21/10/2013 Inside Out North West

Hello and welcome to Inside Out Northwest. Tonight we are at

Altrincham, the house and gardens attract thousands of visitors every

year. But it is also a special place of pilgrimage for one unlikely group

of devotees. Tonight, it is a major threat to our countryside but we

investigate the bovine TB could spread because of lax testing and

loopholes in the law. It took 1 4 days if `` between our first

incidence of TB and our neighbours having to get tested. That is

ridiculous. We revealed the success of a Merseyside scheme to stop

prosecution of sex workers. There was a huge drive to do something

quickly. And really remember the French are between the 10th Earl of

Dunham and highly give Lassie. `` the relationship.

It is the biggest threat to our countryside. Bovine TB has worked

out herds in the north`west and it is spreading. Our region has become

the front line in the battle against the disease, with new measures

introduced here this month to bring it under control. But Inside Out has

uncovered alarming evidence of missed testing and gaps in the law.

Abby Jones has been investigating how our farmers have been put at

risk. From a few isolated cases in the

1980s, bovine tuberculosis now affects large areas of England. It

has been steadily moving north and east. The number of herds affected

by the disease almost doubled in Cheshire in the year to this June,

and in the year to this June, and encumber it increased fourfold. How

to tackle the disease is controversial. But what is agreed is

it must be controlled in an area known as the high risk areas in the

South West and the low`risk areas in the North. I'm standing in Cheshire

on the edge, which includes counties like Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

If the disease can't be controlled here, it could reach greater

Manchester, Merseyside, Lincolnshire and West Yorkshire by 2022. The

government is so concerned about the edge, it has introduced new measures

like Vltava cattle tests. But is it enough? Come on! Come on! Philip

farms here, and in a high`risk area. Until a year and a half ago, he had

never had a case of TB. This year, 89 cows were slaughtered.

Financially, very tough. We are clear now but we haven't adapted the

business. We have decided to go from 500 cows down to 300. It has meant

making people redundant. A chap is leaving this week who has worked for

me for 25 years. Philip hasn't bought in a cow in 16 years. He is

certain badges infected his herd. But he believes farmers are also at

risk because of Robins with the body which manages cattle testing. It

took 174 days between our fun getting our first incident of TB

last year and my neighbours having to be tested. `` our farm. It is

ridiculous. The farms seem to be out of control. We were told to get the

cattle tested after they had been shot. I had one neighbour who had

not been tested for 20 years because the organisation had forgotten to

allocate him a test. To get the test, it took over 40 visits. It is

a ridiculous waste of resources It is a ridiculous way to try to

control the disease. When TB was discovered in this herd, this farm

was shut down. No cattle could come in or out, and restrictions were

crucial to stop the disease spreading. But some farmers are

breaking them. Anthony is a cattle dealer who finds a few miles away.

He has been prosecuted twice. `` who farms. Nearly 200 offences he has

faced. We asked him to explain to us why he's `` he has repeatedly broken

the rules. But he has not replied. He still has a license to transport

cattle across the country. It is issued by the organisation again,

the same body that shut down his farm. It doesn't refuse a licence

for breaking TB rules. It says it is interested in making sure

transported animals are well treated. For Richard Gardner for the

Cheshire wildlife trust, it is not good enough. For the last year, the

trust has been vaccinating badgers against TB. It fears the work could

be undermined. We are trying to find solutions to tackle bovine TB. We

are vaccinating badgers. But we could be wasting time if there are

people out there still potentially moving disease around. Away from

Cheshire and the edge, illegally moving animals is for some and even

bigger worry. They are trying to make the cattle worth more money.

They are moving them from a dirty area to a clean area. I have come to

Cumbria, a low risk area, to meet a farmer who claims the law is being

broken for profit. We have protected his identity. You often see why

comes from down south pull out. They are loath animals at 10pm, even

later. The next morning, they are loaded up by a different wagon and

taken to auctions. On paper, it never happened. How do you feel

about that? It is disgusting. It is not fair on us because we are free

of TB. It is hard to sort out. They are trying but they need to be more

ruthless to stop it. Of course, the vast majority of farmers do stick to

the rules. But are the rules dropped enough to control people `` TB? ``

strict enough to control TB? Every week and tens of thousands of

animals are bought and sold at auctions. I have come to a new

auction in Kendall used by farmers across the North. On the screens,

limited information about the animal for sale. Auctions don't have room

and aren't forced to provide more. So how confident can a farmer being

what they are buying? They could buy an animal which they think is from a

real farm but it could have come from anywhere in the country. It

could have come from a high`risk area. The government was to eg ``

introduce a new system. But it is not mandatory. To stop the disease,

we have played around with it too long. We have got to do something

about it. We have got to make it mandatory. That is not the only bit

of legislation Trevor wants to see changed. In low`risk areas, the

neighbours of a farmer who comes down with TB of a 28 day window

before they have to shut down their own farm. `` have a 28 day window.

In that time, they can sell livestock. It seems ridiculous. But

will the rules be tightened? The government is reviewing how it

regulates TB. But it does not believe it should be compulsory for

farmers to provide information at auctions. At this moment in time, we

don't believe it should. We need people to think about what they are

doing. It doesn't just apply to TB. It applies to other diseases. It is

in the mind of the buyer as well as providing information. And the

window that Trevor wants to see removed... With macro the low risk

area has low incidence of TB. However, `` the low risk area has a

lower incidence of TB. We asked about the problems we exposed. The

body says this was an isolated case. It denies farms had to wait

six months for testing once the disease was actually confirmed. It

also insists testing is strictly managed, that cattle are registered

and their movements recorded to make sure they are tested. That it

imposes restrictions when testing is overdue and reports serious breaches

to local authorities to take action. Also, that farmers who don't

identify and record cattle collect the risk losing a Saturday. `` S

subsidy. Phillips says he is yet to be

convinced. The perception that TB is spreading because of poor practices

or farmers do not have good security, I am afraid, is misguided.

The inevitable slide and spread of TB across the country and through

all the cattle areas will continue unless a better policy and fully

resourced policy is implemented There is a lot of work still to do.

Otherwise, we are doing to have a situation in the country where a lot

of the badgers through the country and a lot of the cattle are going to

have TB. That is an appalling vision of the future.

Coming up, how the Rastafarian community celebrates the hand of

friendship shown to high listener and in exile. Bass macro Heile

Gebreselassie. `` Heile Gebreselassie.

A radical approach to the policing of crimes against ex`workers on Mars

`` Merseyside is leading the country in solving cases. The scheme has

seen an increasing for rape and murder and the reporting of crimes.

But now risk `` funding has been withdrawn for one of its elements.

Ruth Jacobs investigates these issues for Inside Out. Some viewers

may find part of this film disturbing.

Merseyside has a long history of vice and prostitution. As anybody

who has walked through Liverpool eight nos. To most, these women are

just shadowy figures eager for a fix. But the reality is that they

are people's mothers, sisters and daughters. Some of them are on the

street just to put a meal on the table for their children. Just down

the road behind me, there is a woman working. It is dark and dangerous.

It is really scary. The outreach team call into a local police patrol

as a cover of suspicious men are seen in the area and the woman could

be at risk. We need to leave her as she has a punter waiting around the

corner. As a former heroin user I can see she is dying for a hit. I

want to find out about the initiative which turns the tide on

violence against people in the sex trade. Being in Merseyside and

seeing the women here in prostitution reminds me of when I

was in prostitution in London. I was lucky to make it out of that life.

Most people don't. Until seven years ago, this trust had existed between

sex trade workers and the police on Merseyside. `` distrust. Then

everything changed. It was the murder of this lady that proved the

catalyst to get the police in Liverpool to declare all crimes

committed against people in prostitution as hate crimes. In

2006, we invoke the hate crime model. In the same way we would

address issues around homophobic attacks on people or racially

motivated attacks on people or attacks on people for other disco

monetary reasons, we decided that attacks of sex workers `` disco

monetary reasons, we desire that attacks on sex workers would have a

similar approach. No longer would police arrest the victims. They

would instead pursue the attackers. Tracy Hara regularly patrols the

areas where women in Street was to choose and operate. She works

closely with Shelley, who was the first independent sexual violence

adviser at the project. Shelley and Tracy had been driving around

Liverpool on the side of the road where this on a woman in the sex

trade, sitting there with a broken leg. I'm going back on duty now so I

can come and make you safe. I'm concerned if you're working. My role

is to keep people safe and to protect people. I'm not there to put

her in a car and taken to the police station. In the 80s and 90s this

area was worked but it is not any more. It shows you how policing and

regeneration can really change a street. They are changing with a

constantly changing environment This was quite a dangerous area We

had a lot of women who were attacked. We had a huge drive to do

something quickly. We wanted to protect sex workers.

Shelley and Rosie continued our tour to the side of Liverpool University

campus. In 2005 this was where I'm Foye was murdered. Her body was

found on the left. It has kind of overgrown little bit but you can

still see some flowers and teddy bears that have been left for her at

that tree. Working out of the Army stat project, Shelley was

Liverpool's first sexual violence advisor, she worked with women of

the sex trade and took clients like me through the court process. And it

made's case, she was attacked and raped by a client and her own flat.

You thought that he was going to kill you? The only reason I managed

to escape was because I fell asleep `` he fell asleep. I opened the door

and ran. I phoned the police straightaway because I thought I was

going to die that night. That is where Shelley steps in. She

supported that women throughout her trial and glazed with investigating

operators. Eventually the rapist was sent to ten years without parole. I

did not want other girls to go through what I went through. It was

horrendous. There is another avenue for sex trade workers to report

crimes and suspected criminals. The national Ugly Mug scheme allows

client information to be shared anonymously online. We have 250

organisations to offer support. We are reaching lots and lots of sex

workers both directly and indirectly. Potentially tens of

thousands. Over one quarter of the incidents reported were sexual

offences. Over 150 contain some form of violence. We could be talking to

thousands or more perhaps? Other rates and crimes. We are talking

about preventing hundreds of rates? Looking up those rapists increases

the safety for all women throughout society. The number of women engaged

in street sex work on Merseyside has more than half. The crucial role

Shelley played in securing convictions is now under threat The

funding has been removed by Liverpool Council. We put in a bid

for that funding but unfortunately we lost that tender. We have a key

role not only for sex workers but also for the police. It would

benefit both said. We can then support women right through the

point at which the report the incident and beyond. Without the

dedicated independent sexual violence advisor to see cases

through there, there is a few that Merseyside may not be able to retain

its very successful conviction rates. There are no calls to

introduce them as model across the country. Andrew's Silence And

Violence report is very crucial We are talking about saving lives.

Someone could die as a result of porky medication between sex

workers. Back on Merseyside, May has turned her life around after being

treated like a human being with dignity and respect, perhaps for the

first time. I have managed to get my life back on track. I do not drink

any more and I do not take drugs. I have retrained as a chef and

everything is going right for me at the moment.

This sundial of what was known as a famous site stands proudly in front

of this house and is one of a series of statues that were made for

William of Orange. As Jemma Gofton has been finding out, Dunham Massey

has a more significant link to Africa.

I used to love coming here for picnics at Dunham Massey when I was

a child, but I had no idea at the place held such significance for

some people. The National Trust property as

special and the Rastafarian area because it is a place visited by

their leader Haile Selassie. Haile Selassie, who they call the King of

Kings and conquering man of Judah was the Emperor of Ethiopia who

could trace his ancestry back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

In Jamaica he was revered as a living God and his original name was

used for the new religion. Then the other Prince of darkness let loose

as plans. And the finds of the world he took the sword.

In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia under Museveni. Haile Selassie

Colette has own army against 1 million Italian troops. `` Museveni.

He was barracked when he appeared before the break of nations

appealing for help. Trying to quell the disturbance, the lights are

turned down. Haile Selassie tries to make his appeal.

Support eventually came from Britain where he lived in excel between 1936

and 1941. Aboard this line, the man whose name has been on the lips of

the world for the past months. He is the king to be received as a king

but has no plans to rule. It was during these years he was contacted

by the Earl of Stamford who had a seat at Dunham Massey. Moved by his

plate, the Errol, Roger Grey, invited Haile Selassie to stay. He

found a brotherhood with a man that he never knew before from across the

seas, distant lands. We are here today to celebrate that friendship.

This is an amazing staircase, is it not?

I've got a tour of the rooms that the emperor would have used. This is

a very opulent room, this is where the Emperor would have stayed. That

is correct. It is one of the most beautiful rooms in the house. By

comparison, Roger's room was more modest, he had a modest taste, so he

gave the best room to the Emperor. It is an unusual friendship. What do

you think we spoke about? What did they have in common? The friendship

started as a coming together of means. The shares something that

would last for the rest of their lives. They were both interested in

politics and that is the kind of thing that they probably would have

discussed. We also know that the Emperor introduced Ethiopian jazz to

the Earl of Stamford. So I can imagine I'm listening to that. When

the emperor left here and corresponded via letter, we have got

some of them here actually, what is written in them? The letters are

very interesting. And this one, this is a letter that Rogers Centre to

the Emperor. It talks about how he had flown the Ethiopian flag from

the roof of his Dunham Massey Hall. It was sent a long time after he had

been to stay. We also have Christmas cards and greeting cards. This is

one from the Emperor. And beside you there is a cigarette case, what is

the story behind that? This was a gift from the Emperor to Roger Grey

when the Emperor came to stay at Dunham Massey. On the front there is

an emblem. Inside there is an inscription that says the gift of

the Emperor of Ethiopia to Roger the Earl of Stamford. Underneath it it

says "la justice ne peut pas mourir" which means justice will never die.

Roger was very proud of this and imported cigarettes from Turkey so

that he could fit them into this case, the British cigarettes would

not fit this case, that shows you how proud he was of it.

Dennis Wrigley was a friend of the Earl's and remembers him as

left`leaning as a member of the aristocracy. One winter evening he

played me these magnificent Qabun recordings before we had technical

orders and the like and he had speeches by Balfour, Lloyd George

and even Adolf Hitler and be used to listen to these and analyse them. He

was really quite an amazing man I must ask you, did you witness the

cigarette case. Yes, I did. And he was so proud of it. So regularly did

he show it. I am aware of the international significance of Haile

Selassie. He was not just a man of immense stature on the world stage,

he was also something that you wanted to work with, someone that

you wanted to be around. Roger Grey stood by this man and that is highly

significant. During his lifetime, the Earl of

Stamford flew the Ethiopian flag and the birthday of Haile Selassie. It

is a tradition that the National Trust are proud to restore today.

The National Trust has joined together with the local Rastafarian

Community who have put onto the s music and drama event to ensure that

the story of the Earl of Stamford and Haile Selassie is continued for

future generations. We are examining this story. I think that both Haile

Selassie and Roger Grey would have liked to have seen this story told

years later. It is very special to be here today and for the young

people to perform, and for the musicians to play their music and

just enjoy themselves. Marcus Hercules has been working with young

people in South Manchester and has produced the performance to coincide

with the 75th anniversary of the Emperor's visit. The message is very

important. I think it is the same thing that the Earl of Stamford and

Haile Selassie both stood for, and that is treating someone that you do

not know like they are your brother or sister, that one must, which to

me, that is a key part of this excess of humankind. Visiting Dunham

Massey for the first time today as a Haile Selassie was Mack

great`grandson. It is evidently clear that this was the kind of

British Alex Stubb cruise that my great`grandfather enjoyed the grace

and welcome of. Haile Selassie lives in excel in the UK for four

years before returning to Ethiopia. He spent just four days at Dunham

Massey but it is clear that his visit here held a special place in

the heart of the Earl of Stamford and the Emperor. He came to other

places around the UK but when he visited Dunham Massey and for an

aristocrat like Roger Grey to make him feel welcomed, it is a pleasant

place. What an amazing story from this

beautiful house. Do not forget, you can catch us again and BBC iPlayer,

but we are back next Monday and 7:30pm on BBC One. Goodbye.

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