:00:05. > :00:09.being put at risk in the South East? We've got to make sure that
:00:09. > :00:14.we're preserving the health of our workers at the airport. Men getting
:00:14. > :00:17.eating disorders too, but is enough being done? We felt so lonely and
:00:17. > :00:21.isolated, because we thought we must be the only family in this
:00:21. > :00:27.world that have got a boy with anorexia. My whole life had to be
:00:27. > :00:30.directed around the fact that I couldn't put on weight.
:00:30. > :00:34.building on the green belt - should we be putting up more houses in a
:00:34. > :00:40.picturesque village in Kent? I've been on the parish council for 30
:00:41. > :00:45.odd years, I've never seen anything like this. I'm Natalie Graham with
:00:45. > :00:55.untold stories closer to home. From all around Kent and Sussex, this is
:00:55. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:14.Hello. Tonight I'm in the pretty village of Pendhurst in an area of
:01:14. > :01:24.outstanding natural beauty. We're back here later. But first, it's
:01:24. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:32.Like it or not, here in the South East we've been earmarked for a
:01:32. > :01:35.massive airport expansion programme. Whether it's plans for a brand new
:01:35. > :01:42.airport off the Kent coast, or new runways for either Gatwick or
:01:42. > :01:50.Heathrow. But with all those aircraft movements, there comes a
:01:51. > :01:58.cost - pollution. And sometimes lots of it. And that pollution may
:01:58. > :02:01.be far more dangerous to our health than we could ever have imagined.
:02:01. > :02:06.Back in 2009, Inside Out investigated a new pollution
:02:06. > :02:11.problem in Dover. The dangerous emissions were caused by ultra fine
:02:12. > :02:15.particles. They were being thrown out by ships in the English Channel.
:02:15. > :02:22.Here's the evidence these tiny particles left behind. This is just
:02:22. > :02:26.one seafront flat in Dover. Look at that. Three years ago, scientists
:02:26. > :02:29.could measure ultra fine shipping pollution particles. But when it
:02:29. > :02:35.came to airports, analysing the pollution accurately in such a fast
:02:35. > :02:39.moving environment was proving difficult. Difficult, that is,
:02:39. > :02:46.until now. You see, this little bit of kit here is about to
:02:46. > :02:51.revolutionise how we measure plane pollution at our airports. This is
:02:51. > :02:57.Copenhagen Airport in Denmark. It's the Nordic region's biggest airport
:02:57. > :03:01.and just happens to be pretty much the same size as Gatwick. And for
:03:01. > :03:07.our purposes, that's perfect. Why? Well, Copenhagen Airport has, for
:03:07. > :03:10.the last year, been conducting a controversial survey. Normally
:03:10. > :03:15.airports don't invite journalists in to witness just how bad their
:03:15. > :03:18.pollution levels can get. But at Copenhagen we've been invited to
:03:18. > :03:21.film a team of Danish scientists we worked with on the Dover shipping
:03:21. > :03:30.pollution problem, as they record the ultra fine particle levels,
:03:30. > :03:33.this time from aircraft. Now we can see, we can listen in the
:03:33. > :03:37.background that the engines are starting. This is incredible. We
:03:37. > :03:42.would never go to this, even if we went in the middle of a highway.
:03:42. > :03:48.That would be impossible. The major source of the pollution reading you
:03:48. > :03:51.see is this, an auxiliary power unit, or APU. Used to power
:03:51. > :04:00.aircraft on the ground, APUs kick out very fine levels of ultra fine
:04:00. > :04:03.particles. These particles are very small. They are down in the nano-
:04:03. > :04:07.scale and they go deeply into the lungs. They are deposited in the
:04:07. > :04:12.finest part of the lungs. Then they are transported to the blood, and
:04:12. > :04:21.they move around all our body. just how dangerous are these ultra
:04:21. > :04:25.fine particles and whose health is at risk? The people living close to
:04:25. > :04:28.the airports might have some exposure. But the key issue here is
:04:28. > :04:36.the health concern for the many thousands of people working in the
:04:36. > :04:38.airport all day, for a long period of their life. Last month
:04:38. > :04:44.Copenhagen Airport published the results of its ultra fine particle
:04:44. > :04:47.study. The key finding was that pollution levels were at least
:04:47. > :04:54.three times higher here on the tarmac than at Copenhagen's busiest
:04:54. > :04:59.city centre road. Just after 9.30 in the morning, rush hour here at
:04:59. > :05:02.Copenhagen Airport. And you can smell it - it's hanging in the air.
:05:02. > :05:07.I can feel it at the back of my throat. I, for one, certainly
:05:07. > :05:10.wouldn't want to work here all day, every day with this smell. The
:05:10. > :05:13.reason the Danish government and the scientists are worried about
:05:13. > :05:19.ultra fine particle pollution at airports is simple - evidence is
:05:19. > :05:24.now emerging that it could be killing people. Even the chief
:05:24. > :05:27.operations officer at the airport admits this. Four years ago, two
:05:27. > :05:32.employees in a ground handling company at the this airport was
:05:32. > :05:37.diagnosed with cancer. The civil court told us that one of the
:05:37. > :05:41.reasons was pollution. So we decided that we want to find out
:05:41. > :05:45.what kind of problems we have, and what's the size of the problem, and
:05:45. > :05:52.if there's a problem, can we do anything about it? What are the
:05:52. > :05:58.biggest offenders for fine particle pollution? Three areas. One is jet
:05:59. > :06:01.engines. Number two is APUs, which is power units in the aircraft. And
:06:01. > :06:04.number three is all the different types of equipment, like tractors
:06:05. > :06:14.and so on, used on the ground by ground handling companies and other
:06:15. > :06:18.
:06:18. > :06:22.The flat in the Copenhagen suburb I've come to was supposed to have
:06:22. > :06:32.been a retirement pad. Truth is, it nearly became Birger Kristensen's
:06:32. > :06:35.
:06:35. > :06:45.final home. I got cancer, yes, in the airport. That is the particle
:06:45. > :06:50.
:06:50. > :07:00.from the flying. We call it an APU. Yes, power units. And sometimes
:07:00. > :07:02.they run and we can smell it. Pooh! It's no good. Lucky to be alive,
:07:02. > :07:06.Birger is one of two baggage handlers who've developed bladder
:07:06. > :07:09.cancer. When that cancer was officially attributed to have been
:07:09. > :07:11.most likely caused by years inhaling airport pollution, his
:07:11. > :07:20.story made the newspapers and prompted the airport to measure its
:07:20. > :07:26.fine particle pollution levels. So it was the Danish government that
:07:26. > :07:33.said your cancer was because of airport pollution? Yes. It's the
:07:33. > :07:39.working ministry, can I say? I am fine today. Yes, I am lucky. Very
:07:39. > :07:42.lucky. So, what can be done to protect airport workers? At
:07:42. > :07:48.Copenhagen they've just invested in a new fleet of electric baggage
:07:48. > :07:51.carts to replace the old diesel models. But as far as the baggage
:07:51. > :07:58.handlers are concerned, more needs to be done, especially about the
:07:58. > :08:04.APUs. They know there are too many particles in the air that actually
:08:04. > :08:09.give you cancer. Why they don't do anything better to change that?
:08:09. > :08:12.Copenhagen Airport is without doubt a trail blazer. It's the first
:08:12. > :08:17.airport in the world to admit ultra fine particle levels could be a
:08:17. > :08:22.serious danger to health. Now they want other airports to sit up,
:08:22. > :08:30.listen and learn. For starters, the problem of APU pollution can easily
:08:30. > :08:33.be rectified if pilots stop running the engines once they've parked.
:08:33. > :08:36.There has been interest from London and from UK, not from the airports
:08:37. > :08:45.but from the union, Unite, who is interested and is a kind of partner
:08:45. > :08:47.in this project. We are very happy about that. All baggage handlers
:08:47. > :08:53.and catering staff at Copenhagen have been issued with these warning
:08:53. > :09:00.cards. If a pilot fails to turn off the APU, they'll let him know how
:09:01. > :09:06.unhappy they are. And does it work? Most of them, yeah. Some of them
:09:06. > :09:12.Here in the UK, at Gatwick for example, there are no legal
:09:12. > :09:15.requierments to measure for ultra fine particle levels. We don't know
:09:15. > :09:20.how bad the problem is, or even if it's impacting on airport worker
:09:20. > :09:30.health. Are you surprised that we just don't seem to measure for
:09:30. > :09:31.
:09:31. > :09:34.these particles in the UK? Well, in one way I am, because airports like
:09:34. > :09:41.Gatwick and Heathrow should have followed the debate and made some
:09:41. > :09:46.measurements as we did here in Copenhagen. But on the other hand,
:09:46. > :09:51.there are no limit values. So they are not forced to make these
:09:51. > :09:54.measurements. If they only want to do exactly what they are forced to
:09:54. > :10:01.do by law, you cannot blame them that they don't measure for ultra
:10:01. > :10:04.fine particles. Copenhagen have lead the way and that's commendable.
:10:04. > :10:07.We hope we'll get the same sort of co-operation when we raise this
:10:07. > :10:11.subject with some of the principal aviation experts and the airports
:10:11. > :10:14.across the UK. And I hope they are as co-operative with us in looking
:10:14. > :10:20.at this study, and evaluating the results of it and deciding how we
:10:20. > :10:26.move forward. So, what are the UK's two biggest airports going to do
:10:26. > :10:29.about ultra fine particle pollution? Well, Gatwick's owners
:10:29. > :10:39.went a big camera shy and referred us to their umbrella organisation,
:10:39. > :10:39.
:10:39. > :10:44.the AOA. And as for BAA, the owners of Heathrow, it was the same answer.
:10:44. > :10:48."I'm afraid we can't talk about this one, Glenn. Please talk to our
:10:48. > :10:58.umbrella organisation - yeah, you guessed it." It's these people, the
:10:58. > :11:18.
:11:18. > :11:24.Airport Operators' Association. This year the European Union will
:11:24. > :11:26.fund further research into ultra fine particle pollution at airports.
:11:27. > :11:29.As far as the Danish scientists are concerned, the quicker other
:11:29. > :11:39.airports realise just how dangerous ultra fine particles can be, the
:11:39. > :11:41.better. I hope other airports will stop just hiding, stop saying there
:11:41. > :11:51.isn't a problem and start investigating the problem and
:11:51. > :12:11.
:12:11. > :12:19.Coming up, feelings are running high over a field in Kent. He just
:12:19. > :12:23.stood up and walk off. Is that true and is that any way to behave?
:12:23. > :12:28.did not see any Nazi salutes but people were shock that the way that
:12:28. > :12:33.the council had conducted its business. When was the last time
:12:33. > :12:37.you were shocked by an image of one man who was painfully thin? It
:12:37. > :12:41.seems really worry about women who have eating disorders, but an
:12:41. > :12:47.increasing number of men are suffering, too. Is enough being
:12:47. > :12:56.done to help them? It is Sunday afternoon and John Evans is
:12:56. > :13:00.catching up with his friends. He looks like a fit and healthy
:13:00. > :13:06.thirtysomething but his life was very different one year ago. It was
:13:06. > :13:11.almost over. John is recovering from anorexia. My wife had to be
:13:11. > :13:16.directed around the fact that I could not put on weight, I could
:13:16. > :13:26.not allow myself to do that, that was the only achievement I had,
:13:26. > :13:28.
:13:28. > :13:35.that I was then. -- thin. When you think about eating disorders, you
:13:35. > :13:41.think about young girls, trying to achieve a size zero figure. I worry
:13:41. > :13:44.about my daughter are being under pressure to lose weight, but not my
:13:44. > :13:48.son. But maybe I should. Eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia
:13:48. > :13:51.affect over 1 million people in Britain. There is a false
:13:51. > :13:55.assumption that it is only woman or gay men who develop the illness,
:13:55. > :14:01.but the number of men getting eating disorders are increasing
:14:01. > :14:06.regardless of sexuality. Many claim not enough is being done to help
:14:06. > :14:13.them. John's problems started when he was just eight years old. He was
:14:13. > :14:20.bullied at school and picked on about his weight. I felt I had to
:14:20. > :14:27.change. I thought I had to make up to the expectations of others, for
:14:27. > :14:31.them to stop bullying me, or to accept me, for who I was. When John
:14:31. > :14:36.was at university his eating disorder got worse. Finally, he
:14:36. > :14:43.went to see his doctor. He was dangerously sick. His liver and
:14:43. > :14:47.kidneys were feeling, and he was diagnosed as anorexics. Why are
:14:47. > :14:53.more and more men developing eating disorders? What causes him and to
:14:53. > :14:57.get one and the first place? And why do so many men who have that
:14:57. > :15:01.illness feel let down by the medical profession? Dr William Rhys
:15:02. > :15:11.Jones is a specialist registrar in psychiatry and expert on eating
:15:12. > :15:12.
:15:12. > :15:21.disorders in men. When they picked up on the symptoms, the stigma of
:15:21. > :15:24.having an eating disorder, as a man, is quite phenomenal it is very
:15:24. > :15:29.difficult for men to acknowledge it themselves to the point where they
:15:29. > :15:34.go to a GP, or speak to somebody about it. It is not just the men
:15:34. > :15:39.who suffer, it is their families, too. Jenny from Sevenoaks is the
:15:40. > :15:43.mother of six children. A 12 year old son, Joe, was a training for
:15:43. > :15:47.the school cross-country run, is exercising got out of control and
:15:47. > :15:53.he rapidly lost it. Jenny the something was wrong at to come to
:15:53. > :15:59.the GP. The doctor checked him over and his heart rate was fine, has
:15:59. > :16:05.balls was fine. He gave him a physical examination and said what
:16:05. > :16:12.a lovely six back you have, I think mum has made a fuss. I thought that
:16:12. > :16:17.was a bit interesting. I thought, OK, maybe I am wrong. But, Joe
:16:17. > :16:23.continue to over exercise, and he lost more weight. He was tested for
:16:23. > :16:27.Crohn's disease, cancer and leukaemia, but only when these were
:16:27. > :16:33.role doubt was he diagnosed with acute anorexia. He needed in-
:16:33. > :16:39.patient treatment but there were no beds available. He sat on a so far
:16:39. > :16:43.and his face went green. It was quite emotional. He said I do not
:16:43. > :16:48.feel very well. You could see that he was just disappearing. I took
:16:48. > :16:56.can stick back to the doctors, 100 yards up the road, and he was
:16:56. > :17:01.sitting in the surgery, almost unconscious. And he was put on a
:17:01. > :17:08.drip. He was so confused. His body was basically just shutting down.
:17:08. > :17:12.His heart was stopping. obviously knew as a mother or are
:17:12. > :17:17.based woman to look at for the signs of an anorexic. How much of a
:17:17. > :17:21.surprise was it to identify that in your son rather than your daughter?
:17:21. > :17:26.We could not believe it. We felt lonely and isolated. We felt like
:17:26. > :17:32.the only family in the world who had a boy who was anorexics. You
:17:32. > :17:39.feel ashamed. You feel very ashamed. Joe has now fully recovered from
:17:39. > :17:44.his anorexia and he study sport at university. But, anorexia is not
:17:44. > :17:48.the only eating disorder affecting men. Will Amir, which involves
:17:48. > :17:52.bingeing and PowerGen, is a big problem, to close up some Thomas
:17:52. > :17:58.from Hove got the almost as a result of being bullied at school.
:17:58. > :18:04.By the time he was 18 it had taken over every part of his life. That
:18:04. > :18:09.was causing me all kinds of issues, health wise, socially,
:18:09. > :18:16.relationships, even my career, my work was affected. It consumes
:18:16. > :18:21.absolutely everything. I explained that to the doctor. But still, he
:18:21. > :18:26.said it was depression and he put me on Prozac and said before
:18:27. > :18:31.counselling. But I've realised that it was some kind of injustice that
:18:31. > :18:37.was being addressed. Feeling let down by lack of support, some
:18:37. > :18:42.decided he wanted to help others. From his home, he set up to only
:18:42. > :18:47.national charity to help men with eating disorders. When I set up the
:18:47. > :18:52.project I was almost expecting, I was annoyed that men had been so
:18:52. > :18:57.ignored. But as time has gone on and I have spoken to more men and
:18:57. > :19:02.their carers, I feel like yes, absolutely, I feel there is a sense
:19:02. > :19:07.of achievement but I have done something and it is important that
:19:07. > :19:11.this work continues and it does not get forgotten again. Sam has
:19:11. > :19:18.launched an online petition calling on the Government and medical
:19:18. > :19:22.profession to improve services for men with eating disorders. There is
:19:22. > :19:30.a stigma associated with being a man with an eating disorder. It is
:19:30. > :19:35.a bad cocktail. And it needs to be addressed. More work means to be
:19:35. > :19:41.done. To most people sport and exercise is an important part of
:19:41. > :19:46.their life... Jenny is taking her experience into schools in Kent,
:19:46. > :19:51.persuading teenage boys and girls to talk about body image and self
:19:51. > :19:54.esteem, and hoping to raise their confidence. It is explain how much
:19:54. > :20:04.the media distorts everything and the pressures that celebrities find
:20:04. > :20:05.
:20:05. > :20:08.themselves under, feeding that back likely to be confident in their own
:20:08. > :20:14.bodies, and not aspire to something they cannot achieve. While
:20:14. > :20:18.recovering in hospital, John kept a diary. It has just been published.
:20:18. > :20:23.He hopes that it will persuade men with eating disorders to seek help
:20:23. > :20:28.quickly and not have to come close to death, before realising what
:20:28. > :20:33.their problem is. Thinking there is someone out there like me who might
:20:33. > :20:41.see this book and recognise something in them that I went
:20:41. > :20:48.through, then maybe, maybe they will go to their GP and the wheels
:20:48. > :20:58.will get set in motion much more quickly than it did with me, and
:20:58. > :20:59.
:20:59. > :21:03.they will not have to leave their Now, it is very nice to have an
:21:03. > :21:07.open, green field to look at. It is also nice to have a cosy home to
:21:07. > :21:17.live in. Sometimes you cannot have both. That is where the trouble
:21:17. > :21:20.
:21:20. > :21:26.starts. Dense Rogers reports. -- Vince. The south-east corner of
:21:26. > :21:31.England. It is clean and it is pleasant. And it is the Green Park
:21:31. > :21:40.that we are particularly interested in, today. Because, the amount of
:21:40. > :21:43.green is causing big trouble in the village of Penshurst. I have been
:21:43. > :21:53.on the parish council for 30 years and I have never seen anything like
:21:53. > :21:58.
:21:58. > :22:03.this. And it is all over this piece of land. It is owned by the Lord-
:22:03. > :22:09.Lieutenant of Kent. He lives in a proper big house called pence us
:22:09. > :22:12.place near Tunbridge Wells. When day the parish council keen to
:22:12. > :22:17.enter said that there was might not in a small houses in the village
:22:17. > :22:22.for people on a more modest income. So, he offered up this patch of
:22:22. > :22:27.grass called forge field, as the site for six affordable homes. They
:22:27. > :22:34.would be built by the West Kent Housing Association, but it is not
:22:35. > :22:42.going smoothly. In my 20 years have been involved in providing new
:22:42. > :22:49.housing, no initiative has had the level of objection this one has.
:22:49. > :22:54.Many of the villagers are dead against the idea. It is a
:22:54. > :23:00.conservation area, it is green belt. And at the special, it is very
:23:00. > :23:07.special to us. The chairman of the parish council is all for the idea.
:23:07. > :23:15.It will not spoil the field. It will attach to the end of the
:23:15. > :23:21.village. It will sit next to the garage that is there, I don't think
:23:21. > :23:25.the damage is very much, to be honest. The amount of green space
:23:25. > :23:30.in the countryside is finite. You cannot build houses on Green Belt
:23:31. > :23:35.land unless you can demonstrate it local need and that there is no
:23:35. > :23:41.other option. One villager said there most definite that --
:23:41. > :23:45.definitely is a need. Why do you want houses built? We need as a
:23:45. > :23:50.family of four, we are in a two- bedroomed flat and we have been
:23:50. > :23:54.told to move, but the surrounding villages, into more suitable
:23:54. > :24:01.properties, is just not any available to us, because of our
:24:01. > :24:03.circumstances. I met some of the villagers who want to keep the
:24:03. > :24:08.green space Green. They say that the important thing is that there
:24:08. > :24:15.is an alternative. There have to be exceptional reasons to build on the
:24:15. > :24:19.sort of land for this kind of property. We say that there are
:24:19. > :24:27.alternatives within 100 yards of this place. We have looked at every
:24:27. > :24:31.site that has been suggested. parish council met to decide
:24:31. > :24:37.whether the planning application got approval. At a packed meeting
:24:37. > :24:44.in the village hall. And they decided that, yes, they approved of
:24:44. > :24:48.the plans to build six houses on forge deal. Obviously everyone was
:24:48. > :24:55.shouting and some people were very upset and disgusted about the
:24:56. > :25:00.decision. That was one of the main reasons why it got heated because
:25:00. > :25:05.they were going against what the villagers wanted. It is a story
:25:05. > :25:11.that is being played out across the South East. There is pressure to
:25:11. > :25:16.nibble away at green belt land. The Home Builders Federation knows the
:25:16. > :25:21.reason why. We are building roughly half the number of homes that be
:25:21. > :25:26.should be building. There is a supply problems going back 20 years
:25:26. > :25:33.or longer which affects the ability of the planning system to provide
:25:33. > :25:36.enough land to enable enough houses to be built. There is Issue
:25:36. > :25:42.shortage of a hoard -- affordable housing but we need to make sure
:25:42. > :25:46.the development goes in places where it does the most good to
:25:46. > :25:52.society and do least damage to ate the environment. In Penshurst
:25:52. > :25:56.village hall, one particular villager was furious. There have
:25:56. > :26:01.been commits about how it was a terrible parish council and
:26:01. > :26:06.something along those lines and they asked him to sit down, and he
:26:06. > :26:12.just stood up and did and Nazi salute, and walked off. He gave a
:26:12. > :26:16.Nazi salute to the chairman of the council? Is that any way to the?
:26:16. > :26:20.did not see any Nazi salute but I saw a lot of people protesting
:26:20. > :26:24.about the way that the council had conducted his business. Is it true
:26:24. > :26:33.that somebody at the meeting give you a Nazi salute as an insult and
:26:33. > :26:37.stormed out? I was told about it but I did not see it, myself.
:26:37. > :26:42.it did happen? I was told it did. Witnesses said they so what
:26:42. > :26:51.happened. How do you feel about that? I don't really mind. It is
:26:51. > :26:57.down to him. He ought to worry about elections, not me. There is
:26:57. > :27:03.no doubt that green spaces are precious. But, many people do not
:27:04. > :27:08.appreciate the need for affordable housing. In my experience,
:27:08. > :27:11.objections to housing do not come from the homeless, or people living
:27:11. > :27:16.in the overcrowded or sub-standard or temporary accommodation. It
:27:16. > :27:24.comes from people who are quite perfectly housed themselves but do
:27:24. > :27:31.not feel that that right should be accorded to others. To keep -- the
:27:31. > :27:36.keep pens just Green Group say that to build affordable housing because
:27:36. > :27:43.there are better alternatives. would change this view, and you
:27:43. > :27:48.cannot go back, can you? I hope that commonsense prevails and some
:27:48. > :27:53.of the other sites are reconsidered. But is now down to Sevenoaks
:27:53. > :27:58.Borough Council to approve planning permission, essentially to decide
:27:58. > :28:08.whether it is worth sacrificing a green field, to provide affordable
:28:08. > :28:10.
:28:10. > :28:18.housing. Their decision is expected within a couple of months. That, if
:28:19. > :28:28.you want any more information about the Kent or Sussex website. You can
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