:00:09. > :00:12.Hello and welcome to Inside Out Southwest. Stories from where you
:00:12. > :00:18.live. Tonight, we are on patrol in
:00:18. > :00:23.Torquay with the emergency service that is powered by prayer. The day
:00:23. > :00:32.you are not shocked by what you see, you should stop doing it.
:00:32. > :00:36.Also tonight, the south-west victims of internet bullying.
:00:36. > :00:39.I got home that night and it was all over Facebook, she's a Taxi,
:00:39. > :00:44.she is dirty, she is not washed. And can David Stafford master a
:00:44. > :00:47.traditional craft in north Devon? This is not going to be funny. I am
:00:48. > :00:57.really going to do it. I am Sam Smith and this is Inside
:00:58. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:05.They're an alternative emergency service equipped with prayer, and
:01:05. > :01:15.some pink flip flops. Inside Out spent the weekend in Torquay with
:01:15. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:34.This is a new world tonight. Lord, we go out in your name. We are
:01:34. > :01:41.
:01:41. > :01:44.doing work that has never been done Father, as we work to help the
:01:44. > :01:54.different agencies in the community - the police, the council, the
:01:54. > :02:09.
:02:09. > :02:15.We are there to get outside the four walls of the Church and put
:02:15. > :02:18.our faith into practice. And if we can make somebody's life or their
:02:18. > :02:27.night safer and ensure that they get home safely, albeit in an
:02:27. > :02:33.Friday night and a new mission for Ros Ede and her team - opening the
:02:33. > :02:39.public toilets at night for the first time. That's a good place to
:02:39. > :02:48.put the tip box as well. The shop owners are upset because they use
:02:48. > :02:51.the doorways of shops to pee. It is very unpleasant. Especially if
:02:51. > :02:55.we're dealing with somebody in a doorway, you do not know what is
:02:55. > :02:58.going on. We asked the Council if we could have the toilets open. The
:02:58. > :03:03.pastors are linked by radio to police, doormen and the town's CCTV
:03:03. > :03:12.operators. Since they started in 2008, they've dealt with more than
:03:12. > :03:19.2,000 incidents. We had one woman come up and say thank you for
:03:19. > :03:22.saving my life. Her husband had left her with two children, one of
:03:22. > :03:26.whom is autistic, and she did not feel as if she could carry on. She
:03:26. > :03:30.came here to finish her life, to get drunk and end it all. But she
:03:30. > :03:33.met her team and somebody sat and talked with her. She came back and
:03:33. > :03:43.thanked us for saving her life. We don't know the consequences of what
:03:43. > :03:52.
:03:53. > :03:56.we do. These guys, at this time of night, they came round. Give you
:03:56. > :04:06.coffee to keep you warm. I know they are dealing a lot with young
:04:06. > :04:23.
:04:23. > :04:33.drunken people. Where are you going We are local people. It has been
:04:33. > :04:34.
:04:34. > :04:43.nice and peaceful. We do have people praying for peace. How are
:04:43. > :04:50.the toilets? They're fine. The last inspection, they were fine and that
:04:50. > :04:55.is good news .. I can be like... I can be like a... It's early
:04:55. > :04:58.Saturday night and the walking wounded are already arriving. Up
:04:58. > :05:05.the street, 18-year-old Ashley is in trouble. He's been in a fight
:05:05. > :05:08.and has hurt his knee. He's brought back to the safe place a converted
:05:08. > :05:13.van that the pastors park on the harbourside. It's a refuge for
:05:13. > :05:20.anyone who needs help. It's going to get more painful. I think you
:05:20. > :05:23.should go home. If it wasn't for these guys, he would still be
:05:23. > :05:33.sitting over there. He would be waiting for an ambulance. Thank God
:05:33. > :05:38.
:05:38. > :05:48.these guys are here. Are you going to go home now? I am going to sit
:05:48. > :06:02.
:06:02. > :06:05.Now you have nowhere to stay? If the temperature drops to zero, they
:06:05. > :06:15.will take you in. It's about six degrees at the moment. John spent
:06:15. > :06:22.
:06:22. > :06:26.last night in a car park. Now he's back on the street. The next
:06:26. > :06:30.casualty is a girl who says she is 18. A lot of people drink too much,
:06:31. > :06:35.don't they? It's a safe environment for them to either sober up or get
:06:35. > :06:40.home or get an ambulance. I done it myself when I was younger. Fair
:06:40. > :06:46.play to them, as long as they don't act too silly and start fights.
:06:46. > :06:54.Within minutes of having said goodbye, Ashley is back. We pinch
:06:54. > :06:56.the ears and twist his hair to see if we can get a response. But we
:06:56. > :07:02.were getting no response. Because of that, we have called an
:07:02. > :07:07.ambulance. I've got children and grandchildren who I would not want
:07:07. > :07:11.to see in that position, the position some of these kids are.
:07:11. > :07:14.It's good to have somebody out here looking after them. While one team
:07:14. > :07:18.deals with Ashley, the other helps a young man who appears to be the
:07:18. > :07:24.worse for drink. Last year, Torbay had the biggest rise in alcohol
:07:24. > :07:33.related hospital admissions in the south-west. When they're very young,
:07:33. > :07:38.yes, it distressing. The day you're not shocked by what you're seeing,
:07:38. > :07:42.you should stop doing it. The pastors' presence seems to have
:07:42. > :07:49.a calming effect on the streets. Since they started, Saturday night
:07:49. > :07:53.crime in Torquay has fallen by more than 30 per cent. We are not
:07:53. > :08:03.confrontational, we're not trying to enforce any kind of law. We are
:08:03. > :08:03.
:08:03. > :08:13.mums and dads, grans and grandads. Thank you so much. Stay safe.
:08:13. > :08:14.
:08:14. > :08:24.What shocks you most about what you see? Parents who don't care. Being
:08:24. > :08:32.a parent myself, I can't understand that. How you can give birth to
:08:32. > :08:42.your son or daughter and not care. The pastors have become well known
:08:42. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:57.I'll give you some money for these. If they end up in A&E with a cut
:08:57. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:11.foot, that costs, I have been told, Back at their prayer base, the
:09:11. > :09:17.pastors receive a call for help. The young lady outside now. Just
:09:17. > :09:26.round the corner. It is 2am and a 31 year-old man has been found in a
:09:26. > :09:32.I'm just going to check your pockets to make sure you have a
:09:32. > :09:35.wallet. The first thing we have done this evening is called the
:09:35. > :09:43.Street Pastors who normally help us in this sort of situation to free
:09:43. > :09:49.up some emergency services time. But he is too much in drink to be
:09:49. > :09:59.of any help. If we can't get him sorted out, the police will take
:09:59. > :10:09.
:10:09. > :10:11.matters into their own hands. Try to find out where he's been
:10:11. > :10:14.drinking. They don't like places that continue serving alcohol to
:10:14. > :10:17.people when they have had too much to drink. A little bit cold.
:10:17. > :10:21.Waiting for the ambulance. He hasn't got anyone at home so we
:10:21. > :10:26.have to call for an ambulance to take care of him. The pastors'
:10:26. > :10:35.shift ends at 4 am. Tying up loose ends. You check yours and we will
:10:35. > :10:43.check ours. I'm not as young as I was. Some nights, it can be quite
:10:43. > :10:53.tiring. I think tonight was quite challenging. But we've had a lot of
:10:53. > :10:55.
:10:55. > :11:00.good times as well. So it's been worthwhile. Ashley was treated and
:11:00. > :11:04.eventually went home with friends. But two casualties of the night
:11:04. > :11:07.went to hospital. The pastors will probably never know what happened
:11:07. > :11:10.to them, but they are determined to persevere with prayer and practical
:11:10. > :11:13.help. There's no such thing as retirement in the Bible. I've
:11:13. > :11:23.looked for it. It doesn't happen. So as long as we're needed, we'll
:11:23. > :11:23.
:11:23. > :12:05.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:12:05. > :12:08.If you know who is doing the bullying, you can probably do
:12:08. > :12:16.something about it. But what if the abuse is anonymous? We've been
:12:16. > :12:19.investigating. My name is Dawn, this is Sarah. We teach young
:12:19. > :12:22.people on safety issues. We are here today to show you what can
:12:22. > :12:32.happen to people who have been cyber bullied. An internet safety
:12:32. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:41.workshop in Bovey Tracy. And a stark reminder of the dangers of
:12:41. > :12:51.online abuse. Pictures of five young people whose suicides have
:12:51. > :13:01.
:13:01. > :13:05.been linked to so-called cyber bullying. It's not like it was in
:13:05. > :13:08.the old days when, if anybody was starting on anybody, it would be
:13:08. > :13:11.face to face, in the classroom or the playground. Cyberbullying is
:13:11. > :13:14.such an easy way to target somebody. I don't want to be around the
:13:14. > :13:17.racist comments, seeing people in the town saying, there's that girl.
:13:17. > :13:27.Jade Sarwar was cyber-bullied after being assaulted by a girl in Newton
:13:27. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:34.Abbott. I got home that night and it was all over Facebook. She
:13:34. > :13:42.called me a Taxi. And because I didn't reply, she got other people
:13:42. > :13:45.involved. I showed my mum it. I was crying because there was stuff they
:13:45. > :13:49.were saying that I didn't like. They were going on about, she's
:13:49. > :13:56.dirty, she doesn't wash, the colour of her skin. Loads of people got
:13:56. > :13:59.involved. There was 19 pages of it. Jade went to the police. The
:13:59. > :14:02.teenagers who posted the abuse trolling as it's known ended up in
:14:02. > :14:05.court. Magistrates said they were deeply concerned by the cyber-
:14:05. > :14:13.bullying and gave referral orders to the five girls responsible.
:14:13. > :14:16.first, I was nervous about going to the police. But it was a good thing
:14:16. > :14:20.because they dealt with it straightaway and made a good job of
:14:20. > :14:23.it. If I hadn't gone, I don't know what would have happened now.
:14:23. > :14:25.knew who the bullies were because their postings were on Facebook,
:14:25. > :14:27.which discourages anonymous and abusive postings. But unlike
:14:27. > :14:33.Facebook, there are social networking sites where people are
:14:33. > :14:40.allowed to be faceless. Sites like Little Gossip. I don't see the
:14:40. > :14:42.point of it. Nobody posts anything nice about anybody on it. It's not
:14:42. > :14:45.like Facebook or Twitter where there are in interaction tools. It
:14:45. > :14:48.is spiteful and pointless really. Now studying in France, Bianca
:14:48. > :14:55.Coughlin was in her second year at Exeter University when she
:14:55. > :14:58.discovered she was on Little Gossip. It was referring to my reputation
:14:58. > :15:08.and how promiscuous I had been, which I hadn't! It wasn't very
:15:08. > :15:09.
:15:09. > :15:12.flattering. It must have seemed like a private joke to the people
:15:12. > :15:17.who posted about their friends, but it would not be funny for parents
:15:17. > :15:25.or an employer. In fact it did turn out to be a joke by one of her
:15:25. > :15:35.friends. But one that didn't seem so funny when that friend tried to
:15:35. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:44.delete the post. That's when she said, I can't. That's when I
:15:44. > :15:47.realised the dangers of this site because no one has the power to
:15:47. > :15:50.remove it. The posting was eventually removed but Little
:15:50. > :15:57.Gossip, which operates in more than 50 countries, is still rife with
:15:57. > :16:07.abuse posted by anonymous users. I've come to London to meet the
:16:07. > :16:09.
:16:09. > :16:12.young entrepreneur from Taunton who created the site in 2010.
:16:12. > :16:15.discovered a hit TV series called Gossip Girl which is based in
:16:15. > :16:22.America. There is also a Facebook group called Gossip Girl Taunton. I
:16:22. > :16:32.saw lots of gossip from nights before, of people going out. It was
:16:32. > :16:34.
:16:34. > :16:37.all light hearted, funny banter. I thought it was an amazing idea.
:16:37. > :16:44.Ted had unleashed something big. The site quickly snowballed out of
:16:44. > :16:52.control. We had 33,000 hits in the first hour. We had more hits than
:16:52. > :17:00.Facebook did. The servers crashed. It was impossible to police, just
:17:00. > :17:04.myself. Ted was soon swamped with complaints. If you have 60,000
:17:04. > :17:13.pieces of gossip and 10 per cent of them are genuinely malicious, that
:17:13. > :17:18.is 6000 pieces of gossip which I have to try and find and delete. It
:17:18. > :17:22.is a huge amount of work. After just four days, Ted sold the site
:17:22. > :17:30.for, he says, $50. I didn't sell it for financial gain. I sold it to
:17:30. > :17:38.get rid of it. Why did you not just close it down? That was a mistake
:17:38. > :17:42.and I am sorry for that. I set up the site with good intentions and I
:17:42. > :17:48.should have just shut it down when I knew that it was spiralling out
:17:48. > :17:52.of control. Little Gossip goes on under its new owners. The business
:17:52. > :18:01.that Ted ahead set up as a harmless bit of fun has turned into a global
:18:01. > :18:06.Internet phenomenon, but one with It's the anonymity allowed on sites
:18:06. > :18:10.like Little Gossip that experts say makes them harder to police. If you
:18:10. > :18:13.are a victim of that online abuse, it is very difficult to get
:18:13. > :18:23.recourse because you do not know who it is that's making those
:18:23. > :18:26.
:18:26. > :18:29.comments. It's not just young people who are being targeted. Rate
:18:29. > :18:39.My Teacher features praise, but also abuse about staff at schools
:18:39. > :18:40.
:18:40. > :18:43.and colleges across the world. We spoke to a south-west teacher who
:18:43. > :18:48.says he has been bullied on Rate My Teacher for 14 months. We've
:18:48. > :18:52.disguised his identity. It's been a really tough time. I am leaving the
:18:52. > :18:55.teaching profession because of it. It was almost on a daily basis that
:18:55. > :18:58.comments were being left about me. In the end, there were over 200,
:18:58. > :19:05.which, quite frankly, I thought appalling. I felt helpless to do
:19:05. > :19:13.anything about it. I am sure it affected my performance in the
:19:13. > :19:17.classroom. Action against sites like Little Gossip and Rate My
:19:17. > :19:27.Teacher is made harder by the fact that they appear to operate out of
:19:27. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:36.Getting sites closed down is virtually impossible. Many sites
:19:36. > :19:39.are hosted, not in the UK, but in the US. Free-speech is in the US
:19:39. > :19:49.constitution, people have a right to say what they want to say, and
:19:49. > :19:49.
:19:49. > :19:52.from the UK perspective, we are not We tried to contact Little Gossip
:19:52. > :20:02.to ask why they don't remove abusive comments, but our email
:20:02. > :20:06.
:20:06. > :20:09.Jade has now come to terms with the racist abuse she suffered. It took
:20:09. > :20:19.me a while to get over it all. About 18 months ago now. I haven't
:20:19. > :20:26.
:20:26. > :20:29.heard anything since. But it was Jade's story shows that the courts
:20:29. > :20:32.can bring online bullies to book, but governments appear unable or
:20:32. > :20:42.unwilling to tackle the operators of sites which seem to tolerate the
:20:42. > :20:44.
:20:44. > :20:54.trolls. There is a website you can go to for advice and to report
:20:54. > :20:59.
:20:59. > :21:09.These old kilns are impressive clues to the fact that the south-
:21:09. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:13.west once had a thriving pottery One man in north Devon is keeping
:21:13. > :21:23.that tradition alive, making beautiful jugs that have buyers
:21:23. > :21:31.
:21:31. > :21:34.interested from all round the world. This is Bideford in north Devon. A
:21:34. > :21:37.couple of hundred years ago this place was pottery central. All down
:21:37. > :21:40.here were potteries and the air would have been thick with the
:21:40. > :21:44.smoke from the kilns. These days, there is just a handful of people
:21:44. > :21:49.carrying on the tradition. One of those is just up the road there and
:21:49. > :21:54.his name is Harry the Potter. The strains of Harry Juniper's clarinet
:21:54. > :22:04.can often be heard floating down Rope Walk. Every day he practises
:22:04. > :22:11.
:22:11. > :22:14.before getting down to the workshop. Harry. Good morning. This is
:22:14. > :22:18.extraordinary. How long have you been a potter? For 64 years.
:22:18. > :22:27.years! I started in 1948. You have got all sorts of stuff here. Small
:22:27. > :22:31.plates, large plates, dishes. What is your favourite? I have a
:22:31. > :22:37.reputation for making harvest jugs. These things here? Yes. They are
:22:37. > :22:40.traditional in the area. They go back to the 17th century. My son is
:22:40. > :22:48.throwing today and he shall demonstrate it. He is a very fine
:22:48. > :22:55.Watching Nick working is a bit like turning the clock back five
:22:55. > :23:05.centuries. The clay still comes from a quarry near by. And the
:23:05. > :23:07.
:23:07. > :23:10.technique and shape remain more or less unchanged since the 1700s. The
:23:10. > :23:13.jugs were the potter's contribution for harvest supper celebrations.
:23:13. > :23:20.They'd take along one of these filled to the brim with the local
:23:20. > :23:24.brew - golden cider. I love throwing. I could sit here all day.
:23:24. > :23:31.Unfortunately, I would fill the place up in a day. But that is my
:23:31. > :23:36.love. And he does it to the same world class standard as his father.
:23:36. > :23:40.Proudly producing work of incredible quality and beauty.
:23:40. > :23:50.don't see it ever becoming a thing that will die our or will not be
:23:50. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :23:56.used or treated as something special. The classic shape is then
:23:57. > :23:59.prepared for the artwork that will adorn it. Using a process that was
:24:00. > :24:02.popular in Renaissance Italy, they are dipped in a thin coating of
:24:03. > :24:06.white clay. It's into this that Harry will scratch out the designs
:24:06. > :24:09.for which he has become world famous. At the age of 79, Harry's
:24:09. > :24:12.one of the last potters to keep this tradition going on a
:24:12. > :24:17.commercial basis. He trained as a fine artist and the jugs provide
:24:17. > :24:26.him with the perfect blank canvas. This is a technique called
:24:26. > :24:28.scraffito where I scratch through the surface into the brown. These
:24:28. > :24:34.tools that you are using look painfully familiar. They are dental
:24:34. > :24:38.tools. They keep their edge. I used to use bamboo at one time, but
:24:38. > :24:48.these are much easier to use. must need a lot of confidence just
:24:48. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:01.to go at it. But you have been The scraffito can take anything up
:25:01. > :25:08.to a day so I am going to let Harry go on with it and I am going to pop
:25:08. > :25:11.over the museum to look at some Harvest jugs were originally made
:25:11. > :25:19.by ordinary folk, but now examples such as these fetch extraordinary
:25:19. > :25:22.prices, tens of thousands of pounds. They weren't just made for the
:25:22. > :25:25.locals. Some were shipped to North America along with the early
:25:25. > :25:28.settlers. Some of Harry's finest work has won its place here. The
:25:28. > :25:38.full bodied shape lends itself to bold design and messages, and
:25:38. > :25:38.
:25:38. > :25:42.When I was in my native place, I was a lump of clay.
:25:42. > :25:47.I was digged out of earth and brought from thence away.
:25:47. > :25:57.But now I am a jug become through potter's art and skill.
:25:57. > :25:58.
:25:58. > :26:04.And now your servant I am become There is a tradition that it has to
:26:04. > :26:14.end with the presenter having a go on the wheel for comic effect. Show
:26:14. > :26:18.
:26:18. > :26:26.me what I have to do. Take the ball Wet your hands. And the clay. Very
:26:26. > :26:31.gently and firmly squeeze it into a nice round shape. Now then, put
:26:31. > :26:41.your left hand inside and bring your fingertips right up to the top.
:26:41. > :26:48.
:26:48. > :26:58.Now you're going to draw it up. You mustn't go too fast. It has to be
:26:58. > :27:00.
:27:00. > :27:10.Beautiful technique. You have the potter's thumb. Gently. There you
:27:10. > :27:15.
:27:15. > :27:24.are, very good. Thank you very much Is this always the moment of truth?
:27:24. > :27:29.Yes, it is. Seems to have worked. Can I touch it? This is naughty
:27:29. > :27:32.postcards, I don't think I can read any of them to a family audience.
:27:32. > :27:42.This is one with the Queen's Foot Guards having a bit of a
:27:42. > :27:53.
:27:53. > :27:58.celebration. A bit of a knees-up. Harry's jugs have now developed
:27:58. > :28:04.something of a fan club. Buyers from around the world are prepared
:28:04. > :28:10.to pay �400 a throw for the finest examples. But for Harry, it's not
:28:10. > :28:17.just about the money. It's about something much deeper. I would say
:28:17. > :28:20.it was a rhythm. The rhythm of music and the rhythm of working.
:28:20. > :28:27.The rhythm of throwing pots on the wheel, pulling handles, decorating.