23/01/2012 Inside Out East

Good evening. Coming up tonight - is the cost of carry insurance

tempting young people to drive up illegally? There is always the

temptation there. No one I know has done it. We find out why there are

so many homeless migrant in Peterborough.

And could Biggles sweep the skies again? We meet the man who wants to

All kinds of planes use this aeroplane -- used this airfield.

But first to car insurance. Premiums are so high that 250,000

young drivers are on our roads without insurance.

That is good. Slowdown. Perfect. the past the most difficult thing a

young drivers had to think about was carrying out the complicated

manoeuvres to complete the test. But today passing the test is only

the start of their problems. Insurance costs for young drivers

have rocketed. One is survey shows that the

average cost for a young male driver is �4,000 per year. I am 17

years old. I've recently got up 206 1.4 litre. The cheapest quote I got

for insurance was �7,500. I have been a driving instructor for

several years. Less people are coming for driving lessons. BC they

cannot afford the insurance. situation has become so serious

that the Transport Select Committee met to highlight the high costs of

insurance for young people. We all remember what it was like to

have our first car. The ability to drive to your place of work, to go

to work. It was a rite of passage. But now and many people are priced

out of the market. How many of you are driving? My car cost �2,500 and

my insurance costs the same. Give me an example of some of the quotes

you have got. �2,500. Have any of you been tempted, or do you know

people who have been tempted to drive without insurance? I have

been tempted. There is always that temptation. But no one has done it.

We went over all the costs. I am going to university next year. It

was not worth it. Bargain should his companies taking advantage?

younger people have to pay two- earner lower premiums.

250,000 young drivers on our roads are not insured. This young man was

hit by an uninsured young driver. use my car for my full-time job.

You have got to a car insurance. It is the lot. It costs �700 to get my

car fixed. Do you have any sympathy because insurance premiums are so

high for young people? I do not. Why is car insurance so expensive

for young men in particular? Young men are more likely to have car

accidents. When those accidents happen at the are likely to be more

serious. When I learned to drive it cost �200. Note the insurance

premiums are higher than the cost of a car. What has changed in the

last 15 years? What has changed is the cost of personal injury claims.

Those costs have risen sharply. Those costs are becoming

unaffordable for young people. is now such an issue that the

Government is being urged to get involved. Referral fees in personal

injury claims are driving up the cost of insurance. It is part of

the compensation culture. Some people make fraudulent claims.

Should the Government get more involved? The Government does not

have that power. The Government can take steps to minimise the risks of

young people driving. The test needs to be as robust as possible.

1 area that the Government has been asked to look that is how new

technology can help young drivers drive more safely.

This man is one of the first in the country to take the idea on board.

This car has a secret. Hidden inside is a black-box recorder. It

records everything from how he drives to the time he is out and

about on the road. The information is fed back to their insurance

company. How does this work? This tracker

picks up where the driver is. It measured acceleration, cornering,

and what time of day it is. Then that the insurance can be priced

more freely depending on how he is driving. How is it working out?

overall score is standard. Better driving would qualify him for an

extra discount. We can see how are the speed

faeries each be. Perhaps he was driving too fast on those

particular days. He could also log on to a website at home to keep up-

to-date with what he is doing. Does that feel like you're being

spied on? Not all the time. It is good to know you can evaluate how

you were driving. What difference has it made to your cost? I am

paying �1,300. That is hundreds of pounds cheaper than what my friends

are paying. Several insurers now offer the black box. With insurance

costs continuing to rise is might not be long before this type of

technology is standard. If there is something you think we

should investigate please contact should investigate please contact

Years of restoration finally over, but will this aeroplane trip to the

Most people who come to this country do so hoping for a better

life. Our reporter has been finding out why some migrants would rather

be homeless in this country than in their own country. These guys are

trapped. If we did not feed them I hate to think what would happen to

them. It is Friday night at Peterborough's soup kitchen. The

team is preparing for its latest run. More than half of the people

they serve here have come from other countries. It comes in waves.

The current wave has been from Eastern Europe. Before that it was

from places like Portugal. We have seen faces change, but they are all

people as far as we are concerned. Soup, my friend. How desperate are

they? Very desperate. They come here as a last resort. They are

starving. It is impossible to say how many migrants are sleeping

rough in Peterborough, but the problem has changed. It has become

This is the place that catapulted Peterborough into the national

headlines. It is a busy roundabout. The people driving past every day

were oblivious to what was occurring behind me.

Peterborough seems to have had a bigger problem with homeless

migrants and many other parts of the country. I have been tried to

find out quite so many people choose to come and stay here.

It was in the summer of 2010 that I first thought this police officer

People used his place. We have found a tent. Nobody is living here

any more. Or so it appears. Underneath there is plenty of

evidence of someone living here. The critic here like this so that

no-one thinks there is anyone living there. Yards away is another

camp. Lucie is from the Czech Republic. She speaks four languages,

and it is this that helps her to build up a rapport with the people

that she finds. Now we come to a wood in another part of

Peterborough. There are two Major camps. We can see signs that people

have been living here. It has been nothing like the scale that we saw

on previous visits. This was one of 15 camps in Peterborough. It was

cleared by the council in the spring of 2010. Then a government-

funded programme offered to fly people back to their home country

if they fell on hard times. Lucie found that was not for everyone.

What do you think about a relocation programme? They do not

want to go back. They are hoping they will be able to find jobs here

and be able to stay to have a better life. Since then, police and

the UK Border agency have got tougher. The gentleman is wanted by

the UK Border agency, whom I can't get in touch with. People who

cannot prove they are looking for work can be arrested. They can also

be forcibly removed from the country. We previously had options

where people could go back to their country. Now what is almost that

zero tolerance because they get a warning and then three months to

prove they are looking for a job and looking for housing or slipping

in a house. However, if they do not abide by these rules, they might

see themselves being removed from the country. So it is definite?

Because of the tougher line being taken, last year people intent on

staying split into smaller groups to become less noticeable. You do

not see such large encampments as you used to. It is usually about

five people. Sometimes there is a group of 10. If you have a big

group of people you can hear them more from a distance and it becomes

more suspicious. If you have 20 people walking in and out of prayer

menace -- premises. Until last May, migrants could only claim benefits

if they had been working here for a year. Now that has changed and you

can get allowances if you have been looking for work for three months.

Housing officers say the number of migrants sleeping rough has dropped.

People find that they are unable to find employment. They will come to

us or someone will bring them to us, or a voluntary agency will bring

someone, and then we can work with them. We have also found that,

because people know they will be returned to their country of origin

with dignity, they are more likely to return home. In April 2010 we

had around 14 encampments around the city. We now have something

like nine or ten acre in -- European Economic Area National's

sleeping rough in the city. Some people have come to the City

expecting to find employment and that, unfortunately, turned out to

be temporary. They came with a dream and the dream stops with the

employment. They find themselves quite quickly on the streets.

formal study has been done as to why people choose to come to

Peterborough, but some have suggested it is because of its

location - one of the first mainline train stops heading out of

London. We have come here to better our lives, find employment. Even to

become a little bit richer. Anna Dziuba chose to move to

Peterborough to run a website, hearing that the place was the

third most popular place for Polish people to live in Britain because

of job opportunities. She and her husband are making a successful

life here, but she accepted does not work for everyone. People might

not be able to understand why people would be homeless living on

waste ground here and not want to return to their country. In it is a

tricky question because right now you're asking me whether it is OK,

or better to be Thomas in a richer country than a poor country. My

answer is that it is better if you are forced to be a homeless person

in the richer country. For example, in the UK. To stop the negative

comments, I need to say that Polish people are not coming here on

purpose to become homeless. Behind every homeless person there is

always a tragic story, no matter their nationality of. Back at the

soup kitchen, Michael from Latvia at is one who is hoping for better

times. -- Michael from Latvia is. From 21-24 years old it is quite

difficult to get a job. Are you not tempted to go back on? If it was a

nice, good job, then we probably would go back, but there is

currently no work. So we she -- so you would rather be homeless here

than go back home? It is better. has been quieter than normal here.

Ian has helped to serve more than 40 meals, but it is almost -- often

almost double that. We have the highest almost as outside of London.

We would like the council to come and count one night. The economy is

still declining, so I see the numbers growing. The overseas

people, I still think there is as much property in eastern Europe as

there is here, so I still see the numbers from overseas growing.

During the winter we tend to see fewer people. Next summer or, when

the fields are paved with gold, we will see the numbers growing from

that side as well. Not all of a homeless in Peterborough are

migrants, but many who are believe that their prospects are better

here than at home. And, with some succeeding, more will follow.

Many years ago, two brothers built a replica of First World War

biplane right here at Sywell aerodrome. It was made for a film

company who were going to make -- put the fictional aviation hero

Biggles on the big screen. But things did not go to plan. We first

started this story on Inside Out six years ago. Finally, tonight, we

hear the conclusion. Biggles was Britain's most famous

aviation hero. The stories were written by a Hertfordshire pilot.

The fictional First World War fighter pilot Biggles inspired a

whole generation of pilots. He was created by W E Johns. He used his

experiences as a pilot in the First World War to write almost 100 books

about Biggles. I think he inspired a whole generation to take an

interest in flying. Many of those people them went through to learn

to fly themselves, and certainly from the 1920s and 1930s we got the

group of pilots who became the Battle of Britain pilots, the Dam

Busters, the people who won the Second World War, thanks to good

old Biggles. For the books were a huge hit all the world, and in the

1960s Hollywood beckoned. Biggles would be on the big screen. Two men

from Northamptonshire were chosen to build the aeroplane that would

make Biggles flies. My brother Charles and I were asked to design

and build up a BE-2C, which was over a very short period of time.

This was for Universal films, there were making a film on Biggles. It

was to be called Biggles Suites The Skies. The this is one of the only

copies of the script that exist. Sadly the plan was not to be.

was never finished, unfortunately, because the other company producing

replicas did not complete their aircraft on time. We did. It was

due to be filmed in Tunisia and, as a result of the next boat being

delayed, it would have been too hot to fly, so it was never made. The

aeroplane was sold privately to America. Charles Boddington never

got to fly the biplane again. The man who tried to bring Biggles to

the screen was killed in an air crash. As for the plane which

should have brought to -- brought Biggles to cinema audiences, that

crashed in Wisconsin in 1977. The remains disappeared but, in the

true spirit of Biggles, it certainly was not the end of the

story. This is Matt Boddington. He was just a boy when his father was

killed. He is also passionate about aviation. My father inspired me to

fly. It was in the blood from an early age. My father did a lot of

film flying. At the age of one I actually flew from this airfield on

his lap. From that point I always wanted to fly. I was in the

enviable position that I would get to spend my days playing with all

the aeroplanes. I restore, maintain and fly vintage aeroplanes. Where

was that one vintage plane his father had built for the Biggles

film? A tip-off led to New York State. Hidden in a barn in a town

called Rhinebeck, there she was - because' biplane, an emotional

moment format. I never thought I would get to the stage. To be

sitting in this, even now, it is quite amazing. Having tracked it

down, Matt was determined to get the plane back to Northamptonshire

so that he could rebuild it. We had mixed emotions, really. There was a

sense of relief that it had got back here. It was also quite

emotional because it was back here where dad built it and where it

first flew. That would have wanted to see the aeroplane flying again.

It was built by him for a film about Biggles, C he would

definitely have wanted to see it flying again. It has been six years

since we last filmed with Matt Boddington. He and his team have

been hard at work in his workshop at Sywell in Northamptonshire.

does not seem like six years ago that the BE-2C arrived here at

Sywell. It has gone well on the hall. It sounds as if it has gone

pretty much the same as it did. The difference is that last time it

took 13 weeks and this time it took six years! Sadly, Matt's Uncle

David Boddington, who designed a plane, did not live long enough to

see it flying. Unfortunately, he died of cancer last year. We hope

he may be able to fight it off and see it fly. Sadly, he didn't. Now

it is a tribute to both of them, really - both my father and my

uncle. After six years of hard work, Biggles' by plane is rolled out of

a hangar -- Biggles' biplane. Now she will fly again with his son at

the controls. It is an emotion will moment for the family. A my heart

is going like this. I have a big lump in my throat, but I am so

proud of my son. I would like to think Charles is watching over him,

guiding him along. He would be so proud of him. This is it - the

moment everyone has been waiting for for years. In front of family

and friends, Biggles' biplane will take to the skies, a tribute to the

Boddington Brothers who originally built it. But then a setback - it

is too windy for the delicate plane to take off. We have just had a

report from another aeroplane that says although the wind is OK at

ground level it is a lot more bomb pay higher up. So we cannot fly at

the moment. Disappointed? At the moment, yes. We are hoping the wind

will drop. Fingers crossed it will drop, and then we will fly. After

two hours, finally the moment is here. The wind has dropped just

enough format to be able to fly the biplane. Hopefully they will get in

It is a special, special thing. The big thing now is the safe landing.

It is all very well going up but what goes up has to come down. As

my wife put it, that is our pension fund! How was that? Wonderful. Many

emotions, but, yes, it flies beautifully. It was not until I was

up above the field that I had time to settle and think about things.

And, yes, I think I had a couple of passengers in the front seat.

a fantastic, moving story. And the original design of the BE-2C is now

100 years old, give or take a few days. That is it from

Northamptonshire. I will be back next week with these surprising

stories: We're with the people who are happier living on the edge of a