06/02/2017 Inside Out North East and Cumbria

Cumbria ? for this week s inside Out Chris

In the next half hour, we expose the Tyneside nurse whose

cosmetic treatments left a trail of misery.

This is possibly one of the worst cases we've ever

To have this number of complications at the hands of one

Just what is lurking beneath the green of

Concerns in the north we could be playing a

dangerous game with the future of our children.

Everywhere now, people playing rugby, it is every week

around us and they should look at where they are letting their

children play because the guilt I feel for my son unbelievable.

Family planning for squirrels, a novel way

to keep numbers of the bushy tailed creatures down in North Yorkshire.

The beauty is the grey squirrel would have to eat

I'm Chris Jackson and this is Inside Out.

What if someone gave you a short cut to looking a bit younger?

But we ve been investigating one operator on Tyneside,

whose patients say they were left in pain and unhappy.

What s more she s been helped by one

of our region s leading transplant surgeons.

My boots are quite big ? I might have them reduced.

More and more of us are turning to face-lifts and fillers

It s now a celebrity endorsed industry - worth

Wrinkle-busting injections designed to smooth the years away

Well, that s what Robyn Hassan thought.

When I think about it now, I think how na ve and stupid!

When she put it in this side of me top lip she went ooh,

you re a bleeder and like loads of blood starting coming out.

And then when the swelling went down I was left disfigured and I have

been left with like a constant lump on me lip underneath there.

A year on, she still bears the scares

Like I can constantly feel it on me tooth when I talk.

And the lumps sometimes go white and I can t wear lipstick now either

because it looks like I ve got a cold sore.

Claire Wilde from South Shields ? also practiced under

She s been operating across the North East for seven years

She s even made her very own appearance on reality TV.

Holly, would you really get that done?

But sometimes her brush with the stars has had

Claire Wilde s insurance firm forked out more than ?8,000

So far, Ms Wilde dissolved six businesses and two years ago

We ve gathered a file of cases - of women who went to Claire Wilde

And got a whole load more than they bargained for.

Linda Mather says she s been left to clear up the mess in many cases.

I first became aware of her seven years ago - when people

came to me and said they d had toxin treatments before

And then as time went on I became aware of people who had gone

for lip-filler who had been left in extreme pain.

And lately there has been some nasty infections that

I have had to deal with - really big swellings and abscesses

What do you think of the way she operates?

I can t even think of words to sum up how I feel.

It is completely unethical and I can t understand how someone

can know they ve harmed somebody and not put that right.

Ashton Collins has set up a government approved company that

This is possibly one of the worst cases we ve seen.

To have this number of complications at the hands of one practitioner

So, Claire Wilde, she's made a load of people unhappy because they say

she's not only botched the job - but in some cases left them

And she's been difficult or impossible to track

So she must be operating outside the low - right?

Three years ago an independent review criticized the absence

of regulation for some cosmetic work.

non-surgical cosmetic procedures regardless of their training,

professional background or qualifications.

But we ve discovered something about Claire Wilde s

Whilst dermal fillers don t require a prescription ? Botulinum toxin ?

And although Claire Wilde s a registered nurse - she needs

a doctor to prescribe on behalf of her clients

It s a prescription for the drug under its brand name AZZALURE -

It's clear this prescription has been tampered with.

You'd think these were two different prescriptions but are they really?

Put a little light on the subject - unless it's a complete

Put a bit of correcting fluid on and change that to a "5".

We ve found more examples of tampering

The fraudulent prescriptions were faxed off to a pharmacy.

There was nothing to stop Claire Wilde using the same

Caroline Phipps, the doctor who issued these prescriptions, told us:

'I was distressed to discover that prescriptions written in good faith

On being informed of this very serious situation I have contacted

the Police and the Nursing and Midwifery Council.'

Dr Phipps stopped working with Claire Wilde in March 2013.

So she found herself a new big name doctor set up

Tanveer Butt is a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon at

For a fee, this eminent doctor was happy to meet Claire s

The question is: when prescribing cosmetic drugs, did Mr Butt adhere

to the standards set by the doctors regulating body - the

The GMC s guidelines say doctors must carry out a physical

But we ve spoken to several people who say that he did

He came round my friend s house with Claire.

He was introduced to me as an observer.

Let s have a look at some of the prescriptions

that Mr Butt signed, which by law should have addresses

There s no hint of an address for the patient and there s

certainly isn t one for the person doing the prescribing.

And we ve discovered that Mr Butt just like this.

to eight times the dose needed for one treatment.

Save Face says that amounts to over a year s supply.

The industry watchdog Save Face says that level of prescribing is very

Only Mr Butt will know ? but it meant that often

People like Yvette from South Shields.

She booked Claire Wilde to come to her house for a Botox treatment.

I had it on the forehead, like your crows feet

It was like tingly and I felt like I had a really bad

She says she didn t see a doctor and there was no prescription

So when you tried to get in touch with her, what happened?

Then I tried to ring her and her phone number was just dead.

Like my face was burning for two weeks and I couldn t

AUTOMATIC MESSAGE: This person s phone is switched off.

She didn t want to talk to us either.

We have made several attempts to ask her to explain herself

but she s steadfastly refused to comment.

Now we know where she is - she is just outside.

but it s just a quick run to her car so when the moment comes

But Claire went straight back indoors as soon

We just wanted to ask you some questions, Claire.

Well that was a very quick in and out of the house.

She is very happy to talk to people about how she can improve their look

but it looks like she doesn t want to talk to me

You could say she is being rather tight-lipped!

But his lawyer wrote to say that Mr Butt was introduced to clients

as a doctor at every appointment and his role explained.

He says he carried out visual examinations in line with GMC

Guidelines and considered detailed medical questionnaires

Mr Butt s lawyer admitted addresses were left off prescriptions,

but says that was quickly rectified even though none of

the many we ve seen - issued over six months -

As for over-prescribing, Mr Butt admits he sometimes

prescribed eight vials, which he says were usually to treat

young men for excessive sweating, when a higher dose would be needed.

Yet all the prescriptions we ve seen were for clients

Mr Butt denies any knowledge of medication being passed

We ll be sending a copy of tonight s programme

It can be a bit grim this time of year.

And wet playing fields could be putting you

Increasingly they are being replaced by

But are these third-generation pitches as they are

Blyth Town under-14 girls are local league champions.

But is what s under their feet - and in the air around them

We've had smoking, asbestosis, thalidomide.

Let us make sure that rubber artificial

pictures are not the next big health scandal.

My mother died of cancer at 41 and I've got a child that I've

had to watch suffered through it, it is horrible.

On nearly 3,000 pitches around the country, real grass has been

On nearly every one of these new pitches, thousands of ground-up

tyres are used to provide a soft base beneath the fibre.

It s bouncy, weatherproof, good for running on and gets rid

Lewis Maguire has been mad on football since he was eight.

For most of that time he s been playing as a goalkeeper

Three years ago he was told he had cancer.

Now 19, Lewis has been treated twice - for Hodgkins Lymphoma,

His family believes it could have been caused by his long

All these pellets, in your face diving for a ball.

He even began playing football again.

Lewis s dad was the boss of a health authority in Cumbria.

He left his job - determined to investigate

Nigel discovered that American soccer coach Amy Griffin has been

compiling a list of US athletes who ve used 3G pitches and been

My list has now grown to 237, all over the

The most concerning thing is 186 are soccer players.

You have a son who is a goalkeeper who has been

I have not been affected in the way you have.

When Lewis was on the ward, earlier in

the year three people who were regular players on 3G

pictures, two of them are goalkeepers and the

It is anecdotal but it makes you sit up and think,

that is interesting, what is that all about?

There s no doubt that tyre rubber contains toxic materials.

Now that doesn t prove that 3G pitches cause cancer.

There have been a number of international studies

And none of them says there s a likely link

between exposure to artificial pitches, and illness.

It says there are too many gaps in the recent research and that more

We've come to Holland, where they already have 2,000 3G pitches.

Here too, the government says there's not enough evidence that

But in Amsterdam, it hasn t stopped them taking action.

It was a recent Dutch TV documentary which prompted

A number of clubs immediately decided to stop using -

People did not know children were playing on crushed tyres so

clubs decided to close their pitches.

We got the news on the Wednesday and on the Saturday 30

Within weeks, the Institute of Public Health sampled rubber

from a hundred pitches, and concluded:

"the effect on human health is virtually negligible."

But the City of Amsterdam has decided it isn t going to build any

Of course there is still a danger for the environment because

For some parents, that s not enough, it's an own goal.

One group took matters into their own hands.

On a pitch nearby, in the dead of night, they snuck out

here and began vacuuming up the rubber.

It's only symbolic of course, we got some attention on

social media but we just wanted people to know we should do

You can see it here, it's in the bushes, the birds

It is in the socks and shoes, in the washing machine.

I tell him that it is not problem and it is OK

So the government report hasn't ended the arguments.

An hour down the road, a senior toxicologist is worried

It is not taking into account those specifications of

If I had children, I wouldn't want them to be exercising but put

pressure on the football club to replace these fields in the near

future for normal grass which is more innocent and safer

At another amateur club here in Amsterdam, they won't have

They're moving premises - and their new pitches

will have a more expensive - cork base instead.

Maybe it is quite a financial cost but you should ask

Is that not a far greater costs than replacing every one now?

Back home, the number of pitches keeps on growing.

Servicing the rapidly-expanding demand are manufacturers

The industry's trade body told us it's considering a new agreement

on rubber chemicals that ll provide tougher standards than currently

The Football Association are squarely behind 3G pitches.

Not only do they say they're safe, but they have plans to roll out

at least 200 more of them in the next few years.

So what are sports players, children - and their parents -

to do about the conflicting claims over 3G?

Our independent research would suggest

I have a son and I would be happy for him to play on a

We are concerned about the safety of every individual.

and not look to change that in any shape or form. What is the

government seem to support players, children and their parents?

Sport England told us it takes the concerns very seriously

and that it s currently contributing evidence to an EU-wide study,

For the second time, Lewis Maguire has beaten his Lymphoma,

He ll need regular checkups for years -

I love playing football but you have to ask

the question, do I want my child playing in these pitches?

If you think they are safe, go ahead but I

don't think they are and I don't think it's a good idea.

All the official advice on 3G pitches suggests there's no

But as we've seen, there are nagging doubts in some people's minds

Perhaps it s a debate we re yet to have in the UK.

I think there's a real danger we could be

conducting an industrial scale experiment on the health and

For me, that should not be allowed to happen.

Would you be happy for your kids or grandchildren to play in

They are cute and clever but to many they are a pest.

The only way to control their numbers is to cull

But could contraception be the answer?

But under the leafy canopy, deadly aliens are on the loose.

grey squirrel is a very clever mammal and has outsmarted man for

decades. They are also wiping out our native reds. We could lose our

entire population here. Chemical controls have so far afield. Killing

remains the only viable method of keeping numbers down. The chaps out

most mornings trying to shoot them. This could all be about to change.

Victorian aristocrats get the blame for introducing Grey

squirrels to this country, bringing them in from America

The animals adapted rather too well, and numbers swelled.

There are now around three million of them in the UK,

One of their first crimes was to squeeze out Britain s

There are now only about 15,000 left in England,

But there is one small corner of the Yorkshire Dales where red

They are very bold, they started very shy

but they work out they are the boss and they can do with a

They are inspiring in terms of our British

We need to carry out this work unfortunately to reduce the

This work involves killing any grey squirrel that comes near.

If the Wensleydale reds came in contact with a grey,

they could pick up the fatal squirrel pox virus.

The Grey squirrel is officially an alien invasive species.

It IS legal to kill them, in a humane way.

It s against the low to release one into the wild.

Some people argue that it s unrealistic to expect reds

So why not let reds and greys co-exist?

All animals are welcome at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary,

It is often blamed for the red squirrel decline.

To blame greys - it's nothing on human activity.

I, don t think killing greys is the answer.

There are two issues here ? it s not just the threat to reds,

grey squirrels are attacking our native woodland.

Not like this with chainsaws, but by chipping away at tree bark.

A nightmare for places like the Yorkshire Arboretum,

near Castle Howard, home to a priceless collection

At the Yorkshire Arboretum, near Castle Howard in North Yorkshire,

they manage a priceless reference collection of tree species.

How much of a problem are grey squirrels? Because us a lot of

problems, killing things and damaging the trees. This is a

classic example how they have stripped the bark in this section,

up and down the tree. This is a completely wrecked tree.

Squirrels have been wreaking woodland havoc for years.

In the 1950s a despairing government organised a mass

Farmers were paid a shilling a tail to rid the countryside

The squirrels responded by breeding in bigger numbers.

They now cause an estimated ?17 million a year of damage,

and are threatening the future of our woodland.

Most mornings, the chaps are out to shoot the squirrels. It must be

difficult for someone who loves nature to kill a species? We would

prefer not to sort some other form of control would be fantastic.

For years scientists have been trying to perfect a less brutal way

of controlling the grey squirrel population without killing them.

A team at Sheffield University spent most of the 1990s working

Once outside of the lab, it worked well on those

squirrels that picked up the contraceptive laced nuts.

Unfortunately half of them didn t take the bait

It is very expensive to do shooting in trapping, about ?60 a squirrel so

So they have charged another set of scientists,

at the government lab in North Yorkshire, to try again.

And they think they may this time have cracked a way of getting

It would look like this. It would be appeased and going the dispenser.

The beauty in this is that the grey squirrel would have to eat it at the

dispenser. They hope these contraceptive

dispensers could be dotted through our woodlands

within five years. Looking forward, how would it change

squirrel population? I think it would be massive. The

modelling we've done shows we could reduce the breeding population by

about 70% within three years. What would that do to the red? Reds are

very good at coming into grey squirrel areas and you with the

all-new range of reds moving south into Yorkshire. That's enormously

exciting. Who knew? Contraception for squirrels.

We will be transported back in time through a unique North East film

collection which is being preserved for the future.

See you next Monday, till then, goodnight.

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