:00:00. > :00:00.From the price of food to cutting-edge science,
:00:00. > :00:08.what's already changing after the Brexit vote?
:00:09. > :00:12.We travel from Cambridgeshire to Poland with one of the UK's
:00:13. > :00:21.People may think our farming can't move,
:00:22. > :00:27.Some will say, it's more fertile, this region of Poland.
:00:28. > :00:29.The weather's better, and we have the water,
:00:30. > :00:31.and we just have to move the machinery.
:00:32. > :00:36.The innovators in Cambridge ensuring the future.
:00:37. > :00:39.What kind of money are we talking about here?
:00:40. > :00:45.It will be tens of millions by next year.
:00:46. > :00:47.You will be investing tens of millions of pounds,
:00:48. > :00:49.just your venture capitalist firm, in Cambridge?
:00:50. > :01:00.How one community responded after a Romanian shop was attacked.
:01:01. > :01:05.When we saw all this help, it was like the changed our minds.
:01:06. > :01:09.We said, we have to stay here, people love us here.
:01:10. > :01:12.Revealing the stories that matter, closer to home.
:01:13. > :01:27.Hello, welcome to the start of the new series.
:01:28. > :01:31.I'm in Ely in Cambridgeshird, on the River Great Ouse.
:01:32. > :01:33.Now, it's been nearly three months since the country
:01:34. > :01:36.There's been all kinds of speculation
:01:37. > :01:40.We're going to find out what is already happening
:01:41. > :01:45.First, Anna Hill takes us on a journey from fields
:01:46. > :01:47.here in Ely to Poland, with one of the UK's
:01:48. > :01:53.They are wasting no time in ensuring the future of their business.
:01:54. > :01:59.I'm Anna Hill, and I've been reporting on farming for thd BBC
:02:00. > :02:06.I'm not really how things are going to pan out
:02:07. > :02:11.Big growers like G's have f`ced years adapting to whatever
:02:12. > :02:17.But now with the latest and one of the biggest challenges,
:02:18. > :02:20.I am here to find out how it affects them as the grower
:02:21. > :02:26.John Shropshire and his famhly have been farming in East Anglia
:02:27. > :02:32.His attention to detail has brought success.
:02:33. > :02:35.He owns G's, the biggest producer in the country of salad crops,
:02:36. > :02:41.delivering a billion lettucds to our supermarkets every ydar.
:02:42. > :02:45.As well as Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, John also farms in Spain
:02:46. > :02:51.and Poland, so the decision to leave the EU is a game changer for him.
:02:52. > :02:53.Well, Anna, we have about 24% of the UK's lettuce crop
:02:54. > :02:56.that we are growing and this is Iceberg.
:02:57. > :02:58.It's looking very good at the moment.
:02:59. > :03:03.When we are talking about the changes in the European Union
:03:04. > :03:06.and because we voted to leave the European Union, you might lose
:03:07. > :03:14.How much difference is that going to make to your busindss?
:03:15. > :03:18.I think losing the single m`rket is fundamentally the single biggest
:03:19. > :03:27.risk, I think, from Brexit because it is a highly compdtitive
:03:28. > :03:30.market, so we've got a lot of competition driving pricds down
:03:31. > :03:35.we have actually got rid of the customs, we have got rid
:03:36. > :03:36.of loads of paperwork, huge amounts of bureaucracy,
:03:37. > :03:40.stacks of people in offices, government officials
:03:41. > :03:46.inspecting every load - the list goes on and on that it's saved.
:03:47. > :03:49.We joined the single market 24 years ago.
:03:50. > :03:54.In 1992, we made a film abott G s as they were getting ready for it.
:03:55. > :03:59.The changes then were about to cause upheaval for farming.
:04:00. > :04:01.An open Europe created access to a market of millions
:04:02. > :04:12.and the free movement of people to come and work here in thd UK
:04:13. > :04:13.Back then, John used Polish agricultural students
:04:14. > :04:17.In 1992, we asked him about his farm's prospects.
:04:18. > :04:20.How do you see the future for Shropshire's both for this
:04:21. > :04:25.It is going to get quite totgh I think farming in general
:04:26. > :04:29.is going to get more compethtive and difficult, but there
:04:30. > :04:32.are tremendous opportunities and I tink we will continue to grow
:04:33. > :04:37.and that growth will be basdd on exports to the whole of Durope.
:04:38. > :04:40.I'm interested to see if John is as optimistic now
:04:41. > :04:50.So, John, how do you see the future for G's now?
:04:51. > :04:52.Well, following Brexit, we have an uncertain world
:04:53. > :04:56.so we don't really know what it is going to look like,
:04:57. > :04:59.but we are very well placed to tackle to any scenario
:05:00. > :05:02.the Government chooses for ts because we are farming in Poland,
:05:03. > :05:04.we are farming in Spain, and we are now farming
:05:05. > :05:12.So we can adapt to whatever scenario we are faced with.
:05:13. > :05:15.There is no doubt that G's can change with the times.
:05:16. > :05:19.But John thinks, unlike joining the single market 24 years `go,
:05:20. > :05:24.the decisions he will have to make now may have a downside.
:05:25. > :05:27.Over the years, the price of our lettuces has been gohng down,
:05:28. > :05:29.partly due to Europe's single market,
:05:30. > :05:33.and because our supermarkets have demanded lower and lower prhces
:05:34. > :05:38.And John has been able to chart the cost over the years.
:05:39. > :05:41.You've agreed to reveal to us the actual figures
:05:42. > :05:44.of how much you get paid for an iceberg lettuce,
:05:45. > :05:47.and how much that has changed over the years.
:05:48. > :05:53.Well, this shows, over 25 years, how the pricd -
:05:54. > :05:56.adjusted for inflation and currency - has basically halved
:05:57. > :06:00.So we can see about ?1 here in 992, going down to 50p now.
:06:01. > :06:10.So if the freedom of the single market, supplying to millions
:06:11. > :06:16.what happens to the price of that iceberg lettuce?
:06:17. > :06:18.Well, it's inevitable it's going to go up.
:06:19. > :06:22.It's got to go up because all those savings have been passed
:06:23. > :06:30.The consumer's had extraordhnary benefit from this.
:06:31. > :06:32.To keep costs down, the big issue for G's here
:06:33. > :06:37.and the solution may be a radical one.
:06:38. > :06:39.If we can't bring the peopld to the work,
:06:40. > :06:42.we will have to take the work to the people.
:06:43. > :06:46.So that rig there, we load ht on a lorry and take it to Poland.
:06:47. > :06:56.I am well placed - I can do what the government want me to do.
:06:57. > :07:00.If the price of a lettuce is going to end up being higher
:07:01. > :07:03.here in the UK, growing mord of them 1,000 miles away
:07:04. > :07:12.John's son, Henry, runs the farm here in Cieslin in Poland.
:07:13. > :07:31.In fact, Henry started on his post-Brexit plan
:07:32. > :07:37.We immediately, within a wedk, saw the opportunity.
:07:38. > :07:46.And it's one that we will really grab on to.
:07:47. > :07:51.We have already started to find more landlords here to rent land.
:07:52. > :07:53.The UK consumers, when it comes down to it,
:07:54. > :07:56.it's all about price and, at this point,
:07:57. > :08:00.we will never be able to deliver the price
:08:01. > :08:03.that they expect for UK-grown produce onto
:08:04. > :08:07.It's impossible, because with post-Brexit,
:08:08. > :08:11.there are question marks ovdr the free movement of people
:08:12. > :08:17.and that's a in itself is a deal breaker.
:08:18. > :08:20.If we can't get the people to harvest, that's it, that's over.
:08:21. > :08:23.That's why we will be coming here, we will be able to move
:08:24. > :08:25.the land to the people, move the management here,
:08:26. > :08:29.move the machines here and then start supplying into the UK
:08:30. > :08:33.and giving what the UK constmer wants - and that's a cheap,
:08:34. > :08:35.fresh, good-quality product which is what we will be able
:08:36. > :08:40.The land in this part of Poland is just as fertile
:08:41. > :08:48.Today, Henry is meeting his technician
:08:49. > :09:08.The soil is black, like the soil in the Fens.
:09:09. > :09:18.There's a lot of moisture still in this soil, even
:09:19. > :09:28.There are plans to expand, and Henry is meeting a local farmer
:09:29. > :09:32.who's growing beans on this field, but is happy to rent it to G's
:09:33. > :09:38.I think this is perfect land to grow celery on,
:09:39. > :09:41.and we are metres from the factory where we will be able
:09:42. > :09:45.to vacuum, cool and dispatch straight to customers.
:09:46. > :09:48.So a short distance from thd time it is cut to the time
:09:49. > :09:58.A manager on Henry's farm can translate for them.
:09:59. > :10:19.It is crucial that G's invest for the future.
:10:20. > :10:22.We are pushing our UK marketing team to start to introduce a Polhsh
:10:23. > :10:31.So, yes, we have started ramping it up.
:10:32. > :10:33.We have started bringing more machinery from the UK.
:10:34. > :10:37.So all we have to do put it on a lorry and bring it herd.
:10:38. > :10:39.You know, people may think farming can't move,
:10:40. > :10:45.The land is actually, some will say, more fertile
:10:46. > :10:49.The weather is better and we have the water -
:10:50. > :10:57.which we may not have in thd UK in two or three years' time.
:10:58. > :11:01.The move to the single markdt all those years ago created
:11:02. > :11:09.The changes now could transform farming for companies like G's.
:11:10. > :11:11.Well, it's clear that big producers will have
:11:12. > :11:16.to adapt to survive and it might just mean us shoppers
:11:17. > :11:22.Or, who knows, we might end up getting
:11:23. > :11:31.Look, now we're back on air, it s always great to hear from you if
:11:32. > :11:34.there's something to think we should be looking into.
:11:35. > :11:43.You're watching Inside Out for the East of England,
:11:44. > :11:49.Later on, ?30,000 for the rdmaining family whose shop was attacked.
:11:50. > :11:58.The Fens of Cambridgeshire are the breadbasket of Brit`in.
:11:59. > :12:00.But, if you carry on along this river,
:12:01. > :12:04.the centre for some of the world's most cutting,edge
:12:05. > :12:08.What happens there affects all of us, doesn't it?
:12:09. > :12:12.to the microchips in our mobile phones.
:12:13. > :12:16.So will life outside the EU burst the bubble?
:12:17. > :12:23.The high-tech industry in C`mbridge generates millions of pounds
:12:24. > :12:29.in business and employs of thousands of people.
:12:30. > :12:31.Before the referendum, some scientists expressed concern
:12:32. > :12:35.that leaving Europe could ldad to a cut in valuable grants
:12:36. > :12:41.and also lead to restrictions on the movement of staff.
:12:42. > :12:44.Here in Cambridge, nearly three quarters of those
:12:45. > :12:52.So have the fears of those who wanted to stay been realised?
:12:53. > :12:55.Astex Pharmaceuticals are world leaders in using cutting-edge
:12:56. > :12:58.technology to develop new w`ys to fight cancer.
:12:59. > :13:02.The company was set up by a former graduate of Cambridge University.
:13:03. > :13:06.Harren Jhoti also represents pharmaceutical companies nationally.
:13:07. > :13:09.If you want to gauge the mood of the industry he's
:13:10. > :13:18.I'd not being truthful if I said that there is no worry.
:13:19. > :13:21.But, of course, scientists `re very entrepreneurial and very crdative,
:13:22. > :13:24.so we are continuing to look for the best route forward
:13:25. > :13:32.Have you seen any tangible dvidence of detrimental affects,
:13:33. > :13:34.of people coming to work here, to work for your company?
:13:35. > :13:42.Yes, we've had quite an immddiate impact following the Brexit vote -
:13:43. > :13:44.a world-leading scientist we were trying to hire
:13:45. > :13:47.from a pharmaceutical company based in San Francisco.
:13:48. > :13:52.We had interviewed the person, he was a German national
:13:53. > :13:55.who was keen to come and work here, but he did say that if therd
:13:56. > :14:00.was a Brexit vote, to leave, he would have to reconsider.
:14:01. > :14:03.The following couple of days afterwards, he informed us that
:14:04. > :14:06.he's not going to come, fundamentally because he felt
:14:07. > :14:09.that it was just too uncert`in and environment for him
:14:10. > :14:14.You must remember, these people have many choices,
:14:15. > :14:17.they have many offers from ` lot of companies around the world.
:14:18. > :14:23.So I suspect that he just fdlt it was a risk he didn't need to take.
:14:24. > :14:25.But it's not just a case of attracting talented
:14:26. > :14:30.Many scientists are worried that leaving Europe could remove
:14:31. > :14:36.Such money has real practic`l implications for people likd
:14:37. > :14:41.nine-year-old Felix, who suffers from Type 1 diabetes.
:14:42. > :14:44.Any major problems or issues over the last couple of months?
:14:45. > :14:48.No, it's all been pretty st`ble and flat and OK.
:14:49. > :14:52.Felix, so what's it like for you as a nine-year,old
:14:53. > :14:59.It's really difficult, because sometimes I can't do
:15:00. > :15:02.what other children my age are doing.
:15:03. > :15:05.The condition causes the pancreas to stop producing sufficient insulin
:15:06. > :15:12.For many, treatment involves regular insulin injections.
:15:13. > :15:16.This is a real challenge, particularly for young children
:15:17. > :15:17.But now researchers here at Addenbrookes Hospital
:15:18. > :15:21.have come up with what they believe is a solution.
:15:22. > :15:23.And we can exclusively reve`l that they've been given
:15:24. > :15:30.the first major award from the EU since Britain voted to leavd.
:15:31. > :15:33.1.6 million euros has been given to the Cambridge Metabolic Research
:15:34. > :15:37.laboratory to fund ground-breaking work on developing
:15:38. > :15:45.So the sensor is attached to the body, it reads glucose
:15:46. > :15:48.values, the information is sent to the mobile phone,
:15:49. > :15:52.which calculates how much insulin should be given,
:15:53. > :15:56.and automatically will tell the insulin pumps how
:15:57. > :16:00.If the glucose is too high, it will give more insulin.
:16:01. > :16:03.If it is too low, it will stop giving insulin.
:16:04. > :16:07.How important was it to get European funding for this?
:16:08. > :16:10.It was essential to move the research to be used
:16:11. > :16:16.We've done studies in older children and adults,
:16:17. > :16:20.but we didn't have the fundhng or the support to move it into this
:16:21. > :16:21.category of smaller children, where this research
:16:22. > :16:26.You got this funding post the Brexit result -
:16:27. > :16:32.I was beyond surprised for a number of reasons.
:16:33. > :16:45.Also, post-Brexit, I thought our chances would be lower.
:16:46. > :16:48.If people want to invest in the science you're working on,
:16:49. > :16:50.than they would surely give you those grants?
:16:51. > :16:53.One of the good things about European funding is that it
:16:54. > :16:56.provides funding for collaboration with multiple European partners
:16:57. > :16:59.There is not so much funding that allows you to do so.
:17:00. > :17:02.Clinical trials, where we c`n do studies, we can test against humans,
:17:03. > :17:05.is really essential so we can generalise.
:17:06. > :17:07.That funding might be difficult to find now.
:17:08. > :17:11.What kind of difference would this make to your lifd,
:17:12. > :17:18.It would make such a differdnce because I've heard there were
:17:19. > :17:24.It's in study at the moment, and I really, really want one.
:17:25. > :17:27.To have stable blood sugars overnight would make
:17:28. > :17:30.such a difference, and mean that he could go off off
:17:31. > :17:33.and play with friends, go to grandparents, other rdlations
:17:34. > :17:39.For now, European funding is still available,
:17:40. > :17:46.Right now, Cambridge businesses are already looking elsewhere.
:17:47. > :17:48.Cambridge has a number of high-tech business parks
:17:49. > :17:53.Owned by the University of Cambridge, it's become a magnet
:17:54. > :17:58.for cutting-edge research and technology companies.
:17:59. > :18:00.Claire Ruskin heads the Cambridge Network -
:18:01. > :18:03.it's an organisation which promotes the majority of technology
:18:04. > :18:08.Businesses can't stop and worry about this too much.
:18:09. > :18:15.They'll have to adapt and change, they have to move quite quickly
:18:16. > :18:22.They have to get the best pdople in from around the world.
:18:23. > :18:24.Those might be from Europe, they might be local,
:18:25. > :18:28.And if we can't reassure those people they can stay
:18:29. > :18:31.in the businesses they are hn, then we will have a problem.
:18:32. > :18:34.We're still very confident in Cambridge.
:18:35. > :18:39.Cambridge is a world-class source of products and services.
:18:40. > :18:45.We need to reassure the people who work here, in all areas -
:18:46. > :18:51.health care, education, sochal services, as well as the world class
:18:52. > :18:54.technology companies, that we are open for business
:18:55. > :19:00.One of the successes of the Cambridge Network has been
:19:01. > :19:04.Today, he's visiting a number of small high-tech
:19:05. > :19:09.If he likes what he sees, his venture capital company
:19:10. > :19:14.could invest millions to help them grow.
:19:15. > :19:20.Can you see this being a positive thing, coming out of Europe?
:19:21. > :19:24.To be perfectly honest, I won't see it as a positivd,
:19:25. > :19:26.but I won't see it as a negative at all because,
:19:27. > :19:30.from our perspective, we haven't seen any influence yet.
:19:31. > :19:35.Because we are a venture capitalist fund - the most important thing
:19:36. > :19:39.for our investment is looking to the technology itself.
:19:40. > :19:44.But technology has nothing to do with Europe and this kind of stuff.
:19:45. > :19:49.So as long as it is good technology, we will always invest.
:19:50. > :19:52.So do you think that as long as Cambridge continues
:19:53. > :19:54.to have the reputation, continues to have the peopld
:19:55. > :19:56.of excellence working here, it will attract internation`l
:19:57. > :20:04.Yes, I can see the trend - more and more operators,
:20:05. > :20:10.I see my peers and myself and my friends coming
:20:11. > :20:16.What kind of money are we t`lking about here, in the millions?
:20:17. > :20:18.Millions yes, actually we are increasing that.
:20:19. > :20:21.It will be tens of millions from next year.
:20:22. > :20:23.You will be investing tens of millions of pounds,
:20:24. > :20:25.just your venture capitalist firm, in Cambridge?
:20:26. > :20:31.That's incredible, that's a real commitment,
:20:32. > :20:34.and showing confidence in what Cambridge has to offer.
:20:35. > :20:44.So at least one investor is very optimistic about the future,
:20:45. > :20:47.but businesses here aren't being complacent
:20:48. > :20:49.and, in the true Cambridge spirit, they're innovating and adapting
:20:50. > :21:00.More than 3,000 hate crimes were reported in England,
:21:01. > :21:03.Wales and Northern Ireland during the last two weeks of June,
:21:04. > :21:08.That's 40% higher than the same time last year.
:21:09. > :21:11.But, since the vote, there's also been lots of stpport
:21:12. > :21:13.for people from other countries living here.
:21:14. > :21:16.As one Romanian family in Norwich found
:21:17. > :21:32.It is 6am, July 8th, 15 days after the Brexit vote.
:21:33. > :21:34.The owner of a shop in Norwhch is woken by a phone
:21:35. > :21:44.I couldn't really understand everything.
:21:45. > :21:47.She was come here, there is something going on and then
:21:48. > :21:52.she was calling again, she was like I'm shocked,
:21:53. > :22:06.Our soul, our money, everything inside this shop.
:22:07. > :22:09.I can't believe that someond did this, because it was on purpose
:22:10. > :22:19.A week later, I meet Andreaa at the shop.
:22:20. > :22:22.So basically here is where everything happened
:22:23. > :22:25.The police believe it was a deliberate act
:22:26. > :22:34.It was some petrol, he just pour everything through the door and
:22:35. > :22:44.He threw the match and then he run out.
:22:45. > :22:48.And then in, say, two or three seconds, the fire went boom.
:22:49. > :22:57.The moment when he put the latch in front of his face,
:22:58. > :23:15.The attack came just hours after an anti-Brexit rally was held
:23:16. > :23:18.in Norwich and although there's no proof that this was a racist attack,
:23:19. > :23:21.local people immediately responded with an outpouring of support.
:23:22. > :23:24.So I've been reading some of the messages that some
:23:25. > :23:27.of the people of Norwich have come here to write on the shop
:23:28. > :23:35.window that's boarded up because of the attack.
:23:36. > :23:44.Very simple, this one, All welcome in Norwich.
:23:45. > :23:48.Just a few hours it took for these messages to be pinned up and more
:23:49. > :23:53.because we wanted to actually see what the response had been.
:23:54. > :23:56.Which messages are your favourite?
:23:57. > :24:01.Although it wasn't us or thd people who wrote that, that did it,
:24:02. > :24:03.it's still you feel somewhat responsible because you livd
:24:04. > :24:10.in the same city as people who may be racist.
:24:11. > :24:12.But, yeah, to apologise on their behalf I think
:24:13. > :24:22.And Andreaa has been bowled over by the support.
:24:23. > :24:25.I love you, and there at thd door, we love you Andreaa,
:24:26. > :24:32.don't make good people, behaviour does, that's so true.
:24:33. > :24:36.It's enough to make Andreaa and her mother decide to st`y.
:24:37. > :24:40.At the beginning we said, maybe we'll just close
:24:41. > :24:43.the shop and that's it, if people don't want us herd.
:24:44. > :24:45.Or I don't know, the guy that did it I guess
:24:46. > :24:50.But then we saw all this help, we changed our mind,
:24:51. > :24:53.we said, we'll have to stay here, people love us here,
:24:54. > :24:57.we'll stay here, we'll fix everything and we'll open the shop.
:24:58. > :25:03.Opening the shop is going to take some work, though.
:25:04. > :25:06.Over 20 volunteers turned up to help clear the rubbish.
:25:07. > :25:08.They brought everything that we needed, they brought
:25:09. > :25:11.cars to put the rubbish, you can see here we had
:25:12. > :25:29.The shop has no insurance but there's more help at hand.
:25:30. > :25:34.Down the road, shopkeeper Hdlen Lineham is so shocked, she sets
:25:35. > :25:36.up a Just Giving page to raise some money to get
:25:37. > :25:45.But in just six days, it has well exceeded that.
:25:46. > :26:00.It's very different from the target, isn't it?
:26:01. > :26:03.And so is this just a coupld of really rich people giving
:26:04. > :26:08.I mean, we have, look we can see here people have donated ?5, ?1 ,
:26:09. > :26:13.Helen's actions have encountered some criticism too.
:26:14. > :26:20.I had a response to say, there's no way this would h`ppen
:26:21. > :26:23.if it was a British shop, it would have just been brushed over,
:26:24. > :26:26.but I beg to differ because I would like to think that
:26:27. > :26:32.if it had happened to my shop then the street would rally round.
:26:33. > :26:45.First I want to say a big thank you to Miss Helen.
:26:46. > :26:48.And with the money we'll usd them to repair the shop,
:26:49. > :26:51.we have to replace the floor, we have to repaint, we need
:26:52. > :26:54.a new window, as you can sed, and the rest of the money
:26:55. > :26:57.we want to donate here in Norwich, because we want to give
:26:58. > :26:59.something back to the city, because they helped us,
:27:00. > :27:05.Work to get the shop back in business gathers pace ovdr
:27:06. > :27:08.the next few weeks - the window is repaired, the door fixed
:27:09. > :27:11.Thanks to the community, just five weeks after the attack,
:27:12. > :27:21.Today, all customers are given free cake as a thank you.
:27:22. > :27:24.The man who set the shop on fire hasn't yet been caught but this
:27:25. > :27:26.experience has taught Andre`a to be optimistic,
:27:27. > :27:38.The only thing I can say is that everything you do in life
:27:39. > :27:47.comes back, even if it's good or bad, it comes back.
:27:48. > :27:58.That's it for this week. We will be on don't until -- on until the end
:27:59. > :28:01.of October. Next week, plastic is poisoning our oceans. How b`d is it?
:28:02. > :28:09.Or I will be looking at exclusive research. Goodbye. Also next week,
:28:10. > :28:14.can doing up houses help stop prisoners reoffending? People will
:28:15. > :28:20.say, available at never changes his spots. Well, he does. And wd take a
:28:21. > :28:23.peek at Princess Diana's Norfolk birthplace and its new life as a
:28:24. > :29:05.hotel for people with disabhlities. That's next Monday.
:29:06. > :29:08.Hello, I'm Riz Lateef, with your 90-second update.