:00:04. > :00:14.Hello and welcome to Inside Out South West - stories and
:00:14. > :00:24.investigations from where you live. Tonight: A Devon man's quest to
:00:24. > :00:33.
:00:33. > :00:38.What do you want? It's running now! How Martin Phillips got his dream
:00:39. > :00:42.off the ground. HE CHEERS. Also tonight, who should
:00:42. > :00:45.pay the cost of policing the South West's 24-hour cities? I cannot
:00:45. > :00:55.understand how they really can say they can put a levy on us. The
:00:55. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :00:58.licensing trade, at this moment in time, is on its backside. And why
:00:58. > :01:02.every second counts for these Dorset dairy farmers. We managed to
:01:02. > :01:12.shave 23 minutes off our time, Tom. I'm Sam Smith and this is Inside
:01:12. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:20.For more than a decade, a Devon man has been working towards his dream
:01:20. > :01:30.- to build that most iconic of British aircraft, a Spitfire, and
:01:30. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :01:54.then see it fly. David Stafford has I was presented with a large carton
:01:54. > :01:58.and on unwrapping it, it was filled with polystyrene and in the middle,
:01:58. > :02:01.there was a solitary pot rivet, which was the first part of my
:02:01. > :02:04.project. I thought they were laughing at me, so I thought I
:02:04. > :02:07.would have the ultimate laugh and present them back with a Spitfire.
:02:07. > :02:11.Over the next 13 years he arranged bits around the rivet to make a
:02:11. > :02:18.Spitfire. Not bad for a man who'd only done plastic kits before.
:02:18. > :02:22.want to see the rivet that started at all. That one. That big one.
:02:22. > :02:25.That is the one that started it all. It's a foggy November afternoon at
:02:25. > :02:33.Filton Airport in Bristol, and a big day for chief engineer John
:02:33. > :02:37.Hart, who's overseen the assembly of the Spitfire. Today is a big day,
:02:37. > :02:41.the day we bring it outside and hopefully it will run. There are a
:02:41. > :02:46.lot of things that could go wrong. But I am sure it will be fine.
:02:46. > :02:50.There are hundreds of joins, and although we have pressure tested
:02:50. > :02:53.them, the engine will be the ultimate test. The mighty Merlin
:02:53. > :03:03.engine's been silent for more than half a century. I don't know, I'm
:03:03. > :03:05.
:03:05. > :03:12.feeling a bit "Eurgh" at the moment! That it, we can checked the
:03:12. > :03:18.generators now. Nothing can be allowed to go wrong. The first
:03:18. > :03:24.flight is just weeks away, but a Filton airport shuts. Fingers
:03:24. > :03:29.crossed, this is it. I think we are going to have the fire brigade as
:03:29. > :03:39.guests today! Lots if need fuel running around. It might backfire,
:03:39. > :04:02.
:04:02. > :04:09.John rates Martin's dedication very highly. He's not...you know, crazy
:04:09. > :04:13.wealthy. And he's had to work very, very hard to be able to get this.
:04:13. > :04:16.As he's said a few times, he has to be pinched to believe it. Unlike
:04:16. > :04:19.thousands of other Spitfires, RR232 - built in 1934 - never flew over
:04:19. > :04:22.wartime Europe. Instead, it saw service in South Africa. It's
:04:22. > :04:25.trying, isn't it? It's just never run before. What do you want? It's
:04:25. > :04:30.running now! HE CHEERS. Keep it going! The spark that lit Martin's
:04:30. > :04:34.passion was a love of, and pride in, British engineering. But back when
:04:34. > :04:38.this all started, in the year 2000, he had one big question on his mind.
:04:38. > :04:41.I thought, "Oh, I'll just go and buy a Spitfire. It must be easy."
:04:41. > :04:44.And I started talking to people and got absolutely nowhere and I
:04:44. > :04:48.thought, "How the hell do you buy a Spitfire?" He tried the Internet -
:04:48. > :04:52.no luck. Yellow Pages - drew a blank. Like JR Hartley, he began to
:04:52. > :04:56.think his search was entirely futile. But then, in Worthing, he
:04:56. > :05:03.found a man who had quite a lot of one in his back garden - or near
:05:03. > :05:13.enough. Negotiations ensued. A sum of �70,000 changed hands. Martin
:05:13. > :05:14.
:05:15. > :05:22.had what he wanted. August 2000. His purchase is coming home. 70,000
:05:22. > :05:25.entitled me to the identity RR232. It also gives me a lot of original
:05:26. > :05:35.parts and artefacts. I'm intending to find as many original parts,
:05:36. > :05:38.
:05:38. > :05:43.with original MoD part numbers on. This is what makes a Spitfire sing.
:05:43. > :05:46.This is the actual engine which came with the project. Have a look
:05:46. > :05:54.at this date plate here. You'll see it's a Merlin 25, serial number
:05:54. > :05:57.171-28. Worth approximately �8000. To overhaul it and renew it to its
:05:57. > :06:02.new state, the labour alone would be �40,000 and there's 2000 man
:06:02. > :06:07.hours in one of these. One of the Spitfire's wings was found in a
:06:07. > :06:10.hedge near Exeter, where it had crashed during the war. To have
:06:10. > :06:15.this wing replicated - not copied, replicated, which is a very
:06:15. > :06:18.important word in Spitfire rebuilds - would cost about �90,000. But
:06:18. > :06:26.nobody likes to talk about the end cost. It always exceeds what you're
:06:26. > :06:29.expecting. We dream of �550,000. Luckily, Martin owns a plant hire
:06:29. > :06:39.business and today, he's shifting one wing into a hanger for
:06:39. > :06:39.
:06:39. > :06:42.restoration. This is a mark 14 Spitfire wing, a starboard one.
:06:42. > :06:48.Obviously, the mark nine version is the one I'm building but the wings
:06:48. > :06:56.are very, very similar. This here is the outer gunplay. Cannon here,
:06:56. > :07:03.And so began more than a decade of stripping, buffing, building and
:07:03. > :07:13.testing. Some components had to be specially made but 70% are original
:07:13. > :07:16.
:07:16. > :07:19.parts - some factory fresh. Well, it's about two years since the
:07:19. > :07:25.project started and these are more bits we've obtained on the way.
:07:25. > :07:28.This is the base of a spinner. You can see where the blades fit - the
:07:28. > :07:31.four cutaways from the mark 9 Spitfire. Here, we have the creme
:07:31. > :07:34.de la creme - the real bit. Absolutely original. Full of
:07:34. > :07:37.sheep's wool here. Horsehair in the back. I can't believe that some
:07:37. > :07:40.bloke sat on that at 10,000 feet. Imagine scrambling out of that and
:07:40. > :07:43.opening a parachute! Rear canopy, all finished, ready to go with the
:07:43. > :07:46.lock and everything on. Two years ago, we had a complete engine,
:07:46. > :07:50.which we've now completely stripped. Crankshaft out, rods, pots, heads
:07:50. > :07:53.all in pieces. We actually knocked the whole engine down in a weekend.
:07:53. > :07:58.We worked till half-past three Saturday night and it was all in
:07:58. > :08:01.bits by about 11 o'clock Sunday morning. It will be a very slow
:08:01. > :08:05.process putting it back together but I reckon about 2 1/2 years to
:08:05. > :08:07.actually completely rebuild this to running condition. Martin has to
:08:07. > :08:14.satisfy the civil aviation authority that every part is
:08:14. > :08:20.correct and documented, especially those rivets. That rivet there, for
:08:20. > :08:24.example. 332 diameter and I can tell by looking at it it's got a
:08:24. > :08:34.120 degree counter sunk head. that's the common one. Riveting.
:08:34. > :08:38.
:08:38. > :08:41.December 18 last year. The world's largest passenger plane, the A380
:08:41. > :08:48.Airbus, is making its last flight out of Filton, where its wings are
:08:48. > :08:55.made. In two days' time, the airport was shut for good so the
:08:56. > :09:00.super-sized plane is saying goodbye. -- will shut. Martin's little
:09:00. > :09:02.sweetheart has, in a curious twist of history, become the last plane
:09:02. > :09:12.to be built at Filton. Spitfires flew from here in wartime, but will
:09:12. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:17.this one flight today? It's a silly question but what the motion like?
:09:18. > :09:21.--emotion. The emotion? I'm running on adrenaline now. I think I might
:09:21. > :09:25.have a tear or two in a while. I was tearing when they were filling
:09:25. > :09:28.it up with fuel, especially when it got to 100 gallons at �800 a gallon.
:09:28. > :09:31.Now, the difficult question, that you don't probably want to answer,
:09:31. > :09:35.is how much? It is not worth anything. It's not for sale.
:09:35. > :09:43.but what I mean is, how much has it cost you? The pot is bare.
:09:43. > :09:47.Everything I own is in that Spitfire. You are a lucky man and
:09:47. > :09:55.so am I. And now that lucky man, Bill Perrins, has to fly the thing.
:09:55. > :09:57.For the first time in decades, RR232 will be airborne. It's in
:09:57. > :10:01.safe hands. I've flown several Spitfires over the last 10 or 12
:10:01. > :10:04.years or so but this mark nine is seen by many people as the most
:10:04. > :10:12.iconic and perfect Spitfire. It's got a Merlin engine. It looks right,
:10:13. > :10:21.feels right. It's got a lot of good history behind it. This is it - the
:10:22. > :10:31.moment Martin has dreamed of for 13 years. To everyone of a certain age
:10:32. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :11:03.and many much younger, it's lump in Today, best bit? What was the best
:11:03. > :11:13.bit? Best bit? Bill saying, "Martin, what a fantastic aeroplane." He
:11:13. > :11:13.
:11:13. > :11:16.said, "Don't do just it. -- adjust it. That's alive. It's done. It's
:11:16. > :11:19.finished." We're finished. I haven't come down yet but what
:11:20. > :11:29.milestone! An iconic bit of British history. Do it if you enjoy it. Do
:11:30. > :12:02.
:12:02. > :12:06.11.30 in Plymouth - a time when many people are starting to think
:12:06. > :12:08.about going to bed. But for this lot, the night has just begun. Pubs,
:12:08. > :12:15.clubs, taxi firms and take-aways all benefit from night-time trade.
:12:15. > :12:20.But what about the cost to the A 24-hour city calls for 24-hour
:12:20. > :12:24.policing. We'll be busy right the way up to 7 or maybe eight o'clock
:12:24. > :12:31.in the morning, right across the city. And for the inevitable
:12:32. > :12:35.casualties - a field hospital. set up at 23:00 hours this evening.
:12:35. > :12:45.It is now 2:30. We've seen nine patients through the facility
:12:45. > :12:48.
:12:48. > :12:53.I cannot understand how they can say they're going to put a levy on
:12:53. > :13:01.us. Would a new levy on late-night buinesses be just the tonic? Or
:13:01. > :13:06.more trouble than it's worth? Sally Hutchins. Welcome to New
:13:06. > :13:10.Year's Eve, 2012. In Plymouth. Can I just go through the runners and
:13:10. > :13:13.riders. It's 8pm, and police are getting ready for one of the
:13:13. > :13:16.biggest party nights of the year. They've doubled up on the 20
:13:16. > :13:25.officers and three vans usually deployed in the city centre on a
:13:25. > :13:29.weekend. I think that temptation when it gets busy later is for us
:13:29. > :13:33.all to just go to incident, but I think you have to be measured and
:13:33. > :13:37.the response. We want people to enjoy themselves. On Union Street,
:13:37. > :13:43.things don't really get going until about midnight. Police are on hand
:13:43. > :13:48.to snuff out any signs of trouble. But for now, the atmosphere is good
:13:48. > :13:54.natured. Which is just as well, because some officers have been
:13:54. > :13:59.called away to Torpoint. A young man is missing after jumping from
:13:59. > :14:03.the ferry. His body was later recovered and identified as 16-
:14:03. > :14:13.year-old Jordan Cobb from Plymouth. But as the search continues, one
:14:13. > :14:18.
:14:18. > :14:25.group of young people are oblivious Get out, now! The police are not
:14:25. > :14:29.involved, and this lot eventually head off. Back in the city centre,
:14:30. > :14:33.it has now gone midnight and the first casualties are rolling in.
:14:34. > :14:36.This unconscious girl, another addition to the statistics.
:14:36. > :14:38.According to the latest figures compiled by Alcohol Concern, in
:14:38. > :14:48.Plymouth, there were more than 21,500 emergency hospital
:14:48. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :15:02.admissions related to alcohol, at a She is taken to Streetsafe, a kind
:15:02. > :15:04.
:15:04. > :15:08.of pop-up A&E, designed to where possible cut admissions to hospital.
:15:08. > :15:12.The aim is to provide a safe haven for the vulnerable and also provide
:15:12. > :15:18.a facility where we can treat people and prevent them from going
:15:18. > :15:23.to be emergency department. A lot of the time, it will allow people
:15:23. > :15:27.to recover and they can be discharged from the facility to
:15:27. > :15:30.their home address, to the care of a friend or relative. By the end of
:15:30. > :15:35.the night, Sreetsafe will treat 15 casualties - some have been in
:15:35. > :15:45.fights. One expert says drink is a big part of the country's
:15:45. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:52.staggering �30 billion bill for violence. Violence is far more
:15:52. > :15:57.likely to occur on the night-time economy. One of the key things
:15:57. > :16:01.appears to be crowding and competition. A lot of young,
:16:01. > :16:05.intoxicated people, jostling for space, bumping into each other,
:16:05. > :16:12.spilling each other's drinks. There are a lot of triggers for
:16:12. > :16:18.aggression. What you see on the street is only part of it. A costs
:16:18. > :16:23.start with the police service,, investigating, running a penny
:16:23. > :16:26.offenders. Victims will often end up in the emergency department for
:16:26. > :16:31.treatment. They will often get there by ambulance, and for the
:16:31. > :16:36.victims themselves, the cost to the economy. When you take all these
:16:36. > :16:40.things together, we would estimate approximately the average violent
:16:40. > :16:44.incident costs around �15,000. Plymouth has more officers policing
:16:44. > :16:47.its late night economy than any other town in the region. The
:16:47. > :16:52.Government's allowed councils to impose a levy on late night pubs
:16:52. > :17:00.and clubs and some of that could be passed to the police. But so far,
:17:00. > :17:04.the levy's not been brought in here. It's now gone 3am, and getting busy.
:17:04. > :17:07.We have about 60 jobs at running at the moment across the city, a lot
:17:07. > :17:13.of that night and economy, but a lot in private houses, in places on
:17:13. > :17:16.the outskirts of the city. We have a lot of officers working tonight.
:17:16. > :17:25.For New Year's Eve, around midnight, we have 100 officers in and around
:17:25. > :17:30.them. It is about half-past three now. How does it play out? I soon
:17:30. > :17:35.get my answer. The Chief Inspector heads off to make an arrest. One of
:17:35. > :17:44.24 arrests on the night. This man was later cautioned for a public
:17:45. > :17:49.order offence. There has been someone just ejected from a
:17:49. > :17:52.licensed premises. Being racially abusive towards the doorman. We do
:17:52. > :17:56.not tolerate that in Plymouth. Some of the officers and myself went
:17:56. > :17:59.over. He will spend the night with us and we will launch an
:17:59. > :18:04.investigation and see if we can charge him with racially aggravated
:18:04. > :18:14.public order. It's heading for 4am, and the night is still young for
:18:14. > :18:16.
:18:16. > :18:23.the burger sellers. We have a licence until five o'clock. This is
:18:23. > :18:28.the busiest period. We are thankful for the queues. I have no option,
:18:29. > :18:31.we have to pay the bills. I will catch the stragglers. Plymouth
:18:32. > :18:39.Council says the night time economy is worth �60 million and provides
:18:39. > :18:45.jobs for nearly 3,000 people. Serving those who want to party all
:18:45. > :18:50.night long. The night is far from over. This nightclub, they are
:18:50. > :18:53.still on the way in. If the Council does decide to charge a levy, this
:18:53. > :18:59.is the sort of place that'll have to pay it. Jesters stays open till
:18:59. > :19:05.6am - the owner says it's the only way to stay in business. Do you
:19:05. > :19:09.really think that they want to stay down here until five or six o'clock
:19:09. > :19:13.and one in? A of course I don't. Unfortunately, we have had to go
:19:13. > :19:18.along with this. Because people are now notoriously coming out later
:19:18. > :19:25.and later. Gill owns two clubs. The levy would cost her �2,000 a year
:19:26. > :19:32.on top of the business rates she already pays. What are we paying
:19:32. > :19:37.�1,000 a week on these premises? What are we paying that four? You
:19:37. > :19:42.tell me. I think we contribute very well to the economy. I mean, I
:19:42. > :19:47.cannot understand how they really can say they will put a levy on us.
:19:47. > :19:50.The licensing trade at this moment in time is on its backside. Gill
:19:50. > :19:53.has 25 staff. Her clubs are part of a scheme to encourage responsible
:19:53. > :20:02.management of nightspots. Its chairman thinks that's preferable
:20:02. > :20:11.to an imposed levy. One of the big problems is that every single
:20:11. > :20:21.person has to pay, whether they are a good or bad bar. What best barman
:20:21. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:27.is about is voluntary raising of solid response to what is happening
:20:28. > :20:31.locally? -- so it responds. It's reckoned Plymouth Council would
:20:31. > :20:35.raise around �80,000 a year from the levy - the equivalent to the
:20:35. > :20:39.overall cost of just a handful of violent assaults. There'd be admin
:20:39. > :20:47.costs to run it. The police are conscious of the impact it could
:20:47. > :20:52.have on traders. We have to be conscious that we are dealing with
:20:52. > :20:56.businesses. People's livelihoods. So any application that has the
:20:56. > :21:00.potential to restrict those livelihoods has got to be done in a
:21:00. > :21:04.really considered and proportionate fashion. We have got to be really
:21:04. > :21:08.clear about what the benefits are, what the opportunities are and if
:21:08. > :21:12.it is then appropriate, approached the council for the support around
:21:12. > :21:20.it. I could it be that the police do not ask for the levy to be
:21:20. > :21:23.brought in? It could be. Plymouth Council will decide whether or not
:21:23. > :21:33.to impose the levy later this year. A year that started with 39
:21:33. > :21:43.reported assaults, seven requiring hospital treatment. The argument
:21:43. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :21:58.over who pays the cost of that goes Rising costs, squeezed margins and
:21:58. > :22:08.that battle with the weather. Who would be a dairy farmer? We have
:22:08. > :22:15.
:22:15. > :22:18.It's a ritual that's barely changed for hundreds of years. The twice
:22:18. > :22:22.daily trip from field to milking parlour. Whether it's a modern unit
:22:22. > :22:32.or a more traditional one, milking is mostly done indoors. But not on
:22:32. > :22:34.
:22:34. > :22:40.this farm. How are your waterproof trousers? Very good. Neil Grigg and
:22:40. > :22:44.Tom Foot are taking a very different approach. We invested in
:22:44. > :22:48.the cows, which are going to be learned for us, rather than
:22:48. > :22:51.investing in buildings and concrete, which in the end, Bellamy to
:22:51. > :22:57.depreciate. We did not have the capital to put up conventional
:22:57. > :22:59.units. We had to think outside the box. And thinking outside the box
:22:59. > :23:06.means putting everything on wheels, including the milking parlour
:23:06. > :23:16.itself. No need for expensive buildings. Even the water troughs
:23:16. > :23:20.are portable. But it's a risky approach. It has been tried before
:23:20. > :23:24.and obviously over the years, and to be honest, it does not always
:23:24. > :23:32.lasted before. One concern is that the process of moving all this
:23:32. > :23:36.equipment will destroy the cow's pasture. The main problem that we
:23:36. > :23:44.saw was, are you going to trash the grassland you are trying to
:23:44. > :23:50.preserve to feed the cows? We heard behind the scenes, common gossip,
:23:50. > :23:53.that you will never milk 500 cows without getting knee-deep in mud.
:23:53. > :23:59.Come rain or shine, the milking parlour needs to be moved around
:23:59. > :24:07.the farm every day. Time is money, but it takes too long. We have been
:24:07. > :24:17.spending in excess of �700 to build the system. But it is Neil and
:24:17. > :24:27.myself, two young lads. I like to Time to put a snap, crackle and pop
:24:27. > :24:28.
:24:28. > :24:32.into this operation. Can they speed the whole thing up? Over the next
:24:32. > :24:35.month, I have to be about half an hour quicker so instead of it
:24:35. > :24:45.taking two hours to move for Hall, bring it down to an hour-and-a-half.
:24:45. > :24:47.
:24:47. > :24:57.And we can go home early. Going see Handyman Tom sets to work making
:24:57. > :25:01.
:25:01. > :25:08.adjustments that could save vital But there's a problem - their water
:25:08. > :25:14.system has led to a disaster in the village down the road. Ideally,
:25:14. > :25:22.either of us go down to the pompous and start pumping if we need to. --
:25:22. > :25:27.the pump house. Away have had a few leaks in are temporary troughs.
:25:27. > :25:36.That has led to the residents without water. It is very
:25:36. > :25:41.unsatisfactory. And the knowledge, the tank is not baffled? It is
:25:41. > :25:49.putting us at risk. The consequences of our own actions. At
:25:49. > :25:54.the moment, it is other people... We are now looking for a method
:25:54. > :25:57.that the storage seems to be running it, his line will shut
:25:57. > :26:04.itself off so the rest of the properties in the village will not
:26:04. > :26:06.be affected. Problem sorted. A month later, it's time to see if
:26:06. > :26:11.Tom's tinkering has trimmed their timings. Wives Sally and Kelly are
:26:11. > :26:16.here to lend a hand. We quite often joked that they see a lot more of
:26:16. > :26:25.each other than we ever see of them! It will be nice to have a bit
:26:25. > :26:35.more time around. It would be nice. We put in the hours for the right
:26:35. > :26:37.
:26:37. > :26:47.reasons. I have confidence in Tom posh mac ability to make things
:26:47. > :26:59.
:26:59. > :27:09.The parlour makes its way down the road to another field, 500 metres
:27:09. > :27:28.
:27:28. > :27:32.Hit it, Tom, don't to collect. -- don't tickle it. We were unable to
:27:32. > :27:42.of hitch the trailer. A little bit of workshop time. Not a major
:27:42. > :27:55.
:27:55. > :28:00.Right, we have managed to shave 23 minutes of our time, Tom. That
:28:00. > :28:05.could have been better. If we had not had the slight unforeseen
:28:05. > :28:10.problem of the hitch on the tractor, which is not for routine problem. I
:28:10. > :28:20.am really pleased with that. That is 23 minutes. 23 minutes will save
:28:20. > :28:31.