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The campaign to persuade one city's residents to say no. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
They have to realise they are actually encouraging an illegal act | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
which is causing problems for the rest of the public. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Also tonight, the pole dancer and a secret Plymouth wilderness. | :00:16. | :00:27. | |
How one unlikely couple took on an urban jungle. | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
Two giggling schoolchildren, screaming and dancing, what a wood! | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
And unlocking the mystery of an ancient Dartmoor tomb. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
I had my money on a domestic animal. That is so exciting. | :00:43. | :00:55. | |
I'm Jenna Woodman and welcome to Inside Out South West. | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
Bill Buckley has been to one city centre where the authorities there | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
And even the Cathedral of consumerism, IKEA, is on its way. | :01:14. | :01:38. | |
It's a place where economically things are on the up. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
More shops, more businesses, more opportunities. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
After you spend a bit of time here, you notice more beggars too. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
We are in the top 10 for this problem in the country because we | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
are a transport hub and historically we've had good services. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
In the last four years, the incidents of begging have | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
They have a number of tactics, like hanging | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
You have just been asked for money by a beggar | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
Slightly uncomfortable but I understand people are | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
The guy in front said if he can move on a little bit because people feel | :02:22. | :02:33. | |
a bit intimidated when they are, obviously, | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
In a tourist hotspot near the cathedral, | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
When I see people like him I want to help them but it's just | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
that you're scared of their reaction so you don't know what to do. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
I didn't, cos I didn't know what would happen. | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
We have witnessed people being essentially chased down the street, | :03:05. | :03:18. | |
persued down the street, surrounded, even. | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
A young female at night pursued down the street, | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
surrounded and then handing over a large note, ?20 in one instance. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
That sort of behaviour is not acceptable | :03:29. | :03:29. | |
Some of the begging recorded by the authorities looks pretty aggressive. | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
At the city bus station, this man gets what he wants | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
at first but a few minutes later, he is not so happy. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Over on the high street this man is a persistent beggar, well`known | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
The first offering is a chocolate but he tries again and | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
The city council says no one should give to beggars. | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
It's very frustrating because in Exeter we've got a full raft | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
of services that support people who have got these complex needs and we | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
have to realise they are actually encouraging an illegal act, causing | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
This is the 1824 Vagrancy Act, which made it a crime for rogues | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
and vagabonds to tell fortunes, give away obscene pictures and ask | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Offenders risked having their goods, including donkeys or caravans, | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
At the very worst they could be thrown into prison | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
You can't be put into jail just for begging and Exeter's authorities | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
But they have started a campaign of stencilled messages, urging | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
But some of those on the streets say the council has got it wrong. | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
Aaron Granville and Teagan are settling down for | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
Just to feed me, my dog and my girlfriend. | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
It's as simple as that and I have no choice. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Aaron says he always begs politely and the council doesn't do enough | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
If they provided alternatives for what we have to get the money, | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
like the Big Issue, part`time jobs, voluntary jobs, whatever. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
If they can provide me with an alternative income, | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
I have no doubt most of the beggars would choose that choice. | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
Tough it might be but some beggars say they can make | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
up to ?80 on a good night, making Adrian's job of getting them off | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Unfortunately, begging is quite easy in the city. | :06:04. | :06:15. | |
There is a very generous population and people have a genuine desire to | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Adrian works for an outreach service funded by the city council. | :06:19. | :06:32. | |
It's not going to be a habit, coming out? No. | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
He says although there is support available, persuading people to | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
Accessing services can be quite difficult as well, particularly | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
People need help to do that, to have someone who has gone through | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
And it is pretty much the same for other services as well. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
There are a lot of appointments that need to be made | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
and kept and it is very difficult to try and ensure people remember | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
A lot of our work is finding people, reminding them about their | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Just maybe stay off the high street tonight if it is that busy | :07:13. | :07:28. | |
and then some petrol on Monday morning if you are still in town. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
The council says its campaign has been a success but on this | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
And the good people of Exeter were still giving. | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
It doesn't really matter, if they are after something, give | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
You can only believe they are going to get something good with it. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
They're not going to starve to death. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
The campaign might have made begging more difficult | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
I can understand where they're coming from. | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
What council does want homeless people up and | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
They're not going to want it but what do the stencils do? | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
They just make people stay out for longer because it was harder to | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
The council is now stepping up its efforts. | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
New legislation means the police can move groups of beggars on and arrest | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
them if they refuse, and that could end up in a jail sentence. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
It will be a constant ongoing battle but I think we've got two choices. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
We can say, let it run out of control. | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
It will proliferate and cause mess and distress | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
in the city but hopefully this way we can at least control it. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
So, the battle over this age`old problem continues. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
But Aaron, for one, is staying put in a city where, | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Dartmoor is a place of myth, legend and ancient secrets. | :08:53. | :09:05. | |
And now one of its greatest mysteries is being | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
Three years ago, archaeologists made an astonishing find. | :09:08. | :09:26. | |
Treasures from a 4000`year`old Bronze Age burial ground high on | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Now these beautiful objects are finally, after months of painstaking | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
An exhibition is about to open at Plymouth Museum | :09:37. | :09:58. | |
and I've come to find out what people can expect to see. | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
Fiona. Hi, Mike. | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
This is where the exhibition is going to be in less than a week? | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
What you see now is going to be completely transformed. | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
In front of me I see this wonderful fur pelt that was found in the cist. | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
You know the identification of the animal but you are saving | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
There have been more revelations of a botanical nature. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
We've got some interesting information about something. | :10:31. | :10:42. | |
I've come to Dartmoor to meet Ralph Fife, | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
This is the type of vegetation that would have been coming up. As you | :10:48. | :11:15. | |
come up to the tops of the more land, going up higher, these | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
woodlands would have opened up into Hazel. It would have been different | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
to the landscape we see today. My role in the excavation was | :11:22. | :11:39. | |
to look at the place itself If we can extract that peat and some | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
of the things that surround the peat, like the pollen grains, we can | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
start to build a rich understanding of what the landscape look like, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
both before it was constructed, Ralph's most important discovery, | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
we need to get back to the lab. One of the most exciting things we | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
found was the remains When we compare that with the pollen | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
that surround the peat, the peat by We were lucky to even | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
get one percent. And that tells us that | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
people brought it here. They carry these flowers up and | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
as part of the ritual process of burying this stuff, | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
then place them in the grave. I can see people bringing | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
the flowers up and bringing them in, paying tribute | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
to the person they are burying. Time to join Dartmoor's chief | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
archaeologist, Jane Marchand. The idea is that we will collect | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
some, I will take it down to Plymouth to Fiona Pitt and she will | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
dry it because we've got a little bit of a problem with how to display | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
the cremated human remains at the exhibition and we don't want it to | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
look to clinical. So if we can put some meadowsweet on | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
top, it will soften it and it will be great because I think that is | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
what the meadowsweet was used for. Which, flowering now, | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
it would have been flowering I'm sure that was partly | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
the attraction. We've dried it and put it in with | :13:32. | :13:53. | |
the cremated bone from the burial. How would it have been displayed | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
in the cist? We can imagine it would have been | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
a floral tribute similar to what we It is interesting, meadowsweet, | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
because it is one It looks and smells beautiful and it | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
is also the plant of high summer. Which is important, | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
because it tells us But the exhibition is about more | :14:26. | :14:26. | |
than just objects in glass cases. Time | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
for some very clever technology. The basket is one of the best | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
preserved baskets in Europe. Certainly there are not very many | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
baskets found in the British Isles Of those I have seen, | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
it is the best of those as well. So it is worth doing something | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
special with this object. It's two cameras looking | :14:51. | :15:02. | |
at the same object. It then projects a pattern, a black | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
and white pattern, onto the object. As the pattern moves, | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
the computer can work out We can also then print it | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
and have it for use for handling, because we cannot handle this | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
object, it is too delicate. And finally we can create a virtual | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
version on the computer which we put on the internet, so anybody | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
in the world can look at it. This is an exquisitely made object, | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
from the landscape from the tree all the way through to | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
the thing that we can see today. For obvious reasons, | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
the original basket is a case And that is why these 3`D | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
images have worked so well. You can really feel the intricacy | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
of the basket. It is great because it gives | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
visitors an opportunity to get a feel and a touch of what | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
the original object was like. Now, you have kept me | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
in suspense long enough. What is the species | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
of animal this pelt belongs to? Yes, it is very recent information | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
and it is great that it has come We now have | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
a positive identification that this Does that mean brown bears would | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
have been going around Dartmoor It is entirely possible that they | :16:14. | :16:27. | |
were living in the area, yes. The exhibition marks the end | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
of three years of hard work by archaeologists, conservators | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
and of course the museum staff. It opens on Saturday | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
and offers an amazing glimpse Think of your typical nature lover | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
and you might picture an old But Sam Smith has been to Plymouth | :16:48. | :17:01. | |
to visit a very unusual wildlife fan who is determined to make | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
a real difference to nature. Sam Remmer is one of the UK's top | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
pole dancing instructors ` Pole dancing in studios and clubs, | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
we know about, but pole dancing It is really nice to get out | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
of the office. I spend a lot of time | :17:29. | :17:42. | |
in the studio and as much as I love teaching, actually being | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
indoors in the studio is not the So it is a contrast to having | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
your face in a computer. Fresh air, you've got lots | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
of wildlife, the sun is out. Why wouldn't you want | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
to be outdoors? The land that Sam | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
and her friend are exercising Part of it came up for auction | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
this spring after a developer was Sam and her husband Sid now want to | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
create a wildlife paradise here. We've been looking for land | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
for ages. We've had an active interest | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
in wildlife and this has brought everyone | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
together right on our doorstep. We were at a council meeting on a | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Tuesday evening and local residents were talking about the fact that a | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
developer owned this piece of land. That it was going to be auctioned | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
off on a Thursday, And so we went and looked at it, | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
fell in love with the place, and went to the auction on Thursday | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
morning and won the auction. We walked out of the venue | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
and we were We were screaming and dancing | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
and just like, we've bought a wood! They've bitten off a big project, | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
having to hack their way through But as Sid told me, | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
there's a serious purpose. We realise of course it's not just | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
an asset, a nice thing to take on, We have a laugh, we enjoy it, but | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
the animals here, they need us to look after them because if we don't, | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
there's no`one else who will. The land borders Trefusis Park | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
in Plymouth. Over the years, | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
bits have been developed but these slopes are very steep`sided and have | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
been left pretty much untouched. It's a bit of a wildlife jewel, | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
with sparrow hawks overhead ` this In the trees and scrub, | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
blackcaps nest and constantly sing. On the little path that wends | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
through the land, The Remmers want to create even more | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
public access but it comes Sam and Sid, together with | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
many locals, spent a weekend Two tonnes of rubbish so far | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
and you're still picking it up. We have got the bulk it out | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
but there are still things like, yes, historic rubbish, kids walking | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
through and dropping crisp packets. I guess this is the disadvantage | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
of an urban site. But, to be honest, | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
it is just nice to be in the woods. Much of the site is woodland | :20:14. | :20:32. | |
that has run riot. Congratulations, Sid, | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
you've bought a jungle! Well, the woodland side of it, | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
what we'd like to do is open it up, put a few paths in, make it | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
accessible to the local children. I think it should be part | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
of their childhood, playing here, We will have to be careful to manage | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
it, to make sure sure we coordinate it with the wildlife so that they | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
are not upsetting each other. But I think with the right | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
management, we have got a chance. There's already plenty of wildlife, | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
like these relatively common But this is rarer ` a bit | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
of a surprise in the dense woods ` But it hasn't always | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
been this overgrown. Early in the 20th century, the | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
land was used for light grazing. And there are still clues to | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
its former use as farmland. This is a typical Devon hedge, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
with classi species like oak But this is what happens when | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
hedges aren't laid for decades. Here's a clue to how clean | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
the air is here, It is the abundance of growth | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
on this wall. And this stuff, which seems to be | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
growing straight out of the rock. But all this lush vegetation is, | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
in places, creating problems. I went on a tour with wildlife | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
expert, Dr David Dixon. We have just come out of | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
the shade of the trees and what you see immediately is this fantastic | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
profusion of ground flora. We have brambles, bindweed, sorrel, | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
lots of stuff. All sort of competing with | :22:15. | :22:24. | |
each other for the light. This is what you need to do | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
in a place like this. Open it up, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
keep the trees back and then you get Whereas down here, | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
it is a very different story. Once you get under the tree cover, | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
you lose all that profusion So what you need to do is open this | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
up and instantly you create the potential | :22:47. | :23:00. | |
for much more biodiversity. Creating light and space for wild | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
flowers will have a big bonus. It'll bring in insects like bees, | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
so vital for the overall health But there's one big green | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
problem growing here. Believe it or not, | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
until just a few months ago, this Up here, the bracken takes all | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
the sunlight and shoots up. But down here, well, | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
there is little sunlight getting in Time to give it a bit | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
of a hammering. Crushing the top part | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
of the plant is really effective Breaking the stems stops spores | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
being released later in the summer. This year's growth will die off | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
and not completely regenerate. It's hard work, but at the end of it | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
all, there's already a difference. The willow herb is really | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
thriving and with it, insects. These in turn bring in the birds, | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
like this chiffchaff, maybe on its second brood | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
and still singing in mid`July. And this wren, | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
hidden amongst the leaves. The overgrown fields abound | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
in elderflower. This bullfinch is perching | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
among the bushes and that gives a big clue to the | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
presence of a classic British mammal Yeah, this is elder, and they | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
are really popular with badgers. And badgers eat them and then they | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
defecate them where their latrines So it's a really good indicator | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
of where you have got badgers What we would really | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
like to do is to see them, The plan is to put up a camera near | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
a sett and use some enticing bait. So this is | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
your cunning invention here. I have drilled some holes | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
in this log. I am now going to fill them | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
with this flapjack mix. A mixture of porridge, syrup, | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
peanuts and a few mealworms. At first, David's cameras record | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
daylight scroungers And as night falls, | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
the first nocturnal animals emerge, And eventually, | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
David's got something to show Sam. So, look, there's | :25:32. | :25:47. | |
a badger pulling away the log to Do we know if this is a male or | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
a female? Well, that, looking at the shape | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
of the head and all that muscle, I That's the boss, | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
the boss badger around here. Now, in contrast, | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
less muscle on the head And you can see she is really | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
working away at that with her claws and actually eating the flapjack | :26:09. | :26:27. | |
mixture off her long front claws. We like to get our badgers to | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
actually work for their dinner! So, should we be doing things to | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
look after them and protect them? Is there anything we can do | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
as humans? The best thing you can do | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
as humans is basically leave them When you make your clearings, | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
that is perfect for badgers because But the badgers aren't | :26:48. | :26:59. | |
the only mammals trying to burrow Sam and Sid think the best way of | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
protecting the wildlife is living We will do | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
the best that we can with this land, At the end of the day, | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
it is our woods now, we have taken on that responsibility | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
and we have badgers to look after! I mean, Sid, there might not be | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
a commercial impulse behind this, but if you got planning permission | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
for a home, potentially you're increasing the whole value | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
of what you have got here. It only has value | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
if we come to sell it. We have no intentions whatsoever | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
of selling it. This is hopefully where we will | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
retire and die. they are in the best of health, | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
and Sam and Sid want both woods and To be in the middle of a city and | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
then to walk half a mile down the road and be in the middle of ten | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
acres of just stunning, stunning In a special programme, | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
we meet the 40`somethings turning I am thinking I probably need to | :27:57. | :28:07. | |
sort something out I haven't made any provision | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
apart from state pension. That's all from us this week | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
but we look for to seeing you next Monday for more stories and | :28:21. | :28:28. | |
investigations from where you live. | :28:29. | :28:31. |