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The campaign to persuade one city's residents to say no.

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They have to realise they are actually encouraging an illegal act

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which is causing problems for the rest of the public.

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Also tonight, the pole dancer and a secret Plymouth wilderness.

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How one unlikely couple took on an urban jungle.

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Two giggling schoolchildren, screaming and dancing, what a wood!

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And unlocking the mystery of an ancient Dartmoor tomb.

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I had my money on a domestic animal. That is so exciting.

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I'm Jenna Woodman and welcome to Inside Out South West.

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Bill Buckley has been to one city centre where the authorities there

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And even the Cathedral of consumerism, IKEA, is on its way.

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It's a place where economically things are on the up.

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More shops, more businesses, more opportunities.

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After you spend a bit of time here, you notice more beggars too.

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We are in the top 10 for this problem in the country because we

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are a transport hub and historically we've had good services.

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In the last four years, the incidents of begging have

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They have a number of tactics, like hanging

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You have just been asked for money by a beggar

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Slightly uncomfortable but I understand people are

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The guy in front said if he can move on a little bit because people feel

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a bit intimidated when they are, obviously,

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In a tourist hotspot near the cathedral,

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When I see people like him I want to help them but it's just

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that you're scared of their reaction so you don't know what to do.

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I didn't, cos I didn't know what would happen.

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We have witnessed people being essentially chased down the street,

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persued down the street, surrounded, even.

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A young female at night pursued down the street,

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surrounded and then handing over a large note, ?20 in one instance.

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That sort of behaviour is not acceptable

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Some of the begging recorded by the authorities looks pretty aggressive.

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At the city bus station, this man gets what he wants

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at first but a few minutes later, he is not so happy.

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Over on the high street this man is a persistent beggar, well`known

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The first offering is a chocolate but he tries again and

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The city council says no one should give to beggars.

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It's very frustrating because in Exeter we've got a full raft

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of services that support people who have got these complex needs and we

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have to realise they are actually encouraging an illegal act, causing

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This is the 1824 Vagrancy Act, which made it a crime for rogues

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and vagabonds to tell fortunes, give away obscene pictures and ask

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Offenders risked having their goods, including donkeys or caravans,

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At the very worst they could be thrown into prison

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You can't be put into jail just for begging and Exeter's authorities

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But they have started a campaign of stencilled messages, urging

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But some of those on the streets say the council has got it wrong.

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Aaron Granville and Teagan are settling down for

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Just to feed me, my dog and my girlfriend.

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It's as simple as that and I have no choice.

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Aaron says he always begs politely and the council doesn't do enough

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If they provided alternatives for what we have to get the money,

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like the Big Issue, part`time jobs, voluntary jobs, whatever.

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If they can provide me with an alternative income,

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I have no doubt most of the beggars would choose that choice.

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Tough it might be but some beggars say they can make

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up to ?80 on a good night, making Adrian's job of getting them off

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Unfortunately, begging is quite easy in the city.

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There is a very generous population and people have a genuine desire to

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Adrian works for an outreach service funded by the city council.

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It's not going to be a habit, coming out? No.

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He says although there is support available, persuading people to

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Accessing services can be quite difficult as well, particularly

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People need help to do that, to have someone who has gone through

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And it is pretty much the same for other services as well.

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There are a lot of appointments that need to be made

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and kept and it is very difficult to try and ensure people remember

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A lot of our work is finding people, reminding them about their

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Just maybe stay off the high street tonight if it is that busy

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and then some petrol on Monday morning if you are still in town.

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The council says its campaign has been a success but on this

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And the good people of Exeter were still giving.

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It doesn't really matter, if they are after something, give

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You can only believe they are going to get something good with it.

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They're not going to starve to death.

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The campaign might have made begging more difficult

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I can understand where they're coming from.

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What council does want homeless people up and

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They're not going to want it but what do the stencils do?

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They just make people stay out for longer because it was harder to

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The council is now stepping up its efforts.

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New legislation means the police can move groups of beggars on and arrest

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them if they refuse, and that could end up in a jail sentence.

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It will be a constant ongoing battle but I think we've got two choices.

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We can say, let it run out of control.

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It will proliferate and cause mess and distress

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in the city but hopefully this way we can at least control it.

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So, the battle over this age`old problem continues.

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But Aaron, for one, is staying put in a city where,

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Dartmoor is a place of myth, legend and ancient secrets.

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And now one of its greatest mysteries is being

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Three years ago, archaeologists made an astonishing find.

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Treasures from a 4000`year`old Bronze Age burial ground high on

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Now these beautiful objects are finally, after months of painstaking

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An exhibition is about to open at Plymouth Museum

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and I've come to find out what people can expect to see.

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Fiona. Hi, Mike.

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This is where the exhibition is going to be in less than a week?

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What you see now is going to be completely transformed.

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In front of me I see this wonderful fur pelt that was found in the cist.

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You know the identification of the animal but you are saving

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There have been more revelations of a botanical nature.

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We've got some interesting information about something.

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I've come to Dartmoor to meet Ralph Fife,

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This is the type of vegetation that would have been coming up. As you

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come up to the tops of the more land, going up higher, these

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woodlands would have opened up into Hazel. It would have been different

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to the landscape we see today. My role in the excavation was

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to look at the place itself If we can extract that peat and some

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of the things that surround the peat, like the pollen grains, we can

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start to build a rich understanding of what the landscape look like,

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both before it was constructed, Ralph's most important discovery,

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we need to get back to the lab. One of the most exciting things we

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found was the remains When we compare that with the pollen

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that surround the peat, the peat by We were lucky to even

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get one percent. And that tells us that

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people brought it here. They carry these flowers up and

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as part of the ritual process of burying this stuff,

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then place them in the grave. I can see people bringing

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the flowers up and bringing them in, paying tribute

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to the person they are burying. Time to join Dartmoor's chief

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archaeologist, Jane Marchand. The idea is that we will collect

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some, I will take it down to Plymouth to Fiona Pitt and she will

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dry it because we've got a little bit of a problem with how to display

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the cremated human remains at the exhibition and we don't want it to

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look to clinical. So if we can put some meadowsweet on

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top, it will soften it and it will be great because I think that is

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what the meadowsweet was used for. Which, flowering now,

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it would have been flowering I'm sure that was partly

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the attraction. We've dried it and put it in with

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the cremated bone from the burial. How would it have been displayed

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in the cist? We can imagine it would have been

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a floral tribute similar to what we It is interesting, meadowsweet,

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because it is one It looks and smells beautiful and it

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is also the plant of high summer. Which is important,

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because it tells us But the exhibition is about more

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than just objects in glass cases. Time

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for some very clever technology. The basket is one of the best

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preserved baskets in Europe. Certainly there are not very many

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baskets found in the British Isles Of those I have seen,

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it is the best of those as well. So it is worth doing something

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special with this object. It's two cameras looking

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at the same object. It then projects a pattern, a black

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and white pattern, onto the object. As the pattern moves,

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the computer can work out We can also then print it

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and have it for use for handling, because we cannot handle this

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object, it is too delicate. And finally we can create a virtual

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version on the computer which we put on the internet, so anybody

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in the world can look at it. This is an exquisitely made object,

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from the landscape from the tree all the way through to

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the thing that we can see today. For obvious reasons,

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the original basket is a case And that is why these 3`D

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images have worked so well. You can really feel the intricacy

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of the basket. It is great because it gives

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visitors an opportunity to get a feel and a touch of what

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the original object was like. Now, you have kept me

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in suspense long enough. What is the species

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of animal this pelt belongs to? Yes, it is very recent information

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and it is great that it has come We now have

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a positive identification that this Does that mean brown bears would

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have been going around Dartmoor It is entirely possible that they

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were living in the area, yes. The exhibition marks the end

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of three years of hard work by archaeologists, conservators

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and of course the museum staff. It opens on Saturday

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and offers an amazing glimpse Think of your typical nature lover

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and you might picture an old But Sam Smith has been to Plymouth

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to visit a very unusual wildlife fan who is determined to make

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a real difference to nature. Sam Remmer is one of the UK's top

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pole dancing instructors ` Pole dancing in studios and clubs,

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we know about, but pole dancing It is really nice to get out

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of the office. I spend a lot of time

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in the studio and as much as I love teaching, actually being

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indoors in the studio is not the So it is a contrast to having

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your face in a computer. Fresh air, you've got lots

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of wildlife, the sun is out. Why wouldn't you want

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to be outdoors? The land that Sam

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and her friend are exercising Part of it came up for auction

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this spring after a developer was Sam and her husband Sid now want to

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create a wildlife paradise here. We've been looking for land

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for ages. We've had an active interest

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in wildlife and this has brought everyone

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together right on our doorstep. We were at a council meeting on a

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Tuesday evening and local residents were talking about the fact that a

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developer owned this piece of land. That it was going to be auctioned

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off on a Thursday, And so we went and looked at it,

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fell in love with the place, and went to the auction on Thursday

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morning and won the auction. We walked out of the venue

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and we were We were screaming and dancing

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and just like, we've bought a wood! They've bitten off a big project,

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having to hack their way through But as Sid told me,

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there's a serious purpose. We realise of course it's not just

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an asset, a nice thing to take on, We have a laugh, we enjoy it, but

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the animals here, they need us to look after them because if we don't,

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there's no`one else who will. The land borders Trefusis Park

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in Plymouth. Over the years,

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bits have been developed but these slopes are very steep`sided and have

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been left pretty much untouched. It's a bit of a wildlife jewel,

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with sparrow hawks overhead ` this In the trees and scrub,

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blackcaps nest and constantly sing. On the little path that wends

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through the land, The Remmers want to create even more

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public access but it comes Sam and Sid, together with

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many locals, spent a weekend Two tonnes of rubbish so far

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and you're still picking it up. We have got the bulk it out

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but there are still things like, yes, historic rubbish, kids walking

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through and dropping crisp packets. I guess this is the disadvantage

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of an urban site. But, to be honest,

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it is just nice to be in the woods. Much of the site is woodland

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that has run riot. Congratulations, Sid,

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you've bought a jungle! Well, the woodland side of it,

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what we'd like to do is open it up, put a few paths in, make it

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accessible to the local children. I think it should be part

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of their childhood, playing here, We will have to be careful to manage

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it, to make sure sure we coordinate it with the wildlife so that they

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are not upsetting each other. But I think with the right

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management, we have got a chance. There's already plenty of wildlife,

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like these relatively common But this is rarer ` a bit

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of a surprise in the dense woods ` But it hasn't always

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been this overgrown. Early in the 20th century, the

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land was used for light grazing. And there are still clues to

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its former use as farmland. This is a typical Devon hedge,

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with classi species like oak But this is what happens when

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hedges aren't laid for decades. Here's a clue to how clean

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the air is here, It is the abundance of growth

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on this wall. And this stuff, which seems to be

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growing straight out of the rock. But all this lush vegetation is,

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in places, creating problems. I went on a tour with wildlife

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expert, Dr David Dixon. We have just come out of

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the shade of the trees and what you see immediately is this fantastic

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profusion of ground flora. We have brambles, bindweed, sorrel,

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lots of stuff. All sort of competing with

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each other for the light. This is what you need to do

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in a place like this. Open it up,

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keep the trees back and then you get Whereas down here,

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it is a very different story. Once you get under the tree cover,

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you lose all that profusion So what you need to do is open this

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up and instantly you create the potential

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for much more biodiversity. Creating light and space for wild

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flowers will have a big bonus. It'll bring in insects like bees,

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so vital for the overall health But there's one big green

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problem growing here. Believe it or not,

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until just a few months ago, this Up here, the bracken takes all

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the sunlight and shoots up. But down here, well,

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there is little sunlight getting in Time to give it a bit

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of a hammering. Crushing the top part

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of the plant is really effective Breaking the stems stops spores

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being released later in the summer. This year's growth will die off

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and not completely regenerate. It's hard work, but at the end of it

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all, there's already a difference. The willow herb is really

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thriving and with it, insects. These in turn bring in the birds,

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like this chiffchaff, maybe on its second brood

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and still singing in mid`July. And this wren,

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hidden amongst the leaves. The overgrown fields abound

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in elderflower. This bullfinch is perching

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among the bushes and that gives a big clue to the

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presence of a classic British mammal Yeah, this is elder, and they

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are really popular with badgers. And badgers eat them and then they

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defecate them where their latrines So it's a really good indicator

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of where you have got badgers What we would really

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like to do is to see them, The plan is to put up a camera near

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a sett and use some enticing bait. So this is

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your cunning invention here. I have drilled some holes

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in this log. I am now going to fill them

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with this flapjack mix. A mixture of porridge, syrup,

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peanuts and a few mealworms. At first, David's cameras record

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daylight scroungers And as night falls,

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the first nocturnal animals emerge, And eventually,

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David's got something to show Sam. So, look, there's

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a badger pulling away the log to Do we know if this is a male or

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a female? Well, that, looking at the shape

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of the head and all that muscle, I That's the boss,

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the boss badger around here. Now, in contrast,

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less muscle on the head And you can see she is really

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working away at that with her claws and actually eating the flapjack

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mixture off her long front claws. We like to get our badgers to

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actually work for their dinner! So, should we be doing things to

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look after them and protect them? Is there anything we can do

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as humans? The best thing you can do

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as humans is basically leave them When you make your clearings,

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that is perfect for badgers because But the badgers aren't

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the only mammals trying to burrow Sam and Sid think the best way of

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protecting the wildlife is living We will do

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the best that we can with this land, At the end of the day,

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it is our woods now, we have taken on that responsibility

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and we have badgers to look after! I mean, Sid, there might not be

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a commercial impulse behind this, but if you got planning permission

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for a home, potentially you're increasing the whole value

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of what you have got here. It only has value

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if we come to sell it. We have no intentions whatsoever

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of selling it. This is hopefully where we will

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retire and die. they are in the best of health,

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and Sam and Sid want both woods and To be in the middle of a city and

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then to walk half a mile down the road and be in the middle of ten

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acres of just stunning, stunning In a special programme,

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we meet the 40`somethings turning I am thinking I probably need to

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sort something out I haven't made any provision

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apart from state pension. That's all from us this week

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but we look for to seeing you next Monday for more stories and

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investigations from where you live.

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