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Hello. Tonight's Inside Out is at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Coming up

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in the next half hour What happens when a fairground ride goes wrong?

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We investigate fairground safety. Also tonight - the hidden army of

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And can you learn to sink in 48 hours? John turns tender. -- --

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tenor. Fairground rides are designed to thrill and millions

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rides them at theme-park and at the seaside but sometimes they go wrong

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Since the millennium, it's been reported around 700 workers and

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1,400 people have been injured around amusement rides. Some deadly,

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some involving life changing injuries and others resulting in

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nothing more than cuts and bruises. But the question is, how safe are

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we when we go to the fair? During the summer Leicestershire's Billy

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Bates fair, who've been in the business for six generations, hit

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the headlines. Two teenagers were badly injured when the Mega Frog

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Bounce ride went wrong. I got on it, I remember going round

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about three times and the next thing there was a buying. I

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remember my face smashing against the barriers and I ended up on the

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floor. I heard people around me and I knew it was quite bad.

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coincidence, some the was filming it. This is the footage. We were

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talking as normal while the right was going around picking up some

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speed, and then suddenly it collapses on us. That really did

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come off. You came away with serious injuries. I had 80 stables,

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stents -- 10 stitches on my chin, five in my tongue, a punctured lung

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and a fractured rib. It is shocking, it really? It is. We do go on at

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fairground ride again? I think about it all the time. It just

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seems like a massive nightmare, really. Billy Bates Funfair first

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agreed, and then pulled out of an interview. In a statement they

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Even now, it's still unclear how the accident happened. The HSE are

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still investigating. Elsewhere at other fairs, the Health and Safety

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Executive is concerned about the way rides are designed. Miami Trip

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threw two riders out last year, and Tagada is a ride which has no

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passenger restraints. It's injured dozens of people over the past few

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years. The HSE has made compulsory changes to the design of both. Next,

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I'm with James Mellor. He owns some of the best rides in the business,

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and has a good safety record. He's the main man behind Nottingham's

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Goose Fair and a spokesperson for the Showman's Guild, who represent

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20,000 travelling workers. I want to ask him how his industry has

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reacted to recent safety scares. Whenever you hear an accident,

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something happened on a ride, the home industry feed us down. Until

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we find because of what has actually happened, we are all very

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cautious. Nobody wants to see anybody injured at off. How have

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things changed over the last 10 or 12 years? 2000 was a bad year.

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was about gear and reflected badly on us. There is a lot more people

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work now. There are certain as it ever gets that have all got to be

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completed before the actual fare. There is an examination of the

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rides, every year, just like an MoT. It is much more stringent, I would

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say, than an MoT. When is a ride to old? How can you say that? If you

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keep the quality of, it is up to yourself, you know? If you want to

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replace something, you can do it. Most people are changing them

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frequently. It is a question, when is it too old? Along with many

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theme parks, every ride at the Goose Fair and every member of the

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Showman's Guild are compelled to undertake a yearly inspection -

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basically, an MOT for fairground equipment. We've come to Skegness

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to meet Nicola Foss, who's from Derby. Her daughter Paige was on a

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ride operated by the Pleasure Beach, when it malfunctioned with very

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serious consequences. You witnessed the accident. What went wrong?

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don't know. I heard this clicking noise, as if something was not

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connected properly. They went around twice, and then the side

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fail. This was a ride that went round 360 degrees and you were

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meant to stay horizontal in the carriage as he went round. When we

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got to the top beside just went. a mother watching your daughter on

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the right, it must have been terrifying. It was really

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terrifying, especially when I had to pretend that I was not scared.

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You have to try to be calm and try not to cry. I felt like crying my

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eyes out. Nicola's daughter Paige is autistic and was traumatized

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after she was trapped on the ride with injured people. There was one

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woman on the right you were very concerned about? Yeah, I actually

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thought she was dead. It was really bad. She looked dead. I've thought

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they were trying to work on her to save her. It is like something you

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see on TV, not real life. You don't expect to go on holiday and retired

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come home and not be have to ring about it. We contacted Skegness

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Pleasure Beach, who didn't want to be interviewed. The faulty ride in

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question has since been removed. So, serious accidents continue to

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happen. But are funfair rides safer now than a decade ago? Melvin

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Sandell from the Health and Safety Executive works out what went wrong,

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how accidents can be prevented and who or what is to blame. Their

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national data can tell us whether safety has improved. Have things

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improved since 2000? They have. No fair grounds are a safe place to be,

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I think. You stand a far greater chance of being heard on your

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weight to the fairground than worst on the affair. How can the public

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protect themselves? The public can be reasonably sure that they will

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be OK. When they act -- when they are at large organised first. --

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scarce. All of the rights will have been tested. What I would say to

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parents is have a look at the machines. If it looks nice and

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clean and tidy and well run, it probably is well run. Stick to the

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big fairgrounds and you will generally be all right. Sifting

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through the stats, yearly incidents at funfairs are less than half of

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what they were back in the dark days of 2000. But it's mixed news

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as there have been years when accidents have gone up as well as

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down, and the HSE admits many incidents may simply go unreported.

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But crackdowns on less diligent operators, heavy fines and

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redesigning problematic rides all seems to have helped. So are fairs

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safer now than they were a decade ago? Well, the good news is, the

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answer seems to be yes. Official figures say there are a

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175,000 youngsters under the age of 18 who provide some level of unpaid

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care for their families in the UK. But recent research suggests the

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actual figure could be four times that, because so many don't come

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forward and ask for help. Radio Leicester's Jim Davis has been

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finding out what life is really like when you're left to cope on

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your own. Looking after a loved one comes

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naturally to children. For some, caring for brothers and sisters,

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mums and dads, is a full time job. But many are too scared to tell

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people what they do. Worried they'll be judged, bullied or

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humiliated. They might talk behind my back so I would rather not tell

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them and they might not do it. There are people on this street,

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say no names, but they have been so evil to us. Some deal with the

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pressure by harming themselves. These were mainly done with razor

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blades, dug in with the corner. But now there's a group of young carers

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in Leicester who've had enough. They're getting together to support

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each other. I want to know what it's like for these young carers.

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What sort of burdens are they carrying and what sort of help is

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out there for them? Jhon is 13 years old and looks

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after his deaf and disabled mother. Hello? Yes. How long have you had

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the condition? I was born with osteogenesis, and I've probably

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been going deaf since I was about six. Jhon's always been there for

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his mum, but has found very few people have been there for him.

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awareness in the community, places like schools, hospitals, things

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like that, they don't understand what young carers are and what they

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do. Jhon's got the same medical condition as his mum and can't walk

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far without using a wheelchair himself. But despite this, he's

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been helping his dad to care for Why don't you try having these

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things to deal with and then see if that little think means so it's --

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so much to you to moan about? to find a word to say what it makes

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me feel like and there is not one. He is experiences have made him

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determined to make a difference. -- his experiences. He is meeting

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other young carers at Water Shed Community Centre in Leicester. They

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have set up a support group. It is called Labelled. He is one of the

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founding members along with Lotte, who started caring for her father

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when he suffered a nervous breakdown ten years ago. It -- it

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is about empowering young carers. We do not take away

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responsibilities. A lot do not want us to take it away, they want

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support to do it themselves. Recognising you are a young carer

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is one of the biggest challenges. Men the carers who come here, they

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only realise they are one when they came here. We had volunteers. After

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speaking to them, they were like, I am a carer. One of the people they

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are helping his Jasmin, who has been attending since her father

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died three months ago. She lives on the New Parks estate in Leicester.

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She lives with her sister and mother, who suffers from depression.

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She had been helping to care for her father since she had learned to

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walk. He had a disease of the spine that affected his mobility. One

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morning he collapsed in agony at home. She gave him CPR until

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paramedics arrived but it was too late and he died from a blood clot

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on the lungs. The paramedic said he had gone. She fell to the floor. We

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cried together. It was horrible. I wish he was here now. She is doing

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her best to help her mother through this. Mother does not like sleeping

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and -- sleeping on her own, partly because of everything going through

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her mind, and also that she is used to having somebody next to her. It

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is a comfort thing. She has been left to manage her mother, who

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suffers from a mental health condition which means share can --

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she can be very high or low. times, I feel I want to go out to

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see friends, but I do not feel I can because I want to make sure mum

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is OK. And they are now having to move house. The council meet their

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adapted house for somebody else who is disabled. If you believe

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official figures there are 175,000 children who provide unpaid care to

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a family member. A survey by the BBC found the actual number is four

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times that because many do not have been to support services. -- key in

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to support services. Reece has autism, ADHD, and he has fits and

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he is an asthmatic, he has allergies, he suffers from chest

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infections. The fight he has in him surprises me. This 13-year-old

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struggles school life with looking after her brother. She tries to

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keep it secret because she has been bullied in the past. Judgments they

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make, they talk behind my back, so I would rather not tell them about

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him and they might not do it and I will keep it to myself. At one

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point I could not have done this without her. Being ill myself. I

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could not have done it. These children from Nottingham care for a

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loved one at home and have come a long tour cooking class to learn to

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make nutritious meals, which was organised by a charity, Carers

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Federation. It was set up to support carers of all ages in the

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East Midlands. Some of those from Labelled have come to get advice on

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how to run their service. We are talking to them about how they make

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their voices heard particularly in the corridors of power. It has been

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some weeks since they went to Carers Federation and they are now

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running a self-defence class. And they have invited the head of

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family services from the Council and also a representative from

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Barnardo's. Are you glad you came down? I am very glad. It is

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humbling in many respects. Jasmin, her mother and sister have a new

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home from the council and they are moving in today. It has been a

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rough road, but things are looking up. They have quite a lot of work

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to do to make this close home, but with the right support I think

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things are looking up. The support group now have 50 young

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carers on their books and they are in talks with Leicester City

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football club to become one of their official charities. Tonight,

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more people are getting together in amateur choirs. Our reporter tried

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it out for himself. The Albert Hall, Nottingham, and an anniversary

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performance is about to start. Tickets are hard to get. But this

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is no ordinary concert. And this is no ordinary choir. In fact you

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could be one of the singers. That is what I am going to do. It is

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first time also for Harry and Harriet. It was only a week before

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the concert when they met at Nottingham Trent University. It was

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the first rehearsal and everybody else -- for them and everybody else.

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It is daunting. We have met a lot of people who did it before. I have

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not done anything on this scale. I thought I would give it a bash.

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have signed up for the Music For Everyone, a Nottinghamshire based

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choir that Angela Kay has been running for years. This is

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different. She has 48 hours to get us ready to perform Verdi's Requiem

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at the Albert Hall in Nottingham. If anyone can find my voice, it

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will be Angela. This will be a nerve-racking experience. Somehow,

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you have to will people to sing well. And it works. It is a magical

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moment. It is early morning and up with the lark is Karen Attwood, who

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runs a business baking cakes. For this former computer manager, choir

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singing helped to ease her through a career change. You gather the

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stresses of the day and everything you are worried about. Singing, you

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get is all-out. It is a marvellous way of getting it all out and

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relaxing. Need Daytime Voices of Southwell, musically stirred and

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not shaken. -- meat. Angela brings her Midas touch to tease out golden

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harmonies. You are meant to be muted trumpets. This is one of

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several groups she runs. This gives them confidence. They then think

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they fancy singing with a big choir and orchestra. We do not have to

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have an audition. It is good finding out you can sing.

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auditions, no pressure, that is the philosophy of Angela. At her home,

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she records musical notes on to a CD. Her next big choir project is a

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concert performance of Verdi's Requiem. It is a monster of a work.

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30 years after the first concert, 300 people taking part now are sent

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the CD. By sending out the rehearsal CDs and the score and the

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publicity, you get excitement going. We find that people prepare, they

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listen at home. At home, I am giving the distance learning ago.

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Maybe I need advice, especially if my voice is going to the dogs!

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Robin Reece Crawford is an actor, a professional storyteller and a

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veteran of the group. He sang at the first concert of Music For

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Everyone 30 years ago. It is a strange feeling when you sing with

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the aid group, there is a sense of community, that we are battling to

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the same end result. There is something about the physical aspect

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that is very good for you as a person. Are there health benefits?

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At Duffield in Derbyshire, choir singing run by the Alzheimer's

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Society. As the brain deteriorates, the pressure of the dementia occurs.

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One thing that seems to remain his emotion. Emotion is linked to music.

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It can be transformative to the person with dementia and also to

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their friends and family and carers. They see another side of the person

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with dementia. That is a good one to begin with. At Nottingham Trent

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University, the first rehearsal. Harry Willis and Harriet Card make

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a cautious start. Karen is struggling with a cold. Robin and

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the bases sound good. It is a worrying time when they first come

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in. Will they have prepared? Do they know how it is meant to go?

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The Victoria Rooms in Bristol and James, one of Angela's discoveries

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is rehearsing with the city's Sinfonia Orchestra. Angela, she

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spots talent. She saw me and a few months later I got a telephone call

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inviting me to play for one of her choir concert. Her energy and

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passion for music ignites people. It makes people want to be involved.

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Nottingham's Albert Hall and the concert is about to begin. The

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choir members are not the only ones who are nervous, and this is my big

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moment also. How is your voice? is great. It is back and I am

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raring to go. Will we keep up the orchestra? What Angela. There is a

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lot of change of mood and tempo. -- watch. You cannot be a conductor

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and be a pessimist. You have to believe it will work. Many times I

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds

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have thought I am I doing this, THEY SING.

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APPLAUSE. It was brilliant. I enjoyed doing

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it. Everybody put so much into it. How is the boys? It has gone a

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little bit. -- I must have been straining -- voice. It was

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fantastic. Congratulations. Thanks, you were wonderful. How did it

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sound? Fantastic. Very tight and powerful and musical. That is what

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I like about it. From scratch to performance in 48 hours, it has

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been Angela's approach for 30 years and it sounds pretty good.

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