:00:00. > :00:09.Hello, there. I'm Matthew Wright. You are watching Inside Out London.
:00:10. > :00:13.Here is what is coming up tonight: Caught red`handed ` the council
:00:14. > :00:19.house fraudsters cheating the system. A man managed to con the
:00:20. > :00:23.council out of 23 properties, equivalent to a block about that
:00:24. > :00:27.size. For his friends, family and those willing to pay.
:00:28. > :00:32.Why these gardeners are taking on the Government to save their
:00:33. > :00:38.allotments. I think 700,000s, or flats to this area is madness. In my
:00:39. > :00:44.opinion, building houses on an allotment site is immoral.
:00:45. > :00:49.And when brains meet brawn, why chess boxing is all the rage. The
:00:50. > :00:54.sport goes back to a very old concept of a warrior poet, someone
:00:55. > :00:59.who was both physically, powerful protector and hunter, but is
:01:00. > :01:01.emotionally sensitive and incapable of strategic thought and planning at
:01:02. > :01:19.the same time. With housing costs in the capital
:01:20. > :01:23.reaching an all`time high, some unscrupulous council tenants have
:01:24. > :01:27.been cashing in by illegally sub`letting their homes. It is
:01:28. > :01:33.estimated that tens of thousands of London tenancies are being abused in
:01:34. > :01:36.this way with scammers raking in ?500 a week for each property they
:01:37. > :01:40.sub`let. The fight is now on for the authorities to reclaim all that
:01:41. > :01:44.public housing from the private profiteers and this month sees the
:01:45. > :01:49.launch of new data checks that should help flush out the
:01:50. > :01:54.fraudsters. Mark Jordan joins the investigation.
:01:55. > :01:58.Last autumn I joined Westminster Council on the hunt for those they
:01:59. > :02:02.say are robbing the housing benefit system blind. The day I went to the
:02:03. > :02:07.property where it had a swimming pool... We witness the thousands
:02:08. > :02:11.being pocketed by those illegally sub`letting their benefit`funded
:02:12. > :02:17.prime location homes. How many do you rent the flat for? ?900 per week
:02:18. > :02:23.to live here? Anything to say about ?45,000 taken? Here in Westminster,
:02:24. > :02:30.it would be fair to say we have been mugs and we have been mugged. Since
:02:31. > :02:34.that film, welfare continues to make headlines with programmes like On
:02:35. > :02:38.Benefit Street and Britain on the Fiddle. Now councils are opening a
:02:39. > :02:42.new battle front. They want to recover thousands of council flats
:02:43. > :02:50.that have been hijacked by criminals. It's bigger than housing
:02:51. > :02:54.benefit fraud, the Audit Commission reckon English councils have lost
:02:55. > :02:57.control of around 100,000 properties. I'm from Westminster
:02:58. > :03:02.City Council. Could I come and talk to you? Our professionals on the
:03:03. > :03:09.frontline talk about a fraudulent rate of about 10%. I hardly ever see
:03:10. > :03:13.him to be honest. We have reports of people actually not even living in
:03:14. > :03:18.Westminster. They just secure the tenancy and go back to Holland. I
:03:19. > :03:24.have been out with fraud teams in Westminster, Richmond and Southwark.
:03:25. > :03:29.The typical rent in a social home in London is ?400 per month. People can
:03:30. > :03:35.rent it out for up to ?1,500, ?2,000 a month. I have had about three or
:03:36. > :03:40.four different tenants. A determined fraudster could get away with
:03:41. > :03:46.running half a dozen social homes. Homes meant for the needy, now
:03:47. > :03:56.sub`let for profit by criminals. It is indicative of the welfare state
:03:57. > :04:07.gone mad! I have been called here. The council have uncovered that one
:04:08. > :04:13.of their flats is being let by someone in China. They have used the
:04:14. > :04:19.internet to sub`let it and collect a market London rent from 6,000 miles
:04:20. > :04:22.away. We found it in very poor condition and these are some
:04:23. > :04:29.examples of the condition of the property. We managed to locate the
:04:30. > :04:34.tenant in China. Repossessed and redecorated, Southwark are offering
:04:35. > :04:41.it to Stuart, just one on their 20,000 waiting list. Got plenty of
:04:42. > :04:45.units. My partner and myself, her daughter and my stepdaughter as
:04:46. > :04:51.well. Where we live in one room, it is really cramped. Causes a lot of
:04:52. > :04:56.arguments. There's a lot of people out there that do need a place. So
:04:57. > :04:59.this is like paradise compared to where we have been living. People
:05:00. > :05:03.like Stuart and his family are the victims of this fraud. Here in
:05:04. > :05:08.Southwark, one of the largest housing fraud investigations is
:05:09. > :05:12.coming to a close. A man managed to con the council out of 23
:05:13. > :05:20.properties, equivalent to a block about that size for his friends,
:05:21. > :05:25.family and those willing to pay. This is the man. He took a job in
:05:26. > :05:30.Southwark's Homeless Housing Department, with not much more than
:05:31. > :05:35.Tippex, a photocopier and a lot of front to create fake identities,
:05:36. > :05:39.fictitious children and conned the council out of 23 properties. These
:05:40. > :05:46.are some of the fake documents? He got away with it for years until a
:05:47. > :05:49.beefed`up fraud team spotted his bewilderingly simple techniques.
:05:50. > :05:54.These were fake children he was writing birth certificates for?
:05:55. > :05:58.Yeah, they don't exist. This would potentially show somebody with a
:05:59. > :06:01.priority need. The idea was to fake pregnancy to get people higher on
:06:02. > :06:05.the housing list? That's right. These fake bank account statements
:06:06. > :06:09.would have been used to show somebody's income, whether they are
:06:10. > :06:13.in receipt of child benefit. And he was printing them off himself?
:06:14. > :06:16.Absolutely. Last month, he pleaded guilty to misconduct in public
:06:17. > :06:21.office and transfer of criminal property. Until sentencing later
:06:22. > :06:28.this month, he's still walking free. Some of the flats are yet to be
:06:29. > :06:33.repossessed. This has been a big learning lesson for us and has
:06:34. > :06:41.helped us sharpen up our act. London is made up of 32 boroughs. But for
:06:42. > :06:48.the fraudster, it's also incredibly handy. How have you got this
:06:49. > :06:53.property? You don't speak English? In St John's Wood, these Westminster
:06:54. > :06:58.investigators need to find out where the real tenant of a property is.
:06:59. > :07:03.For years, they have had no way of cross`checking with other boroughs.
:07:04. > :07:06.The fraudster could go on to a number of waiting lists and when
:07:07. > :07:10.they got to the top, they received the property. Unbeknown to that
:07:11. > :07:15.local authority, they may already have another tenancy in another
:07:16. > :07:19.London borough. Now an interpreter has been called. How does she live
:07:20. > :07:24.in the property? How has she got the property? They gave me the name of
:07:25. > :07:27.someone who isn't the tenant saying that was his sister and this is a
:07:28. > :07:32.family member. That is about all I could get from them. As soon as I
:07:33. > :07:39.start to ask more questions, he claimed he couldn't speak English.
:07:40. > :07:45.Lucky for Steve, this month sees the launch of the London Hub, eight
:07:46. > :07:49.boroughs agreeing to share all their housing data with other financial
:07:50. > :07:54.cross`checks. The aim? To track the fraudster. It might be a bank
:07:55. > :07:58.account, a credit card, mobile phones, so what we are looking for
:07:59. > :08:03.is evidence that somebody else other than the tenant is leaving that
:08:04. > :08:07.footprint at the tenancy address, similarly the tenant is perhaps
:08:08. > :08:13.leaving a footprint at another address. Last year, without such
:08:14. > :08:18.data sharing, it took Westminster over a year to track down and
:08:19. > :08:24.prosecute this woman. She was given this prime period council flat near
:08:25. > :08:30.Hyde Park for just ?440 a month but rented it out at ?1,400. She
:08:31. > :08:34.received a suspended prison sentence. Since then, a new housing
:08:35. > :08:40.fraud law threatens two years in jail. Finally, we can show some
:08:41. > :08:44.teeth with this. We are trying to get hold of your neighbour here. The
:08:45. > :08:49.police come and kicked the door in. TV shows on welfare cheats have
:08:50. > :08:54.triggered a surge of new tip`offs. They are reporting neighbours and
:08:55. > :08:57.friends and family. Do you suspect that someone is sub`letting their
:08:58. > :09:00.property? How long have they been there?
:09:01. > :09:04.With around 500 homes now repossessed, Southwark has gone a
:09:05. > :09:10.step further, buying ID scanners to flag up fake documents. OK, this
:09:11. > :09:15.document has failed. So far, this scanner has flagged 7% of all cases
:09:16. > :09:20.that have been scanned. So the service user doesn't get access to
:09:21. > :09:25.those services. Another fraud avoided. But I'm told other council
:09:26. > :09:30.homes are being lost forever as sub`let fraudsters increasingly cash
:09:31. > :09:36.in on the Government's right to buy discounts of up to ?100,000. Not
:09:37. > :09:40.just content with profiting out of this property, which isn't theirs,
:09:41. > :09:45.they want to take it to the next level and own the asset. Under the
:09:46. > :09:48.right`to`buy scheme, there is ?100,000 discount that they can
:09:49. > :09:53.gather. In Central London, who wouldn't mind buying a property that
:09:54. > :09:58.automatically has ?100,000 equity because of the discount? It's dawn
:09:59. > :10:03.and the Richmond team have a tip`off someone is sub`letting and has
:10:04. > :10:05.applied for a right to buy. We are trying to get hold of your
:10:06. > :10:10.neighbour. When was the last time you saw him? The surveyors has been
:10:11. > :10:13.around to do an evaluation on the property. When they have been round
:10:14. > :10:17.to the property, there is a different gentleman who has answered
:10:18. > :10:24.the door, stating he is paying rent to somebody on the other side of
:10:25. > :10:28.London. Yet again, no`one is home. But with housing one of the
:10:29. > :10:33.capital's biggest issues, the wake`up call finally seems to have
:10:34. > :10:37.hit London Councils. You can't let the stuff continue. It's dangerous
:10:38. > :10:38.actually because you lose the will and the respect of the people paying
:10:39. > :10:57.for it. Still to come... Chess boxing
:10:58. > :11:00.appeals to women as well as men. Zeena practices chess with friends
:11:01. > :11:04.whenever she can, she trains for boxing every day. Her first
:11:05. > :11:16.competitive bout takes place next month. Allotments are precious
:11:17. > :11:20.commodities in the capital. And with the price of land being so valuable
:11:21. > :11:23.at the moment, they are often the prime target for property
:11:24. > :11:27.developers. But there's one group of allotment holders up in Watford who
:11:28. > :11:30.are determined to save their land from the bulldozers. And with the
:11:31. > :11:45.help of online technology, they are even planning to take the Government
:11:46. > :11:50.to court do so. To some, allotments are just recreation. Two others they
:11:51. > :11:55.are the last vetches `` stitch to write to an open patch of land. They
:11:56. > :11:59.are jumbled up world sheds, water butts and plots, but they create
:12:00. > :12:02.real communities that are often passed on from generation to
:12:03. > :12:08.generation, exactly like this one in Watford. We have a terraced house
:12:09. > :12:11.around the corner. My kids have grown up around here, they've
:12:12. > :12:17.learned where fruit and veg come from. You have the old men picking
:12:18. > :12:22.the pairs, they give them the pairs. That kind of quality of life in an
:12:23. > :12:26.urban area is extremely precious. My husband liked so much to do the
:12:27. > :12:33.allotment. After he passed away, I carried on to do it. I think about
:12:34. > :12:40.him. He was my life. It becomes part of you. See the snowdrops there,
:12:41. > :12:44.beautiful. Since 1908, local authorities have by law to provide
:12:45. > :12:47.efficient # sufficient allotments according to demand. But more and
:12:48. > :12:51.more are being taken for development, and that's what the
:12:52. > :12:56.local council plans to do here. The allotments sit in the shadow of
:12:57. > :12:59.Watford football ground, right next to the hospital and adjoining some
:13:00. > :13:03.derelict land. The council wants to build on a large chunk of the land,
:13:04. > :13:10.including the allotments, as part of a brand`new health complex, to
:13:11. > :13:13.include more hospital facilities. This is a once`in`a`lifetime
:13:14. > :13:19.opportunity to redevelop a hideous, derelict site and make a completely
:13:20. > :13:22.new community for Watford. A community that includes homes, plans
:13:23. > :13:27.to enable our hospital to stay in the town, jobs and quality open
:13:28. > :13:31.spaces that people can live in and enjoy. This health campus appears to
:13:32. > :13:35.be about more than just expanding the hospital. So what percentage
:13:36. > :13:42.health care and what percentage housing will it be? Be indicative
:13:43. > :13:47.master plan at the moment shows about 60% homes, 40% for hospital
:13:48. > :13:52.use, but that could change. If we think of bit as pieces, those pieces
:13:53. > :13:56.could move. We've never hidden our support for a new hospital in
:13:57. > :14:00.Watford. However, the majority of the health campus is a housing
:14:01. > :14:08.development. The number of houses that are due to be built within the
:14:09. > :14:12.campus has risen from 350 to 700. So homes or hospital? The plans appear
:14:13. > :14:17.to constantly change and could change again. Can the NHS paint a
:14:18. > :14:21.clearer picture of what is to be built on the site? We are revising
:14:22. > :14:27.our clinical strategy at the moment. We are looking at our services now
:14:28. > :14:30.and for the next ten to 15 years. Regenerating the Watford Hospital
:14:31. > :14:34.site gives us a big opportunity. I can't tell you exactly what is going
:14:35. > :14:37.to go on those allotments, but the flexibility and opportunities it
:14:38. > :14:41.brings us enables us to get the right clinical services in the right
:14:42. > :14:45.place. The recent plans are showing the whole of the top layer would be
:14:46. > :14:52.used to build a car park for Watford football club. The rest of it would
:14:53. > :14:57.be majority housing. They have saved a couple of spots for a possible
:14:58. > :15:01.hospital development. So the plot holders, believing that this will be
:15:02. > :15:02.a housing development with a bit of hospital thrown in, decided to fight
:15:03. > :15:15.to save their soil. All major developments like this
:15:16. > :15:20.have to be passed by government, and this one has recently been
:15:21. > :15:23.approved. So the allotment gardeners are taking the Government to court
:15:24. > :15:28.in an act of defiance that could affect the future of allotments all
:15:29. > :15:33.over the country. The law says the Secretary of State has to give
:15:34. > :15:35.consent to any council that wants to build on allotment land. The
:15:36. > :15:39.Secretary of State has a policy setting up when he will give that
:15:40. > :15:43.consent. It sets out a number of criteria that needs to be met. The
:15:44. > :15:47.Secretary of State has already backed down once because part of the
:15:48. > :15:53.criteria wasn't fully met. One of its stability is to prove that the
:15:54. > :15:57.allotments are no longer required. He says that can be overridden in
:15:58. > :16:01.the name of the public interest, because that outweighs the need to
:16:02. > :16:05.comply with this policy. That is what this case is about. Is it OK
:16:06. > :16:10.for the Secretary of State to depart from the criteria to grant consent,
:16:11. > :16:14.even though the criteria aren't met and the allotments on surplus to
:16:15. > :16:18.requirements? There are a lot of allotment sites under threat from
:16:19. > :16:22.development. We are trying to win our battle against the Government to
:16:23. > :16:34.overturn this decision, to allow Watford council to build on our
:16:35. > :16:36.site. So it draws a line in the sand as caselaw. So whenever any other
:16:37. > :16:39.council wants to concrete over allotments in future, it'll give
:16:40. > :16:41.them a chance to save themselves as well. We are replacing these
:16:42. > :16:44.allotments. They will be provided for in what is the most fabulous
:16:45. > :16:47.allotment across the town. Many allotment holders say they've put
:16:48. > :16:51.their heart and soul into their plots and couldn't bear to start
:16:52. > :16:58.afresh on a different site. It takes me 20 minutes to walk here. The
:16:59. > :17:03.other one is two and a half miles that way. That's to the gate. After
:17:04. > :17:08.that, you've got a mile to walk onto it on a clay soil that even the
:17:09. > :17:13.farmer countries in the winter. Dad has been here for 42 years. As he
:17:14. > :17:17.gets older, it's helping him keep his cognitive function, because we
:17:18. > :17:21.hear from everyone we've spoken to in the medical profession, even
:17:22. > :17:30.psychologists have told us, working on an allotment is good not only for
:17:31. > :17:32.your physical self but for your mental health. There's a fierce
:17:33. > :17:34.battle being fought here which will only end once the case goes to
:17:35. > :17:38.judicial review. Council are so confident of victory that they are
:17:39. > :17:42.going ahead anyway. We are carrying on with the plans because this is
:17:43. > :17:47.just too big and too important to be put on hold. In fact, what residents
:17:48. > :17:50.are telling us, and we've had a consultation where over 70% were in
:17:51. > :17:54.favour of the plans, they are saying, get on with it. We know
:17:55. > :18:00.about it will stop what we want is now to see some action.
:18:01. > :18:06.To carry on the fight to preserve their plots and take it right to the
:18:07. > :18:11.courts, the allotment holders need financial backing. So they have gone
:18:12. > :18:17.far and wide for their support using social media. I have never done
:18:18. > :18:23.Twitter before, I had no idea what I was doing. My first tweet was, help,
:18:24. > :18:26.the council want to build houses on our allotment site. Really quickly
:18:27. > :18:30.lots of people started sending responses and telling me who to
:18:31. > :18:34.contact. The law firm itself had used crowd funding to fund a
:18:35. > :18:39.different case, so they suggested we did it. We went on to the go fund me
:18:40. > :18:44.site. It was a way people could donate money. We now have ?13,000,
:18:45. > :18:48.which is an amazing amount of money. Support for their plight continues
:18:49. > :18:54.to come in all stop as we were filming, money even turned up at the
:18:55. > :18:57.gates. We are a group from Harrow, the allotment Association there. We
:18:58. > :19:01.understand you've got problems with your allotment, under threat from
:19:02. > :19:07.the local council. We were thinking of making a donation towards your
:19:08. > :19:15.cause. Can I ask what kind of donation? We decided ?500 should be
:19:16. > :19:21.a reasonable sum. Amazing! Thank you so much. ?500 is such a lot of
:19:22. > :19:28.money. You obviously feel strongly about it. We do. We fought on our
:19:29. > :19:31.own ground to save allotments. The worry is if you they are picking you
:19:32. > :19:38.of the day, they'll be picking as of tomorrow. The allotment holders say
:19:39. > :19:42.they want to protect all allotments. The council say they want to make
:19:43. > :19:46.Watford a better place to live. Both sides are fully convinced that they
:19:47. > :19:49.are in the right. Who knows who will win, but the outcome of this case
:19:50. > :19:59.could change allotment history for Rever. It is hard to think of two
:20:00. > :20:03.more contrasting activities than chess and boxing. You would think
:20:04. > :20:07.they would appeal to two completely different types of person. Well,
:20:08. > :20:20.think again because chess boxing is fast becoming all the rage.
:20:21. > :20:35.A boxing match with all the razzmatazz of a big, showbiz event.
:20:36. > :20:48.But this is no ordinary match. This is a modern event known as... Chess
:20:49. > :20:59.boxing. The origins of chess boxing bow as
:21:00. > :21:04.much to art and music as they do to sport. The martial arts movie the
:21:05. > :21:12.mystery of chess boxing came out in 1979. And an album was brought out
:21:13. > :21:18.of the same name. A round in the ring, a round on the board. Chess
:21:19. > :21:24.boxing as a real`life competitive sport has a small but growing fan
:21:25. > :21:28.base in the UK. Matches are held at the Scala and coaching sessions in
:21:29. > :21:33.the city and at the Islington boxing gym. The idea goes back to a very
:21:34. > :21:38.old concept of the warrior poet. This is something which is almost
:21:39. > :21:43.mythological in human culture. Someone who is both physically
:21:44. > :21:47.powerful, a protector and hunter, but at the same time is emotionally
:21:48. > :21:54.sensitive, intelligent and capable of intelligent and strategic
:21:55. > :21:57.planning. Your ultimate hero. Anthony Wright is a former
:21:58. > :22:06.heavyweight boxer and a chess boxing coach. Boxing takes people off the
:22:07. > :22:11.streets. I believe chess as well. Giving the kids something useful to
:22:12. > :22:16.do. Guess, instead of gallivanting and up to no good. Chess and boxing
:22:17. > :22:21.saves lives. The rules of chess boxing are pretty straightforward.
:22:22. > :22:25.It is three minutes boxing followed by three minutes of chess, either
:22:26. > :22:29.until your opponent has had enough of being punched or it's checkmate.
:22:30. > :22:36.Chess boxing is catching on amongst city types. This man is an internet
:22:37. > :22:42.entrepreneur and former city broker trying the sport out for the first
:22:43. > :22:45.time. I was curious. I'd read a bit about it and it sounded
:22:46. > :22:51.interesting, so I thought I'd give it a go. What sort of sport do you
:22:52. > :22:56.normally do? Swimming, yoga and weights. I'd never tried boxing
:22:57. > :22:59.before so I wanted to give it a go. But whether it is chess or any other
:23:00. > :23:08.kind of boxing, it's a thrill worth the risk. Many doctors would like to
:23:09. > :23:10.see all boxing banned. The British Medical Association wants the sport
:23:11. > :23:14.outlawed at both amateur and professional level. The concern is
:23:15. > :23:20.over potential brain damage from blows to the head. Not all
:23:21. > :23:25.neurologists agree that the need for a ban, but most acknowledge there
:23:26. > :23:29.are risks. There is a concern that the boxing is more popular, we will
:23:30. > :23:34.eventually see more people with head injuries. And there is the risk of
:23:35. > :23:40.acute head injury. Although those risks may be low, every time they
:23:41. > :23:44.occur it is a tragedy for the person they affect and their families.
:23:45. > :23:49.Boxing professionals believe it is no more dangerous than some other
:23:50. > :23:53.sports. Insurers have two insure every youth club, boxing club for
:23:54. > :23:59.every sports club. Boxing is very much down on the list, much lower
:24:00. > :24:04.than things like rugby, cricket, football. Chess boxing is a sport in
:24:05. > :24:09.its infancy but it is spreading out from London. Mike flavour, from
:24:10. > :24:14.Brighton, took up chess boxing last year. He's decided to set up a club
:24:15. > :24:18.locally and his target for new recruits is the Sussex University
:24:19. > :24:25.chess club. He says there are similarities between the two
:24:26. > :24:29.disciplines. It's about maintaining concentration and having lots of
:24:30. > :24:34.endurance. So being able to respond to your opponent's attacks and not
:24:35. > :24:38.giving up. From the training sessions I went to, they really
:24:39. > :24:45.enjoyable. That's what motivated me to try and set up a club here. The
:24:46. > :24:50.chess club has an keen and very serious players, but what do they
:24:51. > :24:56.think of combining with boxing? Might you try chess boxing? Not for
:24:57. > :25:00.me. Not enough strategy or thinking. I like the long game where
:25:01. > :25:05.you can plan and take time. I'd definitely give it a go. I'm just
:25:06. > :25:15.not really sure how well I'd be able to do the boxing part. Chess boxing
:25:16. > :25:21.appeals to women as well as men. Xena, an artist living in Brighton,
:25:22. > :25:26.is entering the sport competitively. She practices chess
:25:27. > :25:29.with friends whenever she can, she trains for boxing every day. Her
:25:30. > :25:34.first competitive bout takes place next month. She will fight under the
:25:35. > :25:39.name Xena The Technician. I think I like it because you don't have two
:25:40. > :25:44.punch in order to win. You obviously do the boxing but you can win the
:25:45. > :25:50.fight on the chessboard. You've got your first match coming up, how do
:25:51. > :25:55.you feel about that? Very excitement. I feel it's very real
:25:56. > :26:01.now, this is going to happen. I just have to train as hard as I can. As
:26:02. > :26:06.well as training on the seafront, she trains at the local boxing club.
:26:07. > :26:12.Aren't you concerned about getting hurt? Well, not too much because
:26:13. > :26:17.otherwise I probably wouldn't do it in the first place. I got punched in
:26:18. > :26:24.sparring and yeah, it hurts, but you kind of get over it. What do your
:26:25. > :26:30.parents think about you doing it? They are not very delighted! But who
:26:31. > :26:35.exactly is chess boxing going to appeal to muster Mark is it the
:26:36. > :26:39.traditional boxing lover or is it a fan of Kasparov? Can the cool,
:26:40. > :26:43.calculated chess contest ever thrill those who like the heat of the
:26:44. > :26:50.boxing ring? Have you ever played chess? When I was a kid I used to
:26:51. > :26:58.play at all the time. Do you think you might give it a go? Why not? I
:26:59. > :27:03.think it sounds really good. I think it's more mental, the chess. Then
:27:04. > :27:07.you get in the ring and its more physical. You'd have to work on both
:27:08. > :27:17.of them while you are training. It's a big night in Brighton at the
:27:18. > :27:23.boxing gym. It's a chess boxing trial night that attracted quite a
:27:24. > :27:28.crowd. Some new players flexing their muscles of mind and body. The
:27:29. > :27:38.Sussex University chess club are squaring up. You might be good at
:27:39. > :27:44.chess but I'm going to smash your head off in the boxing. And Zena,
:27:45. > :27:49.who has her first competitive match at the Scala in London on the 12th
:27:50. > :27:55.of April, is training hard for her performance. I like the crossover
:27:56. > :27:59.from sport into art. Loads of artists have played loads of chess
:28:00. > :28:04.in their time. I like the idea of not just looking at it as a sport
:28:05. > :28:12.but also an art practice. Is it art, is it sport, or is it just
:28:13. > :28:20.plain terrifying? Whatever you think about chess boxing, it's striking a
:28:21. > :28:25.chord across the capital. The weird and wonderful world of chess boxing.
:28:26. > :28:30.It makes you wonder what they will think of next. Judo and draughts,
:28:31. > :28:35.backgammon and karate? The possibilities are endless! That is
:28:36. > :28:40.all for the current series of Inside Out London. You can catch up with
:28:41. > :28:44.previous episodes on the iPlayer. If you've got any stories for us, you
:28:45. > :28:49.will find our contact details there, too. Thank you for watching,
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