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We investigate an illegal trade in live horses. We join a Norfolk | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
charity to investigate the export of live horses from our ports. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
It is not just a problem for equine welfare. It is actually at an issue | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
for human health as well. It is the biggest cause of misery. Helen | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
McDermott finds hope for thousands of sufferers of depression. There | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
are many different reasons and I don't believe that anybody has to be | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
depressed all the lies. I bought this one day fly you to your next | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
holiday? Airships return to Beds. Repealing the story closer to home. | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
This is Inside Out for the East of England. | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
Tonight, inside out is embedded. Welcome to Bedford. It is a trade | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
that is not officially exist. A trade in horses from our ports that | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
is a concern for animal welfare and human health. I joined a Norfolk | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
charity to investigate. It is a year since the horse meat scandal broke, | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
and to some it was a shock that an animal which in this country is seen | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
as a companion could end up in our food. But is there an illegal trade | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
in our horses and ponies who are ending up abroad for slaughter? We | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
have discovered this really murky trade in low value equines across | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Europe. It is not only a matter of for equine welfare. It is also a | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
huge problem for equine health and, as we have seen,because of the | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
relation with the food trade and the food industry, it is also an issue | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
for human health as well. It's August, and over a weekend period at | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Dover, among the lorries boarding the ferries, there are horses and | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
ponies being taken to the continent. And they are being watched by a | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Norfolk charity. We are just ringing you with one that has just come | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
through. I don't know if it rings a bell but he didn't stop for any | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
checks or anything. The charity, World Horse Welfare, has spent | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
months trying to get to the bottom of what happens to these horses when | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
they are shipped abroad. Under an agreement with France, Ireland and | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
the UK, sports horses can be moved freely. Low`value ponies like these | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
are certainly not covered by the agreement. World Horse Welfare | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
believes some traders are abusing the law on exporting ponies, and | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
avoiding health, welfare checks and other paperwork. The tripartite | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
agreement is something that has been around for decades. In 2005 it was | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
expanded to effectively include all horses. It excludes slaughter horses | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
but of course it is very easy to go round saying my animal is not going | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
to slaughter. At the time of the horse meat scandal, the Government | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
said that there was no evidence of horses and ponies regularly being | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
transported abroad for human consumption and, if there was, then | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
its surveillance at ports would pick this up. But this investigation has | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
found in most cases, these checks are not happening. The charity | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
believes that live horses are being shipped to the continent without any | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
health checks or even the basic standards of welfare, and this is | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
going on under the radar. Its aim is to get the law tightened to stop the | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
abuse ` but it needs hard evidence. We will let you know which one he | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
gets on. But he has gone on much quicker than all the others so far. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
We are just monitoring which horse transports are coming through the | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
ports and going out. And which ferry is there and to see what checks are | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
being done. We have had information that wagons with horses on are going | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
through with no checks at all. We have got one here and we are | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
double`checking which very Ed Balls on. What would you do with the | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
information, if you see a horse transport that arouses your | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
suspicions? Look to see if it is, and we sent the information, and we | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
are monitoring the transports as they come onto the ferry, and | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
anything of interest we look to see where those horses are going, to see | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
if they're going to the correct places they should we going to. | :04:47. | :05:03. | |
Adinkerke is in Belgium where the other team is based. I meet up with | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
this team in the evening. They have information that a lorry full of | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
horses has passed through Dover and arrived at Calais and they want to | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
know where it is going. Hi, Clare. Have you any idea where we are | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
heading to? From previous surveillance trips we have done, we | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
have an idea that this is the route he takes, on this road heading down | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
towards Antwerp. And so we are prepared to pick up the route to see | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
if he will come this way. To prove that the horse dealer is breaking | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
the law, they need to see where the horses are going. So we drive to the | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
main intersection and wait in a lay`by. You find something of | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
interest, what next? We are waiting to get a call from our colleagues | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
down the road. Hoping to spot them coming this way. At which point, we | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
will take over the surveillance and get behind the lorry and start | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
tailing where he is going. It is a long wait. Four hours later, the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
team get an update from their colleague. Yes, OK, we'll do, | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
goodbye. He is basically concerned that he has not come this way | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
because he is saying that the ferry has docked and even if he stopped | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
for refuelling, the team would have seen him by now. He should have come | :06:16. | :06:28. | |
past. They've lost the dealer. But just a few days later, he tries to | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
ship 22 horses and ponies from Dover. And this time action is | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
taken. Not by the port authorities, but by a ferry company. P ferries, | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
which has a policy that it will not carry livestock for slaughter, told | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Inside Out it took action. It had become concerned about a large | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
consignment of horses travelling in a poor state of health and with | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
possibly the wrong documentation that it refused permission for the | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
trader to board.?P also told Inside Out that it had caught this | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
dealer twice trying to travel on its ferries with a large consignment of | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
horses.? But it could not stop him. Company also said it had caught the | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
steamer twice trying to travel on its berries with a large consignment | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
of horses. But they could not stop him. He simply used another ferry | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
company. Over the same period, the charity recorded a number of horse | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
transports from Dover. But there were no government animal health | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
officers there to inspect if they were fit and legal to travel. We | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
know over that one 48`hour weekend, there were 51 shipments exported | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
from Dover to France and 41 imports. These are vehicles taking between | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
two and 22 horses, so you can get a feel of the scale. And what we do | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
know there was not a single check by done by the authorities during that | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
weekend. There was actually a check done by P, the ferry company. It | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
is wonderful they did that. But, of course, it is not their job to do | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
that. So no official from Defra checked these exports, from what you | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
saw? No. There were no checks done by animal health whatsoever, over | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
those 48 hours. The charity says that the lack of enforcement is | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
affecting all ports. And somebody who has transported thousands of | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
horses and ponies through Harwich and Dover told us they are right. He | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
agreed to talk to us as long as we did not reveal his identity. We go | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
through a lot of ports, through the UK, Ireland and Europe. We have not | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
been checked as much as we should be. There is not so many animal | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
health at the ports to check us. Maybe once a year in Dover. We | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
transport hundreds of horses. And the ferry companies, they don't have | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
a clue. So they are not really interested. If low`value horses from | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
the UK are ending up in the slaughterhouses of Europe, then meat | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
that is unchecked could be ending up in the human food chain. We put our | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
concerns to DEFRA. Animal Health officers can and will | :08:51. | :09:05. | |
undertake stringent checks at ports where there are good grounds to | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
believe that rules are being breached which may represent a risk | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
to the health and welfare of horses. The government has now announced | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
that, from May, the rules on horse exports will be tightened. Only | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
horses that have had regular vet checks, such as racehorses, will be | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
allow to travel without being inspected by a vet before | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
travelling. This could not protect thousands of vulnerable horses and | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
ponies, but only if the changes are enforced. It is a first step a | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
critical step. We now have enforceable piece of legislation. | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
But it will be worthless unless it is enforced, and animals will | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
continue to suffer. World Horse Welfare's evidence is now the | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
subject of an official inquiry. If there is something you think we | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
should be looking into on the programme, you can always send me an | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
e`mail. Or contact me on Twitter. More to come on Inside Out for the | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
East of England. Could this be the way that we will fly in the future? | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
The airship returns to Beds. It is world changing as an aircraft | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
because it does something no other aircraft can do. They can fly to | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
five days at a time without refuelling. It can carry | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
heavyweights. Other aircraft could bypass balls and land where ever it | :10:27. | :10:27. | |
needs to. `` bypass airports. Depression is officially the biggest | :10:28. | :10:41. | |
cause of misery in Britain. And yet half of those suffering will not | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
ever seek help. Even if they do, they might not get what they need. | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
Helen McDermott knows about depression all too well. But there | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
is help. `` various hope. `` there is hope. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
It's when I'm on the stage performing I feel happiest. But | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
sadly you can't sing your way out of all of life's ups and downs. I've | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
suffered from depression all my life. It's not just a case of | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
feeling low, it's despair. It's darkness, and you feel very ashamed | :11:17. | :11:29. | |
of it. One in four of us will suffer from some form of mental health | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
issue. More of us using anti`depressants. But there is hope. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
I am going to meet two people who have come through. It is like | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
slogging through mud on a dark day, up to your waist in mud on a dark | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
day. That is what depression is. People like Atalanta, who had severe | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
depression and ended up on medication. I was building a house, | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
had a new relationship, one of my children was struggling. I was under | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
financial pressure. I started to feel stressed. I started not to | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
sleep. Then I felt very anxious and the anxiety increased. It was not | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
really until I went to see my GP about the anxiety that he suggested | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
I might be depressed. You lose your future in that you can't think | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
beyond the following week and you feel that you will feel like this | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
forever. Rather than helping, anti`depressants made her feel | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
worse. She has been paying for therapy with Norfolk`based Sue | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Baylis. It has changed her life. I have been six, eight weeks off any | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
medication. Fabulous. Medication free. Completely. For two months. My | :12:47. | :12:59. | |
sleep is miles better. It has taken a year, but with the help of Sue, | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Atalanta feels she's got to the bottom of the problem. It takes | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
detective work to get to what the roots are, maybe to do a result of | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
trauma, may be that we are in a relationship that does not help, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
bullying. There are many reasons. My question is, what has led to that | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
person feeling that way? With Atalanta, we had to spend time | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
finding what those deep limiting beliefs were. Not everyone gets this | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
kind of help. Depression is very common. The use of anti`depressants | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
is rising. Last year, over 50 million prescriptions were handed | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
out. It comes at a price because in the east alone it costs over ?28 | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
million. Health guidelines say anyone with depression should be | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
able to get talking therapy on the NHS. It can cost as little as ?750 | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
per person. But a damning report in 2006 found most were not getting | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
any. The government have set targets to change this. We know there are a | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
lot of people out of work who are suffering from depression or | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
anxiety. That is part of the reason they are struggling to get back into | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
work. Get access to psychological therapy and you can help that person | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
get back to work. It saves the benefits bill. It improves that | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
individual's well`being massively so everybody wins. Mike from | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
Cambridgeshire tells me anti`depressants have helped him. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
But last year, when he fell ill for the third time, he was also given | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
therapy on the NHS. I'd had some nights when I hadn't slept almost | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
nothing at all. I woke up in a complete state. I just couldn't | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
carry on. I was forced to do something. My body and my mind had | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
just shut down. The therapy is crucial. Early intervention and that | :15:05. | :15:13. | |
support is crucial. I am now in full`time work and I achieved this | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
because of the support I had. But your chances of getting | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
psychological support on the NHS vary depending on where you live. In | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Norfolk, 11% of sufferers got therapy last year. In Luton, it was | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
just 3.5%. And waiting lists can be long, which is a serious issue. You | :15:31. | :15:40. | |
can't leave people languishing on a long waiting list for talking | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
therapy that might take six, nine months, because the research shows, | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
the MRI scan, that if you leave people in their distressed state the | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
stress hormones washing over the braindamages the hypocampus. The | :15:50. | :16:01. | |
structure within the brain gets smaller. When we are talking about | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
prevention, long`term stability, you've got to get on the case fast. | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
It's as urgent as treating a broken hip. So it's surprising that there | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
are no limits on waiting times for treatment. Too many people who have | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
mental`health problems wait too long to get support and therapy. There is | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
this extraordinary institutional bias within the NHS. So on the | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
physical health side, when referred by a GP, we get treatment within 18 | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
weeks. But in mental health there's no such standard. I've secured the | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
introduction of access standards from 2015. It's an important part of | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
gaining your self`respect ` being back at work. Thanks to therapy and | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
a supportive boss, Mike's not only back at work, he's started a support | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
group. Thank goodness it's getting easier to be open about this | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
condition. Did you find when you went back to work people looked at | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
you differently? I found it difficult getting back in. You have | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
been out of it so long, it is really hard. Yes. I deliberately didn't not | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
tell people. I would be open if they asked me. If it arose, I'd say what | :17:29. | :17:41. | |
I was off for. I made a conscious decision I wouldn't hid behind it. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
And setting up this group, tried to encourage others to talk about it. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Lovely to have met you. Thanks for the Coffey. Such a lovely bloke. One | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
of thing learnt from Mike, I'd been worried could come back. He said | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
that is part of the healing process. Seeing him looking so well really | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
gives you encouragement. When people say they come to a grinding halt, | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
that's my body saying, stop or I'll make you. Today is Atalanta's last | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
session with Sue. She's learnt to spot the warning signs and is | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
confident depression is behind her for good. Depression is a message to | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
you that something in your life is not working for you. If you listen | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
and change what's not working, not only will you not be depressed | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
again, you'll go on to be much happier. Our pantomime is over. | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
We've sorted out the baddies! In my experience there is no magic | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
treatment that fits all. Depression still haunts me, but medication and | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
counselling helps me to deal with it. So for someone like me, who's | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
suffered since childhood, is there hope? # Always look on the light | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
side of life. # Is it true that if you've had it you'll always have it? | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
Absolutely not. There are many reasons. I don't believe anyone has | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
to be depressed all their lives. # Always look on the bright side of | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
life. Beds has a long association with | :19:26. | :19:44. | |
airships. Cardington was home to the famous are Rome `` are 101. Now a | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
team has designed a new airship that could revolutionise travel. A | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
film`maker has spent years following their progress from a dream on the | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
drawing board to their sensational inaugural flight. | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
In Bedfordshire, two large sleeping giants dominate the landscape. The | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
famous Cardington airship hangers, dating back to 1915. They were the | :20:10. | :20:22. | |
home of the British airship programme of the 1920s and have | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
weathered various storms and neglect ever since. Now, in Hanger One, a | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
new kind of aircraft is under development that could mark a whole | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
new chapter in aviation. We have a Fritz Lang, Metropolis vision of | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
these aircraft coming in and out. And being as commonplace as | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
helicopters, and possibly supplanting helicopters. And landing | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
anywhere, taking off anywhere. It would connect the world in a very | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
different way to how it is connected and that is the exciting vision. | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
It's at Cardington that the famous R100 and infamous R101 were housed. | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
At the time, the largest airships in the world. They were an incredible | :21:17. | :21:30. | |
sight. That golden era quickly came to an end when the R101 crashed on | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
its way to India, killing 48 people. Despite this, there were engineers | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
who did not want to let the dream died. One of them was a young Roger | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Munk, who, many years later assembled a small team and returned | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
airship building to Cardington in the '70s. Roger is the one engineer | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
in my life who I regard as a genius. He was exciting to work with and | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
sometimes infuriating, because you think you are ahead of him. He would | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
be ahead of you. In the '90s, Munk's team designed | :21:55. | :22:04. | |
and produced several new airships like this AT`10 built for the | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
Chinese. Each time, each airship would push the boundaries a little | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
further. But for Munk, this wasn't enough and he set his sights on a | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
totally new kind of aircraft that would revolutionise air transport. | :22:20. | :22:32. | |
It basically combined the best of an aircraft and helicopter and airship, | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
and create a brand`new type of aircraft with different | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
capabilities. Basically more efficient, we have created a flying | :22:40. | :22:51. | |
wing that can float up in the air. Something completely new, completely | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
innovative, that the world hasn't ever seen before. T he inert gas | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
helium replaced the flammable hydrogen of the R 101. This was just | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
one of the bumper of changes that made as ships a safe proposition. | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
The team built flying scale models of the new airship or Hybrid Air | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
Vehicle to test their design and tempt orders. Their design flew. The | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
order book didn't. The team retreated from the hangars to a | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
nearby derelict Portakabin. We made it sort of like home. It was in a | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
field next to the number two hangar at Cardington. Then another blow. In | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
2012, Roger Munk passed away leaving the team devastated. It was a real | :23:41. | :23:52. | |
shock when he passed. A real shock to the system. It was a loss. It was | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
a loss that came at our most trying time, when we had a new project of | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
this type. Four months later, still reeling, the team had a visit from | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
the American military. In the cold, damp Portakabin, the US placed a | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
half billion dollar order for a full size surveillance airship for use | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
over Afgahnistan. We beat Lockheed Martin from that Portakabin. They | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
came and visited us there. But you weren't operating in the hangars at | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
that stage? No. We had to give a PowerPoint presentation, through to | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
a finished flying vehicle in a short time. It was by far the hardest two | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
years of anybody's life who work that programme. In just under two | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
years the small team built the aircraft and, in secret, at | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
Lakehurst, USA, it flew for the first time. There was a lot of | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
uncharacteristic hugging going on. Engineers are not naturally huggy, | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
but there was a lot of relief flowing from everybody. We'd worked | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
long and hard on that programme and everybody was very pleased to see | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
that. The flight was a massive success and seemed to mark a new era | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
in aircraft design. It is world is changing because it does something | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
no other aircraft can do, it can fly for five days without refuelling. It | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
can carry heavyweight. It fits between other types of transport. | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Ships are a great form of transport but they go slowly and have to stop | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
at ports. Our aircraft can buy passports and land where it needs | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
to. Three months later, American Government budget cuts took effect | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
and the HAV was one of many military projects that were scrapped. The | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
dream it seemed, was finally over. The real reality to that is I have | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
seen terminations of projects for all sorts of reasons over the past | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
20 years. Typically you spend a day feeling sorry for yourself and then | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
pick yourself up and get on with it. The team refused to give up and | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
hatched a plan to buy the HAV back off the American military and bring | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
it back home. In December 2013, a stream of lorries arrived at the | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
Cardington hangers, the sprititual home of British airship building and | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
delivered the component, dis`assembled HAV Airship, fresh | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
from a stormy crossing of the Atlantic on a cargo ship. The reason | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
we returned to Cardington is because it is the only building in the UK | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
big enough for the aircraft. The putting back together process we | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
expect to take ten months, before we are back in the air. Then we will | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
continue the flight test programme and certify the vehicle within the | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
UK so that we can do demonstrations. It uses 60% less fuel than | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
comparator will aircraft and as `` although not as fast as a jet, it | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
could be an environmentally friendly option for transport in the future. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
We have plenty of interest from people who want to buy and lease | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
them and use them and so it will be a case of how many of these can | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
rebuild? When we had a small vehicle operating out of Cardington, we | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
would stop traffic. When it comes out of the Cardington hanker for the | :27:43. | :27:54. | |
first time, it. Traffic. `` hangar. People with an interest from all | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
over the world will be amazed. The team hope to start passenger flights | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
in 2015 and are confident that the orders will quickly start to come in | :28:05. | :28:14. | |
soon after. Then airship building won't have just returned to | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
Cardington, but a new airship, or hybrid air vehicle, production line | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
will be established here. That would be such a great way to go | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
on holiday. You can send be a message on Twitter on any stories. | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
And you can send an e`mail. I will see you next week, when I will find | :28:36. | :28:43. | |
out Alan inheritance can become a liability. Retirement homes for the | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
over 55s. A windfall turned into a nightmare for a couple from | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
Northamptonshire. And we investigate why people with HIV go undiagnosed | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
and untreated. We could be back to where we were all worse. And the | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
building of the largest Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your | :29:03. | :29:19. | |
90 second update. More flooding misery. Thousand of homes in | :29:20. | :29:20. | |
Berkshire and Surrey are now vulnerable as Thames river levels | :29:21. | :29:20. | |
reach record highs. 14 severe flood warnings are in place - meaning | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
lives are at risk. Full update at ten. Two men have been convicted of | :29:24. | :29:25. | |
helping triple killer Joanna Dennehy. Gary Stretch was found | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
guilty of one count of attempted murder. Leslie Leyton was convicted | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
of perverting the course of justice. An online drinking game has been | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
linked to another death. Police in Cardiff are | :29:35. | :29:35. |