:00:07. > :00:17.Hello. Tonight's Inside Out is at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Coming up
:00:17. > :00:35.
:00:35. > :00:38.in the next half hour What happens when a fairground ride goes wrong?
:00:38. > :00:48.We investigate fairground safety. Also tonight - the hidden army of
:00:48. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:07.And can you learn to sink in 48 hours? John turns tender. -- --
:01:07. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:18.tenor. Fairground rides are designed to thrill and millions
:01:18. > :01:28.rides them at theme-park and at the seaside but sometimes they go wrong
:01:28. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:53.Since the millennium, it's been reported around 700 workers and
:01:53. > :01:55.1,400 people have been injured around amusement rides. Some deadly,
:01:55. > :01:58.some involving life changing injuries and others resulting in
:01:58. > :02:04.nothing more than cuts and bruises. But the question is, how safe are
:02:04. > :02:07.we when we go to the fair? During the summer Leicestershire's Billy
:02:07. > :02:12.Bates fair, who've been in the business for six generations, hit
:02:12. > :02:20.the headlines. Two teenagers were badly injured when the Mega Frog
:02:20. > :02:23.Bounce ride went wrong. I got on it, I remember going round
:02:23. > :02:28.about three times and the next thing there was a buying. I
:02:28. > :02:33.remember my face smashing against the barriers and I ended up on the
:02:33. > :02:38.floor. I heard people around me and I knew it was quite bad.
:02:38. > :02:42.coincidence, some the was filming it. This is the footage. We were
:02:42. > :02:49.talking as normal while the right was going around picking up some
:02:49. > :02:55.speed, and then suddenly it collapses on us. That really did
:02:55. > :03:00.come off. You came away with serious injuries. I had 80 stables,
:03:00. > :03:08.stents -- 10 stitches on my chin, five in my tongue, a punctured lung
:03:08. > :03:13.and a fractured rib. It is shocking, it really? It is. We do go on at
:03:13. > :03:20.fairground ride again? I think about it all the time. It just
:03:20. > :03:23.seems like a massive nightmare, really. Billy Bates Funfair first
:03:23. > :03:33.agreed, and then pulled out of an interview. In a statement they
:03:33. > :03:46.
:03:46. > :03:51.Even now, it's still unclear how the accident happened. The HSE are
:03:51. > :03:56.still investigating. Elsewhere at other fairs, the Health and Safety
:03:56. > :04:00.Executive is concerned about the way rides are designed. Miami Trip
:04:00. > :04:03.threw two riders out last year, and Tagada is a ride which has no
:04:03. > :04:12.passenger restraints. It's injured dozens of people over the past few
:04:12. > :04:16.years. The HSE has made compulsory changes to the design of both. Next,
:04:17. > :04:21.I'm with James Mellor. He owns some of the best rides in the business,
:04:21. > :04:24.and has a good safety record. He's the main man behind Nottingham's
:04:24. > :04:30.Goose Fair and a spokesperson for the Showman's Guild, who represent
:04:30. > :04:39.20,000 travelling workers. I want to ask him how his industry has
:04:39. > :04:44.reacted to recent safety scares. Whenever you hear an accident,
:04:44. > :04:48.something happened on a ride, the home industry feed us down. Until
:04:48. > :04:54.we find because of what has actually happened, we are all very
:04:54. > :04:59.cautious. Nobody wants to see anybody injured at off. How have
:04:59. > :05:04.things changed over the last 10 or 12 years? 2000 was a bad year.
:05:04. > :05:10.was about gear and reflected badly on us. There is a lot more people
:05:10. > :05:15.work now. There are certain as it ever gets that have all got to be
:05:15. > :05:19.completed before the actual fare. There is an examination of the
:05:19. > :05:29.rides, every year, just like an MoT. It is much more stringent, I would
:05:29. > :05:31.
:05:31. > :05:36.say, than an MoT. When is a ride to old? How can you say that? If you
:05:36. > :05:44.keep the quality of, it is up to yourself, you know? If you want to
:05:44. > :05:54.replace something, you can do it. Most people are changing them
:05:54. > :05:55.
:05:55. > :05:58.frequently. It is a question, when is it too old? Along with many
:05:58. > :06:01.theme parks, every ride at the Goose Fair and every member of the
:06:01. > :06:11.Showman's Guild are compelled to undertake a yearly inspection -
:06:11. > :06:12.
:06:12. > :06:15.basically, an MOT for fairground equipment. We've come to Skegness
:06:15. > :06:18.to meet Nicola Foss, who's from Derby. Her daughter Paige was on a
:06:18. > :06:27.ride operated by the Pleasure Beach, when it malfunctioned with very
:06:27. > :06:31.serious consequences. You witnessed the accident. What went wrong?
:06:31. > :06:36.don't know. I heard this clicking noise, as if something was not
:06:36. > :06:41.connected properly. They went around twice, and then the side
:06:41. > :06:45.fail. This was a ride that went round 360 degrees and you were
:06:45. > :06:53.meant to stay horizontal in the carriage as he went round. When we
:06:53. > :06:58.got to the top beside just went. a mother watching your daughter on
:06:58. > :07:01.the right, it must have been terrifying. It was really
:07:01. > :07:06.terrifying, especially when I had to pretend that I was not scared.
:07:06. > :07:10.You have to try to be calm and try not to cry. I felt like crying my
:07:10. > :07:17.eyes out. Nicola's daughter Paige is autistic and was traumatized
:07:17. > :07:22.after she was trapped on the ride with injured people. There was one
:07:22. > :07:29.woman on the right you were very concerned about? Yeah, I actually
:07:29. > :07:32.thought she was dead. It was really bad. She looked dead. I've thought
:07:32. > :07:40.they were trying to work on her to save her. It is like something you
:07:40. > :07:43.see on TV, not real life. You don't expect to go on holiday and retired
:07:43. > :07:46.come home and not be have to ring about it. We contacted Skegness
:07:46. > :07:49.Pleasure Beach, who didn't want to be interviewed. The faulty ride in
:07:49. > :07:59.question has since been removed. So, serious accidents continue to
:07:59. > :08:02.
:08:02. > :08:05.happen. But are funfair rides safer now than a decade ago? Melvin
:08:05. > :08:08.Sandell from the Health and Safety Executive works out what went wrong,
:08:08. > :08:12.how accidents can be prevented and who or what is to blame. Their
:08:13. > :08:18.national data can tell us whether safety has improved. Have things
:08:18. > :08:22.improved since 2000? They have. No fair grounds are a safe place to be,
:08:22. > :08:27.I think. You stand a far greater chance of being heard on your
:08:27. > :08:32.weight to the fairground than worst on the affair. How can the public
:08:32. > :08:42.protect themselves? The public can be reasonably sure that they will
:08:42. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:50.be OK. When they act -- when they are at large organised first. --
:08:50. > :08:53.scarce. All of the rights will have been tested. What I would say to
:08:54. > :08:59.parents is have a look at the machines. If it looks nice and
:08:59. > :09:05.clean and tidy and well run, it probably is well run. Stick to the
:09:05. > :09:08.big fairgrounds and you will generally be all right. Sifting
:09:08. > :09:14.through the stats, yearly incidents at funfairs are less than half of
:09:14. > :09:18.what they were back in the dark days of 2000. But it's mixed news
:09:18. > :09:26.as there have been years when accidents have gone up as well as
:09:26. > :09:28.down, and the HSE admits many incidents may simply go unreported.
:09:28. > :09:35.But crackdowns on less diligent operators, heavy fines and
:09:35. > :09:38.redesigning problematic rides all seems to have helped. So are fairs
:09:38. > :09:48.safer now than they were a decade ago? Well, the good news is, the
:09:48. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:54.answer seems to be yes. Official figures say there are a
:09:54. > :09:58.175,000 youngsters under the age of 18 who provide some level of unpaid
:09:58. > :10:01.care for their families in the UK. But recent research suggests the
:10:01. > :10:07.actual figure could be four times that, because so many don't come
:10:07. > :10:10.forward and ask for help. Radio Leicester's Jim Davis has been
:10:10. > :10:20.finding out what life is really like when you're left to cope on
:10:20. > :10:22.
:10:22. > :10:28.your own. Looking after a loved one comes
:10:28. > :10:34.naturally to children. For some, caring for brothers and sisters,
:10:34. > :10:37.mums and dads, is a full time job. But many are too scared to tell
:10:37. > :10:47.people what they do. Worried they'll be judged, bullied or
:10:47. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:56.humiliated. They might talk behind my back so I would rather not tell
:10:56. > :11:06.them and they might not do it. There are people on this street,
:11:06. > :11:09.say no names, but they have been so evil to us. Some deal with the
:11:09. > :11:19.pressure by harming themselves. These were mainly done with razor
:11:19. > :11:21.blades, dug in with the corner. But now there's a group of young carers
:11:21. > :11:24.in Leicester who've had enough. They're getting together to support
:11:25. > :11:28.each other. I want to know what it's like for these young carers.
:11:28. > :11:33.What sort of burdens are they carrying and what sort of help is
:11:33. > :11:43.out there for them? Jhon is 13 years old and looks
:11:43. > :11:45.
:11:45. > :11:48.after his deaf and disabled mother. Hello? Yes. How long have you had
:11:48. > :11:51.the condition? I was born with osteogenesis, and I've probably
:11:51. > :11:59.been going deaf since I was about six. Jhon's always been there for
:11:59. > :12:03.his mum, but has found very few people have been there for him.
:12:03. > :12:09.awareness in the community, places like schools, hospitals, things
:12:09. > :12:14.like that, they don't understand what young carers are and what they
:12:14. > :12:16.do. Jhon's got the same medical condition as his mum and can't walk
:12:16. > :12:26.far without using a wheelchair himself. But despite this, he's
:12:26. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:41.been helping his dad to care for Why don't you try having these
:12:41. > :12:46.things to deal with and then see if that little think means so it's --
:12:46. > :12:51.so much to you to moan about? to find a word to say what it makes
:12:51. > :13:01.me feel like and there is not one. He is experiences have made him
:13:01. > :13:01.
:13:01. > :13:04.determined to make a difference. -- his experiences. He is meeting
:13:04. > :13:14.other young carers at Water Shed Community Centre in Leicester. They
:13:14. > :13:19.have set up a support group. It is called Labelled. He is one of the
:13:20. > :13:27.founding members along with Lotte, who started caring for her father
:13:27. > :13:31.when he suffered a nervous breakdown ten years ago. It -- it
:13:31. > :13:36.is about empowering young carers. We do not take away
:13:36. > :13:41.responsibilities. A lot do not want us to take it away, they want
:13:41. > :13:46.support to do it themselves. Recognising you are a young carer
:13:46. > :13:50.is one of the biggest challenges. Men the carers who come here, they
:13:50. > :13:57.only realise they are one when they came here. We had volunteers. After
:13:57. > :14:04.speaking to them, they were like, I am a carer. One of the people they
:14:04. > :14:11.are helping his Jasmin, who has been attending since her father
:14:11. > :14:15.died three months ago. She lives on the New Parks estate in Leicester.
:14:15. > :14:19.She lives with her sister and mother, who suffers from depression.
:14:19. > :14:25.She had been helping to care for her father since she had learned to
:14:25. > :14:31.walk. He had a disease of the spine that affected his mobility. One
:14:31. > :14:35.morning he collapsed in agony at home. She gave him CPR until
:14:35. > :14:41.paramedics arrived but it was too late and he died from a blood clot
:14:41. > :14:51.on the lungs. The paramedic said he had gone. She fell to the floor. We
:14:51. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :14:57.cried together. It was horrible. I wish he was here now. She is doing
:14:57. > :15:02.her best to help her mother through this. Mother does not like sleeping
:15:02. > :15:09.and -- sleeping on her own, partly because of everything going through
:15:09. > :15:16.her mind, and also that she is used to having somebody next to her. It
:15:16. > :15:21.is a comfort thing. She has been left to manage her mother, who
:15:21. > :15:27.suffers from a mental health condition which means share can --
:15:27. > :15:33.she can be very high or low. times, I feel I want to go out to
:15:33. > :15:39.see friends, but I do not feel I can because I want to make sure mum
:15:40. > :15:44.is OK. And they are now having to move house. The council meet their
:15:44. > :15:50.adapted house for somebody else who is disabled. If you believe
:15:50. > :15:56.official figures there are 175,000 children who provide unpaid care to
:15:56. > :16:06.a family member. A survey by the BBC found the actual number is four
:16:06. > :16:06.
:16:06. > :16:16.times that because many do not have been to support services. -- key in
:16:16. > :16:23.
:16:24. > :16:27.to support services. Reece has autism, ADHD, and he has fits and
:16:28. > :16:37.he is an asthmatic, he has allergies, he suffers from chest
:16:37. > :16:40.infections. The fight he has in him surprises me. This 13-year-old
:16:40. > :16:47.struggles school life with looking after her brother. She tries to
:16:47. > :16:53.keep it secret because she has been bullied in the past. Judgments they
:16:53. > :16:59.make, they talk behind my back, so I would rather not tell them about
:16:59. > :17:04.him and they might not do it and I will keep it to myself. At one
:17:04. > :17:11.point I could not have done this without her. Being ill myself. I
:17:11. > :17:15.could not have done it. These children from Nottingham care for a
:17:15. > :17:21.loved one at home and have come a long tour cooking class to learn to
:17:21. > :17:26.make nutritious meals, which was organised by a charity, Carers
:17:26. > :17:31.Federation. It was set up to support carers of all ages in the
:17:31. > :17:36.East Midlands. Some of those from Labelled have come to get advice on
:17:36. > :17:45.how to run their service. We are talking to them about how they make
:17:45. > :17:50.their voices heard particularly in the corridors of power. It has been
:17:50. > :17:55.some weeks since they went to Carers Federation and they are now
:17:55. > :17:59.running a self-defence class. And they have invited the head of
:17:59. > :18:09.family services from the Council and also a representative from
:18:09. > :18:19.
:18:19. > :18:29.Barnardo's. Are you glad you came down? I am very glad. It is
:18:29. > :18:38.humbling in many respects. Jasmin, her mother and sister have a new
:18:38. > :18:42.home from the council and they are moving in today. It has been a
:18:42. > :18:46.rough road, but things are looking up. They have quite a lot of work
:18:46. > :18:55.to do to make this close home, but with the right support I think
:18:55. > :18:58.things are looking up. The support group now have 50 young
:18:58. > :19:02.carers on their books and they are in talks with Leicester City
:19:02. > :19:12.football club to become one of their official charities. Tonight,
:19:12. > :19:21.more people are getting together in amateur choirs. Our reporter tried
:19:21. > :19:31.it out for himself. The Albert Hall, Nottingham, and an anniversary
:19:31. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:35.performance is about to start. Tickets are hard to get. But this
:19:35. > :19:45.is no ordinary concert. And this is no ordinary choir. In fact you
:19:45. > :19:46.
:19:46. > :19:50.could be one of the singers. That is what I am going to do. It is
:19:50. > :19:55.first time also for Harry and Harriet. It was only a week before
:19:55. > :20:02.the concert when they met at Nottingham Trent University. It was
:20:02. > :20:11.the first rehearsal and everybody else -- for them and everybody else.
:20:11. > :20:16.It is daunting. We have met a lot of people who did it before. I have
:20:16. > :20:26.not done anything on this scale. I thought I would give it a bash.
:20:26. > :20:35.have signed up for the Music For Everyone, a Nottinghamshire based
:20:35. > :20:42.choir that Angela Kay has been running for years. This is
:20:42. > :20:47.different. She has 48 hours to get us ready to perform Verdi's Requiem
:20:48. > :20:55.at the Albert Hall in Nottingham. If anyone can find my voice, it
:20:55. > :21:02.will be Angela. This will be a nerve-racking experience. Somehow,
:21:02. > :21:11.you have to will people to sing well. And it works. It is a magical
:21:11. > :21:21.moment. It is early morning and up with the lark is Karen Attwood, who
:21:21. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:27.runs a business baking cakes. For this former computer manager, choir
:21:27. > :21:32.singing helped to ease her through a career change. You gather the
:21:32. > :21:36.stresses of the day and everything you are worried about. Singing, you
:21:36. > :21:45.get is all-out. It is a marvellous way of getting it all out and
:21:45. > :21:52.relaxing. Need Daytime Voices of Southwell, musically stirred and
:21:52. > :22:01.not shaken. -- meat. Angela brings her Midas touch to tease out golden
:22:01. > :22:07.harmonies. You are meant to be muted trumpets. This is one of
:22:07. > :22:12.several groups she runs. This gives them confidence. They then think
:22:12. > :22:19.they fancy singing with a big choir and orchestra. We do not have to
:22:19. > :22:29.have an audition. It is good finding out you can sing.
:22:29. > :22:29.
:22:29. > :22:35.auditions, no pressure, that is the philosophy of Angela. At her home,
:22:35. > :22:43.she records musical notes on to a CD. Her next big choir project is a
:22:43. > :22:49.concert performance of Verdi's Requiem. It is a monster of a work.
:22:49. > :22:56.30 years after the first concert, 300 people taking part now are sent
:22:56. > :23:02.the CD. By sending out the rehearsal CDs and the score and the
:23:02. > :23:12.publicity, you get excitement going. We find that people prepare, they
:23:12. > :23:15.
:23:15. > :23:23.listen at home. At home, I am giving the distance learning ago.
:23:23. > :23:28.Maybe I need advice, especially if my voice is going to the dogs!
:23:28. > :23:34.Robin Reece Crawford is an actor, a professional storyteller and a
:23:34. > :23:39.veteran of the group. He sang at the first concert of Music For
:23:39. > :23:45.Everyone 30 years ago. It is a strange feeling when you sing with
:23:45. > :23:50.the aid group, there is a sense of community, that we are battling to
:23:50. > :23:57.the same end result. There is something about the physical aspect
:23:57. > :24:02.that is very good for you as a person. Are there health benefits?
:24:02. > :24:11.At Duffield in Derbyshire, choir singing run by the Alzheimer's
:24:11. > :24:21.Society. As the brain deteriorates, the pressure of the dementia occurs.
:24:21. > :24:24.
:24:24. > :24:28.One thing that seems to remain his emotion. Emotion is linked to music.
:24:28. > :24:34.It can be transformative to the person with dementia and also to
:24:34. > :24:44.their friends and family and carers. They see another side of the person
:24:44. > :24:46.
:24:46. > :24:53.with dementia. That is a good one to begin with. At Nottingham Trent
:24:53. > :24:59.University, the first rehearsal. Harry Willis and Harriet Card make
:24:59. > :25:08.a cautious start. Karen is struggling with a cold. Robin and
:25:08. > :25:15.the bases sound good. It is a worrying time when they first come
:25:15. > :25:23.in. Will they have prepared? Do they know how it is meant to go?
:25:23. > :25:31.The Victoria Rooms in Bristol and James, one of Angela's discoveries
:25:31. > :25:37.is rehearsing with the city's Sinfonia Orchestra. Angela, she
:25:37. > :25:45.spots talent. She saw me and a few months later I got a telephone call
:25:45. > :25:52.inviting me to play for one of her choir concert. Her energy and
:25:53. > :25:56.passion for music ignites people. It makes people want to be involved.
:25:56. > :26:01.Nottingham's Albert Hall and the concert is about to begin. The
:26:01. > :26:07.choir members are not the only ones who are nervous, and this is my big
:26:07. > :26:14.moment also. How is your voice? is great. It is back and I am
:26:14. > :26:21.raring to go. Will we keep up the orchestra? What Angela. There is a
:26:21. > :26:25.lot of change of mood and tempo. -- watch. You cannot be a conductor
:26:25. > :26:35.and be a pessimist. You have to believe it will work. Many times I
:26:35. > :26:35.
:26:35. > :27:21.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds
:27:21. > :27:31.have thought I am I doing this, THEY SING.
:27:31. > :27:31.
:27:31. > :27:39.APPLAUSE. It was brilliant. I enjoyed doing
:27:39. > :27:49.it. Everybody put so much into it. How is the boys? It has gone a
:27:49. > :27:52.
:27:52. > :27:58.little bit. -- I must have been straining -- voice. It was
:27:58. > :28:04.fantastic. Congratulations. Thanks, you were wonderful. How did it
:28:04. > :28:10.sound? Fantastic. Very tight and powerful and musical. That is what
:28:11. > :28:20.I like about it. From scratch to performance in 48 hours, it has
:28:21. > :28:27.
:28:27. > :28:32.been Angela's approach for 30 years and it sounds pretty good.