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Tonight on Inside Out East Midlands, if you've bought a cheap second hand | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
car, just how safe is it? We speak to the victim of one rogue trader | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
who says he's lucky to be alive. If the petrol fumes, it could have | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
exploded at any time. One little spark and the car could have gone | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
up. Also tonight, Des Coleman hops on his bike for a very good cause. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Why am I taking part in this cycle ride? It is to help raise funds for | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
this charity that is very close to my heart. And Ben Jackson discovers | :00:39. | :00:57. | |
Leicester's underworld. The number of complaints from people who have | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
bought second hand cars is so high, a national commission is | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
investigating the problem. The Citizens Advice consumer helpline | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
gets more calls about independent used car traders than anything else. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
And the prosecution of one aggressive Nottinghamshire dealer is | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
a reminder of just how wary we should be. Sarah Sturdey reports. | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
The end of the line for these old bangers. But there are plenty still | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
on the road that shouldn't be. And at what cost? This is the worst case | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
that I have come across in my 25 years with trading standards. | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
Somebody has fitted that tyre onto a wheel that they know should not be | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
used. You would expect the car being sold at that price, to be | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
roadworthy. Some old cars on sale are only fit for scrap. If a car | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
dealer is't honest about how safe the car is to drive, they're | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
breaking the law and putting the driver at risk. Like many people, Ed | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
Taylor is on a tight budget. So he bought a W`reg Ford Focus from a | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
dealer in Sutton in Ashfield with 90,000 on the clock. He paid ?690 | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
and set off on the 25`mile drive home. There was not any fuel in it | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
so I asked for directions to the nearest garage. It cost me about ?70 | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
to fill it up. On the way home I thought it was odd that the fuel | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
gauge was dropping spectacularly, more than it should have been for a | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
car with a relatively large fuel tank. Ed managed to reach his home | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
town of Bingham and the nearest local mechanic, where Ben Mayall | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
took a look. I have never seen anything as dangerous as that in 30 | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
years in the motor trade. The was a whole in the petrol tank the size of | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
my little finger and fuel was spraying across the exhaust, and the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
whole back of the car was covered in petrol. The petrol fumes could have | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
exploded at any time, one little spark and the car would have gone | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
up. The man who sold the vehicle was a second hand car dealer called | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
Kevin Hempsall. I was so horrified that I spoke to Kevin Hensel about | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
the car and I asked him to come down and sort this out, because it was so | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
dangerous. And he became very abusive on the phone, very serious | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
threats, that he would have my legs taken, and his words were, I have | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
made money off the punter, you are going to make money off the punter, | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
all happy, what the f`ing hell's the problem? Hempsall traded from here | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
in Kirkby in Ashfield. And at a second site, Trade King Car Sales, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
in Sutton in Ashfield. It's now just a makeshift car park. Mr Taylor | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
bought his car here. So did Tia Ford. She wanted to learn to drive | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
in it. But the ?590 Renault Clio broke down as her mum drove it home. | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
I remember that night, when it got stranded, on the way home, and it | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
broke down. I am glad to see the back of it. It was on my garden for | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
nine months. Radio cassette, no, the electric windows do not have | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
handles. The advert stated the mileage was 90,000 miles. Tia went | :04:39. | :04:50. | |
back to sort it out. Kevin Hempsall came towards me in an aggressive | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
manner and told me to get off the premises. It was very distressing. I | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
was not convert the premises. It was very distressing. I was not | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
comfortably driving any more. Tia was a 21`year`old recent graduate | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
when she bought the Renault. Insurance premiums are high for | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
young drivers, which can mean less money in the pot for a first car. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
The insurers is so high for the younger ones now. You expect | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
whatever price that you pay for the car, it should be safe for you to | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
drive on the road. The Nottinghamshire trading standards | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
team, led by Sarah Houlton, built the case against Hempsall. There was | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
a big hall here. Just there. `` hole. This car was bought for ?520. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
It needed ?2,000 worth of repairs. This is one of the worst cars I have | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
seen, from the sheer number of faults on it any one of which would | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
make it not roadworthy. If that brake pad wares, you have got a very | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
high risk of accident and injury. And you can see that that is almost | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
rotten right through, the suspension, and if that failed, that | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
could quite easily cause a crash. Mansfield Magistrates' Court was | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
told that another buyer who returned to complain was locked in a room by | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
one of Hempsall's salesmen. One single mother went along with her | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
sister and young for your daughter to complain and she ended up getting | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
locked in the office by one of his employees for ten minutes. The | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
police investigated allegations of false imprisonment, but there was | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
insufficient evidence to prosecute. In total, Hempsall was fined just | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
over ?10,000 and ordered to pay compensation of more than ?6,500. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
The 17 offences included selling unroadworthy cars, misleading | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
customers and using aggressive practices. There was no apology for | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
his eight victims outside court. I think everything has been said in | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
court, I think. Hempsall's still allowed to operate | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
as a used car dealer. Here he is at work. The business is now called | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Coxmoor Motors in Sutton in Ashfield. Just around the corner | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
from the former Trade King Car Sales. Hempsall's name is on the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
website. As a result of the case, trading standards checked 20 other | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
dealers. Four were misleading customers like Hempsall. At the | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
moment we are seeing a worrying trend of these older cars being sold | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
where traders are not doing the necessary checks and also trying, as | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
in this case, to evade the possibility and when customers go | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
back to complain, they are not honouring their obligations for the | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
force in the cars, as well. `` the faults. The body which represents | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
second hand car traders, the National Franchised Dealers | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
Association, say they're concerned Hempsall has found it so easy to set | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
back up in business. They're urging buyers to find a dealer who belongs | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
to a recognised trade association. Make sure that you go to a reputable | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
place. Get somebody who knows things about cars, and have a good look | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
over it, first. I have seen some real horror stories out there in the | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
motor trade. So if you're buying a cheap car how do you make sure it's | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
safe to drive? Andy Brosnahan inspects cars for a living. He knows | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
what to look out for. We took Ed Taylor to meet him. The first thing | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
you should do is look at the engine oil and the coolant. It is | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
imperative. If you are getting cross contamination, water in oil, oil and | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
water, you have got potentially expensive engine repair. Take the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
car for a road test and do a minimum of five miles. It is important to | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
check the documents, the V5 registration document, the MOT, and | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
check for evidence of accident damage or damage such as this, and | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
always check it in daylight, in dry conditions. In the meantime, the | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
national commission aimed at giving buyers more protection from | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
unscrupulous second hand car dealers is due to report its findings in the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
Spring. It is unfortunate that there are plenty of good people in the | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
motor trade who have a bad reputation because of people like | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Kevin Hempsall, and the way that they carry on their business. When | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
you buy from a trader, you expect that they have done the checks | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
necessary to make sure that it is safe. It does not bear thinking | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
about. I have got a one`year old son, and if I had been out with him, | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
it would not just have been me that died, but a young child would have | :09:44. | :09:53. | |
been taken away. With Government cutbacks to the voluntary sector, | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
many charities are having to rely more and more on donations, | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
generosity and goodwill. But when we heard that our own Des Coleman, not | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
best known for his athletic ability, had volunteered for a charity bike | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
race, we wanted to know more. And it turned out to be an intriguing story | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
about pioneering parents in Nottingham fed up that their | :10:13. | :10:13. | |
children were being marginalised. Well, just ten miles to go. Why are | :10:14. | :10:40. | |
my taking part in this? It is to help raise funds for this ` School | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
for Parents. It is a charity that is very close to my heart. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
My lad Mitchell was born with cerebral palsy. And, like many | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
parents in that situation, we didn't know where to turn. School for | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Parents bridges that gap, providing help and support. Cloudy weather. | :10:56. | :11:07. | |
That is it. The charity is based in Sneinton, Nottingham and began their | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
pioneering work more than 30 years ago. Our little strapline is, School | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
for parents enabling children, empowering parents. And I think that | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
is what we do. For mothers like Rachel Lane, who's joined me on the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
cycle ride, the charity was a godsend. Her daughter Alice was born | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
with paraplegia, a weakness on one side of her body. Rachel's reaction | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
was typical. I've shot all of my family out. I'd tell anyone. I'd | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
kept it quiet for eight months. I couldn't tell anybody until I had | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
come to terms with and then told everybody. `` eyeshot all of my | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
family out. I felt like nobody in the world understood. Just wanted to | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
shock the curtains. Tom was born with Down's Syndrome, and Caroline | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
will never forget the hurtful and dismissive comments of one doctor. | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
Just after his diagnosis, the paediatrician said to me, you can | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
leave him here, you know. You don't have to take him home. And... I | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
thought, good grief, what's child have I got here? Where somebody is | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
saying, you don't have to take him home. But when we came here... It | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
wasn't just what it did for Thomas. It was all the soft things that it | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
did for me. It really made me feel that there was hope. You know, the | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
parents of these kids often say they feel disappointed about the level of | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
treatment that is on offer. They feel lost, marginalised, but here at | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
School for Parents, it is the mums and dads who are put right in the | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
centre of the action and they are the ones regarded as having the most | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
important influence on their child's development. The parents | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
come to us a couple of hours a week. We can't do everything for | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
them so the idea is, we teach them a developer and way they can use | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
within their home, so it is the stuff parents can do at home and the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
more they do it at home, the better the outcome for the children can be. | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Once you have got over the shock, and then you have gone through your | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
own grieving process, then you start to realise that if you don't try to | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
get over it, your child will be missing out and going backwards. | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
This is us here, this is the situation, and it is me and her | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
dad's job to make sure she has as fulfilling life as possible her | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
limitations. It is willing nice to come somewhere here way you see | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
other children and parents so you know you are not the only one. He | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
has cerebral palsy. He was deprived of oxygen at birth so he sustained | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
quite severe brain damage. We are aware that he needs physio and | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
exercises and the guys here give us that and the tools to take home to | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
know we are holding him properly and when we are stretching him, we are | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
doing it properly. Hopefully it will ease the pain he has been in. School | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
for Parents uses the principles of conductive education to unlock the | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
potential of these damaged children. They need to find and build new | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
pathways of doing everyday things, such as eating and sitting and | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
looking and lifting your head. And this is what conductive education | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
does. It helps them to build a new pathway to coordinate movement. | :14:57. | :15:09. | |
Often these kids are effectively excluded from swimming because of | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
their disability, but because of School for Parents, it has thrown | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
that away. It is somewhere where we are not different. We are with | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
people similar to us and they have similar experiences, the lows. When | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
you suddenly discover you have a child who can't quite do all the | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
things you expected that all the other children can do, you don't | :15:36. | :15:36. | |
quite know what to do. I'm having more fun than the little | :15:37. | :15:53. | |
ones! But it has lots of benefits, doesn't it? It is amazing. Something | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
everybody can join in, the whole family, and that is what the | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
children of `` with special needs need. It is hugely beneficial. | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
Well, halfway point! I really should have done some more training and few | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
of the doughnuts! It is a great day out for the family but sadly, some | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
of the children who go to School for Parents will never enjoy the simple | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
joys of a bike ride. When twins Olive and Tilda were born, | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
everything seemed perfect. They were crawling, talking and having fun. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
But then Olive began behaving rather strangely. Olive was diagnosed with | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Rett's Syndrome, an extremely rare condition that almost exclusively | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
affects girls. Olive started to have a problem with spatial awareness. I | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
would offer her a biscuit and she would look at it and look back at me | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
and I didn't understand what it was the first thing I thought that was a | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
bit unusual and a bit different. Babies with Rett's develop normally | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
for around 18 months and then parents face the agony of watching | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
their child regress. We literally had to watch live just lose the | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
ability to crawl, lose her words, lose the ability to use her hands. | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
The last word that she lost, and if it was in a film, you would say that | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
is too corny, it was goodbye. And that was cruel. Let Olive choose. | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
You have to let Olive choose with her eyes now. It was like we lost | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
her for a while, wasn't it? But we do feel now, through the different | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
communication strategies we are using, that we can communicate with | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
her so much better. You were looking at that one, when shoe, Olive? The | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
friendship song. `` weren't you? School for Parents has taught Paul | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
and Janie how to handle this distressing condition and manage | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
Olive's needs. We bring it all together in a play session to help | :18:08. | :18:08. | |
us 0 together in a play session to help | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
us develop those skills to be able to support our daughter and do it at | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
home. With help, Paul and Janie are coping, but it's hard for Olive's | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
twin sister Tilda. She definitely feels the loss. Because she tells us | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
that, you know, Olive cannot play with her, and she tells us Olive | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
cannot do that with her because she has Rett's syndrome. | :18:31. | :18:42. | |
Being the parent of a disabled child can feel like you're on a punishing, | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
gruelling race that will never end. But at least my charity bike`ride is | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
about to finish. Well, I am glad that is over what it has been fun. | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
Hopefully we've gone some way to raising the ?200,000 a year School | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
for Parents needs to keep going, so it is a never`ending struggle to | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
raise money. But the parents are determined to make it work. Well, if | :19:10. | :19:24. | |
you want to know what his son is doing, he is now a drama student, so | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
he may well be following in his father's footsteps. | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
Finally tonight, not far from here, archaeologists recently found the | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
world's oldest railway tunnel blocked by a rockery. It linked this | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
canal to Derbyshire's limestone quarries, which just goes to show we | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
never know what's right there under our feet. BBC Radio Leicester's Ben | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Jackson has been investigating some secret subterranean spaces that are | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
shedding new light on the past. I've lived and worked in Leicester | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
and Leicestershire all my life and thought I knew the area inside out. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
But the discovery of Richard III's skeleton in the city made me wonder | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
` what else might be hidden below us? 0 0 | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
With the help of historians and archaeologists, I began to dig | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
deeper and discovered a world once inhabited by kings and servants and | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
witches. A world which has been with us for 2,000 years, and we can still | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
travel through it today. What an amazing place! It was the Romans who | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
built the first known underground network. Excavations under the Roman | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
Baths revealed there were several tunnels. So, Richard, we have come | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
here to look underground at the tunnel. Where is it? Well, we are | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
technically 0 tunnel. Where is it? Well, we are | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
technically underground, in that the Roman period, at that time, in the | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
bathhouse, it would have stood two metres above us, so if you come in | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
from the exercise hall, into the bath block. So, 0 | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
from the exercise hall, into the bath block. So, hang on, if arrested | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
over here... The floor would be under here? `` if I stood? Yes. | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
There would be a mass of water stored in a water tower and it was | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
going to flow through the baths, through the plunge barbs and hot and | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
cold rooms. It eventually flows out into the river. This is the Newarke | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
in Leicester, and it was under here that an even more elaborate drainage | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
system was built in the 14th century. The fact is, this hasn't | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
been open for ten or 15 years and we have never seen down here? No, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
nobody has ever had the chance. We are going to be the first to | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
photograph it. It is incredibly exciting. It is. It will be | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
fantastic to get a record of how the structure has survived. The tunnel | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
here outside De Montfort University is almost four metres deep and we | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
can't go down there because there's simply not enough oxygen. But we can | :22:01. | :22:12. | |
lower a camera into the tunnel. The assumption is, it runs all the way | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
down to the river and there is a whole series of smaller drains. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Doesn't it make you want to get down there with a sledgehammer? | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Absolutely! If we could take that all down and see what was behind | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
there... It is incredible! We have no idea how extensive the network of | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
tunnels and passages was in medieval Leicester. What we do know is that | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
they are shrouded in legend and tales of the unexpected. The | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
best`known involved a witch called Black 0 | :22:41. | :22:40. | |
best`known involved a witch called Black Annis who lived in a cave just | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
outside the medieval city boundary. She would use the subterranean | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
system to travel into the city, coming out under Leicester Castle. | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
This was a storage area under what used to be the kitchens in Leicester | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Castle. Wow! It is a very gloomy, dank space. There is a story that | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
Black Annis was a witch or demonic figure living in the hills where the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
sandstone came from, so the sandstone itself has a connection to | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
the myth, and she would hang around outside the castle looking for small | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
children to capture. The underground passages are not all as scary as | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
that. Right under where I work there is a remarkable example of a quite | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
different hidden network from the 12th century ` cellars which were | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
sometimes linked by secret passages. This is amazing. Yes! I have talked | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
about this so much, and to actually be in it! So, tell me, what is this | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
cut in the wall? This is the original entrance inside. We have | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
one side of the doorway here and the other side marked by the larger | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
stones. What would that leads to? Well, there was a passageway that | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
run along for at least five metres and we think either there was a | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
flight of steps or a ramp that gave access. So, again, we have a third | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
underground, two thirds above ground and used for what? Probably buy for | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
`` probably for storage of goods by merchants and so on. More and more | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
uses were found for the hidden spaces down below. At Ashby de la | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Zouche, a tunnel linked the castle and the kitchens and utility areas. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
As the Parliamentarians laid siege on the Royalists in the castle in | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
1645, the tunnel played a crucial role in the year`long battle. | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
So this was absolutely central to the castle surviving? That is | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
right. We're walking along and you could have had a whole trail of | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
soldiers walking along. There wouldn't have been any lights when | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
the soldiers were coming through. It would have been absolutely pitch | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
black for them. Here... Into the tunnel. So it is aided for bit dark | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
here! `` a little bit. We believe it was extended during the Civil War as | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
a route 0 was extended during the Civil War as | :25:28. | :25:28. | |
a route underground from 0 was extended during the Civil War as | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
a route underground from this particular tower to the Hastings | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
tower so that people could escape through here all soldiers could use | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
it to move from one side of the castle to the other, safely | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
underground, without muskets firing at them from the opposition forces. | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
The tunnel at Ashby is impressive. But for sheer scale and size, the | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
mile`long railway tunnel at Glenfield, buried deep in the | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
countryside, is breathtaking. It must have been a feat of engineering | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
to build this 180 years ago. It is difficult for us, particularly | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
within our health and safety culture, to have any kind of concept | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
on the conditions that were experienced by people here. You have | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
a darkness that is absolute lack. You have miners working with | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
candles, a couple of guys working at the coal face, three or four working | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
the `` behind, people got run over by wagons, crushed by ground | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
movement. The contractor fell down a constructor shaft in 1831 and was | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
killed. It was the Victorians who created the most complex underground | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
system in Leicester. They built miles of sewers. We know they reach | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
out in all directions across the city from the clock tower. And the | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
sewage was processed at Abbey Pumping Station. | :26:54. | :27:10. | |
This is big, meaningful, gigantic Victorian engineering, isn't it? | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
That is right. It is almost like being inside a giant car engine. | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
They did build these things to last as well, didn't they? They could not | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
afford them to break down. If these engines stopped, the city would | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
drown in its own sewage. The interest 0 | :27:34. | :27:33. | |
drown in its own sewage. The interest in 0 | :27:34. | :27:33. | |
drown in its own sewage. The interest in Leicester's history | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
reached fever pitch last year, with the discovery of the remains of | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
Richard III. The Leicester underworld has many secrets which | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
have not yet been uncovered. It is a very exciting time for Leicester. | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Since the remains of King Richard were found, it has really captured | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
the public imagination, so maybe the next big story will be Cardinal | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
Wolsey at Abbey Park or perhaps there is a story as well about King | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
Lear and the fact that he might be entombed somewhere in the River | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
soar, so we never know what will be the next big story of Leicester. Now | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
the hope is that archaeologists and historians will get the funding to | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
go deep into these impressive underground wormholes. And that may | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
tell us much more about how we've been living 0 | :28:16. | :28:15. | |
tell us much more about how we've been living and working on two | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
levels for at least two thousand years. | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
Ben Jackson revealing a side of Leicestershire we've never seen | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
before. Remember, if you've got an untold story, you can always email | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
me. Next Monday, an energy special. | :28:31. | :28:40. | |
We're with the British Gas detectives as they hunt down the | :28:41. | :28:50. | |
power thieves. All the power used to these two meters has not been billed | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
as it appears. They are getting it for free... For now. | :28:55. | :29:04. | |
Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90-second update. | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
The PM has backed fracking. He's promised councils incentives if they | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
let companies drill for shale gas. Critics have called the offer a | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
bribe, but the Government claims the process will give us cheaper energy. | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
More at 10pm. The biggest public inquiry into | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
child abuse in the UK has begun in Northern Ireland. It's looking at | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
care in church and state-run homes over 70 years. More than 400 people | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
have asked to give evidence. Mark Bridger was convicted of | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
murdering April Jones last May. Today, he dropped his plan to appeal | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
a whole-life sentence. The five-year-old's body has never been | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
found. Is Britain on the verge of an | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
obesity crisis? The National Obesity Forum says the problem is worse than | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
thought. It wants urgent action to change eating habits and called for | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
doctors to be more proactive. A hat-trick for American Hustle at | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
the Golden Globes. It picked up three awards including Best Actress | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
and Best Supporting Actress. British film 12 Years A Slave won Best Film | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
Hello, I'm Simon Ward in the East Midlands. | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
Tributes from friends of a Leicestershire man who died saving | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
his two sons from drowning in Australia. Andrew Priestly from | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
Market Harborough pulled them out of a rip tide. | :30:11. | :30:12. | |
And people in Nottingham say they are shocked funding for an | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
insulation scheme has been pulled. British Gas | :30:16. | :30:16. |