:00:00. > :00:00.Tonight on Inside Out - Gone in 60 minutes, why Land Rovers
:00:00. > :00:09.are being stolen to order in the south-west.
:00:10. > :00:12.They are unfortunately very stealable.
:00:13. > :00:17.With a box of spammers and an hour, you can have one in bits completely.
:00:18. > :00:21.Also on the programme - on His Majesty's Secret Service,
:00:22. > :00:25.Guy Hamilton directed some of the best Bond movies ever,
:00:26. > :00:28.but tonight, we reveal his own spying escapades in wartime
:00:29. > :00:53.Hello, I'm Jemma Woodman and welcome to Inside Out South West.
:00:54. > :00:57.No rural scene in the south-west would be complete without a mud
:00:58. > :01:01.splattered Land Rover but surprisingly,
:01:02. > :01:04.they are one of the most stolen cars in England.
:01:05. > :01:17.Sunday morning for these Land Rover enthusiasts is a messy affair.
:01:18. > :01:28.It is a dirty homage to a cherished off-road car.
:01:29. > :01:32.They are an iconic British vehicle, a workhorse for the army
:01:33. > :01:35.and for farmers and also a whole generation of families
:01:36. > :01:54.Some of these Land Rovers are worth north of ?50,000.
:01:55. > :01:58.Lovingly built and tinkered with over decades.
:01:59. > :02:01.To their owners, these vehicles are much more than just a car.
:02:02. > :02:04.The problem is, to organised gangs of car thieves,
:02:05. > :02:08.the Land Rover has become a top target.
:02:09. > :02:12.We have a couple of Facebook pages to give people
:02:13. > :02:15.information about the club. Always somebody coming
:02:16. > :02:18.on there, "Please help me, my Land Rover has been stolen."
:02:19. > :02:21.So, I mean I would say it is probably once a week.
:02:22. > :02:25.So who is stealing the Land Rovers up and down the country?
:02:26. > :02:31.Why are they doing it and where are they all going to?
:02:32. > :02:34.I had one stolen, 18 months, two years ago, just off the drive
:02:35. > :02:38.in the middle of the night. Someone broke into it,
:02:39. > :02:42.it disappeared and I never saw it again.
:02:43. > :02:45.This one now lives in my garage under lock and key.
:02:46. > :02:47.And everything else I've got is well secured.
:02:48. > :02:50.They are unfortunately very stealable.
:02:51. > :02:53.Stealable, because the last Land Rover Defender rolled off
:02:54. > :02:56.the Solihull production line in January 2016.
:02:57. > :02:59.Since then, this car has become one of the most stolen
:03:00. > :03:04.The NFU Mutual Insurance company saw a surge in theft claims
:03:05. > :03:09.When you buy a Land Rover, you're not buying a car,
:03:10. > :03:14.It is the heart and soul that people put into these vehicles.
:03:15. > :03:18.It is not just a car that people drive, it is a car that
:03:19. > :03:22.Sometimes it has been passed down the family.
:03:23. > :03:25.And the impact for these people when they have had it stolen,
:03:26. > :03:27.it is like losing your dog, it is not nice.
:03:28. > :03:30.This Land Rover was the pride and joy of the Leicestershire Police
:03:31. > :03:33.until the thieves took it apart overnight.
:03:34. > :03:36.It was parked outside a local police station.
:03:37. > :03:38.All of these stolen Land Rovers have to be going somewhere,
:03:39. > :03:41.so what exactly is happening to them?
:03:42. > :03:44.Police say high-end vehicles like these Range Rovers
:03:45. > :03:46.are being stolen to order and shipped abroad,
:03:47. > :03:51.Older, more vintage models are equally as desirable
:03:52. > :03:55.to the thieves because Land Rovers were designed to be simple to fix
:03:56. > :03:59.out in the field so they can easily be stripped down into parts.
:04:00. > :04:01.Parts which are now more valuable because they are
:04:02. > :04:08.Because they have stopped making them and the spare parts
:04:09. > :04:13.However, with a box of spanners and an hour, you can have
:04:14. > :04:19.There is no code stamped on most of the parts so they appear on eBay
:04:20. > :04:23.and there is a market unfortunately for stolen bits.
:04:24. > :04:26.Jon Rush is a Land Rover mechanic who was hit
:04:27. > :04:28.by the thieves last year. As someone who knows
:04:29. > :04:31.Land Rovers inside out, I have set him a little challenge.
:04:32. > :04:34.How easy is it for the criminals to strip a Land Rover?
:04:35. > :04:39.We have come up with a little experiment, we are calling
:04:40. > :04:46.The plan is to unbolt parts of the Land Rover until we end up
:04:47. > :04:49.with this big pile of bits and as little Land Rover
:04:50. > :04:59.Jon firmly believes his beloved Land Rover was stolen to order
:05:00. > :05:06.Now, he is going to show us just how easy it is to take
:05:07. > :05:12.With the clock ticking and multiple cameras running,
:05:13. > :05:18.we will check back in with Jon in a while.
:05:19. > :05:22.Henry Mowforth is a mechanic for slightly larger vehicles.
:05:23. > :05:29.His Land Rover was special - it was his wedding car.
:05:30. > :05:32.We used it to get from the church to the reception, me,
:05:33. > :05:38.So I used it all the time because that was my first vehicle.
:05:39. > :05:41.It is sort of soul destroying really.
:05:42. > :05:44.You have spent all that time with it and now it is just gone.
:05:45. > :05:47.Our next victim thinks thieves may have planted a tracking device
:05:48. > :05:50.on his Land Rover when it was parked at his local railway station,
:05:51. > :05:56.When he drove home, they electronically followed him
:05:57. > :06:01.and nicked his Land Rover off the drive.
:06:02. > :06:04.It is in the middle of nowhere, so there may well have been
:06:05. > :06:06.a tracker put on the car, so they came back whenever
:06:07. > :06:11.Nathan Ricketts is a detective on the National Car Squad
:06:12. > :06:14.and he knows all the latest tricks and tactics the car
:06:15. > :06:19.Have you ever come across cases where the organised car thieves
:06:20. > :06:21.are putting tracking devices on commuters' cars at railway
:06:22. > :06:24.stations, where they follow them home to steal the vehicle?
:06:25. > :06:30.In my experience, I have come across an organised crime group,
:06:31. > :06:33.they were particularly selecting the luxury high-end cars.
:06:34. > :06:36.They would see them in a car park or parked up at railway
:06:37. > :06:38.stations and supermarkets and they would drive into them,
:06:39. > :06:41.basically pretended they had an accident and leave a note
:06:42. > :06:44.on the windscreen to say, I am really sorry, I have
:06:45. > :06:48.clipped your car and caused a bit of damage, my friend runs a paint
:06:49. > :06:51.shop, he will repair it for you and get the claim
:06:52. > :06:54.on my insurance. So you think, OK, brilliant,
:06:55. > :06:57.someone is willing to confess up to their responsibilities.
:06:58. > :07:00.So you go and take it there and they do a great job
:07:01. > :07:03.of scratch on the bumper or the little dent but they also
:07:04. > :07:05.clone a third key and put a tracking device into the vehicle.
:07:06. > :07:08.Car crime is now a high-tech business.
:07:09. > :07:11.This garage is full of top-end Range Rovers.
:07:12. > :07:14.The manufacturers fit all of these cars with at least one tracker
:07:15. > :07:16.for the benefit of the owners, but the car gangs have
:07:17. > :07:24.They are now using one of these - a magic wand that can sniff out
:07:25. > :07:27.the tracker can disable it. I will just turn it up.
:07:28. > :07:30.So they will know there is something in the vehicle.
:07:31. > :07:33.A tracker? A tracker.
:07:34. > :07:36.Now, when people steal a car, they will block the signal
:07:37. > :07:39.so they will block any signal coming out of the car, take it somewhere
:07:40. > :07:46.safe, take it to a side road or in a unit somewhere
:07:47. > :07:50.when they feel safe, they will switch this unit
:07:51. > :07:54.on and try to find a tracking device and as soon as they find it,
:07:55. > :07:58.Being one step ahead of the thieves is the only way to catch them
:07:59. > :08:00.and the latest gadget does just that.
:08:01. > :08:02.A tiny, highly intelligent tracker that cannot be sniffed
:08:03. > :08:06.What is the product you have come up with?
:08:07. > :08:13.That is the point, I would love to be to tell you and show
:08:14. > :08:16.you the device but we don't do that. It could be anything on the car.
:08:17. > :08:19.It is not one particular unit, it is well hidden,
:08:20. > :08:24.It could be in the headlights, it could be anywhere.
:08:25. > :08:27.I won't show you any specifications for it so the thieves won't get
:08:28. > :08:33.Neil's intelligent tracker is getting results.
:08:34. > :08:35.It can run for months and send a signal from inside
:08:36. > :08:38.a shipping container. Here police are recovering
:08:39. > :08:40.Land Rovers at Southampton docks, just about to be shipped abroad.
:08:41. > :08:44.And here they are again, dozens more being recovered,
:08:45. > :08:49.They don't just steal the whole car, they will take bits.
:08:50. > :08:52.There are shots on the internet of a Lincolnshire Police Land
:08:53. > :08:55.Rover taken to bits. Why do they take them to bits?
:08:56. > :09:01.If you take the whole car and try to sell it or move it,
:09:02. > :09:03.that is still that vehicle and it can still be identified.
:09:04. > :09:07.If you take it apart, it reduces the fact it is a vehicle.
:09:08. > :09:09.It can look like scrap, or a few car parts, it reduces
:09:10. > :09:12.what it is and of course it is a stolen vehicle.
:09:13. > :09:14.With stolen Land Rover parts vanishing so quickly,
:09:15. > :09:18.police need to catch the criminals in the act.
:09:19. > :09:21.That is exactly what happened to these three Land Rover thieves.
:09:22. > :09:26.A call from a neighbour led to a quick police
:09:27. > :09:29.reaction and last October, this trio were handed prison
:09:30. > :09:34.sentences totalling six and a half years in all.
:09:35. > :09:39.Back in Jon's barn, how is his attempt to strip a Land Rover
:09:40. > :09:50.Now you see it... Now you don't.
:09:51. > :09:53.We are done! Land Rover stripped in 60 minutes.
:09:54. > :09:55.Are you surprised? I am quite surprised, yes.
:09:56. > :09:59.I don't think I would want to do it as a business, though!
:10:00. > :10:04.Thank you for letting us make you work very hard.
:10:05. > :10:07.Now, put it back together. Thank you.
:10:08. > :10:19.He helped create one of cinema's most iconic characters but the life
:10:20. > :10:22.of Guy Hamilton in Devon was every bit as exciting as that
:10:23. > :10:29.David Stafford has the story of the secret wartime history
:10:30. > :10:45.of one of Britain's most celebrated film-makers.
:10:46. > :11:01.It's a beautiful June afternoon in Dartmouth.
:11:02. > :11:05.Perfect for a little boat trip around the estuary.
:11:06. > :11:07.But 70-odd years ago, the blokes boarding boats
:11:08. > :11:13.They were Royal Navy sailors, hand-picked for some of the most
:11:14. > :11:15.dangerous wartime cloak and dagger missions the Allies ever conducted.
:11:16. > :11:18.Dartmouth was the home to a very special Royal Naval outfit -
:11:19. > :11:25.And one of the crew would go on to be very famous indeed.
:11:26. > :11:28.And the second-in-command on many of those Royal Navy missions
:11:29. > :11:32.was a man who went by the name of Hamilton - Guy Hamilton.
:11:33. > :11:43.Hamilton would become one of Britain's most
:11:44. > :11:46.celebrated film directors - directing four Bond films including
:11:47. > :11:49.Goldfinger and the Man with the Golden Gun.
:11:50. > :11:58.You have to walk the line between absolute nonsense
:11:59. > :12:05.and seriousness and the way to cope with it is a little bit of humour,
:12:06. > :12:16.Sadly Guy Hamilton died while we were researching this
:12:17. > :12:19.film and few people knew about his wartime exploits that
:12:20. > :12:23.were easily as exciting as anything that James Bond got up to.
:12:24. > :12:29.And like any good James Bond film, there was even what in less
:12:30. > :12:32.enlightened times they used to call a Bond bird or in Guy Hamilton's
:12:33. > :12:35.case, two of them who well remember the adventures of Guy.
:12:36. > :12:55.Hamilton behind enemy lines in occupied France.
:12:56. > :13:02.Now 97 years old, Anne Ropers lives in the French town of Plouha
:13:03. > :13:05.on the Brittany coast. Anne remembers Guy Hamilton well.
:13:06. > :13:36.She has a photo of him from June 1944.
:13:37. > :13:40.But what was Guy Hamilton doing in June, 1944,
:13:41. > :13:45.in France, in a cornfield, having a picnic?
:13:46. > :13:49.The Royal Navy 15th Flotilla was made up of modified,
:13:50. > :13:52.high-speed motor gun boats and motor torpedo boats and operated
:13:53. > :13:59.One of its tasks was to drop off supplies to the Resistance in France
:14:00. > :14:04.and pick up downed airmen from the beaches of Brittany.
:14:05. > :14:08.One of the safe houses used by the French resistance to hide
:14:09. > :14:11.Allied airmen before they were rescued from the coast
:14:12. > :14:34.The escape route was known as the Shelburne Line.
:14:35. > :14:39.The Shelburne Line was one of a series of escape routes that
:14:40. > :14:43.crisscrossed France and relied for their continued existence
:14:44. > :14:51.But on the 15th June 1944, the entire Brittany operation almost
:14:52. > :14:55.fell apart, nearly exposing the Shelburne Line to the Nazis.
:14:56. > :14:59.It was a moonless night and a young Guy Hamilton was rowing his surf
:15:00. > :15:03.boat with a crew of two into a Brittany beach.
:15:04. > :15:09.Hamilton was taking ashore two French resistance agents, returning
:15:10. > :15:18.They set off from there, Kingswear in Dartmouth,
:15:19. > :15:21.over to France, rowed the French spies ashore, dropped them off,
:15:22. > :15:27.When Hamilton and his crew got back out to the pick-up
:15:28. > :15:34.They had no option other than to row back to shore.
:15:35. > :15:37.Over half a century later and the incident was still fresh
:15:38. > :15:50.And now my worries were to get rid of the surf boat
:15:51. > :15:57.and try and get as far away from the beach as possible.
:15:58. > :16:03.And with good reason - the area was crawling with Germans.
:16:04. > :16:09.Plymouth's Honorary French Consul Alain Sibril grew up in Brittany.
:16:10. > :16:13.Alain, whose family was involved with the Resistance during the war
:16:14. > :16:17.and whose grandfather was burned alive by the Nazis, knows a lot
:16:18. > :16:28.Now this was shortly after D-Day on the Normandy beaches just
:16:29. > :16:31.about 200-300 miles up that coast, so this place was extremely,
:16:32. > :16:36.You can imagine this was a terrible place to be stuck.
:16:37. > :16:39.Hamilton knew that he had to find a safe hiding place
:16:40. > :16:44.They scrambled up the beach cliffs and wandered
:16:45. > :16:47.through the deserted countryside, but there was no one around.
:16:48. > :16:53.There was a big apple tree and there was a wire hanging
:16:54. > :16:59.across and it was very odd, it was a primitive mine.
:17:00. > :17:04.I thought, "I'm glad I did not lean on the wire".
:17:05. > :17:08.Hamilton had ridden his luck, but to stay alive he needed
:17:09. > :17:15.After two days on the run, Hamilton finally found help
:17:16. > :17:19.from a young resistance woman, Marguerite Pierre.
:17:20. > :17:58.Now 92, Marguerite helped lead Hamilton to Anne Ropers' safe house.
:17:59. > :18:02.After nearly a week on the run Hamilton and his two crew arrived
:18:03. > :18:33.Guy Hamilton was very, very aware of the dangers.
:18:34. > :18:38.He was very conscious that should something happen to him
:18:39. > :18:46.the whole operation would have been in jeopardy.
:18:47. > :18:50.Hamilton was aware that the top brass in London would also
:18:51. > :18:55.want to know if it was safe to continue to use Bonaparte Beach
:18:56. > :18:58.as a rescue point for future operations and of course he also
:18:59. > :19:01.wanted to let his shipmates know that he was safe.
:19:02. > :19:04.To send word back to London, Hamilton needed
:19:05. > :19:11.Swiping a bicycle he pedalled off to see the two French Canadian
:19:12. > :19:13.agents that London had installed to manage the Shelburne
:19:14. > :19:20.Captain Lucien Dumais and Sergeant Claude Labrosse
:19:21. > :19:23.were unimpressed by Hamilton's arrival, but were eventually
:19:24. > :19:28.And this is the message that Hamilton managed to get Labrosse
:19:29. > :19:40."Hamilton co OK with an SEO group and will get them out shortly."
:19:41. > :19:46.This message was sent from Marguerite
:19:47. > :20:01.Marguerite's house was the communications hub
:20:02. > :20:04.of the Shelburne Line escape route, it was here that they would wait
:20:05. > :20:43.For the French Resistance, it was a constant game of cat
:20:44. > :20:56.But with Royal Navy sailors to hide, the stakes were even higher.
:20:57. > :20:59.Had the Germans discovered Guy Hamilton and his fellow sailors,
:21:00. > :21:04.this would have been extremely dangerous, not only for them,
:21:05. > :21:20.but also for the whole network of Resistance fighters.
:21:21. > :21:23.The need for total secrecy was paramount, yet the entire
:21:24. > :21:27.operation was nearly blown in a scene more reminiscent
:21:28. > :21:32.of 'Allo Allo, than James Bond - a game of boules in a local bar.
:21:33. > :21:35.They took me down the road to a cafe that had a bowling
:21:36. > :21:42.Well that was all right except that it was populated
:21:43. > :21:46.by Germans all in uniform, bowling, drinking away.
:21:47. > :21:50.And the lads said can we have the bowling
:21:51. > :21:58.And they said, yes, yes, and they poured him a drink.
:21:59. > :22:03.The cafe was only 500 yards from the safe house,
:22:04. > :22:27.so there was only one solution ? get stuck into the cider.
:22:28. > :22:31.Hamilton's perfect French had saved him from being discovered
:22:32. > :22:34.by the Germans, but he did not escape a roasting from
:22:35. > :23:27.Before Hamilton had even arrived at the Ropers,
:23:28. > :23:30.rumours had started to circulate about the British
:23:31. > :24:33.Hamilton and his fellow sailors Rockwood and Dellow had
:24:34. > :24:38.reached the final reel of their own James Bond movie
:24:39. > :24:42.After nearly a month on the run in German occupied France,
:24:43. > :25:17.finally the call came to make the run home.
:25:18. > :25:19.The Maison d'Alphonse was a small farm house and the start
:25:20. > :25:26.Under cover of darkness, Hamilton and his crew were led down
:25:27. > :25:28.the treacherous cliffs with a clear message from the Resistance leaders
:25:29. > :25:36.If there is any fighting to be done you are expected to join in,
:25:37. > :25:39.use your fists, knives anything at all.
:25:40. > :25:57.Along with Hamilton, and his two crew, four other allied
:25:58. > :27:28.airmen were in the rescue party that night.
:27:29. > :27:33.A few hours after leaving the beach, Guy Hamilton and his crew
:27:34. > :27:38.were back here in Dartmouth, thanks to the extraordinary skill
:27:39. > :27:42.and courage of Resistance operatives like Marguerite and Anne.
:27:43. > :27:49.Just ten days after he had escaped, the Shelburne Line was uncovered
:27:50. > :27:52.by the Nazis, the Maison d'Alphonse was torched.
:27:53. > :27:55.But the Shelburne Line had been a success.
:27:56. > :27:58.The escape route saved the lives of 135 airmen,
:27:59. > :28:02.two sailors and one future director of James Bond films.
:28:03. > :28:18.Sincil Bank that item, and Robles has finally passed away but we were
:28:19. > :28:29.very grateful she shared her amazing story with us. Thank you. Next week,
:28:30. > :28:39.pastors and pedicures, the man who keeps cattle in trim. I do like it,
:28:40. > :28:43.it makes them look nice. I was going to get buffed myself but on second
:28:44. > :29:01.thoughts, that is on Monday at 7:30pm. I will see you then.
:29:02. > :29:04.Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90-second update.
:29:05. > :29:07.Overcrowded - the number of patients on wards in England have been
:29:08. > :29:11.at unsafe levels in nine out of ten hospitals this winter.