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Cumbria ? for this week s inside Out Chris

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

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cosmetic treatments left a trail of misery.

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

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To have this number of complications at the hands of one

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Just what is lurking beneath the green of

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Concerns in the north we could be playing a

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dangerous game with the future of our children.

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Everywhere now, people playing rugby, it is every week

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

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

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Family planning for squirrels, a novel way

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

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The beauty is the grey squirrel would have to eat

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I'm Chris Jackson and this is Inside Out.

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

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But we ve been investigating one operator on Tyneside,

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whose patients say they were left in pain and unhappy.

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What s more she s been helped by one

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of our region s leading transplant surgeons.

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

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

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It s now a celebrity endorsed industry - worth

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Wrinkle-busting injections designed to smooth the years away

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Well, that s what Robyn Hassan thought.

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

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

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

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

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

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A year on, she still bears the scares

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

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

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because it looks like I ve got a cold sore.

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Claire Wilde from South Shields ? also practiced under

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She s been operating across the North East for seven years

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

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Holly, would you really get that done?

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But sometimes her brush with the stars has had

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

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

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

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And got a whole load more than they bargained for.

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

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

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came to me and said they d had toxin treatments before

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

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

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And lately there has been some nasty infections that

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

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What do you think of the way she operates?

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

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It is completely unethical and I can t understand how someone

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

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Ashton Collins has set up a government approved company that

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

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

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

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

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And she's been difficult or impossible to track

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So she must be operating outside the low - right?

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Three years ago an independent review criticized the absence

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of regulation for some cosmetic work.

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non-surgical cosmetic procedures regardless of their training,

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professional background or qualifications.

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But we ve discovered something about Claire Wilde s

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

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And although Claire Wilde s a registered nurse - she needs

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a doctor to prescribe on behalf of her clients

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

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It's clear this prescription has been tampered with.

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

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

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

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We ve found more examples of tampering

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The fraudulent prescriptions were faxed off to a pharmacy.

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There was nothing to stop Claire Wilde using the same

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

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

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On being informed of this very serious situation I have contacted

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the Police and the Nursing and Midwifery Council.'

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Dr Phipps stopped working with Claire Wilde in March 2013.

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So she found herself a new big name doctor set up

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Tanveer Butt is a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon at

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

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

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to the standards set by the doctors regulating body - the

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The GMC s guidelines say doctors must carry out a physical

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

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He came round my friend s house with Claire.

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He was introduced to me as an observer.

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Let s have a look at some of the prescriptions

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that Mr Butt signed, which by law should have addresses

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

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certainly isn t one for the person doing the prescribing.

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And we ve discovered that Mr Butt just like this.

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to eight times the dose needed for one treatment.

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

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

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Only Mr Butt will know ? but it meant that often

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People like Yvette from South Shields.

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

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I had it on the forehead, like your crows feet

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

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

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

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

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

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AUTOMATIC MESSAGE: This person s phone is switched off.

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She didn t want to talk to us either.

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We have made several attempts to ask her to explain herself

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but she s steadfastly refused to comment.

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

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

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But Claire went straight back indoors as soon

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We just wanted to ask you some questions, Claire.

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

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

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

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You could say she is being rather tight-lipped!

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

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as a doctor at every appointment and his role explained.

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He says he carried out visual examinations in line with GMC

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Guidelines and considered detailed medical questionnaires

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Mr Butt s lawyer admitted addresses were left off prescriptions,

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but says that was quickly rectified even though none of

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the many we ve seen - issued over six months -

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As for over-prescribing, Mr Butt admits he sometimes

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prescribed eight vials, which he says were usually to treat

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

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Yet all the prescriptions we ve seen were for clients

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Mr Butt denies any knowledge of medication being passed

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We ll be sending a copy of tonight s programme

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It can be a bit grim this time of year.

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And wet playing fields could be putting you

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Increasingly they are being replaced by

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But are these third-generation pitches as they are

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Blyth Town under-14 girls are local league champions.

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

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We've had smoking, asbestosis, thalidomide.

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Let us make sure that rubber artificial

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pictures are not the next big health scandal.

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

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had to watch suffered through it, it is horrible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Three years ago he was told he had cancer.

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

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His family believes it could have been caused by his long

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

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He even began playing football again.

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

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He left his job - determined to investigate

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Nigel discovered that American soccer coach Amy Griffin has been

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

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My list has now grown to 237, all over the

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The most concerning thing is 186 are soccer players.

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You have a son who is a goalkeeper who has been

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I have not been affected in the way you have.

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When Lewis was on the ward, earlier in

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the year three people who were regular players on 3G

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pictures, two of them are goalkeepers and the

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

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that is interesting, what is that all about?

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There s no doubt that tyre rubber contains toxic materials.

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

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There have been a number of international studies

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And none of them says there s a likely link

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between exposure to artificial pitches, and illness.

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

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

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

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

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It was a recent Dutch TV documentary which prompted

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A number of clubs immediately decided to stop using -

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People did not know children were playing on crushed tyres so

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clubs decided to close their pitches.

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

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Within weeks, the Institute of Public Health sampled rubber

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from a hundred pitches, and concluded:

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"the effect on human health is virtually negligible."

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

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Of course there is still a danger for the environment because

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

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One group took matters into their own hands.

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

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here and began vacuuming up the rubber.

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

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

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

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

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

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So the government report hasn't ended the arguments.

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An hour down the road, a senior toxicologist is worried

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It is not taking into account those specifications of

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

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

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future for normal grass which is more innocent and safer

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

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They're moving premises - and their new pitches

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will have a more expensive - cork base instead.

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Maybe it is quite a financial cost but you should ask

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

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Back home, the number of pitches keeps on growing.

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Servicing the rapidly-expanding demand are manufacturers

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

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on rubber chemicals that ll provide tougher standards than currently

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The Football Association are squarely behind 3G pitches.

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

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

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

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to do about the conflicting claims over 3G?

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Our independent research would suggest

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

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We are concerned about the safety of every individual.

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

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government seem to support players, children and their parents?

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Sport England told us it takes the concerns very seriously

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

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

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He ll need regular checkups for years -

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I love playing football but you have to ask

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

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If you think they are safe, go ahead but I

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

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

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

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

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I think there's a real danger we could be

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conducting an industrial scale experiment on the health and

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For me, that should not be allowed to happen.

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

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

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The only way to control their numbers is to cull

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But could contraception be the answer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Victorian aristocrats get the blame for introducing Grey

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squirrels to this country, bringing them in from America

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The animals adapted rather too well, and numbers swelled.

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

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One of their first crimes was to squeeze out Britain s

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

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

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They are very bold, they started very shy

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

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They are inspiring in terms of our British

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We need to carry out this work unfortunately to reduce the

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This work involves killing any grey squirrel that comes near.

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If the Wensleydale reds came in contact with a grey,

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they could pick up the fatal squirrel pox virus.

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The Grey squirrel is officially an alien invasive species.

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

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

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Some people argue that it s unrealistic to expect reds

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So why not let reds and greys co-exist?

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All animals are welcome at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary,

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It is often blamed for the red squirrel decline.

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

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I, don t think killing greys is the answer.

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

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grey squirrels are attacking our native woodland.

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

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A nightmare for places like the Yorkshire Arboretum,

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near Castle Howard, home to a priceless collection

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

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they manage a priceless reference collection of tree species.

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

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

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

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

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Squirrels have been wreaking woodland havoc for years.

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In the 1950s a despairing government organised a mass

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Farmers were paid a shilling a tail to rid the countryside

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The squirrels responded by breeding in bigger numbers.

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

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and are threatening the future of our woodland.

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

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

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

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

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of controlling the grey squirrel population without killing them.

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

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Once outside of the lab, it worked well on those

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squirrels that picked up the contraceptive laced nuts.

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Unfortunately half of them didn t take the bait

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

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So they have charged another set of scientists,

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

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

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

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

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dispenser. They hope these contraceptive

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dispensers could be dotted through our woodlands

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within five years. Looking forward, how would it change

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squirrel population? I think it would be massive. The

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

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

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

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

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exciting. Who knew? Contraception for squirrels.

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

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collection which is being preserved for the future.

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See you next Monday, till then, goodnight.

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at unsafe levels in nine out of ten hospitals this winter.

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NHS bosses said there were problems discharging frail patients.

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More controversy over President Trump's visit to the UK.

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The Speaker of the House of Commons said he didn't

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There have been protests against the state visit.

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The latest figures from the industry suggest we're buying

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It follows months of headlines about pollution and health problems.

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