08/09/2014 Inside Out North East and Cumbria

The tanning war that's burning up the North.

I was getting readings of 0.8, 0.9, up to three times

The own goal that banished its star player from the field.

He was humiliated by what happened and Newcastle united lost

We take a trip through our national parks

People were so outraged that these young men were sent to jail

purely for walking on the hills that it set people thinking.

This is Inside Out and I'm Chris Jackson.

When it comes to getting a tan, our part of country is a hotspot.

In fact, competition is so fierce, most salons are prepared to break

the law and put your health are risk to try and outshine the opposition.

Stay away from sunbeds, do not look at them. What happens if you are one

of the unlucky ones? It has the fourth highest rate

of tanning shops per number of So it's a major battleground

in the tanning war. Spit back it makes me feel good. --

it makes me feel good. We're just crazy for looking tanned. Everyone

looks good with a tan, right? In the battle for customers,

all kinds I've had people coming in here and I

know they've been sent from other But we've found evidence that

across the north-east, other shops For the first time ever

in Middleborough, Trading Standards We've got 33 premises

that we're aware of. They're testing every tube

in every shop. What we're looking

for is the levels of radiation. It should be no more than

0.3 watts per square meter. It equates to midday sun in the Med

and it's the most If the meter reads over 0.3,

the salon is breaking the law. Sunbeds in this Middleborough

shop are apparently And for Trading Standards,

the dodgy marketing is backed up Rather than 0.3 we're finding

levels of 1.02, 0.9. You're talking three

times permitted limit. If the tubes aren't changed

immediately, Trading Standards will force them to

stop using the sunbeds. But as it stands,

customers here are being exposed to When they tested

in Durham there was a 62% chance 80% of shops were breaking

the law in North Tyneside. And in Newcastle, 84% of beds

failed the original testing. All in all, around three quarters

of all sunbeds being used by customers in the north-east were

found to be illegal. We have seen bulbs three times as

strong as the legal limit? What do you think? That does not surprise

me. This is one of the pleasures of tanning shops, they seem to produce

the strongest and most powerful lamps and they were three times as

strong, does that equate to three times the risk of skin cancer? It

could be more than that. Giving your skin such a very high-dose might

mean it is not able to read are -- to repair as much as it could with

lower doses that you were talking about.

But even before the tanning war and the high powered tubes, the number

The back I was diagnosed with skin cancer in December 2001 and I have

had some malignant melanomas removed but I am not in the clear. In the

1980s we had a sunbed at home and I was on that constantly. We cannot

say that sunbeds caused your skin cancer? Not at all but I was advised

that it was highly likely that I cancer would return, should I go

back near the sunbed. Back on the streets,

there's the war going on between And there's the battle to

bring all of them into line. In Newcastle,

they first tested two years ago. Big mac we had a complaint last week

from a member of the public who was sunburnt and she said she was stuck

to the tube. So Trading Standards officer

Paul Leighton is on the prowl. He's found that some shops he

already warned have put high Two years on from the first round

of testing, some shops are still fitting tubes that are way stronger

than the legal limit. The beds can't be used

by customers until the illegal tubes Speak back they are still not safe.

I have readings at three times the safe limit.

The next shop proudly advertises "The Beast from the Far East".

They had Eastleigh sunbeds. They were dangerous for members of the

public and they should be made aware of that. They should have had a

better campaign abusing safer sunbeds. Rather than the beast from

the Far East. The beast will not be unleashed until it is safe.

Of five shops Paul's visited today, three are continuing to break

One shop markets them as the beast from the Far East. Yes, that is

shocking. At the end of the day. UV at those doses is a carcinogen, it

is like tobacco, like alcohol and things like that. And if they are

flaunting the rules to that degree, then people need to be aware of that

and have something done about it. But even if it doesn't cause cancer,

sunbed addiction can leave We have brought you to a castle

University to do some testing of your skin. With this lamp. --

Newcastle University. You can see that it looks very freckly and there

are lots of different areas that are lighter and darker with

pigmentation. That shows that there has been quite a lot of damage over

the years. Sunbed abuse has significantly

changed Sarah's skin. It is horrifying what you put

yourself through, you don't think of long-term results and 20 years

later, you end up with these results. It makes me feel so much

older than I am. You think you are doing something good and you will

make yourself looking younger by getting that hand, but, long-term,

if you see the skin like that, it makes you feel so much older than

you are. I was amazed that three quarters

of sunbeds tested in On Twitter, use my hashtag,

"insideoutcj". Today's top footballers have it all,

but that wasn't always so. 60 years ago,

one of Newcastle United's stars was unceremoniously dropped

after falling out with the board. Frank Brennan stood up

for his rights Sports journalist Simon Bird

investigates. He was arguably one of Newcastle's

greatest ever defenders. He stood a strapping 6 foot 3, like

his nickname, the Rock of Tyneside. He would not have said anything,

really. I can tell his story

because it deserves to be told. I've been covering Newcastle United

for years with the Mirror, but I Even though it was front

page news for weeks. People don't realise today

how good Frank Brennan was. He played for Newcastle United 349

times over a decade, making him the second most capped

Newcastle player in history, at a Jackie Milburn said

of the three Newcastle teams, Frank's cup winner's medals -

so rare When we were out socially, and it

was his time for the drinks, he would, the medals. They kept him in

his pocket. But he missed United's third Wembley

victory in 1955. His wages were slashed

from ?15 to ?8 a week. Banished to North Shields, a

non-League team, on a free transfer. It's the equivalent today of, say,

Steven Taylor being sent out to Blyth Spartans because he'd offended

someone at Newcastle United. The Evening Chronicle was absolutely

inundated with hundreds The proposed transfer of Frank's

dramatic fall from grace was One caller paid the price of a

telephone call from London. And the postbag had reached at normal

proportions. The Evening Chronicle was absolutely

inundated with hundreds There was a meeting organised

in the City Hall in Newcastle. They passed a motion

of no-confidence in the board. But beneath the sound and fury,

it was never made clear to fans why Speculation

on Frank's future swirled But the rumours weren't about

what was happening on the pitch. They were all

about what was happening off it. Mike Ashley isn't

the first Newcastle United chairman In the 1950s, this was where Stan

Seymour's sports centre was located. Owned by former Newcastle player

turned chairman, Stan Seymour, it And the rumours were that Stan

Seymour wanted to keep it that way. In those days, Newcastle

didn't really have managers. In effect, he was the manager and

the chairman of Newcastle United. He was a very,

very powerful man indeed. Stan had signed the Scottish

international and considered Frank He had to provide for his wife and

six children and one of the ideas was to open a sports shop.

But the chairman of Newcastle at the time, Mr Seymour,

Mr Seymour was a great ex-player, the same as my dad.

He opened up a sports shop in Newcastle.

But when my dad did, things were a little bit different.

He was basically punished for providing for his future.

He was dropped from the first team, put on the transfer list and

Frank would have played on a while longer, the same as Jackie.

They were told not to go to the shop, they were actually told

It beggars belief how the club could treat a player who's

given ten loyal years of service to the club to be treated that way .

Some of it was quite petty some of the dealings.

It was disgusting, absolutely disgusting The club

issued a statement saying none of this had anything to do with

the fact that the chairman happened to have a sports shop and Frank was

I think you know we'd say well they're bound to say

It just wasn't true, it wasn't the case,

His harsh treatment by the club was the first ever football

Union firebrand Jimmy Guthrie gave an impassioned speech to delegates:

I stand here as a representative of the last bonded men in Britain,

"We seek your help to smash such a system under which human beings are

The conditions of the professional footballer's

Take the recent case of Frank Brennan.

He had to knuckle under the system or quit football.

But his case was the beginning of the end for the all-powerful clubs.

When you signed a contract, they literally come you until they didn't

want to. Now if they wanted to stick you

in the reserves The way it is now I personally think the pendulum's

swung too far the other way. The players are millionaires -

they dictate, or they didn't make The feud lingered long,

even affecting Frank's testimonial - That's testimonial game, the last of

his year, just did not come his way. It was given to Sunderland, the arch

enemies. It's just amazing how ironic life can be sometimes.

He was humiliated by what happened by being stubborn.

Frank is still the only Newcastle player in history to have his

Someone said he was known as the Rock of Tyneside. That summed him

up. I know there are bits and pieces that went on within the club.

Frank died in 1997 but now he's finally winning

Today the club wants to honour one of their greatest players -

His family and friends are invited to St James' Park as he's inducted

It's fantastic to have Frank where he belongs.

It's been a lovely, lovely day - it's been emotional.

It's nice to see the whole family together again. Even the older

sections. But ultimately Frank had

the last laugh. Against all the odds,

he led North Shields to win the This was arguably

his greatest achievement. At least now it's thumbs up all

round - for the rock of Tyneside. We take it for granted that we have

our national parks - in the Lakes, Northumberland, the

North York Moors and the Dales - but it was only 65 years ago that the

Act of parliament was passed that There are 15 in all across Britain

and as Jenny Hill reports they may be very different geographically,

but they are facing very similar They are the picture perfect

landscapes - the iconic symbols of Britain - the distinctive

scenery which gives a sense of place - inspiring artists, exhausting

ramblers and protecting wildlife. Over six decades the National Parks

have become the nation's most prized The idea for public access to large

tracts of the countryside began a century or so

before it became enshrined in law. It was an event in 1932 which is

credited as being the catalyst During the "Kinder

Scout Mass Trespass", 400 people walked onto a privately owned rocky

plateau in the Peak District. Five were jailed,

and the controversy prompted Colin Speakman, a founding member

of the Yorkshire Dales Society, has He believes the mass trespass was

a critical moment. Although people didn't know it

at the time, it created a martyr in Benny Rothman and his friends -

the young men that went to jail. And I think people were so outraged

that these young men were sent to jail purely for walking on the hills

it really set people thinking and War before we finally got

the legislation we needed The Council for the Preservation

of Rural England are urging the Government to create these

National Parks. With the fresh clean air coming

across the hills and dales. With

their quiet still waters offering Today, across the North,

the five National Parks have about a million residents - and

roughly 50 million tourists a year. To visitors, they're playgrounds -

idyllic sanctuaries for picnics To residents,

they are both home and workplace. The authorities

which run the National Parks must They have to conserve

and enhance the landscape, the They've also got to bring

in the visitors. Generally, it's agreed they've

done a pretty good job. But in doing so they've had to walk

a tightrope between the needs On

the one hand visitors bring traffic, On the other, tourism's vital to

the economy and local people also need their livelihoods

and landscapes protected. Gate latch Steve Tatlock has been

a ranger in the Lake District So this is Rydal Water,

beloved of Dorothy and William. Originally from Horwich

in Lancashire, he believes he has a dream job -

his patch covers Langdale, And he has a role as a diplomat -

the one who has walk that tightrope So many people in such a delicate

area - they can wear away the So we get involved

in making the infrastructure more sustainable, more robust and find

that balance about providing that without destroying what people come

to see is a constant challenge. So as well as having the technical

ability to put that in, sometimes you sort of need to draw on your own

perception of what looks right. How do you blend it

in with the curves and contours of the hillside rather than just

putting a big motorway through? So it's that constant balance

that we're looking for. With scenery like this, no wonder

properties in the National Parks According to one national

estate agent, houses here are Now those prices stay high

because of stringent planning controls and there's not much in

the way of new house construction. Without large scale estates

and developments, there's This is Grassington in the Craven

District of the Yorkshire Dales. The cost of an average house

here is about ?200,000. To buy one with

a 75 per cent mortgage, you'd need an

annual income about around ?40,000. The average salary here

is well below 20,000. This building site is being

developed by a housing charity which provides new homes

for rent to local people. Five houses

and two flats are under construction They'll go to people

on social housing waiting lists. The charity says building

in a National Park cannot be done Working with the community, and

the National Park, and the local So it's quite often that some of

these sites might be in the working for two or three years before they

actually even get to this stage. A lot of

the brownfield sites have been taken The cost of building in the National

Park, because we have to use natural materials, you're building quite

small sites so economies of scale So a number of challenges,

not problems, There is a bus stop at the end

of a long day's hike, especially when you're wondering

about that last bus home. When the Parks first opened

there were regular bus services. But many of those routes have

since been abandoned. Seven years ago, Colin Speakman

helped set up DalesBus - It took on the management of many

of the Sunday routes within the Yorkshire Dales, and has seen

passenger numbers treble. The people who use the buses decide

where they'll go, what they'll cost. We work very closely with regular

users, local people, local organisations, the National

Park and the bus companies. So between us because we're all

walkers we know what walkers want. Every year we have a financial

crisis and once again the funding we've had for three years is

about to disappear so we're going to plan a major conference in Autumn,

bringing everybody together to try and impress upon Government -

regionally and nationally - And it doesn't cost a lot

in the scale of things but without that kind of money even the

volunteers can't achieve things. Sixty years ago, no-one had

coined the term Global Warming. Today, dealing with changes

in our climate is a priority This is Rydal Beck, high

above Ambleside. A water source which has provided

hydro electric power to the estate Now it's being upgraded,

and the surplus power - enough for about 400 homes -

will be fed into the network. It's big engineering -

in a normally tranquil spot. I think no matter how carefully you

plan this, there comes a point when you think 'My goodness me,

this is very impactful.' Providing we do

the restoration works properly at the end of it, Nature soon

recovers and so providing we limit the damage, localise it, within

a few years time you won't actually It says a lot about the National

Parks that in 65 years views Compare that to the alterations

made to our urban landscapes. But change is coming

and no-one really knows what The Government hasn't ruled out

the possibility of fracking And the authorities are all facing

cuts which will see shrinking The past has always been

protected in our National Parks. Will they continue to be an

archive of our natural and cultural Till then, from Hexham

in Northumberland, goodnight.