29/10/2012 Inside Out East

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Tonight, Inside Out is in Newmarket. It is first thing in the morning.

As well as horse racing, Newmarket is also quite well known for its

sausage. We will be finding out why later are. If you're visually at --

if you are visually impaired, you might need help from a guide dog.

There have been 180 attacks on guide dogs by other dogs since 2010.

We had then to find out more. Richard Wise and his guide dog

Scrumpy are paying a routine visit to their local post office. But is

a journey they have made many times. -- it is a journey they have made

many times. They were not prepared for what happened. He just walked

on to Scrumpy under his neck. It seemed like he was locked on for an

eternity. The stress that it was causing him was considerable. I

could not see properly to see what was going on. I did note that the

dog had locked Orme. The attacks are taking place all over -- locked

on. These attacks are taking place all over the country. Here, there

is a frenzy of kicks and punches as a pit bull owner prizes his dog

away from another guide dog. A Margaret Fletcher's dog Molly was

enabled to work for a week after an attack on a bus stop at Norwich

City Centre. He deliberately unleashed his dog

on to my dog. Then he just laughed. I thought that I had been attacked

really. She is my eyes. I could not really defend her. I found out when

I got home that there was blood on the kitchen floor. I took her

harness off and discovered that she had a hole in her side.

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association says that since to

doesn't tan, there had been over 180 attacks on guide dogs. -- 2010.

Six dogs had to be a retired last year because of incidents like this.

We are absolutely shocked and appalled. How can dog owners be so

irresponsible in relation to the control of their dogs? These

attacks can cause psychological scarring as well as physical

scarring. The dogs cannot go out and work. A cost something like

�50,000 to train a pub be like this to become a guide dog, and all of

that he can be lost after an attack. Lottie has had to be retired at

should she became aggressive after an attack and now she has to be

muzzled. She was right in her prime and now she is finished. Guide dogs

costs 100 and puts �6,000. That money is raised -- �136,000. But

money is raised by fundraisers. The owner and the guide dog live in

constant fear of another attack after something like this happens.

I am living permanently with the fear of being attacked. That has

affected his ability. Richard has recently suffered a second attack,

knocking him and Scrumpy to the ground. It has left Scrumpy a

feeling understandably nervous. can see that he has stop working

out because he has seen a dog. -- stopped working. What I would

normally do is ask the person who is holding the dog if the dog is on

a lead. If I know that they are restrained than I will work on

slowly. This allows Scrumpy to get the confidence back to get into his

routine. This has only happened since the attack? Yes. When he sees

another dog he sees it as a threat and he thinks he is going to be

attacked. It is almost impossible to imagine

what a Richard is going through, so I was put through a blindfold walk

with a labrador called Ivor. It was a very strange experience, actually.

You had to have total trust with the guide dog. I constantly felt

like I was going to bump into something. Then you add into the

mix that there could be a couple of dogs around. The dog could be

avoiding an obstacle. You do not know if the dog is being distracted

by another dog or if it is doing its work. Jemma Brown's dog Gus has

been attacked six times. She is doing well but still these regular

check-ups. He lay it had a look at his eye. -- let us have a look at

his eye. With his job as a guide dog, if the wound had been deeper

it could have injured the eyeball itself. That would have been a

career-ending injury for him. thought that what makes dogs like

Gus so good at their job is also making them vulnerable to attack.

With Gus in particular, his body language is such that he kind of

projects not being very confident around other dogs and that is why

they keep on attacking him. Guide Dogs for the Blind

Association are now calling for an urgent change in the law to help

try and stop these attacks, which they say are creating a climate of

fear. We would like to see a change in the law to allow authorities to

treat an attack on assistant dog like an attack on a person. There

are dangerous dogs that are out of control and they attack assistant

box. The police say that there -- assistant dogs. The police say that

their hands are tied. But attacks on guide dogs mostly fall outside

the law, because it is a dog on dog attack, not one on a person. Only

very rarely do these cases and a been caught. This man, filmed

kicking and punching his dog, was sentenced and banned from owning

another dog for 10 years, but only because his pit bull was one of the

bay and breed. But now the police are promising a crackdown. -- one

of the banned breeds. But now the police are promising a crackdown.

We want to bring in further legislation to ensure that people

have the trust and confidence in the police.

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association would welcome more

action like that, and so would Margaret Fletcher in Norwich. Kirk

guide dog is still recovering from the attack -- her guide dog is

still recovering from the attack at a bus-stop and she is left

wondering what she would die and -- do if there was another attack.

is my eyes. I cannot do without her. And remember, if there is anything

you think we should be investigating, you can send me the

details in an email. You are watching Inside Out. Still to come

on the programme: Newmarket's bid to give its sausage the status of

champagne. Everybody knows about the Cumberland sausage and they

know about Melton Mowbray pies, and hopefully, these sausages will trip

off the their tongue as well. Revelations of Jimmy Savile --

revelations about Jimmy Savile have been coming quickly over the past

month. We have investigated the impact on people in the east.

The Stoke Mandeville hospital was set up to help with a new spinal

injury centre in Buckinghamshire. People from all over the East hoped

to raise money. Many of those now feel betrayed, and they too had

been profoundly affected. -- have a been profoundly affected. Canoe

Lynch worked closely with Jimmy Savile and I met him at his home. -

- Kenneth Lynch. He I was approached by a member of Jimmy

Savile's team and I was asked if I would like to help raise money. I

told him that I would have to think out of the best way to do it. Then

I found out that they wanted �145,000 for it and that would be a

good way to try and raise money. I thought of an appeal and it went

from there. You have given so much of your time and effort. How do you

feel? Do you feel that you were in some ways a victim? I feel for the

people who helped my family and all of the people who helped the appeal.

I feel that we had been left -- let down. We worked hard and did it as

a team. Unfortunately, recent events have now proved that Jimmy

Savile was doing what he was doing and he was doing things he should

not have been doing, and the thing now is that he has now spoiled his

name and all of the good work that he did. Do you think the spinal

injuries unit can recover their reputation? Yes, I think they can,

because they do a wonderful job. Even their Jimmy Savile's name is

finished, the one thing that has come out is a first-class spinal

unit for those that need it. Jimmy Savile's name but huge public

support, and the charity raised �10 million in just three years. So

these bricks were really important? Every one of these bricks raised

bunny for Stoke Mandeville. raised money. I think one person

might have paid �1,000 for one of these bricks. So you want it to be

remembered for more than Jimmy Savile? Absolutely. This man also

got to know Jimmy Savile when he was getting treated for spinal

injuries that left him paralysed below the chest. He would like to

believe that Jimmy Savile's original motives were sound. There

was the possibility that he was setting up these places in areas

where there will vulnerable people. That is a possibility. -- work

He I would like to think his actions were genuine. Bearing in

mind that he and self-, when he was working in the minds -- he himself,

when he was working in the minds, he was in an accident and he

damaged his spine. He was paralysed for a while and made a full

recovery. It is not only fundraisers who are affected. The

trustees of some of the charities are facing their good work being

tarnished. Last week they met to consider closing one of Jimmy

Savile's many charitable trusts. This then organises the charities.

-- this a man organises some of the charities. I think a rebranding is

a possibility. I suppose we but have to change the mission. If the

alternative is facing a shutdown and all of the work being lost, it

is something that we have to consider. Is there a message here

for charities looking to take on a famous patron? After the events of

the past couple of weeks, charities will be more aware of the fact that

attaching your wagon to a celebrity or a big start to pull in the

attention, certainly it has its benefits, but charities will be

aware now that there are also risks. Two charities bearing the name of

Jimmy Savile are too close. trustees say they will give away

the millions raised by the disgraced DJ, but they will not be

naming the recipient. A we had hoped to interview one of the

trustees, but she is devastated that 30 years of hard work is over.

She did tell us that the decision of the trustees was unanimous and

that she did not want the name of the charity to be changed.

Exhausted and upset, she is bitterly disappointed that a plaque

commemorating the fund raisers who worked alongside Jimmy Savile has

been taken down at the hospital. She also said that all of the money

will go to good causes and that funds intended for Stoke Mandeville

will and appear. Neither the charities or those who raised money

for them what to see their work wasted. I think the money that is

in the trust should be used for that purpose and no other purpose.

People given that money to the trust and two Jimmy Savile for the

benefit of the disabled and that money should be used for that

purpose. Now that Jimmy Savile's game is toxic, there is another who

could be a worthy figurehead for Stoke Mandeville. He was the man

who founded the Spinal Injury Centre. His doctor continues some

of his work and now lives in Suffolk. When he started the Spinal

Injury Unit in 1943, it was expected that there would be a lot

of military paraplegics after the 1944 landings in Normandy.

international games meeting with the big difference was held at

Stoke Mandeville. Sir Guttman use sport to help rehabilitate the

patient. He also started the Stoke Mandeville Games, which turned into

the Paralympics. My father retired in 1966 and then concentrated on

raising funds to build his sports centre for the disabled on land

that was gifted to him by the NHS. That is not the Stoke Mandeville

stadium. -- that is now the Stoke Mandeville Stadium. Jimmy Savile

was not involved with the building up the hospital and now Eva but

like his name to have nothing to do with it. There has been no

connection to him and there is not any connection now. There is a

difference between the site that Jimmy Savile built and the Stoke

Mandeville sports centre for disabled people. Michael Mackenzie

set up a trust to support Rehabilitation in Stoke Mandeville.

Sir Guttman started this back in 1990 -- 1944. With the Paralympics

in 2012, we felt that we should do something to honour the memory and

legacy of Sir Guttman, and we set up this trust specifically to do

that. Being a patient of Stoke Mandeville myself, and another step

and a full patient, we decided that we should -- Stoke Mandeville

patient, we decided that we should commemorate who he was and what he

did. Basically, I, like tens of thousands of others, oh my life to

him. It is very unfortunate that this has come out. It is horrific

for the victims and it is bringing back memories for them and so on.

But the work that was paid for by public funds via a digger had must

continue. Were it to you -- via a figurehead must continue. What do

you think your father would think about this? I think he would think

it was very sad. It is an awful thing to happen but it really has

nothing to do with the wonderful work which is going on at the

National Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville. That the

important thing, that they are hoping -- that is the important

thing, that they are helping people and doing the most wonderful work

there. That is what matters. The past is in the past and we must

There are quite a few stables in Newmarket, and there were many pigs

kept here in the town, and there was a thriving sausage market

because of this. Now, they want the local sausage to become world

famous. 25 runners, 4 1/2 miles to go. Newmarket is famous for horse

racing, but it also has another long tradition dating back to

Victorian times for making sausages. Rosalie, this tradition will become

enshrined in law. The town has asked the European Union to give

its local sausage protected status. If it goes well, it will have the

same protection as the champagne, Parma ham and Melton Mowbray pork

pies. The decision would be made this autumn but has taken a long

time to get this far. For over a century, competing family firms had

been making two types of the Sussex sausage whilst guiding each of the

secret recipes. 10 years ago, the owner of Musks approached DEFRA to

protect the provenance of his sausage. I thought it was a good

lead you to apply, to protect the consumer from any false product

that would purport to be Newmarket sausages that remarked. But he got

no where and 10 years later, he is still trying. Why did it take this

long to get to this stage? We are on the 18th iteration of this

application. By applied in 2002 and the other people in town objectives.

The other people were Newmarket's other main sausage makers and in

particular, a big competitor, Grant Powter, who says his company has

made sausages so is the 1880s. Officials at DEFRA approached him

to see if he was interested, but he said he was not interested. 10

years ago, you could have had this protected status, what went wrong?

I guess I am just stubborn. It was something I felt we had a

successful family business in. Our sausage sales were really good in

their own right and I did want to keep it going as not compromised by

amalgamating the two recipes. claims to be the original Newmarket

sausage and bacon trace the data back to 1884. You are one of two

premium sausage makers in Newmarket, has there always been a healthy

rivalry between U-boats? unspoken rivalry, yes. We think

that our sausages better and they think their sausages that. You make

a better sausage? Or I could not possibly say. It is up to the

consumer to save. We estimate 0 sausage so special? We have local

ingredients, add the bread from the local bakery, the pork comes from

the British fans and we have our own secret spices. Can you tell me

the secret? No! That has been closely guarded since Victorian

times. Which ever tasted you prefer, it is certain the Newmarket sausage

is synonymous with Horseracing. The original sausage was away abusing

up pork. And the old and days, we would have a pig going around

clearing up after the horses, so lots of butchers were there, and

the butcher's and the pigs and the excess support, they needed

something to do with them. So we decided to survive the various

Colling and the Newmarket sausage was built up. Some people would

come down to buy the sausages on race day and would pile into the

shop and take them back to London. Chris has not given up and went

back to DEFRA to try again after Grant Powter agreed to put aside

their differences. That was because he was told he could still make a

different kind of sausage and bacon both keep their recipe secret. Why

did you put aside your differences with Musks? In order to put this

joint application and, when I had the assurances that we could exist

side by side aid, but enjoying the severed recipes, Ben for the sake

of our customers, the sausage would remain unchanged. It would also

enjoy the protection at a much higher level from then on. Both now

believe that this could be at Newmarket on the map. How important

is this for you to eventually get this enshrined in law that every

sausages made a new market it is a Newmarket sausage? It is something

we can market and go to our retail custom ers and sell them what we

have got and it will give as good publicity. Everyone knows about a

champagne and Melton Mowbray pies, and hopefully the sausage was

rebuffed the tunnel so. It is now all this Tendayi are waiting for a

decision from the European Union. One of the oldest horse races and

the word is about to start. It is nearly 350 years old and since

Victorian times you could always get a great snack. Very good!

meeting you here. Both men have come to supports the race.

winner of the historic Newmarket to town plates! There are some things

that ground just will not share. Here are your sausages. Since the

1950s, they have always sponsored the town are played. And they have

given away a box of sausages. Today, DEFRA confirmed that the Newmarket

sausage has become the 50 are the product in the UK to get special

status. The beauty of it is, there is no single recipe for the

perfects Newmarket sausage, but one thing is now backed by law, it has

to be made in Newmarket to be called a Newmarket sausage. As the

European Union is busy translating the paperwork for the sausages new

status into Europe has at any languages, there are hopes that the

brands may now breaking to a wider market. But you think there would

be a time when the Newmarket sausages as well known around the

world as other protected products like champagne? Are allocated

thinks so, they have a head start on us. We are two brands. We have

problems with a shelf-life, about 80 is a possibility. The Europeans

are very keen on this product. Why shouldn't the market sausages be

like this? Race news that the sausages that

protected status. That is it from Newmarket, if there's anything we

should cover, then e-mail us. You can also get me on Twitter. We are

back next week with these stories from the east.

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