:00:12. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to Inside Out South West, stories and
:00:18. > :00:27.investigations from where you live a. Tonight: The misery of whooping
:00:27. > :00:33.cough, as the South West deals with its worst outbreak in decades.
:00:33. > :00:38.are used to the word a vaccine on these little vials of tablets and
:00:38. > :00:45.it is fundamentally misleading. Also tonight: The Devon craftsmen
:00:45. > :00:53.who is turning back to the Victorian art of sign writing.
:00:53. > :00:57.get into around 60 or 70 hours, that is when it gets scary. And the
:00:57. > :01:07.cutting edge of culinary taste. We meet the man who thinks that
:01:07. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:21.seaweed is a delicacy. Garlic and This is inside out -- Inside Out
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:01:31. > :01:35.The South West has been exceeding the biggest outbreak in a
:01:35. > :01:40.generation of whooping cough, and a government campaign is trying to
:01:40. > :01:44.increase rates of inoculation. But some parents are wary of
:01:44. > :01:48.vaccination and try to find other ways to protect their children. We
:01:48. > :01:55.have been investigating an alternative on offer, which experts
:01:55. > :01:59.say could be dangerous and to no good at all. Summer fun in Cornwall.
:01:59. > :02:08.But unvaccinated Ravi O'Sullivan's holiday was cut short by a whooping
:02:08. > :02:15.cough. I started coughing all day, it easily every 30 seconds. I had
:02:15. > :02:21.bad coughing fits, to the point where I was throwing up at night.
:02:21. > :02:29.His mother did not take him to the doctor. Instead, she consulted an
:02:29. > :02:33.expert with an unconventional look at how care. She was a homeopath
:02:33. > :02:38.and she gave him remedies. The argument about whether it is useful
:02:38. > :02:43.or not, I do not actually need a scientific study to tell me that it
:02:43. > :02:50.works, because I have seen it in action. It is an experience and
:02:50. > :02:54.something I know. In South Devon, Rachel Price is not fully
:02:54. > :03:01.vaccinated either. Her mother is trained as a homeopath, and is
:03:01. > :03:07.using what she believes is an effective alternative. I decided to
:03:07. > :03:12.get my daughter a homeopathic vaccination. I had no idea how
:03:12. > :03:20.inefficient it is, because she did not get whooping cough. Who knows
:03:20. > :03:25.whether she would have anyway, but it has got to help. Sue says she
:03:25. > :03:29.does not push her ideas on clients, but what are homeopathic vaccines,
:03:29. > :03:34.and is her own faith in them justified? A quick search of the
:03:34. > :03:38.internet, and we found a large number of homeopathic products
:03:38. > :03:43.labelled as vaccines are with the name of a child and illness. Some
:03:43. > :03:49.of those illnesses are potentially serious, but rare. Others are now
:03:49. > :03:54.making a comeback. You have to go back to the 80s to find an outbreak
:03:54. > :03:59.of whooping cough as bad as today's. The South West has seen an
:03:59. > :04:04.eightfold rise in cases this year, and in 2012, 13 babies died in the
:04:04. > :04:09.UK. There is also concern about the number of parents in the region
:04:09. > :04:13.rejecting vaccination. In Totnes, a town famous for embracing
:04:13. > :04:17.alternative lifestyles, three out of 10 children are not fully
:04:17. > :04:23.inoculated. The local health authority has launched a campaign
:04:23. > :04:29.to encourage uptake, but you will not find homeopathic vaccines
:04:29. > :04:34.featuring in it. A but this online. It is called a rubella vaccine. --
:04:34. > :04:41.I bought this our mind. You can get around 50 little white tablets. It
:04:41. > :04:46.is more appealing than a jab in your baby's ormer. But what good
:04:46. > :04:50.scientific evidence is there that these will protect against
:04:50. > :04:56.infectious diseases? The answer, shockingly, it is none. And
:04:56. > :05:03.homeopathy, and the active ingredient is diluted so many times,
:05:03. > :05:11.that the final delusion, drip onto a -- dilution, dripped onto a sugar
:05:11. > :05:17.pill, or have nothing left. Professor Ed Zardersnt has embedded
:05:17. > :05:22.-- investigated these claims, and he says that the evidence does not
:05:22. > :05:28.support them. Pete typical homeopathic -- and the typical
:05:28. > :05:32.homeopathic pill has nothing in it that will have an effect. Some
:05:32. > :05:39.people say that some energy will stimulate the body to heal itself.
:05:39. > :05:44.That is a very nice theory but it is not supported by evidence.
:05:44. > :05:54.it did he make of the pills that we bought? Why and of these products
:05:54. > :05:57.
:05:57. > :06:03.is made to protect or -- one of these products is made to protect
:06:03. > :06:08.against a fatal disease. This can be life threatening. A view shared
:06:08. > :06:12.by this leading vaccine expert. Adam Finn has seen a big rise in
:06:12. > :06:17.cases of children being hospitalised with one's rare
:06:17. > :06:23.infectious diseases. I am concerned -- where infectious diseases that
:06:23. > :06:28.were once a rare. I am concerned, because the use of the word of
:06:28. > :06:33.vaccine on these wiles of tablets is fundamentally misleading,
:06:33. > :06:43.because not all meet doctors, but also parents understand something
:06:43. > :06:46.
:06:46. > :06:51.quite clear when they used the word a vaccine. So what kind of company
:06:51. > :06:57.labels their projects as vaccines? This shop him London has some
:06:57. > :07:02.extraordinarily extinct -- distinguished customers. This
:07:02. > :07:05.Pharmacy boasts no less than three royal warrants, because they are
:07:05. > :07:10.suppliers of homeopathic products to no less than the Queen and
:07:10. > :07:17.Prince Charles, and they were to the late Queen Mother. And this is
:07:17. > :07:25.the man in charge. Tony Pinkus, a pharmacist. Filmed in 2009 claiming
:07:25. > :07:29.the merits of homoeopathy. As we progressively diluted and shake,
:07:29. > :07:37.you can improve the effectiveness of the remedy and take away the
:07:37. > :07:42.side effects. But you cannot win them all. The next year, Ainsworths
:07:42. > :07:49.was investigated by Newsnight for selling products, this time for
:07:49. > :07:54.malaria. An investigator body let him off, saying that he had taken
:07:54. > :07:59.remedial action, but that seems to have been short-lived. Selling
:07:59. > :08:02.unproven products is one thing, but recommending them to children --
:08:02. > :08:10.parents for their children as an alternative to vaccination is quite
:08:10. > :08:14.another. We have evidence that Mr Pinkus is prepared to do just that.
:08:14. > :08:18.He says that his pills are in no sense pharmaceutical drugs and he
:08:18. > :08:22.told us that he does not promote them as prevent its for childhood
:08:22. > :08:27.illnesses. But I e-mailed him, posing as an alternative Barack
:08:27. > :08:32.Obama parent looking for an alternative to the whooping cough -
:08:32. > :08:38.- but I e-mailed him, posing as an parent looking for an alternative
:08:38. > :08:42.to whooping cough. He said that he made sure that he gave this to his
:08:42. > :08:48.own children, but he also added that he could not make a claim for
:08:48. > :08:52.its success. Quite right. But he does not stop there. He said that
:08:52. > :08:57.typically, Pertussin is used in prevention, and two other remedies
:08:57. > :09:02.in treatment. He helpfully directed me to his website, where I can buy
:09:02. > :09:07.them. When I asked if my child should be vaccinated, he said it
:09:07. > :09:11.was a decision I had to make, but that he would use Pertussin with
:09:11. > :09:15.his own children. He described the vaccination as a compromise and
:09:15. > :09:20.said that his remedies would offset the side-effects. Experts have told
:09:20. > :09:25.us that there is evidence that they can do this, or that homoeopathy
:09:25. > :09:30.can prevent or treat any kind of infection in the way that Mr Pinkus
:09:30. > :09:33.suggests. To mislead people, not just in the sense of taking money
:09:33. > :09:40.off of them, but giving them a sense of security they should not
:09:40. > :09:46.have, that is fundamentally wrong. The saw is not alone. We found two
:09:46. > :09:56.other -- Ainsworths is not alone. We found two other companies with
:09:56. > :09:56.
:09:56. > :10:05.the same claims. Helios claims to have an alternative to the
:10:05. > :10:08.vaccination for -- Homeoforce claims to have alternative to the
:10:08. > :10:12.vaccination for whooping cough. At this point, you might be wondering
:10:12. > :10:18.how any company can get away with selling products labelled as
:10:18. > :10:22.vaccinations which are not. It is a good question. Homeopathy is
:10:22. > :10:28.regulated by the Government's Medicine at watchdog, and we have
:10:28. > :10:34.learned that there have been complaints going on for over a year
:10:34. > :10:41.against Ainsworths. I showed our evidence to Totnes MP Sarah
:10:41. > :10:44.Wollaston, who is concerned about vaccination intake locally. I do
:10:44. > :10:49.not think that any product for which there is no evidence
:10:49. > :10:54.whatsoever that can convert any benefit should be labelled --
:10:54. > :10:59.labelled a vaccine. There is no excuse for that. As a result of our
:10:59. > :11:03.investigation, the Government medicine watchdog has taken action
:11:03. > :11:08.against the three companies we have highlighted, and Ainsworths has
:11:08. > :11:13.removed several of its products from its website. Available to
:11:13. > :11:17.anyone, he still wants to take a chance on the -- there are still
:11:17. > :11:27.plenty of these products available, available to anyone who still want
:11:27. > :11:31.
:11:31. > :11:36.Every where you shop, you're surrounded by signs advertising one
:11:36. > :11:46.brand o'er another. But there is nothing new this this. We have been
:11:46. > :11:53.
:11:53. > :12:03.on the trail of a man reinventing on the trail of a man reinventing
:12:03. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:16.an old Victorian craft. From Torbay to Tinseltown. David Smith's at
:12:16. > :12:19.work on the latest project to emerge from his Torquay studio. 100
:12:19. > :12:24.years ago, this job would have taken a whole bunch of skilled
:12:24. > :12:29.tradesmen. You have to cut the panels. Everything is done by a
:12:30. > :12:34.team of five or six people. I'm trying to bring it together, but
:12:34. > :12:37.it's just me. Dave's talents have made him one of the most sought
:12:37. > :12:40.after sign artists in the world. He's currently working on three
:12:40. > :12:50.decorated glass panels for the wall of a museum in London's Portobello
:12:50. > :12:54.
:12:54. > :13:01.Road. Here owner Jake Burger invites punters to evolve - with
:13:01. > :13:05.much happy sampling - their own recipe for gin. When we were
:13:05. > :13:14.putting the place together, the museum room, we wanted that to be a
:13:14. > :13:20.kind of modern day replica of the gin palaces of the 19th cent which
:13:20. > :13:25.which churned it out on an industrial basis. Now Davis the
:13:25. > :13:31.last person doing it. We have seen pictures of the progress from afar,
:13:31. > :13:37.which Dave has E mailed us, but to see the actual thing will be
:13:37. > :13:39.amazing. It should look spectacular and really pull the room together.
:13:39. > :13:46.The process starts with Dave sketching out designs for the
:13:46. > :13:52.finished work. This is a rough drawing and not a finished drawing.
:13:52. > :14:00.But the centre panel will be here and this, there would be acid-
:14:00. > :14:03.etched and painted in a vibrant Victorian pink colour. With gilded
:14:03. > :14:07.texts. There would be no cut glass here, but there would be other
:14:07. > :14:15.treatments. The centre panel would be silvered and gilded to
:14:15. > :14:19.complement the two other panels to finish off the Victorian look.
:14:19. > :14:29.this is the centre panel. He works with a range of grindstones, each
:14:29. > :14:32.
:14:32. > :14:39.capable of a different cut for a different pattern. Theer who wheel
:14:39. > :14:44.gives you circles. This one gives you a nice edge cut and a much
:14:44. > :14:54.sharper look to the cut itself. job require great precision and a
:14:54. > :14:59.delicate touch. I'm up to around about sort of four to five hours
:14:59. > :15:06.already. So if it goes right at this stage, it's not too bad. It is
:15:06. > :15:09.when you're into 70 hours, that is when it gets a bit more scary.
:15:09. > :15:15.It'll take three days of cutting before the centre panel is ready
:15:15. > :15:18.for its next stage. Dave's been a sign writer since leaving school.
:15:18. > :15:26.Ten years later he had his own business, mostly serving clients in
:15:26. > :15:31.and around Torquay. People would want us to make their signs for
:15:31. > :15:35.them. Because they were slightly different and more interesting than
:15:35. > :15:39.the general mundane type of signs. But to take things to the next
:15:39. > :15:46.level Dave had to look way beyond Torquay - to the United States,
:15:46. > :15:51.where he studied at the workshop of glass craftsman Rick Lawson.
:15:51. > :15:59.Probably the number one person to be involved with to develop reverse
:15:59. > :16:06.glass. Dave first put this new reverse glass technique to use in
:16:07. > :16:10.the early '90s on his breakthrough project at Torquay's Clocktower pub.
:16:10. > :16:16.The following decade saw a growing demand for his work from major
:16:16. > :16:26.clients on both sides of the Atlantic. One project can take
:16:26. > :16:27.
:16:27. > :16:32.months. He's doing the side panels now, for the Ginstitute.
:16:32. > :16:37.cutting now these into quarters to take up the area of the clear glass
:16:37. > :16:42.is going to be gilded. From there I will flood the area with distild
:16:42. > :16:49.water, which has a small amount of gelatine inside it and I will
:16:49. > :16:54.afully gold directly to that area. -- apply the gold. Most of Dave's
:16:54. > :16:59.work is done in mirror image on the back of the glass. The backs of the
:16:59. > :17:05.panels have always looked messy, you think, this guy doesn't know
:17:05. > :17:09.what he is doing. Once you turn them around, they give you
:17:09. > :17:16.different story. Then the work is revealed in all its glory. Glass
:17:16. > :17:26.isn't all he does. Lately, he's been dabbling in the murky world of
:17:26. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:34.rock and roll. Rock star John Mayer wanted a retro look for his new
:17:34. > :17:44.album cover. He saw some of Dave's work and called him using the
:17:44. > :17:44.
:17:44. > :17:51.internet from his California home. Someone said there is this guy in
:17:51. > :17:56.the UK, his name is David Smith, check out his stuff. OLK let's see.
:17:56. > :18:04.I clicked it and it was pencil work he had done for a tattoo parlour.
:18:04. > :18:07.As soon as I saw it, I went, "Here we are!" The album cover Dave ended
:18:07. > :18:10.up designing just missed out on a nomination for this year's Grammy
:18:10. > :18:20.awards. Far away from Tinseltown, it's back to work on the finishing
:18:20. > :18:20.
:18:20. > :18:25.touches for the centre panel of the Ginstitute piece. I tend to use
:18:25. > :18:29.more of the old period paint, because it contains the lead which
:18:29. > :18:39.gives it more body than the modern paints, which doesn't contain the
:18:39. > :18:43.
:18:43. > :18:51.leads that you need the get the It is looking pretty complete now.
:18:51. > :18:54.I have this red to be blended in and then I will take it to London.
:18:54. > :19:00.The work won't be over all three panels are safely hanging on the
:19:00. > :19:07.Ginstitute walls. But before he does that he has a small delivery
:19:07. > :19:09.to make to one of his other London clients. Then it's across West
:19:09. > :19:19.London to Portobello Road, where Jake is eagerly awaiting the
:19:19. > :19:27.
:19:27. > :19:37.finished glasswork. After months of sketching, cutting, polishing and
:19:37. > :19:43.painting the three panels are finally in place. OK I will stand
:19:43. > :19:49.back and look at that. Wow, that looks great. I am one satisfied
:19:49. > :19:59.customer. Amazing job. You truly are a master craftsman.
:19:59. > :20:01.
:20:01. > :20:11.There it is, hanging on the wall - indisputable truth that Dave Smith
:20:11. > :20:17.
:20:17. > :20:21.Here in the South West we are lucky to live in a region known for its
:20:21. > :20:26.great foods, from dairy farms to fish. But we have found a man who
:20:26. > :20:35.is convinced there is a new potential food this a abundant but
:20:35. > :20:37.overlooked. In fact, it's right under my feet! Rory Macphee is a
:20:37. > :20:40.boat builder, furniture maker and former shipping lawyer working out
:20:40. > :20:45.of Constantine near Falmouth. But lately it's something beneath the
:20:45. > :20:53.waves that's caught his interest. For many years, I thought the sea
:20:53. > :20:57.was a two-dimensional thing, it was a playground to put my boats on and
:20:57. > :21:02.earn sums Ferying people around the Mediterranean. Then I worked at
:21:02. > :21:09.Cornwall college and became aware that it was three-dimensional. A
:21:09. > :21:14.student said, Rory, what is this seaweed? I said, I don't know. Then
:21:14. > :21:17.I thought, why don't I know and I went and found out. From then
:21:17. > :21:22.seaweed has become his obsession and he's now got the first licence
:21:22. > :21:27.in England to harvest seaweed to eat. On a spring tide I'm down
:21:27. > :21:34.there at low water, having a fantastic time, picking seaweed and
:21:34. > :21:36.in due course selling it. Rory only picks seaweed from below the
:21:36. > :21:40.watermark where the plants are growing. And when it's a low
:21:40. > :21:50.jtidelike here at Prisk Cove, he can get to the good stuff. Oh look
:21:50. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :22:03.at that baby! Lovely! That is some kelp. It's lovely. A very delicate
:22:03. > :22:12.taste. It is about pick and nibbling and it is a secondary test.
:22:12. > :22:18.If I fall over with gangrene tonight... Or my nose falls off, I
:22:18. > :22:21.will know it is the seaweed and I won't put it on the market! Armed
:22:21. > :22:27.only with a pair of scissors, a glass jar and a wicker basket,
:22:27. > :22:33.Rory's seaweed picking is very low impact. This is truly sustainable
:22:33. > :22:37.methods. We want to keep this going. By cutting these two leaves off
:22:37. > :22:44.there, two thirds of the way up, that will keep that plant alive. In
:22:44. > :22:49.the old days they would get a tool and chop that off at the ground. We
:22:50. > :22:55.don't want to do that. The same with the dulse, that is the red
:22:55. > :23:04.plant there. This grows on other seaweed and this dulse is growing
:23:04. > :23:07.on the serrated rack. So I just want to take a bit for my tea.
:23:07. > :23:09.Seaweed's always been valued in Cornwall but not as a food source.
:23:09. > :23:14.The Victorians harvested large quantities to use as fertilizer
:23:14. > :23:17.because its packed full of nutrients like nitrogen and iodine.
:23:17. > :23:27.But for Rory it's a delicious treat that should be gracing our plates,
:23:27. > :23:31.
:23:31. > :23:39.not just feeding our veg. There we go. Got you! Snip a bit of it. In
:23:40. > :23:47.she goes. I call that chef's delight. You need a pair of nice
:23:47. > :23:57.sharp scissors. Sometimes we will do a bit of a... Elevens moment.
:23:57. > :24:03.
:24:03. > :24:12.Oh! Garlic, onion... Bit of chilli... I can see that on an
:24:12. > :24:15.avocado pear. There -- And there is a market in Cornwall for seaweed -
:24:15. > :24:22.Rory's found someone else who shares his vision. Only the most
:24:22. > :24:32.avant-garde chefs are looking at it and Mick is putting a lot of effort
:24:32. > :24:33.
:24:33. > :24:36.into developing the Cornish you mammy -- unami. For the Japanese
:24:36. > :24:39.unami is the holy grail of flavour - a natural form of monosodium
:24:39. > :24:43.glutamate that comes from boiling seaweed with dried fish into a
:24:43. > :24:50.dashi or stock. You ends up with this clear liquid. We use this as a
:24:50. > :24:54.stock base for many things. For crab pasta, to nice broths with
:24:54. > :24:57.mackerel and mushrooms. The relationship with Rory that we have
:24:57. > :25:05.started is a long-term one. He has got some very good seaweed over
:25:05. > :25:09.there and we need the get more of it. -- to get more of it. Mick
:25:10. > :25:17.wants his chefs to know as much about seaweed as possible. Welcome
:25:17. > :25:21.to our beach. Welcome to our paradise. So he's brought them to
:25:21. > :25:31.the beach to meet Rory, pick some seaweed and get some ideas for how
:25:31. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:46.to cook it. Are we cooking? While the chefs are busy picking,
:25:46. > :25:51.Rory builds a fire and smokes some seaweed ready to cook. I can see
:25:51. > :26:00.some smoke, what have you got cooking? This is a special for you,
:26:00. > :26:04.Mick. Some dulse. Which I'm smoking on a mixture of Cornish oak and
:26:04. > :26:13.Cornish apple. The colour is beautiful. Do you want to taste
:26:13. > :26:16.some? Yes. This is the one, that flavour. That is dfl that --
:26:16. > :26:20.definitely that flavour. It might not be nouveau cuisine, but Rory's
:26:20. > :26:30.got a simple campfire recipe to get Mick inspired: a smoked dulse bread
:26:30. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:38.made out of flour, water and seaweed. There is a seven year
:26:38. > :26:48.apprenticeship to this game, mate. It's cooked on the fire in a Celtic
:26:48. > :26:51.
:26:51. > :27:00.pie iron. Come on guys. What have you go. Some dull. Lots of stuff.
:27:00. > :27:07.Let's have some pepper dulse. These guys are hired. Amazing! OK,
:27:07. > :27:15.vegetarian hot dogs from Neptune's allotment, flour, water and dulse.
:27:15. > :27:21.Gorse maybe? A bit of gorse. Why not. There we are boys and girls.
:27:21. > :27:27.It is very hot. If you hold the bread board. Maybe you should put
:27:27. > :27:36.truffle oil on. For dessert I have some Caribbean tea. That is seaweed
:27:36. > :27:44.boiled for 20 minutes, with ginger, lemon, cinnamon and card Eammon.
:27:44. > :27:52.And it has been put through a sieve. Shot glass. It smells really good.
:27:52. > :27:58.It beats Lemsip. It is the best hangover cure. I think we need to
:27:58. > :28:02.be back in the kitchen. No, this is the best play, sea wood, larder,
:28:02. > :28:09.sun fire. Maybe after ietthoog bread, you have a point. Brilliant.
:28:09. > :28:12.And the sun it out. Epic day. with Mick and his team full of
:28:12. > :28:18.ideas it looks like seaweed might become a new Cornish delicacy. But
:28:18. > :28:25.for Rory, it's not all about hard work and making money. As I get
:28:25. > :28:32.older and less able to make things in my workshop, why not just be on