28/10/2013 Inside Out North East and Cumbria

In the next half an hour. Has Tyneside marathon man Tony the

Fridge finally reached the end of the road? It terrifies me the

thought that I cannot run for a while.

The road to Rothbury is now a dead end. Can we predict where the next

landslide will be? This is the line of the road. Six months ago, the

line of the road was up here. Raising the roof in Cumbria, how a

BBC orchestra is helping amateurs strike the right chord. There's only

one thing better. When my wife was having a baby.

Stories from the heart of the North East Cumbria. This is Inside Out.

Power and speed plus a whole heap of determination are what's needed to

finish a marathon. So imagine what Tony Morrison has!

The South Tyneside charity runner has done the distance dozens of

times with a fridge strapped to his back.

But he's just had some chilling news that means Tony the Fridge may be

stopped in his tracks. When you try it on, you realise

nobody can be obsessed with putting it on. It never ceases to amaze me

how painful it is to carry about. You do not get used to it. It is

traumatic. Tony Morrison is an endurance

runner. He's become famous for completing impossible`sounding

challenges, each one more gruelling than the last, with a 42 kilo fridge

strapped to his back. But his most recent adventure may have been a

fridge too far. The morning after the Great North Run, Tony couldn't

walk. He was in excruciating pain in his back and leg.

So what's gone wrong? I have come here today and the outcome will

probably be that they cannot run for a while. I thought, let's go for a

run. I am terrified if I am honest. It terrifies me the thought that I

cannot run for a bit. The results are in but it's not what

he expected But if it wasn't his back, why was he in such pain?

This is a fairly unusual. If you scanned somebody who was 16, that is

what you would expect it to look like. The lumbar spine of a

16`year`old. It is skidded to look at your own spine. It is not a good

feeling. Fortunately, the hard shell of muscle from the exercise has

protected it enough. I am chuffed with that. So, what is the problem?

We will be with him later when he finds out. I think I have run about

2500 miles with the fridge. Just think for a moment about what

Tony the Fridge has done: 30 Great North Runs in 30 days. 40 Marathons

in 40 days. And less than a week later, the Great North Run that left

him unable to walk. Even his biggest supporter tried to call a halt on

his very first challenge. It was about the 11 mile mark, just before

you see him and the great North run. It had rained. He was wearing his

trainers which help you go on the front foot. He was sliding. He was

not as fit as he thought he was. He looked absolutely shocking.

But it's not until you strap on the fridge yourself that you realise

just how bonkers it really is. Can you feel it? Yes. I do not know

how you do this. Tony's raised ?90,000 in total for

the Sir Bobby Robson foundation. But why does he put himself through such

punishment? It is not really about the fridge. It was about a burden. I

felt the loss of the people I left the cancer. I felt the burden of

that and still do. When you have people taken away from you through

illness or sudden death, it stays with you for ever. I have always

been carrying that burden. This agony I have gone through with the

fridge does not go near losing people that I loved.

But perhaps the defining moment was when his dad was killed in a car

crash when tony was just 12. I found myself hiding under the bed for long

spells at a day at a time. I forgot where I was. This one`day, I just

started running and I ran and ran all the way, stop and start, the

Hexham. The way a use to camp with my father. It is a powerful

metaphor. This feeling I got went running was that I was not anywhere.

I never knew where I was going. I'd did not consider that. I did not

want to look back the way I had been. I kind of lived in the now. It

was about giving inspiration to people who are fighting cancer.

Loaded up on painkillers, and against the advice of his physio,

Tony's fridge schedule continues. It pulls you back words.

A half`time appearance at his beloved St James Park exposes Tony

to a captive audience for his message.

But Tony's injury has not gone away and he's still in great pain. A

second MRI scan, this time on his legs, reveals all. Both hips. You

can see the signal there. You should not rule out the possibility of a

stress fracture. A hard day today. Tony has a fractured femur. He can

trace it to the first week of his 40 marathon challenge. In the blackness

of the night with no street lights, I stepped off the ardour of the

tarmac and I came to on the roadside having knocked myself out. If Feds

had knocked me out no doubtful sub it was the angle of how I felt,

having stepped into this hole. He would ring me up at night in. I

would speak to him as she was going along the road.

This means he ran over 30 marathons carrying the fridge and a broken

leg. Does it not strike you at how mad it is? Yes. We knew it had to be

something pretty serious for the amount of pain he was in.

Tony will now have to rest up for months while his injury heals. Where

does he go then? I wanted to Kilimanjaro. With the fridge M? Yes.

As soon as I can convince them, I will do Kilimanjaro will stop a

wanted the great Wall of China. Tony's physical and mental endurance

are extraordinary, and he's done some amazing things. But by his own

admission, he doesn't always listen to his own body. So is this a man

who just doesn't know where to stop? If you are going to be in pain and

agony, you'd make as well finish it. Who can tell you to stop? They

probably isn't anybody, if I am honest.

I've more on Tony the Fridge on my blog, with some unseen footage I

think you'll enjoy. Just head to bbc.co.uk/chrisjackson. Still to

come. Will a musical celebration in Cumbria be in tune for the big

event? Absolute rubbish. A landslip has taken out one of the

main roads into Rothbury and the Northumberland town won't get the

route back until next year at the earliest? We call them an act of

God. Marie Ashby has been following the expert team who are attempting

to predict the future. Landslides make the news and they have made the

news more often than before recently. They closed roads, tear up

pipelines, buckle railways. And landslides can kill. I looked up, he

said, and saw the cliff face collapse. People were telling us

don't go there. It is a year since the Blackman

family from Derbyshire came to Dorset on holiday. 22`year`old

Charlotte had graduated with a first`class honours degree from

Derby University. She was planning a in teaching. She was a happy and

jolly person. Everybody's friend. That was her motto. The first I knew

of a landslide was a fisherman shouting. I looked up and all I

could see were friends running up towards me to say Charlotte was

under the rock is. When it came down, my dad but the rocks nearly

got my leg. I saw Charlotte. She had her head back and down. My feet were

bleeding. It was horrible. If you days after we filmed, another

section of the cliff. At the British Geological Survey, experts have been

measuring landslides across the UK for nearly 30 years. This year the

grafts are telling them something odd is going on. Last summer we saw

a fourfold increase. And then we saw a sixfold increase. In March we saw

a fourfold increase in events. What is making the difference, why such

huge changes? It is partly to do with rainfall, we have seen a

significant rainfall in the summer and winter. These are contributing

to the landslide events. Changing weather patterns don't just affect

crops, they shape the crops under our feet. It was a wet year 47 years

ago as well. A generation perished in Aberfan. Nearly 200 children,

happy because they were beginning holidays,

happy because they were beginning Britain woke up to the dangers of

landslides. The task of rescue operated with speed. It looked

impossible and hopeless. These men are minors, their children were

buried. Before Aberfan, it was no 1's responsibility to monitor the

sites. The National coal board claimed no one could have predicted

what happened. The enquiry heard there were plenty of warning signs

and the coal board were to blame. It was a disaster that should never

have happened. After ABBA van, we began monitoring landslides notches

Nicole fields but across the country. This is sharing the road.

It is progressing all the time. Sean Rennick and his family had big plans

when they bought the farm near Rothbury. On Boxing Day, the road

running past their front door began to disappear. Helen and her

landslide response team wants to find out why. We cannot get the kids

to school very easily. It is six miles around. We are renovating the

farm to work on a sustainable basis. We have woodland and will cut off.

The road runs along a hill beside a river, there have been landslides

here before but never this bad. This is the line of the road, six months

ago the line of the road was up here. The council has dug 24

boreholes to find out what's going on underground. We have just opened

this up. We are working towards constructing landslide maps which

help people know when they are planning future developments so the

information we collect here can help us refine the maps as to where

landslides might appear. The ground is so unstable, the road is unlikely

to reopen until 2015. In the meantime, visitors travelling to and

from Rothbury are diverted over the moors adding four miles to their

journey. If we lived in the South, it may be more action but it is

funding and money. The Northeast gets left behind. It has a huge

impact on the village. It makes you wonder how they can rebuild in Japan

and it takes as three years. It must be finance. There is in the

finance. It is not good enough. It is bad enough on the moors but when

it gets frosty and snowy, it will be laid difficult. Predicting

landslides isn't easy, particularly on Britain's crumbling coast. A

member of the public has reported a cliff fall at Tynemouth. The team go

to investigate. This instrument sends out a pulse of laser light so

we then have a detailed 3`D model of the Bay and it is in its correct

orientation on the map. The hope is that the new technology will allow

the team to predict the future, linking geology and whether to

bridges are daily landslide forecast. RU hoping in future you

can do more to predict landslides and give more warnings? Yes, we are

hoping we can provide hazard reports to the authorities for organisations

and the public and the media to help them plan so the landslides can be

avoided. Back in Dorset, Charlotte's family hope to move the

bench closer to home. There are too many unhappy memories here. The

coastal path is closed but people still walk along the beach below the

cliffs. They are not aware. It is not the first thing they think about

on holiday. They think of lying on the beach, they do not think to stay

away from the cliffs because it's dangerous. Something you take the

granted, that you will be safe but you should be aware, definitely. We

will never holiday at a place with the cliffs. You do not think it will

happen to you. You need to be aware it could. It can take years to

master a musical instrument. But how about trying to learn in a few

months and then performing in front of a huge crowd? That's the

challenge 80 volunteers in Cumbria signed up to. But how did it sound?

Cumbria's towns and hills are alive with the sound of music. Excuse me,

it isn't helpful if you're playing in a different key. You do not have

to play all the time. Come on! You should have come in ten ours ago. I

cannot read music. I have never played a musical instrument before.

If you don't know what you're doing, you play eight notes and you will

blend in! Two, three, four! No, we do not go onto the next chord.

Absolute rubbish! Is this the most stressful job in Cumbria? In just

two weeks Barry has to turn this bunch of enthusiastic musical

amateurs into Cumbria's Community Orchestra performing in front of 600

people. Some people have played years ago

and found the instrument in the cupboard and brought it in. Some

people have been learning for only a few months. The challenge has been

to make something where everyone can contribute.

The orchestra is the idea of BBC Radio Cumbria, created to celebrate

the station's 40th birthday. Adam took up the double bass in January,

and there's a good reason he's late this morning. My toast! My toast!

Adam and his punk band "Dog Sick" were playing their first paid gig in

Workington. It is just the energy! Everything is

so fast forward. Jumping about, getting naked, jumping on tables,

crazy dancing. Chaos. We need to take a break, people are tired. But

help is at hand, members of the prestigious BBC Philharmonic

Orchestra are mentoring the volunteers. On the double bass is

Alice. It is going pretty well so far. Early days. I have add habits

from the punk band. She said keep it more organised. Bad habits die hard.

And it's here in Salford at Media City that the BBC Philharmonic are

based. On the big night they will perform

in Whitehaven alongside the community orchestra. To get out to

Whitehaven is great for us and it is the sort of places the orchestra

should be going too to make music. Ivor's specially composed the

opening fanfare for the concert and it's also a trip with nostalgic

significance. Born and bred in Carlisle, my dad still lives there.

Great to be back in Whitehaven. Fantastic.

# Somewhere over the rainbow... # This is where Geoff and his grand

daughter Carenza get their practise in. We normally practice on the way

to school. They're part of the 22 strong chorus. We thought let's give

it a go and I am glad we made the decision. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

And I have. In rehearsal, my bottom note sounds like I am sitting on an

elephant. Nell and her Mum Helen from Barrow In Furness have been

rehearsing in south Cumbria. She usually plays quietly so you can't

hear. Helen's son Issac has Asperger syndrome so joining the orchestra

was a chance for her and Nell to have quality time together. Nell

gets pushed out of the way. Isaac has special needs, asp urge. It is a

nice way to spend a nice way together that isn't autism related.

At rehearsals, the orchestra's own take on the Sorcerer's Apprentice is

coming together. It is getting better.

Back at work Landscape Gardener Adam is playing with his other

instruments and with less than a week to go the magic of the

orchestra is starting to show. My friends say it is middle`class

toffs and posh people but when you go there, it is a different feel. It

can be old people, children, from all backgrounds. It will be an

awesome day for Whitehaven. It's the big day, and the south

Cumbrians are on their way to meet their friends in Whitehaven.

I am nervous but excited. This is what we have been working for. I am

interested to see what it looks like when it is altogether.

For me, it is an absolute honour to think we can be part of that for a

day. I am so nervous and anxious and

nervous at the same time. Bring it on! This is BBC Radio Cumbria life

from Whitehaven with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the

Cumbrian community Orchestra and chorus.

Ivor's "Fanfare for Cumbria" gets the evening off to a stirring start,

now it's time for the locals to shine.

The first minute was so slow. So scary and tension but after that it

is surprisingly really good. I was always waiting for it. That

was my favourite bit of it. Music is an escape from my everyday life.

This gives me something else to talk about other than autism. It's

brilliant. Absolutely fantastic, better than I

dream that could be. And for some it's just too much.

It felt weird because I don't normally do anything like that.

There's only one thing better, when your wife is having a baby. That's

the only thing better than that. And I've done a lot of things in my

time, trust me. Sorry, to my sister if she is

watching on TV. You get such a buzz. Everybody is giving 110%. It is

electric. Working with them and making things happen. It is an

amazing experience. That's a great way to end this current series. If

there's something you think we should know about ` well, drop me a

line. My contact details are on my blog ` the address is just below me

on the screen now. We'll be back with more investigations and stories

from the North East and Cumbria in January. Until then, from Shildon,

goodnight. Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your

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