16/01/2012 Inside Out North West

Welcome to tonight's programme. We will be at Jodrell Bank, behind the

scenes of the Stargazing Live programme. It starts on BBC Two

tonight. More on that later. One tonight's programme, the losers in

the Commonwealth legacy, why Manchester families feel let down

by promises of regeneration that never happened. It was like a child

coming down for Christmas Day with no presence. The man starting a new

career where he is the boss. A lot of us out there are over 50 and

have been made redundant, sit down and start working out a plan for

life. We meet Brian Cox. Astronomy is the new rock and roll. To find

out more keep watching this The Olympic Games are just over six

months away now. One of the hopes for London 2012 is it will

regenerate one of the poorest parts of the capital. Similar predictions

were made about east Manchester during the Commonwealth Games, but

residents say they have seen little investment and feel totally have

The success of the Cup the success of the Commonwealth Games can be

seen all the Manchester. It was also a catalyst for the

regeneration of east Manchester, with new housing built in some of

the most deprived areas of the city. Now Manchester City Football Club

is building a football academy and training complex next to the Etihad

Stadium. It is hoped the new campus will create jobs in the area and

boost the local economy. The residents say they have heard

it all before. Ten years ago, they were told that when the

Commonwealth Games stadium was built here it would totally

regenerate east Manchester. But for those living in the Openshaw West

area, such promises proved hollow. They say they have not seen any

improvement as a result of the games.

The Games area and everything round there is good for the community but

we feel as if we have been left out of that community because we have

got nothing here in this one. When you get the electricity man

coming to do your meter and he says, "Oh, ain't it bad round here?",

"What do you mean?" Because you get a bit prickly then. "What about

that street down there? Dunston Street, it's terrible, it's like

Beirut." The new Eddie had football academy is being built less than a

mile from here. -- Etihad. Manchester City Football Club is

spending �100 million building what is described as one of the best

sports facilities in the world. By contrast, the residents of Openshaw

West say that their area is abandoned and left to decline.

In 2001, this was a full row of houses, I had a business on the end,

a fish and chip shop. Steve Green's shop was compulsory

purchased along with rest of the street to make way for new

development. They knocked it down, flattened it.

What did you expect to replace it, we were told they were developing a

master plan so that the other houses in the rear would be boarded

up and knock down. They said a company would redevelop the area,

bringing saleable housing. How do you feel about the area? I feel we

have been let down in a lot of ways. Other places have all been

regenerated and we have been left out on a limb. Sheila and John

Smith have lived in the same house for 56 years. They have both served

as Lord Mayors of Manchester but say they feel let down by what has

happened. We had such high hopes. All the trouble started here in

this part of the town. We started with houses being burned, streets

demolished. We had ministers they are looking around the area, we

were granted this money to do it up, and we were riding on a highway of

anticipation and then nothing. It was like a child coming down for

Christmas Day and no presence. do you think you're area has not

improved like other areas? I have no idea. I would have thought this

was the area they would have started with. It must be difficult

to see improvements all round here and nothing happens here? I cannot

understand it at all. I cannot understand why they could not have

had something spent on it, a facelift for the houses. Why has

the eerie have been overlooked and so many promises unfulfilled? John

Longsdon is the local councillor. The intentions were good. In 2005 a

group was brought in to look at the prospects for the area. A developer

was brought in. For one reason or another, it coincided with the time

when money was getting tighter and money was spent in other parts.

There is known to be resentment because there has been improvement

in other areas. There is resentment. I feel that resentment. It had been

put in to do the area up. There was a fresh plan in 2009 to refurbish

the area, �9 million. Unfortunately, the money is just not there. As the

area has declined, many have moved away. A lot of properties are now

empty and boarded up. Others have been bought up by private landlords.

Those who have lived here all their lives say it's destroyed the

community spirit. But residents we have spoken to

insist it does not have to be like this. Those who have lived here all

their lives say it once had a strong sense of community,

everybody knew each other and everybody came together in times of

hardship and in times of celebration.

It used to be very friendly and we all used to group together and get

things done, like say for instance for the Jubilee, we had bands,

street parties, men, women, children, altogether. All three of

you have lived here for a long time, how has it changed? We have lost

the community centre, we have lost St Vincent's Church. We have lost

the school. We lost the library. Nowadays, the local hairdresser's

is one of the few places residents get together. Hardly anybody speaks

to one another. They stay indoors. Even the children do not play

outside. You feel like you have been abandoned? Definitely.

Promises of money, but nothing has materialised. I am sure it will be

much better if everything look nice next to the background with the

sports, than looking like it does. The city council will have to put

It will just not fit in with the Manchester City Council says it is

committed to improving the area but cuts in government funding have

made it harder to do so. Why did you not use more of it in

this era? It was and is still a priority. That is not the way

people living there would see it. They look around and they see

places elsewhere being be generated and they are not. The important

thing to say is the availability of resources changed in 2007, and a

number of neighbourhoods in east Manchester, Openshaw West been one

of them, had an expectation and desire for change. That desire was

not able to be delivered primarily because the resources were not

going to be available be on 2011. - - beyond 2011. For now, once again

it seems the best hope of investment in the area Woods beat

the success of a multi-million- pound sport facility. This time,

residents of Openshaw West hold their area finally reaps the

benefits. Would you move because of the situation? If it gets any worse,

you would be thinking of saying, I have high enough. We remain

faithful to the area and hopefully our fate will be justified in some

way or other. Not mainly for ourselves but for other people what

to come and live here. Coming up: the idea of this show is to

Going on a diet or joining in with a club is one of many resolutions

you may have said. What if your new resolution was becoming your own

boss? These are tough economic times, but we have met three people

in the north-west who decided to go Economic crisis in the Eurozone,

more of the same at home. So why on earth take the plunge and go it

alone in business? Well, the most basic pro is the fact that most of

the great businesses of history have been started in difficult

times. And it means that if you survive in a recession, when growth

occurs, and growth always occurs, actually you're in a really strong

position so you've got good businesses. The con is that you

have to be really tightly managed. You've got to know the market,

you've got to manage the money and you've got to be really well

focused. Business leaders in the North West believe more people need

to move from the public into the private sector to boost the

region's economy. We've taken three entrepreneurs who have recently set

up their own businesses to see why they appear to be bucking the

They say there's a recession on and people are watching what they spend,

well there's no sign of that here today here in Wilmslow. The Comfit

Ham, Lancashire Cheese. Neil Broomfield has turned a lifelong

passion for food into a successful business. He has won national and

North West food awards for his artisan pies. In fact, this pie-man

used to be a PC. Before he left Greater Manchester Police last

summer, Neil combined patrolling the beat with making pastry. Yeah,

it was non-stop really for a couple of years. Working in the morning

then going to work in the afternoon finishing night shifts, getting up

early to come and do some cooking. It was hard work. It still is!

Neil's move into business couldn't have happened without the

generosity of family and friends. Not only does he use the kitchen

above his Uncle's deli, but he also gets help cooking selling and

delivering. All the research says that the businesses that are most

likely to succeed are the ones that have a family background in

business. It's one of the reasons why Asians are such successful

entrepreneurs, because their families support them. It's the

reason why when you look around, not just in specialty markets like

the food industry, you see those businesses that can rely on the

expertise rely on the knowledge rely on the networks that the

members of their family are willing and able to provide, that's why I

suspect he's relied on them a lot and they're getting a return

because they are seeing him succeed. Did you ever question yourself

setting up a business in the current economic climate? I'd been

selling at the farmer's markets for a couple of years, and I had never

really seen a change in those so, in a way, I'd done that research

and I knew that they were quite steady, and I knew there were

potential customers out there. Winning the awards was another

thing. People were contacting me to supply them so I knew that there

was a market there. At the moment, just to concentrate on keeping all

the overheads down, I know there could be a hard year coming ahead.

The fastest growing group of unemployed and those least likely

to get another job are the over 50s and it can be particularly

difficult in rural areas." Fortunately, the man we feature

next is a glass, or should that be cup half full, kind of person. He

lost his job after relocating to Lancashire and feared he was left

on the scrapheap. I really did because I saw so many other people

like myself that just didn't get jobs. They always employ the

younger people. You need to be 25, 35 type of person, and that's the

type of person that gets the job. Yeah, very hard. Mark Woodward

worked in the paper cup industry. So he decided to stick with what he

knew best and go it alone. ambition would be to start

manufacturing paper cups within the UK so we can 1,000 cups in two to

three days. Full colour process and there is a huge demand out there

for people who have got exhibitions on or if they want to have some

branded paper cups for a particular presentation. Mark's brave decision

to set out on his own when others of his age might have been eyeing

the golf course could make sound business sense. We now know that

people who start up over the age of 50 have something like three or

four times the survival rates than businesses that are started by

people under the age of 35. You can understand why. They have got

experience, they have probably got cars they are more mobile. They

have probably got a bit of money in the bank, they have other assets

but they've basically got good work disciplines. Therefore it is a good

decision for him, and I'm hoping he breaks through the �1m turnover

then the �10m turnover, and employs significant numbers of people. But

it is also a good decision for the community. There are a lot of us

out there that are over 50 that have been made redundant. Just sit

down specifically with your partner and start working out a plan for

life and work out how you are going to overcome it and it's only a

matter of making a plan. According to new research, women are the new

entrepreneurs and they are the most Fed up working as a hotel

receptionist, Kate May retrained as an upholsterer. She hit on the idea

of making bespoke pet furniture and refused to be put off by the

reaction of so called business experts she pitched the idea to.

Well, basically, they just laughed at me and didn't think my idea

would work because they didn't think there was a market for high

class furniture for pets. So really that gave me the incentive to prove

them wrong and that's how I've got to where I am now. I think it's a

fantastic idea. It's really unusual and I hope you are very successful

with it. Thank you very much. has certainly had the last laugh.

She sells her furniture made with all British materials from workshop

near Clitheroe and at country and game fairs. It's a remarkably

stable industry, the pet products industry, and therefore she is in a

stable industry. It is also an industry where when people are

looking for care and attention, which during difficult times there

are, they are willing to lavish care and attention on the creature

that probably gives them more gratitude and care and attention

than anyone else. Which is his or her pet! I love doing what I'm

doing and I'm my own boss. Although I work harder now and work longer

hours than I did in the hotel industry. I'd never give it up, no,

I just love it, I love it. It's a New Year and the only resolution

for any company is survival. But our business expert reckons all

three entrepreneurs have more than a fighting chance of success.

overall feeling is very positive. They also seem very well founded.

The pie-man basically is using quality materials and learning from

the market and learning from his family. The paper cups man, he has

decided that he is actually going to look at new markets, the bespoke

market for example. And the pet furniture manufacturer, she

basically has started small, she is getting to know her customers. She

makes to a very high standard and quality counts in this environment.

So all three of them have assets and of course they all three

represent things that are really important to the region.

For over 50 years, the Lovell Telescope here at Jodrell Bank has

been a familiar feature of the Cheshire landscape. So it is

perhaps no surprise that BBC2 have chosen, once again, to turn the

observatory into a television studio to host this year's

Stargazing Live. Jacey Normand has spent the week doing her own star

gazing, with help from some of the shows own stars and of course, with

access all areas to the greatest observatory town.

It is the final countdown and the rehearsals are stepping up apace.

The programme it comes alive and it gives viewers an insight into the

world of astronomy. I am Brian Cox. But this is star-gazing live.

on, I am hoping I will get the chance to Dr some of their show's

stars. But I have all ready met the other star, the telescope. And it

is one of the largest in the world and is Grade 1 listed. This radio

telescope measure 76 metres across and weighs over 3,500 tonnes. It is

then used every day of the year, receiving radio waves from the

furthest reaches of space. The radio waves strike the surface of

this bowl which reflects them up there to the Focus Tower from where

the signals are gathered and transmitted for analysis back down

to the observatory. Some of the obits we have been looking at, the

radiation has been travelling for billions of years. It gives us a

view of the invisible universe. As we stand here now, that a giant

bowl of flowers is actually picking up radio waves coming from over

there in outer space, collecting them together and then we analyse

them and look at these invisible object in the sky. A lot of the

analysis is carried out in the observatory. I got an exclusive

tour. This is the control room. It is the heart of her observations.

It is from here that we control all of her role to -- telescopes. This

room is actually manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We must star-

gazing wife is on air, the telescope will continue to listen

to outer space. It will talk to a group of telescopes across central

England. This feels like a secret room. What goes on in here? This is

the supercomputer. It brings together all the signals. When the

whole network is operating, there is more information arriving here

all the time than there is under rest of the rest of -- the rest of

the UK internet combined. Why is a doll in a big metal case. It is

because this computer would produce radio waves that would drown out

the signal that we are picking up. It depicted in a box that this, you

blocked the radio waves. -- a box like this. This Racal Electronics

here is where we record the signals from the telescopes in this country

and all across the world, but there are people who could be doing

similar things, looking at the same optic at the same time. The record

signals and then beat AC we combine the whole thing together and you

can make a telescope the size of the planet. This gives us as him

lens effect. The further party spread your telescope, the more is

in the new get on the things in space. When the make-up one the

size of a planet, they are the most detailed feedback you can get.

Images of black holes, quasars and pulsars from galaxies billions of

light years away our ground- breaking, as Professor Brian Cox

told me. A lot of the great discoveries that we will talk about

our need here. I think also, I am just looking at it now, over your

head, I think what it is is a symbol of the fact that we're still

leading in astronomy and signs in their general in Britain. So he can

be near mortals get involved? is what astronomy is societies are

around four. One of the things that star-gazing does it really well is

that we bring them in. The idea of this show for me is to stimulate

that interest, or remind people that they are interested in the

night sky. There will be an astronomy Society five or ten

minutes from your house, wherever you live. The Liverpool Society is

one of the oldest in the country. Every month, they take their

telescopes into the city centre and invite the public to take a look.

The fortnight, I thought a star map with something that you wandered

around Los Angeles with. weather was against us. The people

seem to be genuinely interested, however. There is always something

new to look at. The planets are always changing. For example,

Jupiter rotates once every ten hours and its cloud systems are

always changing with in those ten hours. There is always something

new to discover and see. I got a quick glance at a gym but there but

it was hazy, obscured by cloud and the lights of the city centre.

Light pollution is produced by artificial light that this could

look down onto the ground where it is needed the most for safety and

security, it goes straight up into the sky. Many of the objects that

we try to see, like the galaxies, the light has travelled for

billions of years, but it is obscured by the light from the

artificial objects. The Liverpool Society has an observatory where

the meat to what and discuss the solar system. - like where they

meet to discuss the solar system we tried to be the first and register

her information worldwide so that other astronomers can look at

supernovas and address it. Most astronomical societies recognise

the importance of sharing information and of passing on their

knowledge to the next generation. thought Mars would be bigger.

Macclesfield society hold regular sessions for budding young

stargazers. it is a beautiful laboratory up there will, with big,

exploding things. It is a great way of making signs come to life. If

you ask someone how far they can see, and explain to them that they

can see 2 million light years away. There are so many mind-boggling

concepts involved. Some of those concepts are explained in a red hot

detail. This is the Discovery Centre here. It is the public part

of the side were people can come and find out about the size that we

do here. They can find it also a bit broader astronomy. -- they can

also find out about broader astronomy. What we're illustrating

here is that there is different information that you can find out

about it the universe and the world around us with invisible light.

There is lots of other stuff here as well. There is a model black

cold there which shows people how things spiralling and disappear

into a black hole. You can listen to the sounds of pulsars as well.

We're hoping that they will be inspired by the sort of information.

Perhaps they will go on to become the scientists and engineers of the

future. I just think that there is a new appreciation, or a return

depreciation to this kind of scientific stuff. The take-up of

physics courses has gone up 17%. This is remarkably easy to get

involved in. It is there, outside and all you have to do is look up.

Would you say astronomy is the new rock and roll? It should be. It

because studying the universe is the most interesting thing you can

do. If it is not, then I want to know why, because I think it is

more interesting than in music. If I could have a discovery, it would

be to detect a civil -- a signal from an alien civilisation alive on

the. That would be brilliant. have loved my astronomy experience

and I for one will definitely be doing a little more star-gazing

tonight. You can catch that on BBC Two at in

half-an-hour. That is all from me. You can watch on the eye player. I

am back next Monday at 7:30pm. Until then, have a good week.

Goodbye. Next week, the signs and people