:00:18. > :00:23.The search for wealth beneath the waves, but will be his Cornish
:00:24. > :00:34.waters be mounted by undersea mining? How do you dig up AT
:00:35. > :00:41.football pitches worth of sea bed and not create a plume?
:00:42. > :00:50.Poetry in motion. Simon Armitage on a coast path Odyssey. You meet
:00:51. > :00:57.people. I wrote the song and it's about having Tourette's. And the
:00:58. > :00:59.story of Nick and Spencer, finding friendship and therapy for there to
:01:00. > :01:31.rets. We all know about Cornwall's long
:01:32. > :01:35.history of mining underground, but now attention is turning to under
:01:36. > :01:39.the sea. Developers believe there are riches out there which could
:01:40. > :01:47.create jobs and bring in investment, but could a new ten rush damage a
:01:48. > :01:50.precious environment? The clear waters off the north coast
:01:51. > :02:03.of Cornwall. Popular with divers from all over the country. 30
:02:04. > :02:08.different species of sharks. There is an amazing variety of marine
:02:09. > :02:13.life. The visibility is the primary thing we have going for us. It's
:02:14. > :02:17.been compared to the red Sea. We have visibility up to 30 metres
:02:18. > :02:20.sometimes. But campaigners fear these crystal`clear waters could
:02:21. > :02:28.soon be muddied by a proposal to dig up the sea bed. They are going to a
:02:29. > :02:32.depth of two metres for five square kilometres. This boat is looking for
:02:33. > :02:35.evidence of tin in St Ives Bay. Marine Minerals Limited, MML, is
:02:36. > :02:44.collecting core samples from the sea bed. The cores are taken to the
:02:45. > :02:55.Wheal Jane laboratory for analysis. The man in charge of the operation
:02:56. > :02:58.is Mike Proudfoot. This is the Marine mine tailings that have been
:02:59. > :03:05.accumulated in the past and they extend all the way through the
:03:06. > :03:09.sample to this point. This is the material we are interested in. The
:03:10. > :03:12.tin Mike is looking for lies a few hundred metres off one of the most
:03:13. > :03:15.beautiful stretches of Cornwall's coastline, between St Ives and
:03:16. > :03:23.Perranporth. But how did it get there? In the 19th century, this
:03:24. > :03:29.area was full of mind, but back then, there were few if any
:03:30. > :03:33.environmental controls so all the waste would be washed down the
:03:34. > :03:38.hillside, along the valley and down to see. There have been previous
:03:39. > :03:48.attempts to recover this tin, the last one led by Mike Proudfoot in
:03:49. > :03:51.the 1980s. The acid test on any project is how it feels, and this is
:03:52. > :03:55.an extremely good project. That operation failed when the tin price
:03:56. > :04:05.crashed in 1985. But Mike says things are different now. In the
:04:06. > :04:12.80s, if you had asked me what we do with Tim,
:04:13. > :04:15.80s, if you had asked me what we do high`tech mineral. It is something
:04:16. > :04:19.that is becoming scarce and the prices rising. Mike says his new
:04:20. > :04:26.operation, if it gets the go`ahead, could provide work for 100 people
:04:27. > :04:31.for at least ten years. We are talking about ?3 million a year in
:04:32. > :04:35.wages alone to the people that will be working on this project. These
:04:36. > :04:40.are not jobs that once the project is established will be taken to rear
:04:41. > :04:46.`` to Vietnam, this is Cornwall and it has to be done here. MML plans to
:04:47. > :04:52.use up to three crawlers similar to this one. Tin`bearing sand dug from
:04:53. > :04:58.the sea bed will be sucked up to a ship on the surface. After primary
:04:59. > :05:10.processing on board, most material will be returned to the trench
:05:11. > :05:15.behind the crawler. To give you some idea of what could be going on under
:05:16. > :05:29.the waves, we have recruited Simon, a willing volunteer.
:05:30. > :05:36.This is how deep marine minerals are planning to go. Except, their
:05:37. > :05:42.crawler will dig a trench wider than this. It will go back and forwards
:05:43. > :05:46.over an area of seven football pitches every month, and over the
:05:47. > :05:48.ten year life of the project, that is how deep marine minerals are
:05:49. > :05:51.planning to go. Except, their crawler will dig a trench wider than
:05:52. > :05:53.this. It will go back and forwards over an area of seven football
:05:54. > :05:56.pitches every month, and over the ten year life of the project, that's
:05:57. > :06:00.equivalent to Fishermen from St Ives believe that extraction of tin from
:06:01. > :06:03.the sea bed will create a plume of cloudy water that will have a
:06:04. > :06:08.serious impact upon their ability to catch fish. We remember that South
:06:09. > :06:14.West water put a sewer pipe down and the whole bay turned red overnight.
:06:15. > :06:19.The scale that marine minerals are talking about would be massive, so
:06:20. > :06:23.the whole they could completely turn red. Because most of the boats you
:06:24. > :06:28.see here are fishermen, how will the fish sedum looks? Mike Proudfoot
:06:29. > :06:45.insists that fishermen have nothing to worry about. When `` there won't
:06:46. > :06:50.be a plume. The sand is course. We are putting it onto the vessel and
:06:51. > :06:54.piping it back to the sea bed into the trench that we have dog, so it
:06:55. > :06:58.will not wash away somewhere else. MML also claims that damage to any
:06:59. > :07:06.life forms found on or in the sea bed will be minimal. This is a
:07:07. > :07:11.relatively barren area in terms of the amount of life in it. Because it
:07:12. > :07:16.is mobile sound, there is nothing growing on it. I'm travelling out to
:07:17. > :07:22.one of the areas MML hopes to exploit. Marine scientist Steve
:07:23. > :07:31.Widdicombe is on board with me. His underwater camera shows an
:07:32. > :07:38.apparently lifeless sea bed. Very coarse, clean sand with kelp
:07:39. > :07:50.material. But a sample grab tells a different story. If I dig into it,
:07:51. > :07:55.it seems very course and lifeless. But there are a few large organisms
:07:56. > :07:59.here, but the greatest concern is the animals you can't see. Just
:08:00. > :08:04.because it seems there is no life here does not necessarily mean there
:08:05. > :08:08.isn't. What questions have got to be asked if you are going to dig up
:08:09. > :08:15.five square kilometres of this stuff? We need to understand how
:08:16. > :08:20.long it will take for the microbe organisms to recover from that
:08:21. > :08:24.change or impact. It could be that recovery happens quickly, it could
:08:25. > :08:33.happen slowly. But at the moment, I did think we have the information to
:08:34. > :08:46.make any predictions. Back in the lab. We can see worms moving about.
:08:47. > :08:50.We can see a very small anthropoid. All these animals live within the
:08:51. > :08:55.sand grains, looking for this other material here. You need to think
:08:56. > :09:04.about this sediment here we are looking at. It's a microbial
:09:05. > :09:13.generator of nutrients which is very important in coastal zones to fuel
:09:14. > :09:16.productivity. MML acknowledge that there will be an impact on the
:09:17. > :09:22.benthos, the community of small organisms within the sea bed, but
:09:23. > :09:26.they claim most of it will survive. We are doing parallel trenches,
:09:27. > :09:34.leaving blank areas in between that can allow the sea bed to recover by
:09:35. > :09:40.migration of species. These are very complex systems and processes. You
:09:41. > :09:47.can't be sure of that at this stage. I can't say to you that 100% of life
:09:48. > :09:51.will survive, but it will be very high, according to our advisers. MML
:09:52. > :09:58.is spending ?500,000 on an Impact Assessment for the Marine Management
:09:59. > :10:01.Organisation. If the MMO grants the licence it requires, the company
:10:02. > :10:14.could be recovering tin here as early as 2015.
:10:15. > :10:20.The beauty of the South West has moved many a man to verse, including
:10:21. > :10:25.one of the UKs most popular and admired poets. But Simon Armitage
:10:26. > :10:29.wasn't content with a quick visit here. He sought inspiration the hard
:10:30. > :10:45.way. Poet Simon Armitage has embarked on
:10:46. > :10:48.a 265`mile walk of the South West coastpath. He'll be writing a new
:10:49. > :11:08.book about it. We get into place at four o'clock,
:11:09. > :11:15.five o'clock, filthy, sweaty and tired and have to have a quick scrub
:11:16. > :11:23.and then jump out. And read some poems. Simon's bartering poetry
:11:24. > :11:35.readings for food, shelter and companions on the walk. The profit
:11:36. > :11:40.that I am looking for was in the experience, and something to write
:11:41. > :11:50.about. And meeting people and talking sharing with them. Simon
:11:51. > :11:54.never knows who is going to turn up. First to arrive in Newquay was Colin
:11:55. > :12:01.Inglis who has come all the way from Germany just to meet him. I thought
:12:02. > :12:07.it would be a good way to get to know him. Along with Cornelius,
:12:08. > :12:14.there was Peter, today's guide, Charles, a lecturer from Falmouth,
:12:15. > :12:24.today, they planned to walk 17 miles. Leaving Newquay, they cross
:12:25. > :12:35.strait which is only possible at low tide. A lobster goes into a bar, and
:12:36. > :12:37.the bouncer says get out. The lobster turns round and says, what
:12:38. > :12:59.is the problem? Walking the sand and bare feet,
:13:00. > :13:06.wearing his shoes on his hands. He will carry his weight into the
:13:07. > :13:16.water, setting out for Atlantis on the point of departure. What tends
:13:17. > :13:21.to happen is you get round the headline and you can see your walk
:13:22. > :13:28.all lined up in front of you. Stretched out along the coast. And
:13:29. > :13:40.you say, that it is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
:13:41. > :13:48.Some those at last night's Reading have offered the group refreshments
:13:49. > :13:58.at their home in Holywell Bay, if they can find it. In a roundabout
:13:59. > :14:07.way. I'm not sure that it actually is. What happens on the journey like
:14:08. > :14:15.this, you meet people who have lots of good will, people interested in
:14:16. > :14:22.poetry, people interested in walking. And they tend to be the
:14:23. > :14:38.good people and the interesting people.
:14:39. > :14:44.It is always worth getting down on the beach. That is what I imagined
:14:45. > :14:51.the whole war would be like, just striding along golden sands. `` the
:14:52. > :15:02.whole walk. It is very interesting, walking along the Strand line,
:15:03. > :15:07.looking at what had washed up and I think I probably do my best writing
:15:08. > :15:16.when I am writing about that interaction between nature and
:15:17. > :15:19.civilisation. It is a testament to being along that beach.
:15:20. > :15:37.Good evening. You are leaving the house by the back door. There was
:15:38. > :15:44.still time. You promised not to be late, not to go far.
:15:45. > :15:50.Each day rings different weather and different walkers. As Simon
:15:51. > :16:03.approaches lands end, both have changed. `` Land's End. Dusk walks
:16:04. > :16:18.its fingers up the knuckles of your spine. The child, too big for court.
:16:19. > :16:30.How did it get so this is not the finishing point for
:16:31. > :16:33.me. This is only a transit area. I am looking out into that missed and
:16:34. > :16:38.wind and that terrible sea wondering what that is going to be like on the
:16:39. > :16:45.boat to the silly cars tomorrow. `` the Scilly Isles. Tresco Island.
:16:46. > :16:50.Simon Wright during spring tides which Mike make it possible to cross
:16:51. > :16:58.the other islands on foot if he can see where he's going. The weather,
:16:59. > :17:06.the specific meteorological term for today's weather is rubbish. It is
:17:07. > :17:09.supposed to be clearing up. There is a microclimate here, everywhere I
:17:10. > :17:21.have been in the world has said it is the last day and it is a walk
:17:22. > :17:28.out into the mist. Maybe that is fitting. With the tide coming in
:17:29. > :17:36.fast, no one is quite sure of the best laced across. `` place to
:17:37. > :17:39.cross. Maybe in that direction and then across to the boat yard, that
:17:40. > :17:52.looks like the best bet, to be honest. After lots of advice, Simon
:17:53. > :17:56.goes his own way. It was really exhilarating. You get down on the
:17:57. > :18:08.water level and you cannot see where you are going. You can see the sand
:18:09. > :18:14.underneath. It is tantalising. I now want to go to the end, to have a
:18:15. > :18:16.look at Samson, in the mist. But this is where Simon's journey has to
:18:17. > :18:23.end. I am going to be able to get to
:18:24. > :18:42.Samson today. That seems very appropriate, really,
:18:43. > :18:56.with an misty, foggy finish. I have had enough of the walking. It is
:18:57. > :18:58.arduous, day in, day out. I'm not the sort of person who could do an
:18:59. > :19:12.assault he says music is his medication.
:19:13. > :19:15.Nick Tatham from Dorset has Tourette's, but his recent
:19:16. > :19:22.appearance on ITV talent show helped raise awareness of a misunderstood
:19:23. > :19:34.condition So, we thought we would give Nick "the voice" to explain
:19:35. > :19:37.more! # He walks up to the man on the street. # Sir, can you help me?
:19:38. > :19:41.My name is Nick Tatham, and you might remember me from The Voice,
:19:42. > :19:52.back in the Spring. Sadly, I didn't get through. But,
:19:53. > :19:55.what I did do was raise awareness about Tourette's. A syndrome I have,
:19:56. > :19:58.which causes the body to make voluntary noises and movements
:19:59. > :20:04.called tics. And it seems like I'm not the only one who wants to talk
:20:05. > :20:13.about Tourette's. Thank you. When I saw Nick on The Voice, I thought,
:20:14. > :20:16.well, I thought that he was amazing. Spencer is eight years old and was
:20:17. > :20:33.diagnosed with Tourette's a year ago. I do quite a lot of swear words
:20:34. > :20:36.and it's basically, F`ing, , with a W word. BLEEP! BLEEP! I stick my
:20:37. > :20:43.fingers up, which is basically... You're all BLEEP`ing BLEEP`ers out
:20:44. > :20:51.there! Sorry. I don't know what to do. And it can make you feel so
:20:52. > :20:54.embarrassed, sometimes. I'm travelling from my home town in
:20:55. > :20:58.Dorset to meet Spencer in Oxford and share my experiences of living with
:20:59. > :21:02.Tourette's. I think that he can tell me a bit about how to handle tics
:21:03. > :21:07.and I think that would be good advice for me.
:21:08. > :21:14.Being on The Voice wasn't the first time I'd been on TV. This was me at
:21:15. > :21:20.home near Shaftesbury on Inside Out, back in 2005. I was 21 and really
:21:21. > :21:23.struggling with a condition that I have now learned to live with.
:21:24. > :21:31.This is bizarre. I'm just thinking what I'm going to say.
:21:32. > :21:42.I was also taking medication, and lots of it. Part of my daily
:21:43. > :21:46.routine. Now, music's my medicine, and I don't take any pills.
:21:47. > :21:48.Tourette's typically starts in childhood and, for about half of
:21:49. > :21:54.children, it continues into adulthood. Good lad. Spencer lives
:21:55. > :22:02.with his mum, dad and little brother. I've come to meet them all
:22:03. > :22:05.and maybe even sing, if they're not careful! Hi! Hey, buddy, you all
:22:06. > :22:08.right? How's it going, OK? Good, good. Over 300,000 people across the
:22:09. > :22:13.country deal with Tourette's everyday. Although Spencer was
:22:14. > :22:16.diagnosed just 12 months ago, he's had the symptoms for two years. Look
:22:17. > :22:24.at that, Wa`ay! Spencer's Tourette's started pretty
:22:25. > :22:38.much overnight, and was a real shock for the family. The end one is
:22:39. > :22:41.definitely out of tune. He just started making snorting noises. He
:22:42. > :22:45.was like, what's that noise? He said, I don't know. I don't know
:22:46. > :22:49.when I'm making the noise. And then, it just seemed to be from that
:22:50. > :22:55.moment on. He just was doing these things. Almost, almost. It's not
:22:56. > :22:59.really a nice feeling. When you can't really stop doing stuff, at
:23:00. > :23:03.first, you just think, why am I doing this? So, I've got a song in
:23:04. > :23:08.here called Different. When I was your age, I wrote this song, about
:23:09. > :23:15.having Tourette's. My tics started when I was 11. My main one being
:23:16. > :23:19.facial spasms. It's not known exactly why Spencer swears when he
:23:20. > :23:26.tics. And # I may be different but I'm still alive... He tics quite a
:23:27. > :23:42.lot and calls quite a lot. I don't like it, seeing people's
:23:43. > :23:46.faces. It feels like I'm being mean to them but I'm not. I find it hard
:23:47. > :23:53.to explain myself, and it's just hard. It appears that this little
:23:54. > :23:57.boy is actually pretty naughty, for saying a swear word, when in fact,
:23:58. > :24:01.it's quite obvious, once you get to know him, and you get to know what
:24:02. > :24:05.he's doing, it's quite obvious that, actually, that was a tic. If # I
:24:06. > :24:09.know that I'm different! There you go. What do you think of that? Is
:24:10. > :24:14.that all right, do you like that? Spencer's form of Tourette's. Is
:24:15. > :24:18.rare. 90% of people with the syndrome don't have swearing tics.
:24:19. > :24:26.What happened with the dinner lady? I swore BLEEP! In her face. And she
:24:27. > :24:35.said, excuse me? And I said I have a problem, I have tics, and she went,
:24:36. > :24:39.oh, and... And she told my teacher. It's really difficult, like, hearing
:24:40. > :24:43.this, because it takes me back to my childhood, and that makes me get a
:24:44. > :24:47.bit of a knot in my stomach, to be honest. But, no, he's a brave little
:24:48. > :24:50.kid, and, you know, I'm very impressed. BLEEP! Did you get them
:24:51. > :24:54.out here? One of the things Spencer finds difficult is going out in
:24:55. > :24:58.public. Is it by Easter, is it? Today, I'm joining him and his dad
:24:59. > :25:03.on a trip into town. So, have you got any advice for me and Hayley,
:25:04. > :25:08.for parents? To try and improve what we can do, for Spencer. Just be
:25:09. > :25:14.there for him as much as possible. That's all I can say. If you grin
:25:15. > :25:20.and bear it and now, but it will, my parents would do the same thing, it
:25:21. > :25:24.does get easier. I was prescribed loads of pills when I was in my
:25:25. > :25:27.teens but the medication didn't suit me. Eventually, I got help at Great
:25:28. > :25:32.Ormond Street Hospital. Which is where Spencer will be going, too. He
:25:33. > :25:35.has literally just been referred, so I don't know how long that's going
:25:36. > :25:47.to take. I highly, highly recommend it. I promise, it does get easier.
:25:48. > :25:51.It does. A few weeks later, Spencer and his family are off to London for
:25:52. > :25:54.their first appointment at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
:25:55. > :26:01.BLEEP off! I've been waiting for this day for a long time. And, since
:26:02. > :26:14.I got diagnosed. Train journeys like this are
:26:15. > :26:15.especially difficult for Spencer. He really struggles to hold in his
:26:16. > :26:29.tics. HE SNORTS. Do you know, I just had a
:26:30. > :26:31.tic? Because it's packed. Yeah. HE MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY.
:26:32. > :26:44.BLEEP! No. That was exactly what I didn't want to do. BLEEP!
:26:45. > :26:51.Jump. I don't need the jump. It's taken the family months to be
:26:52. > :26:58.referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Spencer's consultant is Dr
:26:59. > :27:00.Tara Murphy. Tourette's is a neurological condition, so it's a
:27:01. > :27:05.brain`based condition and, how you tend to explain to families to think
:27:06. > :27:08.about it is, it's a bit like the brain having a hiccup, so something
:27:09. > :27:11.that I can't help, swearing, gestures and words, and and more
:27:12. > :27:18.common in boys than girls, and they tend to come and go, and wax and
:27:19. > :27:21.wane over time. There is no miracle cure, but the good news is,
:27:22. > :27:27.Spencer's been signed onto an eight`week group therapy course.
:27:28. > :27:31.It's been two years of hard work, and that two years has now paid
:27:32. > :27:40.dividends, with all the hard work we put in. And the help that we can get
:27:41. > :27:43.now from Great Ormond Street isn't just a short`term thing, but in two,
:27:44. > :27:47.three, four years' time, as Spencer gets older, and things change, the
:27:48. > :27:51.help will still be there, so I think that gives us great peace of mind. I
:27:52. > :27:55.feel my future's going to be quite good, since the referral, since
:27:56. > :28:00.they've seen me. I think it would have been worse if they hadn't had
:28:01. > :28:06.seen me. BLEEP! BLEEP! I've no particular BLEEP! BLEEP! Spencer is,
:28:07. > :28:11.in my opinion the most wonderful little boy in the world and I love
:28:12. > :28:27.him to bits. We've gone on a journey with him and we're going to carry on
:28:28. > :28:30.with that journey the best we can. And that's all from this week's
:28:31. > :28:34.Inside Out South West. We're taking a short break but will be back in
:28:35. > :28:35.the New Year with more stories and investigations from where you live.
:28:36. > :29:08.So, see you then. Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your
:29:09. > :29:11.90-second update. Four people are dead after the worst UK storm for
:29:12. > :29:16.years. Hurricane-force conditions left almost half a million homes
:29:17. > :29:19.without power. In some areas wind speeds reached up to 99
:29:20. > :29:24.miles-per-hour. The weather caused travel chaos for many. Rail and road
:29:25. > :29:27.services were disrupted because of fallen trees, while over a hundred
:29:28. > :29:30.flights had to be cancelled at Heathrow. Get the latest updates on
:29:31. > :29:33.BBC Local Radio. On trial over the phone-hacking
:29:34. > :29:37.affair. Two former News of the World editors, Rebekah Brooks and Andy
:29:38. > :29:42.Coulson. Both deny being involved in accessing voicemails.
:29:43. > :29:43.The NHS in England must handle complaints better. That's according