:00:05. > :00:18.Hello from Nottingham. Coming up in the next half hour.
:00:18. > :00:23.Showdown in our smallest county. When the law gets involved, the
:00:23. > :00:29.police in particular, that as a nasty element to any form of debate.
:00:29. > :00:32.The day Cloughie got sacked — 40 years ago? And what can these
:00:32. > :00:38.pictures really tell us about the past? We finally heard the story
:00:38. > :00:45.from the chairman. Our friendship and partnership over the years had
:00:45. > :00:48.been tremendous. What can these pictures really tell you about the
:00:48. > :00:51.past? Bringing you the stories that matter
:00:51. > :01:09.closer to home, I'm Marie Ashby and this is Inside Out East Midlands.
:01:09. > :01:14.First tonight a long running battle in the smallest county. The gloves
:01:14. > :01:18.are off between one group of councillors who say they are being
:01:18. > :01:20.kept in the dark about decisions, and the ruling administration who
:01:20. > :01:33.are threatening legal action claiming harassment. Tony Roe has
:01:33. > :01:38.been to find out what is going on. Rutland. Officially the happiest
:01:38. > :01:41.place to live in England. But there is bitterness here. Accusations over
:01:41. > :01:45.planning applications. Accusations of a black hole in the budget.
:01:45. > :02:01.Counter claims of harassment. The calling in of the police.
:02:01. > :02:04.On one side are the ruling Councillors. In the Middle the Chief
:02:04. > :02:15.Executive. And on the outside are the rebel councillors, the accusers.
:02:16. > :02:23.This to me is the last chance saloon for these gentlemen, think about it.
:02:23. > :02:26.Threats that we shouldn't be dancing these questions. Threats that we
:02:26. > :02:30.shouldn't be going about our business as counsellors and no
:02:30. > :02:36.threats that are effectively coming from the police. When the law gets
:02:36. > :02:44.involved, that adds a nasty element to any form of debate which will
:02:44. > :02:48.only ratcheted up the tension. This is one of the reasons why the
:02:48. > :02:51.rebels are asking questions. The construction of a mansion on the
:02:51. > :02:55.shores of Rutland Water without the need to go to the planning committee
:02:55. > :02:58.The farmer who used to own the land here wasn't allowed to build a
:02:59. > :03:06.bungalow on the site. The good old days have gone on, haven't they? The
:03:06. > :03:11.formerly used to own the land he wasn't allowed to build a bungalow
:03:11. > :03:18.on this site. How did they get planning for that massive welding?
:03:18. > :03:22.It is ridiculous. It is difficult to understand planning of policies
:03:22. > :03:27.change. This one goes back over 40 years. In the sixties Henry
:03:27. > :03:30.Wakerly's father farmed and lived in the valley below Hambleton. But then
:03:30. > :03:34.came Rutland Water. The farm was flooded. The Wakerlys were allowed
:03:34. > :03:39.to build two houses further up the hill but could only afford one at
:03:39. > :03:47.the time. When they had the money permission was refused repeatedly.
:03:47. > :03:51.Mr Wakerly gave up. He sold the land for a million and in disbelief saw
:03:51. > :03:57.planning approval granted to the new owner who sold before building
:03:57. > :04:01.anything. But the next owner then put up a house on a much bigger plot
:04:01. > :04:08.complete with annexe, without the need of going to a planning
:04:08. > :04:14.committee. I resent it really. If it was just a normal sized house it
:04:14. > :04:22.wouldn't be so bad stop if they built a sensible house, but they
:04:22. > :04:26.have looked —— output to the same position I was refused, it does not
:04:26. > :04:32.make sense. People continue to say how was that repeat —— accepted when
:04:32. > :04:35.something very small was refused. All those reasons which were given
:04:35. > :04:40.to refuse an application when ignored. How was this approved by
:04:40. > :04:44.the delegating powers? Planning policy it seems changed, no longer
:04:44. > :04:51.classifying the land as farmland. So the mansion was approved. This was
:04:51. > :04:56.never one which needed to go to a planning committee as was normal
:04:56. > :05:00.local concern raised about it. Officers made a decision but they
:05:00. > :05:06.checked with the chairman of the planning committee. He checked with
:05:06. > :05:12.me and I had no local concerns. Lots of applications of assembler ——,
:05:12. > :05:15.nature would go through without being delegated unless there was
:05:15. > :05:19.public concern. The next concern for the rebels. The sale of the Park
:05:19. > :05:24.School site in Oakham. They wanted to know how it could be that it was
:05:24. > :05:29.on the open market only hours after full council had discussed it. Lo
:05:29. > :05:34.and behold the next day, a huge for sale sign appeared on the site which
:05:34. > :05:40.seemed amazingly quick for the agent to have done his due diligence. From
:05:40. > :05:45.that period on, I had grave reservations about what was
:05:45. > :05:49.presented in front of us. The problem was we lost trust in the
:05:50. > :05:54.council. I have lost trust. They lost trust and they complained. A
:05:54. > :06:05.lot. Allegations were made about the conduct of the council leader and
:06:05. > :06:12.his deputy. An independent inquiry report costing 25,000 was
:06:12. > :06:15.commissioned. 11,000 was spent on a police inquiry. It completely
:06:15. > :06:18.cleared the councillors but didn't satisfy the rebels who still feel
:06:18. > :06:23.documents are kept from them. When we are told we cannot see minutes to
:06:23. > :06:29.meetings and can see certain documents, that raises alarm bells.
:06:29. > :06:35.Now one has given us strong reasons why we cannot see these documents.
:06:36. > :06:40.All the information they have asked for and the minutes have been given
:06:40. > :06:46.to them. I have just met with you for this interview. I am not taking
:06:46. > :06:51.any minutes of it. Sometimes you meet with people and there are no
:06:51. > :06:54.minutes. They think there is something wrong and they are
:06:54. > :07:00.frantically trying to see if they can find it. There is nothing there
:07:00. > :07:04.for them to find. They claim there is a black hole in council
:07:04. > :07:10.accounts, unbelievable, there is no proof. I have challenged them to
:07:10. > :07:14.race to the provide proof. Other councils have challenged and they
:07:14. > :07:20.refused and Sir. That is where we are with this of councillors. What
:07:20. > :07:23.happened here in the summer of 2012 has had serious repercussions. A
:07:23. > :07:26.senior Director was suspended. He was escorted from the building by
:07:26. > :07:40.the Chief Executive. He went home and hanged himself. The inquest
:07:40. > :07:43.verdict — suicide. The Director's sister and father sought help from
:07:43. > :07:46.the rebel councillors. They want to know why he was he facing
:07:46. > :07:49.disciplinary action? All the inquest heard was it was nothing criminal.
:07:49. > :07:54.His death was tragic. We have supplied all the information to the
:07:54. > :08:00.police and the coroner. They held an inquest. After the inquest the next
:08:01. > :08:05.of kin, which is his wife, asked that we die vulture now further
:08:05. > :08:14.information. We have honoured that commitment. —— that we die vulture
:08:15. > :08:18.now further information. They should be able to talk to the blood
:08:18. > :08:23.relatives and satisfy them in the same way. The problem is the
:08:23. > :08:27.Council's Chief Executive wants no more questions. She went to the
:08:27. > :08:37.police and they sent a warning letter to the rebel councillors. It
:08:37. > :08:44.did seem as hard on the heavy—handed side. The sort of things which were
:08:44. > :08:50.being discussed, breaches of the law and possible prosecution, would have
:08:50. > :08:57.anybody receiving a letter like that in no doubt they were in very
:08:57. > :09:02.serious territory. What the letter did do is drive them into the
:09:02. > :09:05.welcoming arms of UKIP. It's another switch for Nick Wainwright who
:09:05. > :09:13.started his local political career as part of the Tory group's cabinet.
:09:13. > :09:18.I became disenchanted with the lack of detail that seem to be presented
:09:18. > :09:24.when it came to specific projects and I decided the best thing for me
:09:24. > :09:27.to do was to stand as an independent which would allow me to do my job.
:09:27. > :09:30.In a reversal of fortune Terry King, now Tory deputy leader, was once an
:09:30. > :09:37.independent colleague of Dave Richardson? one of the three rebels.
:09:37. > :09:41.He still continues from the outside to take the same stands. I don't
:09:41. > :09:48.want to totally complain about what is going on, that gets us nowhere.
:09:48. > :09:53.The Chief Executive wouldn't be interviewed for this programme. The
:09:53. > :09:56.Council have backed her to take legal action against the rebel three
:09:56. > :10:04.despite criticism at Government level. It is my understanding that
:10:04. > :10:09.no apology is forthcoming and we are the next stage to go towards legal
:10:09. > :10:13.proceedings. Those at the receiving end must recognise that that is what
:10:13. > :10:18.the other group of members is there to do. Those members receiving
:10:18. > :10:22.decisions they do not like, must also realise that that is what those
:10:22. > :10:26.decision—making councillors are there to do. Where will this stand
:10:26. > :10:34.off end? They both have solutions far apart. The only way it will be
:10:35. > :10:41.correctly resolved is for an independent team of investigators to
:10:41. > :10:46.coming and question both sides. We need to have a full council in
:10:46. > :10:52.public ANSI X is the case because of this. Then we can see in public this
:10:53. > :11:00.is the answer. Then people can form their own judgements. How far can
:11:00. > :11:05.you go and who blinks first? Somebody has to make the decision
:11:05. > :11:09.that these relationship should be prepared for not just the council
:11:09. > :11:13.but also the people of Rutland. High noon could have to wait until the
:11:13. > :11:22.next election in 2015. A year and a half is a very long time in local
:11:22. > :11:25.politics. For some Derby County fans, the
:11:25. > :11:31.recent sacking of manager Nigel Clough was a case of history
:11:31. > :11:34.repeating itself. Next week marks the 40th anniversary of his father's
:11:34. > :11:39.controversial departure from the club. But as Simon Hare has been
:11:39. > :11:49.finding out, one side of THAT story has remained untold — until now. A
:11:49. > :12:00.private family archive featuring one very public figure. A young Brian
:12:00. > :12:05.Clough and family at play. Film shot by the family of Sam Longson, the
:12:05. > :12:14.Derby County family chairman who brought cloth to the club. ——
:12:14. > :12:20.Clough. His relationship was that of the Sony never had. It was Longson
:12:21. > :12:27.who spotted the potential of the inexperienced young manager, signing
:12:27. > :12:32.him in 1967. There were a few other directors with him and they were not
:12:32. > :12:40.over keen on Brian. But my father was stuck with him. So he persuaded
:12:40. > :12:44.them to give Brian the job. Without doubt in those early days, the
:12:44. > :12:48.relationship didn't work and it worked with the success of Derby
:12:48. > :12:52.County. I signed probably a month after Brian Clough took the job.
:12:52. > :12:57.They were always together, always talking to each other. Brian allowed
:12:57. > :13:04.Sam to come into the game as chairman. You could tell there was a
:13:04. > :13:10.warm relationship between Sam and Brian. And I think any successful
:13:10. > :13:22.football club, there has to be relationship. Five years after
:13:22. > :13:25.arriving, Brian Clough repaid Longson's faith in him with Derby
:13:25. > :13:33.County's first—ever division one title. He used to say to me,
:13:33. > :13:39.whatever you do, just when something from it. And we won. Having won it,
:13:39. > :13:48.outside influences started to change.
:13:48. > :13:58.You are a disgrace. 170 grand for Colin bloodied Todd. There had been
:13:58. > :14:03.tensions. Clough was signing players behind his chairman's back. This is
:14:03. > :14:08.the telegram Clough sent Longson after breaking the British transfer
:14:08. > :14:19.record for Colin Todd, saying he was now running short of cash. But
:14:19. > :14:23.Longson feared Clough's maverick approach could spell trouble for
:14:23. > :14:28.Derby County. Now, almost a quarter of a century after his death,
:14:28. > :14:34.Longson's on account of that era is to be published for the first time.
:14:34. > :14:39.We feel in fairness not only to Sam, what do the history books and the
:14:40. > :14:44.legacy of Derby County itself, there should be more prospective to who
:14:44. > :14:51.was responsible for what during the glory years of the 1970s. Sam
:14:51. > :14:57.Longson had made his money from a successful Peak District haulage
:14:57. > :15:02.business. As a teenager in 1918, he had come to Derby market place to
:15:02. > :15:09.find work. In 1972 committee was back there, parading the biggest
:15:09. > :15:18.prize in English football. With success, Clough had become even more
:15:18. > :15:25.outspoken. Football had a bad week last week. The goodies last and the
:15:25. > :15:28.baddies won. My father asked him to stop it and just concentrate on
:15:28. > :15:38.management. He was a fantastic manager. I don't like him
:15:38. > :15:41.criticising fellow managers. Sir Alf's character will stand him in
:15:41. > :15:50.good stead. I'm sick of the people in your profession. Derby County had
:15:50. > :15:55.already been in trouble twice with the FA over its financial affairs
:15:55. > :16:00.and the failed transfer of the year and more. Longson failed cloth would
:16:00. > :16:07.land them in more trouble. —— Clough. Their relationship broke
:16:07. > :16:17.down. As a player we did not really see that fracture. It was not as
:16:17. > :16:20.obvious. On October the 15th, Clough and Peter Taylor offered their
:16:20. > :16:28.resignations. Longson and the majority of the board accepted them.
:16:28. > :16:38.To this day, many fans think Longson sackcloth. Was he a manager that it
:16:38. > :16:42.simply become unmanageable? I'm sorry this has taken place. It is
:16:42. > :16:46.very distressing to me. Our friendship and partnership with the
:16:46. > :16:54.years has been tremendous. Could you have held on? Most certainly. I
:16:54. > :16:59.resigned because I detected a change and they tried to channel me and put
:16:59. > :17:03.the dampers on me. They restricted me. But having left and made a
:17:03. > :17:08.decision, I would not for one second tell you I had made the wrong one.
:17:08. > :17:12.If Brian and Peter were here today and they were talking about it, they
:17:12. > :17:21.would tell everybody it was the biggest mistake they ever made. I
:17:21. > :17:27.think Grandad was more about the club than just being a steward.
:17:27. > :17:33.Quickly getting Dave Mackay tie in place and getting Derby County back
:17:33. > :17:38.to playing football. The proof was winning the championship again two
:17:38. > :17:41.years later. A lot of people forget that part. Getting to Europe and
:17:41. > :17:49.getting to the semifinal after the Brian Clough era. Sam Longson's
:17:50. > :17:56.family have come to Derby Telegraph to find photographs of that era for
:17:57. > :18:01.the book. He was immensely proud of what Derby County had achieved. And
:18:01. > :18:08.the relationship he had with the players and their families. It is a
:18:08. > :18:13.chance to actually set the record straight. The new generation get a
:18:13. > :18:17.view from what they read on the websites and what they see in
:18:17. > :18:22.movies. There would be no Derby County without me. No league title,
:18:22. > :18:29.no champions of England, not without Brian Clough. The family are unhappy
:18:29. > :18:36.about this particular scene from the film. The chairman is the boss, then
:18:36. > :18:41.the selectors, then the fans, then the players and finally, last of
:18:41. > :18:44.all, but of the heap, the lowest of the Lowell, comes the one who in the
:18:44. > :18:50.end we can all do without. The blooming manager. They say Longson
:18:50. > :18:59.felt the relationship between chairman and manager working
:18:59. > :19:06.together was key to success. 40 years on and another Clough has left
:19:06. > :19:10.Derby County. At what would prove to be Nigel Clough's last game in
:19:10. > :19:18.charge, fans were still talking about what might have been in the
:19:18. > :19:27.1970s. Sam Longson? My first reaction? Not good. He got rid of
:19:27. > :19:34.Brian Clough. The clash of the Titans. He started the club moving
:19:34. > :19:40.in the right direction in the 60s. I talk a lot about my grandfather to
:19:40. > :19:45.my kids. They don't see any evidence. To put that right, the
:19:45. > :19:51.family hope in the future the club may mark Sam Longson's role in the
:19:51. > :19:58.glory years. We were a close—knit and successful family. How they
:19:58. > :20:03.recognise him, I don't know. But certainly he has got to have some
:20:03. > :20:08.recognition for what he did alone in terms of bringing Brian and Peter to
:20:08. > :20:12.Derby County. Thanks to these, we've never been so
:20:12. > :20:15.prolific in recording our lives. 250 million pictures a day are uploaded
:20:15. > :20:22.on to the biggest social networking site alone. Yet in the past, our
:20:22. > :20:25.cameras only came out on special occasions. So there was huge
:20:25. > :20:28.interest earlier this year in an exhibition of pictures which showed
:20:28. > :20:32.how we lived more than half a century ago. For photographer David
:20:32. > :20:33.Sillitoe it led to a surprising discovery about a long demolished
:20:33. > :20:53.Nottingham slum. Images of the past on show at the
:20:53. > :20:56.Djanogly Gallery. Some professional. But also many family pictures,
:20:56. > :21:05.mostly of Nottingham. Pictures of people and how we used to live in
:21:05. > :21:09.post war Britain. You would not have a camera. These were read things to
:21:09. > :21:13.have and if you had one you would probably just reserve the 12 shots
:21:13. > :21:17.that you could afford for your holidays. And you were not exactly
:21:17. > :21:23.photographing in the streets where you lived. So actually when you find
:21:23. > :21:27.domestic material, it is quite rare. Some of the subjects of the photos
:21:27. > :21:32.are here and able to add their own gloss to the pictures. What draws me
:21:32. > :21:39.to this picture is a particular memory of this area here. They broke
:21:39. > :21:44.joins the River Trent. And there is a single beach... Terry Sleaford can
:21:44. > :21:47.be seen on the brand new Clifton estate, after being moved from the
:21:47. > :21:55.slums of soon to be demolished St Ann's. The families moving from
:21:55. > :22:00.Saint Adams to Clifton are also beginning to document the change in
:22:00. > :22:02.their social circumstances. The final one is me and my sister in the
:22:03. > :22:09.back garden. We have back garden. We have not been able
:22:09. > :22:13.to do that in the house at Saint Adams. Terry Sleaford's Clifton.
:22:13. > :22:21.Over half a century you can see the changes. It's busier now. Shall we
:22:21. > :22:26.see Africans find the spot where this photograph was taken? —— shall
:22:26. > :22:30.we see if we can find the spot. I want to find the spot where Terry
:22:30. > :22:33.and his sister were snapped with their mum. It's at a bend in the
:22:33. > :22:38.path and remarkably still there. It's all that is left from 50 years
:22:38. > :22:52.ago by the busy A453. You would have been walking down here on your way
:22:52. > :22:58.to the village will stop ——. If you could nominate one picture from this
:22:58. > :23:01.exhibition that is not only your favourite, but you'd really love to
:23:01. > :23:11.find the person or people in that picture, which one would it be? This
:23:11. > :23:14.is 1969. Shot by a photographer called Roger remain. There is the
:23:14. > :23:22.wonderful movement of the woman sitting on the doorstep, reaching
:23:22. > :23:26.across to this little baby. It does say a lot about how life was lived
:23:26. > :23:32.out on the street, how people conducted their social life. They
:23:32. > :23:36.may be a possibility that quite a number of the people in this
:23:36. > :23:42.photograph are still in Nottingham and can tell us about the Davies
:23:42. > :23:47.photographs were taken. At the end of the exhibition the huge images of
:23:47. > :24:02.the people we want to find are taken away. This I am at the
:24:02. > :24:08.Nottinghamshire archive. We have a clue, a house number. We are going
:24:08. > :24:13.through all of the record is hoping to find somebody with an unusual
:24:13. > :24:18.name at number 45 that can cast a light on who may be in this other
:24:18. > :24:21.photograph. It is a long process of filtering through these old records.
:24:21. > :24:26.We found the Shortlands, now on Nottingham's Top Valley estate. They
:24:26. > :24:29.put us in touch with Tony Miller, who runs a Facebook community which
:24:29. > :24:36.celebrates life around the St Ann's Wells Road before the demolition and
:24:37. > :24:39.70's rebuild. The forced splitting of the community and the
:24:39. > :24:49.justification for doing it by academics is still resented. This
:24:49. > :24:55.book was almost a justification to flatten it? Absolutely. I think that
:24:55. > :25:00.is probably one of the most upsetting things I hear. It was
:25:00. > :25:06.constantly referred to as a slum. It was not that way at all. There were
:25:06. > :25:10.certain parts that needed treatment in terms of rebuilding but that was
:25:10. > :25:16.very much in the minority. As for slums, it may be clouded with
:25:16. > :25:22.nostalgia, but my memories are not of a poverty stricken era at all. It
:25:22. > :25:34.is of a very thriving, bustling community. This was an area I could
:25:34. > :25:38.come to. I knew this like the back of my hand. Back to our group of
:25:38. > :25:44.photographs. We know now this is Bombay Street. Good memories remain
:25:44. > :25:47.from those who lived here at the time the photographers image was
:25:47. > :25:55.used to illustrate a book on poverty. —— photographer's. That was
:25:55. > :26:01.my sister. She was in the Brownies. And that is me with my younger
:26:01. > :26:09.brother. That was in the backyard. You can get an idea as to the type
:26:09. > :26:14.of life that we lived. That is inside our family home. My dad was a
:26:14. > :26:19.bricklayer. The private landlord pretty much let him get on with what
:26:19. > :26:24.he wanted to do. He got that stone from a bridge that had been pulled
:26:24. > :26:31.down, dressed it and built a stone fireplace. That was 1965. That is
:26:31. > :26:35.not a slum. Do you reckon the fact that everybody was so pushed into a
:26:35. > :26:42.small space, did make a community form? Yes, it worked brilliantly to
:26:42. > :26:45.where I lived, if you had an accident or you needed help with the
:26:45. > :26:50.children, there would always be helping parents hands. Nowadays
:26:50. > :26:59.people just shut the doors and they don't want to know. If proof was
:26:59. > :27:02.required about the community fondness for St Ann's before
:27:03. > :27:08.demolition then it's here. A big reunion from those old enough to
:27:08. > :27:16.remember well. Among them was the man who put us in touch with the
:27:16. > :27:20.group. Just the camaraderie that has gone on for 50 years, it is amazing.
:27:20. > :27:24.So was the academics' stance that life for the people here was one of
:27:24. > :27:35.unremitting drudgery, a true picture? We didn't know we were
:27:35. > :27:43.poor. There were obviously wealthier people around us. The people at the
:27:43. > :27:48.newsagents had a car. Most of us were the same. We were all happy.
:27:48. > :27:52.There was not drudgery. Your man would send you for a couple of
:27:52. > :27:56.slices of bread to your neighbour and you'd pay him back on Friday.
:27:56. > :28:02.You can't knock on somebody's door now and ask them for some bread or
:28:02. > :28:05.sugar. Take —— they would think you were mental. This is no art gallery
:28:05. > :28:09.but a tent at an inner city farm. People preserving their own past.
:28:09. > :28:12.And they've come here from as far away as Australia to make the point
:28:12. > :28:26.that the picture painted of old St Ann's was wrong. Pictures don't tell
:28:26. > :28:29.all the story. And if you recognised yourself or
:28:29. > :28:38.someone you know in any of those pictures we'd love to hear from you.
:28:38. > :28:41.Next week, an Inside Out special — do we know what we're eating? It's
:28:41. > :28:45.ten months since the horse meat scandal shook our faith in food. Now
:28:45. > :28:48.Jay Rainer asks, who's really in charge of our food supply? Is it
:28:48. > :28:52.really what it says on the tin?