:00:09. > :00:15.Good evening. These unearthly stories tonight.
:00:15. > :00:21.How safe and nightclubs? It would be desperate if we waited until
:00:21. > :00:26.more people died in night clubs before the regime change.
:00:26. > :00:31.dangerous world of cut-price cosmetic surgery. My chest was
:00:31. > :00:36.covered Basset look like when the brand and animal. And the railway
:00:36. > :00:41.historian who thinks that Brunel was not as good as his reputation.
:00:41. > :00:51.Brunel was not Superman. He did not do everything on his own. When he
:00:51. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :01:01.did something on his own it was programme. That is on tonight's
:01:01. > :01:10.
:01:10. > :01:16.A night out at a nightclub a few weeks ago ended tragically when two
:01:16. > :01:20.people died. How do clubs assess safety? I have been investigating.
:01:21. > :01:27.This report contains flashing lights. October 2011 and a tragic
:01:27. > :01:31.incident shocks the nightclub world. A 22 year old woman has been killed
:01:31. > :01:35.in a crush in a crowded nightclub in Northampton. A Nightclub in
:01:35. > :01:40.Northampton where a student was crushed to death has been shut down.
:01:40. > :01:43.Two people lost their lives as hundreds rushed for the exit.
:01:43. > :01:49.The industry insisted today that the safety of nightclubbers was a
:01:49. > :01:51.top priority. That could have been me. But we
:01:52. > :01:58.discovered that in nightclubs licensing and fire officers no
:01:58. > :02:01.longer carry out routine safety inspections. Kids who buy tickets
:02:01. > :02:05.to go to festivals, or nightclubs, or whatever the entertainment may
:02:05. > :02:08.be they've got a right to expect they can go to a safe, comfortable,
:02:08. > :02:10.happy environment, and any number of checks on that has got to be a
:02:10. > :02:16.good thing. So why are nightclubs under much
:02:16. > :02:23.less scrutiny than ever before? is there another nightclub tragedy
:02:23. > :02:27.just around the corner? Licensing is all about making sure
:02:27. > :02:30.people are safe. We're at a student night in at The Malt House in
:02:30. > :02:37.Ipswich and Head of security Ryder is getting ready for one of the
:02:37. > :02:41.busiest nights of the week. Lewis - you searching please.
:02:41. > :02:45.you're on crowd control. Looking after crowds of people has
:02:45. > :02:49.been his business for years these days doorstaff are well trained.
:02:49. > :02:51.Which is important in the event of evacuation.
:02:52. > :02:55.The course has changed over the years to incorporate emergency
:02:55. > :02:59.evacuations and my belief is if you've got a thousand people in 80%
:02:59. > :03:02.of them will want to go back out the way they came in which is the
:03:02. > :03:04.front dooor, but whilst he is experienced and runs a tight ship
:03:04. > :03:14.with properly trained doorstaff he'd like to see more documented
:03:14. > :03:15.
:03:15. > :03:19.inspections from licensing officers. 20 years ago they used to come
:03:19. > :03:22.round. It was all documented. They would sign registers in reception
:03:22. > :03:26.to say they'd been in, who they were, who they'd met what they'd
:03:26. > :03:30.done, but in my experience now they may just turn up at the front door
:03:30. > :03:35.for a chat with the door staff and that's it they go away they very
:03:35. > :03:40.rarely come ii. In fact Inside Out contacted 35 local authorities in
:03:41. > :03:43.the East. Not one routinely inspects nightclubs, but at UK
:03:43. > :03:46.music festivals the same licensing officers which enforce nightclubs
:03:46. > :03:56.licences keep a very watchful eye over promoters with very good
:03:56. > :03:57.
:03:57. > :04:00.reason. Following the death of 9 Pearl Jam
:04:00. > :04:04.fans who were crushed to death at the Roskilde music festival in 2000
:04:04. > :04:07.licensing inspections are much more stringent. Lessons were learned at
:04:07. > :04:10.Roskilde in Denmark and now licensing officers in the UK always
:04:10. > :04:15.inspect music festivals to make sure safety rules are being stuck
:04:15. > :04:18.to. And some promoters across Europe and the UK even use
:04:18. > :04:27.scientists from New Bucks University to test crowd pressure
:04:27. > :04:32.to try and keep people even safer. Chris we've got some elaborate bits
:04:32. > :04:35.of kit - the girls are wearing some suits and you've got these barriers.
:04:35. > :04:38.How does this all work? What kind of measurements do you get from
:04:38. > :04:41.this? The pressure suit system here is
:04:41. > :04:45.blown up to a set pressure and inside there are sensors and what
:04:45. > :04:48.happens is these sensors go back onto the stage, onto a screen, and
:04:48. > :04:52.you get a reading out of what the excitation and the push is on the
:04:52. > :04:55.girls. So it's quite an important
:04:55. > :05:02.development because it's the first time that the pressure inside a
:05:02. > :05:05.crowd has actually been measured. So researchers go into the audience
:05:05. > :05:10.at major festivals right across Europe and then Chris and his team
:05:10. > :05:13.can see where pressure and crushing is occurring.
:05:13. > :05:16.Sometimes you get pinch points where people are being crushed in
:05:16. > :05:18.those pinch points and you will need to know and that's what
:05:18. > :05:22.happens behind the stage - these people identify to the crowd
:05:22. > :05:25.managers that this is happening and then they can look into it and
:05:25. > :05:29.identify if they need to pull people out or if thy need to calm
:05:29. > :05:32.it down slightly. $$NEWLINEAnd whilst Chris and his team use
:05:32. > :05:35.science to keep people safe this man has safety responsibility for
:05:35. > :05:40.some of the biggest gigs in the country such as Glastonbury and
:05:40. > :05:46.Latitude. Having the back up of safety inspections from licensing
:05:46. > :05:49.officers is important. I think local authorities play an
:05:49. > :05:52.absolutely critical role in making sure that the terms and conditions
:05:52. > :05:56.of the Licensing Act and other safety legislation are adhered to.
:05:56. > :06:00.For the most part they are the only agency that come round and look at
:06:00. > :06:03.a lot of events. Since incidents like Roskilde and the Castle
:06:03. > :06:12.Donington incident in the UK there has grown up within the UK events a
:06:12. > :06:15.sector of which I am very proud to be a part. Which is delivering
:06:15. > :06:18.specialist health and safety services to large scale events and
:06:18. > :06:20.outdoor gigs and that kind of thing so large crowds at music festivals
:06:20. > :06:23.have routine licensing inspections but large crowds in nightclubs do
:06:24. > :06:25.not. Last year the Government issued
:06:25. > :06:35.guidance saying that licensing inspectionsin nightclubs should
:06:35. > :06:40.
:06:40. > :06:42.should no longer be routine. The Government's intention to
:06:42. > :06:45.streamline the licensing process but these proposals go too far.
:06:45. > :06:47.On top of that a government consultation on relaxing licensing
:06:47. > :06:50.laws even further ended last week. A goverment spokesman told us:
:06:50. > :06:53."Current rules are a mess, tied up in red tape". Deregulating
:06:53. > :06:55.licensing law in this way is not something the local government
:06:55. > :06:57.association want to see: "We are completely behind the Government's
:06:57. > :07:00.intention to streamline the licensing process, but these
:07:00. > :07:03.proposals go too far". As things stand in nightclubs it's left to
:07:03. > :07:05.people like Ryder and his team to rigorously enforce licensing
:07:05. > :07:07.conditions and ensure licensing law isn't broken.
:07:07. > :07:11.Yyou've got quite a stringent security system going on here.
:07:11. > :07:16.Everyone's being searched and then they go across to the scanner. Is
:07:16. > :07:21.this what you have to do? We do like to do this it shows everyone
:07:21. > :07:24.we are professional. Obviously we've got the metal detectors. We
:07:24. > :07:28.can look for unwanted weapons and then they go over to the scanners
:07:28. > :07:37.where they have their finger print taken.
:07:37. > :07:40.Is all this necessary? I think it's necessary. Especially the searching.
:07:40. > :07:50.The club scan helps to govern who is coming in and it takes away the
:07:50. > :07:55.id checks at the door because the scan does it all for you. They're
:07:55. > :08:02.important crowd safety measures. Meanwhile Tim has a bigger concern
:08:02. > :08:04.about crowd safety in clubs - fire. Over the last 5 or 10 years there
:08:04. > :08:08.have been a sequence of catastrophic fires in nightclubs
:08:08. > :08:11.that have caused many hundreds of people to be killed so I think fire
:08:11. > :08:15.is actually a very significant risk in clubs and something wehich is
:08:15. > :08:18.very actively guarded against. Current cutbacks mean the fire
:08:18. > :08:25.service has to target its resources very carefully and like licensing
:08:25. > :08:27.officers they only regularly inspect where the risk is greatest.
:08:27. > :08:30.And the chief fire officers association told us the current
:08:30. > :08:40.government proposals to relax licensing law even further is "a
:08:40. > :08:40.
:08:40. > :08:43.step too far". I believe that if any venue or door
:08:43. > :08:53.supervisor company are not interested in more inspections then
:08:53. > :08:55.
:08:55. > :08:58.there is something not going right. The tragic events in Northampton
:08:58. > :09:07.are thankfully very rare and whilst licensing and fire safety law is
:09:07. > :09:09.robust the inspection regime in nightclubs seems anything but.
:09:09. > :09:14.Every time something happens like Hillsborough or something happens
:09:14. > :09:18.like Roskilde it's always after the horse has bolted.
:09:18. > :09:22.Things come in - "Oh yes we'll make it better for next time" and then
:09:22. > :09:25.when nothing happens they relax it. I think it will be absolutely
:09:25. > :09:27.desperately wrong if we waited for more people to die in nightclubs
:09:27. > :09:30.before regimes were changed about the inspection and management of
:09:30. > :09:35.nightclubs. I think the framework is already
:09:35. > :09:45.there. That doesn't need to change. It's how it gets inspected and
:09:45. > :09:47.
:09:47. > :09:57.reviewed that maybe needs some If there is something you think we
:09:57. > :09:59.
:09:59. > :10:09.should investigate same as an e- Later we expose the dangers world
:10:09. > :10:13.
:10:13. > :10:20.of cut-price treatments. This time of year that engineers
:10:20. > :10:25.are working hard. Brunel was a Victorian engineers who built
:10:25. > :10:31.railways and steamships. But one historian thinks Brunel might not
:10:31. > :10:35.necessarily be the genius that many claim he was. People should
:10:35. > :10:40.remember that Brunel was not Superman. He did not do everything
:10:40. > :10:47.on his own. He did not think of everything on his own. He had help.
:10:47. > :10:52.When he did think of anything on his own it was at dog's breakfast.
:10:52. > :10:57.I am a volunteer signalmen. I have been on the really for most of my
:10:58. > :11:04.working life. I have written over 30 books about it has to be,
:11:04. > :11:08.including a book about Brunel. From leading -- from bleeding his
:11:08. > :11:13.diaries and letters I do not think we have got his history right. I am
:11:13. > :11:18.going on a journey to some of Brunel's landmark.
:11:18. > :11:28.I started to research at Brunel to write a book about him. To my
:11:28. > :11:32.amazement I discovered he was doing some silly things.
:11:32. > :11:38.A lot of people have said that I have denigrated a great man. I have
:11:38. > :11:43.not. I have just told the story straight.
:11:43. > :11:47.In 1833 Brunel was appointed Chief Engineer or to devise a route from
:11:47. > :11:56.Bristol to London. He had no previous experience in railway
:11:56. > :12:02.construction. He wanted to try out his new idea
:12:02. > :12:08.of putting big Telegraph Paul's into the ground. Rimell's idea was
:12:08. > :12:17.that if he drove these piles deep into the ground, then nailed the
:12:17. > :12:20.Well of course, that's a nonsense because the weight of the train
:12:20. > :12:26.running over the track crushes it where it isn't supported, and where
:12:26. > :12:36.it is supported it's held up. So you've got a 15-foot roller coaster
:12:36. > :12:46.
:12:46. > :12:49.Now I'm in Bristol, there is so much of Brunel's work to see.
:12:49. > :12:57.we have in front of us what seems to be the evidence of Brunel not
:12:57. > :13:00.being quite aware of modern developments in ships. Now the ship
:13:00. > :13:03.has got a long straight looking hull, but here we have this
:13:03. > :13:06.semicircular cut out, and this is proof that the ship was originally
:13:06. > :13:16.designed as a paddle steamer and it would take the extended block thing
:13:16. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:27.that the wheel goes around in, that So they built the dock in this way,
:13:27. > :13:30.and then Captain Claxton who designed this dock came to Brunel
:13:30. > :13:33.to say that the screw propellor ship had arrived in Bristol docks,
:13:33. > :13:36.just out there, and as soon as Brunel saw it, he was immediately
:13:36. > :13:46.captivated and decided this was the way forward, with the screw
:13:46. > :13:57.
:13:57. > :13:59.propellor. So he redesigned the hull, but we have this as a silent
:13:59. > :14:09.witness for Brunel changing his mind, which is something Brunel
:14:09. > :14:10.
:14:10. > :14:15.And it isn't just Captain Claxton who we must credit for the design
:14:15. > :14:18.of the SS Great Britain! The keel of this ship, which was
:14:18. > :14:24.revolutionary at the time that it was done, was patented by Thomas
:14:24. > :14:28.Guppy. William Patterson, the owner of the shipyard, he helped to
:14:28. > :14:35.design the lines of the hull, how it curved out, how it came to the
:14:35. > :14:40.bows and the stern. They all put their piece in and Brunel took
:14:40. > :14:46.their advice. And because he allowed people to help him, this is
:14:47. > :14:53.why he was so successful. And the extra pairs of hands gave
:14:53. > :14:59.Brunel time to concentrate on this. Brunel made a lot of mistakes when
:14:59. > :15:02.he was in his early days at the Great Western Railway. But it is
:15:02. > :15:05.therefore wonderful to be able to come along to a marvellous thing
:15:05. > :15:07.like the SS Great Britain and say nice things about Mr Brunel,
:15:07. > :15:10.because I'm now standing beneath this fantastic propeller, which is
:15:10. > :15:20.truly an amazing piece of technology and he designed this all
:15:20. > :15:28.
:15:28. > :15:34.Well Brunel might have talked about Clifton Suspension Bridge as being
:15:34. > :15:39.his darling. But I dispute whether the bridge we have today is his at
:15:39. > :15:46.all! So up here on top of the tower we
:15:46. > :15:49.have three names. Isambard Kingdom Brunel started it, commenced it,
:15:49. > :15:59.John Hawkshaw, William Henry Barlow completed it in 1864, and that's
:15:59. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:05.the small print of the Clifton Bridge. Because the truth is,
:16:05. > :16:11.Brunel didn't design the bridge. It was designed by John Hawkshaw and
:16:11. > :16:16.William Henry Barlow. 24 year old Isambard designed his
:16:16. > :16:25.bridge in around 1830. But the project ran out of funding and was
:16:25. > :16:33.abandoned 12 years later. Only part of the towers had been completed.
:16:33. > :16:37.Brunel died in 1859. As a memorial to him, the bridge opened in 1864.
:16:37. > :16:40.But the new engineers did not use Brunel's design. Hawkshaw and
:16:40. > :16:46.Barlow added a third tier to the suspension chain, so straight away
:16:46. > :16:49.Brunel's design has been altered. The other thing that Barlow and
:16:49. > :16:59.Hawkshaw did was to incorporate the lattice work girder here that forms
:16:59. > :17:00.
:17:00. > :17:04.the footpath railings, that is part of the bridge. The third thing that
:17:04. > :17:06.Barlow and Hawkshaw had to do was to take away Brunel's idea of a
:17:06. > :17:15.wooden sub-structure, and underneath there is a wrought iron,
:17:15. > :17:25.riveted lattice work girder as a stiffener underneath. The design is
:17:25. > :17:27.
:17:27. > :17:31.completely different to the one But someone isn't going to let the
:17:31. > :17:39.sun set on this argument quite yet. It's historian and Brunel
:17:39. > :17:43.enthusiast, Professor Mark Horton. So Adrian, this is story of the
:17:43. > :17:47.bridge, pretty well okay, apart from one small detail. It was
:17:47. > :17:57.actually designed in 1831, but otherwise it's pretty good.
:17:57. > :18:02.Ah right, so this is the extent of the mistake? Well, it's a pretty
:18:02. > :18:04.long lived fairytale. No it's not, it's true, it's true! This is a
:18:04. > :18:08.great monument to Brunel's engineering genius.
:18:08. > :18:11.Well, I'm afraid I think not Mark. I think if we want a monument,
:18:11. > :18:14.which of course we do, to Brunel's great engineering genius, you
:18:14. > :18:18.should go down to the River Tamar and look at the Royal Albert Bridge.
:18:18. > :18:21.Now there's a bridge and he designed it. Well he also designed
:18:21. > :18:24.this bridge! No, no, no. The bridge was designed
:18:24. > :18:27.by Barlow and Hawkshaw and in their paper to the Institution of Civil
:18:27. > :18:37.Engineers in 1867, they described what they had to 'vary and
:18:37. > :18:38.
:18:38. > :18:40.rearrange'. But it's still Brunel's bridge!
:18:40. > :18:50.it's Barlow and Hawkshaw's bridge on the site of Brunel's proposed
:18:50. > :18:54.I totally disagree. Goodness, I think the two of us could argue
:18:54. > :18:58.this matter til the cows came home! So I would argue that Brunel should
:18:58. > :19:08.be remembered as much for his blunders as for his brilliance. I
:19:08. > :19:12.
:19:12. > :19:18.think it's time we set the record Everywhere you look these days,
:19:18. > :19:21.there are adverts offering bargain priced cosmetic surgery. Wrinkle
:19:21. > :19:24.eradication, lip plumping and even body-reshaping we can have it all
:19:24. > :19:27.and apparently for just a small fee. But how safe are these procedures?
:19:27. > :19:32.Jo Good investigates and asks does the cosmetic surgery industry need
:19:32. > :19:40.to be more tightly regulated? And I should say that you may find some
:19:40. > :19:43.of the images in this film disturbing from the start.
:19:43. > :19:50.My chest was covered in red burn marks that look a little like when
:19:50. > :19:58.you brand an animal. The botched operation. I'm in pain.
:19:58. > :20:01.Help can somebody help me. And the toxic overdose.
:20:01. > :20:10.If I'd taken the whole syringe the doctor said to me that it could
:20:10. > :20:12.have been fatal. According to new figures backed by the Department of
:20:12. > :20:15.Health, one and a half million cosmetic surgery procedures will be
:20:15. > :20:18.undertaken in the UK this year. Many of these will be bargain-
:20:18. > :20:21.priced quick-fix treatments done in lunch breaks or even at parties.
:20:21. > :20:23.But as the demand for cheap cosmetic surgery has risen, safety
:20:24. > :20:26.standards have fallen with lethal consequences. When Charlotte Cripps
:20:27. > :20:36.noticed her skin aging she had shots of high frequency light to
:20:37. > :20:40.
:20:40. > :20:44.smooth the complexion. The technician went over my face and
:20:44. > :20:47.chest with a sort of hand held machine but when she did my chest
:20:47. > :20:52.the pain was absolutely excruciating. I did keep stopping
:20:52. > :20:55.her and she kept carrying on. I left the department store and I got
:20:55. > :20:59.home within about twenty minutes and I looked in the mirror and I
:20:59. > :21:05.screamed! These photos were taken just 24-
:21:05. > :21:10.hours after Charlotte's first and only treatment. I couldn't put a
:21:10. > :21:13.duvet over me or anything because it was just so raw and painful.
:21:13. > :21:16.Charlotte's agony lasted several months. She received a six-figure
:21:16. > :21:20.out of court settlement from the insurers of the spa but its little
:21:20. > :21:25.compensation. I'm still left with scarring so I
:21:25. > :21:28.have to live with that. Provided you deliver proper training in the
:21:28. > :21:34.use of these devices they can be perfectly safe and give excellent
:21:34. > :21:36.results to people where you don't do that you run into trouble.
:21:36. > :21:40.Godfrey has spent the last decade training people to use light
:21:40. > :21:44.therapy safely at the Wellbeck hospital near Harley Street. But
:21:44. > :21:49.recently his services have been less in demand.
:21:49. > :21:55.Three years ago I would have trained around 140 people. That
:21:55. > :21:57.number this year has dropped to 55. I think we are going to see a lot
:21:57. > :22:02.more problems coming with people claiming they've been treated in a
:22:03. > :22:05.poor way at the hands of not properly trained people. Despite
:22:06. > :22:13.the potential danger to the public last year the Department of Health
:22:13. > :22:18.approved the deregulation of the IPL and laser industry. I think the
:22:18. > :22:21.government has got it wrong. I think it's a bad idea. I think we
:22:21. > :22:25.need these regulations just to protect the public.
:22:25. > :22:27.Heidi is a permanent make-up artist. She has prided herself on the
:22:27. > :22:33.service she gives to women recovering from illnesses like
:22:33. > :22:36.cancer and alopecia but in the last year things have changed. Now I'm
:22:36. > :22:44.finding more and more it's a lot of corrective treatments for people
:22:44. > :22:46.that have had cosmetic treatments Many of Heidi's clients and
:22:46. > :22:50.hundreds of others have been left scarred by untrained therapists
:22:50. > :22:52.working in High Street outlets. Hairdressers, dentists and even
:22:52. > :23:00.supermarkets are cashing in on the trend for cheap cosmetic treatments
:23:00. > :23:02.but there's an even bigger danger on the web. There are literally
:23:02. > :23:07.hundreds of unregulated sites offering treatments at knockdown
:23:07. > :23:13.prices. You can buy DIY Botox kits, injectable tanning solutions or
:23:13. > :23:16.even book yourself a full scale operation. Many of these products
:23:17. > :23:23.and services are not licensed for sale in the UK, yet online, they
:23:23. > :23:25.are freely available - no questions asked.
:23:25. > :23:29.When Essex hairdresser Garry purchased an injectable serum
:23:29. > :23:38.online he was hoping to get a tan at a fraction of the price that a
:23:38. > :23:43.holiday would cost. The product is I suppose tanning from the gods.
:23:44. > :23:49.You inject yourself over a gradual time. You build up that melanin in
:23:49. > :23:52.your system which is the ingredient that makes you brown. Tanning
:23:52. > :23:57.injections are illegal in the UK due to concerns about their
:23:57. > :24:00.potential side-effects but Garry thought it was worth the risk.
:24:01. > :24:07.going to speak quite freely about it. I heard it was illegal but I
:24:07. > :24:11.just wanted to be brown. What happened when it arrived?
:24:11. > :24:17.Went into bathroom and just pinched the skin on my stomach and injected.
:24:17. > :24:23.Twenty minutes later Garry realised he'd made a big mistake. A fever
:24:23. > :24:27.came over me very, very quick. It was like the flu hitting you in one
:24:27. > :24:31.big shot. Your legs ached, your bones ached. When the paremedics
:24:31. > :24:33.came and they checked over me they said you are burning up.
:24:33. > :24:39.He was rushed to hospital where a specialist eventually ascertained
:24:39. > :24:43.the best way to treat him. If I had taken the whole syringe the doctor
:24:43. > :24:46.said to me that it could have been fatal. It took about a week in
:24:46. > :24:49.total before I was actually feeling well enough to come back to work.
:24:49. > :24:53.The illegal sale of cosmetics and medicines online is estimated to be
:24:53. > :24:59.worth at least �50 million pounds per year in the UK. Danny leads the
:24:59. > :25:05.team who have an uphill battle trying to close this black market.
:25:05. > :25:08.What we got here is some suspect product. It's a slimming product.
:25:08. > :25:15.This is very dangerous. Anybody who's taking it will be subject to
:25:15. > :25:17.heart palpitations, increased risk of stroke. Earlier this year
:25:17. > :25:24.Danny's team were involved in a global operation to seize �5
:25:24. > :25:27.million worth of illegal medicines and cosmetics. One of our partners
:25:27. > :25:31.in the operation was the Met police e-crime unit and they actually
:25:31. > :25:34.closed down 12,500 websites. We are seeing more and more unscrupulous
:25:34. > :25:44.individuals engaged in this who see consumers in the UK in particular
:25:44. > :25:49.When people damage their health through online products or botched
:25:49. > :25:52.treatments they usually turn to the NHS for help. But the demand on the
:25:52. > :25:58.health service is now so high, there is growing concern about the
:25:58. > :26:01.drain on resources and cost to tax payers. The question about how big
:26:02. > :26:05.a problem this is for the NHS is very difficult to answer because we
:26:05. > :26:11.don't really have specific figures but if one per cent goes wrong and
:26:11. > :26:14.has to be sorted out by the NHS, that's an awful lot of patients.
:26:14. > :26:20.feel ashamed that I'm using the money and the cost of surgeons one
:26:20. > :26:24.after the other. Jim, who wishes to remain anonymous, turned to the NHS
:26:24. > :26:28.when his cosmetic surgery went drastically wrong.
:26:28. > :26:31.I had an extremely tight scrotum and I had been speaking to quite a
:26:31. > :26:33.number of people via various chat lines and forums about people now
:26:33. > :26:40.having silicone injected into their scrotum, just to give more weight
:26:40. > :26:43.and volume. When Jim discovered that he could
:26:43. > :26:50.improve his appearance for just �130 he booked an operation online
:26:50. > :26:52.with a man claiming to be a qualified nurse. When he did the
:26:52. > :26:59.operation it was very simple, straightforward, there was no
:26:59. > :27:04.discomfort. It was only months later when problems began.
:27:04. > :27:13.noticed that the silicone seemed to start to harden. I went back to the
:27:13. > :27:18.guy, I spoke to him and he didn't Jim had actually been injected with
:27:18. > :27:25.industrial silicone. Embarrassed, he rarely left home for three whole
:27:25. > :27:28.years before he sought help from the NHS.
:27:28. > :27:38.It was like stone, hard piece of stone of the dimension of about
:27:38. > :27:42.
:27:42. > :27:45.that big. Dr Orlando is one of the UK's top plastic surgeons. If Jim
:27:45. > :27:49.had been a private patient his treatment would have cost tens of
:27:49. > :27:53.thousands of pounds. There is now a campaign to ensure tighter
:27:53. > :27:55.regulation of cosmetic treatments in the UK. Whether online or on our
:27:55. > :28:00.High Street, a growing number of rogue practitioners are exploiting
:28:00. > :28:10.our vanity. But be warned - cheap, quick cosmetic fixes can prove
:28:10. > :28:16.
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:28:31. > :28:36.hope you have enjoyed the programme. See you next week when I will be
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:28:45. > :28:51.retired from at surgery this year and gave us exclusive access to his