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Hello and welcome to Inside Out. This week, we report on why women

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for the Isle of Man are leaving the island to have abortions.

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Unfortunately it is not funded by the NHS and they have to finance the

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procedure themselves. We discover how sport is helping

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those who are blind or losing their sight. Before this I was isolated

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and didn't know what to do, so coming along here has been an

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opportunity to both play competitive sport and both socialise.

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And we meet artist Stan Chow, who's gone from drawing on chip paper to

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drawing Donald Trump for the cover of the New York Times. I struggled

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with him a bit. I think I finally got him!

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Terminating a pregnancy can be one of the most difficult decisions any

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But on the Isle of Man, current law prevents abortion

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Tomorrow that could all change with a new proposal which would

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transform the law for the first time in 20 years.

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The Isle of Man is situated 80 miles off the Lancashire coast,

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and although separate from the UK with its own Parliament,

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the laws that govern the island are almost exactly the same.

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They do, however, differ on a very divisive issue - abortion.

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Abortion is legal in Great Britain up to 24 weeks, under

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The Isle of Man's Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1995 legalised

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abortion but only under strict criteria, where the pregnancy risks

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causing grave permanent injury to the woman's physical

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This has meant that the official number of abortions on the Isle

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of Man is usually around ten per year.

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Since April last year, a group of Manx women have been

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fighting for their right to choose to terminate unwanted pregnancies.

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The Campaign for Abortion Law Modernisation, or Calm,

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want to bring Manx law more in line with Great Britain.

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Well, we're aware that 479 women in the last five years have

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travelled across to the UK, so that's around about 98 women

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a year who are travelling, and those are just the ones

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In the UK, the vast majority of terminations, 80%,

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are performed at under ten weeks, which involves taking two

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sets of tablets under the supervision of a doctor.

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Any woman living on the Isle of Man wishing to abort a pregnancy

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would either have to travel to Britain, or some women have been

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ordering the same tablets online and having a miscarriage at home

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And the fact that people can go to their doctors and ask,

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"Can I have an abortion?", and they're told, "We can't help

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you", so they're left to their own devices,

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they're left to google, to find out what their options are.

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Anyone found guilty of aborting a child on the island could face

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We hear from people who have taken abortion tablets at home

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with no medical support, who are then scared and frightened,

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They can't go to A because they're terrified that they're going to get

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in trouble and that they're going to be put in prison.

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Just before the Manx election in September,

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another group of campaigners formed a group called Humanity and Equality

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They say they represent the life of the unborn child.

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The reason I'm passionate about the abortion issue is for three reasons.

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Human beings have the right to life and an unborn child is a human

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being and should be given that right and needs to be spoken for.

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He treated people with mental difficulties that arose

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from past abortions, and thirdly, I've had a career

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as a GP and looked after many pregnant women and many unexpected

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pregnancies that became a real blessing.

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The thing is, though, we've got to balance the right

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of the woman to life and health and the right of the baby to life

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and health, and in my view you cannot say that the baby is not

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Both campaigns were very vocal in the run-up to the Manx elections

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in September and are hoping to influence the new Health and

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But she says the Government is very clear on this issue.

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We don't have a position going one way or another with regard

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We're going to review it to see if it needs updating.

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But obviously it's too early to say which way that's going to go.

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The law here is very different to the UK.

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Presumably there wasn't an appetite for it.

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You've got two groups that both say different things.

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Maybe that's why it hasn't changed, as there are two opposing forces.

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We are at the beginning of the process, looking at it

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and seeing if there's an appetite for change.

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Currently, Manx citizens can travel to the UK for health care that can't

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be provided on the island, such as cancer treatment,

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neurological surgery and even complicated antenatal care.

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The NHS on the Isle of Man foots the bill, including

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Abortion is one of the few exceptions.

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This has led to many women going away, travelling

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One of the organisations that deals with them is BPAS.

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BPAS is a not-for-profit reproductive charity.

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It sees 70,000 women funded by NHS clinic across the UK.

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We provide pregnancy advice, contraception, abortion care.

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Women from the Isle of Man are able to receive treatment but it's not

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funded by the NHS and they have to finance it themselves.

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We know women in areas are unable to get access

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The medication is safe but it's illegal and they

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Does it concern you that women who can't afford to travel are maybe

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That is a concern and that's something we're working with the UK

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authorities and the Customs Excise to bring in line quickly,

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It's also a criminal offence if those tablets

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Technically, I suppose, but it's hardly likely.

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The medical professionals over here say it's not illegal

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But it could be put to the test as early as tomorrow morning.

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Dr Alex Allinson, a former GP and new member of the House of Keys,

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hopes raising the issue tomorrow will result in a change in the law.

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This is an incredibly vibrant place to live.

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We are groundbreaking in terms of civil partnerships and we've got

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an Equality Bill coming through, so why shouldn't we look

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at the abortion law as well and make sure it's up-to-date for the women

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Until then, women will continue to make the journey across the sea.

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But as they aren't entitled to NHS care, most will have to pay.

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Her organisation is many women's last resort.

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They provide financial assistance to those

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Between having a child and not having one.

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The money for the procedure, travel, all the costs, it adds up.

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?400 to ?2,000, which is not something that everybody has.

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For most of us, we come to it with this idea of, I'm a parent and this

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is a big deal, and you want to give that job to somebody who wants that

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job and not as a punishment for a job and not as a punishment for a

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broken condom or a lapse in judgment or being raped.

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Before I contacted you, I was looking for ways to self-abort.

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She thought the shock to her system would cause a miscarriage.

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No, for the child it's life or death.

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For the mother it is not usually a choice of life or death.

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It's a choice of a very difficult situation that

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she's found herself in, and that's an agonising situation,

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and we all have to take responsibility for the agonising

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Those in favour of abortion often suggest the debate centres

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upon when the foetus becomes sufficiently human to

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Opponents believe the foetus is never anything other

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than human from conception, and therefore has a right

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It's a key point in the debate, especially for those

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involved in drafting laws regulating abortion.

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There will be a period of public consultations, but ultimately,

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it's up to the members of the House of Keys to decide whether

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Social isolation can be a major problem for people who are blind or

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partially sighted. But in Lancashire, sport is playing a

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surprising role in helping young people who are born without vision

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or are losing their sight. Simon O'Brien investigates.

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Take a careful look. This is no ordinary game of cricket. Which is

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just as well! Because these are no ordinary players. All of the people

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playing are blind or partially sighted. Yeah, I know. How do they

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do that? Good question. And who better to answer it than the club

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founder, who himself is partially sighted? First of all, this game,

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communication is a massive factor. In this game. If you have limited

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sight, audibility is a big part. The ball is going to bounce twice, so

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that blind or low sighted player who comes into that classification has

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an opportunity to hear the ball on bounce, second bounce, so they have

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an opportunity to play. You can feel quite isolated at times so this is a

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way of getting like minds together. When they first come, some are quite

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reserved and they try to do other sports and don't do as well, but

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coming with those first steps in breaking the ice and having a sense

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of belonging, somebody belonging to a club that they can relate to, it's

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grown so much and the members have grown so much in confidence and

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become their own people. And, as you can see, they are pretty good at it!

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Last year, the Lancashire cup in Lions finished second in the blind

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league for the second year in a row and made it to the blind sports

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final. The team is mixed. Male and female. It's made up of all ages,

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from 11 to 64. Saleem has been playing for two seasons for them and

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is now training the England blind is now training the England blind

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development squad. Keen cricket player? I actually don't like

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cricket! Funnily enough! How come you got involved with the Lions,

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then? Is because I'm eager to get involved in competitive sport.

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didn't know what to do, so coming didn't know what to do, so coming

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along here gives me an opportunity to play competitive sport, but apart

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from that, is the opportunity to meet new people. He and his younger

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sister Nadia were born with a genetic site condition. It

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degenerative, causing them to lose degenerative, causing them to lose

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Van Gogh has any sight in his left Van Gogh has any sight in his left

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eye and only limited vision in his right. -- he no longer has any

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sight. A lot of people with people have tunnel vision as well as night

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blindness, and does the condition gets worse, their central vision

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starts to go and leaves you totally blind. I had to deal with things,

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OK, my site is going, and it's a question of accepting it or falling

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it into, I guess, depression. -- my sight. I didn't have role models but

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claim to know what would happen so I had to bite the bullet, live my life

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and, you know, I lived by this motto that I might be blind but I have a

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vision, and if I can just carry on living my life, inspiring people.

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Which is what he does. As well as being an excellent cricketer and

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all-round sportsman, he is a very good musician. And he writes his own

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blog, the aptly named Blind Journalist. I think my blog played a

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big impact, because again, it was a platform for me to portray the work

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I've done, and now I'm currently working at BBC radio Manchester. I

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want to work at Northwest tonight. It's a scheme where you get to work

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all over the BBC and become a multi-platform journalist. Sport

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plays a big role in all of the lives plays a big role in all of the lives

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of the men here, but nowhere more so than in the lives -- the life of

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Amelia. I got a phone call saying, would you like to come and play for

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us? And I was over the moon because I just couldn't wait to go and play

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for cricket, because I had never been able to play cricket because I

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would just miss every shot when the ball came. But I was actually

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managing to hit the ball doing it this way and it gave me a good

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feeling. I like the cricket itself. But I also like the people and

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playing with because they are so nice and so supportive of you.

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Amelia's mum and dad believed playing sport has helped her

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confidence. She loves it. She's a different child when she is doing

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it. She gets such a buzz from it, doesn't she? She does. I couldn't

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really imagine her... How she would be if she didn't have it. And

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actually feels that she can play the game very well with other people who

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are visually impaired, whereas I think before she thought, I'm not

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properly. And it's changed around properly. And it's changed around

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that she's thinking, I can be, I can do well. And she doesn't just stop

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at cricket. At his school -- her school, Amelia joined in with all

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the other children. Apart from Amelia, every other girl can see

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perfectly well and you probably couldn't tell the difference with

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her being there. She's as able as anybody else. If you really try then

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you can go far. So... Like me. I want to be in the Paralympics. So

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that's where I'm going to want to get. Now, listen, I've been watching

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you play. I'm no good at cricket at the best of times and I'll have a go

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in it. Give me some advice, some tips. Just listen carefully and try

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to hit the ball! Thanks for that(!) When you hit the ball, try to see if

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there's spaces between any of the players fielding. OK, all right. But

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how can I do that? Because I'll be blindfolded. You can ask them to

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give you a clap. OK, so before I have a go, I get everyone to clap

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and so I know where they are. Thanks for that. Top piece of advice. I

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actually find this whole experience utterly humbling. Completely

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uplifting. But at the same time, quite distressing, because about

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three years ago, I had a freak accident and after a

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desperate operations, the eyesight desperate operations, the eyesight

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in my left eye deteriorated until in the end it's just nothing, so if I

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close my right eye, I am in their world. I can see nothing at all. But

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to see these guys, and I thought I to see these guys, and I thought I

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went for a bad time, to see these guys being so positive, what an

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amazing group of people. Well, I guess it's my turn now, isn't it? As

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I say, I'll have to close one eye and put the blindfold on. And

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humiliate myself! Here I go! Collide have a clap just in case I do find a

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gap? Can we have some clapping? OK, yeah. That didn't help at all!

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Thanks very much(!) OK... Ha-ha! Right, I give up! Thanks! Brilliant,

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that! Cheers. Brilliant. Honestly, I was never any good at cricket anyway

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and I can tell you that is just simply impossible! How they play

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that game is beyond me. Amazing. Amazing testimony to the skill

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involved there. Incredible. I don't think they're going to call me next

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week! It's the Chinese Year

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of the Rooster, and if you've been out and about in recent weeks,

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you'll have seen the posters They were designed by the Manchester

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illustrator Stan Chow, whose work is in demand

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across the globe. Stan Chow is famed for his

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distinctive two-dimensional illustrations which grace walls

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and magazine covers Closer to home, they're featured

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on Manchester's Metrolink network and promote

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the Chinese New Year celebrations. When I'm going round Manchester

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with my kids and they spot my work, they're like, "Daddy,

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did you do that?" and I say, "Yeah, I did,"

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and there's work that I did that they will just recognise cos

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it's my style. I'm thrilled to be doing

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the Chinese New Year stuff and thrilled to be doing

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stuff for Manchester. Stan is first-generation

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British Chinese. His parents came over from Hong Kong

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to work in the catering trade. My dad came over to England

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in the late '50s and worked in a restaurant in Halifax,

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and then moved to Alderley Edge I'd be sat in the back with the chip

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paper in the back and I'd I don't remember having any toys cos

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we weren't that well-off. So basically my toy

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was just drawing pictures. When I was growing up, I was

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the only Chinese boy in the town. In the suburbs it was

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hard being Chinese. I was subjected to

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certain types of racism. There were four or five kids

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who would do the slanty-eyed stuff and there was kind of you just

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accepted it, to a certain degree. And I used to go to school

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with my packed lunch and my mum would give me my lunch in a Chinese

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supermarket carrier bag, and that used to freak me out loads

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cos I don't want to be Chinese, I want to be English,

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cos everyone else is English, and that's pretty much how I felt

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during my school years. But Stan is now fiercely proud

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of his Chinese heritage and his childhood memories

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are the inspiration for an exhibition of his work

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at Manchester's Centre For Chinese My favourite one, I would say,

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is the fried dace one. It's basically cans of fried

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fish, and that was my I've hash-tagged it "food

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of the gods", and I used to eat that a lot when I was a child,

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so I thought that was I've done me as a banana, cos

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basically, when I was growing up, when I met other Chinese friends

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or going back to Hong Kong they'll always describe me as a banana boy ?

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white on the inside and yellow I see myself as more

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English than Chinese, so they have a case in calling me

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a banana boy, really! You know, and when it comes

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to football or sport, even though it's important,

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it's secondary and I see myself Stan's distinctive 2D style evolved

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after he'd finished art college. His dad, with an eye to the future,

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bought him a computer, and swapping his pencil for mouse,

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Stan learnt to draw digitally. Much of his work is of sports stars,

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inspired by the Panini Collecting football

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stickers was my life blood. And when I started to

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do my illustrations, I just wanted to portray that

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simplicity of the head shot, and at the time,

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when I started doing my style, no-one was really illustrating

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like that, so I guess I kind of made them my own,

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really, to kind of Hotel Football have got all my work

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in there in their space and it's great that Gary Neville

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and his mates like my stuff enough But Stan's big break came

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from an unusual source. American band The White Stripes

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spotted a bootleg poster Stan had designed for one of their gigs

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and got in touch. which were loaded with the album on,

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and these got nominated for Best Packaging in the 2008

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Grammy Awards, and that was it - Stan had broken into the American

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market and was soon illustrating for the prestigious

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New Yorker magazine. All the best artists tend to end

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up in the New Yorker, and when you're growing up looking

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through illustration annuals, all your favourite artists seem

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to work for the New Yorker. And that's something that I felt

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like I should strive for. And then actually being in it,

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I was like, "Woah! And then from being in

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the New Yorker, I ended up being in Time magazine

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and the New York Times and the Wall St Journal

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and stuff like that, so just from this bootleg poster

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for The White Stripes, it's opened up a whole new door

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for me, a whole new world. Stan landed his most

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prestigious commission yet - the front page of the New York Times

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- with his illustration of Donald Trump, at the height

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of the Presidential campaign. We had this idea for Donald Trump

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on a hot air balloon. The thing about Donald Trump

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is that he's got a very kind of chameleon face,

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you know, and for me, I struggled with him a bit

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but I think I finally got him. You look at a picture

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of Donald Trump and he seems to look And the way I illustrate things,

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I make them as expressionless as possible, so I'm trying to cut

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out all the expression, and I finally got there

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but he was tricky to do. Stan sells his prints all over

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the world and believes art should I don't want to limit it to rich

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people who can only have their art. It means the student who's a fan

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of my work can buy a print cheaply. ?20 is pretty reasonably

:27:14.:27:19.

priced, if you ask me. From chip paper to the New York

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Times, Stan has come a long way and sees himself not just as a role

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model for Chinese kids In terms of Chinese role models,

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all I had was Bruce Lee. It wasn't just Chinese

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guys who liked him - everyone liked him, and I think

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that was really important. That he crossed over

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from being Chinese and then actually being a success among the Western

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white world is fantastic, and that's something that there's

:27:50.:27:55.

probably not enough of in society now, so if I'm a role model

:27:56.:28:02.

for anyone, then that's great. I am sure we'll be seeing a lot more

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of his work. That's all from us for this week. See you next week.

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Goodbye. Have you got cannabis in there by

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any chance? Next week, we investigate the growing number of

:28:42.:28:43.

people driving under the influence of drugs. They could potentially go

:28:44.:28:48.

to prison. They'll lose their job, their license and they just don't

:28:49.:28:51.

think about this before they go out on the road.

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