26/02/2018 Inside Out North East and Cumbria

Hello and a warm

welcome from Malton.

In the next half hour -

just put the mobile away.

That's the call from a Cumbrian

who is living with the consequences

of drivers who use their phone

at the wheel.

You cannot risk it because it is not

just the fact you will be heavily

fined or go to prison,

it's the lives that get ruined.

Can a North Yorkshire jockey help

change dangerous practice when it

comes to the all-important weigh-in?

If you go out and have six, seven,

eight gin and tonics and do not eat

you will be lighter in the morning

so you think, that's great,

I will make the weight up the next

day but then obviously it's not good

for your head.

And Newcastle's great survivor,

one man's vision of the picture

palace that has survived

the test of time.

Dixon Scott really was

a remarkable person.

He could have built a box, a shed,

almost, with a screen in it and some

rudimentary seats but obviously

the Tyneside is not

like that, it is beautiful.

I am Chris Jackson

and this is Inside Out.

It was a heartbreaking disaster

on the M6 in Cumbria,

and all because of one of these.

In a split second one

man died and another

had his life altered forever.

One year on from a change

in the law, we ask why

do people still use

mobile phones behind the wheel.

Now, when you are in your car...

..you have really got

to keep your eyes peeled.

Anything could happen.

A kid could dash out in front

of you, another car could make

a sudden manoeuvre,

and you certainly should not

be doing any of this.

I'm just going to let my mate know.

Hang on.

It's not easy looking at this.

I can't really keep one eye

on the road and this.

Well, you maybe just think

you will get away with it.

After all, you could just be

going down a nice quiet road.

Could even be stuck

in a traffic jam.

Or maybe it's somewhere

you know really well.

Of course it does not really matter.

Because I am not really driving.

But if I had been caught with this

in my hand that would mean a £200

fine and six points on my licence.

But if I had caused an accident

I could end up in prison.

Those penalties doubled a year ago.

But is anyone taking

it more seriously?

In Carlisle, it's rush-hour.

He is on his phone.

That will do for me.

PC Dan Beige is on the lookout

for drivers breaking the law.

OK, two cars ahead of us we have got

this black Mercedes.

Black phone, silver edge

to it and he had it

texting in his right hand.

Pull into there.

Hello, mate, just jump out for us.

Grab your phone as well, please.

That black one with

the silver around the edges.

Good man.

Do you know why I have stopped you?

Yeah, you have probably seen me put

the phone on the charger.

So you know using a mobile phone

while you are behind the wheel

of a car is illegal, yes?

Yeah.

OK.

That was a young male

driver on his way home,

he was texting with his right hand,

could clearly see it

from our position.

Can I get a vehicle check, please,

London Road, for an offence.

You could see his attention

was drawn to his phone, he was not

looking where he was going.

As soon as he got out

of his car he realised why

he had been stopped.

But using a hand-held phone

at the wheel does not just lead

to points and fines,

it can devastate lives.

As Paul, from Kirby Stephen,

knows all too well.

The best job I've ever had,

fantastic, helping people,

being out of there.

Bit of adrenaline kick

when things happen.

Highways officer Paul

was on the hard shoulder of the M6

when a car ploughed into him

and his colleague.

All I remember is a bang

and being laid on the back

of the recovery truck.

I know I was in

an awful lot of pain.

Paul spent six months in hospital

and was left paralysed.

Fellow traffic officer

Adam Gibb was killed.

Before the crash driver

Peter Morrison exchanged 25 text

messages over a 23 mile

stretch of motorway.

He was jailed for seven years

for dangerous driving.

Whatever sentence he has

got it is not going to

change what happened.

Adam is gone, Julie and Matthew

are now struggling with life

without a husband and a father.

Even Mr Morrison's own family,

he has a wife and young child,

you know, there are no

winners in this.

I'm in a wheelchair

for the rest of my life

and that is pretty much my sentence.

This is my prison, it has

changed my life beyond recognition,

every aspect of my life has changed.

You cannot risk its because it's not

just the fact you will be heavily

fined or go to prison,

it's the lives that get ruined.

If we know it's dangerous to use

a hand-held phone at the wheel why

do people still do it?

This is what happened

when we took our camera out

in rush in Newcastle.

And in Cumbria, PC Dan Beige

has spotted another

driver using his phone.

There is one.

So travelling behind this van,

I could see he had a dark grey

mobile phone to his ear.

You know why I have stopped you?

Yes.

OK, I have stopped you because.

My boss rang me.

Did he?

Fair enough.

OK.

You are going to get

a ticket for that.

That's fine, I understand.

Just bear with me because we do it

all electronically and this thing

is a little bit slow sometimes.

As soon as we stopped the car

he admitted using a mobile phone

and has been issued the relevant

points and fine for that offence.

He is a professional driver,

it is in his interest to keep

points off his licence

so all in all probably quite a good

stop and hopefully he will take

something from it and not

answer his phone again

while he is driving.

I think people realise

the police are out and about,

we are there to hopefully make

an impact and prevent accidents

or people getting injured

and all the other things that can

be led to with mobile

phone use at the wheel.

It looks like the work of the police

and increased penalties could be

making a difference.

Figures from our five forces show

in the last year the number

of people caught using a hand-held

phone has actually gone down.

In 2016 officers across our region

issued more than 2700 fixed

penalty notices in all.

In 2017, they gave

out just over 1900 -

a drop of nearly one third.

Well, that's what the police say,

but I wonder what you guys think.

Have you seen fewer people

on their phones at the wheel?

Let's find out.

I see it all the time.

But there are not enough police

resources to enforce the penalty.

The penalty change does not appear

to have had any impact.

A worrying number of van and lorry

drivers seem oblivious to the law.

Generally, I have seen less people

on their phones but I still see

tractor drivers chatting on theirs.

But if we want the number of drivers

using their phones to keep

going down, educating the next

generation is key.

OK, Amber, where do

you have your mobile phone today?

In the glove box.

In the glove box.

Excellent.

Why do we have that

in the glove box?

So we have got no distractions.

Excellent.

Release your handbrake

for me, please.

And we will head straight out.

This is 12-year-old Amber's second

go behind the wheel.

Her mum Joanne knows just how

all-consuming phones can be.

It is just the way that

everybody is, everybody

grows up with phones now.

These two have both got smartphones.

The fact that they use them

for every integral part

of their social life and everything

they do, once they get to drive

and I think it will be

difficult to put it down.

Why can't some people simply

leave their phones alone?

A lot of the time when we are

checking our mobile phones we're not

even aware doing it.

It has become so much

of the habit to check

what is going on with the world

on our phones, I think we have this

fear of missing out on information.

It is more of a compulsion.

It's not technically an addiction

but there is increasing evidence

there is problematic usage

of mobile phones.

Of course, mobile phones are no

longer just used for making phone

calls and sending texts.

They help us stay in constant

contact with the wider

world through social media,

apps and the internet.

They call it a phone,

they say it's a mobile phone

but it's actually a miniature

computer in your pocket and it needs

to be treated like that.

So you would not whip

out your laptop on the motorway.

And start rattling out an e-mail.

What people tend to do is pull

out their mobile phone

because they do not see that

as necessarily the same thing.

So there are lessons for all of us

on how we use our mobile phones.

What about the penalty

for using it at the wheel?

Is a £200 fine and six

points on your license

enough of a deterrent?

No, it is not, because it

has not stopped people.

I still see it and it

makes me so angry.

Not just angry, it makes me

so sad and so worried.

You need to be banned,

you need your licence

taken off you, minimum.

Is it all just about punishment?

Is that going to be

enough to stop it?

No, I think it needs to be made

socially unacceptable.

I think people need to start blowing

the whistle on people that

are using their phones.

If you see this behaviour going on,

it needs pointing out.

So would even tougher penalties

persuade more of us motorists

to put the phone away?

Please get in touch.

We love to hear your views.

The details are on screen now.

Here in North Yorkshire,

horse racing is in the blood.

But if you want to be a prize

jockey, you have got

to watch your weight.

It can be painful trying to beat

those dreaded scales, but,

as Judy Hobson reports,

there is one rider here

in the county who has been

in on a pioneering project to try

and change that.

Horse racing is part

of our national culture.

Millions offered in prize-money,

millions more watching our biggest

races from around the world.

But what is it like for the riders,

the men and women at the very

centre of the sport?

It can be dangerous, every jockey

will have a list of broken bones,

but most say the toughest part

of the job is the relentless

struggle to keep the weight off.

Keeping their weight low is

an integral part of a jockey's job.

Because if they cannot make

the weight they will not get

the rides, and if they

do not get the rides,

their careers could be over.

It is a path I once tried to pursue,

following in his footsteps of my

dad, who was an amateur jump jockey.

But what some of these

riders go through to shed

Some of the lads had been flipping,

bringing their food back

up, drinking too much.

It is not a modern problem.

In 1886, Fred Archer,

who had been champion jockey 12

times, took his own life,

problems with his weight was said

to have been a factor.

It is a pressure that

continues to affect those

at the very top of the sport.

I was having hot baths and running

with sweat suits on and saunas

and everything you should not do

I was probably doing.

Southwell races on a cold winter's

afternoon, and the jockeys

are weighing in before

the first race.

Each horse has to carry

a certain amount of weight.

Today Paul Mulrennan

is riding at nine stone.

Not easy to achieve

when you are five foot seven.

When I got here I had one last pound

to get off so I jumped

in the sauna and had a shave

in there and the last

pound just flew off.

So I am on the weight now.

The lighter you are the more rides

you are available for.

But it is a daily

struggle for any jockey.

Paul used to make weight by starving

himself and the brutally sweating

off the last pounds.

But other jockeys go further,

drinking alcohol to dehydrate

them or even flipping -

a term used for making

yourself sick.

Keeping the weight off all year

round became so hard for Paul

he almost gave up his job.

Hello, Paul.

How are you?

You're looking good.

Looking sharp, mate.

Feeling good?

Fit and well, yeah.

Fit and well?

But everything changed when he came

to John Moores University

in Liverpool and met Doctor George

Wilson.

George is a former jockey and now

heads up the world's leading

research into how riders can

make weight safely.

To work out Paul's minimum weight,

George uses a scanner to see how

much body fat he's carrying.

Overall, you are only carrying just

over 11% total of body fat.

So, George, could Paul get down any

lower than he already is?

Well, there is leeway for a little

bit of reduction in weight.

We could probably take maybe one

kilo of fat off that

but you would really be getting down

to the absolute minimum.

Obviously, you need some fat

for many physiological reasons.

First and foremost, we have to tell

jockeys they have to be

realistic about the types of weights

they are trying to

achieve to ride at.

We offer up an individually devised

diet and nutrition programme

and exercise programme based

upon the research, as opposed

to the jockeys adopting these

culturally driven methods

which obviously would not be

the best for your health.

Because to lose weight you do not

have to sweat or starve.

But sweating and starving has been

part of the culture and it can

create long-term health problems.

So today George tests how quickly

Paul can burn calories.

This programme educates riders

in having a healthy diet combined

with fat burning exercises.

It's a delicate balance to keep

jockeys at their minimum weight.

They can still make those racing

weights but they are doing it

by eating frequently,

six times a day, staying hydrated.

That's the absolute crux

of what we are doing here.

From my own experience,

starvation is not great

and dehydration is not great

and you feel terrible.

Funded by the Racing Foundation,

this is a unique programme

and available to every jockey.

It has got a bigger implication

because it is not just

for jockeys, it's for anyone.

It can show you can eat

six times a day and,

obviously, looking at you,

very low body fat.

But you feel healthy?

I feel healthy, I feel good,

I'm eating more than ever, really.

It's McCoy, at the 15th attempt,

he wins the Grand National.

George has helped more than 300

jockeys, including the biggest

names in the industry.

AP McCoy has ridden more

winners than anyone else,

and yet he told us he regrets not

having access to this research

early in his career.

Unfortunately I went

there in the latter part

of my career when I was pretty

near retirement but I went

there because I was interested

and I think, do you know what,

maybe I could have been so much

better if I had access to something

like this earlier in my career.

It could have made me

better and last longer.

It could have made me

a much better jockey.

The average weight of a flat

jockey is about the same

as a 13-year-old boy.

Many are two stone under

their natural body weight and that

can cause physical problems

like weak bones.

But this daily battle of extreme

weight loss can also cause

issues with mental health.

Some high-profile flat jockeys

have spoken of careers

blighted by bulimia.

Others have spoken about

depression and alcoholism.

More importantly,

you are doing this...

The impact of this constant excess

weight loss on jockeys' mental

health is now forming part

of the research at

John Moores University.

AP McCoy says it causes

other problems, too.

The big problem for a jockey,

and especially a jump jockey,

is if the brain is starved that's

when you can do the most

damage when you bang your

head or when you fall,

if you are dehydrated.

To keep at his minimum riding

weight, Paul has to stick

to the strict routine set

by the team at

John Moores University.

It is a far cry from the old days

when Paul would starve

and his weight would yo-yo.

It was literally just get the sweat

suit on, get off running,

and you could be dropping anything

from, a good day would be

three or four pounds.

You would class that as an easy day.

Some days you would be taking

eight or ten pounds off.

It was just crazy what

we were doing, really.

Your agent will ring you and say,

you are doing eight, nine or eight,

ten, and a couple of days

so you just would not eat,

you would starve yourself, really.

If you go out and have six, seven,

eight gin and tonics and do not eat

you will be lighter in the morning,

so you think, that's great.

I'll make the weight the next

day but then obviously

it is not good for your head.

Paul's battle with his weight

did not just affect him,

many jockeys have families.

His wife is a former jockey

but when Paul was shedding pounds

by extreme sweating and starvation,

she worried about his health.

I thought he was going

to kill himself.

I mean, there was days

when he would be off

with the sweat suit on,

come home, the sauna would be on,

he would be in the sauna for an hour

and then into the bath and lying

on the floor exhausted and that's

even before you have

gone and done your work.

There was times when I thought,

has he been drinking?

Because it kind of seems

to affect your brain a little bit.

But he wasn't, he was

just so dehydrated.

So we had the chat about giving

up but Paul, luckily,

met George at the right time

and changed him round again.

It has definitely added

years onto my career and,

I'll be honest with you,

I probably would not be riding now

if I had not met George down

at John Moores University.

The racing industry is finally

waking up to problem.

There are even dieticians

at racetracks.

There are elements of bulimia

and the different ways

of losing weight for jockeys,

and that could always be the case

but you are trying to educates lads

who think this is a better way

of life, healthier way

of life, safer way of life.

Back at Southwell races.

Paul is now feeling healthy

and happy and riding

100 winners a year.

Because for him this

is what it's all about.

The thrill of race riding.

Tomorrow I'm down at Kempton,

it's an evening meeting down

there so it'll be an early start,

it's a bit of a trek

with the drive down there.

But I have got a couple of good

rides down there so I'm

looking forward to that.

So no rest?

No rest for the wicked, no.

It's 24/7.

In the age of streaming and download

it is perhaps surprising small

independent cinemas like this one

are in fact thriving.

But it has not always been easy.

A Newcastle, the Tyneside Cinema

is one of Britain's oldest.

And in its 80 years it has

survived many crises,

often by refusing to conform.

It is wonderful.

It is such a calm

voices in comparison with the city

outside.

I love this place.

outside.

I love this place.

One

always feels welcome.

It's an

absolute gem, beautiful.

The Arctic

open Glamour brought Hollywood glitz

to Tyneside but it's all an

illusion. -- Art Deco. But this

theatre was built for newsreels.

From America comes the staggering

news that Germany's giant dirigible

the Hindenburg has been completely

destroyed by fire.

People were swept overboard by the

power of watching great events on a

screen in a place like this. The

impact was instantaneous. It was a

captivating window on the world but

for £6 your ticket also brought the

event is much closer to home, from a

humble shepherd to the county's

upper crust.

They were all at the

hunt ball but a little thing like

that does not stop the members of

the hunt getting out early.

This Cinema is a representation of

his dreams, Dixon Scott was a

dreamer, a product of the

working-class and easier had genuine

passion for the idea of giving

people information, people of his

own kind information about the world

so they could come to a better

understanding of it.

Welcome to Tyneside Cinema, I am a

volunteer here and it's my pleasure

to show you around today. His whole

idea was to create what he

considered to be a Persian picture

palace, he spent time travelling in

Mesopotamia and Persia, Iraq and

Iran as we know them now and he fell

in love with the art and

architecture and design and culture

of that part of the world.

In an

alleyway lies a hidden treasure but

no glamour could save a news theatre

from the new kid on the block.

It is

up-to-date, it is the news of that

day, not that of several days ago

which previously was the case so

unusual cinemas like this lost their

appeal.

But the Tyneside went on regardless.

A brand-new boost for the

north-east.

In 1966 Beefeater was a news

theatre, it was the end of the News

cinema. -- the cinema was a news

theatre.

You can tell why they died, can't

you?

It is a great achievement.

you?

It is a great achievement.

As

audiences disappeared, the Tyneside

turns arthouse.

There was raised

eyebrows, they show pornographic

films all day but we said, no, we

don't, we short films from all

around the world. And to get rid of

that image took a long time.

It

struggled for a couple of decades

because of financial difficulties

but what happened was quite

remarkable, there was a hard-core of

people who came and felt so

passionate that they got themselves

organised and had a kind of sit in

and the place was packed out and I

think of a galvanised opinion but

this was a place worth supporting.

A board of trustees took over but

away from the silver screen in

another part of the building change

was also on the menu. In 1930 H --

2038 poached eggs on the cost £8 and

the coffee rooms were going a bit

stale but the new owner knew that

retro was the future -- poached eggs

cost 8p in 1938.

I first started in 1984 and it was

very rundown and every time you came

here there was another light bulb

gone off or something fallen apart.

What I wanted was to spend money on

doing it but I wanted people to walk

in and look at it and say it has

never changed.

I just love this

place.

Why? Just look around. I

happen to live in an Art deco block

of flats so I feel very much at home

here.

We came here when we were

courting.

And we used to have beans

on toast and it became quite a

regular thing.

People work very hard

to create this atmosphere.

I am sure

people feel about it like I do.

It

brings you back. We really love this

place, it's became a major part of

our lives.

Unfortunately that is completely

sold out. It is hard to recall just

how much the Tyneside struggled to

survive and how passion and

enthusiasm did not curb ambition.

Newcastle had its own international

film festival, but on a shoestring.

It is the smallest budget film

Festival budget in the world I

suppose. We are doing this on a

budget between 15-20,000 readers

must have at least 1000.

Peter

introduced a gay theme to some of

the festival and it brought a new

audience but was also controversial.

They wanted a quote, they wanted to

hear what is this about, gave films,

why are you showing gay films? It

was the thing that nearly got me

sacked. When the chips were down

there was a, you nearly ruined the

cinema, we will get our grant taken

away showing that stuff!

Constant

makeovers only papered over the

cracks. While other cinemas fell

victim to the wrecking ball Tyneside

brought in consultants.

Their advice was basically get out

the building. They described it as

an albatross the building and we

needed another is according to

increase ticket sales and the best

way to do that was build a new

cinema somewhere else.

Abandon the Persian palace? Dixon

Scott would have turned in his

grave. Instead the expanded

skywards, adding more screens and a

new lease of life. Ken Lodge

recently chose the Tyneside for his

recent premiere and they also run an

annual film school.

You get lost in

the music and you can be as good as

the dancer beside you which is

incredible. For them to be in all of

me, you just think, really? -- for

them to be an awe of me.

This new

version last week earned it the

prestigious Royal television Society

award.

To the recognition is

fabulous, thank you so much.

For

once this fiercely independent

cinema seems to have a secure

future, but always with one eye on

the past.

I would look at those red

curtains and I would say that is

what it's about.

It is the last

surviving news theatre operating as

a cinema in the UK and that's

something to be preserved. -

even

now you can even catch an old

newsreel and for some in Newcastle

it's a rare chance to relive some

all the glory days.

And Newcastle

have won the cup. Welborn,

Newcastle. You have done it again.

# Welborn, Newcastle.

And that is it

for tonight. Next week I undergo a

breathtaking experience to see just

how far the health service has come.

I will see you next Monday, until