:00:10. > :00:17.In the next half an hour, no one likes to pay tax, but we found out
:00:17. > :00:25.the length one Royal landlord is going to to avoid it. If you have a
:00:25. > :00:29.charity, you get three months a rates free. What happened next? We
:00:29. > :00:35.told stories that touched a raw nerve and you responded in your
:00:35. > :00:40.droves. All the complaints I now understand they are getting and
:00:40. > :00:46.nothing has changed. Nobody has learnt a darn thing. And remember
:00:46. > :00:52.this? I would rather be free then be in jail. It is not worth going
:00:52. > :00:56.to jail over copper. We will find out what happened to the self-
:00:56. > :01:06.confessed metal thieves, stories from the heart of North East and
:01:06. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:19.Times are tough, so any means to reduce your bills will be welcome,
:01:19. > :01:24.but we have discovered one business with World credentials has been
:01:24. > :01:29.going to unusual lengths to avoid paying tax on one of its properties
:01:29. > :01:34.in Hackett. J Nicolson investigates. This is
:01:34. > :01:38.Number 11 Ripon Road in the centre of Harrogate, an office building on
:01:39. > :01:44.the market for around �1 million. But it has been standing empty for
:01:44. > :01:51.nearly three years and that could be costing the owner �16,000 a year
:01:51. > :01:55.in business rates. Who owns this property? Ikea is a clue. It is
:01:55. > :02:02.owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. The Duke of Lancaster is, of course,
:02:02. > :02:08.the Queen. The Duchy dates back to the 13th century and holds more
:02:08. > :02:14.than 18,000 hectares of London's property on behalf of the sovereign.
:02:14. > :02:18.Last year it made a net surplus of more than �13 million. Since 2008,
:02:18. > :02:23.landlords have had to pay business rates on properties after they have
:02:23. > :02:28.been empty for three months, but it seems the Duchy of Lancaster has
:02:28. > :02:34.been trying to find ways around paying. What happens is if you have
:02:34. > :02:39.a charity in, you get three months rates free. The we have been told
:02:39. > :02:47.that in order to avoid business rates, 11 Ripon Road has been
:02:47. > :02:50.filled with art. Could the Duchy really be trying to avoid tax by
:02:50. > :02:55.placing so called Work sop art in its property.? We decided to find
:02:55. > :02:59.out. Posing as a businessman, Richard
:02:59. > :03:05.has made an appointment to view the property. It has been arranged for
:03:05. > :03:09.9am on Thursday. It is a few minutes to nine and the property is
:03:09. > :03:15.just up the road. We have hired a Jaguar so we get
:03:15. > :03:18.the full business look. Richard is met by one of the estate agents who
:03:18. > :03:24.is selling the property on behalf of the Duchy.
:03:24. > :03:31.Hello. Sorry I'm late. He walks into the first room and is
:03:31. > :03:37.immediately struck by what is in there. What is this? If you have a
:03:37. > :03:44.charity in, you get three months rates free. Is there some art
:03:44. > :03:53.grouping as tenants? No, they just literally come in and do their art.
:03:53. > :04:03.Is it OK if I quickly take a few pictures? Here has finished his
:04:03. > :04:05.
:04:06. > :04:11.meeting, so we will catch up with him and see what happened. How did
:04:11. > :04:18.that go? What if you have in there is a deserted office block and all
:04:18. > :04:26.there is in their is a rather bizarre, modern art work. What did
:04:26. > :04:31.it look like? Look at that. That looks like toilet rolls. Actually
:04:31. > :04:36.it is bin-liners, it is rolls of plastic bin-liner festooned across
:04:36. > :04:42.the room. Our all the rooms like this? They have got different types
:04:42. > :04:48.of art work. There are balloons, oven foil stuck on the walls,
:04:48. > :04:54.various types of plastic bags on the floor. What explanation do they
:04:54. > :04:58.give you? The estate agent was perfectly open. She said it was
:04:58. > :05:02.there to reduce the outgoings of the people who own the building and
:05:02. > :05:06.the people who own the building are the Duchy of Lancaster. The due
:05:06. > :05:12.find out anything else about the artist? There are a little cards
:05:12. > :05:21.and this is the guy who has done the artwork, Josh Artus. Is that
:05:21. > :05:27.Josh Artus? Josh explains that the services company office. -- offers.
:05:27. > :05:33.And know it is not a charity. help our clients manage their empty
:05:33. > :05:38.buildings. He assures Richard he knows what he is doing. There are
:05:38. > :05:44.lots of cases forced against particular companies and we do
:05:44. > :05:50.occupations of properties. We do not stick a bunch of boxes in the
:05:50. > :05:56.room, we have operators working in the building. On ACTE Arts's
:05:56. > :06:00.website they say people can e-mail them to view the artwork. We e-
:06:00. > :06:05.mailed them to make an appointment, but after two weeks we still had no
:06:05. > :06:09.response. Since then we have tried e-mailing and Colin Josh Artus and
:06:09. > :06:15.his colleagues several times, but they have not returned our calls.
:06:15. > :06:19.The Duchy have told us that ACTE Arts had apologised for not
:06:19. > :06:22.responding and they will make sure this is not repeated. The
:06:22. > :06:26.organisation says it has had several exhibitions on the site
:06:26. > :06:31.which have all been viewed favourably and there are plans to
:06:31. > :06:35.gyrate many more over the remainder of its tenancy. It says the
:06:35. > :06:41.building is supporting artists and is for the benefit of the local
:06:41. > :06:46.community. So are they doing anything wrong? It is not my taste
:06:46. > :06:50.in art, although I am no art expert. Stuart Hicks is an expert on
:06:50. > :06:55.business rates and advises landlords on how to reduce their
:06:55. > :07:00.tax liability within the law. Whether it is to your taste or not,
:07:00. > :07:04.would you advise people to go down this route? It would not be
:07:04. > :07:07.something that I would advise to proceed with. So Stewart has
:07:07. > :07:13.sympathy with landlords who are facing huge bills on properties
:07:13. > :07:17.that are lying empty. The economy at the moment is very difficult and
:07:17. > :07:23.landlords holding empty property are suffering. Why it kinds of
:07:23. > :07:28.things can people do to reduce the liability? The law is very black
:07:28. > :07:34.and white in terms of what people can do, such as in terms of
:07:34. > :07:39.occupation for 43 days. After 43 days there is a period of relief.
:07:39. > :07:44.The problems that can arise is if the property is not occupied
:07:44. > :07:50.genuinely, or occupied for the purpose for which the property is
:07:50. > :07:55.there. What do you think is the use of this property in Harrogate?
:07:55. > :07:59.would be concerned the occupation was not genuine, in which case the
:07:59. > :08:05.authority could seek to take action to recover the money is that have
:08:05. > :08:09.been claimed. The Duchy told us that ACTE Arts occupied the
:08:09. > :08:15.building for two periods last year and in accordance with the law, the
:08:15. > :08:20.Duchy had claimed a total of six months business rate relief. The
:08:20. > :08:25.arts company occupied the building for 45 days in March and April and
:08:25. > :08:29.50 days between late July and September, in other words just over
:08:29. > :08:34.the 43 a limit and there were precisely three months between the
:08:34. > :08:38.occupations. The Duchy's say they reimbursed ACTE Arts for the
:08:38. > :08:44.business rates they paid and that the company recently signed a new
:08:44. > :08:48.six-month lease during which time for business rates would be paid.
:08:48. > :08:56.There are many charities who are genuinely occupier empty buildings
:08:56. > :08:59.and I have come to see one of them. This is Kasia, she is a painter.
:08:59. > :09:03.East Street Arts is a registered charity that has been around for 20
:09:03. > :09:09.years and they have been occupying this empty office building in
:09:09. > :09:13.leaves since October. What things have you got going? A high range of
:09:13. > :09:20.things ranging from young people producing an art prize, people
:09:20. > :09:25.doing experimental and a nation -- animation. What deal do you have
:09:25. > :09:31.but the landlord? They give us a tenancy on the building and in this
:09:32. > :09:37.case it is for a year. Because we are using it for purposes we get
:09:37. > :09:41.rates relief. We get a building cheaply and the landlord finds a
:09:42. > :09:45.tenant and they are shedding some of their costs. So Stuart Hicks
:09:45. > :09:51.believes are putting these so- called art works into 11 Ripon Road
:09:51. > :09:56.was a mistake. Have you ever heard of anything like this before?
:09:56. > :10:01.have been approached in the past by companies offering a similar sort
:10:01. > :10:07.of service, but my advice to landlords I represent has been not
:10:07. > :10:14.to go ahead. Her serious could this be? If the occupation is found to
:10:14. > :10:20.be a sham, there are problems potentially with HMRC who could see
:10:20. > :10:25.the claiming of rate relief as a serious issue. So, could the
:10:25. > :10:32.queen's private land portfolio find itself in trouble with her
:10:33. > :10:37.Majesty's Revenue and Customs? This is the last programme in our
:10:37. > :10:42.current series, our 21st, so we thought we would catch up on some
:10:42. > :10:46.of the stories over the last year. We begin with two reports that have
:10:46. > :10:52.provoked the biggest response from you, although they share one common
:10:52. > :10:57.theme, how we care for elderly people, be it in hospitals or care
:10:57. > :11:01.homes. Either way you have been in touch to tell us more. Last month
:11:01. > :11:06.we asked whether this rosy image of nursing care was a thing of the
:11:06. > :11:11.past. We heard from two families whose experience with the
:11:11. > :11:17.University Hospital of North Durham caused great pain. It is awful
:11:17. > :11:22.human beings can be treated in that way. That person who is there is
:11:22. > :11:27.the world to you. For them he is just a number, but he was my dad,
:11:27. > :11:32.my daughter's grandad. People complained about patient care,
:11:32. > :11:37.patients are not being fed or washed properly. That certainly
:11:37. > :11:43.chimed with you. Dozens of you wrote to us telling us about your
:11:44. > :11:48.experiences. Among them, George McGregor, an ex-military man.
:11:48. > :11:54.Patients were sitting waiting for a whole load of stuff to happen,
:11:54. > :11:58.medicines, bedpans and all this sort of thing. George wrote to the
:11:58. > :12:04.hospital several times, so when he saw our programme he felt they had
:12:04. > :12:08.not been listening. Nothing has changed, nobody has learnt a darn
:12:08. > :12:16.thing from all the letters I wrote, all the complaints I now understand
:12:16. > :12:19.they are getting and the process is getting worse. November, 2011, MS
:12:20. > :12:25.patients David Hambleton was admitted to the University Hospital
:12:25. > :12:30.of North Durham. Sadly he died a month ago, but his family had a
:12:30. > :12:36.whole list of concerns. His teeth were not bras, his face was not
:12:36. > :12:41.washed and he was not put on the toilet for six days. His food was
:12:41. > :12:45.brought out too hot for him one day. He asked the lady who was feeding
:12:45. > :12:51.him to slow down and she turned round and said, how slow can you
:12:51. > :12:56.go? He asked her to take the food away because she had upset him. You
:12:56. > :12:59.feel guilty because you are leaving these people, you are leaving these
:12:59. > :13:05.people to look after people that you care about and they are
:13:05. > :13:10.treating them like that. David even resorted to extraordinary lengths
:13:10. > :13:15.to discharge himself from hospital. When the doctor asked my dad if he
:13:15. > :13:21.had a wife at home he lied and said DSO he could get out of hospital.
:13:21. > :13:25.Other families with a recent experience also got in touch. This
:13:25. > :13:31.is an e-mail, a diary said to the hospital by a nurse who says her
:13:31. > :13:35.father was denied a dignified death. This is from a viewer who says his
:13:35. > :13:40.mother was unable to eat and he was asked to leave the ward at meal
:13:40. > :13:46.times. This is from an elderly patient who was discharged 10 days
:13:46. > :13:50.ago. She saw an old lady, 80 years old, ring in her buzzer for 10
:13:50. > :13:55.minutes, she was desperate for the toilet, but by that time the nurse
:13:55. > :14:00.had arrived she had wet herself. The nurse said, look, you are doing
:14:00. > :14:04.it on the floor. The day after our report went out the regulator
:14:04. > :14:09.publish the findings of its latest inspection and confirmed when
:14:09. > :14:13.inspectors visited, the hospital did not meet standards surrounding
:14:13. > :14:18.dignity and T'ai Chi needs. The inspectors say it now meets the
:14:18. > :14:22.requirements. It said improvement still need to be made. The trust
:14:22. > :14:32.which runs the hospital declined our offer of an interview, but told
:14:32. > :14:38.
:14:38. > :14:41.The Trust also told us inspectors had lots of positive feedback from
:14:41. > :14:45.patients and commented on the work they had been doing to improve care
:14:45. > :14:47.and the elderly wards. They said there were, nevertheless, always
:14:48. > :14:54.improvements which could be made and encourage anyone who is unhappy
:14:54. > :14:58.with the care provided to contact the Trust. But it's not just in
:14:58. > :15:01.hospitals where the care of the elderly has been a real concern for
:15:01. > :15:05.you. We highlighted cases of neglect and abuse at care homes run
:15:05. > :15:10.by Southern Cross based in Darlington. The company has ceased
:15:10. > :15:16.to operate. Now, a judge has voiced his serious concerns about the way
:15:16. > :15:19.the company was run. Last week, the Southern Cross story
:15:19. > :15:24.finally ended up in court after an investigation into the death of 16
:15:24. > :15:26.elderly patients at St Michael's View in South Shields. The police
:15:26. > :15:33.found evidence of old people being subjected to degrading and
:15:33. > :15:35.unauthorised invasive treatments. Sean Abbot, a care worker, admitted
:15:35. > :15:42.assaulting an 84-year-old man and 89-year-old woman and was given a
:15:42. > :15:44.one year jail sentence. Meanwhile, Daphne Joseph, a nurse, was given a
:15:44. > :15:50.suspended sentence after failing to prevent the death of Joyce
:15:50. > :15:54.Wordingham in 2010. In separate cases, both judges were scathing in
:15:54. > :15:57.their criticisms of Southern Cross. They said staff were operating in a
:15:58. > :16:00.regime that was not fit for purpose. There was poor management of
:16:01. > :16:08.individual care needs, an endemic culture of neglect and a lack of
:16:08. > :16:12.leadership. Endemic failures, systematic failures. Neglect and
:16:12. > :16:17.indeed criminal offences. These are vulnerable people and we have a
:16:17. > :16:20.duty to care for them. According to one regular visitor to St Michaels
:16:20. > :16:28.View, it was understaffed and out of control well before the recent
:16:28. > :16:31.events came to light. Found him lying on floor next to
:16:31. > :16:34.office. Eye cut and cheek badly grazed. No explanation. Diane
:16:34. > :16:41.Pounder has kept a diary of the maltreatment of her father Donald
:16:41. > :16:45.Laws- an Alzheimer's patient who lived and died at the home in 2008.
:16:45. > :16:48.He was sitting with a t-shirt on, no vest or sweater. He was
:16:48. > :16:55.absolutely freezing cold, no heating on in the home. Needless to
:16:55. > :16:59.say, I kicked off, didn't I, about it. I put a blanket about his
:16:59. > :17:04.shoulders to keep him warm. I have heard them shouting and crying
:17:04. > :17:08.about things and it took them ages because they were understaffed.
:17:08. > :17:18.Near the end, it was easier for them to leave my dad lying in bed
:17:18. > :17:18.
:17:19. > :17:23.rather than getting him dressed to rather than getting him dressed to
:17:23. > :17:29.sit in his chair for half an hour. sit in his chair for half an hour.
:17:29. > :17:32.I will we said I wanted to be with my dad. Worst day of my life today.
:17:33. > :17:38.My dad died at 7:20am, St George's Day. I touched my dad and he was
:17:38. > :17:41.cold. He'd been dead a long time. So many agencies have been involved
:17:41. > :17:44.in the St Michael's story. All have responsibilities for making sure
:17:44. > :17:51.people living there are well cared for, but all declined to be
:17:51. > :17:53.interviewed for Inside Out. South Tyneside Council spends more
:17:53. > :17:58.than a million pounds a year placing patients at St Michael's
:17:58. > :18:01.View. Its staff were regular visitors. It's now begun a serious
:18:01. > :18:06.case review into the death of Joyce Wordingham, the patient who sparked
:18:06. > :18:08.the police inquiry. Along with the local health authority, it would
:18:08. > :18:12.say only that protecting vulnerable adults is of paramount importance,
:18:12. > :18:14.and that the home, which is now run by another care provider is meeting
:18:14. > :18:24.all of the government standards although it would ensure that
:18:24. > :18:26.lasting lessons are learned by all of the agencies involved.
:18:26. > :18:29.Profits from Southern Cross made some of its former directors multi-
:18:30. > :18:32.millionaires. Others, like Phil Whitaker, managing director for the
:18:32. > :18:42.North were forced to apologise when previous failings were highlighted
:18:42. > :18:49.We as an organisation are sorry, very sorry. When I say sorry, we
:18:49. > :18:51.let four people and their families down. I am very sorry that happened.
:18:51. > :18:54.Now, Mr Whitaker works here as operations director for a firm
:18:54. > :18:57.called Bondcare based at one of their care homes, Stockton. I
:18:57. > :19:00.wanted to ask Mr Whitaker about the judge's comments on Southern Cross
:19:00. > :19:04.and the years of failing at St Michael's View. He decided not to
:19:05. > :19:07.face the cameras. In a statement, Mr Whitaker
:19:08. > :19:10.confirmed that he gave evidence to the inquiry into events at St
:19:10. > :19:15.Michael's View and added they decided against a prosecution of
:19:15. > :19:17.the company or myself. He maintained that at the home, which
:19:17. > :19:21.he said he was not legally responsible for, funding and
:19:22. > :19:27.staffing were entirely appropriate. However, training needed to be
:19:27. > :19:30.addressed, which he says he did. Mr Whitaker's new employer Bondcare
:19:30. > :19:33.now runs about a third of Southern Cross's former homes in the North
:19:33. > :19:40.East and says its culture and systems are completely different to
:19:41. > :19:44.those followed by Southern Cross. We have looked at just one hospital
:19:44. > :19:46.and one care home provider. Last week, the Commission set up to
:19:47. > :19:54.improve care in residential homes and hospitals produced a detailed
:19:54. > :19:56.action plan in response to worrying evidence across the country.
:19:56. > :20:00.Problems with nutrition in hospitals, people not being given
:20:00. > :20:03.the care and attention they deserved. With an aging population,
:20:03. > :20:10.we are going to find that our hospitals and care homes are
:20:10. > :20:14.increasingly full of vulnerable patients. There is a need for a
:20:14. > :20:17.spotlight to remain on this as even though there has been a series of
:20:17. > :20:25.damning reports that have come out, we still haven't managed to crack
:20:25. > :20:27.the problem. You wrote to me in your droves
:20:27. > :20:37.about Southern Cross but there was another story covered that also
:20:37. > :20:40.
:20:40. > :20:45.In January, we reported allegations of bullying by managers at
:20:45. > :20:49.Newcastle College which the college strenuously denied. Since then,
:20:49. > :20:53.more concerns have been voiced. Barbara Clark says she was forced
:20:53. > :20:58.to accept redundancy after returning from sick leave. I get
:20:58. > :21:02.really anxious whenever I think about it. I was given no warnings
:21:02. > :21:08.and felt ambushed and as if I was something to be got rid of a very
:21:08. > :21:15.quickly. That was not acceptable. Christine Duffy says she was sent
:21:15. > :21:18.to Coventry. They told the students not to come into college one day
:21:18. > :21:22.because I was coming back after sick leave and told the students
:21:22. > :21:30.they could be rest assured I would never teach at an educational
:21:30. > :21:35.institution again. If many others contacted us. They want people who
:21:35. > :21:40.do not argue. You programme was spot on. They have completely and
:21:40. > :21:44.utterly failed us. The lecturer's union carried out a survey of past
:21:44. > :21:50.and present members at the college. The accept that is not scientific
:21:50. > :21:55.but shows there is a problem. Out of 131 people who have responded,
:21:55. > :22:00.71 said they had received bullying and harassment. 72 said they had
:22:00. > :22:04.witnessed it. Newcastle College decline to be interviewed but in a
:22:04. > :22:08.statement said it takes allegations of bullying extremely seriously and
:22:08. > :22:13.has a clear and transparent process for dealing with that. The survey
:22:14. > :22:19.has no legitimacy or recognised research methodology and says it is
:22:19. > :22:24.subject to multiple false claims. We also followed people on a
:22:24. > :22:28.variety of testing journeys. Here is what happened next.
:22:28. > :22:33.Last summer, we met up with eight jobseeker's on the hunt for work.
:22:33. > :22:41.Since then, unemployment across the North East has risen from 10.7 per
:22:41. > :22:44.cent to 11.2 per cent. Despite this, four other group have found jobs.
:22:44. > :22:51.The job is wonderful and the pay cheques goes towards all the bills
:22:51. > :22:58.I have. Also, to lose the label of being a job-seeker is great. Angela
:22:58. > :23:02.is training to work, nor will it and she has had better news. I am
:23:02. > :23:05.hope for at the moment that I have secured an interview with a
:23:05. > :23:10.worldwide company who erect wind farms all over the world. I am
:23:10. > :23:14.looking forward to that. What is striking is that of her original
:23:14. > :23:23.grip, not one of the three people over 50 has managed to find work or
:23:23. > :23:26.even got a job interview. What about the older people? What about
:23:26. > :23:33.the experience and the knowledge? So much we have to offer if we are
:23:33. > :23:42.given an opportunity. I walk up this morning crying my
:23:42. > :23:48.eyes out. This cable thief in November. Gill has probably shed a
:23:48. > :23:51.few more tears. He was one of more than 200 people arrested by up
:23:51. > :23:59.police team fighting this growing crime and has been jailed for 18
:23:59. > :24:04.months. Mike Parker accepted an inside-out
:24:04. > :24:10.challenge that many of us would find extremely tough - the off the
:24:10. > :24:15.alcohol in the run-up to Christmas. He stayed off for all of 31 days in
:24:15. > :24:18.December. Two months on, is he still on the wagon? I am
:24:18. > :24:23.disappointed because I thought I would be able to cut down
:24:23. > :24:29.significantly but I have moved back. I am not drinking as much as I was
:24:29. > :24:35.in November of last year. Scampers beware. We will get you in
:24:35. > :24:42.the end. Remember this man - Ron Clarke. You have been taking
:24:42. > :24:46.advantage of these people. You need to speedy Ian Johnson. He and his
:24:46. > :24:51.partner were running at an online con, taking money from jobseeker's
:24:51. > :24:55.with the promise of employment which did not exist. Both men
:24:55. > :25:02.appeared at Newcastle Crown Court. They pleaded guilty to a total of
:25:02. > :25:06.11 counts of fraud and deception. They will be sentenced in April.
:25:06. > :25:09.The hospital landscape is facing big changes in our region. We
:25:09. > :25:13.reported from both coasts on the changes affecting staff and
:25:13. > :25:20.patients. This sound like a system close to
:25:20. > :25:23.breakdown? I cannot deny that. consultant at the North Cumbria
:25:23. > :25:28.University Hospitals Trust warned what could happen a further
:25:28. > :25:34.spending cuts went ahead. Patients would be horrified to hear you say
:25:34. > :25:38.that. Yes. We can reveal that while staff face a pay freeze, the
:25:38. > :25:43.interim Chief Executive is receiving almost �26,000 a month
:25:44. > :25:48.for a three-day week and that is paid to his consultancy, something
:25:48. > :25:52.the Government is seeking to change. It beggars belief that you can
:25:52. > :25:59.signed a contract for someone to come in and turn around a trust who
:25:59. > :26:03.are facing a massive deficit and pay him such a huge amount of money,
:26:03. > :26:08.62% over what the previous Chief Executive was earning. It makes
:26:08. > :26:11.very little sense to me. The trust will does in a statement that the
:26:11. > :26:16.arrangement Aboyne that extra expense because it with a temporary
:26:16. > :26:19.appointment. He had a high level of knowledge and would be judged on
:26:19. > :26:24.results and delivering financial turnaround and improved patient
:26:24. > :26:32.care. Last month, it was announced that North Cumbria is to be taken
:26:32. > :26:35.over by North Cumbria Healthcare Trust.
:26:35. > :26:42.Meanwhile this baby who received a life-saving heart operation is
:26:42. > :26:46.making progress. It is looking great. The arteries are fine and
:26:46. > :26:50.working at the rate pressure so he is much better, just like a normal
:26:50. > :26:55.baby. The future of children's heart care surgery at this hospital
:26:55. > :26:58.was in doubt after the review said some centres would have to close.
:26:58. > :27:04.There is confidence here that their future it is now assured because
:27:04. > :27:08.other units have been earmarked for closure. Whichever way we look at
:27:08. > :27:12.it, it looks as if the outcome will be favourable for Newcastle. We
:27:12. > :27:19.have appointed a third surgeon and are already too old.
:27:19. > :27:21.We've also had time to look at the quirkier side of life too.
:27:21. > :27:25.Middlesbrough band Rivers Invitation recorded a version of
:27:25. > :27:30.Seasons in the Sun years before it became famous. But the lead singer
:27:30. > :27:33.was tragically killed in a car crash. BBC Tees presenter John
:27:33. > :27:36.Foster helped to find the lost recording, ending a lifelong quest
:27:36. > :27:45.for the singer's son Adrian Ludley who was just a baby when his dad
:27:45. > :27:50.died. I was a mess. I had a couple of schoolmates email me saying, you
:27:50. > :27:58.were right all along. We're sorry we didn't believe you. It has
:27:58. > :28:00.definitely filled a huge void in my life.
:28:00. > :28:05.We featured the many talents of Tyneside soundman Chris Watson.
:28:05. > :28:08.It's his recordings you hear on natural history programmes. Most
:28:08. > :28:11.notably, on the recent Frozen Planet series. Last month, the
:28:11. > :28:18.regional Royal Television Society gave him a special award in
:28:18. > :28:21.recognition of his amazing work. And if we can blow our own trumpet,
:28:21. > :28:25.Inside Out also won an RTS award for best current affairs production
:28:25. > :28:32.for our reporting on Southern Cross, which we could only do with your
:28:32. > :28:41.help. So, if you think there's a story we should know about, please