18/01/2016 Inside Out North West

Hello, and welcome to a new series of Inside Out North West with me,

Tonight, we reveal why we've not seen the last of extreme storms,

To median Ted Robbins returns to the stage where he nearly died

performing in Phoenix nights. It was opening night, our opening night and

almost my closing one. On the anniversary of the first goal for,

we ask why better and have feel like they have been forgotten. We want

appreciating, recognitions for what we have done. And how a very British

hobby is being used to preserve Roman heritage for the nation. We

found another seven silver coins, and that is when we really hit me, I

think I have really hit the jackpot. Is it a case of New Year new you?

This place has the highest rate of death from coronary heart attack in

England. Actor and comedian Ted Robbins and almost came a addition

to that statistic when he's suffered a cardiac arrest in Phoenix nights.

No special report for inside out, Des looks back at the night that

nearly changes light. Giving Sunday special on easy radio Lancashire,

Ted Robbins! So, an extra bulletin for you, over to the newsroom and my

quest. Thanks Teddie yell at get the latest on what's happening out

there. But everyone likes working on a Sunday, I love it, I love working

and walking and exercising, going to the gym, eating salad. Well, three

out of four isn't bad. It is great to be alive, but this time last year

I very nearly wasn't. It was hugely reported, much to my surprise, in

the media, television, paper, that I had a very public cardiac arrest. I

very nearly didn't make it. Since then, my life has changed. The

downside is I had to do things like take a load of tablets and pick and

mix a load of them but that is a small price to pay. I still love my

food, I just eat better. I exercise, I go to the gym, I've lost a shed

load of weight, and I'm as busy as I ever was. It is very, very good to

be and after the year I had just had it is good to be anywhere, quite

frankly. As they like to stay on television, I've been on a January

and I would like to take you want one now. I would perhaps let you

know what I have been through and what I have learned on the way.

There is one place to start, I will seek you later, Jim. Yes, the

wonderful Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, where I was hoping to

bump into a few familiar faces. I wasn't disappointed.

Doctor Birch was the first cardiologist to work on me when I

arrived. Doctor Sass tree put my stents in. Doctor Fox fitted me with

my own personal visibility. It is my on-board safety net. And then, of

course the wonderful nurses. Yellow macro you went through an awful lot

and you are very lucky to be here today. Definitely, because there is

a lot of people that go through that and they don't come back from it.

What the team was not only do they put my body back together, but they

looked after my shattered emotions. I think you had a tough time. No one

expect something like this to happen to them, I think we all like to

think that we know the way our life is going to go, and when we are

throwing a curveball, then it is a surprise. I think getting back from

that is not always instantaneous. It is not a surprise that you had some

inner turmoil. There was one person I was especially pleased to see, and

happier that she had a time for a proper chat. You were unfortunately

bring a perfect storm, Ted, problems with your fowls, and your arteries

as well prior to that. And it was what is commonly known as a cardiac

arrest. So, I was very lucky, brought here fairly quickly. Was

that fairly important? Extremely important. It is what we call a

chain of survival, somebody needs to recognise that you are having a

heart attack, someone needs to act on it straightaway which is what you

have done absolutely super CPR, all this is a patient. What can people

do, watching us now to help themselves if they think that their

husband or dad or whoever is having a heart attack. The first thing is

to not ignore symptoms, if you have symptoms you are worried about, when

you get to middle age, particularly in meant if they have symptoms of

chest pains, come and get it seen to. Don't ignore your body. If your

body says signs that aren't quite right, don't ignore it. I didn't

know you had been ill, Ted? You haven't gone on about it, have you?

Joking aside, the people knowing more about coronary care the better.

I am now evangelical about the importance of CPR, culinary Pullman

resuscitation. Just 36% of adults in the north-west are confident of

performing CPR, and only 20% can correctly identify when somebody's

had a cardiac arrest. This is how I'll used to look, but I have lost

three and a half stone in the last months. One reason is that I have

become a regular at my local gym. This is called being on a road to

nowhere. Lots of people are intimidated by

the idea of going to a gym, but they really shouldn't be. If I can do it,

anyone can. Brian, you have been keeping a kindly eye on me for a

while now, how am I doing question my honourable gentleman you are

doing well, you're looking great, you aren't doing everything you have

been asked to do, you are losing weight. Good man, he knows what he's

talking about! Just for the record, I was a member of the month recently

as well. Thank you! They say that home is where the

heart is and for me that's truer than ever before. Thanks to my

lovely wife Judy, I also have a new approach to food. Most of the things

here are pretty good for your heart, aren't they? I used to be more of a

fish and chips, pie and pint man, I still eat as much, but now it's just

healthier. You are a great cook, but I'm the shift now,... Never trust a

thin chef! I used to have a meal whilst you were preparing yours,.

Sometimes I wasn't that hungry. I also hadn't really appreciated just

how much the cardiac arrest affected the woman I loved. I never really

ask you this but how has it affected you, what has happened to me? It was

a shock. I am quite stoic, as you know, and you can't do anything else

but deal with what the situation is at the time. But yes you lose sleep,

you get worried at night and you worry that I am going to be on my

own. Did you? For a while. Yes, I did. Short lived, once I knew you

were back on your feet, but to be fair I think you have been a great

patient, actually, you haven't been that bad. That is living proof

behind every successful man there is an astonished woman. Day Manchester

Arena. The scene of my heart stopping moment. After all I have

been through, I am finally ready to go back.

Well... This is it. It is the first time I have set foot in this place

since getting on for a year ago, part of the show Phoenix nights

live, for comic relief, it was about here, the stage, I think, and I came

up through the trapdoor, biggest audience of my life and stop it was

their opening night, our opening night. And almost my closing one. It

feels quite something to BA, I tell you that, it really does. Quite

emotional, really. Boy. I came down here, I had to talk

about what we were going to do stop while I was looking around, I bumped

into two people that were there on that fateful night. Tell us what

happened, because it is all a bit of a blur for me? You came up through

the trapdoor and did your bit and we were all busy doing our thing, and

then all I heard on the radio this is not in the show. And there was a

like a gap, there was a bump, you had fallen down. This isn't part of

the show, and then when reality kicked in and it wasn't. When I got

there are two of my team were doing CPR with a help of a doctor from the

crowd. Obviously I do not remember anything of theirs and several

minutes passed and I remember your face and your distinctive beard. I

did have some bystander assistance from a medic in the audience who was

an all doctor there, and yourself and there was a whole team of people

responsible, and you got me back! Thank you ever so much! Thank you

in! Yes, the last 12 months have been

the worst of times but they have also been the best of times, and I

would say to anyone watching this, if you are worried about anything at

all, anything at all, don't let it fester. Go along and get some expert

advice. It is never too late to change a light, go to the gym, eats

healthy grub, go for a walk, enjoy life to the full. You are not ready

to grow just yet! -- go just yet! For details of organisations

offering cardiac advice and support, go online to BBC .co the UK slash

action line. 25 years ago today, British fighter

jets had just started combat missions in the first Gulf War.

Their aim was to drive Saddam Hussein's invading Iraqi forces out

of Kuwait. The conflict was quick and efficient. Six weeks later it

was all over. Now, as former soldier David Lee reports, some of the

veterans of the conflict say they have been all but forgotten. Fire!

In the last three decades or so, Britain's Armed Forces have been

involved in conflict all over the globe. The Falklands, Bosnia,

Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria. Some lasted years but one was

over in just 43 days, with minimal coalition casualties. In early 1991,

the UK military was part of a coalition fighting Iraqi forces who

had invaded neighbouring correct. When British forces went to war in

Iraq, a quarter of a century ago, I was just two years old and remember

nothing of it. But by the age of 17, I too had joined the British Army

and by 21 was serving on the in Afghanistan. As a young army recruit

my days were filled with physical training, dreaded drills, and

training. But the prospect of going to war looms large for my LO trips.

We went on long fast marches with rucksacks filled with git because

that is what with Marines and Paris did. For the golf more, we worked so

bout nuclear and biological and chemical suits and gas masks because

that is what happened a quarter of a century ago in Kuwait. During the

night, hundreds of British and American aircraft have attacked

targets in Iraq and occupied Kuwait. The Americans say the operation has

been very successful. Fighting started on the 17th of January 1991

with air strikes. The ground operation didn't give or over a

month. On February the 24th. Eddie blench from Gateshead found

himself celebrating his 30th birthday in the desert. He had

already seen service in the Falklands and Northern Ireland as a

Army paradigmatic. A lot of people were excited to go, that is what we

have trained for all our career, that is why we joined the forces.

Hopefully to see some excitement, you know what I mean? Within 100

hours of the ground war starting, it was all over. Written had lost 47

servicemen, and the coalition declared Kuwait liberated.

Aggression is defeated, the war is over. People used to say it was well

you were only there a couple of days. But we weren't, we were there

from August till March. That isn't a couple of days to me. Living in the

desert, preparing for that conflict, whether it be chemical or biological

or whatever. Where ever came, we were prepared for it. And our box is

up. This is the first time I've talked about it in about ten years.

May be part of the problem is that the Gulf War is one that was seen as

quick and clean and clinical. Minimal coalition casualties it was

history's first high-tech war. Precision smart bombs and

laser-guided weapons, in the chronology of human conflict it was

over in a heartbeat. Most of my students, even though they did

British history, never heard of the Gulf War, and if you mention Iraq...

This lecturer in contemporary British history believes it is a

forgotten war. We tend to remember wars that have been triumphs in this

country, such as the Falklands or the Second World War, or disasters

such as Suez or Iraq. The First World War of course was both. War is

like the Gulf War which aren't really either tend to slip through

people's consciousness. It was a very short sharp campaign, and as a

conflict it doesn't really stand with some of the other British

deployment in the last 30 years. No matter how brave, for the combatants

the trauma still when steep. Steve Linton from Liverpool served as a

Staff Sergeant. No war is easy. No war is easy on the mind. The effect

stay with you for the rest of your life and it makes you feel slightly

better that certain conflicts are thought or deemed to be more

acceptable to the British public by our political leaders. So some are

remembered, and we have parades. Others are brushed under the carpet.

And I think the first Gulf War is definitely... They have had the

Hoover house, in fact for that. -- Hoover out for that. Many veterans

of the Gulf War believe their health was severely affected by the time in

the desert. The general term became known as Gulf War syndrome. The

Ministry of Defence says it doesn't believe there are illness set is

specific to troops that serve there. Royal Navy veteran Michael Brodie

from Leeds now has multiple sclerosis and he is angry about the

lack of recognition. Nobody has ever said thank you Jimmy. From friends

and family and everything like that. No one has ever said thank you. If

they did, what would it mean to you? It is just appreciation, isn't it? I

think everybody would just want appreciating, recognition for what

they have done. They counted them all out and they counted them all

back. When the Falklands conflict ended in June 1982, it was a turning

point in military history. Since then, Britain has never gone to war

on its own. The Falklands' 25th anniversary saw

recognition on a national scale as the country remembered its forces.

Three years ago, plans were dedicated to the permanent memory of

the Falklands victims. It was a permanent tribute for the people who

gave their lives to the country will stop when organisers asked the

government for funding, they were refused. Instead, ministers said

they would be supporting a new memorial next to London's cenotaph

stop but that would only be for troops killed in later wars in Iraq

and Afghanistan. A lot of people with the first Gulf War thought what

is it really worth, what they did? Because nobody mentions it. They are

picking and choosing. What they want to pay their respects to. Massively

let down, yeah. Massively. We challenge the Ministry of Defence do

explain why government wasn't recognising the 25th anniversary of

the Gulf War and why they couldn't fund a memorial. The MoD told us

they honour all those who serve in the Gulf War, and they said there

will be a memorial service in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in

February. Supporters has no choice but to begin raising money

themselves. Now they have succeeded and with the help of the ?25,000

ovation from Kuwait, the new memorial will be officially opened

next month. As a recruit, one of the things drilled into me was pride.

Pride in myself, pride in my regiment, and pride in my country.

So, as a service personnel, they are very reluctant to speak out or

complain, because that represents failure or weakness. The fact that

they do so now shows just how strongly they feel. If Armed Forces

that and really are heroes, then we should not be abandoning them or

forgetting them. They came, they saw, they conquered.

Yes, the Romans certainly left their mark. Especially here in Chester.

But new evidence has been unearthed which suggests that the influence

spread right across the county. Two were hordes of Roman treasure found

in Cheshire our latest significant archaeological discoverers are the

latest to be discovered by metal detector rests.

Metal detectorist as far as the eye can see. Hoping for something

valuable, or significant. And more than often they do. This was fined

five inches down. Iron Age, two to 3000 years old. Sounds down the

bottom of the hill down there. How old is that? Don't know, just

waiting for it to be dated. And here is the net in a small winter stand,

collecting bidets finds stop working for the Museum of Liverpool, the

main point of contact for Taiwan macro in Manchester and merge aside.

It is really going quite well, a number of fines from all periods,

and about the outreach we are talking to metal detectorist, making

sure they know we are here, and we are coming to the museum. They have

given us a good pitch and of the archaeology of the area, so by

recording them we are going to be able to take that research and look

into it further. So what are some of the more interesting things today?

The earliest is probably this Bronze Age rapier, or dagger, and that is

sort of Middle Bronze Age in date, so quite unusual for the Cheshire

area as well. The cop what Ally -- this copper alloy cawing is a sister

are serious... This coin comes from the Roman period. You would notice

if you lost it, it is quite heavy. It is heavy, isn't it! It is the

most proactive one I have ever done. I've only been doing it for 12

months and I think I am not necessarily getting better but it is

99% luck, and 1% is doing it right. Keeping it close to the ground and

is doing it slowly, taking your time. Today's event is a charity

metal detectorist rally. Each paid a sum to check this land. Everything

found is logged on a national database. The north-west has long

been a fertile area for archaeologists. While Chester has

obviously been the centre of Roman activity, centres like Northwich and

middle which have also produced evidence of Roman settlement and

activity. At the Museum of Liverpool, some of that rich Roman

heritage is on display. One dates to the first century A.D., so the other

to the second, so both are nearly 2000 years old. They tell something

of the wealth of Cheshire in that period. We are always finding new

site, putting further dots on the map, that tell us about the Roman

occupation, and Romano British, native people in that period. These

hordes are important in filling in some of that picture. The hordes

were acquired jointly between Liverpool and Congleton museums. One

consists of coins but the other includes rings and large brooch is

throwing up air and number of possibilities about the owner and

how they came to lose their treasure. Plenty for Vanessa to

think about. We think they deposited the hordes together in the pot,

there are fragments of pottery found with it as well, which was made in

near Warrington, so it is all quite local. It could be somebody burying

their wealth to come back and get it later, maybe they never got the

chance. Or burying it in a hurry, maybe in a panic. We just really

don't know the answer to those questions. We have this gorgeous

finger ring here, all Roman objects. There were two Silver rings in the

ward. That is amazing, isn't it, it is almost really modern, like what

people are wearing today. Is that a flower? It is a flower and hound, --

flower. In the Knutsford horde we have two of these big chunky coins,

and all the others are silver denarii, used as the stoppers in a

vessel. You might go back in and put your silver coins in the bottom and

use that in the top of the vessel. We can't find that to be the truth

because the flower smashed the pots. Both hordes were found by metal

detectorist in fields close to the Welsh border, and also on the

outskirts of Knutsford close to where we are now. The man who

discovered the Knutsford horde is Alan Bates. I had been detecting

about one hour or so and found a silver coin. I knew it was Roman, I

carried on detecting for another half an hour. I found what turned

out to be the bottom end of a Roman silver coin. On Wednesday evening,

for about an hour, in that our found another seven Roman coins. That's

when it hit me to think that I had really sort of hit the jackpot. Not

hit it in monetary terms but I have come across something really

special. Island's find qualified as treasure trove so he had to follow

correct procedures. He collects contacted Vanessa and the

University, who came up to verify the horde. It was then valued at

just under ?4000 by the British Museum. Alan and the land loaned

split the proceeds. I am not in it for the money anyway. It is social

as well. I have stuff to look at. In the future. Of course, I couldn't

resist the opportunity. Here is a buckle, are maybe from the

1900s. This is my first find and I am incredibly excited because I

didn't expect to find anything but a ring pull. I definitely have the

bug. So we do it again? Yes. The Cheshire hordes can be seen at the

Museum of Liverpool from February 13. That is all from this week. We

are back next Monday. Until then, goodbye. Next week, with daily

gridlock for commuters, what is going well with our transport

system? I have never known in my 34 years the traffic being so bad.

Sometimes it is unbearable.