05/12/2011 Inside Out South

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A Sussex by this he designed Britain into the record books. --

the Sussex brothers who designed. It was so ahead of its time, that

many believed if it ran today and it could reach its top speed, it

could still be the fastest wheel driven car in the world. Cut-off

from their children and facing life in a foreign one. -- foreign land.

I was distressed, I would go to bed saying I just wanted to die. I

don't think it is just banks. the sounds of Africa help these

women find peace of mind. People feel better just by singing.

first freeloading layabout or campers with the point, I will find

out who is behind the Occupier protest. I think it is an

amalgamation that the people in general are not happy in this

country. Does their action really represent a new start? At the end

of the day, they don't really have much of a point to make other than

they are unhappy with a whole bunch of issues.

I am Jon Cuthill and this is Inside If you are visiting Brighton you

cannot fail to notice a tented community has sprung up next to the

Royal Pavilion. This city's version of the World Wide Occupier movement.

-- occupied. So, this is it then. Occupy Brighton. Who runs this? Are

you in charge or an elected spokesperson? I am the delegated

spokesperson for the group for now. But there are no leaders. It is a

totally nonhierarchical structure. Info tent, what is happening?

is the tea and coffee area for the general public, and the kitchen. It

is manned by a working group of volunteers who are preparing tasty

vegan food. We have got is a meditation class going on here.

Only a handful of protesters stay here twentyfour seven but there is

a wider network of supporters who can be called upon to swell the

numbers. It is very organised, isn't it? For a nonhierarchical

organisation, it is, but it is working and that is testament to

the will of the people involved. What do you want me to take away

with me? I will spend some time with you guys, stay here in a

little tent. What do you hope I will take away? Optimism and hope.

More than anything. This Conservative MP is hopeful and

optimistic they will pack up and leave. He said they are lazy

campers and freeloaders. If they stay but he wants them to pay

council tax. What are you protesting about, why are you here?

I am here because I am not at all happy with the state this country

is in, mainly. We are being told constantly we have got to cut back

and it seems to be very unfair when we have got big organisations like

banks and governments that can commit criminal offences and get

away with it. Why don't you set up a political party and work within

the system? The system is broken. The consensus for all the movements

is the present political system encourages corruption. What

specifically is broken? In local issues we have agreed the massive

problem we have got, nationwide and particularly in Brighton is

homelessness. Sarah said it was actually the banks she was annoyed

with, and now it is the homeless, can you say what you are doing

here? I will talk to somebody else in a minute. I don't think is just

banks, just homeless, just parliamentary systems, it is an

amalgamation that the people in general are not happy in this

country. Whilst a similar camp in Bournemouth was moved on by the

local council in Brighton the Green Party say they will welcome to stay,

if they behave. But is that the view of the rest of the city?

would love to see a different way in the world but I don't know it

necessarily their ideas are as wise as they might be when they are all

do. The people starting to stand up for themselves. Against the super

rich. This is a conscious thing people need to be more or whereof

like the ill distribution of wealth across the world. It is certainly

welcome and hopefully it will make the local politicians take note and

they realise this is happening in their constituency. They'll find to

be there, they are not getting in a was way, standing up for what they

believe in which is good. At least they have got the spirit to

actually try. While not everybody agrees on the protest, what about

the ideas? Asked a local economist to visit the camp to see if their

proposals hold water. What does he make of the Utopian dream? I very

much in support of this movement, the spirit, pointing to the

deficiencies we experience in these turbulent times. They are proposing

a Robin had tax, if you prevent financial turmoil by throwing sand

in the ears of the financial industry, you distributed to the

poor, put his weight is called the Robin attacks. That is not extreme,

it is proposed by most European governments, not this one in the UK.

We have ignored a mushrooming underclass for generations,

pretended that underclass doesn't exist, their problems that exist,

made sure statistically they don't exist so they can be ignored. In my

opinion it is what driving Occupy. At the end of the day that I really

have a point to make other than they are unhappy with a lot of

issues. A lot of the people here are on benefits, half the people

are working, half on. Something which they just seem to like to do.

I didn't stop anybody doing the lifestyle they would like to do,

but not other public spaces we are paying for. As light fades the

number of protest has dwindled to the hard core who set about

battening down for another night under canvas. It is a battle at the

moment against the weather. Apparently this is the windiest

they have ever had it and it is taking a bit of a battering. The

weather is meant to be pretty rotten overnight. Meanwhile,

washing-up doesn't do itself, does it? There may be a global economic

crisis, but there is washing-up to be done. People gather for the most

important event of the day, a General Assembly. It is a chance to

discuss whether protest is going and the issues involved. Use empty

homes to house homeless people. like all committee meetings

everybody wants to talk about something different. We invite the

Green party to initiate a direct democracy experiment here in

Brighton, la Simon Cowell suggested the same thing as an evolution of X

Factor. That is basically the proposal. With so many wanting to

talk, it is all about their hands. An intricate system of justice used

to stop the meeting descending into chaos. This one means I have got a

point to make, this year's agreement, and this, get out, the

tent is on fire. Throughout the evening volunteers patrol the

promoter of the camp to keep things in check. Essentially, it is

security, keeping everybody saved through the night shift and the

dayshift. And keeping the site tranquil. Someone will be walking

the perimeter in the evening, looking out for any potential

trouble. Exactly. And they will not tolerate any misbehaviour from

within their own ranks, either. your behaviour is out of order you

get one warning, and we will call the police and they are 30 seconds

up the road here. The few times we have had to call them they have

been terrific. They have been down within a minute and helped us

mitigate problems we are not qualified to mitigate. I go to bed,

my head ringing with save the world mantras and down with the banks

diatribes. But in the cool light of dawn as I prepare to leave the camp,

and then not all is rosy in this brave new world. Occupy Brighton,

we are suffering from a lack of directed sober protest, if you like.

We have plonked our tent in the middle of Victoria Gardens in

Brighton which is already an area full of drug users, rough sleepers.

What did we expect? Obviously people are going to turn up and

maybe not even know why we are here protesting. I see this can actually

as changing into a much more sort of welfare-based site. It does seem

a relatively safe sanctuary for the homeless and venerable who the

protesters claim are themselves victims of a failed system --

vulnerable. I left care when I was 17 years old. I was moved into a

hostel which is designed for recovering drug addicts and

alcoholic, adults, not teenagers. The night before I came down here I

was listening to two guys having an argument about who was going to get

the next hit. That is not very good for a young person's frame of mind.

In the nicest possible sense I am still a kid. I shouldn't be in that

kind of environment. We have kind of become like care in the

community. There are a lot of homeless people, people with drink

and drug issues, we're not qualified to do this. We are trying

to outreach to the working groups around Brighton to see what help

they can offer. Because it is a huge issue.

Is it that the steam is running out the protest, or just evolving into

something else? Turning into this care, drop-in centre. But it is no

bad thing vulnerable people are getting help. It is certainly not,

it is great. But I wonder if we should withdraw at some point.

There are some people who are in it for the long haul, it will be home

until the bitter end. This is the last resort as I see it. This is

the only effective means of protest that isn't going away. We have a

ballot box here. Millions of people vote certain ways. You can't let a

small number of people change the course just because they don't like

the way the course is going. just feels right in my heart to be

doing this. I'm too young and not satisfied with the system to just

keep plodding along. I want to be part of making a difference, I have

And don't forget, if you think you have got a story for me, get in

touch. Next, Donald Campbell and Bluebird are both household names,

but what about the guys who came up with the design for the car? Kaddy

Lee-Preston looks at how one small Sussex company came to dream up the

world's first fastest car. Some people say the best thing ever to

come out of Burgess Hill is the A873, but they are wrong. -- A273.

This town was once home to a company that designed a rather

special car for legendary speed record breaker, Donald Campbell. A

The Bluebird Campbell Norris 7. It was so ahead of its time that many

believe if it ran today and could reach its top speed, it would still

be the fastest wheel driven car in the world. I have come to the

National Motor Museum at Beaulieu to take a fresh look at the car.

is like a blue tiger, if you like. An iconic shape. To find out how it

set a world record against all the odds. And to reveal the modest

Sussex inventors, the men who made it all possible. They were very

humble people. Never, ever said you cannot do that. They would always

encourage you to think, OK, how might it be done? Donald Campbell

and Bluebird became household names back in the early 60s, but

Campbell's biographer, David Tremain, thinks the Norris brothers

deserve the same kind of recognition. Donald Campbell is

lorded quite rightly as the only man in history to do the water

speed and land speed in the same calendar year, but also the Norris

others should be lauded for that because both products were their

designs and they played such a key part in both attempts. Without them

it wouldn't have happened. Before the Bluebird boat and the Bluebird

car Norris brothers were not known for designing vehicles, but Donald

Campbell knew the brothers and had total faith in their engineering

skills. So he asked them to design a record-breaking boat and car.

According to Donald Stevens, Norris brothers' project coordinator, it

was typical of them to say yes. just took on anything that most

people would either just couldn't do or wouldn't do, from how to

generate electricity out of the sea, to containing very cold liquids, to

designing things like this. So how did a company more used to

designing explosionproof boxes, wrapping machines and sweet factory

components do it? It all began with a special method Ken Norris

designed for finding solutions to complicated problems. He called it

morphological thought. It was a way of making a chart which every

single possible way of doing the job would be included, and from

that you could then select which way was the most practical way,

which way might have some development and from that you could

choose all sorts of things. While Ken dealt with the

aerodynamics Lou oversaw the mechanics and decided to power

Bluebird with a modified aircraft engine. Hugh Standing was the car's

main mechanical engineer. particular job was modifying the

engine which was a turboprop engine, and we had to take the gearbox of

the front of it and adapt that you have a drive out of the front end

and the backend so that both ends were running at the same speed. It

was an educational experience working on the car. It took 29,000

man-hours of development to make Bluebird the safest, most

technically-advanced land speed car there had ever been. And if that

weren't enough, it also managed to be rather beautiful as well. The

sleek, streamlined shape it a body of super strong aluminium honeycomb,

an innovation that saved Campbell's life when he crashed the first

laboured in the Utah desert. -- Bluebird. The accident that he had

in 1960 was the fastest accident anyone had ever survived. Possibly

360 mph, possibly a bit less. If you think about that for him to get

away with an accident like that with just a skull fracture, that

shows the strength of the car for sure. After the crash Bluebird's

body was redesigned. Its aerodynamics were tested in this

wind tunnel at Imperial College London. The car had to have it sexy

humps because the tyre manufacturer Dunlop said that Bluebird needed

huge 52 inch wheels. We were forced to have very large wheels because

of having these streamlined covers over the top. The problem there is

if you look at it, the front arches act as fins which are very far

forward. If that car does deviate, that carries it even further of

course. -- off course. The solution was to add a tall tailfin to

stabilise the car and keep it running in a straight line. Now the

only problem was the Australian weather. It hadn't rained there for

20 years, but being an all British affair it rained cats and dogs as

soon as the team got there. This exclusive footage never before seen

on television, shows just how bad the conditions were. So bad in fact

that Donald Campbell said the surface was like the skin on a rice

pudding. There is no telling how deeply the rain has soaked in and

it looks no place for a 4.5 ton car. But they went ahead anyway.

Bluebird had to make two runs to break the record, and just managed

it, sinking into the salt, it's barely scraping along the ground.

The speed recorded was a new wheel driven world record of 403 mph, but

had conditions in right, how much faster good Bluebird have gone?

current record is 458. Bluebird at its peak with the right tyres,

conditions, could have set a record between 450 and 475 mph on the

right surface. The tragedy is it never did ever

run on a surface that befitted the car itself.

Donald Campbell died attempting a new water speed, and with his death

went any hopes of running the Bluebird car again. The Norris

brothers continue to innovate and invent until Ken died in 2005, and

Lou in 2009. Neither one ever received the credit many feel they

deserve. And neither of them would be

particularly bothered they didn't get it, because that was their

nature. They would have got their satisfaction in designing something

that work. To them that was the accolade they wanted. All the same,

it does seem a shame they are not remembered, especially in their

home town. It is the 20th century icon. Sleek, futuristic, and unique.

When you come to Burgess Hill, there is nothing here to show that

this is where it was conceived and designed. And no sign that the

Norris brother has ever existed. -- While Bluebird might have been the

ultimate adrenalin rush what if you are after a slightly more peaceful

state of mind? For one group of women in Surrey, singing the songs

of their homeland is providing a way of coping with the memories of

Some people are just healed by singing, people feel better just by

Highfield very happy after singing. I feel my blood running through

every part of my body. It gives me Even when I am stressed, I feel

that when I am singing and worshipping, all the things I am

feeling go away, in that moment I am just out of this world, it is

like I am not in the room with other people. For these African

women seeking asylum in Britain has not been easy. They have faced

Leninist, isolation, hardship and depression. -- loneliness. Lorraine

Yates is a community development worker for Surrey Community action.

My work was to look at ways to help people think about their mental

well-being, think about how they can make themselves well, and keep

well. Lorraine first met the women when she was invited to a Saturday

morning support group for Refugees. They come together to share their

problems and difficulties. They think coming to Britain, everything

will be straightforward and easy, and they realise that very quickly

it is not the case. Many of the people that I work with have left

their children back at home. That Winnie is from Zimbabwe and came to

Britain seven years ago for her brother's funeral. Whilst here her

husband phoned from Zimbabwe to say the political situation had got

worse, and warned her not to return. Soon afterwards he was murdered.

Her two young children were left in Zimbabwe, but she could not go back.

For I couldn't describe it, terrible. I was so isolated, I was

all a load. Feeling like crying, I said it affected me so much. -- it

Overwhelmed with the loss and separation, life became very

difficult for her. I was missing my children so much. Especially when I

am a sleep, they would appear in dreams. One vivid dream was when my

little boy, I saw him being drowned in a river, so I was trying to go

and help him but I couldn't. When I woke up I was crying. Those were

some of the things I faced when I came here.

She was not the only member of the group to face problems. A sheila

came to Britain from South Africa, leaving her baby daughter in her

mother's care -- she left. When her mother died she was devastated. She

couldn't return for the funeral, and was concerned for her

daughter's safety. It has always been the stress of that as well,

because obviously if your image -- immigration papers are not right, I

tried, but I couldn't. Finally my immigration papers came through in

2009. January of this year I had enough money, so I sent all the

necessary documents that were needed, and I sent them to Zimbabwe

for Mrs to do handymen. Within a week they were back and they

refused my daughter to come. So I thought that was the horrible park.

Now I had to go for counselling and will that because I was very

stressed. I had got to that centre -- the point where I just wanted to

die. Although they met to supported other through their problems

Lorraine felt if they showed something they all enjoyed it would

lift their spirits. Singing and dancing in Africa is so natural to

them, and they would all expressed to me they sang at weddings,

funerals, when the children were born. I had asked them all

individually whether they sung now, With the help of a music teacher

with the voices Foundation, the singing for well-being group was

formed. I was invited to go and meet these people in Woking, and I

went and that was the first time they had sung together. And that

was just an amazing time. When they started singing, I never ever

forget the one person who came in late and said, I cannot sing. And

we were singing a song, I can remember which some it was. And she

came in and sang in harmony. She was the person he said, I cannot

sing. She just sang in harmony with just a wonderful moment. And the

group went from strength to strength. They now perform in

public. Winnie now has her life back together. She is studying for

a career in mental health. She works, and has been reunited with

her two sons. Here is James. How you? Good day? Excellent. What have

you been up to? Nothing. Boring day? Yes. Oh dear. Your brother is

at the seaside. Lucky him. When he believes the singing group helped

her. When I am singing There is some healing, something in my body.

It has helped me so much, in so many ways. Sheila's life is also

back on track. She works and is studying for a diploma in mental

health. Recently she has been reunited with her daughter as well.

I saw this e-mail, is it UK Border Agency, and I was dreading a permit.

I opened it and said we are police to tell you we want you to print

your daughter. -- pleased to tell you. I screamed and cried. I cried

like they had already given her the visa. And here she is. I cannot say

everything is now 100% but the one thing I really wanted to happen has

happened, and my daughter is here It gives me a lot of hope. There is

much healing in singing. That is It is like we have all been in the

same situation coming here, I don't think anybody can say everything

was easy and it was a bed of roses, it has been difficult. With the

singing it is something I look forward to that I just forget

everything else and then I just seeing, and I'm praising God but

also making myself happy. So with all the juggling of work, what am I

going to do with money and everything, you forget about it and

you just enjoy singing and it is That is just about it for now. You

can get in touch. See next Monday. We will be investigating the

newspaper group that will not take no for an answer.

I just wanted to get them off my back. The high pressure sales