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Hello. Tonight's Inside Out is at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Coming up | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
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in the next half hour What happens when a fairground ride goes wrong? | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
We investigate fairground safety. Also tonight - the hidden army of | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
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And can you learn to sink in 48 hours? John turns tender. -- -- | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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tenor. Fairground rides are designed to thrill and millions | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
rides them at theme-park and at the seaside but sometimes they go wrong | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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Since the millennium, it's been reported around 700 workers and | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
1,400 people have been injured around amusement rides. Some deadly, | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
some involving life changing injuries and others resulting in | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
nothing more than cuts and bruises. But the question is, how safe are | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
we when we go to the fair? During the summer Leicestershire's Billy | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
Bates fair, who've been in the business for six generations, hit | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
the headlines. Two teenagers were badly injured when the Mega Frog | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
Bounce ride went wrong. I got on it, I remember going round | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
about three times and the next thing there was a buying. I | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
remember my face smashing against the barriers and I ended up on the | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
floor. I heard people around me and I knew it was quite bad. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
coincidence, some the was filming it. This is the footage. We were | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
talking as normal while the right was going around picking up some | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
speed, and then suddenly it collapses on us. That really did | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
come off. You came away with serious injuries. I had 80 stables, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
stents -- 10 stitches on my chin, five in my tongue, a punctured lung | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
and a fractured rib. It is shocking, it really? It is. We do go on at | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
fairground ride again? I think about it all the time. It just | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
seems like a massive nightmare, really. Billy Bates Funfair first | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
agreed, and then pulled out of an interview. In a statement they | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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Even now, it's still unclear how the accident happened. The HSE are | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
still investigating. Elsewhere at other fairs, the Health and Safety | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
Executive is concerned about the way rides are designed. Miami Trip | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
threw two riders out last year, and Tagada is a ride which has no | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
passenger restraints. It's injured dozens of people over the past few | :04:03. | :04:12. | |
years. The HSE has made compulsory changes to the design of both. Next, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
I'm with James Mellor. He owns some of the best rides in the business, | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
and has a good safety record. He's the main man behind Nottingham's | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Goose Fair and a spokesperson for the Showman's Guild, who represent | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
20,000 travelling workers. I want to ask him how his industry has | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
reacted to recent safety scares. Whenever you hear an accident, | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
something happened on a ride, the home industry feed us down. Until | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
we find because of what has actually happened, we are all very | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
cautious. Nobody wants to see anybody injured at off. How have | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
things changed over the last 10 or 12 years? 2000 was a bad year. | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
was about gear and reflected badly on us. There is a lot more people | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
work now. There are certain as it ever gets that have all got to be | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
completed before the actual fare. There is an examination of the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
rides, every year, just like an MoT. It is much more stringent, I would | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
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say, than an MoT. When is a ride to old? How can you say that? If you | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
keep the quality of, it is up to yourself, you know? If you want to | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
replace something, you can do it. Most people are changing them | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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frequently. It is a question, when is it too old? Along with many | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
theme parks, every ride at the Goose Fair and every member of the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Showman's Guild are compelled to undertake a yearly inspection - | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
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basically, an MOT for fairground equipment. We've come to Skegness | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
to meet Nicola Foss, who's from Derby. Her daughter Paige was on a | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
ride operated by the Pleasure Beach, when it malfunctioned with very | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
serious consequences. You witnessed the accident. What went wrong? | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
don't know. I heard this clicking noise, as if something was not | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
connected properly. They went around twice, and then the side | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
fail. This was a ride that went round 360 degrees and you were | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
meant to stay horizontal in the carriage as he went round. When we | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
got to the top beside just went. a mother watching your daughter on | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
the right, it must have been terrifying. It was really | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
terrifying, especially when I had to pretend that I was not scared. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
You have to try to be calm and try not to cry. I felt like crying my | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
eyes out. Nicola's daughter Paige is autistic and was traumatized | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
after she was trapped on the ride with injured people. There was one | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
woman on the right you were very concerned about? Yeah, I actually | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
thought she was dead. It was really bad. She looked dead. I've thought | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
they were trying to work on her to save her. It is like something you | :07:32. | :07:40. | |
see on TV, not real life. You don't expect to go on holiday and retired | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
come home and not be have to ring about it. We contacted Skegness | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Pleasure Beach, who didn't want to be interviewed. The faulty ride in | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
question has since been removed. So, serious accidents continue to | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
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happen. But are funfair rides safer now than a decade ago? Melvin | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Sandell from the Health and Safety Executive works out what went wrong, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
how accidents can be prevented and who or what is to blame. Their | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
national data can tell us whether safety has improved. Have things | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
improved since 2000? They have. No fair grounds are a safe place to be, | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
I think. You stand a far greater chance of being heard on your | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
weight to the fairground than worst on the affair. How can the public | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
protect themselves? The public can be reasonably sure that they will | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
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be OK. When they act -- when they are at large organised first. -- | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
scarce. All of the rights will have been tested. What I would say to | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
parents is have a look at the machines. If it looks nice and | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
clean and tidy and well run, it probably is well run. Stick to the | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
big fairgrounds and you will generally be all right. Sifting | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
through the stats, yearly incidents at funfairs are less than half of | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
what they were back in the dark days of 2000. But it's mixed news | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
as there have been years when accidents have gone up as well as | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
down, and the HSE admits many incidents may simply go unreported. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
But crackdowns on less diligent operators, heavy fines and | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
redesigning problematic rides all seems to have helped. So are fairs | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
safer now than they were a decade ago? Well, the good news is, the | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
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answer seems to be yes. Official figures say there are a | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
175,000 youngsters under the age of 18 who provide some level of unpaid | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
care for their families in the UK. But recent research suggests the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
actual figure could be four times that, because so many don't come | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
forward and ask for help. Radio Leicester's Jim Davis has been | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
finding out what life is really like when you're left to cope on | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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your own. Looking after a loved one comes | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
naturally to children. For some, caring for brothers and sisters, | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
mums and dads, is a full time job. But many are too scared to tell | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
people what they do. Worried they'll be judged, bullied or | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
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humiliated. They might talk behind my back so I would rather not tell | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
them and they might not do it. There are people on this street, | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
say no names, but they have been so evil to us. Some deal with the | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
pressure by harming themselves. These were mainly done with razor | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
blades, dug in with the corner. But now there's a group of young carers | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
in Leicester who've had enough. They're getting together to support | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
each other. I want to know what it's like for these young carers. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
What sort of burdens are they carrying and what sort of help is | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
out there for them? Jhon is 13 years old and looks | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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after his deaf and disabled mother. Hello? Yes. How long have you had | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
the condition? I was born with osteogenesis, and I've probably | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
been going deaf since I was about six. Jhon's always been there for | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
his mum, but has found very few people have been there for him. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
awareness in the community, places like schools, hospitals, things | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
like that, they don't understand what young carers are and what they | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
do. Jhon's got the same medical condition as his mum and can't walk | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
far without using a wheelchair himself. But despite this, he's | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
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been helping his dad to care for Why don't you try having these | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
things to deal with and then see if that little think means so it's -- | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
so much to you to moan about? to find a word to say what it makes | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
me feel like and there is not one. He is experiences have made him | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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determined to make a difference. -- his experiences. He is meeting | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
other young carers at Water Shed Community Centre in Leicester. They | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
have set up a support group. It is called Labelled. He is one of the | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
founding members along with Lotte, who started caring for her father | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
when he suffered a nervous breakdown ten years ago. It -- it | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
is about empowering young carers. We do not take away | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
responsibilities. A lot do not want us to take it away, they want | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
support to do it themselves. Recognising you are a young carer | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
is one of the biggest challenges. Men the carers who come here, they | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
only realise they are one when they came here. We had volunteers. After | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
speaking to them, they were like, I am a carer. One of the people they | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
are helping his Jasmin, who has been attending since her father | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
died three months ago. She lives on the New Parks estate in Leicester. | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
She lives with her sister and mother, who suffers from depression. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
She had been helping to care for her father since she had learned to | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
walk. He had a disease of the spine that affected his mobility. One | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
morning he collapsed in agony at home. She gave him CPR until | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
paramedics arrived but it was too late and he died from a blood clot | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
on the lungs. The paramedic said he had gone. She fell to the floor. We | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
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cried together. It was horrible. I wish he was here now. She is doing | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
her best to help her mother through this. Mother does not like sleeping | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
and -- sleeping on her own, partly because of everything going through | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
her mind, and also that she is used to having somebody next to her. It | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
is a comfort thing. She has been left to manage her mother, who | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
suffers from a mental health condition which means share can -- | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
she can be very high or low. times, I feel I want to go out to | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
see friends, but I do not feel I can because I want to make sure mum | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
is OK. And they are now having to move house. The council meet their | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
adapted house for somebody else who is disabled. If you believe | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
official figures there are 175,000 children who provide unpaid care to | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
a family member. A survey by the BBC found the actual number is four | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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times that because many do not have been to support services. -- key in | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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to support services. Reece has autism, ADHD, and he has fits and | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
he is an asthmatic, he has allergies, he suffers from chest | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
infections. The fight he has in him surprises me. This 13-year-old | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
struggles school life with looking after her brother. She tries to | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
keep it secret because she has been bullied in the past. Judgments they | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
make, they talk behind my back, so I would rather not tell them about | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
him and they might not do it and I will keep it to myself. At one | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
point I could not have done this without her. Being ill myself. I | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
could not have done it. These children from Nottingham care for a | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
loved one at home and have come a long tour cooking class to learn to | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
make nutritious meals, which was organised by a charity, Carers | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
Federation. It was set up to support carers of all ages in the | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
East Midlands. Some of those from Labelled have come to get advice on | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
how to run their service. We are talking to them about how they make | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
their voices heard particularly in the corridors of power. It has been | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
some weeks since they went to Carers Federation and they are now | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
running a self-defence class. And they have invited the head of | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
family services from the Council and also a representative from | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
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Barnardo's. Are you glad you came down? I am very glad. It is | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
humbling in many respects. Jasmin, her mother and sister have a new | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
home from the council and they are moving in today. It has been a | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
rough road, but things are looking up. They have quite a lot of work | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
to do to make this close home, but with the right support I think | :18:46. | :18:55. | |
things are looking up. The support group now have 50 young | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
carers on their books and they are in talks with Leicester City | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
football club to become one of their official charities. Tonight, | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
more people are getting together in amateur choirs. Our reporter tried | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
it out for himself. The Albert Hall, Nottingham, and an anniversary | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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performance is about to start. Tickets are hard to get. But this | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
is no ordinary concert. And this is no ordinary choir. In fact you | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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could be one of the singers. That is what I am going to do. It is | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
first time also for Harry and Harriet. It was only a week before | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
the concert when they met at Nottingham Trent University. It was | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
the first rehearsal and everybody else -- for them and everybody else. | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
It is daunting. We have met a lot of people who did it before. I have | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
not done anything on this scale. I thought I would give it a bash. | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
have signed up for the Music For Everyone, a Nottinghamshire based | :20:26. | :20:35. | |
choir that Angela Kay has been running for years. This is | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
different. She has 48 hours to get us ready to perform Verdi's Requiem | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
at the Albert Hall in Nottingham. If anyone can find my voice, it | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
will be Angela. This will be a nerve-racking experience. Somehow, | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
you have to will people to sing well. And it works. It is a magical | :21:02. | :21:11. | |
moment. It is early morning and up with the lark is Karen Attwood, who | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
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runs a business baking cakes. For this former computer manager, choir | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
singing helped to ease her through a career change. You gather the | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
stresses of the day and everything you are worried about. Singing, you | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
get is all-out. It is a marvellous way of getting it all out and | :21:36. | :21:45. | |
relaxing. Need Daytime Voices of Southwell, musically stirred and | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
not shaken. -- meat. Angela brings her Midas touch to tease out golden | :21:52. | :22:01. | |
harmonies. You are meant to be muted trumpets. This is one of | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
several groups she runs. This gives them confidence. They then think | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
they fancy singing with a big choir and orchestra. We do not have to | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
have an audition. It is good finding out you can sing. | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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auditions, no pressure, that is the philosophy of Angela. At her home, | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
she records musical notes on to a CD. Her next big choir project is a | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
concert performance of Verdi's Requiem. It is a monster of a work. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
30 years after the first concert, 300 people taking part now are sent | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
the CD. By sending out the rehearsal CDs and the score and the | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
publicity, you get excitement going. We find that people prepare, they | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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listen at home. At home, I am giving the distance learning ago. | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
Maybe I need advice, especially if my voice is going to the dogs! | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
Robin Reece Crawford is an actor, a professional storyteller and a | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
veteran of the group. He sang at the first concert of Music For | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Everyone 30 years ago. It is a strange feeling when you sing with | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
the aid group, there is a sense of community, that we are battling to | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
the same end result. There is something about the physical aspect | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
that is very good for you as a person. Are there health benefits? | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
At Duffield in Derbyshire, choir singing run by the Alzheimer's | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
Society. As the brain deteriorates, the pressure of the dementia occurs. | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
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One thing that seems to remain his emotion. Emotion is linked to music. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
It can be transformative to the person with dementia and also to | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
their friends and family and carers. They see another side of the person | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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with dementia. That is a good one to begin with. At Nottingham Trent | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
University, the first rehearsal. Harry Willis and Harriet Card make | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
a cautious start. Karen is struggling with a cold. Robin and | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
the bases sound good. It is a worrying time when they first come | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
in. Will they have prepared? Do they know how it is meant to go? | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
The Victoria Rooms in Bristol and James, one of Angela's discoveries | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
is rehearsing with the city's Sinfonia Orchestra. Angela, she | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
spots talent. She saw me and a few months later I got a telephone call | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
inviting me to play for one of her choir concert. Her energy and | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
passion for music ignites people. It makes people want to be involved. | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Nottingham's Albert Hall and the concert is about to begin. The | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
choir members are not the only ones who are nervous, and this is my big | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
moment also. How is your voice? is great. It is back and I am | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
raring to go. Will we keep up the orchestra? What Angela. There is a | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
lot of change of mood and tempo. -- watch. You cannot be a conductor | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
and be a pessimist. You have to believe it will work. Many times I | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :26:35. | :27:21. | |
have thought I am I doing this, THEY SING. | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
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APPLAUSE. It was brilliant. I enjoyed doing | :27:31. | :27:39. | |
it. Everybody put so much into it. How is the boys? It has gone a | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
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little bit. -- I must have been straining -- voice. It was | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
fantastic. Congratulations. Thanks, you were wonderful. How did it | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
sound? Fantastic. Very tight and powerful and musical. That is what | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
I like about it. From scratch to performance in 48 hours, it has | :28:11. | :28:20. | |
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been Angela's approach for 30 years and it sounds pretty good. | :28:27. | :28:32. |