:00:08. > :00:14.Naming and shaming. Is it the answer? Bad parking is a nuisance
:00:15. > :00:18.and it can cause accidents. I headmistress in Northampton thinks
:00:19. > :00:28.she can stamp it out. You do need to park safely. Because it is breaking
:00:29. > :00:35.the law, double parking. I know, I know. Shattered dreams. I'm off to
:00:36. > :00:40.Spain to try to find an end to the property nightmare that has left a
:00:41. > :00:45.couple from Suffolk badly out of pocket. We love the outdoors, so
:00:46. > :00:51.that is what we were going to do, but it has all been taken away. And
:00:52. > :00:57.we look back 70 years to the summer when Essex was targeted by were
:00:58. > :01:02.mechanical monsters, the Doodlebugs. Revealing the story is
:01:03. > :01:21.closer to home, this is Inside Out. The night, Inside Out is in
:01:22. > :01:25.Northampton. Welcome to Northampton. When you see somebody badly parked,
:01:26. > :01:31.it can really wind you up, but apart from being irritating, it can be
:01:32. > :01:35.potentially dangerous. Iwan Thomas I spent the day with a headless
:01:36. > :01:42.mistress who thinks that she has the answers. It's the start of the
:01:43. > :01:45.school day for Jackie Lapsa, the head teacher of Vernon Terrace
:01:46. > :01:48.primary school in Northampton. But it's not teaching that is taking up
:01:49. > :01:55.her time. It's policing the parking outside. It is actually against the
:01:56. > :02:00.law to double`park. The pick`up and drop`off outside any school can be a
:02:01. > :02:03.nightmare for parents, teachers and kids Jackie invited us to take a
:02:04. > :02:07.look at the problem she faces outside her school gates. So I sat
:02:08. > :02:15.in my car, and waited to see if parking chaos would unfold. There's
:02:16. > :02:19.the problem right there. What the issue is, you've got quite a narrow
:02:20. > :02:25.street. You've got residents' parking as well. So with vehicles on
:02:26. > :02:28.both sides, all it takes is one car to stop, like it has now, and it
:02:29. > :02:32.blocks the whole road up. Jackie Lapsa is so concerned that there
:02:33. > :02:35.could be an accident that she's taken the extraordinary step of
:02:36. > :02:38.taking photos on her mobiles of those parked illegally. You're quite
:02:39. > :02:42.passionate about this, to say the least. I am. I'm very passionate
:02:43. > :02:46.about it because I'm really worried that a child or an adult is going to
:02:47. > :02:52.get knocked over and seriously hurt. And when you turn up with a mobile
:02:53. > :02:56.phone, checking the license plate, that can't go down too well with
:02:57. > :02:59.everyone. It does not go down well at all. Some parents will apologise
:03:00. > :03:05.and Seo are properly future. But there are others who will either be
:03:06. > :03:15.downright rude although totally ignore me. Excuse me. That is
:03:16. > :03:19.double`parked. Laws are laws. I would listen to her. She looks quite
:03:20. > :03:22.daunting. But some people aren't. A parent just completely blanked her.
:03:23. > :03:25.She said, you are parked illegally, and he blanked her and just walked
:03:26. > :03:29.straight past and ignored her. So, obviously, people have to drop their
:03:30. > :03:33.kids off. Their argument is there's nowhere else to go, but can be
:03:34. > :03:36.dangerous for the kids. I see both sides of the story, but some of the
:03:37. > :03:40.parents clearly don't care. So with her message not getting through to
:03:41. > :03:42.everyone, Jackie decided to go a step further than just taking
:03:43. > :03:46.pictures. So what's happening here? Is this the culprits written down in
:03:47. > :03:50.your pad? That's right. Those are the numbers that I've taken photos
:03:51. > :03:59.of this morning of cars that have been double`parked or illegally
:04:00. > :04:03.parked. Quite a few. I notice you put them into your computer. That's
:04:04. > :04:07.a lot of data. It is. There were a lot of cars this morning, but on a
:04:08. > :04:11.cold or a wet morning it's fairly typical. So this is what Mrs Lapsa
:04:12. > :04:14.will do. If you park badly and you're a danger, you're going to get
:04:15. > :04:18.found out. Because everyone who comes through the school gate, and
:04:19. > :04:21.your licence plate is on the bottom. So beware. You will be shamed. Prime
:04:22. > :04:24.example right here. Two cars illegally parked here, with massive
:04:25. > :04:27.writing, bold writing. Children Keep Clear. They blatantly don't care.
:04:28. > :04:31.Bad parking outside schools is a familiar sight across Britain.
:04:32. > :04:34.Parents on the school run parking on double yellow lines or sometimes
:04:35. > :04:39.even on the zigzags. And that's illegal, but worse than that, it's
:04:40. > :04:42.putting young lives in danger. According to the research group Road
:04:43. > :04:45.Safety Analysis, over 1,000 children a month get injured on local roads
:04:46. > :04:49.around British schools And insurers say 37% of local school areas had at
:04:50. > :04:57.least one child road injury each year from in the past five years.
:04:58. > :05:02.Last year, Newcastle Council introduced a manned camera car to
:05:03. > :05:09.try and catch bad parkers. It waits outside Newcastle's schools and
:05:10. > :05:13.films drivers breaking the law. Drivers who are caught can be fined
:05:14. > :05:17.up to ?70. But while the camera car is effective, it's also expensive to
:05:18. > :05:28.run. And it can't be outside every school all of the time. That
:05:29. > :05:33.technology seems a world away from Vernon Terrace in Northampton. And
:05:34. > :05:37.as the school day comes to an end, it's just Jackie and the camera on
:05:38. > :05:41.her mobile phone. This car is parked on the zigzag. So is that one.
:05:42. > :05:45.They've been here all day. We filmed with them this morning. So I don't
:05:46. > :05:50.know whose they are. Where have you parked this time? I was able to find
:05:51. > :05:54.a place today. You found a place. Excellent. Normally it's very hard
:05:55. > :05:58.to find a place. I know, but you know that we need you to park
:05:59. > :06:05.safely. And to be fair, local parking spaces are limited. There is
:06:06. > :06:13.no parking facility. If there was a traffic warden here, you'd have to
:06:14. > :06:22.move. We have to move their all the time. So your daughter's at the
:06:23. > :06:25.school. And you are very passionate, as is the head, about this parking
:06:26. > :06:28.issue. Definitely, because it's a very dangerous situation. It's a
:06:29. > :06:33.good thing, knowing what she's like, just wanting to cross the road. At
:06:34. > :06:37.any point a car could just hit. So really it's good, because she's got
:06:38. > :06:40.the safety of the kids at heart, really. Twice I've nearly been
:06:41. > :06:45.knocked over. I've got a two`year`old daughter as well. I've
:06:46. > :06:48.also reported it to the police and I've had several dealings with the
:06:49. > :06:56.local council and with the highways department, and I've had no support.
:06:57. > :07:00.You know you do need to park safely. I know, but this is as safe as you
:07:01. > :07:03.can get because of the rain. It isn't. Because it's breaking the
:07:04. > :07:06.law, because it's double parking. I know. But it is not safe to do. We
:07:07. > :07:14.do need you to park safely. Some might say that Jackie should be
:07:15. > :07:17.spending more time teaching and less time preaching. Jackie wishes she
:07:18. > :07:25.could. If only it were that simple. Or safe. Well, I must say that we've
:07:26. > :07:28.been here all day and so have those cars down there, still on the
:07:29. > :07:32.zig`zags. I must say, you certainly have a battle on your hands. I wish
:07:33. > :07:36.you all the best with it. Thank you. I appreciate you coming today. And
:07:37. > :07:42.yes, we have. But we'll win. In the end. You're a winner. If there is
:07:43. > :07:51.something you think we should be looking into, you can send me a
:07:52. > :07:56.tweet, or you can e`mail me. Robert Inside Out for the East of England.
:07:57. > :08:04.Still to come, going back to 1944, when the East was under attack from
:08:05. > :08:11.Hitler's Doodlebugs. Germany's indiscriminate bombing that run riot
:08:12. > :08:16.with the use of the flying bomb. Everyone looks forward to their
:08:17. > :08:19.retirement. One couple from Suffolk wanted to spend theirs in the sun
:08:20. > :08:23.and they have lost their life savings, and sadly they are not
:08:24. > :08:31.alone. I have into the south of Spain to find out whether any end to
:08:32. > :08:35.the nightmare is in sight. This is Andalucia in southern Spain
:08:36. > :08:37.and it's not hard to see why the British retire here in their
:08:38. > :08:40.thousands. In fact the British love this region
:08:41. > :08:44.so much, that many have invested their life savings to build their
:08:45. > :08:47.dream home right here in the sun, and who can blame them?
:08:48. > :08:51.The evidence of the building boom is clear to see all around here. The
:08:52. > :08:54.hillsides and valleys are peppered with flats, villas and swimming
:08:55. > :09:03.pools, it's all pretty idyllic. Except much of what you see here is
:09:04. > :09:06.an illusion. Many of those who built homes here in Andalucia have been
:09:07. > :09:09.told they were put up illegally. These homes haven't even been lived
:09:10. > :09:13.in. So instead of having a stress`free retirement people have
:09:14. > :09:19.had years and years of worry and its cost them hundreds of thousands of
:09:20. > :09:22.pounds. Because if the authorities here
:09:23. > :09:25.decide your home is illegal then you could pay the ultimate price. This
:09:26. > :09:29.British villa was bulldozed in Andalucia just a few months ago, and
:09:30. > :09:32.it's a future which could now face the Coopers from Suffolk.
:09:33. > :09:35.We'd have been sat on the veranda there overlooking the pool but also
:09:36. > :09:39.overlooking the countryside, which was completely open views for us.
:09:40. > :09:47.You think, we should have been out there now. Like many people, Paul
:09:48. > :09:50.and Sue Cooper had always wanted to build a home abroad, somewhere warm
:09:51. > :09:59.to enjoy their retirement. But their plans to live in Spain have brought
:10:00. > :10:03.nothing but pain. I wanted the life, and to get the bikes out going to
:10:04. > :10:04.the villages just we loved the outdoors so that's what we were
:10:05. > :10:15.going to do but its all Their villa is one of as many as
:10:16. > :10:19.300,000 properties in Andalucia caught up in a legal wrangle.
:10:20. > :10:23.Declared illegal, they stand in limbo. No`one has received a penny
:10:24. > :10:35.in compensation, including the Coopers, who have invested thousands
:10:36. > :10:39.in a home now cannot even live in. I seem to think it was around about
:10:40. > :10:43.160,000 Euros, the villa itself, at the time. And we had some extras
:10:44. > :10:46.built onto that so I think the total cost would have been about 180,000
:10:47. > :10:49.Euros. So as far as you were both concerned you had all relevant
:10:50. > :10:53.checks everything in your mind was totally above board and legal? Yes,
:10:54. > :10:57.because our solicitor is one that will dot the Is and crosses the Ts.
:10:58. > :11:01.If But also we had some of own checks if you like, built in checks
:11:02. > :11:04.that we wanted to test. Those checks included ensuring the developer had
:11:05. > :11:07.installed all the essential services for the estate before they handed
:11:08. > :11:12.over any money and taking out a mortgage from a bank for part of the
:11:13. > :11:16.property. Our belief there was that if a bank was prepared to give a
:11:17. > :11:20.mortgage on the property, they would do their own checks to make sure it
:11:21. > :11:24.was legal and that would be extra comfort for us. So when did you get
:11:25. > :11:33.the devastating news that everything had gone catastrophically wrong? I
:11:34. > :11:36.think it was round about October 2006 that we had a phone call from
:11:37. > :11:40.our lawyer one day, that there appears to be a problem with the
:11:41. > :11:43.development and the Junta of Andalucia had put a temporary stop
:11:44. > :11:47.notice on the development. So how did this all come about? Well for
:11:48. > :11:50.years it seemed that people were able to build on these hillsides
:11:51. > :11:53.with little or no restriction, but then about ten years ago the
:11:54. > :12:00.regional authorities decided to get tough in a bid to stop the
:12:01. > :12:03.urbanisation of the countryside. In 2003, a planning law was introduced
:12:04. > :12:07.by the regional council, or Junta, which meant it was illegal to build
:12:08. > :12:10.in the countryside unless for agricultural use, but it's how that
:12:11. > :12:13.law is interpreted, and enforced, which seems to be causing a major
:12:14. > :12:19.headache. The Coopers should have moved into their home here seven
:12:20. > :12:23.years ago. But in all that time, their case has been tied up in a
:12:24. > :12:26.legal battle between the regional and local council about whether
:12:27. > :12:30.their homes are lawful or not. The Coopers villa is on a small estate
:12:31. > :12:33.in the Almanzora Valley, around a 40 minute drive from the coast.
:12:34. > :12:38.Do you no, it's incredible to think that this actually should be a
:12:39. > :12:41.thriving bustling community of ex pats from Britain all enjoying their
:12:42. > :12:44.retirement but in fact its abandoned, there's no`one here and
:12:45. > :12:54.if you just listen it's incredibly quiet, its so eerie, this is just a
:12:55. > :12:58.ghost town. For the best part of a decade a battle has been going on to
:12:59. > :13:01.try and get developments like this declared legal. Along with hundreds
:13:02. > :13:05.of others, the Coopers have joined a campaign group which has hired
:13:06. > :13:08.lawyers to fight their cause in the courts, but the case has been
:13:09. > :13:12.delayed again and again and again. Maura, whose fault is this? Well
:13:13. > :13:14.ultimately we think the responsibility lies with the
:13:15. > :13:17.regional government because this sort of lack of control in the
:13:18. > :13:21.planning systems happens in a vacuum, the problems occur in a
:13:22. > :13:25.vacuum when there is no control and we think that the situation is not
:13:26. > :13:29.good for anybody its not good for the economy of Spain its not good
:13:30. > :13:31.for the image of Spain, it most certainly is not good for the
:13:32. > :13:35.unfortunate people who purchased these houses from developers and it
:13:36. > :13:38.just needs to have some common sense and some rational decisions made to
:13:39. > :13:42.sort this problem out rather than letting it drag on and on and on to
:13:43. > :14:00.the detriment of everybody concerned. Why did you join the
:14:01. > :14:03.campaign Brian? Because I had an illegal house I didn't know it until
:14:04. > :14:07.three months after I purchased, moved in with my family, found out
:14:08. > :14:12.from my neighbours there was a problem and I was on the list. Are
:14:13. > :14:15.you facing the probability that you could lose your home? Yes, the
:14:16. > :14:19.ultimate that I have all the paperwork I have all the what they
:14:20. > :14:22.call as Escatora I have utilities services from the main suppliers I
:14:23. > :14:26.have the licence for everything of the house and what they call a first
:14:27. > :14:30.habitation licence which allows me to live in there with all those
:14:31. > :14:37.facilities and yes if I lose my case it is potential it could go to
:14:38. > :14:41.demolition and I lose everything. The Coopers could also face a
:14:42. > :14:44.demolition order as could the entire estate, if the courts uphold the
:14:45. > :14:52.decision that the development is illegal. I went in search of the
:14:53. > :14:56.Coopers villa, but sadly it no longer looks much like the photo
:14:57. > :14:59.they showed me. The couple haven't been out here for years
:15:00. > :15:02.understandably they find it far too upsetting to see all of their hard
:15:03. > :15:06.earned money go to waste so I've said that I'll have a look at it.
:15:07. > :15:10.It's devastating to see what remains of their house. Its so close to
:15:11. > :15:13.being finished I mean the tiling is done it looks like they were
:15:14. > :15:17.probably a few weeks from finishing it and you go inside and the
:15:18. > :15:20.fireplace has been ripped out, its been ransacked, loads of stuff has
:15:21. > :15:24.gone, wiring has been ripped out window fittings other fixtures, its
:15:25. > :15:28.just a shell now and its at the very top of the development and it should
:15:29. > :15:31.have been where they were enjoying their retirement looking out across
:15:32. > :15:34.this beautiful vista but instead its just sitting here with shrub and
:15:35. > :15:36.other things just growing all over it, its heartbreaking, its
:15:37. > :15:40.absolutely heartbreaking, its not my place and I feel so sorry for them I
:15:41. > :15:58.find it distressing just seeing this. What the people who've bought
:15:59. > :16:01.villas here don't understand is why it has taken so long for this to be
:16:02. > :16:05.sorted out. The authorities here have agreed to speak to me about the
:16:06. > :16:09.Coopers situation. A representative from the local councils told me the
:16:10. > :16:12.fault lies squarely with the Junta for changing the law retrospectively
:16:13. > :16:19.and making homes built legally, now illegal. How do you go about
:16:20. > :16:26.changing things is there hope for people in this awful situation?
:16:27. > :16:29.Translation: As president of the local mayors I've been asked to put
:16:30. > :16:32.together a legal proposition to the regional government which would
:16:33. > :16:38.change state law and legalise around 96% of these properties. This must
:16:39. > :16:42.happen there is no way we can defraud the British people who came
:16:43. > :16:46.here in good faith. But the Junta, puts the blame squarely on the local
:16:47. > :16:52.councils like the ones Snr Salas represents. Translation: The town
:16:53. > :16:56.halls did it on the whole because they were looking to prosper and
:16:57. > :16:59.felt they had to grasp the moment of the boom but they didn't respect the
:17:00. > :17:06.rules and regulations which were in place as far as the state law is
:17:07. > :17:09.concerned. The regional council told us it was also working on a plan
:17:10. > :17:12.which would see the majority of these properties legalised, so it
:17:13. > :17:16.seems both councils are singing from the same hymn sheet with a
:17:17. > :17:24.resolution perhaps as early as next year. That is a lot worse than when
:17:25. > :17:27.we saw it, yeah. Meanwhile back in Suffolk the Coopers are still
:17:28. > :17:32.waiting, and their villa continues to deteriorate. So how does it make
:17:33. > :17:37.you feel seeing the condition your villa is in? I'm sad because it was
:17:38. > :17:46.such a lovely place and I'm so angry that through no fault of our own we
:17:47. > :17:53.can't have it. We were two weeks away from more or less having it
:17:54. > :17:57.ourselves. Let's be clear. What has happened is the Junta have put a
:17:58. > :18:00.stop on this development six or seven seven years ago and not
:18:01. > :18:03.allowed the developer and the bank to actually maintain the assets they
:18:04. > :18:09.have built, so the Junta is now responsible for the assets
:18:10. > :18:13.depreciating in the way that it has. We've spoken to the authorities out
:18:14. > :18:15.there who have both told us independently that they will have
:18:16. > :18:22.most of these properties legalised in the near future. Did you get it
:18:23. > :18:25.in writing? No not in writng, obviously you've laughed at that
:18:26. > :18:29.Sue, you don't believe it? No I don't even think if you got it in
:18:30. > :18:35.writing it wouldn't happen, they've been promising this for how long,
:18:36. > :18:38.Paul? Years. So you don't think this is going to happen? No, it's not
:18:39. > :18:42.going to happen. The Coopers have resigned themselves to the fact they
:18:43. > :18:45.will never move into their Spanish villa and will live out their
:18:46. > :18:56.retirement in Suffolk. They don't expect to ever get their money back.
:18:57. > :19:04.70 years ago, the East of England was under attack, terrorised by an
:19:05. > :19:08.advanced weapon. Natalie Graham has been looking back to the summer when
:19:09. > :19:16.the East was attacked by hecklers mechanical monsters, the Doodlebugs.
:19:17. > :19:20.It was in the early hours of the summer 's morning nearly 70 years
:19:21. > :19:22.ago that an unidentified flying object was spotted over the East
:19:23. > :19:54.Coast. Diver, diver, diver. 101. The
:19:55. > :19:59.descriptions at the time said the mysterious aircraft emitted a law,
:20:00. > :20:02.rhythmic tone as it flew. It travelled at a terrific speed with
:20:03. > :20:09.flames and bright lights trailing behind it. The year was 1944 and
:20:10. > :20:16.Britain was under attack by robots. The Doodlebugs. I'd even though they
:20:17. > :20:22.were the intended target, the people of Essex found themselves under
:20:23. > :20:26.attack. Germany's indiscriminate bombing effort run riot in the use
:20:27. > :20:33.of the later `` latest terror weapon the flying bomb. Nazi Germany had
:20:34. > :20:39.finally unleashed its secret weapon. The V1, the Doodlebugs, was the
:20:40. > :20:45.origin of the modern cruise missile. In the first week of June in 1944
:20:46. > :20:48.Britain was euphoric. The successful Allied D`day landings across the
:20:49. > :20:54.Channel in France just seven days before the first Doodlebugs landed
:20:55. > :21:00.at giving the nation the feeling that at last we were winning the
:21:01. > :21:02.war. But then the Doodlebugs were launched from secret sites along the
:21:03. > :21:14.French and Dutch coasts. Their target, London. But the first one
:21:15. > :21:19.was a little off target. Luckily enough it landed in open farmland in
:21:20. > :21:26.north Kent, but it was quickly followed by the other flying bombs.
:21:27. > :21:33.One would the doors of the pigsty, another landed in countryside. And
:21:34. > :21:37.the other made its way to Bethnal Green, London, and claimed six
:21:38. > :21:44.lives. The first fatalities of the bombings. The great legends of the
:21:45. > :21:48.V1 's was that the fuel ran out as they came down and it sounded like
:21:49. > :21:52.that, the thing was buzzing along with its pulse jet engine and
:21:53. > :21:56.suddenly would stop at the explosion would take place 15 seconds later.
:21:57. > :22:00.What actually happened is that the missile had a guidance system, a
:22:01. > :22:03.little propeller on the front trying to go round a certain number of
:22:04. > :22:07.times and when it had gone round a certain number of times the elevator
:22:08. > :22:12.is on the missile was also added began to dive and as it's died its
:22:13. > :22:16.fuel injectors and system could not overcome gravity and it stopped. The
:22:17. > :22:21.Germans spent a lot of time trying to stop that happening but actually
:22:22. > :22:28.it probably had a greater morale effect because of this dreadful
:22:29. > :22:34.ominous silence. Into it, 2419 Doodlebugs fell on London. And the
:22:35. > :22:39.effect on morale was devastating. The terror of the Blitz was still
:22:40. > :22:48.fresh in the minds of Londoners, and many people left the city believing
:22:49. > :22:56.rural areas to be a safe haven. What was the Essex countryside any safer
:22:57. > :23:00.than the big city? It's gone on RDF intelligence that if you used our
:23:01. > :23:03.control of the German spies we would use that as the deception at D`day,
:23:04. > :23:08.we have control over every German spy in Britain. If we got them to
:23:09. > :23:11.send misleading information back home then the Lovecraft upward
:23:12. > :23:18.actually think that the weapons were overflying London and they would
:23:19. > :23:21.shorten the range. When looked at coldly it was better that they
:23:22. > :23:26.landed in the sparsely populated areas and the more densely pocketed
:23:27. > :23:30.areas around here. It is estimated that bringing the V1 rockets don't
:23:31. > :23:37.save as many as 50% of the potential casualties. So, the government was
:23:38. > :23:46.prepared to sacrifice the lives of those in the countryside for London.
:23:47. > :23:53.We can publish secret films from the killing grounds in England.
:23:54. > :23:57.Intelligence plots, barrage balloons, anti`aircraft guns and
:23:58. > :24:01.fighter plane patrols made Kent, Sussex and Essex the three most
:24:02. > :24:10.dangerous places to live outside of London. Amongst the tales of tragedy
:24:11. > :24:14.came some tales of survival. Such is the story of one little girl from
:24:15. > :24:20.Essex who became a symbol of hope throughout the doodlebugs summer.
:24:21. > :24:26.Irene Clements was the 11`year`old girl living in a terraced cottage in
:24:27. > :24:31.maiden Stone, she was with her sister in her bedroom when they
:24:32. > :24:35.heard the sound of a flying bomb. The engine stopped, a moment of
:24:36. > :24:39.terror. She ran into the garden, into the Anderson shelter, the
:24:40. > :24:45.doodlebugs fell on the cottages. She was thrown from one end to the other
:24:46. > :24:52.of the shelter and when eventually she crawled out, totally confused
:24:53. > :24:56.and dazed, she found the cottages had gone. There was just a heap of
:24:57. > :25:02.rubble. Her mother and father were at the cinema at the time, the. ,
:25:03. > :25:08.they rushed home and what happened, the rescue squad had already arrived
:25:09. > :25:14.and the fireman had picked up little Irene, 11 years old, in his arms,
:25:15. > :25:17.and delivered her to the peasants. That picture was used in the Daily
:25:18. > :25:33.Mirror and it became a symbol of those days in 1944. It was not just
:25:34. > :25:37.the Doodlebugs that were at the forefront of technology. The RAF
:25:38. > :25:43.Gloster meteor was Britain's first jet fighter and had a unique way of
:25:44. > :25:49.bringing down the V1. And one of the first doodlebugs the jet plot down
:25:50. > :25:52.crashed into this field. This one was brought down by the media pilot
:25:53. > :25:56.getting his wing underneath the wing of the flying bomb, and the flying
:25:57. > :26:00.bomb was controlled by the gyroscopes or if you could uncouple
:26:01. > :26:03.that he could make it crash. He put his wing underneath and literally
:26:04. > :26:10.tipped the aircraft over causing it to crash. This tree, this Oaktree,
:26:11. > :26:15.remarkably, has survived the blast and survived the past 70 years. If
:26:16. > :26:22.you look closely here you can see the impact marks of the shrapnel
:26:23. > :26:24.from the excluding bomb. And 70 years on, pieces of shrapnel from
:26:25. > :26:28.the excluded doodlebugs can still be the excluded doodlebugs can still be
:26:29. > :26:33.found in the fields surrounding the crash site. That is a piece of
:26:34. > :26:38.flying bomb. Shrapnel from the flying bomb. How do you know that?
:26:39. > :26:43.It is completely typical of the shrapnel, you can see the way it is
:26:44. > :26:48.distorted in bed. That has been blasted into that shape. That is a
:26:49. > :26:55.piece of flying bomb from the summer of 1944. That is heavy with sharp
:26:56. > :26:58.edges, that could do serious damage. There was approximately one tonne of
:26:59. > :27:00.explosives and the flying bomb was literally shredded by the explosions
:27:01. > :27:05.were this would have gone flying several hundred yards, so this
:27:06. > :27:10.flying through the air was lethal. It was jagged, it would have been
:27:11. > :27:13.white hot with the explosion, pretty lethal things. The whole of
:27:14. > :27:19.south`east England is littered with these. On Friday, September eight,
:27:20. > :27:25.1944 a rumour that Hitler had surrendered had reached London.
:27:26. > :27:29.People left work early, flags began to fly, doodlebugs summer was at an
:27:30. > :27:37.end. The Second World War was at an end. Or was it? At 6:43pm, a rocket
:27:38. > :27:41.crashed into Chiswick. Unlike the doodlebugs, the rocket made no
:27:42. > :27:45.warning sound and took just five minutes to reach London from the
:27:46. > :27:48.Dutch coast. The V2 rocket had replaced the doodlebugs and brought
:27:49. > :27:55.with it even more destruction and devastation. Albert Speer, Hitler's
:27:56. > :27:59.architect, mentioned in his book that he vetoes could have been fully
:28:00. > :28:03.operational at much earlier date, if they had received more support from
:28:04. > :28:22.Berlin. If that had happened the outcome of the war might have been
:28:23. > :28:27.very different indeed. That is it from Northampton, you can get in
:28:28. > :28:33.touch with me through e`mail. I am also on twitter. See you next week.
:28:34. > :28:43.I will have the amazing story of an incredible musician. He is wowing
:28:44. > :28:48.audiences all over the world, Nicholas McCarthy only has one hand.
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:28:56. > :28:58.And as an East Coast wind farm celebrates expertly, we would at the
:28:59. > :29:14.numbers, is this cost`effective power?
:29:15. > :29:20.Jude Law has given evidence at the phone hacking trial. The court heard
:29:21. > :29:23.a family member had sold stories about him. A former reporter said he
:29:24. > :29:24.discussed intercepting