:00:08. > :00:19.Their home was destroyed by the sea, so what next? What are we going to
:00:20. > :00:22.do now? Three months after the terrifying night when a storm surge
:00:23. > :00:25.sent their home over the cliff, there is some good news for a
:00:26. > :00:33.Norfolk couple. Desperate to see Mum. We meet the families torn apart
:00:34. > :00:37.by a system they say is unfair. I've known her for 12 years. We've been
:00:38. > :00:40.married for ten years. The mother of my kids. I'm British. My children
:00:41. > :00:48.are British. They have the right to have their mother living with them,
:00:49. > :00:51.to look after them. And from the old vicarage in Grantchester to the
:00:52. > :00:54.corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. The story of one
:00:55. > :00:55.of the greatest poems of World War I.
:00:56. > :00:58.If I should die, think only this of me.
:00:59. > :01:02.That there is some corner of a foreign field that is for ever
:01:03. > :01:06.England. Revealing the stories that matter
:01:07. > :01:23.closer to home. This is inside out, for the East
:01:24. > :01:33.Tonight, inside out is in Grantchester in Cambridgeshire.
:01:34. > :01:42.Hello and welcome to the wonderfully historic village of Grantchester.
:01:43. > :01:45.Now, the night of December five last year is night I will never afford
:01:46. > :01:49.it. It was truly terrifying. I was filming with the people of Hemsby on
:01:50. > :01:52.the Norfolk coast as a storm surge pushed down the North Sea. I spent
:01:53. > :01:55.the evening with Steve and Jackie Connolly. Their home was destroyed.
:01:56. > :02:08.Now, we've kept in touch and I've been back to see them. There's been
:02:09. > :02:11.some good news. It's really atmospheric here on Hemsby beach and
:02:12. > :02:13.despite the sound of the waves crashing through the fog, it's
:02:14. > :02:16.actually really peaceful. Which is in stark contrast to the dramatic
:02:17. > :02:19.events that happened here on fifth December. Alex Dolan's here with the
:02:20. > :02:22.latest on the weather front. The concern over the next few hours is
:02:23. > :02:25.the storm surge. Everyday, Jackie Connolly dreads listening to the
:02:26. > :02:32.weather forecast. And today more than ever. We have very strong
:02:33. > :02:35.onshore winds. What's predicted to happen tonight could literally
:02:36. > :02:38.change her life. Jackie's home is perched precariously on a clifftop.
:02:39. > :02:42.The violent storm expected tonight could see it topple over the edge
:02:43. > :02:46.into the sea. A neighbour has already moved out. His home
:02:47. > :02:48.condemned. It's only a matter of time before Jackie's home suffers
:02:49. > :02:55.the same fate. How worried are you, living here?
:02:56. > :03:02.Very worried because we don't know what the next storm's going to
:03:03. > :03:05.bring, how bad it's going to get. Do you ever go to bed thinking, my
:03:06. > :03:09.goodness, if we have a bad storm tonight we may awaken in the night
:03:10. > :03:14.and half my house is gone? Yes, might be homeless tomorrow. That's
:03:15. > :03:25.what I think. Just look how close Jackie's home is to the edge. And
:03:26. > :03:33.it's not just her home here in Hemsby. The whole resort is fighting
:03:34. > :03:36.force a viable. `` for survival. I'm when you get whether like this storm
:03:37. > :03:39.that's blown up, it's no wonder that people here in Hemsby are really
:03:40. > :03:42.worried about their future. There are no sea defences protecting the
:03:43. > :03:45.village. They've been refused public funding to build them. So, they're
:03:46. > :03:47.doing it themselves. The fear of losing part of the village has
:03:48. > :03:50.brought the whole community together. As the storm rages
:03:51. > :03:55.outside, they've gathered for a fundraising evening at the pump. ``
:03:56. > :03:58.the pub. It will add to the ?20,000 they've already raised to pay for
:03:59. > :04:01.their own sea defences. Lorna, the whole community seems to be behind
:04:02. > :04:04.this. Absolutely, 100% behind it. We are having fun and raising money at
:04:05. > :04:08.the same time. The community is dead set on it, on enjoying and raising
:04:09. > :04:11.money at the same time. So all the money raised here tonight will go
:04:12. > :04:14.directly into building new sea defences? It absolutely will, yes,
:04:15. > :04:17.every penny. But while we're filming in the pub, outside, the storm surge
:04:18. > :04:20.is making its way down the North Sea. While we're standing here, the
:04:21. > :04:25.lifeboat hut is literally tipping into the sea. The high tide is
:04:26. > :04:30.chewing away, underneath the foundations and it's literally
:04:31. > :04:33.tipping up as we're standing here. Jackie and husband Steve have been
:04:34. > :04:39.at the pub for the fundraising evening and have just come back to
:04:40. > :04:45.their house. Jackie's just going into the house now with her husband.
:04:46. > :04:50.Hang on a second. It's really close, it's really close, hang on. The back
:04:51. > :04:56.of the house has gone. Don't get too close to that because that will be
:04:57. > :05:03.very unstable. What are we going to do now? SHE SOBS. Can't believe this
:05:04. > :05:09.is happening. What's happening now? What are you doing now? We don't
:05:10. > :05:14.know, because we're not prepared. For none of it. Where will you go
:05:15. > :05:22.tonight? Is there someone you can go? Well there's only, like, people
:05:23. > :05:25.that offered us somewhere to stay for the night. It must be
:05:26. > :05:29.heartbreaking for you to come back and find this. I mean, we didn't
:05:30. > :05:32.expect it to go like this. Can we go now, please? People from the village
:05:33. > :05:36.have come down to help Jackie and Steve move stuff out of their house
:05:37. > :05:39.before it goes over the edge. They're grabbing anything they can
:05:40. > :05:46.and getting it out of the house. The house just isn't safe. Get the table
:05:47. > :05:50.out the door. That's enough, guys. You need to prioritise now. The most
:05:51. > :05:55.important thing, you need to get out, now. They have now said that
:05:56. > :05:58.the house is not safe. They can actually hear it rocking at the
:05:59. > :06:05.back. Everyone's clearing the house, everyone's out, that's it. Just as
:06:06. > :06:06.we go, we see the floor lifting, and what was Jackie's neighbours house
:06:07. > :06:31.is carried away by the sea. Calm down, you will be all right.
:06:32. > :06:36.You'll be all right... The next day, we return to see the full extent of
:06:37. > :06:43.the damage. Jackie, what were looking at, it's just unreal. Yes,
:06:44. > :06:52.it was. It was the living room. What time did it go over last night? We
:06:53. > :06:55.don't know. I can't believe that is your house on the beach. I can't
:06:56. > :06:58.believe it, either. This is devastating. You and your husband
:06:59. > :07:02.have lost your home. Yes. We have lost everything now. To make matters
:07:03. > :07:06.worse, Jackie and Steve believe they're not covered by their home
:07:07. > :07:14.insurance. Three months on, the council is still considering plans
:07:15. > :07:17.to help them and other residents. One option is buying land to rebuild
:07:18. > :07:20.theirs and other lost houses, but that couldn't happen without
:07:21. > :07:25.extensive consultation and it would cost around ?200,000 just to develop
:07:26. > :07:32.the idea. Is there anything that can assist people if their home is near
:07:33. > :07:34.the edge? There is a thing called rollback, which basically means that
:07:35. > :07:37.local authorities, when there are houses close to falling into the
:07:38. > :07:38.sea, can give easier planning permission to actually buildanother
:07:39. > :07:45.house further back. Maybe they wouldn't get planning
:07:46. > :07:50.permission for that type of thing as a matter of course. So, there are
:07:51. > :07:54.these facilities, but if you look at where we are today, the rollback has
:07:55. > :07:56.been carrying on the rollback has been carrying on for some time,
:07:57. > :07:59.because there are actually people living there who have been rolled
:08:00. > :08:04.back three times. They've actually had three premises. You might think
:08:05. > :08:07.that, with their home`made sea defences not stopping the tidal
:08:08. > :08:10.surge, residents here might give up the fight, but it seems that what's
:08:11. > :08:18.happened has made them even more determined to battle on. That is a
:08:19. > :08:23.huge fear. We've got 100 feet of dunes lost the last 18 months. They
:08:24. > :08:27.are ever closer to the edge. If we get any more of the tide lapping at
:08:28. > :08:30.the base of the dunes, if we get another tidal surge, there will be
:08:31. > :08:34.another at least five homes going, then we got another 20 pretty much
:08:35. > :08:37.at danger after that. So, yes, they are very worried. They don't sleep
:08:38. > :08:41.well at all at the moment. There's nothing left of the Connollys' home
:08:42. > :08:48.now. It's all been cleared away. But, for Jackie and Steve, there's
:08:49. > :08:50.been some unexpected good news. The local council has managed to find
:08:51. > :08:55.them some accommodation here in Great Yarmouth.You're talking about
:08:56. > :09:00.your insurance. And what's happened with your financial situation? Well,
:09:01. > :09:07.the insurance people have paid up. They have? Yes, the insurance people
:09:08. > :09:12.have paid up. We were covered for a new build, weren't we? They got in
:09:13. > :09:17.touch with us. They said it was storm damage. And not coastal
:09:18. > :09:20.erosion. So, a different part of the clause, because it was storm damage
:09:21. > :09:24.and not coastal erosion? Exactly. You got the money. How much did you
:09:25. > :09:30.get? Altogether, they gave us 51,000. Who'd have thought it? Here
:09:31. > :09:33.you are, a few weeks ago, thinking you lost everything, and now you're
:09:34. > :09:37.about to embark on a new chapter. That's right. We've had an offer
:09:38. > :09:45.accepted on a property that we looked at. Up in Rotherham. Things
:09:46. > :09:48.have turned around now. And we're on a better footing, so to speak, now,
:09:49. > :09:51.aren't we? We got a place. And hopefully... Hopefully, that's the
:09:52. > :09:56.start of a new chapter. And we wish Steve and Jackie all the
:09:57. > :10:02.very best for the future. If you want to get in touch with me,
:10:03. > :10:11.I'm on Twitter... And you can send me anything you
:10:12. > :10:14.think that we should be looking at via e`mail.
:10:15. > :10:20.This is Inside Out for the East of England. Still to come on the
:10:21. > :10:23.programme, how this beautiful village of Grantchester helped to
:10:24. > :10:30.inspire one of the most famous poems of the First World War.
:10:31. > :10:34.Across the East, hundreds of families areHaving to live apart
:10:35. > :10:38.because of changes in immigration rules. The families say that the
:10:39. > :10:41.rules are unfair. And this week, the Court of Appeal will decide if they
:10:42. > :10:47.are right. Jo Taylor has been finding out what that means for
:10:48. > :10:53.parents and their children. Hiya! A lipstick!
:10:54. > :10:58.Atusha and Anna are desperate to see their Mum. They're one of hundreds
:10:59. > :11:00.of families torn apart by immigration rules they say are
:11:01. > :11:04.unfair. For eight months, the only way they've seen each other is over
:11:05. > :11:07.the Internet. I've known her for 12 years, we've been married for ten.
:11:08. > :11:09.She is the mother of my kids. I'm British, my children are British.
:11:10. > :11:14.They have the right to have their The school shirts. You've not seen
:11:15. > :11:23.them in their school shirts, have you? Farshid is back in the house in
:11:24. > :11:26.Cambridge where he grew up. He came home to look after his elderly
:11:27. > :11:29.mother. His wife is still in Thailand. I never thought this was
:11:30. > :11:35.going to happen. So, we said OK, I'll go first, with the kids. So we
:11:36. > :11:41.got the kids settled in. Got them acclimatised because Thailand's hot,
:11:42. > :11:45.it's a different climate here. So we can meet, because I got them to
:11:46. > :11:48.school before the summer holiday so they have four weeks at school, so
:11:49. > :11:52.they got to know the environment around them. And I was pretty sure
:11:53. > :11:56.that she was going to get a visa to come over. Never thought my wife
:11:57. > :12:04.would be stuck out there. I spoke to his wife over the Internet. That is
:12:05. > :12:09.hard. When my kids are saying about this, I have no answer, you know?
:12:10. > :12:14.They don't understand, and it is so hard to talk to them.
:12:15. > :12:31.I have thought maybe something had changed, and they could give the
:12:32. > :12:39.visa after six months. I just hoped, you know? That's what I wanted.
:12:40. > :12:42.Immigration rules are designed to limit the number of people coming
:12:43. > :12:46.into the country and keep unwanted people out. But we found thousands
:12:47. > :12:52.of ordinary families caught up in a system which, they say, isn't
:12:53. > :12:56.working. The rules say that spouses of British nationals can only settle
:12:57. > :12:59.in Britain if they have savings of ?62,500 or have been working for at
:13:00. > :13:05.least six months, earning at least ?18,600. Farshid's wife stayed in
:13:06. > :13:08.Thailand to sell their business. They thought that would be enough
:13:09. > :13:17.money to meet the immigration rules. But it wasn't. She applied for her
:13:18. > :13:22.visa which was, I think, the second week of September. And we had to
:13:23. > :13:25.wait two or three months to get a response from the British Embassy.
:13:26. > :13:32.And she was informed by letter that her visa has been put on hold. That
:13:33. > :13:35.was in mid`December, early December. And due to a financial requirement
:13:36. > :13:45.by immigration, that wathat was the reason they put her application. On
:13:46. > :13:48.hold. And also because I hadn't been earning enough money, not working
:13:49. > :13:52.prior to that. But the Government has to draw the line somewhere,
:13:53. > :13:58.though. I think the Government has to look at individual cases and not
:13:59. > :14:08.generalise the whole thing. There has to be some merit given to
:14:09. > :14:11.families who genuinely are a family. And who are married. With the money
:14:12. > :14:15.we had saved, we could have come with that money to the UK and
:14:16. > :14:17.invested in a small business and started something together. If the
:14:18. > :14:20.Government has this generalised rule for everybody, itdoesn't look at
:14:21. > :14:26.individuals, and they have to look at each case on its merits and judge
:14:27. > :14:31.it that way. Many people say the new minimum income rule of 18,600 is too
:14:32. > :14:38.high. Almost half of UK workers earn less than that and wouldn't qualify.
:14:39. > :14:49.The big issue that people face at the moment is the minimum income
:14:50. > :14:52.requirement of ?18,600. And I think it has generally been accepted now
:14:53. > :14:56.that it is appropriate to have some form of income requirement to make
:14:57. > :14:58.sure that people can support their family if they come to the UK
:14:59. > :15:03.without recourse to public funds. But ?18,600 is still a lot more than
:15:04. > :15:06.we expect people to live on, if they are on benefits. It's more than you
:15:07. > :15:09.would expect to receive if you did a normal working week for the national
:15:10. > :15:12.minimum wage. So it has been suggested that perhaps that figure
:15:13. > :15:20.should be set at a slightly lower level. She says she wants to help
:15:21. > :15:23.you. Do you see that? More than 16,000 spousal visas have been
:15:24. > :15:28.refused since the rules changed, but it's no comfort to Farshid to know
:15:29. > :15:31.that they are not the only family. And even when the rules have been
:15:32. > :15:37.met, mistakes prevent some families being together. This man is British
:15:38. > :15:40.and lives in Cambridge. He met his future wife on a visit to
:15:41. > :15:42.Bangladesh. Before marrying her, he checked the immigration rules to
:15:43. > :16:18.check that she could join him here. The judge in the case says that some
:16:19. > :16:20.of the casework have been mixed up and that mistakes have been made.
:16:21. > :16:34.How do you feel? It's not just the emotional impact
:16:35. > :16:37.on families that is a concern. Some academics have told us that the
:16:38. > :16:41.rules are putting them off and employers say they are losing
:16:42. > :16:49.world`class expertise. Simon Payne is chief executive of Cambridge
:16:50. > :16:52.Technology Group. If We have gone out and actually tried to find the
:16:53. > :16:56.best talent we could become to the UK to attract them to come to our
:16:57. > :17:02.universities, so there is an income earner, just there. And what
:17:03. > :17:05.actually happens is later on, that top talent is retained in the UK,
:17:06. > :17:13.where it goes into the workforce and then their parents are unable to
:17:14. > :17:16.visit. What sort of message do you think that would be sending back,
:17:17. > :17:19.where the parents would be saying to you, their neighbours, to relatives,
:17:20. > :17:22.about sending their children to the UK foreign education, if they were
:17:23. > :17:25.refused a visa to come and visit their child later on? The Home
:17:26. > :17:37.Office wouldn't be interviewed but told us...
:17:38. > :17:42.With the help of his MP, he's finally succeeded. Now his wife is
:17:43. > :18:10.with him in Cambridge, along with their baby girl.
:18:11. > :18:18.She says, are we going to go to the cinema? Yes, we will be here one
:18:19. > :18:22.day. Farshid is working now and says his wife would not be a burden. If
:18:23. > :18:26.my wife was here, she would be a burden to the state. She wouldn't be
:18:27. > :18:30.going to sign on or anything like that. She would be part of British
:18:31. > :18:34.society, she would contribute, she would work. And to provide for the
:18:35. > :18:37.family and take care of the girls as well. Last month, the family were
:18:38. > :18:40.reunited. On a two`week visit to Thailand. At last, after eight
:18:41. > :18:46.months, the girls could have their long`awaited hug with Mum. This
:18:47. > :18:50.week, the court of appeal will start to judge whether the rules need to
:18:51. > :19:01.change but, for now, the family have to make the most of this preciou
:19:02. > :19:05.moments together. `` precious. It is 100 years since the start of the
:19:06. > :19:11.First World War. None of those brave men who fought are a longer with us,
:19:12. > :19:14.but their stories live on. Grantchester was once home to one of
:19:15. > :19:28.the most famous authors of the time. Alex Tobin traces the story from
:19:29. > :19:32.this release to the front line. If I should die, think only this of me.
:19:33. > :19:54.That there is some corner of a foreign field that is for England ``
:19:55. > :19:57.for ever England. The Soldier, written by Rupert Brooke is one of
:19:58. > :20:01.the most famous poems from World War I. Written in 1914, it can tell us a
:20:02. > :20:04.lot about what people were thinking and feeling 100 years ago as war
:20:05. > :20:08.loomed. It's still recited today when we remember those who died and
:20:09. > :20:11.is still used in schools as a voice from a soldier not much older than
:20:12. > :20:14.these children. This is how well you are going to be wrapped up. What the
:20:15. > :20:23.soldiers have been thinking about in that line? Writing a letter to their
:20:24. > :20:26.family. The words of the poem are the memoirs of a dead solder,
:20:27. > :20:35.declaring his patriotism, and the sacrifice of soldiers on the battle
:20:36. > :20:45.front. Brooke wrote it before the full horror of war had hit home. The
:20:46. > :20:48.Old Vicarage at Granchester near in Cambridge where Brooke once lived is
:20:49. > :21:02.now the home of Mary and Jeffery Archer. But Brooke's memory is very
:21:03. > :21:05.much alive here. I first learned The Soldier at school, and I really fell
:21:06. > :21:11.in love with him, for the poetry, the pros, they were that he leaps
:21:12. > :21:15.off the page. Brooke loved the house. And to him it was everything
:21:16. > :21:20.that was the ideal England. It sympbolised what we were fighting to
:21:21. > :21:42.save. He wrote another poem about it ` the Old Vicarage, Granchester.
:21:43. > :21:44.Just now the lilac is in bloom, All before my little room; And in my
:21:45. > :22:02.flower`beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.
:22:03. > :22:08.His presence is very strong because of the poem, The Old Vicarage. In
:22:09. > :22:13.it, he talks with such affection about the house. The peacefulness of
:22:14. > :22:23.English life was abruptly broken in 1914. Brooke, like many others, saw
:22:24. > :22:28.the war as a chance for adventure and travel. Looking back, it was a
:22:29. > :22:31.romantic view of war. The Soldier was written in Berlin and is a love
:22:32. > :22:39.letter to England and a sonnet to his old home in Granchester. The
:22:40. > :22:45.Rupert Brooke society ` based in the village ` still celebrate and
:22:46. > :22:49.discuss his work. If the `` I think you see shadows of the old vicarage,
:22:50. > :23:05.Grantchester. It says a lot about the country and the soldier. He
:23:06. > :23:10.wrote it in December 1914. It was printed in the times, I think it
:23:11. > :23:21.was, at the time. And that hit a note with people. If I should die,
:23:22. > :23:25.think only this of me. That there is some corner of a foreign field that
:23:26. > :23:33.is for ever England. There shall be an act which Earth, a richer dust
:23:34. > :23:42.concealed. Dust from England bore, shape, made aware, they once had
:23:43. > :23:46.flowers tonight, a body of England's breathing English air,
:23:47. > :24:06.washed by the rivers, and the sons of home.
:24:07. > :24:11.And laughed alone to friends and gentleness, and hearts at these, and
:24:12. > :24:22.an English home. `` Hearts at peace. Other poets like Wilfred Owen and
:24:23. > :24:26.Siegfried Sassoon wrote of the horror of war. Unlike them, Brooke
:24:27. > :24:32.never fought in the trenches and his poem captured a different mood.
:24:33. > :24:38.Early drafts of the poem show it was originally titled The Recruit,
:24:39. > :24:42.suggesting more of a "call to arms". He did know what war was about.
:24:43. > :24:53.Sometimes he gets criticised because he did not live through The Somme.
:24:54. > :25:03.He did not get Siegfried Sassoonised. That is, disgusted with
:25:04. > :25:11.the war, and how it was conducted. Often in schools, they contrast it
:25:12. > :25:14.with the style of Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, but if you look at
:25:15. > :25:18.their work, that was written at the time, there's is exactly the same
:25:19. > :25:27.sentiment, it is just that they lived longer and saw the impact of
:25:28. > :25:33.the war. The soldier is the masterpiece amongst his five war
:25:34. > :25:36.sonnets and it has this extraordinary and uncanny prophecy
:25:37. > :25:43.that he would lie in some corner of a foreign field. Brooke died in
:25:44. > :25:44.Greece from a mosquito bite only a matter of weeks after writing The
:25:45. > :25:58.Soldier. The children from St Nicholas
:25:59. > :26:11.school, Harlow, have travelled to The Somme to see the battle ground
:26:12. > :26:18.for themselves. On July first, 1916, 60,000 men were killed or seriously
:26:19. > :26:21.injured in just one day. Brooke's words can still help connect them to
:26:22. > :26:26.what happened here Poetry is important. The poem talks about how
:26:27. > :26:34.the families were missed, and they were homesick. It is not a sad poem.
:26:35. > :26:42.It is more, he is looking on the brighter side of things, which is
:26:43. > :26:45.nice. For us, we cannot expand `` understand what they went through.
:26:46. > :26:56.Poetry is a good way to see what it was like. Difficult lives. Today the
:26:57. > :26:59.Somme is a stark, haunting place. Brooke's poem may not paint a
:27:00. > :27:03.picture of the horror of trench warfare but it is a reminder of the
:27:04. > :27:14.human cost and here it has an even greater sadness. If I should die,
:27:15. > :27:18.think only this of me. That there is some corner of a foreign field that
:27:19. > :27:42.is for ever England. There shall be in that rich earth, a richer dust
:27:43. > :27:51.concealed. And think, this heart, all evil shed away. A pulse in the
:27:52. > :27:55.eternal mind, no less. Gives somewhere back the thoughts by
:27:56. > :28:00.England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day. And
:28:01. > :28:09.laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness. In hearts at peace,
:28:10. > :28:12.under an English heaven. If you want if you want to find a more about
:28:13. > :28:20.what happened in the First World War in your area, you can go to the
:28:21. > :28:25.page. That is it for the programme. And the series. I will be back in
:28:26. > :28:30.the autumn. In the meantime, you can contact me on Twitter, or e`mail me.
:28:31. > :28:32.If you think there is something we should be doing a story about. Thank
:28:33. > :29:14.you for watching. See you Hello. The 92nd update. The Oscar
:29:15. > :29:20.Pistorius trial has begun in South Africa. He pleaded not guilty to
:29:21. > :29:28.murdering his girlfriend at his home last year. A neighbour said she had
:29:29. > :29:30.terrible screams on the night. Russia sends more soldiers