:00:07. > :00:15.Hello, you are watching Inside Out London. Here is what is coming up.
:00:16. > :00:17.We paid to send them home. Only weeks later, we followed the
:00:18. > :00:24.Romanian beggars as they target London again. We do not have work,
:00:25. > :00:29.we do not have anything. They give us food. I would like more money for
:00:30. > :00:34.my children. 50 years after his assassination, we reveal the untold
:00:35. > :00:40.story of JFK 's final visit to the UK. Here is John F. Kennedy, and to
:00:41. > :00:41.heaven of course, but his last visit to Europe and he will be
:00:42. > :00:45.assassinated a few months later. to Europe and he will be
:00:46. > :00:54.assassinated a few months later. How the iconic Ace Cafe has survived
:00:55. > :01:15.against all odds. We all had classic car nights but it seemed to me, the
:01:16. > :01:20.story of this place, is escape. London welcomes most of its visitors
:01:21. > :01:26.with open arms but not, it would seem, the beggars and rough sleepers
:01:27. > :01:31.at marble arch. In July, the government spent millions putting
:01:32. > :01:37.them back on that now, many are heading back here. We travelled to
:01:38. > :01:41.Romania to meet some of these people to find out why sleeping rough in
:01:42. > :01:46.London is a better option for them and staying at home.
:01:47. > :01:53.This is Oxford Street on a weekday afternoon. Police are arresting a
:01:54. > :02:00.beggar. This is outside a shop on Park Lane, as Westminster Council 's
:02:01. > :02:06.rough sleeping teen wake people up. You are going to need to move all of
:02:07. > :02:11.your stuff here. They don't like it, or are a camera, but the authorities
:02:12. > :02:17.insist it is an issue which has to be sorted out urgently. Here,
:02:18. > :02:24.council workers clean a pavement which was used as a toilet. All this
:02:25. > :02:35.despite a new tactic which the police and border agency tried out
:02:36. > :02:40.in July. A rude awakening and the offer of a free flight or coach trip
:02:41. > :02:47.home. 40 people decided to take up this offer but has the tactic
:02:48. > :02:55.worked? Before they left London, we filmed several people who took up
:02:56. > :03:03.this option to go home. This family, this man and his mother. Sonia and
:03:04. > :03:11.her mother. Also, this lady, sleeping here on the park in central
:03:12. > :03:25.reservation. So, will a stay at home or return? To find out, we followed
:03:26. > :03:32.them to Romania. We are on the road to a rumour immunity outside a town
:03:33. > :03:45.about 100 miles from Bucharest. We are welcomed by children from our
:03:46. > :03:51.first London family. This man cannot wait to show was the poverty that
:03:52. > :03:56.drives as to London. In this room, my mother and father sleep. 15 sleep
:03:57. > :04:01.here in just three runs. We do not have water or a bathroom or even
:04:02. > :04:10.electricity. All I want is for you to help me with a place to work.
:04:11. > :04:15.Take me to London. All I have is ?40 in benefits for my children. We were
:04:16. > :04:22.told there was little food in the house and they were often going
:04:23. > :04:29.hungry. It was ten times better being in London. I used to work jobs
:04:30. > :04:33.for ?10 and I send it home. Have mercy, people of England, take me
:04:34. > :04:42.and my children so they can live in a better world. A few miles away, on
:04:43. > :04:48.the outskirts of the same town, we caught up with the other family.
:04:49. > :04:51.the outskirts of the same town, we caught up with the other family The
:04:52. > :04:56.lady told us she had already tried to come back to London but was
:04:57. > :05:01.stopped and turned back at UK border on the French side of the English
:05:02. > :05:08.Channel. Right there at the customs, I will try again of course.
:05:09. > :05:11.We are dying of hunger here. Have a look inside, have a look at! Don't
:05:12. > :05:18.have much, we don't have anything here. Her daughter, who has six
:05:19. > :05:23.children, told us that even though her mother had been stopped on the
:05:24. > :05:28.UK border, she had to try herself to get back to London. With all my
:05:29. > :05:33.heart, I would like to go there in two weeks time and I don't want to
:05:34. > :05:37.be sent back home. We don't have work, we haven't got anything. They
:05:38. > :05:44.give us food there. I would like more money for my children. How many
:05:45. > :05:54.runners from this one town may have made the trip to London? This man
:05:55. > :05:56.thought he knew. He told us 50 people had left for London and 0
:05:57. > :06:01.people had left for London and 20 had since come back home. Some of
:06:02. > :06:10.them have already gone back to London. But we also saw in this
:06:11. > :06:13.community were Brett certificates are showing some children had been
:06:14. > :06:29.born in London. Their parents hope this could mean a new life for them.
:06:30. > :06:35.This is her, born in London. If we can't it in there and educate them,
:06:36. > :06:38.they could become English. In fact, a British certificate offered no
:06:39. > :06:44.future advantage in an application for citizenship. The birth may have
:06:45. > :06:52.cost the NHS some money but no records are kept about how many Roma
:06:53. > :06:56.babies may have been born in London. In another rumour community,
:06:57. > :07:02.hundreds of miles away, right on the edge of Europe on the border with
:07:03. > :07:08.Moldova, we met up again with our third London family. The man told us
:07:09. > :07:18.how he had been making money out of the contents of London 's dustbins.
:07:19. > :07:23.I get 50 Romanian lei for this. He told us all that includes in his
:07:24. > :07:30.front room had come from London and when sold in his local market, made
:07:31. > :07:36.all the difference to his family. It means food for the kids, clothes for
:07:37. > :07:40.school. I put three or four bikes on the bus and when the bus arrives
:07:41. > :07:46.here, they dropped the bus `` they dropped the bag of. I made almost
:07:47. > :07:51.?800. That was just in six weeks, which means he made more money
:07:52. > :07:58.selling old clothes he found in London and his Romanian hospital
:07:59. > :08:02.doctor. Here in Rumania, we are earning somewhere around ?75 a
:08:03. > :08:12.week, compared to London where you can earn around ?1500 a week. It is
:08:13. > :08:19.perhaps no surprise that this man is now applying for a job with the NHS
:08:20. > :08:22.in the UK. I can buy a house and this is the most important thing for
:08:23. > :08:32.me, that I can offer my daughter better life. It seems at the top and
:08:33. > :08:36.the very bottom of Romanian society, the reason for coming to
:08:37. > :08:43.London is the same. When we visited his home, this man told us he was
:08:44. > :08:47.adamant, his family now could not cope without a lifeline provided by
:08:48. > :08:53.his trips to London to find old clothes to sell. He had no choice
:08:54. > :09:00.but to come back. I don't have anything to live with. What do I
:09:01. > :09:06.give them to eat? Do you want me to stay? Next week I am going back and
:09:07. > :09:14.if they kick me back, what will I do? If you weeks later, just as he
:09:15. > :09:21.told us, he was back in marble arch. His bus fare back to London had cost
:09:22. > :09:27.him ?100. Was there a problem at the border? Initially, they said we were
:09:28. > :09:32.sent back by plane and we should not have come back. Then they saw I had
:09:33. > :09:40.no problems with the police so they let us in. Then it was back to
:09:41. > :09:49.business, finding the old clothes to send back home. We go on. If the
:09:50. > :09:53.authorities were hoping that last summer 's raid on marble arch and
:09:54. > :10:09.partly and had sold this issue, they were wrong. Little, it seems, has
:10:10. > :10:17.changed. Still to come: Yellow Mac imagine watching one of those old
:10:18. > :10:24.wild West films, that is what the Ace Cafe was all about. The most
:10:25. > :10:32.action was if the mods got to close on their scooters. They put one in
:10:33. > :10:35.the canal. Next month is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of
:10:36. > :10:40.John F. Kennedy. Sparking fresh interest in the life and death of
:10:41. > :10:47.this remarkable man. We have been given exclusive access to police
:10:48. > :10:53.files which shed light on JFK's last visit to England, just weeks before
:10:54. > :10:58.he was gunned down in Dallas. President Jack Canady is an hour
:10:59. > :11:02.late arriving at Gatwick airport... June 1963 and the world was a
:11:03. > :11:09.precarious place. It was the height of the Cold War. The USA and soviet
:11:10. > :11:13.union facing each other in a nuclear arms race. It was in this tense
:11:14. > :11:19.atmosphere that President John F. Kennedy flew into Gatwick for talks
:11:20. > :11:24.with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's `` talks at Prime
:11:25. > :11:32.Minister Harold Macmillan's country estate. Here is John F. Kennedy.
:11:33. > :11:39.Unknown to him of course, but his last visit to Britain and Europe. He
:11:40. > :11:43.would be assassinated months later. Former Prime Minister Gordon
:11:44. > :11:47.Brown's admiration for JFK's elliptical legacy resulted in him
:11:48. > :11:54.becoming a close friend of the Kennedy family. He has given this
:11:55. > :11:58.speech in Berlin which many remember as one of the significant moments of
:11:59. > :12:02.the Cold War, defying the Soviet union. He goes to Ireland and then
:12:03. > :12:11.comes to see his old friend Harold Macmillan. With the help of this
:12:12. > :12:16.Brighton historian, we have found the original police files detailing
:12:17. > :12:27.JFK's visit to Sussex in the summer of 1963. There were three jets.
:12:28. > :12:29.There were two American helicopters. There were two presidential cars
:12:30. > :12:34.alone. 100 members of the press. There were two presidential cars
:12:35. > :12:36.alone. 100 members of the press The alone. 100 members of the press The
:12:37. > :12:41.two largest hotels were completely booked out. Every hotel within
:12:42. > :12:47.Sussex seems to have been booked up. It was absolutely enormous. News JFK
:12:48. > :12:56.was attending Mass in a tidy Sussex village brought out hundreds of
:12:57. > :13:04.local onlookers. The vehicle they used was the one that Kennedy used
:13:05. > :13:08.later in December in dollars. Half a century on, we have located someone
:13:09. > :13:16.who was behind those closed doors at the Grove. I was 20. My grandfather
:13:17. > :13:21.and I workplace. Most Sundays we would go for long walks through the
:13:22. > :13:27.woods together and he would discuss politics. So I was fully aware and I
:13:28. > :13:31.had been through the Cuban missile crisis with my grandfather. The Earl
:13:32. > :13:38.of Stockton, Harold Macmillan's Brunton, lived at Birchgrove and
:13:39. > :13:48.witnessed the comings and goings of the summit of 1963. I had met him
:13:49. > :13:58.three times before so this visit was to be both a planning session and a
:13:59. > :14:02.celebration. In these times, politicians did not meet like they
:14:03. > :14:07.do now in summit like the G8 and G20. They had to steal this time
:14:08. > :14:11.from other things because there were no formal summits. They had to
:14:12. > :14:16.create these events themselves. The fact that he stayed at the house of
:14:17. > :14:22.her Harold Macmillan shows a personal dimension to this. Wherever
:14:23. > :14:27.President Kennedy went, he was surrounded by a security bubble. In
:14:28. > :14:33.charge of the Secret Service operation for the Sussex summit was
:14:34. > :14:41.this man. This photo shows him with Jackie Kennedy on a trip to India.
:14:42. > :14:48.His name is David Grant. But could we trace Mr Grant 50 years on? Luck,
:14:49. > :14:52.it seems, was on our side. We have managed to find out that former
:14:53. > :14:59.Secret Service agent David Grant is still very much alive, and living
:15:00. > :15:03.just outside Washington, DC. One of the things I remember about him was
:15:04. > :15:08.his humility. He was not impressed with himself, really. He was
:15:09. > :15:16.impressed a lot by people around him. He was a heck of a guy. So what
:15:17. > :15:24.was your role in setting up the Sussex summit of 1963? I was
:15:25. > :15:31.assigned to go there and represent the president and the White House to
:15:32. > :15:36.do preliminary advance work for a further visit to Birchgrove house in
:15:37. > :15:42.a meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan. I remember Brighton,
:15:43. > :15:54.where we stayed, and I remember Birchgrove. Very good memories.
:15:55. > :16:02.Yellow Mac `` he said Tom I guess I will be seeing you all in Washington
:16:03. > :16:10.soon. Almost his last words to Harold were, we must do this again,
:16:11. > :16:17.and soon. But unknown to both men, the Sussex summit was to be the last
:16:18. > :16:23.time they would meet. Two or three months later, Macmillan is leaving
:16:24. > :16:31.office. After that, Kennedy is assassinated. He is his last visit
:16:32. > :16:36.to Europe and Britain. At 12:30pm on November the 22nd, 1963, three
:16:37. > :16:40.gunshots ring out from a sixth floor window of a schoolbook depository
:16:41. > :16:52.overlooking the presidential motorcade. The first reports are
:16:53. > :16:59.confusing. A message came over on the portable radio equipment I had
:17:00. > :17:04.that he had been hit, not shot, hit. Within seconds, the presidential
:17:05. > :17:12.limousine is accelerating away to the nearest hospital. I went to the
:17:13. > :17:19.hospital. Mrs Kennedy was obviously very upset. That was when I first
:17:20. > :17:25.found out he had been mortally wounded. Even though I was only 12
:17:26. > :17:33.at the time, I can remember vividly being in a room with my mother. My
:17:34. > :17:39.father and brothers were out. And then the television broadcast the
:17:40. > :17:43.news of the shooting. It then appeared to go back to normal
:17:44. > :17:49.programmes, and then the news came of the death. You were so aware and
:17:50. > :17:54.I remember thinking at the time this was a blow against democracy, that
:17:55. > :17:59.it was a shooting that would change the way people saw the world. Just
:18:00. > :18:05.as he had been in charge of the advance security for the Sussex
:18:06. > :18:12.visit, David Grant had also arranged the security for Dallas. On that
:18:13. > :18:20.fateful visit, why didn't you have the bubble top on the car? The
:18:21. > :18:23.president's staff wanted to offer exposure. You cannot argue with it
:18:24. > :18:31.unless you have a good argument. unless you have a good argument
:18:32. > :18:35.Events unfolded swiftly, while David can be seen here loading be
:18:36. > :18:40.president's body on a flight to Washington. Across time, he's
:18:41. > :18:46.killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, had fled the depository, taking refuge in a
:18:47. > :18:51.cinema. Recognised by a local police officer, Oswald shot him dead. He
:18:52. > :18:56.tried to escape but was overpowered and arrested. David caught up with
:18:57. > :19:06.the Harvey Oswald at the dollars headquarters. Arrogant, a sneer on
:19:07. > :19:13.his face. As far as whether he admitted anything or admitted
:19:14. > :19:19.anything, he was asked, why did you shoot the President? And he just
:19:20. > :19:32.shook his head. He said nothing have to mark he said nothing. `` he said
:19:33. > :19:33.nothing. When told of Kennedy's death, Harold Macmillan, who had
:19:34. > :19:43.just resigned due to ill health, just resigned due to ill health
:19:44. > :19:49.made this entry in his diary. Alas, I was never to see my friend again
:19:50. > :19:56.before those leaves had turned and fallen. He was snatched by an
:19:57. > :20:00.assassin's budget. In today's tough economic
:20:01. > :20:08.conditions, the shutters are sadly going down forever on London is a
:20:09. > :20:26.smack shops and cafes but there is one cafe that is 75 years old and is
:20:27. > :20:32.about to export its brand to China. `` shutters going down forever on
:20:33. > :20:36.London's shops and cafes. It is proud to live in a rock 'n'
:20:37. > :20:45.roll past when cars and bikes were not thought of as looters but
:20:46. > :20:51.admired for their beauty. `` polluters. Every day and night,
:20:52. > :20:57.petrol heads congregate here to eat and drink but also to show off their
:20:58. > :21:03.much loved bikes, cars and scooters and that is because this is the ones
:21:04. > :21:10.infamous Ace Cafe. I just love coming down here. Seeing all the
:21:11. > :21:21.bikes. I come down here to get away from the kids in the morning X back
:21:22. > :21:28.`` in the morning! It is to come down here and have a bite to eat.
:21:29. > :21:35.The cafe first opened in 1938 and rose to notoriety in the 1950s and
:21:36. > :21:40.1960s. But its fortunes declined and in 1969, it closed and became a tile
:21:41. > :21:46.warehouse. But 12 years ago, we made a film there about an ex mounted
:21:47. > :21:55.policeman with a very large room who was also a biker. He set out on a
:21:56. > :21:59.rather risky venture. I sat there reflecting on things that used to
:22:00. > :22:06.occur. I then organised a reunion in 1994. That was a huge success, with
:22:07. > :22:11.thousands attending. In these past humans, we have managed to open the
:22:12. > :22:17.whole place once again, seven days a week. `` in the past few months We
:22:18. > :22:20.week. `` in the past few months. We have a huge history broadly wrapped
:22:21. > :22:26.up in this place and I want people to see this as the amazing cafe
:22:27. > :22:32.restaurant in Britain was again and draw on those routes and historic
:22:33. > :22:42.things that I feel part of my life, the motorbikes, rock 'n' roll,
:22:43. > :22:45.scooters, heads and music. Market's cream heart back to the early 1 60s,
:22:46. > :22:55.cream heart back to the early 1960s, where leather meant bikes and malts
:22:56. > :23:02.post to be chased from the place. `` mods were to be chased from the
:23:03. > :23:05.place. People often say to me, what was it really liked down here? I
:23:06. > :23:11.say, imagine watching one of those wild West films where just before
:23:12. > :23:16.they moved into town and cleaned it up, that is exactly what the Ace
:23:17. > :23:23.Cafe was like. The closest to action was if the mods got to close on the
:23:24. > :23:30.scooters. I've heard they did what one in the canal, not the guy on the
:23:31. > :23:36.scooter. Reputation can be blown out of proportion sometimes. There were
:23:37. > :23:40.incidents, people racing on the roads, some silly things, but most
:23:41. > :23:43.of the time I would say that was an exception to the rule. You came
:23:44. > :23:58.down, metrical mates, had a chat and left. Yellow mac `` met your mates.
:23:59. > :24:02.Mark opened his Ace Cafe to all that with high streets filling with
:24:03. > :24:05.coffee chains at the time, many thought he was hugely naive to think
:24:06. > :24:11.his cafe could be a long`term success, and back then all was not
:24:12. > :24:16.running smoothly. Rantings of paper, in there, in here, everywhere. All
:24:17. > :24:19.of it is vital stuff but actually what is important is whether you get
:24:20. > :24:28.eggshell ingle fried egg or not, not eggshell ingle fried egg or not not
:24:29. > :24:40.this. Are you having teething problems? I have eaten the eggshell.
:24:41. > :24:47.We called and called you and you did not answer so somebody ate your
:24:48. > :24:54.food! The only thing I have read is a horse and a motorbike. That is
:24:55. > :25:05.about it. Are you taking on a risky business? Hugely. Hugely.
:25:06. > :25:13.After revisiting the Ace Cafe 1 years on, I think it is safe to say
:25:14. > :25:16.that Mark has now run a horse, a motorbike and a highly successful
:25:17. > :25:22.cafe. The place is jam`packed every day with people living there
:25:23. > :25:29.particular petroleum fantasy. Each evening we are hosting different and
:25:30. > :25:37.distinct vehicles. We will have British motorbike nights, classic
:25:38. > :25:40.car nights, Harley`Davidson nights. Each of the vehicle groups we host
:25:41. > :25:46.typically have a very distinct demographics, so at one end of the
:25:47. > :25:54.spectrum, we will have meant my age and older into classic bikes,
:25:55. > :26:02.perhaps classic cars, and at the other end we have youngsters into
:26:03. > :26:07.modified cars. There is a lot to do, you can have something to eat, there
:26:08. > :26:12.are lovely people around. It is the best ways for bikes. I know because
:26:13. > :26:18.I have some friends who used to come here a long time ago. From Brazil.
:26:19. > :26:25.We all in our different ways identify with something. It is by
:26:26. > :26:29.the way we dress, what we drive That is what marketing and promotion
:26:30. > :26:34.and advertising is all about. What it seems ultimately to boil down to
:26:35. > :26:48.in the story of this place and its heritage is opportunity to escape.
:26:49. > :26:55.This is one of those places whose history is absolutely entrenched in
:26:56. > :27:05.this notion of speed and the idea of speed. Soda nostalgia sells, and so
:27:06. > :27:08.much so that the Ace is expanding. They are looking to export one to
:27:09. > :27:11.the United States and another one is literally just opening in China.
:27:12. > :27:12.the United States and another one is literally just opening in China. The
:27:13. > :27:16.literally just opening in China The young men in the original bikers'
:27:17. > :27:21.cafe would not have even seen or heard of a Chinese takeaway, let
:27:22. > :27:24.alone taking the Ace away to China. So do they were each group the about
:27:25. > :27:29.to become just a chain of rock n' to become just a chain of rock 'n'
:27:30. > :27:34.roll theme parks? You can look at anything as being as a theme but the
:27:35. > :27:37.way I look at it, they have got the theme, they have got the thing as
:27:38. > :27:40.near as they can here and hopefully they will debate in the right way,
:27:41. > :27:44.but if they do not do something with it I'm quite sure in these other
:27:45. > :27:49.places, other people will come in and use it and you would have no
:27:50. > :27:52.control on what it is like at all. You really do get the impression
:27:53. > :27:57.that even with its worldwide expansion, the soul of this place is
:27:58. > :28:02.safe and the now successful owner's biggest worry is... I have been
:28:03. > :28:10.enjoying X, articulately poached egg on toast, for these past 12 years
:28:11. > :28:17.and this morning, I have to say that regrettably I did find a bit of
:28:18. > :28:22.shell! So we need to sort this out. If you fancy seeing that programme
:28:23. > :28:26.we made back in the day, just head to our website. I will give you the
:28:27. > :28:32.address in a moment and hopefully next time you return to the Ace
:28:33. > :28:36.Cafe, Mark will have dealt with his eggshell issues.
:28:37. > :28:42.And that is it from the current series of Inside Out London. If you
:28:43. > :28:49.have missed any of tonight's show, catch up on the eye player. Just
:28:50. > :28:51.head to our website. We will be back in the New Year. Thank you for
:28:52. > :29:07.watching this evening. Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your
:29:08. > :29:10.90`second update. Four people are dead after the worst UK storm for
:29:11. > :29:15.years. Hurricane`force conditions left almost half a million homes
:29:16. > :29:18.without power. In some areas wind speeds reached up to 99
:29:19. > :29:23.miles`per`hour. The weather caused travel chaos for many. Rail and road
:29:24. > :29:26.services were disrupted because of fallen trees, while over a hundred
:29:27. > :29:28.flights had to be cancelled at Heathrow. Get the latest updates on
:29:29. > :29:32.BBC Local Radio. On trial over the phone`hacking
:29:33. > :29:35.affair. Two former News of the World editors, Rebekah Brooks and Andy
:29:36. > :29:39.Coulson. Both deny being involved in accessing voicemails.
:29:40. > :29:43.The NHS in England must handle complaints better. That's according
:29:44. > :29:47.to a new government report. It says there's a culture of delay and
:29:48. > :29:50.denial which needs to change. Are our streets being lost under a
:29:51. > :29:53.tide of litter? The charity Keep Britain Tidy thinks we're dropping
:29:54. > :29:57.around thirty million tonnes every year. It estimates cleaning it up
:29:58. > :29:58.costs more than a billion