidence. What you're listening

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to now, it is nothing, it gets louder and louder. Is it always

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this sort of music, or does it vary? A lot of bad language. What

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time does it usually go on till? have rung up at one in the morning

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before. Because this is quite excessive, this would constitute a

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statutory nuisance. So what we are going to do is serve a legal notice

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on him. Since the late night service started, noise abatement

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notices like this telling people to pipe down have gone up by almost

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500 per cent. By being there as it happens, the officers can respond

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quickly, right on the spot. music is up flipping loud, they

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can't hear us. All right, Derby City Council. It's about your music.

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I need you to turn it down. If you continue to cause a nuisance, we

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continue to monitor it and hear it and witness it, we can go to court

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and get a warrant, come into your property and seize all your

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equipment. You don't want that, do you? Not really. It's no empty

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threat. The owners of this lot upset the neighbours once too often

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and ignored the legal warning. It's been seized by the council and sold

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at auction. People can get stressed and depressed if they feel they're

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not in control of their own neighbourhoods and environment.

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This is a way of showing that if they complain about something,

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action will be taken which will make a difference to them.

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response team doesn't always get there quick enough to hear the

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noise. Without proof, it's hard to take action. I just feel like

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crying. I don't want to be coming down, banging on doors and

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complaining, I just want some sleep. Thank you very much, all right,

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cheers. I'm going to be hard pushed to say "your dog is causing a

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nuisance". If they say, "can you hear him?", I can't, actually.

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There are other options. Next stop, the home of Lesley Mannion, who

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claims she has had years of sleepless nights from various

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tenants next door. Now at her wits' end, she is hoping noise recording

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equipment can help her gather evidence. The television is right

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in this corner. Just here. And they put it on full. My television in my

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room is not as loud as their television. I got earplugs in on

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Christmas Eve, you can still hear it, how can you sleep through that?

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You can't switch off. It's almost 24/7. Sometimes I just want to have

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a tantrum and scream, "shut up, please, for God's sake!" It's made

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me so ill. And it's down to the neighbours? It's down to the

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neighbours. Help from the authorities is too late for Dr

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Suzanne Dow. For more than a year she complained to her local council

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and police about noise, abuse, drug taking and violence next door. The

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council gave the tenants in Beeston near Nottingham a final warning or

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face eviction. In a three-page letter, the lecturer told the

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council it was affecting her mental and physical health. She had

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reached her limits with the situation and the council. Two

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weeks later, she killed herself. Broxtowe Borough Council says it

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has reviewed its anti-social behaviour policy and introduced a

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new complaint handling system to identify vulnerable people. So who

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should you call? If it's more than loud noise, it could be a police

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matter. In Sleaford in Lincolnshire, the council and police worked

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together with residents in this close. At 17, Josh Sargeant won 1/2

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million pounds on a scratchcard jackpot, bought a four-bedroom

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house and a hot tub. Then the trouble began. Revving engines,

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loud parties, even street brawls. It was chaos in the close. At one

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point more than 20 residents packed a front room to decide how to

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tackle the constant disruption. When they finally had their day in

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court, just three gave evidence. Now it's quiet, no one wants to

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talk on camera. After all, they still have to live here. One couple

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gave up trying to sell their home. They didn't want to involve the

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police. Another was prepared to tell the court their lives had been

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made a misery. It was making people ill. Because you never knew when it

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was going to stop, when it was going to start. It was really hard.

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Really hard. Sargeant, now 19, received a two-year anti-social

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behaviour order with a ban on loud music and large gatherings. He told

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the court he had got rid of all the hangers-on. Tackling noisy

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neighbours often needs joined-up thinking. In Sleaford, complaints

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are dealt with in a new way. The council shares all the information

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with Lincolnshire police. The idea is to spot repeat offenders and

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those most vulnerable. What may upset one person won't bother

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someone else. So we fully understand that people can be

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scared, we understand it impacts on people not wanting to leave their

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home, we understand it makes people feel very vulnerable and sensitive.

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The Lincolnshire pilot was developed by Chief Inspector Mark

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Housley. In the last few months, we've seen noise nuisance increase

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by 33 per cent, that is a third. So it's a real issue, and we need to

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work together as a partnership. trial is one of eight introduced

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nationally after Fiona Pilkington killed herself and her disabled

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daughter in Leicestershire. They had suffered years of neighbourhood

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abuse. We cannot treat this issue lightly. We are aware the

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escalation, and it can escalate to serious offences. If people are

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frustrated that the public sector, the local services aren't

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delivering for them, I understand that. We're trying to get better at

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that. Back in Derby, in the early hours of Sunday morning, party

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revellers upsetting the neighbours finally answer the door. We're from

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Environmental Response Service, Derby City Council. We have had a

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complaint regarding the noise you're making. You need to pipe

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down because you're causing a nuisance to your neighbours. OK, no

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problem. You live in a residential area. Thanks for your time. There

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are children trying to sleep. It is 20 past one in the morning. All

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being well, the warning should work. All you need do is press that

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little red button, write it down and give us a brief idea. Lesley is

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hoping that with evidence, the Council act and her cries for help

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will finally lead to some peace. There's no escape. And if anybody

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tells me, "you can just move out", I'll scream. It's just like, I feel

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sometimes the only choice is to either win the lottery and move, or

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And if you need advice about noisy neighbours, there is more

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The discovery of the remains of King Richard III right here in

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Leicester is still making headlines around the world and drawing the

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crowds and no wonder, because this is one of the most important and

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exciting recent archaeological finds. But it takes hours of

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painstaking work to build up a picture of our past - work that's

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going on all the time really by professional and amateur

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archaeologists, all trying to find It's big news. The world's media

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descends on Leicester. The skeleton of a king has been found under the

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Social Services Car Park by archaeologists from the University

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of Leicester. This is where the great discovery was made. Had the

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be tureens built a little bit further that way, there would be

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nothing to find. But here in the East Midlands, we have no shortage

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of important archaeological finds, and we pass by some of them every

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Not far from where Richard III was buried is the Jewry Wall on the

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other side of Leicester's ring road. Romans would have got here to

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socialise, to do business, it is a social hub. It was found when the

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foundations were being dug for a swimming pool, excavated in the

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1930s by archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon, who thought at

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first she'd found the Roman Forum and, well, some things don't seem

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There was a lot of press coverage, the people of Leicester found it

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exciting, to watch. This is of huge significance in terms of scale, it

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is the tallest Roman monument left in this country, which is pretty

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impressive. We are looking at 24 ft in height, it is no mean feat to

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have this in a city centre. Other development work in the city over

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the years has also given archaeologists a chance to excavate

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previously inaccessible areas. are very lucky, we have some of the

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most beautiful Roman mosaics in the country. This is the Blackfriars

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pavement, referred to by some experts as one of the nicest. It

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was found during the development worker for the building of the

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Great Central Railway. So, the more holes they can dig, the more

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archaeologists can find out, and it's not just in Leicester but all

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over the East Midlands that they're looking for clues to the past.

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have dug 90 pits. In Southwell, students from the Universities of

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Leicester and Nottingham have a novel way of doing it. They're

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taking archaeology into back gardens. The children are very

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interested, they thought it was a fantastic opportunity to seek

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Archaeology in action. Each year, they advertise for as many people

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as they can get to have a small pit dug in their garden. We hope to

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build up a database of hundreds from around the town, and only with

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that number can you get the complete history, the complete

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picture, because different parts of the town have been occupied in

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different periods, and have grown at different times. At the local

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fun day, it might seem strange to see a test pit being dug amongst

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the stalls and rides. We want the community to be engaged, digging,

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said this is a great place to be. It is the air of mystery and

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excitement, finding things that have never been seen for thousands

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of years. Some wonderful pottery, it is or medieval. You might think

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you could drop a flowerpot and have this, but this is really special.

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Each piece has a story. Maybe with this piece, a Saxon mother was

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cooking some stew and she dropped the pot, perhaps. There it is, of

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1000 years later, in our pit. They're hoping some of the

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youngsters here get the archaeology bug. Maybe they'll be the making

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the big finds of the future. switched the metal detector on, I

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got a huge signal. Just down the road in Newark is a tree surgeon

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who became interested in archaeology when he was a teenager.

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If anybody had seen me, they would have thought I was crazy, it was

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raining, dark, and I was scratching at the hole. Maurice made the news

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with a find in 2005. I scooped at, and I saw Gold Cup I could feel my

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heart beating faster. I saw this Nicholas appearing. Now, I've

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realised, I have hit the jackpot. Maurice had found an Iron Age torc

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worth �350,000. We put it in a box, in a carrier bag. We took it to the

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coroner's office. It went on from there. Valuable finds are assessed

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by the coroner. It was classed as treasure trove, so half of the

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proceeds went to Maurice and half to the landowner. I do not do it

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for money, I never have done. Everything I have found is either

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in museums or in my collection at home. But there's always one thing

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people are curious about. They always want to know where it was

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found. It has got to be fair for the farmer, because if everybody

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found out, they would be contacting him, wanting to go on the land.

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They never will find out from the! The torc's now in the British

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Museum, but there are plans to bring it back to a new museum in

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Newark, where it will be the star exhibit. I have been doing this for

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2 1/2 years. It's a constant dilemma for archaeologists. What do

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you do with the finds once you have them? These buildings are based on

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excavations, and all of the interpretations that people have

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done. Back in Leicester, the very old meets the very new. Students

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from De Montfort University are developing an app for the Jewry

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Wall museum that visitors can use to bring the Jewry Wall bathhouse

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back to life. At the moment, it is not completely accurate, but we are

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getting there. That is the main entrance. The plan is to be able to

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walk around the site and see what was there in Roman times. If my --

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I moved to the right, those are the baths, from Roman Leicester. This

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is so much fun! When you see the things coming to life, and you can

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work with them, it is really exciting. You will be able to work

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-- walk inside the Bath, and look at how they were, the grandiose

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baths. So it's up to the city to make sure the public know about the

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treasures on its doorstep, or ring road. When the visitor centre opens,

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we are expecting some queues. Richard III will bring tourists to

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Leicester, and the hope is some of them will visit the Jewry Wall

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museum too. The city mayor has got plans for the gardens. They will

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start to open this side of the town up. He is looking to connect

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Leicester, to connect this historic part of the city with the modern

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retail heart, which is just over the ring road. There are plans for

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this to become a permanent Richard III exhibition. This is a wonderful

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opportunity. To tell the story of Richard but also to relate it to

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the long and rich history of our city. It is an important chapter in

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it, but only one of many. archaeologists, whether

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professional or doing it for fun, will keep digging, keep making

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discoveries and keep finding out For years, people were using this

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as a car park. Who knows what else And here he is, the man of the

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moment, King Richard III. Now, there aren't many people who choose

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to make their living from folk singing, but in Derby a young

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musician called Lucy Ward has decided to do just that. She's

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already released one album, won a Radio 2 folk award and travels

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thousands of miles a year playing the music she loves. Well, over the

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past 12 months we've been following This is Lucy Ward, she's 23, from

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Derby, and is an award-winning folk singer. This next song is a true

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story from Derby. She juggles a hectic schedule, writing and

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recording new songs and playing over 100 concerts a year, including

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some of the biggest festivals on the folk circuit. It is such a

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dirty word for so many people, they imagine socks and sandals, but

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there are so many young people. It's Southwell Folk Festival. The

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festival season's getting under way and Lucy tries to go to as many as

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possible. You cannot help but know everybody! The beer tent is well

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attended, as per usual! Over the summer she'll play at 24 festivals.

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The trouble is, some of them are on the same weekend. Tomorrow, I am

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going to Cumbria. That is a four hour drive. Then, at a four-hour

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drive back here. Am I mad? I am not sure! For somebody who decided she

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would come into folk music rather than go to university, and make a

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career out of it, she has come a The audiences have been getting

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bigger since Lucy won the Radio 2 Horizon award for best folk

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newcomer last year. The award goes to Lucy Ward. Winning that award,

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just getting nominated, to be honest, sent everything crazy. To

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just be recognised with all of these other fantastic musicians his

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mind blowing up, so two of the people who take a chance on younger

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and emerging people, it is very helpful, I can tell you. Young folk

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singers like Lucy are carrying on a centuries-old tradition. Songs are

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passed down the generations, and it was because of some of the people

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here, like June Tabor and John Tams, that Lucy got into folk music.

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opening theme from the Napoleonic War Series. A friend of mine from

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Matlock. John Tams is from Derbyshire too, he's been playing

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folk music for over 40 years. faced -- I first came across her

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when she was 14 or 15, she played a concert in a church hall. You could

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tell already that there was something there that was very

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special. Sugar? Two. I was going to the music but in Repton, I started

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hearing folksongs. I said, I quite like this. Folk music tells truths.

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Nobody knows who made them, the Those traditional songs began as

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songs of the people. People over 405 hundred years have changed

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dramatically, but we are still bothered about lost loves, and all

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of the stuff that folksongs talk about. As well as singing

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traditional songs, Lucy started writing her own, and some of them

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The stories are like small movies, they are wonderful tales. I never

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set out to write songs specifically about Darbyshire, but it just

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happened. If it is a good story, and the song comes out, it is there,

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people are free to listen and see their own surroundings in it.

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Lucy's first album has gone down well, and there's a chance before

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her next gig to catch up with Drew from her record company to plan the

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next one. The first album went all right. It has gone really well.

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think we should do another one! Very presumptuous! I agree, it has

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gone really well, you have got to take a lot of credit. The reviews

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have been fantastic. Nobody was more astounded than me. People

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should realise how much hard work needs to go into setting up a

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record and building did that for a wind. Other people could learn a

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lot. If we could get a time line together, we can start making plans

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to release the second Lucy Ward album this year. It is all

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exciting! Thank you! Let's get a cup of tea. Let's get a pint!

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better! For a folk artist, this is the most important festival in the

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country, and Lucy has been asked to perform for the first time. It's

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the Cambridge Folk Festival. It has taken me a few years of e-mails and

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knock backs to be in a position where they wanted me, and it is

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exciting to be here. I am starting to get nervous, I am hoping I will

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do the best job I can. It is a bit scared the! All of this stuff that

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has been going on, it led me to think, if I was Prime Minister...

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You have got to love a sentence that starts like that, especially

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from somebody with blue hair. If you say to people you are a

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musician, they perceive you are singing in front of a mirror. They

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do not think you are actually doing It is a very exciting thing it, you

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can say that you have played Cambridge, it means a lot. It is

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important that the new young singers model the songs in their

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language and take them forward for the next generation. It's been a

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year of firsts for Lucy. She's played in Holland, her first gigs

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abroad, and has written music for a film, as well as doing 105 concerts

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and covering 16,000 miles. To some degree, it becomes your job, you

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have got to leave at 4 o'clock and you will not get back until 3 am.

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But there are moments, like when I see one of my CDs in a shop, it has

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only happened a few times, but when you get recognised, that is when it

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Whatever she sets her mind to, she will make a good job of it.

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Thankfully, she has decided to settle on folk music. All the

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better for it. In all of the creative industries, he cannot

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presume it will be like this. One day, I might have to get a proper

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Lucy Ward, ladies and gentlemen! Good luck, Lucy! And that's it for

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