:00:00. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to the glorious Attenborough Nature Reserve
:00:08. > :00:10.Here is what's coming up in the next half-hour.
:00:11. > :00:15.We're out with the men who are hunting the hunters.
:00:16. > :00:18.A lot of people thought, that's it,
:00:19. > :00:21.that's the end of hunting. It won't happen any more.
:00:22. > :00:23.Really, on the face of it, nothing seemed to have changed.
:00:24. > :00:26.Also tonight, she has five brain tumours.
:00:27. > :00:45.And is it time to put school music centre stage?
:00:46. > :00:56.The stories that matter closer to home.
:00:57. > :01:08.This is Inside Out East Midlands. I'm Lukwesa Burak.
:01:09. > :01:11.First tonight, the ban on hunting with dogs remains
:01:12. > :01:16.Many of the country's best-known packs foxhounds continue to meet
:01:17. > :01:21.They insist that they operate within the law.
:01:22. > :01:23.But with police resources so stretched, how do you ensure
:01:24. > :01:27.Simon Hare has been given exclusive access to two men
:01:28. > :01:42.Footage captured by hunt investigators.
:01:43. > :01:48.Years after the ban on hunthng with dogs came into force.
:01:49. > :01:51.For the first time they havd agreed that our cameras can follow them
:01:52. > :01:57.A season that would end with a violent confrontation
:01:58. > :02:06.The minute I hit the floor, I didn't lose consciousness,
:02:07. > :02:07.but I knew something serious had happened,
:02:08. > :02:22.The traditional fox hunting season is just days away.
:02:23. > :02:24.Although, since 2005, it's been illegal to hunt m`mmals,
:02:25. > :02:33.Roger Swain and Darryl Cunnhngton are full-time hunt investig`tors,
:02:34. > :02:39.paid for by the League Against Cruel Sports.
:02:40. > :02:42.A lot of people thought that, that's it, that's the end of hunting.
:02:43. > :02:47.But very quickly, you realise that really, on the face of it,
:02:48. > :03:00.Darryl was a Leicestershire police officer for almost 30 years.
:03:01. > :03:03.While in the force, he helped to prosecute
:03:04. > :03:05.members of the Ferny Hunt for this illegal hunting.
:03:06. > :03:14.Members of the Derbyshire-b`sed Mennel and South Staffs
:03:15. > :03:16.hunt were convicted after he shot this footage.
:03:17. > :03:21.You have to get the pack of hounds, maybe, and you have to get someone
:03:22. > :03:22.showing some intention of breaking the law.
:03:23. > :03:28.Getting that on camera is really, really difficult.
:03:29. > :03:31.We go, we monitor the hunts, then we go away.
:03:32. > :03:37.There is no hunt that can s`fely assume that they are not
:03:38. > :03:44.Darryl and Roger have had a tip off about a small building
:03:45. > :03:48.on the Leicestershire- Lincolnshire border.
:03:49. > :03:53.We found that, inside, was a live fox.
:03:54. > :04:01.There's no reason whatsoever to keep a live, it would appear
:04:02. > :04:02.to be healthy enough, fox, in a shed.
:04:03. > :04:06.The building it was in was totally enclosed and we had a good check
:04:07. > :04:12.to make sure that there was no way that this fox could have
:04:13. > :04:15.There was a hasp with a padlock on it that was unlocked.
:04:16. > :04:18.The conditions the fox was kept under were far from ideal.
:04:19. > :04:20.No daylight, no stimulation, wet floor, no water,
:04:21. > :04:32.Two days later, a hidden calera installed by the League
:04:33. > :04:34.investigators films a man visiting the building.
:04:35. > :05:00.He is later confirmed to be a member of the estate staff.
:05:01. > :05:03.The following day the Beaver Hunt is due to meet less
:05:04. > :05:06.Darryl and Roger go in with colleagues to removd
:05:07. > :05:09.The same man is then filmed visiting the building
:05:10. > :05:13.He clearly seems to be carrying a white plastic bag
:05:14. > :05:17.Which, really, confirmed our suspicions that he was going to try
:05:18. > :05:20.and catch this fox and put ht in the bag.
:05:21. > :05:23.He was in the building for ` little while, then he came outside,
:05:24. > :05:26.more or less scratching his head because he had left this buhlding
:05:27. > :05:28.with the door shut and a padlock back in position.
:05:29. > :05:32.Lincolnshire Police begin an investigation.
:05:33. > :05:33.The Buckminster estate says its employee
:05:34. > :05:40.The Beaver Hunt said it had no knowledge of involvement
:05:41. > :05:57.By March, the fox hunting sdason is coming to an end.
:05:58. > :06:01.We have done about 20, 25 hunts this year.
:06:02. > :06:10.We have put a lot of resources and effort into monitoring hunts
:06:11. > :06:18.it is looking at three cases of suspected illegal hunting and six
:06:19. > :06:20.allegations of interfering with a badger sett.
:06:21. > :06:23.Opponents like the Countryshde Alliance say that these
:06:24. > :06:24.investigations are disproportionate, unregulated and
:06:25. > :06:30.They have pulled off the pictures
:06:31. > :06:37.Today, Darryl and Roger are monitoring the Beaver Htnt.
:06:38. > :06:39.We probably will get spotted by hunt supporters, and if
:06:40. > :06:42.Is there anyone we should watch out for?
:06:43. > :06:52.The sun and crowds have comd out for the final meeting of thd season.
:06:53. > :06:57.Beaver Castle provides the idyllic backdrop.
:06:58. > :07:00.Roger and Darryl have deciddd to monitor the hunt
:07:01. > :07:09.Towards the end of the day, there's a violent confrontation
:07:10. > :07:23.Yes, I got walloped on the side of the head and pushed
:07:24. > :07:25.down the embankment, but Darryl has got a pain
:07:26. > :07:29.in his neck and his legs have got pins and needles in.
:07:30. > :07:37.He was pushed down a steeper part of the embankment.
:07:38. > :07:39.Body-camming injuries to his head on the left-hand side.
:07:40. > :07:42.He has received a blow, and he is bleeding.
:07:43. > :07:44.We had a good view on the rhdge up here.
:07:45. > :07:50.Which is, it is a good distance away from the hunt,
:07:51. > :07:52.so we were not causing any problem or anything.
:07:53. > :07:55.I got punched on the side of the head and thrown
:07:56. > :08:00.Darryl's looks more serious and I am very worried about him.
:08:01. > :08:03.Now the paramedics are here, and hopefully he hasn't
:08:04. > :08:11.As the sun goes down on another hunting season,
:08:12. > :08:13.specialist machinery is brought in to rescue Darryl
:08:14. > :08:20.Meanwhile, two men have been arrested.
:08:21. > :08:31.From the minute I hit the floor I didn't lose consciousness
:08:32. > :08:34.but I knew something serious had happened, because I could not move.
:08:35. > :08:37.They told me I have broken vertebrae in my neck.
:08:38. > :08:42.Difficult to sleep, because I have got this collar on my neck.
:08:43. > :08:44.And I am on quite a lot of painkillers.
:08:45. > :08:47.We have some nasty footage of saboteurs being mistreatdd.
:08:48. > :08:53.We operate differently from the saboteurs.
:08:54. > :08:59.It's not our job to interfere with what the hunt's doing.
:09:00. > :09:02.And if we don't gather any dvidence to show that they are acting
:09:03. > :09:04.in any way illegally, then we will go away
:09:05. > :09:14.Darryl and Roger return to the scene of the incident for the first time.
:09:15. > :09:17.I'm sure that the vast majority of people involved in hunting would,
:09:18. > :09:19.in no way, condone what happened to us.
:09:20. > :09:28.I think they would be appalled by it.
:09:29. > :09:30.The two or three people that road past on horseback
:09:31. > :09:33.while we were here today spdnt two three minutes pleasantly passing
:09:34. > :09:36.And they were not concerned that we were here.
:09:37. > :09:39.All it does is strengthen otr resolve to carry on doing
:09:40. > :09:41.what we're doing. Definitely.
:09:42. > :09:44.Two men remain on bail in rdlation to the injury suffered
:09:45. > :09:54.Lincolnshire Police continud to investigate the captive fox.
:09:55. > :09:57.After being treated at an animal hospital for a few days,
:09:58. > :10:19.of International Brain Tumour Awareness Week.
:10:20. > :10:21.Jessica Simkin's battle with brain tumours began
:10:22. > :10:27.At the time doctors warned that she might not survive,
:10:28. > :10:30.but she has continued to defy the odds as the cancer has returned
:10:31. > :10:39.Jess, who is from Rainworth the Nottinghamshire is now
:10:40. > :10:41.in her 20s and has recently been diagnosed with
:10:42. > :10:50.But as Marie Ashby found out, Jess isn't letting that get her down
:10:51. > :10:58.Go on, then. You can't tell anybody.
:10:59. > :11:03.She is funny, she is witty, she is quite charming.
:11:04. > :11:14.She cares more about other people than she does herself.
:11:15. > :11:20.Your lovely, aren't you, evdn though you take over my bed.
:11:21. > :11:22.I used to think that it was not fair.
:11:23. > :11:24.But now I just take life as it comes.
:11:25. > :11:38.To come through what she has, and to face the next step,
:11:39. > :11:41.that she needs to come throtgh, yes, she is exceptional.
:11:42. > :11:46.They are only small, but she is young, so...
:11:47. > :11:52.There is the potential for it to grow.
:11:53. > :11:54.She has been fighting it and fighting it and fighting it
:11:55. > :12:05.A lifetime of brain tumours, but Jess Simkin isn't beaten yet.
:12:06. > :12:08.Now the scans show she's facing her biggest challengd so far,
:12:09. > :12:18.To be let off at the end of the funeral service.
:12:19. > :12:27.I don't know anybody that's ever had party poppers.
:12:28. > :12:31.Aged four, Jess was diagnosdd with a medulloblastoma,
:12:32. > :12:35.an aggressive and malignant brain cancer.
:12:36. > :12:37.Early warning signs of chronic headaches and sickndss
:12:38. > :12:42.The odds were stacked 70-30 against Jess'
:12:43. > :12:58.And I'd never been in this situation before.
:12:59. > :13:05.I honestly didn't know if I was going to get Jess back
:13:06. > :13:07.Making it to her teens was considered exceptional.
:13:08. > :13:12.Then, on her 19th birthday, another tumour, and now,
:13:13. > :13:21.ten years on, five more are growing in the lining of Jess' brain.
:13:22. > :13:29.Being told when you are young that you won't reach five,
:13:30. > :13:32.and now, being 29, and I beat all the odds now.
:13:33. > :13:34.Jess has learned to live with learning difficulties
:13:35. > :13:38.She has missed out on teen stuff that her peers take for granted
:13:39. > :13:40.but she's alive, and she knows how to keep her carer,
:13:41. > :13:53.I try to make a positive difference in her life.
:13:54. > :13:57.So I try to have fun all the time, really.
:13:58. > :14:04.It's lovely coming to see hdr, it really is.
:14:05. > :14:18.Jess has been a regular pathent at the Queen's Medical Centre
:14:19. > :14:21.She even jokes that she has her own room here.
:14:22. > :14:23.Now she's fund-raising for the children's brain tulour
:14:24. > :14:29.I want to help people that had brain tumours,
:14:30. > :14:33.So that they can be, hopefully, diagnosed a lot quicker,
:14:34. > :14:41.and don't have to go through what I've gone throtgh.
:14:42. > :14:46.Aged four, Jess was part of an international trial
:14:47. > :14:48.into combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
:14:49. > :14:51.They now know that it was that seven weeks of radioactive exposure
:14:52. > :14:55.which caused the tumours she continues to have.
:14:56. > :14:58.We studied how it affected your life.
:14:59. > :15:07.And you are now telling us how it's affecting your life, now.
:15:08. > :15:11.I think Jessica's experiencd demonstrates that it's not ` walk
:15:12. > :15:16.in the park to have a brain tumour, and its consequences.
:15:17. > :15:20.She has had to pack a lot of things and if we can halve the harl
:15:21. > :15:22.of our treatments, that would be an enormous step forward,
:15:23. > :15:24.because we are already improving the cure rates.
:15:25. > :15:30.500 children a year are diagnosed with brain tumours in the UK.
:15:31. > :15:40.Conventional surgery is no longer an option for Jess.
:15:41. > :15:43.Going back into her brain could cause more damage
:15:44. > :15:56.and risk the strokes she's already begun to have.
:15:57. > :15:59.The tumours are there in thd scalp, and we know they're growing and
:16:00. > :16:02.we better treat them now, because these tumours in a xoung
:16:03. > :16:05.person will continue to grow, and it's only a matter of thme
:16:06. > :16:07.before they start pressing on the brain.
:16:08. > :16:15.This is the only treatment that we think we can try.
:16:16. > :16:17.Well there's not a guaranted that it's going to kill me.
:16:18. > :16:26.At the end of the day, we know that your tumours are growing.
:16:27. > :16:33.And if we don't do anything about it, what's going to h`ppen?
:16:34. > :16:36.I suppose I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.
:16:37. > :16:42.The Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield is home
:16:43. > :16:44.to the National Centre for Gamma Knife Radiosurgerx.
:16:45. > :16:47.Here they treat the rare and more complex cases.
:16:48. > :16:53.She knows the risks and has been making plans, which she has
:16:54. > :17:04.I don't know anybody that's ever had party poppers.
:17:05. > :17:07.If they don't let party poppers off, I'll be looking down on thel,
:17:08. > :17:09.and they will be in trouble if they don't!
:17:10. > :17:13.And I want it to be my funeral, not someone else's.
:17:14. > :17:18.Thoughts of what they want me to have.
:17:19. > :17:26.How she sees life, and how she wants to get things sorted is just
:17:27. > :17:53.inspirational, really. It is, isn't it? She is just amazing.
:17:54. > :18:04.It is the hardest thing to hand over your daughter for her to go to sleep
:18:05. > :18:10.and, hopefully, she's going to wake up and everything's going to be
:18:11. > :18:16.fine. Jess has asked to be put to sleep before the frame which guides
:18:17. > :18:21.the gamma rays is fitted. It is precise, it is focused, it does not
:18:22. > :18:27.catch the rest of the brain, it only targets those bits of tumour. It is
:18:28. > :18:32.similar to having an x-ray, so patients don't feel anything when
:18:33. > :18:34.they are in there. We are t`rgeting those lesions with something that is
:18:35. > :18:39.invisible. The patients don't see it invisible. The patients don't see it
:18:40. > :18:43.feel it. The scan she had that we're looking at this morning is from last
:18:44. > :18:47.year, so it may be that thex have grown a bit since last year, so we
:18:48. > :18:52.have to see what they are lhke today and plan the treatment on today s
:18:53. > :18:57.imaging. They were definitely not there in the previous scan. The team
:18:58. > :19:01.have discovered a new area they are not happy with and now instdad of
:19:02. > :19:11.five tumours, they are targdting six areas instead. She has alwaxs relied
:19:12. > :19:15.on mum for strength and support when there's been anything difficult We
:19:16. > :19:19.know that she is going throtgh something difficult now, and we
:19:20. > :19:37.can't really be with her. And that is hard, that is very hard, this is.
:19:38. > :19:42.Just think of life as it's fun. You can't let it beat you. You've got to
:19:43. > :20:06.beat it, really. You need to keep the strength up
:20:07. > :20:14.that you can get through it. It is not going to be, you're going be
:20:15. > :20:28.bit. It comes, I will fight it with all my life.
:20:29. > :20:35.Jess has told us that all those bikes have helped raise almost 4000
:20:36. > :20:40.for the University of Nottingham brain tumour research project.
:20:41. > :20:43.Finally tonight, should mushc be part of the English baccalatreate? A
:20:44. > :20:48.new report by the edge foundation warns that creative subjects are
:20:49. > :20:51.being squeezed from the nathonal curriculum, despite the fact that
:20:52. > :20:55.there is evidence showing that they can help improve overall
:20:56. > :20:58.achievement. Frances Finn h`s been to meet the family and visit a
:20:59. > :21:05.school where they are deterlined to buck the trend. Looking at this
:21:06. > :21:08.family you would not think they were particularly unusual, but your first
:21:09. > :21:13.clue that this is not a typhcal household comes when you look in the
:21:14. > :21:27.living room. And secondly is what goes on before school. We gdt on and
:21:28. > :21:31.do about 30 minutes practicd each before going to school. It hs a nice
:21:32. > :21:35.time of day for them. For us it is normal and natural that thex would
:21:36. > :21:39.do music. It is a great fun thing to do. And because they all do it,
:21:40. > :21:44.there is something that defhnes the family, so we do not see it as
:21:45. > :21:49.unusual at all, it is just what we do. All seven of the childrdn have
:21:50. > :21:57.studied at least one musical instrument. Two have left home and
:21:58. > :22:03.now study at the Royal Acaddmy. It has a really nice town. It brings
:22:04. > :22:08.everyone together. I love mtsic Everything about it is so bdautiful.
:22:09. > :22:11.It brings all of us together and I think that is really special. One
:22:12. > :22:18.family member is in that national spotlight. He passed the auditions
:22:19. > :22:21.for the BBC Young musician of the year, and he knew that therd was a
:22:22. > :22:28.gruelling process ahead. In the run-up to the competition there was
:22:29. > :22:33.lots of practising. I tried to get one hour in at school, in mx free
:22:34. > :22:41.periods, then three hours after school. He had to prepare sdven
:22:42. > :22:44.pieces of music in 90 minutds, all from memory. Some of the most
:22:45. > :22:57.difficult music ever written for the cello. This Shostakovich Concerto is
:22:58. > :23:00.very, very difficult and from an audience point of view it is
:23:01. > :23:11.difficult and gripping and dxciting from the first note. For thd past
:23:12. > :23:20.six years I have been going to my school in London and my lessons are
:23:21. > :23:24.about an hour and a half, e`ch week. That would be more than enotgh work
:23:25. > :23:29.for a teenager, but it comes midway through his A-levels. He kndw that
:23:30. > :23:32.he could count on support any classroom, and that's because the
:23:33. > :23:40.place where he and the family go to school is somewhere rather special.
:23:41. > :23:44.Trinity Catholic school in @psley is a state funded academy with a
:23:45. > :23:52.reputation. 40% of pupils hdre come from the bottom 10% of homes in
:23:53. > :23:55.Nottingham as set by the social deprivation index, but the
:23:56. > :24:03.reputation is for excellencd, in music. Every pupil at Trinity
:24:04. > :24:06.a musical instrument from the time a musical instrument from the time
:24:07. > :24:10.they arrive and by year nind they are good enough to perform `nd a
:24:11. > :24:16.concert to an audience of ydar sevens. It has been a tradition for
:24:17. > :24:20.a long time that every child comes in and learns an instrument from day
:24:21. > :24:25.one, and there is time in the timetable to help them. We want them
:24:26. > :24:30.to either be singing or plaxing an instrument or learning and dntering.
:24:31. > :24:33.This is a cultural thing. It is not just about studying GCSE music, it
:24:34. > :24:36.is about music infiltrating much is about music infiltrating much
:24:37. > :24:40.more in your life. The school has always been musical but with money
:24:41. > :24:43.tight, it was not always easy for tight, it was not always easy for
:24:44. > :24:48.students to get their hands on an instrument. That all changed 30
:24:49. > :24:55.years ago, when a former he`dteacher had an idea. 500 violins me`nt all
:24:56. > :24:59.of the school had a violin, so that was the most revolutionary thing
:25:00. > :25:05.about it, that every child had an instrument to play. 500? How did you
:25:06. > :25:10.buy that many? Where did yot get them? They are Chinese violhns. They
:25:11. > :25:19.were about ?5 each. This is one of the original ones here. Thex are
:25:20. > :25:24.very basic. Still going strong. Why violins? Why not record as guitars?
:25:25. > :25:30.This is the easiest instrumdnt to teach with the Suzuki method, so you
:25:31. > :25:33.put 40 children in the room, the teacher does one bar and another
:25:34. > :25:41.court and another court, and they copy it. But it was like a Cats
:25:42. > :25:46.chorus at the beginning! Now the school has nine music teachdrs and
:25:47. > :25:54.22 bands, orchestras and ensembles for people to join. The skills that
:25:55. > :25:58.they have learned over the past two and a half years will kind of teach
:25:59. > :26:02.them discipline and hard work, which applies to all aspects of lhfe. It
:26:03. > :26:07.is their contribution and that of learning added to everyone dlse
:26:08. > :26:10.which make something much bhgger and much more special, something quite
:26:11. > :26:21.spectacular, really. That is what we have seen. You would think dvery
:26:22. > :26:26.school would be looking at Trinity and jumping on the bandwagon, but in
:26:27. > :26:33.fact the take-up rate for creative arts in schools is on the ddcline.
:26:34. > :26:37.The government are measures school performance on five core GCSE
:26:38. > :26:44.subjects. And music is not one of them. That concerns Ian Burton who
:26:45. > :26:50.is in charge of the service that helps Nottingham schools with music.
:26:51. > :26:55.Blame the Brodie comment on music or it doesn't really count, and we can
:26:56. > :26:57.see it is often low in the priorities. When you get a
:26:58. > :27:01.headteacher who really belidves in it, then it works, and it's
:27:02. > :27:07.brilliant. The difficulty bdcomes that it is what we're about which
:27:08. > :27:15.school you go to. A petition to get music to the included in thd core
:27:16. > :27:19.subject was signed by 100,000 people but government says there is no need
:27:20. > :27:23.to make subjects like music compulsory because pupils are still
:27:24. > :27:33.free to choose them. It givds young people something they don't get from
:27:34. > :27:37.anywhere else. It is exciting. It is bringing them to light. If we don't
:27:38. > :27:42.have something like that th`t is measured in schools and we will miss
:27:43. > :27:49.out on a lot, and in time, this country will suffer from th`t. And
:27:50. > :28:10.the winner of the BBC Young musician 2016... Is Sheku Kame. For Sheku,
:28:11. > :28:16.all practice paid off. And he scored two As and a B in his AS-level is,
:28:17. > :28:20.but the time tight and focus on other subjects it is up to schools
:28:21. > :28:25.whether they think music is worth investing time and money in.
:28:26. > :28:33.Remember that if you have got a story you think we should bd telling
:28:34. > :28:41.here on inside out, get in touch. My e-mail address is... That shts us at
:28:42. > :28:51.the Attenborough nature resdrve Here is what is coming up ndxt week.
:28:52. > :28:58.On the next Inside Out, can the NHS survive type two diabetes? @s things
:28:59. > :29:01.stand were in grip of a crisis in diabetes that threatens to bankrupt
:29:02. > :29:08.the NHS, if we continue with these current trends.
:29:09. > :29:11.Hello, I'm Elaine Dunkley with your 90-second update.
:29:12. > :29:14.Silence to remember the Aberfan disaster.
:29:15. > :29:19.50 years ago today, a mountain of coal waste engulfed a village,
:29:20. > :29:24.144 people were killed - most of them were children.