0:00:00 > 0:00:03Hello and welcome to Inside Out Southwest. Stories from where you
0:00:03 > 0:00:09live. Tonight, we are on patrol in
0:00:09 > 0:00:14Torquay with the emergency service that is powered by prayer. The day
0:00:14 > 0:00:23you are not shocked by what you see, you should stop doing it.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Also tonight, the south-west victims of internet bullying.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30I got home that night and it was all over Facebook, she's a Taxi,
0:00:30 > 0:00:35she is dirty, she is not washed. And can David Stafford master a
0:00:35 > 0:00:39traditional craft in north Devon? This is not going to be funny. I am
0:00:39 > 0:00:49really going to do it. I am Sam Smith and this is Inside
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0:00:52 > 0:00:56They're an alternative emergency service equipped with prayer, and
0:00:56 > 0:01:06some pink flip flops. Inside Out spent the weekend in Torquay with
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0:01:15 > 0:01:25This is a new world tonight. Lord, we go out in your name. We are
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0:01:33 > 0:01:35doing work that has never been done Father, as we work to help the
0:01:35 > 0:01:45different agencies in the community - the police, the council, the
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0:02:01 > 0:02:06We are there to get outside the four walls of the Church and put
0:02:06 > 0:02:09our faith into practice. And if we can make somebody's life or their
0:02:09 > 0:02:18night safer and ensure that they get home safely, albeit in an
0:02:18 > 0:02:24Friday night and a new mission for Ros Ede and her team - opening the
0:02:24 > 0:02:30public toilets at night for the first time. That's a good place to
0:02:30 > 0:02:39put the tip box as well. The shop owners are upset because they use
0:02:39 > 0:02:42the doorways of shops to pee. It is very unpleasant. Especially if
0:02:42 > 0:02:46we're dealing with somebody in a doorway, you do not know what is
0:02:46 > 0:02:49going on. We asked the Council if we could have the toilets open. The
0:02:49 > 0:02:54pastors are linked by radio to police, doormen and the town's CCTV
0:02:55 > 0:03:03operators. Since they started in 2008, they've dealt with more than
0:03:03 > 0:03:102,000 incidents. We had one woman come up and say thank you for
0:03:10 > 0:03:13saving my life. Her husband had left her with two children, one of
0:03:14 > 0:03:17whom is autistic, and she did not feel as if she could carry on. She
0:03:17 > 0:03:21came here to finish her life, to get drunk and end it all. But she
0:03:21 > 0:03:24met her team and somebody sat and talked with her. She came back and
0:03:24 > 0:03:34thanked us for saving her life. We don't know the consequences of what
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0:03:44 > 0:03:47we do. These guys, at this time of night, they came round. Give you
0:03:47 > 0:03:57coffee to keep you warm. I know they are dealing a lot with young
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0:04:15 > 0:04:25drunken people. Where are you going We are local people. It has been
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0:04:25 > 0:04:34nice and peaceful. We do have people praying for peace. How are
0:04:34 > 0:04:41the toilets? They're fine. The last inspection, they were fine and that
0:04:41 > 0:04:46is good news .. I can be like... I can be like a... It's early
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Saturday night and the walking wounded are already arriving. Up
0:04:49 > 0:04:56the street, 18-year-old Ashley is in trouble. He's been in a fight
0:04:56 > 0:04:59and has hurt his knee. He's brought back to the safe place a converted
0:04:59 > 0:05:04van that the pastors park on the harbourside. It's a refuge for
0:05:04 > 0:05:12anyone who needs help. It's going to get more painful. I think you
0:05:12 > 0:05:15should go home. If it wasn't for these guys, he would still be
0:05:15 > 0:05:25sitting over there. He would be waiting for an ambulance. Thank God
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0:05:29 > 0:05:39these guys are here. Are you going to go home now? I am going to sit
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0:05:53 > 0:05:56Now you have nowhere to stay? If the temperature drops to zero, they
0:05:56 > 0:06:06will take you in. It's about six degrees at the moment. John spent
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0:06:13 > 0:06:17last night in a car park. Now he's back on the street. The next
0:06:17 > 0:06:22casualty is a girl who says she is 18. A lot of people drink too much,
0:06:22 > 0:06:26don't they? It's a safe environment for them to either sober up or get
0:06:26 > 0:06:32home or get an ambulance. I done it myself when I was younger. Fair
0:06:32 > 0:06:37play to them, as long as they don't act too silly and start fights.
0:06:37 > 0:06:45Within minutes of having said goodbye, Ashley is back. We pinch
0:06:45 > 0:06:48the ears and twist his hair to see if we can get a response. But we
0:06:48 > 0:06:53were getting no response. Because of that, we have called an
0:06:53 > 0:06:58ambulance. I've got children and grandchildren who I would not want
0:06:58 > 0:07:02to see in that position, the position some of these kids are.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05It's good to have somebody out here looking after them. While one team
0:07:05 > 0:07:10deals with Ashley, the other helps a young man who appears to be the
0:07:10 > 0:07:15worse for drink. Last year, Torbay had the biggest rise in alcohol
0:07:15 > 0:07:24related hospital admissions in the south-west. When they're very young,
0:07:24 > 0:07:29yes, it distressing. The day you're not shocked by what you're seeing,
0:07:30 > 0:07:33you should stop doing it. The pastors' presence seems to have
0:07:34 > 0:07:40a calming effect on the streets. Since they started, Saturday night
0:07:41 > 0:07:44crime in Torquay has fallen by more than 30 per cent. We are not
0:07:44 > 0:07:54confrontational, we're not trying to enforce any kind of law. We are
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0:07:54 > 0:08:04mums and dads, grans and grandads. Thank you so much. Stay safe.
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0:08:05 > 0:08:15What shocks you most about what you see? Parents who don't care. Being
0:08:15 > 0:08:23a parent myself, I can't understand that. How you can give birth to
0:08:23 > 0:08:33your son or daughter and not care. The pastors have become well known
0:08:33 > 0:08:38
0:08:38 > 0:08:48I'll give you some money for these. If they end up in A&E with a cut
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0:08:54 > 0:09:02foot, that costs, I have been told, Back at their prayer base, the
0:09:02 > 0:09:09pastors receive a call for help. The young lady outside now. Just
0:09:09 > 0:09:17round the corner. It is 2am and a 31 year-old man has been found in a
0:09:17 > 0:09:23I'm just going to check your pockets to make sure you have a
0:09:23 > 0:09:26wallet. The first thing we have done this evening is called the
0:09:26 > 0:09:34Street Pastors who normally help us in this sort of situation to free
0:09:34 > 0:09:40up some emergency services time. But he is too much in drink to be
0:09:41 > 0:09:50of any help. If we can't get him sorted out, the police will take
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0:10:00 > 0:10:02matters into their own hands. Try to find out where he's been
0:10:02 > 0:10:06drinking. They don't like places that continue serving alcohol to
0:10:06 > 0:10:09people when they have had too much to drink. A little bit cold.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Waiting for the ambulance. He hasn't got anyone at home so we
0:10:12 > 0:10:17have to call for an ambulance to take care of him. The pastors'
0:10:17 > 0:10:26shift ends at 4 am. Tying up loose ends. You check yours and we will
0:10:26 > 0:10:34check ours. I'm not as young as I was. Some nights, it can be quite
0:10:34 > 0:10:44tiring. I think tonight was quite challenging. But we've had a lot of
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0:10:46 > 0:10:51good times as well. So it's been worthwhile. Ashley was treated and
0:10:51 > 0:10:55eventually went home with friends. But two casualties of the night
0:10:55 > 0:10:58went to hospital. The pastors will probably never know what happened
0:10:58 > 0:11:01to them, but they are determined to persevere with prayer and practical
0:11:01 > 0:11:04help. There's no such thing as retirement in the Bible. I've
0:11:04 > 0:11:14looked for it. It doesn't happen. So as long as we're needed, we'll
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0:11:34 > 0:11:38Social networking sites like Facebook can connect you to the
0:11:38 > 0:11:48rest of the world, but they can also be a forum for cyber bullying
0:11:48 > 0:11:55
0:11:55 > 0:11:58which has been linked to the If you know who is doing the
0:11:58 > 0:12:05bullying, you can probably do something about it. But what if the
0:12:06 > 0:12:09abuse is anonymous? We've been investigating. My name is Dawn,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12this is Sarah. We teach young people on safety issues. We are
0:12:12 > 0:12:22here today to show you what can happen to people who have been
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0:12:26 > 0:12:30cyber bullied. An internet safety workshop in Bovey Tracy. And a
0:12:30 > 0:12:33stark reminder of the dangers of online abuse. Pictures of five
0:12:33 > 0:12:43young people whose suicides have been linked to so-called cyber
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0:12:54 > 0:12:58bullying. It's not like it was in the old days when, if anybody was
0:12:58 > 0:13:00starting on anybody, it would be face to face, in the classroom or
0:13:00 > 0:13:03the playground. Cyberbullying is such an easy way to target somebody.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06I don't want to be around the racist comments, seeing people in
0:13:06 > 0:13:10the town saying, there's that girl. Jade Sarwar was cyber-bullied after
0:13:10 > 0:13:20being assaulted by a girl in Newton Abbott. I got home that night and
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0:13:24 > 0:13:32it was all over Facebook. She called me a Taxi. And because I
0:13:32 > 0:13:35didn't reply, she got other people involved. I showed my mum it. I was
0:13:35 > 0:13:38crying because there was stuff they were saying that I didn't like.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41They were going on about, she's dirty, she doesn't wash, the colour
0:13:42 > 0:13:49of her skin. Loads of people got involved. There was 19 pages of it.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Jade went to the police. The teenagers who posted the abuse
0:13:52 > 0:13:54trolling as it's known ended up in court. Magistrates said they were
0:13:54 > 0:13:58deeply concerned by the cyber- bullying and gave referral orders
0:13:58 > 0:14:06to the five girls responsible. first, I was nervous about going to
0:14:06 > 0:14:09the police. But it was a good thing because they dealt with it
0:14:10 > 0:14:12straightaway and made a good job of it. If I hadn't gone, I don't know
0:14:13 > 0:14:15what would have happened now. knew who the bullies were because
0:14:15 > 0:14:17their postings were on Facebook, which discourages anonymous and
0:14:17 > 0:14:20abusive postings. But unlike Facebook, there are social
0:14:20 > 0:14:29networking sites where people are allowed to be faceless. Sites like
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Little Gossip. I don't see the point of it. Nobody posts anything
0:14:32 > 0:14:35nice about anybody on it. It's not like Facebook or Twitter where
0:14:35 > 0:14:38there are in interaction tools. It is spiteful and pointless really.
0:14:38 > 0:14:45Now studying in France, Bianca Coughlin was in her second year at
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Exeter University when she discovered she was on Little Gossip.
0:14:48 > 0:14:58It was referring to my reputation and how promiscuous I had been,
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0:14:58 > 0:15:02which I hadn't! It wasn't very flattering. It must have seemed
0:15:02 > 0:15:05like a private joke to the people who posted about their friends, but
0:15:05 > 0:15:15it would not be funny for parents or an employer. In fact it did turn
0:15:15 > 0:15:18out to be a joke by one of her friends. But one that didn't seem
0:15:18 > 0:15:28so funny when that friend tried to delete the post. That's when she
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0:15:34 > 0:15:37said, I can't. That's when I realised the dangers of this site
0:15:37 > 0:15:39because no one has the power to remove it. The posting was
0:15:39 > 0:15:47eventually removed but Little Gossip, which operates in more than
0:15:47 > 0:15:5050 countries, is still rife with abuse posted by anonymous users.
0:15:50 > 0:16:00I've come to London to meet the young entrepreneur from Taunton who
0:16:00 > 0:16:01
0:16:01 > 0:16:04created the site in 2010. discovered a hit TV series called
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Gossip Girl which is based in America. There is also a Facebook
0:16:07 > 0:16:15group called Gossip Girl Taunton. I saw lots of gossip from nights
0:16:15 > 0:16:25before, of people going out. It was all light hearted, funny banter. I
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0:16:27 > 0:16:33thought it was an amazing idea. Ted had unleashed something big.
0:16:33 > 0:16:42The site quickly snowballed out of control. We had 33,000 hits in the
0:16:42 > 0:16:47first hour. We had more hits than Facebook did. The servers crashed.
0:16:48 > 0:16:53It was impossible to police, just myself. Ted was soon swamped with
0:16:54 > 0:16:56complaints. If you have 60,000 pieces of gossip and 10 per cent of
0:16:57 > 0:17:06them are genuinely malicious, that is 6000 pieces of gossip which I
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0:17:08 > 0:17:11have to try and find and delete. It is a huge amount of work. After
0:17:11 > 0:17:15just four days, Ted sold the site for, he says, $50. I didn't sell it
0:17:15 > 0:17:25for financial gain. I sold it to get rid of it. Why did you not just
0:17:25 > 0:17:28
0:17:28 > 0:17:31close it down? That was a mistake and I am sorry for that. I set up
0:17:31 > 0:17:37the site with good intentions and I should have just shut it down when
0:17:37 > 0:17:41I knew that it was spiralling out of control. Little Gossip goes on
0:17:41 > 0:17:44under its new owners. The business that Ted ahead set up as a harmless
0:17:44 > 0:17:54bit of fun has turned into a global Internet phenomenon, but one with
0:17:54 > 0:17:59It's the anonymity allowed on sites like Little Gossip that experts say
0:17:59 > 0:18:02makes them harder to police. If you are a victim of that online abuse,
0:18:02 > 0:18:12it is very difficult to get recourse because you do not know
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0:18:16 > 0:18:19who it is that's making those comments. It's not just young
0:18:19 > 0:18:29people who are being targeted. Rate My Teacher features praise, but
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0:18:30 > 0:18:33also abuse about staff at schools and colleges across the world. We
0:18:33 > 0:18:36spoke to a south-west teacher who says he has been bullied on Rate My
0:18:36 > 0:18:41Teacher for 14 months. We've disguised his identity. It's been a
0:18:41 > 0:18:44really tough time. I am leaving the teaching profession because of it.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47It was almost on a daily basis that comments were being left about me.
0:18:47 > 0:18:55In the end, there were over 200, which, quite frankly, I thought
0:18:55 > 0:19:03appalling. I felt helpless to do anything about it. I am sure it
0:19:03 > 0:19:06affected my performance in the classroom. Action against sites
0:19:06 > 0:19:15like Little Gossip and Rate My Teacher is made harder by the fact
0:19:15 > 0:19:23that they appear to operate out of Getting sites closed down is
0:19:23 > 0:19:28virtually impossible. Many sites are hosted, not in the UK, but in
0:19:28 > 0:19:32the US. Free-speech is in the US constitution, people have a right
0:19:32 > 0:19:42to say what they want to say, and from the UK perspective, we are not
0:19:42 > 0:19:52We tried to contact Little Gossip to ask why they don't remove
0:19:52 > 0:19:57
0:19:57 > 0:20:00abusive comments, but our email racist abuse she suffered. It took
0:20:00 > 0:20:10me a while to get over it all. About 18 months ago now. I haven't
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0:20:17 > 0:20:26heard anything since. But it was Jade's story shows that the courts
0:20:26 > 0:20:31can bring online bullies to book, Governments appear unable or
0:20:31 > 0:20:41unwilling to tackle the operators of sites, which seem to tolerate
0:20:41 > 0:20:53
0:20:53 > 0:20:58There's a website you can go to for advice and report abuse: These
0:20:58 > 0:21:02kilns are an impressive clue to the fact that the south once had a
0:21:02 > 0:21:12pottery industry. One man is keeping that tradition alive making
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0:21:23 > 0:21:29beautiful jugs that have buyers This is North Devon. Now a couple
0:21:29 > 0:21:32of hundred years ago this place was pottery central all down here were
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Potteries and the air would have been thick with the smoke from
0:21:36 > 0:21:40their kilns. These days there's just a handful of people carrying
0:21:40 > 0:21:50on that old tradition. One of them lives up the road there, Harry the
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0:21:53 > 0:22:00potter. Every day he practises before
0:22:00 > 0:22:04getting down to work. Harry. Good This is extraordinary. It's
0:22:04 > 0:22:11beautiful. Thank you very much. long have you been a potter?
0:22:11 > 0:22:15years. 64 years! A long time. a good life. Yes, I love it. You've
0:22:15 > 0:22:19got all sorts of stuff here, small and large jugs and plates and
0:22:19 > 0:22:22dishes and all sorts of stuff. What's your favourite stuff? I have
0:22:22 > 0:22:30a reputation for making these harvest jugs. These things here?
0:22:30 > 0:22:34Yeah. They're a tradition in the area. Going back to the 17th
0:22:34 > 0:22:40century. My son is throwing today and he'll demonstrate this. He's a
0:22:40 > 0:22:45very fine thrower. You'll see him working. Fantastic.
0:22:45 > 0:22:50Watching Nick working is a bit like turning the clock back five
0:22:50 > 0:22:59centuries. The clay still comes from a quarry nearby. The technique
0:22:59 > 0:23:03and shape have stayed more or less the same since the 17 hundreds. The
0:23:03 > 0:23:07jugs were the potters' contribution to the harvest supper celebrations.
0:23:07 > 0:23:14They take along one of these filled to the brim with local brew, golden
0:23:14 > 0:23:17cider. I love throwing. I could sit on that wheel all day and keep
0:23:18 > 0:23:23going. Unfortunately, you know, I'd fill the place up in a day. I can't
0:23:23 > 0:23:28throw all day. But that's my love. That's what I like doing, yeah.
0:23:28 > 0:23:34he does it to the same world class standard as his father, proudly
0:23:34 > 0:23:39producing work of incredible quality and beauty. I don't see it
0:23:40 > 0:23:44ever becoming a thing that will die out or not be used or not be
0:23:44 > 0:23:48treated as something that's creative. The classic shape is then
0:23:48 > 0:23:53prepared for its decoration, using a process that was popular in
0:23:53 > 0:23:57renaissance Italy, they're dipped in a thrin coating of white clay.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02Into this Harry will scratch out the designs for which he is world
0:24:02 > 0:24:06famous. At the age of 79 Harry is one of the last potters to keep
0:24:06 > 0:24:12this tradition going on a commercial basis. He trained as a
0:24:12 > 0:24:19fine artist. The jug proz vied the perfect blank canvas. What's this
0:24:19 > 0:24:25called? This is the technique called scrufitto. I scrap through
0:24:25 > 0:24:29the surface of the white into the brown. The tools look plainfully
0:24:29 > 0:24:33familiar. They're dental tools. They keep their edge. I used to use
0:24:33 > 0:24:37bamboo at one time. But I discovered these are much easier to
0:24:37 > 0:24:42use. You must need incredible confidence just to go at it.
0:24:42 > 0:24:52get that through doing it. When you've been doing it for 64 years,
0:24:52 > 0:24:53
0:24:53 > 0:24:57I suppose the knack does come to you! It does.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02The technique can take anything up to a day. I'm going to let Harry
0:25:02 > 0:25:07get on with it and pop over to the Burton museum to look at
0:25:07 > 0:25:11traditional jugs. Harvest jugs were originally made by ordinary folk,
0:25:11 > 0:25:16but now examples such as these fetch extraordinary prices, tens of
0:25:16 > 0:25:26thousands of pounds. They weren't just made for the locals. Some were
0:25:26 > 0:25:31
0:25:31 > 0:25:37lends itself to bold design and sometimes poetic messages. "When I
0:25:37 > 0:25:43was in my native place, I was a lump of clay and I was digged out
0:25:43 > 0:25:48of the earth and brought from thepbs away. But now I am a jug
0:25:48 > 0:25:55become through potter's art and skill and now your servant am
0:25:55 > 0:25:59become and carry ale I will." There is a tradition with sort of
0:25:59 > 0:26:02film that it has to end with the presenter having a go at the wheel
0:26:02 > 0:26:07for comic effect. This isn't going to be fun yip because I'm going to
0:26:07 > 0:26:14do it. Show me what to do. Take your ball of clay and smack it on
0:26:14 > 0:26:23the wheel. Smack it? Yeah. Smack it hard? Yeah. Wet your hands. And the
0:26:23 > 0:26:31clay. Very gently and firmly squeeze it into a nice, round shape.
0:26:31 > 0:26:37Now then, put your left hand inside, with your fingertips, bring it
0:26:37 > 0:26:47right up. Right off at the very top. Is that all right? Very good.
0:26:47 > 0:26:57That's perfect. Now draw it up. You mustn't go too fast. It must be an
0:26:57 > 0:26:57
0:26:57 > 0:27:02even Spiral. Beautiful technique. You have a potter's thumb. Gently.
0:27:02 > 0:27:12There you are, very good. perfect teacher. Thank you very
0:27:12 > 0:27:19much Harry. Fantastic. Is this always the moment of truth?
0:27:19 > 0:27:25Yes, it is. They seem to have worked. There you are. Wow. This is
0:27:25 > 0:27:35naughty post cards. I don't think I can read any of them to a family
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0:27:35 > 0:27:39audience. This is made with the Queen's Foot Guards having a bit of
0:27:39 > 0:27:49a celebration. A bit of a knees up. This is for the Diamond Jubilee.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52
0:27:52 > 0:27:58That's right. Harry's jugs have now developed something of a fan club.
0:27:58 > 0:28:03Buyers from around the world are happy to pay �400 a throw for the
0:28:03 > 0:28:08finest examples. But for Harry, it's not just about the money. It's
0:28:08 > 0:28:12about something much deeper. would say it was the rhythm, the
0:28:12 > 0:28:19rhythm of music and the rhythm of working, the rhythm of throwing
0:28:19 > 0:28:27pots on the wheel, pulling handles, decorating, it's got to be ridge