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Many of us will get the chance to elect police commissioners. We have

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been to America to see how commissioners there can have a

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dramatic impact on crime and the community. Everybody wants crime

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rates to drop. Now the coalition are looking to America for

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inspiration. What is it about the police commissioner system they

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find attractive? Here in Springfield, Massachusetts, we

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might find the answers. It is not much bigger than a town like

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Blackpool. Springfield is the birthplace of basketball and doctor

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was used, of Cat In the Hat fame. You might think it's too many

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employers fat hand in glove. One is the gun manufacturer, Smith and

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Wesson, the other, a hospital. It is a beautiful city but it has an

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A gunshot wound. Not life- threatening but the ambulances on

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the way and will bring him to the hospital. There were 19 mark does

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here last year and the rocks and a big problem. But things are

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improving. It was the 18th most crime-ridden city in America a few

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years ago, now it is 80 forced. Asked front line cops why and the

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answer is clear? The Commissioner's sole function is to relate to the

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community. He has fingerprints and everything and the Department.

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is the man. He has enabled us to utilise any resources to accomplish

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what we need. More free time to catch bad guys. It is what we do.

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William J Fitchet is the police commissioner here. There is no set

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model. They can be civilian administrators or can rise through

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the rank as police officers. He is not elected as commissioners in the

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UK will be. He was appointed by the elected mayor of the city.

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Springfield's police commissioner is protect and surf through and

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through. He started as a rookie policeman in 1973 and has been a

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sergeant, Lieutenant, and deputy chief, before being appointed as

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commissioner in 2008. The position as it exists here is the chief

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executive of the Police Department. That is in all phases.

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Administrative, budget, deployment, Assignment, promotions, hiring and

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firing, and overall philosophy of deployment strategies. It is an all

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encompassing position. So how has this American version of the Police

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Commissioner affected will be seen on the streets? We are in heroin

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Ali. This is where drugs are belt all the time. It never stops.

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Sergeant John Delaney has served with the department for 29 years.

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The hazards that we face every day at gangs, drugs, guns. They usually

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go hand in hand. Crane fuels -- the kind that fuels everything is

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narcotics. As regards where we patrol the commissioner has his

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fingerprints on everything inside the department. Take for example

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the shot spotter system. Fought for and delivered by the commissioner.

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What you are about to see happens in real time. When a gun is fired

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in Springfield, thanks to a network of microphones covering three

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square miles of the city centre and computers and African -- patrol car,

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this is how long it takes for every person -- policemen on the streets

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to know that it happened. We're going to a shot fired report right

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now. They are saying that at least one shot was fired. It has helped

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these officers catch Keller's antique firearms off the streets.

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We will see if there are many victims, sometimes they just fire

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their guns in the air, there are no victims. The victim, Just 17, has

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been shot in the rest. The system leads officers know if they're

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heading into a so-called hot call. It is just one example of the

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Commissioner's impact on policing. He develops rules, regulations,

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policy and procedures, is in charge of disciplinary procedures,

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training, even the equipment that we carry. Whatever the crime of the

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issue, domestic violence, car crashes, or a gun crime, it is the

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commissioner that decides how it is most effectively or efficiently

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policed. This year is called the X. One of the busiest parts of

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Springfield and one of the most crime-ridden. The commissioner is

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here to launch an initiative. It is called Operation Badge. He has

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listened to residence and formulated a plan. Now he will sign

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teams to implement the plan. They risk their lives every day for you.

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I would ask that you remember them and keep them in your prayers every

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night. Patrol men a day and Dan a part of the Operation Badge team. -

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We will check it out and confirm it before we go. Have a seat. So this

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American police commissioner his hands on. A mixture of police chief

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and police authority. But has area is not much bigger than Blackpool.

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Our system will be different. We will elect commissioners are on

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November 15th to represent entire constabularies, like Lancashire,

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not single towns or cities. They will be civilian administrators

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removed from day-to-day policing. That said, the philosophy is

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similar to the American model. Listen to communities, give them a

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voice, set policing priorities accordingly. Here at they will hold

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police chief Constable's to account if they fail to tackle priorities

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effectively. It is a powerful position and one person who will

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see much of the overseers role currently wielded by police

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authorities which are being scrapped. And they could be from

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any background. Policing experience is not essential. Our system will

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not exactly mirror for the American experience. Depending on your

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viewpoint it I'd against the public a proper say in policing for the

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first time, it is a waste of money that could be better spent on more

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officers. William J Fitchet believes that giving people a voice

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in how their streets are policed pays off. If the public are not on

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board, no question, with your mission and objectives, then those

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objectives are much more difficult to obtain. So in all things

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communication is vital. And not just glossy communication,

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effective communication. American experience can teach us

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that commissioners can directly influence the way away streets are

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policed. The vote that we all have in November would appear to be

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Coming up: after winning celebrity mastermind, Stuart Maconie axe --

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asks our poet Laureate what makes more than poetry different to the

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south. Getting cent flounced by pop music, the arts, surrealism,. -- it

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What if a town could grow its own food? Sounds bold but embraced by

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the residents of Todmorden. They have been farming their own produce

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in public spaces from police stations to graveyards. As well as

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growing vegetables they have also grown a strong sense of community

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spirit. We went to meet them. Beneath me as the Pennine town of

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Todmorden. Once famous for will and cotton. I have come to find out how

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the town has gone -- undergone a green revolution. Many of us take

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an interest in gardening and some of us even plant a few bulbs. But

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Mary Clear and her friends began a food revolution in 2007 called

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Incredible Edible. They started by planting food all over town. Free

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for anybody to take. It started around the kitchen table like many

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good ideas often do. We were just a couple of women worrying about the

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future of the world. How do we survive in a supermarket culture?

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That is how it started. Instead of blaming other people, politicians,

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global warming, let's think about what we can do ourselves. What do

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you grow and where? We have had to squeeze in bits and bobs wherever

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we can. Strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, every type of

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rhubarb, Bury, and help you can think of. In the police station we

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have sweet corn, lettuces. We have attempted to squeeze him whenever

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we can. The railway station, potatoes, helps, so whenever we can

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find bits of space. We have had to use our imagination. The graveyard

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did look very sad and quiet and lonely. It was really a brilliant

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idea because the people who own the but -- the graveyard, the church

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council, instead of rejecting the idea, thought it was brilliant.

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the emphasis just and self- sufficiency? We had an ambitious

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aim to be self-sufficient in food and vegetables by 2000 any team.

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That work has even gained royal approval. That was fabulous. To get

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an e-mail saying Prince Charles would visit, I thought somebody was

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winding us up. It was a glorious day. The sun was shining and it had

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all was quintessential English things. A brass band, children

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waving flags, it surely was a lovely day. Do you have to ask for

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permission to grow things anywhere in the town? We are very lucky that

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our council has issued a licence. Any surplus council land you can

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apply for a licence to grow food on. I met one of the green fingered

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pioneers of Incredible Edible. Having a bit of experience of

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growing something is very important. It is a connection with the

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environment. One of the things we do when people first come here, not

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in January because there is not much to eat, is help them to try

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things and taste staff. It goes from that direct personal visceral

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experience to a I can make this grow. We are doing it in a

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different way in that we are trying to help young people to develop

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their own businesses as individuals or as small groups and to become

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farmers of the future. It is wonderful, the best thing I have

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ever done. This passion for food is shared

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with the students at the local high school. I spoke to the head teacher.

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It has been incredible. It started small. The school catering manager

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was keen to develop food we produced in school and rather than

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just providing healthy food in the canteen, he was interested in where

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the carrots were coming from. It happened that at the same time, the

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community was developing things in the same way. It became one of

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those moments when it two different parallel routes suddenly realise

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that the other person is doing the same thing and decided that that

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was the way we have to work together. She used colours. Because

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of the initiatives that have changed in the town, we are

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starting to see students choosing to do projects around food. We have

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seen some of the students who have linked with Incredible Edible in

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Todmorden to design a logo has. We will be sending them to one of the

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groups to seek which warned they will use in the town. That is a

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proper piece of exam work that the students have been doing that is

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based in a real example of everyday life. We are successful in gaining

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a bid from the lottery. We have nearly �750,000 to spend and we are

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going to design a fish farm at the back of the school for school use,

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but also for community use. That should then become a viable

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business that produces fish that the canteen will use and then

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hopefully, we can sell some fish to the community as well. For many

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students, it is not just about exam results, peeping that gives them

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the confidence and the resilience they will need in the world are the

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proper practical skills and the fact they are working with adults

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on an equal footing. We are changing opinions about what high

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school is about. It is a bit different, but it is exciting and

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it makes people smile. It is not just new producers of

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food that of feeling this community spirit, local farmers feel that

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they can contribute to the community and the economy. We have

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got many British rare breeds. We have probably got close to 100 pigs

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in some form or another. They are outside, they are doing what pigs

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do and therefore, this reflects in the meat. What of the benefits for

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the local economy? It is very easy when you live so isolated to become

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someone who does not understand what you need to do it is sell your

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goods to the town otherwise you will mop be a farmer. That is what

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we did. Incredible Edible introduces do a lot of people

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farming. It is imperative that a lot of local businesses are kept as

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local businesses because the town it needs them. We need the town. It

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is a two-way thing. If more people bought more curly -- locally, we

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would be better off. People want to know what they are eating. You can

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go and have a look. If you don't like what you see, don't buy it.

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That is the end of it. If you eat something from South Africa, you do

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not know how it is kept. If you respect the food you eat, then you

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will find it, see it, ask questions. More people enjoy a bringing their

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children up, letting them touch the animals and see what they are like.

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It makes a difference. What started out as a small idea around a

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kitchen table has taken the town by force. Mary and Incredible Edible

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have created a movement which has become a community focus. It is an

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idea that is based on goodness and kindness. Everybody wants to be

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good and kind so it can happen anywhere. Mary got to meet Prince

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Charles again, this time in a more formal setting. It is very

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embarrassing to be asked to go to the palace and get a brooch, but I

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have been, I have done it, it is finished, and it is lovely to get a

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reward for doing something that you love anyway and that you could not

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do unless hundreds of other people wanted to support you in what you

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The landscape of the Lake District has proved a great inspiration for

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poets, not least William Wordsworth, who wrote some of his most famous

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works here. These days, our modern poets are inspiring a new

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generation of young writers to put pen to paper.

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Our next contender, please. Your When I was asked to appear on

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Celebrity Mastermind two years ago you might have thought I would

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choose music, football or the Lake District. But instead, I chose

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something I am even more passionate The north-west has been inspiring

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poetry bought hundreds of years. The Lake District was inspiration

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to Ruskin, Coleridge and Wordsworth. But the more gritty areas have also

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inspired poetry. Do workers want a living wage? Do a rock star's light

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about their age? Are you the business? As a punk obsessed

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teenager in the late 1970s, I must have seen John Cooper Clarke

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hundreds of times. He made his mark early, becoming more successful

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later. No, and not the same poet as I was

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back then. You always had a blind us about you. High energy. Very

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fast. But I don't think I am as fast as I was. Bandit, say goodbye.

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It is a hire car. Try not to kill He went on to become an unlikely

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part of the establishment when his poems were chosen for the national

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curriculum. It was at his own school in Salford that his passion

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for words began. I am lucky because I always had good teachers.

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Especially in the case of Mr Malone, who was a very rugged type with a

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glass eye. He was always incurring serious injuries in the holidays.

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He loved outdoor pursuits, 1 -- water-skiing, mountain-climbing,

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and he was very passionate about certain Victorian poets. He managed

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to convey this. Because he was so into it, it was not seen as been

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anything cheesy. What I touch you with a ten-foot

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bargepole? Are you the business? You read this poem about 10 years

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ago. It tries to express the beers and nerves that I feel on a stage.

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Enabling young people to express themselves is exactly what

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performance poet Mike Garry aims to do when he holds workshops in

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schools. He spent 15 minutes in here with me and you will feel like

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you have lived here for one week. You constantly rationalise what is

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right, what's wrong, what is white, what is black. At constant search

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for something witty, profound or so sing to do come up with one working

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with students at safe -- St Cuthbert's.

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If I'd read them my poems, they can see how simple they are. Then they

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can think that they can do it as well and they can have fun. That is

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what I say to young people all the time. They will be shocked, and

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some of them were even say for exams? Isa no, entertainment. They

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were meant to entertain people sometimes. Mike is a former

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librarian and is passionate about books, so much hope he is

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encouraging the children to publish their own. When the children write

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good poems, I photocopy them. I photocopy them, staple them, fold

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them and create a book. They create this him -- this anthology within a

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day. Her fully what this has done is sparked a desire within young

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people to want to hold books, to want to go to libraries. I put them

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in strategic places in the libraries as well. I started

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building up a character. As a result of him coming into this

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school, more pupils want to stay on at the Rochdale school.

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Traditionally the grips of language and literature were only about nine

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or 10 at strong. Now it is about 32 or 33, so it has massively

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increased. What he has done is make them realise that they are as

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talented as anyone else. It does not matter about the estate of the

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postcode, it is about aspiration. Students should be going to sixth-

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form and university. That is what he did and the great marquee has

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left with the score. A tuneless tune coming out of a toothless

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tunnel. Can't cry for conscience. Can't cry, well, because you just

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can't cry. We have worked with poets because there is a special

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freedom in the north-west because they look at the world differently.

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It is a non-London centric in terms of identity. When did the President

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give you the date? Nothing to do with him. 1,200 targets, where they

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marked on a chart? All was the prisoner stripped of?

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There is a real performance edge to northern poets which has made him a

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bid team -- a different. I noticed his hands, her hands, the

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clash up their sparkling rings and their painted nails.

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If you did a roll-call now of the most interesting poets, they might

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not all be based in the north. There is an energy that is in

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London centred. Is that northern voice may be the opposite of an

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academic Metropolitan poetry? It takes its influences from other

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sources, so it is not just poetry which is influenced by English

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literature, it is influenced by comedy and pop music, the arts,

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surrealism, by what you over here in the corner shop. I think the use

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of language in the north is unique. It is sparky.

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In first place, 33 points, it is a steward. In case you are wondering,

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I went on to win at Celebrity Mastermind so the best way to learn

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something, is to love at first. That is all from me for this week.

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If you have missed any of the programme, you can watch it again

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on the iPlayer. I am back at next Monday at seven deadly pm on BBC

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One. Until then, have a good week. -- 7:30pm.

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Next week, the plight of High Street. Are they a thing of the

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 47 seconds

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manager Neil Lennon. Trevor Muirhead and Neil McKenzie are

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accused of sending letter bombs. They deny it. This is a blaze at

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Tilbury power station in Essex. It began in a building containing wood

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pellets. More than 100 firefighters were called out. No-one was hurt.

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Silence was golden at the Oscars. The Artist won five awards

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including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor. Meryl Streep won

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Best Actress for her role as Margaret Thatcher. Hello, I'm

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Annabel Tiffin, the latest from the North West. Kenneth Stott died from

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a single punch during a row at Glossop railway station. Three

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people are being questioned over his death at the weekend. 35 people

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died when a plane crashed into Winter Hill in Lancashire in 1958.

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They were all workers from the Isle of Man. Today a memorial service

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took place to remember the disaster. The weather, a cloudy and quite wet

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