:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, and welcome to a new series of Inside Out North West with me,
:00:00. > :00:12.Tonight, we reveal why we've not seen the last of extreme storms,
:00:13. > :00:19.To median Ted Robbins returns to the stage where he nearly died
:00:20. > :00:24.performing in Phoenix nights. It was opening night, our opening night and
:00:25. > :00:29.almost my closing one. On the anniversary of the first goal for,
:00:30. > :00:33.we ask why better and have feel like they have been forgotten. We want
:00:34. > :00:38.appreciating, recognitions for what we have done. And how a very British
:00:39. > :00:44.hobby is being used to preserve Roman heritage for the nation. We
:00:45. > :00:47.found another seven silver coins, and that is when we really hit me, I
:00:48. > :01:15.think I have really hit the jackpot. Is it a case of New Year new you?
:01:16. > :01:19.This place has the highest rate of death from coronary heart attack in
:01:20. > :01:25.England. Actor and comedian Ted Robbins and almost came a addition
:01:26. > :01:30.to that statistic when he's suffered a cardiac arrest in Phoenix nights.
:01:31. > :01:37.No special report for inside out, Des looks back at the night that
:01:38. > :01:42.nearly changes light. Giving Sunday special on easy radio Lancashire,
:01:43. > :01:47.Ted Robbins! So, an extra bulletin for you, over to the newsroom and my
:01:48. > :01:51.quest. Thanks Teddie yell at get the latest on what's happening out
:01:52. > :01:56.there. But everyone likes working on a Sunday, I love it, I love working
:01:57. > :02:01.and walking and exercising, going to the gym, eating salad. Well, three
:02:02. > :02:08.out of four isn't bad. It is great to be alive, but this time last year
:02:09. > :02:13.I very nearly wasn't. It was hugely reported, much to my surprise, in
:02:14. > :02:18.the media, television, paper, that I had a very public cardiac arrest. I
:02:19. > :02:23.very nearly didn't make it. Since then, my life has changed. The
:02:24. > :02:28.downside is I had to do things like take a load of tablets and pick and
:02:29. > :02:32.mix a load of them but that is a small price to pay. I still love my
:02:33. > :02:37.food, I just eat better. I exercise, I go to the gym, I've lost a shed
:02:38. > :02:42.load of weight, and I'm as busy as I ever was. It is very, very good to
:02:43. > :02:52.be and after the year I had just had it is good to be anywhere, quite
:02:53. > :02:55.frankly. As they like to stay on television, I've been on a January
:02:56. > :02:58.and I would like to take you want one now. I would perhaps let you
:02:59. > :03:01.know what I have been through and what I have learned on the way.
:03:02. > :03:07.There is one place to start, I will seek you later, Jim. Yes, the
:03:08. > :03:10.wonderful Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, where I was hoping to
:03:11. > :03:24.bump into a few familiar faces. I wasn't disappointed.
:03:25. > :03:30.Doctor Birch was the first cardiologist to work on me when I
:03:31. > :03:35.arrived. Doctor Sass tree put my stents in. Doctor Fox fitted me with
:03:36. > :03:42.my own personal visibility. It is my on-board safety net. And then, of
:03:43. > :03:47.course the wonderful nurses. Yellow macro you went through an awful lot
:03:48. > :03:51.and you are very lucky to be here today. Definitely, because there is
:03:52. > :03:55.a lot of people that go through that and they don't come back from it.
:03:56. > :03:58.What the team was not only do they put my body back together, but they
:03:59. > :04:03.looked after my shattered emotions. I think you had a tough time. No one
:04:04. > :04:08.expect something like this to happen to them, I think we all like to
:04:09. > :04:11.think that we know the way our life is going to go, and when we are
:04:12. > :04:19.throwing a curveball, then it is a surprise. I think getting back from
:04:20. > :04:24.that is not always instantaneous. It is not a surprise that you had some
:04:25. > :04:28.inner turmoil. There was one person I was especially pleased to see, and
:04:29. > :04:33.happier that she had a time for a proper chat. You were unfortunately
:04:34. > :04:41.bring a perfect storm, Ted, problems with your fowls, and your arteries
:04:42. > :04:47.as well prior to that. And it was what is commonly known as a cardiac
:04:48. > :04:51.arrest. So, I was very lucky, brought here fairly quickly. Was
:04:52. > :04:55.that fairly important? Extremely important. It is what we call a
:04:56. > :05:00.chain of survival, somebody needs to recognise that you are having a
:05:01. > :05:05.heart attack, someone needs to act on it straightaway which is what you
:05:06. > :05:10.have done absolutely super CPR, all this is a patient. What can people
:05:11. > :05:13.do, watching us now to help themselves if they think that their
:05:14. > :05:20.husband or dad or whoever is having a heart attack. The first thing is
:05:21. > :05:23.to not ignore symptoms, if you have symptoms you are worried about, when
:05:24. > :05:28.you get to middle age, particularly in meant if they have symptoms of
:05:29. > :05:34.chest pains, come and get it seen to. Don't ignore your body. If your
:05:35. > :05:38.body says signs that aren't quite right, don't ignore it. I didn't
:05:39. > :05:45.know you had been ill, Ted? You haven't gone on about it, have you?
:05:46. > :05:52.Joking aside, the people knowing more about coronary care the better.
:05:53. > :05:59.I am now evangelical about the importance of CPR, culinary Pullman
:06:00. > :06:04.resuscitation. Just 36% of adults in the north-west are confident of
:06:05. > :06:12.performing CPR, and only 20% can correctly identify when somebody's
:06:13. > :06:16.had a cardiac arrest. This is how I'll used to look, but I have lost
:06:17. > :06:25.three and a half stone in the last months. One reason is that I have
:06:26. > :06:27.become a regular at my local gym. This is called being on a road to
:06:28. > :06:38.nowhere. Lots of people are intimidated by
:06:39. > :06:43.the idea of going to a gym, but they really shouldn't be. If I can do it,
:06:44. > :06:46.anyone can. Brian, you have been keeping a kindly eye on me for a
:06:47. > :06:49.while now, how am I doing question my honourable gentleman you are
:06:50. > :06:51.doing well, you're looking great, you aren't doing everything you have
:06:52. > :07:02.been asked to do, you are losing weight. Good man, he knows what he's
:07:03. > :07:03.talking about! Just for the record, I was a member of the month recently
:07:04. > :07:17.as well. Thank you! They say that home is where the
:07:18. > :07:24.heart is and for me that's truer than ever before. Thanks to my
:07:25. > :07:29.lovely wife Judy, I also have a new approach to food. Most of the things
:07:30. > :07:34.here are pretty good for your heart, aren't they? I used to be more of a
:07:35. > :07:39.fish and chips, pie and pint man, I still eat as much, but now it's just
:07:40. > :07:49.healthier. You are a great cook, but I'm the shift now,... Never trust a
:07:50. > :07:57.thin chef! I used to have a meal whilst you were preparing yours,.
:07:58. > :08:00.Sometimes I wasn't that hungry. I also hadn't really appreciated just
:08:01. > :08:04.how much the cardiac arrest affected the woman I loved. I never really
:08:05. > :08:13.ask you this but how has it affected you, what has happened to me? It was
:08:14. > :08:17.a shock. I am quite stoic, as you know, and you can't do anything else
:08:18. > :08:23.but deal with what the situation is at the time. But yes you lose sleep,
:08:24. > :08:29.you get worried at night and you worry that I am going to be on my
:08:30. > :08:34.own. Did you? For a while. Yes, I did. Short lived, once I knew you
:08:35. > :08:38.were back on your feet, but to be fair I think you have been a great
:08:39. > :08:46.patient, actually, you haven't been that bad. That is living proof
:08:47. > :08:55.behind every successful man there is an astonished woman. Day Manchester
:08:56. > :09:01.Arena. The scene of my heart stopping moment. After all I have
:09:02. > :09:18.been through, I am finally ready to go back.
:09:19. > :09:27.Well... This is it. It is the first time I have set foot in this place
:09:28. > :09:35.since getting on for a year ago, part of the show Phoenix nights
:09:36. > :09:39.live, for comic relief, it was about here, the stage, I think, and I came
:09:40. > :09:45.up through the trapdoor, biggest audience of my life and stop it was
:09:46. > :09:51.their opening night, our opening night. And almost my closing one. It
:09:52. > :09:53.feels quite something to BA, I tell you that, it really does. Quite
:09:54. > :10:08.emotional, really. Boy. I came down here, I had to talk
:10:09. > :10:12.about what we were going to do stop while I was looking around, I bumped
:10:13. > :10:15.into two people that were there on that fateful night. Tell us what
:10:16. > :10:19.happened, because it is all a bit of a blur for me? You came up through
:10:20. > :10:23.the trapdoor and did your bit and we were all busy doing our thing, and
:10:24. > :10:28.then all I heard on the radio this is not in the show. And there was a
:10:29. > :10:34.like a gap, there was a bump, you had fallen down. This isn't part of
:10:35. > :10:37.the show, and then when reality kicked in and it wasn't. When I got
:10:38. > :10:42.there are two of my team were doing CPR with a help of a doctor from the
:10:43. > :10:44.crowd. Obviously I do not remember anything of theirs and several
:10:45. > :10:48.minutes passed and I remember your face and your distinctive beard. I
:10:49. > :10:53.did have some bystander assistance from a medic in the audience who was
:10:54. > :10:57.an all doctor there, and yourself and there was a whole team of people
:10:58. > :10:59.responsible, and you got me back! Thank you ever so much! Thank you
:11:00. > :11:10.in! Yes, the last 12 months have been
:11:11. > :11:13.the worst of times but they have also been the best of times, and I
:11:14. > :11:17.would say to anyone watching this, if you are worried about anything at
:11:18. > :11:21.all, anything at all, don't let it fester. Go along and get some expert
:11:22. > :11:27.advice. It is never too late to change a light, go to the gym, eats
:11:28. > :11:34.healthy grub, go for a walk, enjoy life to the full. You are not ready
:11:35. > :11:39.to grow just yet! -- go just yet! For details of organisations
:11:40. > :11:40.offering cardiac advice and support, go online to BBC .co the UK slash
:11:41. > :11:52.action line. 25 years ago today, British fighter
:11:53. > :11:57.jets had just started combat missions in the first Gulf War.
:11:58. > :12:03.Their aim was to drive Saddam Hussein's invading Iraqi forces out
:12:04. > :12:08.of Kuwait. The conflict was quick and efficient. Six weeks later it
:12:09. > :12:12.was all over. Now, as former soldier David Lee reports, some of the
:12:13. > :12:24.veterans of the conflict say they have been all but forgotten. Fire!
:12:25. > :12:26.In the last three decades or so, Britain's Armed Forces have been
:12:27. > :12:32.involved in conflict all over the globe. The Falklands, Bosnia,
:12:33. > :12:41.Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria. Some lasted years but one was
:12:42. > :12:47.over in just 43 days, with minimal coalition casualties. In early 1991,
:12:48. > :12:51.the UK military was part of a coalition fighting Iraqi forces who
:12:52. > :12:56.had invaded neighbouring correct. When British forces went to war in
:12:57. > :13:00.Iraq, a quarter of a century ago, I was just two years old and remember
:13:01. > :13:04.nothing of it. But by the age of 17, I too had joined the British Army
:13:05. > :13:15.and by 21 was serving on the in Afghanistan. As a young army recruit
:13:16. > :13:22.my days were filled with physical training, dreaded drills, and
:13:23. > :13:29.training. But the prospect of going to war looms large for my LO trips.
:13:30. > :13:32.We went on long fast marches with rucksacks filled with git because
:13:33. > :13:38.that is what with Marines and Paris did. For the golf more, we worked so
:13:39. > :13:41.bout nuclear and biological and chemical suits and gas masks because
:13:42. > :13:48.that is what happened a quarter of a century ago in Kuwait. During the
:13:49. > :13:52.night, hundreds of British and American aircraft have attacked
:13:53. > :13:56.targets in Iraq and occupied Kuwait. The Americans say the operation has
:13:57. > :14:00.been very successful. Fighting started on the 17th of January 1991
:14:01. > :14:03.with air strikes. The ground operation didn't give or over a
:14:04. > :14:16.month. On February the 24th. Eddie blench from Gateshead found
:14:17. > :14:19.himself celebrating his 30th birthday in the desert. He had
:14:20. > :14:24.already seen service in the Falklands and Northern Ireland as a
:14:25. > :14:28.Army paradigmatic. A lot of people were excited to go, that is what we
:14:29. > :14:31.have trained for all our career, that is why we joined the forces.
:14:32. > :14:38.Hopefully to see some excitement, you know what I mean? Within 100
:14:39. > :14:44.hours of the ground war starting, it was all over. Written had lost 47
:14:45. > :14:47.servicemen, and the coalition declared Kuwait liberated.
:14:48. > :14:57.Aggression is defeated, the war is over. People used to say it was well
:14:58. > :15:04.you were only there a couple of days. But we weren't, we were there
:15:05. > :15:08.from August till March. That isn't a couple of days to me. Living in the
:15:09. > :15:13.desert, preparing for that conflict, whether it be chemical or biological
:15:14. > :15:23.or whatever. Where ever came, we were prepared for it. And our box is
:15:24. > :15:35.up. This is the first time I've talked about it in about ten years.
:15:36. > :15:40.May be part of the problem is that the Gulf War is one that was seen as
:15:41. > :15:46.quick and clean and clinical. Minimal coalition casualties it was
:15:47. > :15:48.history's first high-tech war. Precision smart bombs and
:15:49. > :15:57.laser-guided weapons, in the chronology of human conflict it was
:15:58. > :16:01.over in a heartbeat. Most of my students, even though they did
:16:02. > :16:06.British history, never heard of the Gulf War, and if you mention Iraq...
:16:07. > :16:10.This lecturer in contemporary British history believes it is a
:16:11. > :16:15.forgotten war. We tend to remember wars that have been triumphs in this
:16:16. > :16:18.country, such as the Falklands or the Second World War, or disasters
:16:19. > :16:21.such as Suez or Iraq. The First World War of course was both. War is
:16:22. > :16:26.like the Gulf War which aren't really either tend to slip through
:16:27. > :16:29.people's consciousness. It was a very short sharp campaign, and as a
:16:30. > :16:33.conflict it doesn't really stand with some of the other British
:16:34. > :16:40.deployment in the last 30 years. No matter how brave, for the combatants
:16:41. > :16:49.the trauma still when steep. Steve Linton from Liverpool served as a
:16:50. > :16:53.Staff Sergeant. No war is easy. No war is easy on the mind. The effect
:16:54. > :17:01.stay with you for the rest of your life and it makes you feel slightly
:17:02. > :17:04.better that certain conflicts are thought or deemed to be more
:17:05. > :17:14.acceptable to the British public by our political leaders. So some are
:17:15. > :17:18.remembered, and we have parades. Others are brushed under the carpet.
:17:19. > :17:25.And I think the first Gulf War is definitely... They have had the
:17:26. > :17:34.Hoover house, in fact for that. -- Hoover out for that. Many veterans
:17:35. > :17:38.of the Gulf War believe their health was severely affected by the time in
:17:39. > :17:43.the desert. The general term became known as Gulf War syndrome. The
:17:44. > :17:46.Ministry of Defence says it doesn't believe there are illness set is
:17:47. > :17:50.specific to troops that serve there. Royal Navy veteran Michael Brodie
:17:51. > :17:55.from Leeds now has multiple sclerosis and he is angry about the
:17:56. > :18:00.lack of recognition. Nobody has ever said thank you Jimmy. From friends
:18:01. > :18:09.and family and everything like that. No one has ever said thank you. If
:18:10. > :18:13.they did, what would it mean to you? It is just appreciation, isn't it? I
:18:14. > :18:19.think everybody would just want appreciating, recognition for what
:18:20. > :18:24.they have done. They counted them all out and they counted them all
:18:25. > :18:28.back. When the Falklands conflict ended in June 1982, it was a turning
:18:29. > :18:30.point in military history. Since then, Britain has never gone to war
:18:31. > :18:45.on its own. The Falklands' 25th anniversary saw
:18:46. > :18:50.recognition on a national scale as the country remembered its forces.
:18:51. > :18:56.Three years ago, plans were dedicated to the permanent memory of
:18:57. > :19:02.the Falklands victims. It was a permanent tribute for the people who
:19:03. > :19:06.gave their lives to the country will stop when organisers asked the
:19:07. > :19:09.government for funding, they were refused. Instead, ministers said
:19:10. > :19:15.they would be supporting a new memorial next to London's cenotaph
:19:16. > :19:20.stop but that would only be for troops killed in later wars in Iraq
:19:21. > :19:26.and Afghanistan. A lot of people with the first Gulf War thought what
:19:27. > :19:31.is it really worth, what they did? Because nobody mentions it. They are
:19:32. > :19:42.picking and choosing. What they want to pay their respects to. Massively
:19:43. > :19:46.let down, yeah. Massively. We challenge the Ministry of Defence do
:19:47. > :19:49.explain why government wasn't recognising the 25th anniversary of
:19:50. > :19:54.the Gulf War and why they couldn't fund a memorial. The MoD told us
:19:55. > :19:59.they honour all those who serve in the Gulf War, and they said there
:20:00. > :20:08.will be a memorial service in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in
:20:09. > :20:11.February. Supporters has no choice but to begin raising money
:20:12. > :20:17.themselves. Now they have succeeded and with the help of the ?25,000
:20:18. > :20:22.ovation from Kuwait, the new memorial will be officially opened
:20:23. > :20:27.next month. As a recruit, one of the things drilled into me was pride.
:20:28. > :20:34.Pride in myself, pride in my regiment, and pride in my country.
:20:35. > :20:38.So, as a service personnel, they are very reluctant to speak out or
:20:39. > :20:42.complain, because that represents failure or weakness. The fact that
:20:43. > :20:47.they do so now shows just how strongly they feel. If Armed Forces
:20:48. > :20:48.that and really are heroes, then we should not be abandoning them or
:20:49. > :21:04.forgetting them. They came, they saw, they conquered.
:21:05. > :21:10.Yes, the Romans certainly left their mark. Especially here in Chester.
:21:11. > :21:14.But new evidence has been unearthed which suggests that the influence
:21:15. > :21:17.spread right across the county. Two were hordes of Roman treasure found
:21:18. > :21:24.in Cheshire our latest significant archaeological discoverers are the
:21:25. > :21:42.latest to be discovered by metal detector rests.
:21:43. > :21:48.Metal detectorist as far as the eye can see. Hoping for something
:21:49. > :21:54.valuable, or significant. And more than often they do. This was fined
:21:55. > :21:59.five inches down. Iron Age, two to 3000 years old. Sounds down the
:22:00. > :22:06.bottom of the hill down there. How old is that? Don't know, just
:22:07. > :22:12.waiting for it to be dated. And here is the net in a small winter stand,
:22:13. > :22:16.collecting bidets finds stop working for the Museum of Liverpool, the
:22:17. > :22:22.main point of contact for Taiwan macro in Manchester and merge aside.
:22:23. > :22:26.It is really going quite well, a number of fines from all periods,
:22:27. > :22:29.and about the outreach we are talking to metal detectorist, making
:22:30. > :22:35.sure they know we are here, and we are coming to the museum. They have
:22:36. > :22:39.given us a good pitch and of the archaeology of the area, so by
:22:40. > :22:43.recording them we are going to be able to take that research and look
:22:44. > :22:49.into it further. So what are some of the more interesting things today?
:22:50. > :22:54.The earliest is probably this Bronze Age rapier, or dagger, and that is
:22:55. > :23:02.sort of Middle Bronze Age in date, so quite unusual for the Cheshire
:23:03. > :23:11.area as well. The cop what Ally -- this copper alloy cawing is a sister
:23:12. > :23:17.are serious... This coin comes from the Roman period. You would notice
:23:18. > :23:25.if you lost it, it is quite heavy. It is heavy, isn't it! It is the
:23:26. > :23:30.most proactive one I have ever done. I've only been doing it for 12
:23:31. > :23:34.months and I think I am not necessarily getting better but it is
:23:35. > :23:38.99% luck, and 1% is doing it right. Keeping it close to the ground and
:23:39. > :23:44.is doing it slowly, taking your time. Today's event is a charity
:23:45. > :23:49.metal detectorist rally. Each paid a sum to check this land. Everything
:23:50. > :23:53.found is logged on a national database. The north-west has long
:23:54. > :24:04.been a fertile area for archaeologists. While Chester has
:24:05. > :24:07.obviously been the centre of Roman activity, centres like Northwich and
:24:08. > :24:12.middle which have also produced evidence of Roman settlement and
:24:13. > :24:18.activity. At the Museum of Liverpool, some of that rich Roman
:24:19. > :24:24.heritage is on display. One dates to the first century A.D., so the other
:24:25. > :24:28.to the second, so both are nearly 2000 years old. They tell something
:24:29. > :24:32.of the wealth of Cheshire in that period. We are always finding new
:24:33. > :24:39.site, putting further dots on the map, that tell us about the Roman
:24:40. > :24:42.occupation, and Romano British, native people in that period. These
:24:43. > :24:50.hordes are important in filling in some of that picture. The hordes
:24:51. > :24:56.were acquired jointly between Liverpool and Congleton museums. One
:24:57. > :25:00.consists of coins but the other includes rings and large brooch is
:25:01. > :25:03.throwing up air and number of possibilities about the owner and
:25:04. > :25:11.how they came to lose their treasure. Plenty for Vanessa to
:25:12. > :25:15.think about. We think they deposited the hordes together in the pot,
:25:16. > :25:21.there are fragments of pottery found with it as well, which was made in
:25:22. > :25:25.near Warrington, so it is all quite local. It could be somebody burying
:25:26. > :25:31.their wealth to come back and get it later, maybe they never got the
:25:32. > :25:34.chance. Or burying it in a hurry, maybe in a panic. We just really
:25:35. > :25:41.don't know the answer to those questions. We have this gorgeous
:25:42. > :25:46.finger ring here, all Roman objects. There were two Silver rings in the
:25:47. > :25:50.ward. That is amazing, isn't it, it is almost really modern, like what
:25:51. > :25:58.people are wearing today. Is that a flower? It is a flower and hound, --
:25:59. > :26:05.flower. In the Knutsford horde we have two of these big chunky coins,
:26:06. > :26:12.and all the others are silver denarii, used as the stoppers in a
:26:13. > :26:17.vessel. You might go back in and put your silver coins in the bottom and
:26:18. > :26:25.use that in the top of the vessel. We can't find that to be the truth
:26:26. > :26:30.because the flower smashed the pots. Both hordes were found by metal
:26:31. > :26:35.detectorist in fields close to the Welsh border, and also on the
:26:36. > :26:39.outskirts of Knutsford close to where we are now. The man who
:26:40. > :26:43.discovered the Knutsford horde is Alan Bates. I had been detecting
:26:44. > :26:47.about one hour or so and found a silver coin. I knew it was Roman, I
:26:48. > :26:55.carried on detecting for another half an hour. I found what turned
:26:56. > :27:02.out to be the bottom end of a Roman silver coin. On Wednesday evening,
:27:03. > :27:08.for about an hour, in that our found another seven Roman coins. That's
:27:09. > :27:12.when it hit me to think that I had really sort of hit the jackpot. Not
:27:13. > :27:17.hit it in monetary terms but I have come across something really
:27:18. > :27:21.special. Island's find qualified as treasure trove so he had to follow
:27:22. > :27:30.correct procedures. He collects contacted Vanessa and the
:27:31. > :27:36.University, who came up to verify the horde. It was then valued at
:27:37. > :27:40.just under ?4000 by the British Museum. Alan and the land loaned
:27:41. > :27:47.split the proceeds. I am not in it for the money anyway. It is social
:27:48. > :27:51.as well. I have stuff to look at. In the future. Of course, I couldn't
:27:52. > :28:13.resist the opportunity. Here is a buckle, are maybe from the
:28:14. > :28:16.1900s. This is my first find and I am incredibly excited because I
:28:17. > :28:25.didn't expect to find anything but a ring pull. I definitely have the
:28:26. > :28:29.bug. So we do it again? Yes. The Cheshire hordes can be seen at the
:28:30. > :28:33.Museum of Liverpool from February 13. That is all from this week. We
:28:34. > :28:43.are back next Monday. Until then, goodbye. Next week, with daily
:28:44. > :28:46.gridlock for commuters, what is going well with our transport
:28:47. > :28:49.system? I have never known in my 34 years the traffic being so bad.
:28:50. > :28:53.Sometimes it is unbearable.