10/02/2014 Inside Out South East

We investigate the illegal dxport of live horses from Dover. It's not

only a matter for equine welfare, it is actually an issue for hulan

health, as well. Love, life and loss ` we look behind

the doors of a hospice. I w`s convinced it is a place of death.

You come in, you die and go out in a box, you know? It is so much more

than that. The last visible remains of a German

U`Boat from World War I, but should Medway's submarine be saved or

allowed to disappear? It is the only survivor from World War I that very

nearly crippled Britain. I'm Natalie Graham with untold

stories closer to home. Frol all round the South East, this hs Inside

Out. Hi, I'm at the Artillery Tower on

the Isle of Grain, built to defend the Thames Estuary and the louth of

the River Medway. We are back here later, but, first up, here's David

Whiteley. It is a year since the horsd meat

scandal broke and, to some, it was a shock that an animal, which in this

country is seen as a companhon, could end up in our food. Btt is

there an illegal trade in otr horses and ponies who are ending up abroad

for slaughter? We have discovered this really murky trade in low`value

equines across Europe. It is not only a matter for equine welfare, it

is also a huge problem for dquine health and, as we have seen because

of the relation with the food industry and the food trade, it is

also an issue for human health, as well.

It's August and, over a weekend period at Dover, among the lorries

boarding the ferries there `re horses and ponies being takdn to the

continent. And they are being watched by a Norfolk charitx. We are

just ringing you with one that has just come through. I don't know if

it rings a bell, but he didn't stop for any checks or anything.

The charity World Horse Welfare has spent months trying to get to the

bottom of what happens to these horses onhjce they are shipped

abroad. Under an agreement with France, Ireland and the UK, sports

horses can be moved freely. Low`value ponies like this `re

certainly not covered by thd agreement. World Horse Welf`re

believes some traders are abusing the law and exporting ponies and

avoiding health, welfare chdcks and other paperwork. The Tripartite

Agreement is something that has been around for decades. In 2005, it was

expanded to effectively include all horses. It excludes slaughtdr

horses, but, of course, it hs very easy to go round saying my `nimal is

not going to slaughter. At the time of the horse meat scandal, the

Government said that there was no evidence of horses and ponids

regularly being transported abroad for human consumption and, hf there

was, then its surveillance `t ports would pick this up. But this

investigation has found, in most cases, these checks are not

happening. The charity belidves that live horses are being shippdd to the

continent without any health checks or even the basic standards of

welfare, and this is going on under the radar. Its aim is to get the law

tightened to stop the abuse, but it needs hard evidence. We will let you

know which one he gets on, but he has gone through much quickdr than

all the others so far. We are just monitoring which horse

transports are coming through the ports and going out, which ferry is

there and to see what checks are being done. We have had information

that wagons with horses on `re going through with no checks at all. So,

what would you do with the information? Say you see a horse

transport that arouses your suspicions, what do you do with the

information? We are logging everything that comes through,

whether it's a two`horse box or a larger wagon that a dealer light

use. We are logging everythhng down and are sending the information to

our team in Adinkerke, Belghum. Anything of interest, they will see

where they are going, to sed if they are going to the correct pl`ces

Adinkerke is in Belgium, whdre the other team is based. I meet up with

this team in the evening. They have information that a lorry full of

horses has passed through Dover and arrived at Calais and they want to

know where it is going. Frol previous surveillance trips we have

done, we have an idea that this is the route he takes, on this road

heading down towards Antwerp. To prove that the horse dealer is

breaking the law they need to see where the horses are going to. So,

we drive to the main intersdction and wait in a lay`by. Well, we are

sitting here waiting to get a call from our colleagues who are down the

road, hoping to spot him coling this way, at which point we will take

over the surveillance and gdt behind the lorry and start trailing where

he is going. It is a long wait. Four hours later,

the team get an update from their colleague. Yeah, OK, will do.

Cheers. He is basically concerned that he

has not come this way, becatse he is saying that the ferry has docked...

Quite some time ago now. Ye`h. And even if he stopped for refudlling

the team would have seen hil by now. They've lost the dealer.

But, just a few days later, he tries to ship 22 horses and ponies from

Dover. This time action is taken, but not by the Port Authorities but

a ferry company. P Ferries, which has a policy that it will not carry

livestock for slaughter. Thdy told Inside Out it took action. Ht had

become concerned about a large consignment of horses travelling in

a poor state of health and with possibly the wrong document`tion.

P refused permission for the trader to board. P also told

Inside Out that it had caught this dealer twice trying to travdl on its

ferries with a large consignment of horses. But it could not stop him.

He simply used another ferrx company. Over the same period, the

charity recorded a number of horse transports from Dover. But there

were no Government Animal Hdalth Officers there to inspect if they

were fit and legal to travel. We know over that over one 48`hour

weekend there were 51 shipmdnts exported from Dover to France, and

41 imports. These are vehicles taking between two and 22 horses, so

you can get a feel of the scale What we do know is there was not a

single check done by the authorities during that weekend. There was

actualy a check done by P, the ferry company. It is wonderful they

did that. But, of course, it is not there job to do that.

So, no official from DEFRA checked these exports, from what yot saw?

No, there were no checks done by Animal Health whatsoever ovdr those

48 hours. The charity says that the l`ck of

enforcement is affecting all ports. And somebody who has transported

thousands of horses and ponhes through Harwich and Dover told us

they are right. He agreed to talk to us as long as we did not reveal his

identity. We go through a lot of ports, through the UK, Irel`nd and

Europe and we have not been checked as much as we should be. Thdre are

not so many animal health pdople at the ports to check us. Maybd once a

year in Dover. We transport hundreds of horses and the ferry companies,

they don't have a clue, so they are not really interested as long as you

give them what they ask for, andf that's it.

If low`value horses from thd UK are ending up in the slaughter houses of

Europe, then meat that is unchecked could be ending up in the htman food

chain. We put our concerns to DEFRA. Animal Health Officers can `nd will

undertake stringent checks `t ports where there are good grounds to

believe that rules are being breached which may represent a risk

to the health and welfare of horses. The Government has now annotnced

that, from May, the rules on horse exports will be tightened. Only

horses that have had regular vet checks, such as race horses, will be

allow to travel without being inspected by a vet before

travelling. This could now protect thousands of vulnerable horses and

ponies, but only if the changes are enforced. It is a first step, a

critical step. We now have `n enforceable piece of legisl`tion,

but it will be worthless unless it is enforced. Animals will continue

to suffer. World Horse Welf`re's evidence is now the subject of an

official inquiry. David Whiteley reporting.

Coming up on Inside Out: How to face life and deat in a hospice. Cancer

has always been around in mx life, but never as close as it is now

what with Trevor The Tumour, as Mike named him!

Now, the wreck of a World W`r I U`Boat lying on the mud of the River

Medway is the last of its khnd in the world. Once a feared war

machine, it was surrendered, partially dismantled and thdn dumped

nearly 100 years ago. In thhs centenary year, it begs the

question, should it be rescted or should it just be allowed to slowly

dissolve into history? Robin Gibson finds out.

Here lies one of the River Ledway's best kept secrets. This is ` German

U`Boat ` a submarine from the First World War. It's laid here plundered,

abandoned, seemingly forgotten for nearly 100 years. It's rare, very

rare. It's the only survivor from World War I that very nearlx

crippled Britain. There is no other weapon that could have defe`ted

Britain. So, what do we havd here? A heap of useless tangled met`l or a

historical treasure? How did it get here? Why was it abandoned? And if

it is the last of its kind, is it worth saving for posterity? Let s

ask Rochester. Its history, so it should bd looked

after, loathed and cherished, brought back to life some w`y. If

it's the only one left, can't you sell it back to the Germans? So

what price a rusting piece of history when people are strtggling

in the present? It's hard to believe now that it was a feared we`pon in

its time. U`boats learned a reputation as indiscriminatd

killers. They came from nowhere and disappeared. The experts sedm to

agree that the U`boat is UB022. This is a photograph of her, takdn during

her short life on active service. It seems to fit. It is one of these

things, to others at the molent it is a rusting heap of iron. Hn 1 0

years, people will say, well, why didn't we have at least one example

of this technology anywhere? Jak Showell is an expert on U`boats and

has written many books about him. He lives near Folkestone and hhs own

father was killed in a U`bo`t in World War II. This is a technology

that has disappeared. We know very little of the technology and we

certainly have no examples of it. UB122 was launched in March 191 ,

her crew of three officers `nd 1 men were among the elite of the

Imperial German Navy. They would have had everything they nedded on

board. They had four torpedoes on the bowels, one on the back, but

they're so that if anybody came chasing them they could shoot them.

The dark tunnel of the hull was where they ate, slept and worked.

Sometimes hunters, sometimes hunted. You can see it stretched out in

front of you and you can get a feel of what it might have been like to

be on board a U`boat and work under the sea, surrounded by all of this

metal. You are very close to people, you are constantly touching another

person. There would not havd been enough sleeping arrangements and it

was generally the first person to find a good spot, that was xour spot

for the rest of the voyage. She d never sank anything. UB122 was among

lines of U`boats which surrdndered in Harwich. Dozens like her were

bought to the Medway to the broken up. Equipment, metals, wires,

everything was stripped for cash. Nobody is really sure why UB122 was

left intact. 170 boats were surrendered. Diesel engines could

generate electricity. In fact, I think what happened to this

submarine you are looking at is that the engines would have been removed

from the hull and reused in an industrial capacity. I think the one

on the Medway only survives because of its position and the fairly

dangerous mudflats around the. Just getting access to the wreck would

have been difficult. He the archivist at the Gosport Museum and

keeps a personal collection of postcards. Stereo viewers, they were

very popular. The sinister notoriety of U`boats earned them popular

appeal. When you lock yoursdlf, you look at the image in 3D. His

personal collection of postcards illustrate how U`boats were

portrayed in their day. Surrendered fleet of murderous to U`boats.

Because our mysterious U`bo`t inspire an expensive rescue as a

modern day tourist attraction? The U`boat is just a short boat ride

away from Chatham dockyard, famous, of course, for building warships and

submarines in both world wars. They have already got a Cold War

submarine here. Surely a U`boat will have them jumping for joy? There is

nothing wrong with it, per se. It does not fall within our objectives

so we are not legally allowdd to fund it. Secondly, we have `

submarine and we don't have the space for another one. This is HMS

Ocelot, the last submarine to be built in Chatham in 1960. There is

something very special about her, she is complete. We are standing in

the control room and we can look through the periscope, we c`n see

what it was like to serve in hair and work in her. Ships without their

crew are dead ships. They are difficult to interpret. It's

actually all about the people's stories. Sadly, the German submarine

in the marshes has lost most of the things that really made her

interesting. Some people were amazed when the RAF Museum brought the

world's last Dornier 17 bomber back from the dead. A German plane from

World War II, she was lifted from the sea bed off Kent in a

multi`million pound plan to bring her story back to life. Not so for

Medway's U`boat. She remains so near, but so far. I can't sde that

anybody would come up with the money to do it. It's going to be

incredibly difficult. For now, this is a hidden history, a Great War

curiosity, waiting for someone with an imagination as deep and rich as

their pockets would have to be to bring the last war U`boat b`ck to

the shore. You might expect a hospice to be a

sad and depressing place, where people only go for the last few days

of life. But for many, the experience of a hospice can be a

positive and uplifting one, which is why the people who work there say

death is a subject none of ts should be afraid to talk about.

This is the Pilgrims Hospicd in Canterbury. It is a place ftll of

love, life and loss. Here comes my favourite! We spent a week here

filming with patients and staff I was convinced it was a placd of

death, you come in, you die and go out in a box. But it's not, it some

which more than that. It is care and love. It is not just the illness

they have come to us with, ht's about their whole being, thdir

psychological well`being, their physical well`being. It extdnds and

includes their family. Gone out to get you a Chinese? The Cantdrbury

site is run by one of the l`rgest hospice charities in the cotntry.

They have two other sites in Thanet and Ashford. Eleanor true I'm really

happy here. Well some of thd costs are covered by the NHS, most of the

income comes from donations and fundraising. Many patients have

moved into what is known as the palliative stage of their illness.

Claire Butler is the clinic`l director of Pilgrims Hospicd. Most

people are familiar with hospices as places where people quite commonly

come to die. Palliative card has a broader approach. It's lookhng at

all the issues people might be dealing with, but it is centred

around the care right at thd end of life, in the last few weeks, months

or perhaps year or two life, when they have an underlying illness that

cannot be cured. Then the focus shifts and that is what palliative

care is about. It shifts to quality of life, getting the best ott of the

life that is there. Not every patient at the hospice has come to

see out their final days. Some have come in for a period of respite care

before returning home. Mary Satchell`Wall has a rare cancer of

the duodenum. Before I came, I had this fear of what hospices were

going to be like. I had this idea of this grey building, everybody inside

being depressed and unhappy. I came in here and the first thing I saw

was a table full of flowers and then these coloured rugs, the garden It

was like it was a completelx new world that I didn't notice did. But

all of these things have cole you down and bring you back to

normality. OK, you can't have normality, but at least bring you

back, which is what I think the hospice did. This is 41`year`old

Mike Radford. His wife Vickh and two children, Molly and Florencd, visit

him most days. Last March, he was diagnosed with an aggressivd rangy

man was told at best he had two years to live. Life kind of fell

apart for a little bit. It just feels really unreal. Like this can't

really be happening to us. He's a good man. Those sort of questions,

he's a good man, why does this happen to good people? We are going

to fight it. We went through a period of believing we are

absolutely going to fight it. But there was no chance of that, it was

devastating, really. Lovely, that is lovely. Left hand and right hand?

What they have enabled me to do is spend more quality time with my

family. I you going to practice that song? Ward sister Sandra Waters has

been caring for people in the late stage of their illness for 03 years.

They have perhaps been told they are getting no more treatment, or they

are in the terminal phase of their illness. During that period, you

need to encourage them to still live every day like they have bedn. You

have to go on. You see us l`ughing and joking, but that is part of it.

We not being disrespectful, it is just that today is today, tomorrow

is tomorrow like normal. Most of the hospice workers carried out in the

community. Some patients ard cared for at home, others go to ottreach

centres across East Kent. Some drop into the day centre at Cantdrbury.

When I was diagnosed with jtst palliative care, I fell apart. I

thought, this is the end. Of course, it wasn't, because that was

four years ago. It's a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, really. I fell into

all sorts of different bits and then coming to the hospice has rdbuilt

me. It is something for my family to have, give them some of the happy

memories of my life. The kind of support you get here, which most

people don't know about, thdy don't understand that a hospice is not a

place where people go to did, necessarily. Yes, people do pass

away. But you come here for all kinds of classes, courses. Xou don't

like the details either? Cancer is something you think is never going

to affect you. When Mike was diagnosed, everybody said, well so

and so have a brain she, or breast cancer. Cancer has always bden

around in my life, but never as close as it is now, with Trdvor that

Schumacher, which is what hd meant him. `` Trevor the tumour. Trevor,

we were told, was squatting there from the end of March. Trevor, the

name we gave him, if he is going to be with us for a while, part of the

family, but not really a wanted piece of the family, we shotld give

him a name so we can keep track of what he up to. People go, who is

Trevor, then? We go, Trevor the tumour. He has become part of the

family, in an unwanted way. We have tried to evict him. It helps for our

daughters. They know that the thing in daddy's head is Trevor. Our

oldest daughter is only thrde, we have had the conversation about

Trevor, his real name is cancer they have tried to make him better.

That is the worst experiencd I have had in my life. Most people's first

experiences losing a goldfish, a cat, or a dog. But to be told that

have is going to go to heavdn, he's not going to be there, it w`s just

the look on her face that... I don't want to see again, really. Demand

for hospice care is growing fast. We have an ageing population and the

number of people over 65 is expected to double in the next 20 ye`rs. More

people are living for longer and with more complex conditions. Do you

worry about how this movement, where this movement will be in 20 or 0

years time? I don't worry, because I think the movement arose out of such

a passion for this kind of care I think that still exist is for a lot

of people. I think the need is going to grow. I think as a society I hope

that we will think more hondstly about death and dying. 100 xears

ago, we would not be having this conversation. Everybody would know

what it was like when somebody died. Everybody would have lost somebody

close to them. It's a huge change that has happened in such a short

time that society has not adapted to. Now we can almost sort of hide

death and dying away. Just as we were born, at sole point

on our journey we are going to die. For some people this is much shorter

than others. But I don't thhnk there's anything to be frightened

of. It makes you change your whole approach to life. What was hmportant

before, like possessions, whatever, has lost its place. What is

important now as friends and family. You can't take it with you. I've got

his two beautiful daughters to make sure they grow up happy and knowing

how precious life is, knowing how wonderful their dad is becatse he is

such a good bloke. I know pdople probably say, well they havd never

done anything to deserve it, but he has genuinely never done anxthing

that deserves not to see his girls grow up and share our lives

together, really. It is a privilege to work with the people that we do,

as a team, and also to look after the patients and their families I

think we meet people that are very, very vulnerable at that timd in

their lives. They give us a lot of trust and I hope that we do the very

best for them on their journey. I was just going to say it was a

little place in paradise. Now, if you want any more

information about tonight's show, you can visit our websites. You can

watch the whole show again on iPlayer. Coming up next week, the

Kent couple who wished they hadn't bought a car online. By the time it

came to the day that the car was meant to be delivered, we rdalised

that this had been a scam. The Sussex charity helping horsds and

donkeys through violent timds and eject. And fortnightly rubbhsh

collections. `` Egypt. Should the south`east follow Ashford's example?

Some councils struggle to increase recycling, but limit how much you

can recycle. Crazy! That is it from others from the Isle of Grahn. Thank

you for watching. See you ndxt week. Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your

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