:00:08. > :00:15.Hello, and welcome to Inside Out north—west. This week we are in
:00:15. > :00:23.shipbuilding but less well known to home —— as home to iconic World
:00:23. > :00:25.shipbuilding but less well known to Tonight, the mother of Jade Lomas
:00:25. > :00:29.Anderson, killed a dog attack, remembers her daughter. She was
:00:29. > :00:37.always laughing, the cheeky sense of humour. She was very loving. We
:00:37. > :00:40.always laughing, the cheeky sense of the Northern workers tackling bosses
:00:40. > :00:46.who do not pay minimum wage. There is too much of a big gap between the
:00:46. > :00:49.higher and lower earners. And the powerful verse of Wilfred Owen
:00:49. > :00:57.changed war poetry for ever. We discover how he spent seven years of
:00:57. > :01:20.The morning to death by dogs of Atherton schoolgirl Jade Lomas
:01:20. > :01:25.Anderson provoked nationwide shock this year. In two weeks, MPs are
:01:25. > :01:27.expected to pass a bill making failure to control a dog on private
:01:27. > :01:35.hoppity a criminal offence. But failure to control a dog on private
:01:35. > :01:40.the change in the law go far I enough? I am talking to Jade's
:01:40. > :01:47.parents. Dogs have claimed the lives of nine children in the UK in the
:01:47. > :01:53.Three of them from the north—west. death in March this year was the
:01:53. > :01:59.latest tragedy. We just don't want another tragedy to happen to another
:01:59. > :02:05.family like it happened to us. That is the main thing, to make people
:02:05. > :02:11.aware that the legislation at the moment is not good enough. Jade
:02:11. > :02:15.aware that the legislation at the when she was mauled by four dogs
:02:15. > :02:19.inside a friend's house inside Wigan. The owner of the dog will not
:02:19. > :02:25.be prosecuted because the attack happened on private property and the
:02:25. > :02:30.dogs were not illegal breeds. It is insulting. It is insulting to us. It
:02:30. > :02:38.is insulting, not the right signal community and their family as it is
:02:38. > :02:45.happened to them as well. It is disgusting. In two weeks time, the
:02:46. > :02:50.House of Commons is expected to disgusting. In two weeks time, the
:02:50. > :02:53.a bill placing the same level of responsibility for controlling a dog
:02:53. > :02:57.on private property as it does in public at the moment. But Jade's
:02:57. > :03:03.parents and supporters say more needs to be done. It is fine to
:03:03. > :03:08.prosecute people, we welcome the prosecution now of people on private
:03:08. > :03:12.property. But we need to prevent these tragedies happening. It is not
:03:12. > :03:17.enough to deal with it afterwards, it is about prevention. Jade was a
:03:17. > :03:21.pupil at Fred Longworth high school in Tyldesley. She had been allowed
:03:21. > :03:26.to go at a sleepover at a friends house as a reward for doing well in
:03:26. > :03:34.her schoolgirl —— schoolwork. She worked really hard, she got good
:03:34. > :03:36.grades. We just thought she had already well and she deserved to
:03:36. > :03:42.stay out. To have a bit of time already well and she deserved to
:03:42. > :03:46.her friends. What they did not know is that there were five dogs in
:03:46. > :03:49.her friends. What they did not know property. Four of them are tax Jade.
:03:49. > :03:55.She was alone at the time. The first her family knew about it was when a
:03:55. > :04:05.neighbour came to their door. He said, something happened. Mike got
:04:06. > :04:12.his keys. He drove round and I ran round in my bare feet. When I got
:04:12. > :04:21.there, there was loads of police. It is all taped up. I wanted to go
:04:21. > :04:29.there, there was loads of police. It the house. But they stopped me.
:04:29. > :04:36.there, there was loads of police. It me to go away. I was just thinking,
:04:36. > :04:43.it wasn't my Jade. I think all we think about every day is her. You
:04:43. > :04:51.don't have to recall it, it is just every morning, it is the same every
:04:51. > :04:59.day. But you have got strength from somewhere? To keep moving forward,
:04:59. > :05:05.haven't you? We have got great family and friends, we are so proud
:05:05. > :05:07.of our children. Jade is more than what happened to her on that day.
:05:07. > :05:11.When you look back and think of what happened to her on that day.
:05:11. > :05:14.happiest memories of having Jade in your lives, what is the one thing
:05:14. > :05:20.you think about? She was always laughing. Every, was Jade. She had
:05:20. > :05:32.cheeky sense of humour. She was laughing. Every, was Jade. She had
:05:32. > :05:44.loving. This tedious, but not too mischievous but not missed to this
:05:44. > :05:47.—— but not too mischievous. In July, Michael and surely handed in a
:05:47. > :05:56.petition at Downing Street calling for a change to the law. How did it
:05:56. > :05:59.go? It went really well, it knocked petition, so it went really well.
:05:59. > :06:05.How do you think it went? Attic petition, so it went really well.
:06:05. > :06:10.been good. It shows the strength of feeling around the community where
:06:10. > :06:14.people really believe something should be done about dangerous dogs.
:06:14. > :06:21.Nine of us will present the same petition in Parliament tonight in
:06:21. > :06:25.legislation, there are currently just for banned breeds. Critics
:06:25. > :06:29.legislation, there are currently this system does not work. It is far
:06:29. > :06:32.too sadistic. It is not just about these breeds, it is also about the
:06:32. > :06:37.owners. —— the system currently these breeds, it is also about the
:06:37. > :06:40.far too simplistic. Today, Paul Dunne is addressing a roomful of
:06:40. > :06:45.people who come into regular contact with dogs through their work. We are
:06:45. > :06:50.dealing with a relatively small proportion of people who are not
:06:50. > :06:53.responsible with the pets to which they have charge. We need specific
:06:53. > :06:58.legislation, this doesn't work, they have charge. We need specific
:06:58. > :07:05.need a complete rethink. We need to make sure new legislation is fit for
:07:05. > :07:08.different reasons rather than simply characteristics of the dog. It is a
:07:08. > :07:14.view shared by Paul Dunne. This characteristics of the dog. It is a
:07:14. > :07:18.bull straight is going to be put down. Not because it has harmed
:07:18. > :07:24.anyone, simply because it is a banned breed. We can make a dog
:07:24. > :07:25.anyone, simply because it is a whatever it will be. You have got to
:07:25. > :07:28.be very selective on which ones whatever it will be. You have got to
:07:28. > :07:37.pull out of a letter. So what tends aggressive ones and interbreed them
:07:37. > :07:41.to bring aggression in. So we will aggression has been built in so
:07:41. > :07:45.to bring aggression in. So we will end up with aggressive puppies.
:07:45. > :07:53.Since as amendments to the dangerous illegal to own certain plea to that
:07:53. > :08:04.Despite this, dog attacks have increased every year. 16 years ago,
:08:04. > :08:12.attacks in the UK. By 2010, that Michael and Shirley are calling
:08:12. > :08:14.attacks in the UK. By 2010, that the government to give greater
:08:14. > :08:15.powers to local authorities so they can take action before the dog
:08:15. > :08:21.attacks someone as they already can take action before the dog
:08:21. > :08:25.in Scotland. In Scotland, if a dog is not under control, the local
:08:25. > :08:28.authority has the power to serve a notice requiring specific measures
:08:28. > :08:36.to be taken to keep that dog under specific. But at a time when local
:08:36. > :08:46.authorities in England are making funding cuts, it is a doubt whether
:08:46. > :08:50.many could afford this. Inside out has asked local authorities how
:08:50. > :08:50.many could afford this. Inside out they spend on mandatory dog services
:08:50. > :09:08.I just think there is not enough resources out there. You phone your
:09:08. > :09:20.local dog warden, it takes three hours. The dog attack is... It is in
:09:20. > :09:25.Downing Street with your position, how did that feel? We are just
:09:25. > :09:31.trying to make people listen, it feels like they are listening, but
:09:31. > :09:37.it will take a long time. We are not going anywhere. It is better to
:09:37. > :09:41.it will take a long time. We are not something little away from it from
:09:41. > :09:48.nothing at all. If you can take something little each time, then
:09:48. > :09:52.eventually, we will get there. On Friday, the couple launched Jade's
:09:52. > :10:00.campaign to help raise awareness surrounding dog control. What is the
:10:00. > :10:05.one thing you want to come out of all of this? Something good has
:10:05. > :10:09.one thing you want to come out of communities, the people to be more
:10:09. > :10:15.responsible with their pet. That is their most important thing. We have
:10:15. > :10:22.all got a role to play in that. their most important thing. We have
:10:22. > :10:26.have, we can all help each other. Support what you are doing, support
:10:26. > :10:34.what other people are doing. And together we can make it safer.
:10:34. > :10:48.Coming up, how an old letter may hold a clue to war poet Wilfred
:10:48. > :10:54.Birkenhead. Tomorrow is a red letter day for almost a million people
:10:54. > :10:59.That is the day the minimum wage will rise from six to 19 per hour to
:10:59. > :11:07.six, 31 for owners over 21. Is that really enough money to live on and
:11:07. > :11:20.is everyone playing up on a basic You waste no time! Straight in.
:11:20. > :11:20.is everyone playing up on a basic Sunderland's best shoppers and knows
:11:20. > :11:26.the price of everything. I like Sunderland's best shoppers and knows
:11:26. > :11:29.one but I will go for that one, Sunderland's best shoppers and knows
:11:29. > :11:40.is 48p cheaper. What will this cost That is amazing! I at all my items
:11:40. > :11:45.up in the head. You have got to That is amazing! I at all my items
:11:45. > :11:50.sure you know what you are doing when you have got a big cavity ——
:11:50. > :11:58.big family. You were getting two for the price of run here. One macro.
:11:58. > :12:09.Shirley is just on the minimum wage so she would like tomorrow's rise of
:12:09. > :12:14.do you think that MPs get what is like to live on this? They don't.
:12:14. > :12:16.The 12p rise in the minimum wage will not make anyone rich. But it
:12:16. > :12:20.will be welcomed by many. He is will not make anyone rich. But it
:12:20. > :12:25.food for thought. The north—east has 71,000 people paid the adult minimum
:12:25. > :12:34.wage. In Yorkshire and the Humber, it is a. The highest number is in
:12:34. > :12:36.It is not enough for people. The cost of living has gone up, so we
:12:36. > :12:42.sufficient enough. There is too cost of living has gone up, so we
:12:42. > :12:45.of a big gap between the higher earner and the lower. I support
:12:45. > :12:48.of a big gap between the higher living wage and not the minimum
:12:48. > :12:57.wage, I think most employers should be heading that way. It is a joke.
:12:57. > :13:00.pence? It is not going to change anyone's life really. When the
:13:00. > :13:05.previous Government set up the minimum wage the idea was that was
:13:05. > :13:09.the absolute basic that an employer could pay. It is the law. But in the
:13:09. > :13:13.last two years there have been no prosecutions for breaking the rule,
:13:13. > :13:28.so you might think that everyone is Well, let us find out. How you? Hop
:13:28. > :13:31.Abbeytown well. She used to drive a minibus. Basically we would pick up
:13:31. > :13:35.disabled children and take them minibus. Basically we would pick up
:13:35. > :13:40.school. Was it a good job? It was. She was offered the job by a family
:13:40. > :13:45.friend and was offered £80 a week. After a while things didn't add
:13:45. > :13:47.friend and was offered £80 a week. So you were on a flat rate, the
:13:47. > :13:52.hours went up but your money didn't really. No. How did that compare to
:13:52. > :13:56.what would be the minimum wage? I think it was a lot below the minimum
:13:56. > :14:03.wage. One point we worked out I should have been getting £135 a
:14:03. > :14:11.week. Fed up with being exploited tribunal. What happened then? You
:14:11. > :14:15.couldn't afford one? No, we went on the internet and Googled everything
:14:15. > :14:27.we needed to know. Goodness, and you won We did. So you had a case. Yes
:14:27. > :14:29.interviewed but said it had been paid What do you make of the minimum
:14:29. > :14:34.wage as a concept? It is a good paid What do you make of the minimum
:14:34. > :14:40.but it needs to be enforced better. Next up a man whose early business
:14:40. > :14:48.career looked promising. David Meyers knows all about clinching a
:14:48. > :14:51.deal I have six appointment with BT business customers. He was voted
:14:51. > :14:56.Yorkshire's young apprentice of business customers. He was voted
:14:56. > :15:00.year after setting up Access Telecom and another company in Hull. Perhaps
:15:00. > :15:10.learning from his own experience he I find it odd it was only £100 a
:15:10. > :15:17.week. But I obviously kept on going because they mentioned bonuses to
:15:17. > :15:20.me. Alan and Lewis were employed at Access Telecom, being apprentices
:15:20. > :15:28.they were below the full minimum wasn't much money and that is how
:15:28. > :15:30.they motivated us, they would say £100 a week is nothing, you need to
:15:30. > :15:35.make the sales to have anything £100 a week is nothing, you need to
:15:35. > :15:39.live on really. Actually Alan and Lewis did come into some money but
:15:39. > :15:44.only after the Kane was taken to an. Employment tribunal. He was ordered
:15:44. > :15:50.to pay more than £100,000 after underpaying his staff. Alan got
:15:50. > :15:54.about £1200 and Lewis £500. At the time I was like I've won it, it
:15:54. > :15:58.about £1200 and Lewis £500. At the as if you have won it, but it was my
:15:58. > :16:04.money any way. It has made me more aware of the way employers may try
:16:04. > :16:10.and cheatout of money and thij things. It was a good learning
:16:10. > :16:15.experience. David Meyers December line —— declined to be interview but
:16:15. > :16:33.Now there is one thing all these people have in common. Although
:16:33. > :16:36.Now there is one thing all these imemployers broke the law, the cases
:16:36. > :16:41.were brought in employment tribunal, not the criminal court, today that
:16:41. > :16:45.means there have only been eight prosecutions for non—payment since
:16:45. > :16:52.it was introduced and none in the Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
:16:52. > :16:58.police the system. So are they tough enough? A couple of years ago, we
:16:58. > :17:01.did try to use the revenues and custom to enforce the minimum wage
:17:01. > :17:13.consuming, they were slow, they custom to enforce the minimum wage
:17:13. > :17:20.reluctant to enforce it and our client was getting on our back
:17:20. > :17:26.because they weren't doing anything, employment tribunal route. Six
:17:26. > :17:27.months ago the Government scrapped legal ament for employment advice,
:17:27. > :17:35.there is more, many people will legal ament for employment advice,
:17:35. > :17:39.You are the victim yet you have legal ament for employment advice,
:17:39. > :17:44.pay. You just have your case heard. It is absurd. What is more plo
:17:44. > :17:48.foundly unfair, is that there is no guarantee even if they win the case,
:17:48. > :17:54.that they will get temperature tribunal fees back. —— profoundly.
:17:55. > :18:00.Who is in charge? I am off to see Vince Cable, the Business Secretary
:18:00. > :18:06.and the man who has promised action. People can't afford to get it to the
:18:06. > :18:11.tribunal. That is what I want the enforcement activity to be more
:18:11. > :18:15.proactive. We are looking at how we can toughen up the processes, to
:18:15. > :18:21.make it easier for the authorities to initiate. It strikes me as an
:18:21. > :18:26.employer it is easy, because the fines aren't great, the person they
:18:26. > :18:29.are paying below the minimum wage can't afford to take it further
:18:29. > :18:31.are paying below the minimum wage we haven't had much of a naming
:18:31. > :18:33.are paying below the minimum wage shaming either. That is why I have
:18:33. > :18:41.been trying to move the system shaming will be a bigger part of the
:18:41. > :18:48.action. So we will see that? Yes, it should do and if it doesn't, I shall
:18:48. > :18:49.want to know why. If an employment law firm is turning away hundreds of
:18:49. > :18:53.people, that tells you there is law firm is turning away hundreds of
:18:53. > :18:56.problem. If that is the case. I law firm is turning away hundreds of
:18:56. > :19:01.surprised, but why don't they bring them to the HMRC, why don't they
:19:01. > :19:04.bring them to me and I will headache sure we take more action on them.
:19:04. > :19:09.Our programme lasts about half an hour, so when we looked a at how
:19:09. > :19:21.much you earn, you have earned just over £32 in this half hour, someone
:19:21. > :19:25.are in a society where there are substantial inequalities, and there
:19:25. > :19:29.are a lot of people get paid more than me, those differentials are
:19:29. > :19:33.enormous, I want to see an upward movement in the minimum wage, but we
:19:33. > :19:40.don't at the same time want to bring so much pressure on small firm,
:19:40. > :19:42.don't at the same time want to bring survived through this very difficult
:19:42. > :19:45.period and pitch people out of work. That wouldn't be helpful. Last week
:19:45. > :19:51.the Labour Party said it would increase the £5,000 fine for firms
:19:51. > :19:53.not paying the minimum wage to £50,000. Vince Cable didn't promise
:19:53. > :19:57.he would follow suit he said he £50,000. Vince Cable didn't promise
:19:57. > :19:59.see tougher action against rogue employers in the future. Watch this
:19:59. > :20:11.Not many people realise that our greatest war poet, Wilfred Owen
:20:11. > :20:11.Not many people realise that our up in Birkenhead. Little is known
:20:11. > :20:15.about his time here. But now an up in Birkenhead. Little is known
:20:15. > :20:24.letter has been discovered which sheds new light on those years the
:20:24. > :20:40.Gas, gas, quick boys, an ecstasy of fumbling. Fitting the clumsy helmets
:20:40. > :20:46.on. Someone still was yelling out an stumbleling. Dim through the misty
:20:47. > :20:55.pence a as under a green sea I saw The words of Wilfred Owen, whose
:20:55. > :21:00.powerful verse changed war poetry, and our perception of war forever He
:21:00. > :21:06.writes about things that are hugely evoketive, hugely angry, hugely
:21:06. > :21:08.writes about things that are hugely is not how things should be. All the
:21:08. > :21:13.great critics say that Owen would have been the next poet after Keats,
:21:13. > :21:18.he was the greatest English poet in waiting. It is not widely known
:21:18. > :21:21.he was the greatest English poet in grew up in Birkenhead but as he
:21:21. > :21:28.lived there, are the longest period he spent anywhere in his tragically
:21:28. > :21:33.From is a memorial stained glass window to him in the library but the
:21:33. > :21:42.town's role in his story remains doesn't shout about its heritage or
:21:42. > :21:46.culture very loudly. More genteel places like Shropshire where he
:21:46. > :21:50.culture very loudly. More genteel born, it fits in nicer there it
:21:50. > :21:55.culture very loudly. More genteel Like Owen musician Dean Johnson
:21:55. > :21:58.culture very loudly. More genteel he is on a mission to have his home
:21:58. > :22:03.town's part in Wilfred's life fully acknowledged. He has written a
:22:03. > :22:08.musical about the poet, and has opened a museum in the town centre,
:22:08. > :22:13.which hopes will help regress the balance. Birkenhead, it is a tough
:22:13. > :22:20.like dynamic place, his words were tough and dine mini—Mick, in the 19
:22:20. > :22:24.hundreds when they arrived it must have sent their heads reelings. They
:22:24. > :22:27.had fall on the hard times and were transported from rural Shropshire to
:22:27. > :22:32.one of the busiest industrial towns in the country. Wilfred's most Susan
:22:32. > :22:35.Owen has consistently been portrayed at deeply unthat y in Birkenhead,
:22:35. > :22:39.and described by biographers as at deeply unthat y in Birkenhead,
:22:39. > :22:47.big of a snob who turned her nose up at her new neighbours. This is the
:22:47. > :22:51.house in Elm Grove they first lived. Academics have described their time
:22:51. > :22:58.here as unhappy but new evidence In is Mal Robinson who grew up in
:22:58. > :23:03.Birkenhead and lives in London now. He was shocked to discover his
:23:03. > :23:06.family had a connection with Wilfred Owen. This is the letter that Susan
:23:06. > :23:11.Owen sent to my grandmother, on Owen. This is the letter that Susan
:23:11. > :23:15.grandmother's 21st birthday. In Owen. This is the letter that Susan
:23:15. > :23:26.she mentions the fact she had weaned My dear Susie, fancy, your 21st
:23:26. > :23:36.longering a to me than that, for we mother, and the Sunday, it was
:23:36. > :23:43.Easter Sunday I think that I carried when you were a few days or a week
:23:43. > :23:49.old. I remember the nights you kept me awake but it was a work of love
:23:49. > :23:54.Having been born in Birkenhead and brought up in Birkenhead, it is
:23:54. > :23:57.Having been born in Birkenhead and to read something like this, which
:23:57. > :24:03.indicates that the Owens had a good time in Birkenhead. It seems to
:24:03. > :24:08.indicates that the Owens had a good in the face of a lot of Muir and
:24:08. > :24:13.things you read about Susan Owen. And to be honest, Susan Owen did a
:24:13. > :24:19.lot for my grandmother, and that, that gives an impression of a woman
:24:19. > :24:24.who cares. The little girl on the right is Mal's grandmother, her
:24:24. > :24:30.mother was clearly a woman in need, and it was Susan Owen who helped
:24:30. > :24:35.However, Mal had another surprise. My grandmother's mother was called
:24:35. > :24:41.Magged lean. She was of German —— Maguted lain. Her German name you
:24:41. > :24:43.Schmid. German families were common on Merseyside at the turn of the
:24:43. > :24:46.century. As war approached many on Merseyside at the turn of the
:24:46. > :24:51.forced to leave or change their names as tensions mounted. But it
:24:51. > :24:59.still seems extraordinary that our great war poet grew up with German
:24:59. > :25:07.friends. This revelation that they were a German family, when you
:25:07. > :25:15.juxtapose that to Owen's war poetry, it is devastating. I just wanted to,
:25:15. > :25:19.you know, to phone the original biographers and gonna, that, that,
:25:19. > :25:26.that. How significant is this letter in terms of what it says about the
:25:26. > :25:39.overturns 100 years of myth—making of their time in Birkenhead, and it
:25:39. > :25:46.greatest war poet of all time. Geoffrey Walsh is another son of
:25:46. > :25:53.expert. For him, the letter confirms Susan Owen's role in the Wilfred
:25:53. > :25:59.What it does show, I think, is very caring loving family, with a mother,
:25:59. > :26:03.think she was remarkable. They say that writers have a strong mother,
:26:03. > :26:08.and I think she was, if you like, the perhaps the main person who
:26:08. > :26:13.influenced Owen and developed his It seems certain that the two women
:26:13. > :26:19.became friends through their shared faith. Practises at ciet church
:26:19. > :26:23.became friends through their shared Birkenhead. As far as I'm aware
:26:23. > :26:29.Susan Owen taught my nan's brother. —— Christchurch. She also taught
:26:29. > :26:30.Wilfred Owen. So we think that Christchurch being the kind of
:26:30. > :26:37.community hub, that is how they Christchurch being the kind of
:26:37. > :26:43.This church is central to the story. It was here that Dean premiers his
:26:43. > :26:52.Wilfred Owen musical, bullets and daff #2ki8s. Will freed father was a
:26:52. > :27:23.graduated to being a choirboy. The # Bloodstained against the yellow
:27:23. > :27:31.# The wind of war is never still The musical has been staged twice in
:27:31. > :27:39.the West End. The man who played James her yo —— James Herriot in all
:27:39. > :27:43.creatures Great and Small starring and then directing I think it is
:27:43. > :27:54.beautiful, it comes from Dean's passion for Owen, and Birkenhead,
:27:54. > :27:59.story, it taught me about my home town, telling his story taught me
:27:59. > :28:26.about the First World War, because his story is the story of the war.
:28:26. > :28:31.Wilfred Owen's extraordinary poetry during next year's centenary of
:28:31. > :28:35.world war one. Now don't forget during next year's centenary of
:28:35. > :28:37.can catch us again on the iPlayer but we are back next Monday, so
:28:37. > :28:49.Next week, remembering the summer Coming towards me then, was a wall