:00:00. > :00:00.The tanning war that's burning up the North.
:00:00. > :00:07.I was getting readings of 0.8, 0.9, up to three times
:00:08. > :00:16.The own goal that banished its star player from the field.
:00:17. > :00:19.He was humiliated by what happened and Newcastle united lost
:00:20. > :00:25.We take a trip through our national parks
:00:26. > :00:32.People were so outraged that these young men were sent to jail
:00:33. > :00:37.purely for walking on the hills that it set people thinking.
:00:38. > :00:49.This is Inside Out and I'm Chris Jackson.
:00:50. > :00:53.When it comes to getting a tan, our part of country is a hotspot.
:00:54. > :00:58.In fact, competition is so fierce, most salons are prepared to break
:00:59. > :01:14.the law and put your health are risk to try and outshine the opposition.
:01:15. > :01:32.Stay away from sunbeds, do not look at them. What happens if you are one
:01:33. > :01:38.of the unlucky ones? It has the fourth highest rate
:01:39. > :01:43.of tanning shops per number of So it's a major battleground
:01:44. > :02:05.in the tanning war. Spit back it makes me feel good. --
:02:06. > :02:08.it makes me feel good. We're just crazy for looking tanned. Everyone
:02:09. > :02:11.looks good with a tan, right? In the battle for customers,
:02:12. > :02:19.all kinds I've had people coming in here and I
:02:20. > :02:24.know they've been sent from other But we've found evidence that
:02:25. > :02:34.across the north-east, other shops For the first time ever
:02:35. > :02:52.in Middleborough, Trading Standards We've got 33 premises
:02:53. > :03:02.that we're aware of. They're testing every tube
:03:03. > :03:05.in every shop. What we're looking
:03:06. > :03:08.for is the levels of radiation. It should be no more than
:03:09. > :03:12.0.3 watts per square meter. It equates to midday sun in the Med
:03:13. > :03:15.and it's the most If the meter reads over 0.3,
:03:16. > :03:31.the salon is breaking the law. Sunbeds in this Middleborough
:03:32. > :03:37.shop are apparently And for Trading Standards,
:03:38. > :03:44.the dodgy marketing is backed up Rather than 0.3 we're finding
:03:45. > :03:56.levels of 1.02, 0.9. You're talking three
:03:57. > :03:59.times permitted limit. If the tubes aren't changed
:04:00. > :04:03.immediately, Trading Standards will force them to
:04:04. > :04:07.stop using the sunbeds. But as it stands,
:04:08. > :04:09.customers here are being exposed to When they tested
:04:10. > :04:23.in Durham there was a 62% chance 80% of shops were breaking
:04:24. > :04:29.the law in North Tyneside. And in Newcastle, 84% of beds
:04:30. > :04:35.failed the original testing. All in all, around three quarters
:04:36. > :04:38.of all sunbeds being used by customers in the north-east were
:04:39. > :04:53.found to be illegal. We have seen bulbs three times as
:04:54. > :04:59.strong as the legal limit? What do you think? That does not surprise
:05:00. > :05:05.me. This is one of the pleasures of tanning shops, they seem to produce
:05:06. > :05:08.the strongest and most powerful lamps and they were three times as
:05:09. > :05:13.strong, does that equate to three times the risk of skin cancer? It
:05:14. > :05:19.could be more than that. Giving your skin such a very high-dose might
:05:20. > :05:24.mean it is not able to read are -- to repair as much as it could with
:05:25. > :05:26.lower doses that you were talking about.
:05:27. > :05:29.But even before the tanning war and the high powered tubes, the number
:05:30. > :05:41.The back I was diagnosed with skin cancer in December 2001 and I have
:05:42. > :05:46.had some malignant melanomas removed but I am not in the clear. In the
:05:47. > :05:51.1980s we had a sunbed at home and I was on that constantly. We cannot
:05:52. > :06:00.say that sunbeds caused your skin cancer? Not at all but I was advised
:06:01. > :06:01.that it was highly likely that I cancer would return, should I go
:06:02. > :06:06.back near the sunbed. Back on the streets,
:06:07. > :06:08.there's the war going on between And there's the battle to
:06:09. > :06:12.bring all of them into line. In Newcastle,
:06:13. > :06:26.they first tested two years ago. Big mac we had a complaint last week
:06:27. > :06:27.from a member of the public who was sunburnt and she said she was stuck
:06:28. > :06:30.to the tube. So Trading Standards officer
:06:31. > :06:33.Paul Leighton is on the prowl. He's found that some shops he
:06:34. > :06:35.already warned have put high Two years on from the first round
:06:36. > :06:44.of testing, some shops are still fitting tubes that are way stronger
:06:45. > :06:49.than the legal limit. The beds can't be used
:06:50. > :07:07.by customers until the illegal tubes Speak back they are still not safe.
:07:08. > :07:12.I have readings at three times the safe limit.
:07:13. > :07:20.The next shop proudly advertises "The Beast from the Far East".
:07:21. > :07:37.They had Eastleigh sunbeds. They were dangerous for members of the
:07:38. > :07:40.public and they should be made aware of that. They should have had a
:07:41. > :07:48.better campaign abusing safer sunbeds. Rather than the beast from
:07:49. > :07:53.the Far East. The beast will not be unleashed until it is safe.
:07:54. > :08:03.Of five shops Paul's visited today, three are continuing to break
:08:04. > :08:20.One shop markets them as the beast from the Far East. Yes, that is
:08:21. > :08:27.shocking. At the end of the day. UV at those doses is a carcinogen, it
:08:28. > :08:31.is like tobacco, like alcohol and things like that. And if they are
:08:32. > :08:34.flaunting the rules to that degree, then people need to be aware of that
:08:35. > :08:37.and have something done about it. But even if it doesn't cause cancer,
:08:38. > :08:52.sunbed addiction can leave We have brought you to a castle
:08:53. > :09:01.University to do some testing of your skin. With this lamp. --
:09:02. > :09:09.Newcastle University. You can see that it looks very freckly and there
:09:10. > :09:12.are lots of different areas that are lighter and darker with
:09:13. > :09:14.pigmentation. That shows that there has been quite a lot of damage over
:09:15. > :09:16.the years. Sunbed abuse has significantly
:09:17. > :09:28.changed Sarah's skin. It is horrifying what you put
:09:29. > :09:33.yourself through, you don't think of long-term results and 20 years
:09:34. > :09:41.later, you end up with these results. It makes me feel so much
:09:42. > :09:44.older than I am. You think you are doing something good and you will
:09:45. > :09:50.make yourself looking younger by getting that hand, but, long-term,
:09:51. > :09:51.if you see the skin like that, it makes you feel so much older than
:09:52. > :09:54.you are. I was amazed that three quarters
:09:55. > :09:57.of sunbeds tested in On Twitter, use my hashtag,
:09:58. > :10:03."insideoutcj". Today's top footballers have it all,
:10:04. > :10:06.but that wasn't always so. 60 years ago,
:10:07. > :10:10.one of Newcastle United's stars was unceremoniously dropped
:10:11. > :10:13.after falling out with the board. Frank Brennan stood up
:10:14. > :10:15.for his rights Sports journalist Simon Bird
:10:16. > :10:33.investigates. He was arguably one of Newcastle's
:10:34. > :10:40.greatest ever defenders. He stood a strapping 6 foot 3, like
:10:41. > :10:50.his nickname, the Rock of Tyneside. He would not have said anything,
:10:51. > :11:04.really. I can tell his story
:11:05. > :11:09.because it deserves to be told. I've been covering Newcastle United
:11:10. > :11:12.for years with the Mirror, but I Even though it was front
:11:13. > :11:15.page news for weeks. People don't realise today
:11:16. > :11:23.how good Frank Brennan was. He played for Newcastle United 349
:11:24. > :11:26.times over a decade, making him the second most capped
:11:27. > :11:30.Newcastle player in history, at a Jackie Milburn said
:11:31. > :11:44.of the three Newcastle teams, Frank's cup winner's medals -
:11:45. > :12:03.so rare When we were out socially, and it
:12:04. > :12:05.was his time for the drinks, he would, the medals. They kept him in
:12:06. > :12:07.his pocket. But he missed United's third Wembley
:12:08. > :12:11.victory in 1955. His wages were slashed
:12:12. > :12:16.from ?15 to ?8 a week. Banished to North Shields, a
:12:17. > :12:26.non-League team, on a free transfer. It's the equivalent today of, say,
:12:27. > :12:35.Steven Taylor being sent out to Blyth Spartans because he'd offended
:12:36. > :12:39.someone at Newcastle United. The Evening Chronicle was absolutely
:12:40. > :12:52.inundated with hundreds The proposed transfer of Frank's
:12:53. > :13:10.dramatic fall from grace was One caller paid the price of a
:13:11. > :13:11.telephone call from London. And the postbag had reached at normal
:13:12. > :13:20.proportions. The Evening Chronicle was absolutely
:13:21. > :13:22.inundated with hundreds There was a meeting organised
:13:23. > :13:26.in the City Hall in Newcastle. They passed a motion
:13:27. > :13:28.of no-confidence in the board. But beneath the sound and fury,
:13:29. > :13:33.it was never made clear to fans why Speculation
:13:34. > :13:37.on Frank's future swirled But the rumours weren't about
:13:38. > :13:43.what was happening on the pitch. They were all
:13:44. > :13:46.about what was happening off it. Mike Ashley isn't
:13:47. > :13:49.the first Newcastle United chairman In the 1950s, this was where Stan
:13:50. > :13:56.Seymour's sports centre was located. Owned by former Newcastle player
:13:57. > :13:59.turned chairman, Stan Seymour, it And the rumours were that Stan
:14:00. > :14:07.Seymour wanted to keep it that way. In those days, Newcastle
:14:08. > :14:14.didn't really have managers. In effect, he was the manager and
:14:15. > :14:19.the chairman of Newcastle United. He was a very,
:14:20. > :14:22.very powerful man indeed. Stan had signed the Scottish
:14:23. > :14:46.international and considered Frank He had to provide for his wife and
:14:47. > :14:48.six children and one of the ideas was to open a sports shop.
:14:49. > :14:51.But the chairman of Newcastle at the time, Mr Seymour,
:14:52. > :14:54.Mr Seymour was a great ex-player, the same as my dad.
:14:55. > :14:56.He opened up a sports shop in Newcastle.
:14:57. > :15:01.But when my dad did, things were a little bit different.
:15:02. > :15:03.He was basically punished for providing for his future.
:15:04. > :15:09.He was dropped from the first team, put on the transfer list and
:15:10. > :15:22.Frank would have played on a while longer, the same as Jackie.
:15:23. > :15:31.They were told not to go to the shop, they were actually told
:15:32. > :15:39.It beggars belief how the club could treat a player who's
:15:40. > :15:45.given ten loyal years of service to the club to be treated that way .
:15:46. > :15:47.Some of it was quite petty some of the dealings.
:15:48. > :15:53.It was disgusting, absolutely disgusting The club
:15:54. > :15:57.issued a statement saying none of this had anything to do with
:15:58. > :16:00.the fact that the chairman happened to have a sports shop and Frank was
:16:01. > :16:06.I think you know we'd say well they're bound to say
:16:07. > :16:10.It just wasn't true, it wasn't the case,
:16:11. > :16:16.His harsh treatment by the club was the first ever football
:16:17. > :16:25.Union firebrand Jimmy Guthrie gave an impassioned speech to delegates:
:16:26. > :16:28.I stand here as a representative of the last bonded men in Britain,
:16:29. > :16:34."We seek your help to smash such a system under which human beings are
:16:35. > :16:38.The conditions of the professional footballer's
:16:39. > :16:43.Take the recent case of Frank Brennan.
:16:44. > :16:49.He had to knuckle under the system or quit football.
:16:50. > :16:55.But his case was the beginning of the end for the all-powerful clubs.
:16:56. > :17:10.When you signed a contract, they literally come you until they didn't
:17:11. > :17:11.want to. Now if they wanted to stick you
:17:12. > :17:15.in the reserves The way it is now I personally think the pendulum's
:17:16. > :17:17.swung too far the other way. The players are millionaires -
:17:18. > :17:20.they dictate, or they didn't make The feud lingered long,
:17:21. > :17:36.even affecting Frank's testimonial - That's testimonial game, the last of
:17:37. > :17:45.his year, just did not come his way. It was given to Sunderland, the arch
:17:46. > :17:47.enemies. It's just amazing how ironic life can be sometimes.
:17:48. > :17:56.He was humiliated by what happened by being stubborn.
:17:57. > :17:59.Frank is still the only Newcastle player in history to have his
:18:00. > :18:14.Someone said he was known as the Rock of Tyneside. That summed him
:18:15. > :18:17.up. I know there are bits and pieces that went on within the club.
:18:18. > :18:19.Frank died in 1997 but now he's finally winning
:18:20. > :18:23.Today the club wants to honour one of their greatest players -
:18:24. > :18:27.His family and friends are invited to St James' Park as he's inducted
:18:28. > :18:45.It's fantastic to have Frank where he belongs.
:18:46. > :18:50.It's been a lovely, lovely day - it's been emotional.
:18:51. > :18:53.It's nice to see the whole family together again. Even the older
:18:54. > :18:55.sections. But ultimately Frank had
:18:56. > :18:57.the last laugh. Against all the odds,
:18:58. > :19:00.he led North Shields to win the This was arguably
:19:01. > :19:09.his greatest achievement. At least now it's thumbs up all
:19:10. > :19:17.round - for the rock of Tyneside. We take it for granted that we have
:19:18. > :19:20.our national parks - in the Lakes, Northumberland, the
:19:21. > :19:23.North York Moors and the Dales - but it was only 65 years ago that the
:19:24. > :19:27.Act of parliament was passed that There are 15 in all across Britain
:19:28. > :19:34.and as Jenny Hill reports they may be very different geographically,
:19:35. > :19:38.but they are facing very similar They are the picture perfect
:19:39. > :19:46.landscapes - the iconic symbols of Britain - the distinctive
:19:47. > :19:50.scenery which gives a sense of place - inspiring artists, exhausting
:19:51. > :19:57.ramblers and protecting wildlife. Over six decades the National Parks
:19:58. > :20:01.have become the nation's most prized The idea for public access to large
:20:02. > :20:13.tracts of the countryside began a century or so
:20:14. > :20:17.before it became enshrined in law. It was an event in 1932 which is
:20:18. > :20:22.credited as being the catalyst During the "Kinder
:20:23. > :20:29.Scout Mass Trespass", 400 people walked onto a privately owned rocky
:20:30. > :20:33.plateau in the Peak District. Five were jailed,
:20:34. > :20:36.and the controversy prompted Colin Speakman, a founding member
:20:37. > :20:46.of the Yorkshire Dales Society, has He believes the mass trespass was
:20:47. > :20:52.a critical moment. Although people didn't know it
:20:53. > :20:58.at the time, it created a martyr in Benny Rothman and his friends -
:20:59. > :21:02.the young men that went to jail. And I think people were so outraged
:21:03. > :21:05.that these young men were sent to jail purely for walking on the hills
:21:06. > :21:16.it really set people thinking and War before we finally got
:21:17. > :21:18.the legislation we needed The Council for the Preservation
:21:19. > :21:21.of Rural England are urging the Government to create these
:21:22. > :21:23.National Parks. With the fresh clean air coming
:21:24. > :21:26.across the hills and dales. With
:21:27. > :21:27.their quiet still waters offering Today, across the North,
:21:28. > :21:39.the five National Parks have about a million residents - and
:21:40. > :21:42.roughly 50 million tourists a year. To visitors, they're playgrounds -
:21:43. > :21:47.idyllic sanctuaries for picnics To residents,
:21:48. > :21:53.they are both home and workplace. The authorities
:21:54. > :21:55.which run the National Parks must They have to conserve
:21:56. > :21:59.and enhance the landscape, the They've also got to bring
:22:00. > :22:04.in the visitors. Generally, it's agreed they've
:22:05. > :22:10.done a pretty good job. But in doing so they've had to walk
:22:11. > :22:13.a tightrope between the needs On
:22:14. > :22:18.the one hand visitors bring traffic, On the other, tourism's vital to
:22:19. > :22:25.the economy and local people also need their livelihoods
:22:26. > :22:32.and landscapes protected. Gate latch Steve Tatlock has been
:22:33. > :22:36.a ranger in the Lake District So this is Rydal Water,
:22:37. > :22:43.beloved of Dorothy and William. Originally from Horwich
:22:44. > :22:49.in Lancashire, he believes he has a dream job -
:22:50. > :22:51.his patch covers Langdale, And he has a role as a diplomat -
:22:52. > :22:56.the one who has walk that tightrope So many people in such a delicate
:22:57. > :23:03.area - they can wear away the So we get involved
:23:04. > :23:07.in making the infrastructure more sustainable, more robust and find
:23:08. > :23:10.that balance about providing that without destroying what people come
:23:11. > :23:14.to see is a constant challenge. So as well as having the technical
:23:15. > :23:18.ability to put that in, sometimes you sort of need to draw on your own
:23:19. > :23:21.perception of what looks right. How do you blend it
:23:22. > :23:25.in with the curves and contours of the hillside rather than just
:23:26. > :23:28.putting a big motorway through? So it's that constant balance
:23:29. > :23:42.that we're looking for. With scenery like this, no wonder
:23:43. > :23:45.properties in the National Parks According to one national
:23:46. > :23:51.estate agent, houses here are Now those prices stay high
:23:52. > :23:59.because of stringent planning controls and there's not much in
:24:00. > :24:03.the way of new house construction. Without large scale estates
:24:04. > :24:06.and developments, there's This is Grassington in the Craven
:24:07. > :24:13.District of the Yorkshire Dales. The cost of an average house
:24:14. > :24:23.here is about ?200,000. To buy one with
:24:24. > :24:30.a 75 per cent mortgage, you'd need an
:24:31. > :24:31.annual income about around ?40,000. The average salary here
:24:32. > :24:33.is well below 20,000. This building site is being
:24:34. > :24:36.developed by a housing charity which provides new homes
:24:37. > :24:38.for rent to local people. Five houses
:24:39. > :24:40.and two flats are under construction They'll go to people
:24:41. > :24:45.on social housing waiting lists. The charity says building
:24:46. > :24:48.in a National Park cannot be done Working with the community, and
:24:49. > :24:53.the National Park, and the local So it's quite often that some of
:24:54. > :25:00.these sites might be in the working for two or three years before they
:25:01. > :25:06.actually even get to this stage. A lot of
:25:07. > :25:09.the brownfield sites have been taken The cost of building in the National
:25:10. > :25:14.Park, because we have to use natural materials, you're building quite
:25:15. > :25:18.small sites so economies of scale So a number of challenges,
:25:19. > :25:25.not problems, There is a bus stop at the end
:25:26. > :25:32.of a long day's hike, especially when you're wondering
:25:33. > :25:35.about that last bus home. When the Parks first opened
:25:36. > :25:37.there were regular bus services. But many of those routes have
:25:38. > :25:43.since been abandoned. Seven years ago, Colin Speakman
:25:44. > :25:45.helped set up DalesBus - It took on the management of many
:25:46. > :25:52.of the Sunday routes within the Yorkshire Dales, and has seen
:25:53. > :25:57.passenger numbers treble. The people who use the buses decide
:25:58. > :26:01.where they'll go, what they'll cost. We work very closely with regular
:26:02. > :26:06.users, local people, local organisations, the National
:26:07. > :26:09.Park and the bus companies. So between us because we're all
:26:10. > :26:13.walkers we know what walkers want. Every year we have a financial
:26:14. > :26:16.crisis and once again the funding we've had for three years is
:26:17. > :26:24.about to disappear so we're going to plan a major conference in Autumn,
:26:25. > :26:27.bringing everybody together to try and impress upon Government -
:26:28. > :26:29.regionally and nationally - And it doesn't cost a lot
:26:30. > :26:33.in the scale of things but without that kind of money even the
:26:34. > :26:38.volunteers can't achieve things. Sixty years ago, no-one had
:26:39. > :26:41.coined the term Global Warming. Today, dealing with changes
:26:42. > :26:44.in our climate is a priority This is Rydal Beck, high
:26:45. > :27:01.above Ambleside. A water source which has provided
:27:02. > :27:04.hydro electric power to the estate Now it's being upgraded,
:27:05. > :27:12.and the surplus power - enough for about 400 homes -
:27:13. > :27:17.will be fed into the network. It's big engineering -
:27:18. > :27:27.in a normally tranquil spot. I think no matter how carefully you
:27:28. > :27:30.plan this, there comes a point when you think 'My goodness me,
:27:31. > :27:32.this is very impactful.' Providing we do
:27:33. > :27:39.the restoration works properly at the end of it, Nature soon
:27:40. > :27:42.recovers and so providing we limit the damage, localise it, within
:27:43. > :27:45.a few years time you won't actually It says a lot about the National
:27:46. > :27:50.Parks that in 65 years views Compare that to the alterations
:27:51. > :27:53.made to our urban landscapes. But change is coming
:27:54. > :27:56.and no-one really knows what The Government hasn't ruled out
:27:57. > :28:03.the possibility of fracking And the authorities are all facing
:28:04. > :28:07.cuts which will see shrinking The past has always been
:28:08. > :28:15.protected in our National Parks. Will they continue to be an
:28:16. > :28:36.archive of our natural and cultural Till then, from Hexham
:28:37. > :28:51.in Northumberland, goodnight.