:00:07. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to Inside Out South West, stories and
:00:13. > :00:22.investigations from where you live a. Tonight: The misery of whooping
:00:22. > :00:28.cough, as the South West deals with its worst outbreak in decades.
:00:28. > :00:33.are used to the word a vaccine on these little vials of tablets and
:00:33. > :00:40.it is fundamentally misleading. Also tonight: The Devon craftsmen
:00:40. > :00:48.who is turning back to the Victorian art of sign writing.
:00:48. > :00:53.get into around 60 or 70 hours, that is when it gets scary. And the
:00:53. > :01:03.cutting edge of culinary taste. We meet the man who thinks that
:01:03. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:17.seaweed is a delicacy. Garlic and This is inside out -- Inside Out
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:01:27. > :01:30.The South West has been exceeding the biggest outbreak in a
:01:30. > :01:35.generation of whooping cough, and a government campaign is trying to
:01:35. > :01:39.increase rates of inoculation. But some parents are wary of
:01:39. > :01:44.vaccination and try to find other ways to protect their children. We
:01:44. > :01:51.have been investigating an alternative on offer, which experts
:01:51. > :01:54.say could be dangerous and to no good at all. Summer fun in Cornwall.
:01:54. > :02:03.But unvaccinated Ravi O'Sullivan's holiday was cut short by a whooping
:02:03. > :02:10.cough. I started coughing all day, it easily every 30 seconds. I had
:02:10. > :02:16.bad coughing fits, to the point where I was throwing up at night.
:02:16. > :02:24.His mother did not take him to the doctor. Instead, she consulted an
:02:24. > :02:28.expert with an unconventional look at how care. She was a homeopath
:02:29. > :02:33.and she gave him remedies. The argument about whether it is useful
:02:33. > :02:38.or not, I do not actually need a scientific study to tell me that it
:02:38. > :02:45.works, because I have seen it in action. It is an experience and
:02:45. > :02:49.something I know. In South Devon, Rachel Price is not fully
:02:49. > :02:56.vaccinated either. Her mother is trained as a homeopath, and is
:02:56. > :03:02.using what she believes is an effective alternative. I decided to
:03:02. > :03:07.get my daughter a homeopathic vaccination. I had no idea how
:03:07. > :03:15.inefficient it is, because she did not get whooping cough. Who knows
:03:15. > :03:20.whether she would have anyway, but it has got to help. Sue says she
:03:20. > :03:24.does not push her ideas on clients, but what are homeopathic vaccines,
:03:24. > :03:30.and is her own faith in them justified? A quick search of the
:03:30. > :03:33.internet, and we found a large number of homeopathic products
:03:33. > :03:39.labelled as vaccines are with the name of a child and illness. Some
:03:39. > :03:44.of those illnesses are potentially serious, but rare. Others are now
:03:44. > :03:49.making a comeback. You have to go back to the 80s to find an outbreak
:03:49. > :03:54.of whooping cough as bad as today's. The South West has seen an
:03:54. > :03:59.eightfold rise in cases this year, and in 2012, 13 babies died in the
:03:59. > :04:05.UK. There is also concern about the number of parents in the region
:04:05. > :04:08.rejecting vaccination. In Totnes, a town famous for embracing
:04:08. > :04:12.alternative lifestyles, three out of 10 children are not fully
:04:13. > :04:18.inoculated. The local health authority has launched a campaign
:04:18. > :04:24.to encourage uptake, but you will not find homeopathic vaccines
:04:24. > :04:29.featuring in it. A but this online. It is called a rubella vaccine. --
:04:29. > :04:36.I bought this our mind. You can get around 50 little white tablets. It
:04:36. > :04:41.is more appealing than a jab in your baby's ormer. But what good
:04:41. > :04:46.scientific evidence is there that these will protect against
:04:46. > :04:51.infectious diseases? The answer, shockingly, it is none. And
:04:51. > :04:58.homeopathy, and the active ingredient is diluted so many times,
:04:58. > :05:06.that the final delusion, drip onto a -- dilution, dripped onto a sugar
:05:06. > :05:12.pill, or have nothing left. Professor Ed Zardersnt has embedded
:05:12. > :05:17.-- investigated these claims, and he says that the evidence does not
:05:17. > :05:23.support them. Pete typical homeopathic -- and the typical
:05:23. > :05:27.homeopathic pill has nothing in it that will have an effect. Some
:05:28. > :05:34.people say that some energy will stimulate the body to heal itself.
:05:34. > :05:39.That is a very nice theory but it is not supported by evidence.
:05:39. > :05:49.it did he make of the pills that we bought? Why and of these products
:05:49. > :05:52.
:05:52. > :05:58.is made to protect or -- one of these products is made to protect
:05:58. > :06:03.against a fatal disease. This can be life threatening. A view shared
:06:03. > :06:07.by this leading vaccine expert. Adam Finn has seen a big rise in
:06:07. > :06:12.cases of children being hospitalised with one's rare
:06:12. > :06:18.infectious diseases. I am concerned -- where infectious diseases that
:06:18. > :06:23.were once a rare. I am concerned, because the use of the word of
:06:23. > :06:28.vaccine on these wiles of tablets is fundamentally misleading,
:06:28. > :06:38.because not all meet doctors, but also parents understand something
:06:38. > :06:41.
:06:41. > :06:46.quite clear when they used the word a vaccine. So what kind of company
:06:46. > :06:52.labels their projects as vaccines? This shop him London has some
:06:52. > :06:57.extraordinarily extinct -- distinguished customers. This
:06:57. > :07:00.Pharmacy boasts no less than three royal warrants, because they are
:07:01. > :07:05.suppliers of homeopathic products to no less than the Queen and
:07:05. > :07:12.Prince Charles, and they were to the late Queen Mother. And this is
:07:12. > :07:20.the man in charge. Tony Pinkus, a pharmacist. Filmed in 2009 claiming
:07:20. > :07:24.the merits of homoeopathy. As we progressively diluted and shake,
:07:24. > :07:32.you can improve the effectiveness of the remedy and take away the
:07:32. > :07:37.side effects. But you cannot win them all. The next year, Ainsworths
:07:37. > :07:44.was investigated by Newsnight for selling products, this time for
:07:45. > :07:50.malaria. An investigator body let him off, saying that he had taken
:07:50. > :07:54.remedial action, but that seems to have been short-lived. Selling
:07:54. > :07:57.unproven products is one thing, but recommending them to children --
:07:57. > :08:05.parents for their children as an alternative to vaccination is quite
:08:05. > :08:09.another. We have evidence that Mr Pinkus is prepared to do just that.
:08:09. > :08:13.He says that his pills are in no sense pharmaceutical drugs and he
:08:13. > :08:17.told us that he does not promote them as prevent its for childhood
:08:17. > :08:22.illnesses. But I e-mailed him, posing as an alternative Barack
:08:22. > :08:27.Obama parent looking for an alternative to the whooping cough -
:08:27. > :08:33.- but I e-mailed him, posing as an parent looking for an alternative
:08:33. > :08:37.to whooping cough. He said that he made sure that he gave this to his
:08:37. > :08:43.own children, but he also added that he could not make a claim for
:08:43. > :08:47.its success. Quite right. But he does not stop there. He said that
:08:47. > :08:52.typically, Pertussin is used in prevention, and two other remedies
:08:52. > :08:57.in treatment. He helpfully directed me to his website, where I can buy
:08:57. > :09:02.them. When I asked if my child should be vaccinated, he said it
:09:02. > :09:06.was a decision I had to make, but that he would use Pertussin with
:09:06. > :09:10.his own children. He described the vaccination as a compromise and
:09:10. > :09:15.said that his remedies would offset the side-effects. Experts have told
:09:15. > :09:20.us that there is evidence that they can do this, or that homoeopathy
:09:20. > :09:25.can prevent or treat any kind of infection in the way that Mr Pinkus
:09:25. > :09:28.suggests. To mislead people, not just in the sense of taking money
:09:28. > :09:35.off of them, but giving them a sense of security they should not
:09:35. > :09:41.have, that is fundamentally wrong. The saw is not alone. We found two
:09:41. > :09:51.other -- Ainsworths is not alone. We found two other companies with
:09:51. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :10:00.the same claims. Helios claims to have an alternative to the
:10:00. > :10:04.vaccination for -- Homeoforce claims to have alternative to the
:10:04. > :10:07.vaccination for whooping cough. At this point, you might be wondering
:10:07. > :10:13.how any company can get away with selling products labelled as
:10:13. > :10:17.vaccinations which are not. It is a good question. Homeopathy is
:10:17. > :10:23.regulated by the Government's Medicine at watchdog, and we have
:10:24. > :10:29.learned that there have been complaints going on for over a year
:10:29. > :10:36.against Ainsworths. I showed our evidence to Totnes MP Sarah
:10:36. > :10:40.Wollaston, who is concerned about vaccination intake locally. I do
:10:40. > :10:44.not think that any product for which there is no evidence
:10:44. > :10:49.whatsoever that can convert any benefit should be labelled --
:10:49. > :10:54.labelled a vaccine. There is no excuse for that. As a result of our
:10:54. > :10:58.investigation, the Government medicine watchdog has taken action
:10:58. > :11:03.against the three companies we have highlighted, and Ainsworths has
:11:04. > :11:08.removed several of its products from its website. Available to
:11:08. > :11:12.anyone, he still wants to take a chance on the -- there are still
:11:12. > :11:22.plenty of these products available, available to anyone who still want
:11:22. > :11:26.
:11:26. > :11:31.Every where you shop, you're surrounded by signs advertising one
:11:31. > :11:41.brand o'er another. But there is nothing new this this. We have been
:11:41. > :11:48.
:11:48. > :11:58.on the trail of a man reinventing on the trail of a man reinventing
:11:58. > :12:09.
:12:09. > :12:12.an old Victorian craft. From Torbay to Tinseltown. David Smith's at
:12:12. > :12:15.work on the latest project to emerge from his Torquay studio. 100
:12:15. > :12:19.years ago, this job would have taken a whole bunch of skilled
:12:19. > :12:25.tradesmen. You have to cut the panels. Everything is done by a
:12:25. > :12:29.team of five or six people. I'm trying to bring it together, but
:12:29. > :12:32.it's just me. Dave's talents have made him one of the most sought
:12:32. > :12:35.after sign artists in the world. He's currently working on three
:12:35. > :12:45.decorated glass panels for the wall of a museum in London's Portobello
:12:45. > :12:49.
:12:49. > :12:56.Road. Here owner Jake Burger invites punters to evolve - with
:12:56. > :13:01.much happy sampling - their own recipe for gin. When we were
:13:01. > :13:09.putting the place together, the museum room, we wanted that to be a
:13:09. > :13:15.kind of modern day replica of the gin palaces of the 19th cent which
:13:15. > :13:21.which churned it out on an industrial basis. Now Davis the
:13:21. > :13:26.last person doing it. We have seen pictures of the progress from afar,
:13:26. > :13:32.which Dave has E mailed us, but to see the actual thing will be
:13:32. > :13:34.amazing. It should look spectacular and really pull the room together.
:13:34. > :13:41.The process starts with Dave sketching out designs for the
:13:41. > :13:47.finished work. This is a rough drawing and not a finished drawing.
:13:47. > :13:55.But the centre panel will be here and this, there would be acid-
:13:55. > :13:58.etched and painted in a vibrant Victorian pink colour. With gilded
:13:58. > :14:02.texts. There would be no cut glass here, but there would be other
:14:02. > :14:10.treatments. The centre panel would be silvered and gilded to
:14:10. > :14:14.complement the two other panels to finish off the Victorian look.
:14:14. > :14:24.this is the centre panel. He works with a range of grindstones, each
:14:24. > :14:27.
:14:27. > :14:34.capable of a different cut for a different pattern. Theer who wheel
:14:34. > :14:39.gives you circles. This one gives you a nice edge cut and a much
:14:39. > :14:49.sharper look to the cut itself. job require great precision and a
:14:49. > :14:55.delicate touch. I'm up to around about sort of four to five hours
:14:55. > :15:01.already. So if it goes right at this stage, it's not too bad. It is
:15:01. > :15:04.when you're into 70 hours, that is when it gets a bit more scary.
:15:04. > :15:10.It'll take three days of cutting before the centre panel is ready
:15:10. > :15:13.for its next stage. Dave's been a sign writer since leaving school.
:15:13. > :15:21.Ten years later he had his own business, mostly serving clients in
:15:21. > :15:26.and around Torquay. People would want us to make their signs for
:15:26. > :15:31.them. Because they were slightly different and more interesting than
:15:31. > :15:34.the general mundane type of signs. But to take things to the next
:15:34. > :15:42.level Dave had to look way beyond Torquay - to the United States,
:15:42. > :15:46.where he studied at the workshop of glass craftsman Rick Lawson.
:15:46. > :15:54.Probably the number one person to be involved with to develop reverse
:15:54. > :16:02.glass. Dave first put this new reverse glass technique to use in
:16:02. > :16:05.the early '90s on his breakthrough project at Torquay's Clocktower pub.
:16:05. > :16:11.The following decade saw a growing demand for his work from major
:16:11. > :16:21.clients on both sides of the Atlantic. One project can take
:16:21. > :16:22.
:16:22. > :16:27.months. He's doing the side panels now, for the Ginstitute.
:16:27. > :16:32.cutting now these into quarters to take up the area of the clear glass
:16:32. > :16:37.is going to be gilded. From there I will flood the area with distild
:16:37. > :16:44.water, which has a small amount of gelatine inside it and I will
:16:44. > :16:50.afully gold directly to that area. -- apply the gold. Most of Dave's
:16:50. > :16:54.work is done in mirror image on the back of the glass. The backs of the
:16:54. > :17:00.panels have always looked messy, you think, this guy doesn't know
:17:00. > :17:04.what he is doing. Once you turn them around, they give you
:17:04. > :17:11.different story. Then the work is revealed in all its glory. Glass
:17:11. > :17:21.isn't all he does. Lately, he's been dabbling in the murky world of
:17:21. > :17:25.
:17:25. > :17:29.rock and roll. Rock star John Mayer wanted a retro look for his new
:17:29. > :17:39.album cover. He saw some of Dave's work and called him using the
:17:39. > :17:39.
:17:39. > :17:46.internet from his California home. Someone said there is this guy in
:17:46. > :17:51.the UK, his name is David Smith, check out his stuff. OLK let's see.
:17:51. > :17:59.I clicked it and it was pencil work he had done for a tattoo parlour.
:17:59. > :18:02.As soon as I saw it, I went, "Here we are!" The album cover Dave ended
:18:02. > :18:05.up designing just missed out on a nomination for this year's Grammy
:18:05. > :18:15.awards. Far away from Tinseltown, it's back to work on the finishing
:18:15. > :18:15.
:18:15. > :18:20.touches for the centre panel of the Ginstitute piece. I tend to use
:18:20. > :18:25.more of the old period paint, because it contains the lead which
:18:25. > :18:35.gives it more body than the modern paints, which doesn't contain the
:18:35. > :18:38.
:18:38. > :18:46.leads that you need the get the It is looking pretty complete now.
:18:46. > :18:49.I have this red to be blended in and then I will take it to London.
:18:49. > :18:55.The work won't be over all three panels are safely hanging on the
:18:55. > :19:02.Ginstitute walls. But before he does that he has a small delivery
:19:02. > :19:05.to make to one of his other London clients. Then it's across West
:19:05. > :19:15.London to Portobello Road, where Jake is eagerly awaiting the
:19:15. > :19:22.
:19:22. > :19:32.finished glasswork. After months of sketching, cutting, polishing and
:19:32. > :19:38.painting the three panels are finally in place. OK I will stand
:19:38. > :19:44.back and look at that. Wow, that looks great. I am one satisfied
:19:44. > :19:54.customer. Amazing job. You truly are a master craftsman.
:19:54. > :19:56.
:19:56. > :20:06.There it is, hanging on the wall - indisputable truth that Dave Smith
:20:06. > :20:13.
:20:13. > :20:16.Here in the South West we are lucky to live in a region known for its
:20:16. > :20:21.great foods, from dairy farms to fish. But we have found a man who
:20:21. > :20:30.is convinced there is a new potential food this a abundant but
:20:30. > :20:33.overlooked. In fact, it's right under my feet! Rory Macphee is a
:20:33. > :20:35.boat builder, furniture maker and former shipping lawyer working out
:20:35. > :20:41.of Constantine near Falmouth. But lately it's something beneath the
:20:41. > :20:48.waves that's caught his interest. For many years, I thought the sea
:20:48. > :20:52.was a two-dimensional thing, it was a playground to put my boats on and
:20:52. > :20:57.earn sums Ferying people around the Mediterranean. Then I worked at
:20:57. > :21:04.Cornwall college and became aware that it was three-dimensional. A
:21:04. > :21:09.student said, Rory, what is this seaweed? I said, I don't know. Then
:21:09. > :21:12.I thought, why don't I know and I went and found out. From then
:21:12. > :21:17.seaweed has become his obsession and he's now got the first licence
:21:18. > :21:22.in England to harvest seaweed to eat. On a spring tide I'm down
:21:22. > :21:29.there at low water, having a fantastic time, picking seaweed and
:21:29. > :21:32.in due course selling it. Rory only picks seaweed from below the
:21:32. > :21:35.watermark where the plants are growing. And when it's a low
:21:35. > :21:45.jtidelike here at Prisk Cove, he can get to the good stuff. Oh look
:21:45. > :21:50.
:21:50. > :21:58.at that baby! Lovely! That is some kelp. It's lovely. A very delicate
:21:58. > :22:07.taste. It is about pick and nibbling and it is a secondary test.
:22:07. > :22:13.If I fall over with gangrene tonight... Or my nose falls off, I
:22:13. > :22:16.will know it is the seaweed and I won't put it on the market! Armed
:22:16. > :22:22.only with a pair of scissors, a glass jar and a wicker basket,
:22:22. > :22:28.Rory's seaweed picking is very low impact. This is truly sustainable
:22:28. > :22:32.methods. We want to keep this going. By cutting these two leaves off
:22:33. > :22:39.there, two thirds of the way up, that will keep that plant alive. In
:22:39. > :22:45.the old days they would get a tool and chop that off at the ground. We
:22:45. > :22:50.don't want to do that. The same with the dulse, that is the red
:22:50. > :22:59.plant there. This grows on other seaweed and this dulse is growing
:22:59. > :23:02.on the serrated rack. So I just want to take a bit for my tea.
:23:02. > :23:04.Seaweed's always been valued in Cornwall but not as a food source.
:23:04. > :23:09.The Victorians harvested large quantities to use as fertilizer
:23:09. > :23:12.because its packed full of nutrients like nitrogen and iodine.
:23:12. > :23:22.But for Rory it's a delicious treat that should be gracing our plates,
:23:22. > :23:26.
:23:26. > :23:35.not just feeding our veg. There we go. Got you! Snip a bit of it. In
:23:35. > :23:42.she goes. I call that chef's delight. You need a pair of nice
:23:42. > :23:52.sharp scissors. Sometimes we will do a bit of a... Elevens moment.
:23:52. > :23:58.
:23:58. > :24:07.Oh! Garlic, onion... Bit of chilli... I can see that on an
:24:07. > :24:10.avocado pear. There -- And there is a market in Cornwall for seaweed -
:24:10. > :24:17.Rory's found someone else who shares his vision. Only the most
:24:17. > :24:27.avant-garde chefs are looking at it and Mick is putting a lot of effort
:24:27. > :24:28.
:24:28. > :24:31.into developing the Cornish you mammy -- unami. For the Japanese
:24:31. > :24:34.unami is the holy grail of flavour - a natural form of monosodium
:24:34. > :24:38.glutamate that comes from boiling seaweed with dried fish into a
:24:38. > :24:45.dashi or stock. You ends up with this clear liquid. We use this as a
:24:45. > :24:49.stock base for many things. For crab pasta, to nice broths with
:24:49. > :24:53.mackerel and mushrooms. The relationship with Rory that we have
:24:53. > :25:00.started is a long-term one. He has got some very good seaweed over
:25:00. > :25:05.there and we need the get more of it. -- to get more of it. Mick
:25:05. > :25:12.wants his chefs to know as much about seaweed as possible. Welcome
:25:12. > :25:16.to our beach. Welcome to our paradise. So he's brought them to
:25:16. > :25:26.the beach to meet Rory, pick some seaweed and get some ideas for how
:25:26. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:41.to cook it. Are we cooking? While the chefs are busy picking,
:25:41. > :25:46.Rory builds a fire and smokes some seaweed ready to cook. I can see
:25:46. > :25:55.some smoke, what have you got cooking? This is a special for you,
:25:55. > :25:59.Mick. Some dulse. Which I'm smoking on a mixture of Cornish oak and
:25:59. > :26:08.Cornish apple. The colour is beautiful. Do you want to taste
:26:08. > :26:11.some? Yes. This is the one, that flavour. That is dfl that --
:26:11. > :26:15.definitely that flavour. It might not be nouveau cuisine, but Rory's
:26:15. > :26:25.got a simple campfire recipe to get Mick inspired: a smoked dulse bread
:26:25. > :26:27.
:26:27. > :26:33.made out of flour, water and seaweed. There is a seven year
:26:33. > :26:43.apprenticeship to this game, mate. It's cooked on the fire in a Celtic
:26:43. > :26:46.
:26:46. > :26:55.pie iron. Come on guys. What have you go. Some dull. Lots of stuff.
:26:55. > :27:02.Let's have some pepper dulse. These guys are hired. Amazing! OK,
:27:02. > :27:10.vegetarian hot dogs from Neptune's allotment, flour, water and dulse.
:27:10. > :27:16.Gorse maybe? A bit of gorse. Why not. There we are boys and girls.
:27:16. > :27:22.It is very hot. If you hold the bread board. Maybe you should put
:27:22. > :27:32.truffle oil on. For dessert I have some Caribbean tea. That is seaweed
:27:32. > :27:39.boiled for 20 minutes, with ginger, lemon, cinnamon and card Eammon.
:27:39. > :27:47.And it has been put through a sieve. Shot glass. It smells really good.
:27:47. > :27:53.It beats Lemsip. It is the best hangover cure. I think we need to
:27:53. > :27:57.be back in the kitchen. No, this is the best play, sea wood, larder,
:27:57. > :28:04.sun fire. Maybe after ietthoog bread, you have a point. Brilliant.
:28:04. > :28:07.And the sun it out. Epic day. with Mick and his team full of
:28:07. > :28:13.ideas it looks like seaweed might become a new Cornish delicacy. But
:28:13. > :28:20.for Rory, it's not all about hard work and making money. As I get
:28:20. > :28:27.older and less able to make things in my workshop, why not just be on