31/10/2011 Inside Out South East

Spanish homes. You've got that nagging thing in

the background all the time - are they going to knock it down, is

that damn bulldozer going to come over the hill tomorrow? You just

don't know. We delve into the world of

subatomic particles. You really can't exaggerate the

unbelievable smallness of these teeny-tiny things. But what makes

them even more unbelievable is the way they behave.

And the tourist attraction with a difference.

Most folk are surprised, to be honest, at what these people can

achieve. Yes, they take training, yes, they take a little bit longer

than able-bodied people do - but they can still achieve exactly the

same as anybody else. I'm Natalie Graham, with untold

stories closer to home. From all round Kent and Sussex, this is

Hello. Tonight I'm in our historic and ever-popular city of Canterbury.

First up, here's Jon Cuthill. Imagine selling up in the South

lock stock and barrel and splashing out on that dream villa in Spain.

Only to be told it could be demolished at any time.

After living and working all their lives in Worthing, John and

Christine sold their bungalow and ploughed everything into buying

this home. It had been their lifelong dream. Nice cars,

beautiful beaches, everything you could win -- want. When you retire.

You would think this is the dream. Does it feel like a home knowing

what is happening all the you? think it does, it is still home to

me, but they could take it away from us. They are the regional

Government of Andalucia, who have branded their house and

neighbouring properties illegal. Ignoring the fact that the local

council has approved all the buildings and issued the owners

with legal permits. We should be under this level of stress at a

stage in life through no fault of our own. People of our age start

getting injuries, and under the stress it does not help. John and

Christine want to move back to Sussex. They now have grandchildren

there and since the move Christine has been diagnosed with cancer. But

she and John cannot go anywhere. have lost it all really, because

this house is worth nothing. No one would buy it from us, and thanks to

the politician's former, that is whose fault it is. If you had any

doubts about the scale of the problem it is not just one or two.

In this valley alone there are 12,697 properties that have been

deemed to be illegal. And indoor hall of Andalusia, the regional

Government has overturned local planning permission so many times

that a staggering 300,000 homes could be turned to rubble.

If you think the junta will not carry out its threats, think again.

High, then, nice to meet you. High, Helen. This was a Spanish villa.

All that's left are the foundations and the poor, and that is where you

are living now, forced to live in the garage?

After five years of sun and sea and lounging by the poor, one morning

with 20 minutes warning, the Andalucian bulldozers arrived at

his villa. This was like a little porch, and then just here was the

little front door. And then you walk through into the hallway.

were amazed that they actually scraped all the tiles off. They

took them off the floor? They were that determined? So they left you

with absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.

The prices have stayed put, due to the bizarre planning rules the

garage was deemed illegal and was left untouched. They have lived

there ever since, adding a shipping container extension and a novel en

suite. You are actually standing in the

van, which was a caravanette which I converted. Into a bathroom.

living in a garage, and washing in a van. That is your life. That is

it. Happy days! Helen and then have good reason to

feel particularly singled out. By these houses having problems as

well? Or just your house? Just this one here. I think they pick on a

house that was 100% legal, just to say, if we can knock this one down,

we can knock anybody's down. They want to enforce, and I mean

force, their will upon the local councils, who have always in the

past had the right to issue building licences.

So the dreams of a life in Spain for thousands of Brits are left

literally in ruins. Welcome to my house in Spain, moved

here seven years ago to this. Not a brick has been made since.

The Browns sold their 300,000 pound Hampshire home to come here. Now

they are stuck, unable to move in, unable to return.

And this is through no fault of your own. We bought it in good

faith, solicitors, architects, signing off every little bit of

concrete they put in. Just to be stopped.

Give think he would ever see your money out of this place, or do you

have to... We have been told, no. Some who have habitable homes are

not allowed mains water or electricity because the houses have

yet again retrospectively been deemed illegal. You are the living

of generators, and leisure batteries, but you have already

paid to be connected to the grid. Yes, 13 of us paid 120,000 euros

between us to get the infrastructure put in. The junta

agreed we could do it, and when we got it done at they turned around

and said, you cannot have it put up because you are illegal.

To make matters worse the Spanish Government has launched a UK wide

campaign to get more Brits to move to Spain and boost the flagging

economy. To have somebody from the Government of the bare promoting

house sales, no way! It should not have even been allowed. It is a

case of give me your money, and that is all the authorities here

want you to do. An air of limbo hangs over the whole area, as the

Andalucian junta sticks to its guns and court actions fail to make

headway. Every month, hundreds of Brits,

many facing demolition orders, gather to discuss tactics. The

bottom line, the Andalucian Government is not budging and the

clock is ticking. They gave us permission, we built a

house, then they tell us we are wrong. They are not wrong, we are

wrong. People back in the UK do not realise the full scale of the

problems. It is horrendous. We have done everything they have given as

paperwork to do, and then they say we should not have done it. I don't

know. It is all our lives money. even if we can find a solution, the

length of time it can take, especially those with court cases,

because the Spanish judicial system is very slow, many people may well

not see a solution in their lifetime.

Time to ask some tough questions about what the Spanish Government

is doing to sort out the unbending line being taken by the junta. We

explained our findings to the ambassador. The's ascent will

Government has no competence on this because the competence and

depart on this issue is default, but the Government is putting

pressure on regional governments and on local authorities, to have a

look at those problems, to try and see how we can help the affected

families. Could you have an amnesty, could

you draw the line? If you are talking of councils which were --

houses which were built by the permission of the town hall and

then they are deemed not legal by the local authorities, in those

cases I hope they should be a solution.

The ambassador's response is not one our Brits want to hear.

Frustrated and trapped abroad with no road home back to the south.

know of quite a few people who have come back, and they have gone back

with pockets empty, and they have had to throw themselves on the

mercy of the council, to turn round and say, I am homeless. Give us a

flat. I wish we had never bought. If you want to come to Spain, vent!

Goodbye! For God's sake, do not buy. -- rent.

Jon Cuthill reporting there. Coming up later:

We didn't like the idea of people feeling that they should be shut

away, why should they? They've got a right to live, they've got a

right to have a life. And that's what we were trying to give them.

And now, here's Kaddy, delving into the world of the very, very, very,

very small. Here in the South East, we're on

the verge of something really big in the world of the incredibly

small. A revolution in technology that will change our lives. Dr

Winfried Hensinger of the University of Sussex is a leading

expert in the field of quantum mechanics. The study of the

peculiar behaviour of atoms. He's developing technology so

powerful it could make even the fastest supercomputers today look

like primitive Stone Age tools. But before we take a good look at it,

we need to know exactly what we're talking about. So let's start in

Canterbury, another place with a big role to play in the tiny

technology revolution. Look at this full stop. It takes 10

million atoms laid side by side to form the width of this tiny dot. So

atoms are truly tiny. Until you compare them to subatomic particles.

If Canterbury Cathedral were the size of an atom, the subatomic

particles that give it its quirky power would be the size of a moth.

So atoms are mostly nothing at all. In fact, if you squeezed out all

the gaps in all our atoms, the world's entire population of 7

billion people would fit into a space the size of a sugar cube.

So, you really can't exaggerate the unbelievable smallness of these

teeny tiny things, but what makes them even more unbelievable is the

way they behave. Individual atoms can teleport. And

subatomic particles can go forwards and backwards simultaneously. And

they know when they're being watched.

Not only that, but they can also be in two different places at the same

time. The equivalent of me being in

Canterbury, and back in Sussex, simultaneously.

So how do we know this? How do we know, for example, that tiny

particles, like electrons, know they're being watched? Well,

pretend that these paintballs are electrons. If we fire them through

two slits and watch what happens, we get two stripes of electrons on

the other side, as you'd expect. But if you do the same thing again,

and don't watch them fly through, they do something else.

Now, if you wouldn't look, everything would be different, you

would see more than just these two lines. You would see multiple lines

that would be an interference pattern of each electron having

gone through both slits simultaneously. So one electron

going through both slits at the same time, and then interfering

with itself to produce an interference pattern, and this

interference pattern would consist of multiple stripes like this. But

not only two, but a whole number of different stripes.

Yep - I don't get it either. But I'm in good company. Even Einstein

couldn't explain it. But back in Canterbury, some of our brightest

young physicists are doing their best to get to grips with all

things quantum. They are Simon Langton Grammar School. And they're

going to show me the wonders of the subatomic universe, and why quantum

mechanics is the next big thing. Dr Becky Parker teaches quantum

theory to teenagers. She says the fact that it doesn't make sense to

us shouldn't put us off, because it's actually brilliant.

It's the best theory we've ever had, it explains everything with such

incredible accuracy, that it's correct in that sense, but we find

it really tricky to get our heads round because really it doesn't fit

with what our normal perception of what reality out there is. It sort

of involves us far more in a weird way, as though we're somehow part

of making measurements. And so it's really our lack of language and

ability to understand what it's telling us, I think, is the trouble.

One of the most troubling quantum theories is the idea of parallel

universes. Year 13 student Alix Fell has agreed to explain this one

to me, with a thought experiment called Schrodinger's Cat - using a

briefcase, a cat, and a laser gun that will be triggered by the spin

on an electron. If this electron has an upspin,

then it's going to set off the gun and kill the cat. If the electron

has a downspin, it's not going to set off the gun and the cat will be

alive when we open the box. The cat has a 50/50 chance of

survival. But since the electron's spin is only confirmed when it's

watched by an intelligent being, the cat's condition isn't definite

until we open the box and look. Till then, the cat is, in theory,

dead AND alive. Meow! It's alive. What does that

mean? That means the electron was in the

downspin state, so the gun didn't go off.

It's dead. If the cat was dead, which could

happen in another world, if we had a parallel universe with a

different outcome, then we would assume that the electron had been

in the upspin state, and the gun had gone off and killed the cat.

Do you really get this? Sort of!

The fact is nobody really understands how and why atoms know

they're being watched. But that's not stopping the pupils here from

watching them. Using technology from the Large Hadron Collider at

CERN, they've even developed a device that can detect the

radiation they give off in the vast empty reaches of space - or from a

banana. So the particles hit the chip, and

their charge is deposited, and that shows up on the screen. The chip's

connected to the computer and it shows up on the screen as these

tracks that you can see. From early next year this device

will be orbiting the earth on a satellite. And, spurred on by the

school's idea, NASA is going to put similar particle detecting

technology on the International Space Station. But what practical

use does the study of the smallest of the small actually have for us

down here on earth? If we didn't understand the whole

physics of quantum mechanics we wouldn't have the technology we've

got with our mobile phones, with GPS, with accurate timing. Things

like quantum computers, which actually have the capacity to store

masses more data, will gradually come in and take over from the

computers we have. So potentially, it has huge implications for the

technology we use. And that's why Dr Hensinger is

working hard back in Sussex to be the first to develop a large-scale

fully-functioning quantum computer. If this is a quantum computer, is

it like the ZX Spectrum of quantum computers? Probably much less than

that, it's probably an abacus of quantum computing. I don't know

whether you've heard of bits and bytes in classical computers - in

quantum physics and in quantum computing there's the equivalent,

and the equivalent is basically a quantum byte, and a quantum byte

Which of this is the computer?! To cut a long story short, all of

it is. This is �1.5 million worth of lasers and vacuum chambers,

designed to trap and cool a single atom.

Once it is very, very cold, we use laser beams to inscribe information

onto the atom, and so the atom now becomes a bit.

While normal computer bits are either zeros or ones, quantum

computer bits can be both zeros and ones at the same time. Enabling

quantum computers to do things conventional computers could never

ever do. So a quantum computer, even a very

small-scale quantum computer, could solve problems a classical computer

couldn't even solve in a trillion years, it could solve that in a few

milliseconds. And that will happen - IF Dr

Hensinger and his team are successful in taming the strange

and quirky power of atoms. It's still possibly ten years away

for a large scale quantum computer to be built, but even in the

meantime there's going to be very, very exciting things happening with

this technology, and amazing results you'll see in the not so

far future. Of course, in a parallel universe,

another version of Dr Hensinger's probably invented it already. The

great physicist Nils Bohr one said, "anyone who is not shocked by

quantum mechanics has not understood it". But here's the

really shocking thought: if there are parallel universes there must

be multiple versions of me in multiple versions of South East

England, making multiple versions of Inside Out, for multiple

versions of you to watch - again and again and again.

Don't have nightmares! Kaddy Lee-Preston reporting. Now,

the remarkable story of a rare breeds animal centre, with a

It's the summer holidays at the Rare Breeds Centre in Whitchurch,

Kent. And it's packed. This place looks like a typical

tourist attraction, but it is much, much more than that.

Because a be staffed by people who would not get a look-in in the

normal job market. The centre is run by a charity

called the Canterbury Oast Trust, it was set up 26 years ago by

parents of people with learning disabilities.

Do you want to stroke her? Nice and soft. If we handle them all right,

they are all right. We didn't like the idea of people

feeling that they should be shut away, why should they? They have

got a right to live and have a life. And that's what we were trying to

give them. Do you want to matter sauce with

Today, those people -- children are busy adults. They don't just run

the farm, but also the tea shop, the Conference Centre, the nursery,

the nature reserve and the gallery. So this is a real work in the real

world for people really want the chance to do things for themselves.

I'm Ben Hillman, and I am 35 years old.

I consider myself a gentleman, I can be a joker, and are also try

and be fun loving and very caring. You don't think you are coming with

me do you, I am going out pulling the birds! Why would I be dressed

like this? Some people want to be rich, want

to be rock stars, famous for being famous. I don't. I want to own my

own house, have a wife, children, a job, and just be like everybody

else. My name's Cheryl and I and 28. I

work in the tea room, and I work at the Rare Breeds. I do help with

people if they want it, they say, you are a nice lady and I say,

thank you. Cheryl's job but the rare Breeds

starts at 8:30am. Today, she is one of a team of

seven working on the farm. Sometimes I have to bring the

animals in, do some sweeping, picking it up, and at the end of

the day I feel like going to bed when I get in. Davy is the fund

manager. As far as he is concerned this is not just something for the

residents to do to keep them occupied, it is a real job. They

are mucking out, feeding, helping with the care of the animals, so

yes, it is fairly hard graft. do the public react to them. Most

Falk are to some extent surprised at what these people can achieve.

Our residents take training, yes, they take a little bit longer than

able-bodied people, but they can still achieve exactly the same to a

large extent as anybody else. It is amazing how everyone here is

so incredibly enthusiastic about the work they do. And I think, this

is going to sound cliched, but the thing that shines through is how it

is about people's ability is not their disabilities.

Silvio boy in -- Sylvia Boyne's son Russell has been with the trust

from the start. At the time Sylvia could not see a future for this --

for her son, and for the charity's ideas were the way forward. They

were trying to achieve and give them a life that the brothers and

sisters have, to give them dignity and be independent. To have choices.

But letting her son become independent was not easy for.

went to a fund-raising event at the farm and somebody came up behind me

and they were obviously look -- watching my actions to see what he

was doing. And they put my hand -- the hand on my shoulder and said,

you have got to let go. It made as open up and think, we have got to

let go, he has a right to lead his life. And it is just from there, he

has just done so well. And there are so many of them like that,

being the opportunity to be themselves and not have mum and dad

and everybody trying to protect them.

Since Russell joined the charity the number of opportunities for the

residents to work has grown. The trust now owns Poulton Wood nature

reserve near Ashford. Ben works here one day a week

learning woodland management and coppicing.

It is a place where we can come to learn about conservation and nature,

woodland crafts, we also sell firewood and make things. Aids and

repair things. Do all kinds of things. It just seems a very

natural and very lovely place to be in. Ben doesn't get paid for his

work and so jobs the residents do are classed as work experience.

It would be great to see more of these guys in paid employment,

because they have got such a lot to offer. And I think it would be a

real eye-opener to people out there to get to meet these guys, and to

realise, like everybody else, they are all different, they all have

huge amounts to offer, they who are just great people to be a round.

Come on, let's go and pick apples... The idea of the work placements is

to provide the best dance with qualifications to enable them to

apply for full-time paid jobs. That is easier said than done. Mencap,

the leading charity for those with learning disabilities, says the

biggest barrier is prejudice. want to see people given an

opportunity to do real jobs in world -- real work places. To

change the attitude of employers, they must not be prejudiced, they

must fulfil their responsibilities under disability equality laws. The

role of Government is to make sure its support -- their support

systems to get people off benefits into work, actually work for people

with a learning disability. Let us change that. We have made virtually

no progress over the last ten, 11 years - let us make real progress

over the next ten years. The skills ben has learned at the

Canterbury Oast Trust has have given him the confidence to take on

voluntary work. Now, for one day our work, he is a railway man at

the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

When I get ready and put my uniform on, it is great because I feel that,

you know, yes, I still have got this disability, and please God, I

wish I could get rid of it some days, but when I go to work I can,

it is almost like I can... Not get rid of it but put it aside and just

be one of the lads. Cheryl's had a busy week two. Like

many girls her age, or she wants to do now is go out and enjoy herself.

So she has come to the disco in Ashford with her new boyfriend Nick.

We are realising that the youngsters have got an opportunity,

and they are taking it and they work hard. They enjoy everything

they do and they put their haul heart into it. The happiness you

see on their faces, what they achieve, what they would never have

been able to achieve if they were at home with the likes of their

parents. We just feel that it is a fairy-tale come true, really.

If you want more information about tonight's show you can go to our

Kent or Sussex website. You can watch the whole show again on the

iPlayer. Coming up next week. The closure of five sir. A special

report on the future of jobs in East Kent.

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some of that countryside to provide lots of industrial premises, to

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the new hospital at Pembury outside Tunbridge Wells... And we look at