:00:08. > :00:14.Welcome to Inside Out South West, stories from or where you live.
:00:14. > :00:18.Tonight, battle of the burner, one woman's campaign to stop a waste
:00:19. > :00:23.incinerator being built in Plymouth. I am afraid I have become a number,
:00:23. > :00:31.it is a simple case of not in my backyard -- become a NIMBY.
:00:31. > :00:34.The astonishing courage of injured Royal Marine, Mark Ormrod. I get up
:00:34. > :00:40.every day and just live my life, because it could have been over in
:00:40. > :00:46.an instant. And the fight for Goonhilly. Everybody I have spoken
:00:46. > :00:51.to said, yes, go for it, you have to save it, it is a global icon.
:00:51. > :01:01.critical bid to launch a new future for Cornwall's space station. I am
:01:01. > :01:10.
:01:10. > :01:15.Sam Smith and this is Inside Out 1 Inside Out, we bring you stories
:01:15. > :01:18.from close to home, but our first tale is a little too close for some
:01:18. > :01:22.of the people in this part of Plymouth. Because there are plans
:01:22. > :01:29.to build a waste incinerator just down there, plants which have got
:01:29. > :01:39.one local woman really fired up. -- plans which have. That woman is
:01:39. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:46.Donna Ruiz. She is facing her worst fears. It is like the jaws of hell.
:01:46. > :01:50.Donna is furious that an incinerator similar to this is
:01:50. > :01:54.planned 500 metres from her home. You are basically building this
:01:54. > :01:58.thing in my back garden, and I have no choice, nobody asked for my
:01:58. > :02:03.permission. Donna is campaigning against the proposed plan that
:02:03. > :02:08.incinerator. Signatures are great, thank you very much. Any bit of
:02:08. > :02:13.wind and it will take the dust to you. That's really bad.
:02:13. > :02:19.Incineration is not the answer, there has to be a better thing.
:02:19. > :02:25.wants the plan abandoned. This is my family, this is the next
:02:25. > :02:32.generation. Their children are going to be affected by this
:02:32. > :02:37.horrendous incinerator that is on our doorstep. Back in March,
:02:37. > :02:41.Devon's council signed a 25 year contract with developer, MVV, but
:02:41. > :02:44.the project has not been given planning permission yet. If we can
:02:44. > :02:50.make everybody aware of what is happening on their doorstep, I
:02:50. > :02:54.think we can win. This is the proposed site, land currently owned
:02:54. > :03:00.by the Navy on the edge of Devonport dockyard. This then
:03:00. > :03:05.becomes your land again, and our secures own, and your grade one
:03:05. > :03:08.fence, is along the southern edge here. The developers want to start
:03:08. > :03:13.building it next year. They are determined to win the backing of
:03:13. > :03:19.councillors, for what they say is an urgently needed facility. This
:03:19. > :03:23.is not a dark satanic mill, it is a very modern, highly controlled
:03:23. > :03:28.piece of process equipment that is doing a very valuable job,
:03:28. > :03:33.diverting waste away from landfill, where it isn't the right place to
:03:33. > :03:41.be. The closest houses would be 62 metres away. On the average day,
:03:41. > :03:46.there would be 264 lorry movements, one every 2.5 minutes. That anybody
:03:46. > :03:56.could come here and disrupt a whole community, take away our fresher,
:03:56. > :04:01.our held off... Our life, really. - our health. The developers says
:04:01. > :04:04.such fears are unfounded and it will comply with tough
:04:04. > :04:10.environmental standards. It could also supplied the dockyard with
:04:10. > :04:14.cheap, steam generated power, which would effectively saved the
:04:14. > :04:19.taxpayer �400 million over 25 years. But the price of that is to cite
:04:19. > :04:23.the burner in a densely populated area. Dunn and her girls are
:04:23. > :04:27.waiting to meet one of the councillors who awarded the
:04:27. > :04:30.contract -- Donna and her girls. need to know if he can live with
:04:31. > :04:35.the decision that it is going to be built in an area where there are 10
:04:35. > :04:40.primary schools. Donna seizes her chance to put her case to
:04:40. > :04:44.Councillor Roger Croad. On a nice summer day, children playing in the
:04:44. > :04:48.playground, chimneys smoking 1,000 metres from their playground, are
:04:48. > :04:52.they safe? I would say that they are. The Health Protection Agency
:04:52. > :04:57.have given us the all clear on this. The Environment Agency will look at
:04:57. > :05:02.the permit. They will tell us whether this is safe or not. I have
:05:02. > :05:09.no question that with the other 400 plants that are in Europe, the
:05:09. > :05:14.technology is safe. Councillor Croad agrees to display Macie's
:05:14. > :05:18.drawing that counts in all, but Don is not satisfied. -- at County Hall.
:05:18. > :05:22.I am not convinced he would be happy for his grandchildren to
:05:22. > :05:26.attend a primary-school where the movements of 300 odd lorries are
:05:26. > :05:36.happening, yards from their playground. This is happening for
:05:36. > :05:39.
:05:39. > :05:43.financial reasons. No health has Dr Dick van Steenis is a retired GP.
:05:44. > :05:48.He believes babies living downwind of incinerators face an increased
:05:48. > :05:51.risk of dying before their first birthday. His analysis of infant
:05:51. > :05:56.mortality data has not been published or checked by experts, it
:05:56. > :06:00.is far from conclusive. But he says the figures are worrying. When you
:06:00. > :06:04.look at the health data, we have nine different health Parameters
:06:04. > :06:08.per electoral ward and in London we have five different maps with five
:06:08. > :06:11.different outcomes, and it is the same map for the lot. There is no
:06:11. > :06:16.way it could be explained by anything other than incinerators
:06:16. > :06:21.causing it. The Health Protection Agency said plants which are well
:06:21. > :06:26.run and educated at are not a significant risk. But it is
:06:26. > :06:29.planning a study of babies born near incinerators, something that
:06:30. > :06:32.Dr van Steenis says he has been suggesting for years. I think they
:06:32. > :06:38.are highly embarrassed and it is a good sign they are promising a
:06:38. > :06:43.study at least, because it shows they are worried sick. More
:06:43. > :06:47.concerned than ever, Croad is on her way to Germany, to see
:06:47. > :06:52.incinerator technology for herself. It is the first time she has left
:06:52. > :06:55.her children in six years. This is not something I normally do, I am a
:06:55. > :07:04.mother, two little girls, we get along with our lives as best as we
:07:04. > :07:11.can. I have involved my girls, I am fighting for their life.
:07:11. > :07:17.The good girls, and have fun. -- Be Good girls. MVV's sites near
:07:17. > :07:22.Leipzig is about twice the size of what is proposed near Plymouth and
:07:22. > :07:27.she is chose it -- shown around by the man in charge. Dr Hoffman.
:07:27. > :07:31.are very close to the equipment, it seems to be quite big. If you are a
:07:31. > :07:35.bit away, it does not seem so big. If you are going to compare it to
:07:35. > :07:42.the site in Plymouth, the nearest house is 62 metres, they are very
:07:42. > :07:47.close. That is very close. Plymouth, the waste delivery area
:07:47. > :07:53.would be enclosed to reduce noise and smell. That was a bit stinky,
:07:53. > :08:00.possibly not as bad as I thought. My been day after a fish supper,
:08:00. > :08:05.possibly. -- being -- bin collection day. Donna has shown how
:08:05. > :08:11.-- is shown how pollutants are removed. We have 1,000 all more of
:08:11. > :08:15.these bags. The air is sucked out of the middle. All of the gas that
:08:15. > :08:21.has the pollutants we don't want to go into the atmosphere gets stuck
:08:21. > :08:27.on the edge of this bag, which is a very efficient materials. The air
:08:27. > :08:33.is drawn up, it is very clean now, through a flan and -- a fan and
:08:33. > :08:37.taken up the stack. Some gases make it through the filter systems but
:08:37. > :08:41.they are monitored to make sure they stay below EU limits. Can I
:08:41. > :08:48.ask you to have a look at the stack and tell me what you can see?
:08:48. > :08:53.mean nothing coming out of the top? It was a prompted questions.
:08:53. > :08:58.assure you there is hot gas coming out of that, and it is very clean.
:08:58. > :09:03.These houses are 450 metres from the incinerator. That is the
:09:03. > :09:06.distance from Donna's home to the Devonport side. There is a proposed
:09:06. > :09:13.planning of an incinerator near where my family and I live in
:09:13. > :09:20.England. It is MVV. You live near an incinerator which belongs to MVV.
:09:20. > :09:27.Did you ever have any concerns when the proposal went through? No, she
:09:27. > :09:33.says. I don't hear anything, I don't smile anything. Do you ever
:09:33. > :09:40.freer -- feel you are too close? TRANSLATION: I really need to say,
:09:40. > :09:44.we don't notice anything much at all. At the start of her journey,
:09:44. > :09:49.Donna was against incineration anywhere. Now she is just against
:09:49. > :09:55.it in Devonport. Before this programme, I did not know the word
:09:55. > :10:03.NIMBY. I was introduced to it by being on this programme. And I
:10:03. > :10:06.didn't want to be seen as a NIMBY. But after being here and seeing the
:10:07. > :10:12.site where this incineration plant is, I am afraid I have become a
:10:12. > :10:20.NIMBY. It is a simple case of, not in my backyard, because they are
:10:20. > :10:28.better sides than the one at Devonport to build this incinerator.
:10:29. > :10:34.Back in Plymouth, Donna's girls are waiting with a warm welcome home.
:10:35. > :10:40.For the sake of their futures, Donna is unwilling to embrace
:10:40. > :10:46.current plans for a burner in her backyard.
:10:46. > :10:50.Next, in this week of remembrance, we have the inspiring story of Mark
:10:50. > :11:00.Ormrod from Plymouth, a 28-year-old veteran of Afghanistan, who has
:11:00. > :11:02.
:11:02. > :11:08.Mark Ormrod is heading to the Commando Training Centre at
:11:08. > :11:14.Lympstone in Devon. It is a place where no one that passes through
:11:14. > :11:20.ever forgets. Every time you come back, you get the old not in the
:11:20. > :11:24.pit of your stomach. When you approached the gates. I think
:11:25. > :11:29.everybody goes through it. This is where it all started, this is where
:11:30. > :11:39.you went through the pain and the shouting. Learning everything from
:11:40. > :11:42.
:11:42. > :11:47.Now this former marine is learning from scratch, all over again. Mark
:11:47. > :11:51.Ormrod is a triple amputee, the first to return to the UK from
:11:51. > :11:56.Afghanistan. He is back at Lympstone not as a casualty, but as
:11:56. > :12:01.a campaigner for a charity he cares passionately about.
:12:01. > :12:07.I believe in their mission and what they want to do. I have seen first
:12:07. > :12:14.and, one of the most seriously injured going back from a task done,
:12:14. > :12:20.how they help. -- coming back from Afghanistan. He works for the Royal
:12:20. > :12:27.Marines Association, celebrating its 25th anniversary. He has a
:12:27. > :12:31.fantastic sense of humour. I think he makes people realise that no
:12:31. > :12:38.matter how bad they think their life might be, it could be an awful
:12:38. > :12:41.lot worse. But he is actually The RMA provides welfare support
:12:42. > :12:44.not just to serving troops but to veterans of all conflicts. For Mark,
:12:44. > :12:54.this anniversary get together means two days of book signing,
:12:54. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :13:08.schmoozing and being on his feet. Good morning, how are you doing?
:13:08. > :13:08.
:13:09. > :13:12.It's quite a challenge. Around Christmas, I discovered that if I
:13:12. > :13:17.it stood on the spot and did not walk around, I got infections in my
:13:17. > :13:23.leg. I have not had it since, but I have to be mindful of it. I could
:13:23. > :13:26.not stand for many hours without moving around and getting the blood
:13:27. > :13:33.pumping it through my legs. And big news back home means he can't even
:13:33. > :13:43.let his hair down in traditional commando style. I got to behave, I
:13:43. > :13:47.
:13:47. > :13:50.can't drink because might wife is away so I am on call. Mark's life
:13:50. > :13:54.changed forever on Christmas Eve 2007. On patrol in Helmand, he was
:13:54. > :14:04.blown up by a Taliban IED, an Improvised Explosive Device. His
:14:04. > :14:08.
:14:08. > :14:11.recovery was astonishing. start! -- I am stuck! He took
:14:11. > :14:14.himself to the US for intensive rehab on prosthetics and just three
:14:14. > :14:24.years after losing his limbs, took part in a fundraising run across
:14:24. > :14:24.
:14:24. > :14:28.America. Yes! That was it! I can't tell you what I am feeling, I'm so
:14:28. > :14:31.proud. And not for Mark an expensively modified car, just a
:14:31. > :14:41.3.50 sanding block to line the accelerator up with the break and a
:14:41. > :14:42.
:14:42. > :14:49.remote control for his leg. Beep twice. Now it is stark. Now I can
:14:49. > :14:55.literally break, accelerate. -- use the brakes. Mark's off to collect
:14:55. > :14:58.some VIP guests. The trouble is he's something of a celeb himself.
:14:59. > :15:05.I just can't tell you what a privilege it is to meet you. I
:15:05. > :15:10.wanted your book, but you had gone. I want you to send it for me.
:15:10. > :15:20.problem. I'm going to go to the gate and the right back down.
:15:20. > :15:23.we be? Where d one me to be? Best of the today! Did you see that?
:15:23. > :15:32.the hall, veterans are gathering to hear Mark's story. He's to speak
:15:32. > :15:37.for an hour on his feet. You are surrounded by a bunch of
:15:37. > :15:42.testosterone driven men. You don't want to be a let-down to them. I
:15:42. > :15:52.don't care how much it hurts to stand up for an hour and do it
:15:52. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :15:58.properly. How long have we got? minutes. Many in the audience will
:15:58. > :16:08.have their own war story, but Mark's is pretty special. I want to
:16:08. > :16:10.
:16:10. > :16:14.get into the prime position myself. -- I detonated and I E D. I was
:16:14. > :16:24.like, really? Is this really happening? My adrenalin system
:16:24. > :16:29.
:16:29. > :16:35.kicked in and there wasn't much Sean, the commander, I told him to
:16:35. > :16:40.shoot me because I did not want to go back without anything. Lucky the
:16:40. > :16:43.meat he didn't. The charity needs the boost Mark can give it. Like
:16:43. > :16:45.some of the other small military charities, its efforts have been
:16:45. > :16:48.somewhat overshadowed by the fundraising giant Help for Heroes.
:16:48. > :16:58.But what many people don't realise is that Help for Heroes doesn't
:16:58. > :17:01.
:17:01. > :17:05.help heroes injured before 9/11. The British Legion and other
:17:05. > :17:12.organisations have veterans from other conflicts and their needs are
:17:12. > :17:15.as great as the lads who are being injured today.. Back in the hall,
:17:15. > :17:20.Mark describes the pitfalls of being one of that new generation of
:17:20. > :17:25.casualties. I seem to have created my own sport out of it while I
:17:25. > :17:31.guess it could be called disabled a boxing, all it could come to that.
:17:31. > :17:36.I park in a disabled parking spot and people walk past and go, tut
:17:36. > :17:46.tut. And then they carry on walking. When I get out of the car and go to
:17:46. > :17:47.
:17:47. > :17:53.the cash machine, I go, morning! is an absolute, total inspiration.
:17:53. > :17:58.Everything he does, he handles with such aplomb. Nothing is a problem
:17:58. > :18:04.to him. The talk went well, but Mark's on the move again. Richie's
:18:04. > :18:08.worried he's overdoing it. You can change the resistance in this
:18:08. > :18:18.hydraulic. One of the things about Mark is that he pushes himself
:18:18. > :18:28.really hard. Which days are you better with? Not that I would admit
:18:28. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:33.that to him because he would probably sat me! Outside they're
:18:33. > :18:38.getting ready for the annual parade. Mark takes a moment to visit a
:18:38. > :18:47.memorial to fallen comrades. Humbled, very fortunate and lucky
:18:47. > :18:51.to be alive. This is what stops me moaning. This is why I don't get up
:18:51. > :18:55.in the morning complaining and why it when I have a sore leg, I don't
:18:55. > :19:05.moan about it. I get up every day and live my life. It could have
:19:05. > :19:12.
:19:12. > :19:15.Mark is happy to use his remarkable story to help the RMA. Since I have
:19:15. > :19:19.worked for them and seeing the good they do and how they help people
:19:19. > :19:24.and change their lives, it is my mission to spread the word about
:19:24. > :19:31.this organisation and let everyone know how they have supported me.
:19:31. > :19:36.The weekend's been a big success. Mark has just one complaint.
:19:36. > :19:40.can't wait to tear the sitter off and get back into my scruffy shorts
:19:40. > :19:50.and T-shirt! Mark heads home to await the arrival of his new baby.
:19:50. > :19:52.
:19:52. > :19:58.His biggest challenge now? I am delighted to say mark is now
:19:58. > :20:04.the proud father of a baby boy called Mason.
:20:04. > :20:06.It's been a nail-biting week for South West entrepreneurs. Some have
:20:07. > :20:10.been celebrating after hearing they'll get millions of pounds
:20:10. > :20:13.worth of public funding. But for one iconic south west landmark
:20:13. > :20:16.getting such cash could mean the difference of their plans in the
:20:16. > :20:26.field of space science lifting off or crash landing back down to Earth.
:20:26. > :20:29.
:20:30. > :20:36.Reaching out across the Atlantic and into the skies above. Goonhilly
:20:36. > :20:41.Earth Station changed our lives forever. The first live television
:20:41. > :20:51.pictures from across the Atlantic were beamed here via satellite. But
:20:51. > :20:57.
:20:57. > :21:03.now some of these dishes are destined for the scrapheap.
:21:03. > :21:08.everyone has said you have to save it. It is a global icon. It is so
:21:08. > :21:17.important to us at the Red Arrows. It is something that we can use for
:21:17. > :21:20.the next 50 years. For 30 years, Des Prouse was a BT engineer at
:21:20. > :21:25.Goonhilly. When he heard the earth station was to be dismantled he
:21:25. > :21:35.made it his ambition to save the site. Then a former colleague came
:21:35. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:42.up with a vision to bring Goonhilly back to life. I had almost given up
:21:42. > :21:46.hope until Ian Jones became a long to meet three years ago with this
:21:46. > :21:51.vision of space science and communications with a spacecraft
:21:51. > :21:56.going off to Mars and things like this. Suddenly you think, yes,
:21:56. > :22:00.there is a real application. People will pay us to use it for those
:22:00. > :22:03.purposes and away we go. The future of this site is the hands of Ian
:22:03. > :22:13.Jones. He worked here for BT before launching his own successful
:22:13. > :22:18.
:22:18. > :22:21.business. He has a vision and cash and is leasing the site from BT.
:22:21. > :22:25.These dishes could be adapted to look into deep space and track
:22:25. > :22:33.missions to Mars. They've applied for �6 million from the Regional
:22:33. > :22:37.Growth Fund and today they're meeting potential business partners.
:22:37. > :22:44.We have to move forward with money. We have been working on this for
:22:44. > :22:46.three years without money and it is all run on passion. This meeting is
:22:46. > :22:49.crucial today. Goonhilly is throwing open its gates to
:22:49. > :22:52.potential business partners. To impress the visitors Des and Ian
:22:52. > :23:02.want to show the dishes are still working - by getting one them to
:23:02. > :23:03.
:23:03. > :23:07.move again. Engineer Edie makes it sound easy. You work out why you
:23:07. > :23:11.want the antenna to. So the angles are on the controls the here and
:23:11. > :23:21.the antenna will go to that position. But the last time it
:23:21. > :23:22.
:23:22. > :23:32.really moved was 25 years ago. And the dishes are showing their age.
:23:32. > :23:35.
:23:35. > :23:38.What has happened? It has just stopped. Is there a problem? Yes..
:23:38. > :23:45.With the visitors waiting outside it's bad timing, and looks like a
:23:45. > :23:51.major setback. But then it comes to life. Is it working? Yes. Above our
:23:51. > :23:57.heads, there is an enormous antenna structure looking around the sky.
:23:57. > :24:01.You want to go outside and have a look, don't you? With the dishes on
:24:01. > :24:10.the move they now hope the funding will flow for a new beginning for
:24:10. > :24:17.the earth station. What are your impressions?
:24:17. > :24:23.Absolutely amazing. It is back to the old days of out and out
:24:23. > :24:28.engineering. Are you one step closer? Absolutely! Four years ago,
:24:28. > :24:34.we thought it was the end, but now it is just the beginning of the
:24:34. > :24:44.next stage so this is just great to see. Goonhilly has witnessed the
:24:44. > :24:47.
:24:47. > :24:52.dawn of the space age beamed live It is one small step for man, one
:24:52. > :24:59.giant leap for mankind. Europe saw some of the defining moments of
:24:59. > :25:09.history via Goonhilly. It all started even further back in 1962
:25:09. > :25:10.
:25:10. > :25:17.with the first satellite television pictures. That is a man's face bore
:25:18. > :25:21.stop that is a man's base, there it is! -- a man of's face. Spreading
:25:21. > :25:24.the word about plans for Goonhilly. Oxford University along with Leeds
:25:24. > :25:33.and Hertfordshire want the dishes to be part of a massive global
:25:33. > :25:39.telescope project. There are very few sites in the UK where these
:25:39. > :25:43.facilities and dishes exist. There -- they are not being reduced their
:25:43. > :25:48.anything so it is a massive opportunity to, rather than build
:25:48. > :25:55.your own radio dish, use existing facilities that are perfectly good
:25:55. > :25:59.enough to do this, and put them off -- up. It is silly to waste them.
:25:59. > :26:01.The visitors are sold on the idea but the team are still in the dark
:26:01. > :26:07.over whether the Government will part with �6 million of cash
:26:07. > :26:09.funding. The decision is imminent. Monday the 31st of October, the day
:26:09. > :26:18.the Government announces the winners and losers of the Regional
:26:18. > :26:22.Growth Fund. This has been going on for four-and-a-half, nearly five
:26:23. > :26:32.years. We are getting quite anxious about it. They're expecting a phone
:26:33. > :26:34.
:26:34. > :26:40.call from Ian with the news. RNAS Yeovilton. -- Goonhilly. I have had
:26:40. > :26:50.a look on his website and we are not on the list. I don't know what
:26:50. > :26:55.
:26:55. > :26:58.What do you think? Well, not on the list. He didn't say whether it was
:26:58. > :27:06.a full list, did he? A So they check for themselves on the
:27:06. > :27:12.Government website. The fact that we are not a blur in bold letters
:27:12. > :27:19.under south-west is disappointing. Very disappointing. Disappointed
:27:19. > :27:22.not to see it there. Very disappointed. It isn't what they
:27:22. > :27:32.are expecting Ian calls again. Ian is convinced they are in line for
:27:32. > :27:33.
:27:33. > :27:43.some kind of funding. Fine. No, I am not find actually. What is
:27:43. > :27:48.
:27:48. > :27:53.happening? OK. Goodbye. This is very interesting. It sounds like he
:27:53. > :27:57.was fully expecting to be on that list and they are not on that list
:27:57. > :28:01.so he was chasing to find out why they are not on the list. So there
:28:01. > :28:09.is still a glimmer of hope of some cash help, and a future for the
:28:10. > :28:13.dishes. The place is still here, it has not been demolished and we will
:28:13. > :28:17.have to keep going. We will be slower, but we will have to keep
:28:17. > :28:21.going. We will not let it get us. And today, a week on, they'd hoped
:28:21. > :28:31.for some good news on funding. But for now the sleeping giants of West
:28:31. > :28:33.