0:00:00 > 0:00:04Hello from Salisbury, and welcome to Inside Out. He is what is coming
0:00:04 > 0:00:06up tonight. Counting the costs of precious
0:00:06 > 0:00:11metals - Wiltshire Police take action against cable stealing
0:00:11 > 0:00:17crooks. Metal theft is not a victimless
0:00:17 > 0:00:22crime. It is a crime that we need to eradicate.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26I am riding scared, online conmen stealing our identities. If I
0:00:26 > 0:00:30wanted to break into your house, I would know when you were away and
0:00:30 > 0:00:38how long you were gone for. They are beyond the law, it is
0:00:38 > 0:00:44cross-border, no one can do anything about it.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48And the secret weapons of war. The fire three torpedoes, two hit.
0:00:48 > 0:00:5330 years after the Falklands war, we reveal the abandoned base with
0:00:53 > 0:00:59an explosive past. You would never guess this derelict
0:00:59 > 0:01:09site was once the secret source of the British Navy's firepower.
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0:01:18 > 0:01:22am Jon Cuthill and this is Inside It is putting lives at risk, it is
0:01:22 > 0:01:28costing millions of pounds and it is a growing problem in the south.
0:01:28 > 0:01:33Metal theft is a modern-day menace, and some experts think it is
0:01:33 > 0:01:42costing �770 million per year. Here in Wiltshire, the fightback has
0:01:42 > 0:01:50begun. Heroes Nick Wallace. The early morning in Wiltshire, and
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Operation Herald at his starting. This is one of the scores of rates
0:01:53 > 0:02:01happening up and down the country to crush a multi-million pound
0:02:02 > 0:02:06It may look like a load of old junk, but with metal prices soaring, all
0:02:06 > 0:02:12this is worth a small fortune. No wonder stealing it has become big
0:02:12 > 0:02:15business for criminals. Metal theft is said to cost the UK
0:02:15 > 0:02:21economy �770 million, but what is the cost to you and me?
0:02:21 > 0:02:24It is not a victimless crime. It is a crime that affects all sectors of
0:02:24 > 0:02:27community and it is a crime we need to eradicate.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30The sheer scale of this crime wave is sending public services into
0:02:30 > 0:02:33meltdown. How long do you think it will be
0:02:33 > 0:02:38before a cable theft create a civil emergency?
0:02:38 > 0:02:42I think it is inevitable there is certain to be a significant loss of
0:02:42 > 0:02:46supply duty this activity. The gangs are becoming more
0:02:46 > 0:02:51determined to get what they want. Metal theft of electrical cabling
0:02:51 > 0:02:55spark this. It became clear it is a potentially lethal crime.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59So what could be left without a family member or somebody seriously
0:02:59 > 0:03:03injured for the sake of a few Pounds.
0:03:03 > 0:03:08They assist Avonmouth docks scrapyard near Bristol.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11The metal is recycled and exported. Here, they stick to the rules, but
0:03:11 > 0:03:16to make sure the metal the bike is legitimate, they are always on
0:03:16 > 0:03:20guard. How do you know this metal is not
0:03:20 > 0:03:24stolen? Were have many cheques that we
0:03:24 > 0:03:26carry out. If we cannot find out any reason for it to be legitimate
0:03:27 > 0:03:29any reason for it to be legitimate or we are suspicious, we will turn
0:03:29 > 0:03:33it away. How difficult is it to weed out the
0:03:33 > 0:03:39dodgy people? You are dealing with criminal gangs in some cases.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43Yes, it is arranged from people who do very little to disguise stolen
0:03:43 > 0:03:48mental, to people very professional at disguising stolen metal.
0:03:48 > 0:03:55And thieves are stealing everything from dreams, war memorials to
0:03:55 > 0:03:59manhole covers. The facts -- thefts cost taxpayers up to �40,000, but
0:03:59 > 0:04:04once: manhole cover can have serious costs to road users.
0:04:04 > 0:04:10People could be killed, would represent a death threat. It is not
0:04:10 > 0:04:13worth the money. This is a crime also hitting the
0:04:13 > 0:04:17heart of there vital services. The and many times has the side
0:04:17 > 0:04:21been targeted? Two months running up to Christmas.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25When the thieves get onside, what do they do?
0:04:25 > 0:04:34And this cable pit, they remove the covers, thrown into the ground then
0:04:34 > 0:04:38cut the cables live to pull the cables out. They cut through a live
0:04:38 > 0:04:42electricity cable to do this? They did. A really foolish activity,
0:04:42 > 0:04:46very dangerous for those undertaking it and any staff
0:04:46 > 0:04:49arriving to deal with the situation. How many customers could be
0:04:49 > 0:04:52affected? About 6,000 homes.
0:04:52 > 0:04:58Be people would have turned on the taps and got nothing?
0:04:58 > 0:05:02The ETA is a real possibility. Fifth like this have cost Wessex
0:05:02 > 0:05:07Water �1 million in the past two years. The gangs are looking for
0:05:07 > 0:05:13one thing - copper. They this is what thereafter?
0:05:13 > 0:05:20They say is that, for core copper cable, high-voltage, heavy PVC
0:05:20 > 0:05:24sheeting and insulation was stripped off one side. It has
0:05:24 > 0:05:29higher value for them and is completely untreatable. Worth about
0:05:29 > 0:05:32�1,000 over the counter and a scrapyard as a coiled like this.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36have 70 metres of cable that can be pulled out of the ground in an hour,
0:05:37 > 0:05:41then all you need is a no questions asked scrap metal dealer who will
0:05:41 > 0:05:45take it off your hands. Absolutely right. It is an easy way
0:05:45 > 0:05:49of making a living. Seen as a high yield, low-risk
0:05:49 > 0:05:54crime, cable theft has become a national epidemic. There are said
0:05:54 > 0:05:58to be up to eight thefts every day when the railways, causing
0:05:58 > 0:06:01disruption to 3.8 million passengers last year. British
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Transport police see it is their second highest priority, just
0:06:05 > 0:06:08behind terrorism. The gangs are getting more
0:06:08 > 0:06:12organised and confident. They will go to any lengths to get to what
0:06:12 > 0:06:16they want. We have seen examples of roadworks
0:06:16 > 0:06:22set up, cloned BT vehicles, people operating in high-visibility
0:06:22 > 0:06:32jackets with high -- hard-hat on, so that members of the public or
0:06:32 > 0:06:35police driving past think they look like bona fide BT engineers.
0:06:35 > 0:06:40Thieves used vehicles to simply do like 2,000 metres of cable and of
0:06:40 > 0:06:43the roadside, cutting off hundreds of homes for days. The company has
0:06:43 > 0:06:49set up its own task force to tackle these thefts.
0:06:49 > 0:06:54It can impact essential services, ambulances, fire brigade, police.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58But it can isolate local communities, it is a serious crime.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02We have 40 people dedicated to combating metal thefts, working
0:07:02 > 0:07:06with law-enforcement agencies. That work has seen that raids like
0:07:06 > 0:07:12this won't take place at scrapyards across the country.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16We are trying to send a message to the owners of scrap metal that they
0:07:16 > 0:07:20should run their business appropriately, and today this will
0:07:20 > 0:07:23send a message added. The operation has resulted in a
0:07:23 > 0:07:27number of arrests at other scrapyards, but those who work in
0:07:28 > 0:07:32the scrap-metal industry say often the wrong companies are being
0:07:32 > 0:07:36targeted in the wrong way. It will always be the case that the
0:07:36 > 0:07:41regulated, legal operator is borne down on by regulators and law
0:07:41 > 0:07:44enforcement, because they are more visible and it is easier for the
0:07:44 > 0:07:50authorities to target. We want to see better intelligence,
0:07:50 > 0:07:55more co-ordinated police activity, and not the local, well-meaning,
0:07:55 > 0:07:59fragmented local police activity, which frequently does nothing but
0:07:59 > 0:08:03drive the illegal trade into the next county or town.
0:08:03 > 0:08:09All sides agree there needs to be some change in the law governing of
0:08:10 > 0:08:14the scrap-metal industry. It dates back to the 60s. The age of the
0:08:14 > 0:08:21rag-and-bone men and these guys. You're scrap-metal merchants.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25Yes, if we can get any. I have some come under here.
0:08:25 > 0:08:31A Government intends to increase fines and a total cash payment for
0:08:31 > 0:08:34scrap metal. Some believe a ban on cash payments is not the way to go.
0:08:34 > 0:08:39If the Government introduced a ban on cash transactions for scrap
0:08:39 > 0:08:44metal, it would drive the trade underground, the legitimate trade,
0:08:44 > 0:08:47into the hands of the illegal and unregulated dealer.
0:08:47 > 0:08:53Meanwhile, public services have had to come up with more ways of
0:08:53 > 0:08:58beating the thieves. These are you third set of
0:08:58 > 0:09:02replacement cables, how will you make sure you don't lose these? You
0:09:02 > 0:09:08have put concrete over them. The also have a lacquered on the
0:09:08 > 0:09:12cables. What we have sprayed the lacquer on, we can identify the
0:09:12 > 0:09:15likeable and the cable, it goes red. If you shine a torch on a piece of
0:09:15 > 0:09:25cable that a scrapyard, you would see it had the slacken attached to
0:09:25 > 0:09:29it, then you could identify it. If I wait my finger on it, it will
0:09:29 > 0:09:33shore up and identify me as being on this site?
0:09:33 > 0:09:38Yes. The forensic tagging may give the
0:09:38 > 0:09:41authorities one more weapon in their war on metal theft, but
0:09:41 > 0:09:44without a draw ask -- drastic change in the law, no one thinks
0:09:44 > 0:09:48this crime wave will ever be completely crushed, and that could
0:09:48 > 0:09:53have major consequences for all of Any one of these events of cable
0:09:53 > 0:09:56theft can turn into a civil emergency. We're not talking about
0:09:56 > 0:10:06single properties being isolated from water, potentially thousands
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0:10:09 > 0:10:14Next, from a crime you can see, to a crime you cannot, identity theft.
0:10:14 > 0:10:21In this age, how easy is it for someone to pretend to be you? If
0:10:21 > 0:10:25someone is masquerading as you, what can they get up to? We spend
0:10:25 > 0:10:27our lives dodging the latest scams. Offers too good to be true,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29jackpots prizes we are never going to win.
0:10:30 > 0:10:37And today the stakes are huge, because criminals are not just
0:10:37 > 0:10:40after your pennies - they want your life savings and identity. If, like
0:10:40 > 0:10:42me, whose day to day life involves communicating online, then almost
0:10:43 > 0:10:46certainly you will have been targeted by the latest con. 80-
0:10:46 > 0:10:53year-old Margaret Owen was at her home in Dorset with her family when
0:10:53 > 0:10:59she found out she had been scammed. Suddenly, he called downstairs, my
0:10:59 > 0:11:03son, he said, mum, you have been hacked! I did not know what he
0:11:03 > 0:11:05meant. I realised I could not it into my e-mails.
0:11:05 > 0:11:13Someone had hacked into Margaret's email account and sent begging
0:11:13 > 0:11:17letters in her name to every person she knew.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21Everyone on my e-mail address book caught a message that I had been
0:11:21 > 0:11:25badly mugged and robbed in Madrid, I desperately needed money to sort
0:11:25 > 0:11:31things out, I would be back the following weekend and pay them back
0:11:31 > 0:11:35with interest. I needed around �2,000, can you help? I did not
0:11:35 > 0:11:39know what to do, everyone was calling me, where other children
0:11:39 > 0:11:43were calling me, people were calling them and asking what has
0:11:43 > 0:11:48happened to your mother? All sorts of people believed it, and some of
0:11:49 > 0:11:54them had spent four hours in a post office in Bath tried to send me
0:11:54 > 0:11:59this money. Do you know how much money they got away with? And I
0:11:59 > 0:12:03know three people got done, that was about �6,000.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06When it comes to internet security this man is bang on target - unlike
0:12:06 > 0:12:11his throwing. He says Margaret was probably a victim of a phishing
0:12:11 > 0:12:16scam. This takes place when fraudsters
0:12:16 > 0:12:19send out mass e-mails, which seemed to come from one organisation, you
0:12:19 > 0:12:24may well have a relationship with it, for instance you high-speed
0:12:24 > 0:12:29bank. They ask you to click on a link to verify your details or read
0:12:29 > 0:12:33the latest message. The link will take you to a clone of the
0:12:33 > 0:12:38organisation's website, very convincing, often. It is easy to
0:12:38 > 0:12:42fall for these things, to log on, give them your details and your
0:12:42 > 0:12:46personal information, who that -- we can then go to the real site and
0:12:46 > 0:12:53clear out your account. I think it is really scary and
0:12:53 > 0:13:00terribly upsetting. It was terribly upsetting in every way, to do with
0:13:00 > 0:13:06my friends and work, feeling so invaded, still invaded, horrible,
0:13:06 > 0:13:09horrible. The statistics suggest that
0:13:09 > 0:13:13fraudsters are having a field day online.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17The internet is a fantastic fill and make -- fantastic tool, but at
0:13:17 > 0:13:23the same time it presents lots of opportunities for fraudsters to
0:13:23 > 0:13:27strike. I just got a menial saying there
0:13:27 > 0:13:32have been five attempts to get into your e-mail, Philip this form. One
0:13:32 > 0:13:37of you said, don't touch it! There are all sorts of extraordinarily
0:13:37 > 0:13:41clever ways in which you think it is a real, I do think it is Google
0:13:42 > 0:13:45calling you, but it is not. I'm finding this all really scary
0:13:45 > 0:13:48but Natasha Malden takes it in her stride. She's a cyber-expert who is
0:13:48 > 0:13:58fearless in the online world and feels that we are offering the
0:13:58 > 0:14:02The vast majority of people have the same password for most of their
0:14:02 > 0:14:07accounts, social networking, shopping, bank accounts online. If
0:14:07 > 0:14:11they don't, they will have the same password, and they will put a
0:14:11 > 0:14:14number on the end of it, or the first letter will be a capital, but
0:14:14 > 0:14:17it is always a variation on that one word.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21So it looks like we are making it too easy for criminals to phish.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25One bogus email claiming to be from your bank can trick you out of your
0:14:25 > 0:14:29password, and open the door to all of your online life. It's not just
0:14:29 > 0:14:33your financial passwords that the crooks are interested in. What
0:14:33 > 0:14:40would happen if that got into the wrong hands?
0:14:40 > 0:14:44Time to throw down a challenge for our cyber expert, Natasha. I don't
0:14:44 > 0:14:52believe you can get that much information from me. I think I am
0:14:52 > 0:14:56pretty sensible. I will give you one password, don't show the camera
0:14:56 > 0:14:58it's back your challenge is to see how much you can get from that one
0:14:58 > 0:15:01password. I will do that.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04It seems more and more of us are being taken for a ride by cyber
0:15:04 > 0:15:08criminals who will do anything to steal our identit. None more so
0:15:08 > 0:15:11than in Reading. Although it sees itself as a high tech town, it's a
0:15:11 > 0:15:21top target for online thieves. Thieves who have the power to turn
0:15:21 > 0:15:21
0:15:21 > 0:15:29your life and identity on its head. So, you're Kate Liddel.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32But there is another one? Yes, there was, and it was even a
0:15:32 > 0:15:36Mr Kate Liddell. Yes, they don't even have respect
0:15:36 > 0:15:40for your gender. How did you realise your
0:15:40 > 0:15:44identification had been stolen? I opened a letter from a bank I had
0:15:45 > 0:15:48a savings account with, telling me I had been successful setting up a
0:15:48 > 0:15:52new account and would I take some identification in to activate the
0:15:52 > 0:15:56account. Once they had hit the mark, they
0:15:56 > 0:16:00set up an expensive mobile phone contract to get more money out of
0:16:00 > 0:16:06Kate Liddell. The a tempted us with letters from
0:16:06 > 0:16:10bailiffs saying they would come round and collect the debt board to
0:16:10 > 0:16:14the phone company. That is worrying, to think people may turn up on your
0:16:14 > 0:16:18doorstep demanding money or goods from you. I was frightened at that
0:16:18 > 0:16:21point might. It must be a huge worry, you don't
0:16:21 > 0:16:25know what else they have. I kept thinking something else
0:16:25 > 0:16:30would come through the door or, that they would have used that
0:16:31 > 0:16:38information to set up another debt somewhere else. Every day I checked
0:16:38 > 0:16:44the doorstep, slightly obsessively. I was really worried this was going
0:16:44 > 0:16:48to escalate, that we may lose a lot of money.
0:16:48 > 0:16:53Fortunately, criminals did not hit the jackpot with Kate, as she she
0:16:53 > 0:16:57raised the alarm as soon as she expected foul play. There is a
0:16:57 > 0:17:02worry that her personal details are still up there and could be used to
0:17:02 > 0:17:06commit crime. From your face because I can track
0:17:06 > 0:17:10down your family members, see who you are friends with, I can see
0:17:10 > 0:17:15when you have been on holiday... With just one password and Mike e-
0:17:15 > 0:17:22mail, Natasha has discovered everything there is to know about
0:17:22 > 0:17:27Jon Cuthill. Almost all that is useful. If I
0:17:27 > 0:17:33wanted to break into your house, I would know how long you wear away.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37I tried a couple of others. I went into your Amazon account. I then
0:17:37 > 0:17:42tried your online banking, and I was able to get on there, as well.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45I was able to see credit cards, are you billing address and delivery
0:17:45 > 0:17:49address. You could use that information, and
0:17:50 > 0:17:53then tricked me further to give more information?
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Definitely come and give you can construct an official-looking e-
0:17:57 > 0:18:00mail that says, we know you have lived here since the state and you
0:18:01 > 0:18:05have bought this, this, and this, this is your date of birth, we need
0:18:05 > 0:18:09you to fill in your credit card number to make sure that credit
0:18:09 > 0:18:13card is still valid, and people won't think much of it and send
0:18:13 > 0:18:16back at those details. Then they have out -- access to everything
0:18:17 > 0:18:21you need. How do you best protect yourself?
0:18:21 > 0:18:25The key is to be aware of common scams and problems and to take
0:18:25 > 0:18:28sensible precautions. Fraudsters will often go for the lowest
0:18:28 > 0:18:33hanging fruit, so you need to reduce the risk of details falling
0:18:33 > 0:18:38into the wrong hands. If you're online, using the computer or
0:18:38 > 0:18:44smartphone, you have to make sure it has up-to-date security software,
0:18:44 > 0:18:48but you only use sites from genuine organisations, you make sure if you
0:18:48 > 0:18:54are entering your credit card information, for instance, that it
0:18:54 > 0:18:57is a secure website. It is estimated that over 4 million
0:18:57 > 0:19:01people have been victims of anti- fraud in the UK. Next time you
0:19:01 > 0:19:04enter your personal details online, be careful.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09You believe it happens to other people who must be careless or have
0:19:09 > 0:19:13not paid attention, and when it happens and you believe you have
0:19:14 > 0:19:18been very careful, it is a horrible feeling.
0:19:18 > 0:19:23None of us of my generation are but happy with the Internet, because we
0:19:23 > 0:19:33thought it was quite a good idea and all this information, but it
0:19:33 > 0:19:34
0:19:34 > 0:19:44has all these negative side, and I If you think you have a story for
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0:19:45 > 0:19:51me, why not got was an e-mail... And the I am Jon Cuthill!
0:19:51 > 0:20:01Finally, it was the Secret Navy base for 200 years. Priddy's Hard
0:20:01 > 0:20:01
0:20:02 > 0:20:04You'd never guess that this derelict site was once the secret
0:20:04 > 0:20:07source of the British navy's firepower. The storage, development
0:20:07 > 0:20:14and testing of lethal weapons all happened here. You can see that it
0:20:14 > 0:20:16has been abandoned for decades, but From the days of Trafalgar through
0:20:16 > 0:20:26two world wars, Priddy's Hard supplied the warships with their
0:20:26 > 0:20:29
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Where are we? You were standing looking across the harbour at
0:20:32 > 0:20:37Portsmouth naval base, which has been the home of the Royal Navy for
0:20:37 > 0:20:41hundreds of years. When the side, the Gosport side, was the home of
0:20:41 > 0:20:45the Navy's ammunition supply. Why were they in two different
0:20:45 > 0:20:49places? Originally, the gunpowder was
0:20:49 > 0:20:53stored in Plymouth at -- Portsmouth City, but as the City got bigger
0:20:53 > 0:20:57and more populated, they started to get nervous about having the powder
0:20:57 > 0:21:01in the middle of people, so they built their new powder magazine and
0:21:01 > 0:21:08all the gunpowder was transferred. The powder comes out of the
0:21:08 > 0:21:12magazine, balls into this harbour, it goes into special ships and they
0:21:12 > 0:21:16take it to the fleet. Which must have been a bristling
0:21:16 > 0:21:19sea of masts. Absolutely, the Navy had hundreds
0:21:19 > 0:21:22of ships that would have filled the harbour.
0:21:22 > 0:21:27This is the lethal headquarters of the British Navy, the British
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Empire, effectively. Yes, and it then goes all round-
0:21:30 > 0:21:33the-world enabling the Navy could do its job.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Priddy's Hard armed the Royal Navy allowing it to dominate the
0:21:36 > 0:21:39greatest empire the world had ever known. At its peak the fleet ran to
0:21:39 > 0:21:49over 900 major warships, served by over three quarters of a million
0:21:49 > 0:21:53
0:21:53 > 0:21:57This is the Grand magazine built in 1777. This is the historic heart of
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Priddy's Hard. This is an amazing run.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04You have to imagine it piled high with barrels of gunpowder, because
0:22:04 > 0:22:08all this structure is about containing the possible damage you
0:22:08 > 0:22:12could have. So, if there is a big explosion
0:22:12 > 0:22:14these walls are not going anywhere. The roof of the ceiling is slightly
0:22:14 > 0:22:17thinner so if there's any problem it all goes up.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19The pivotal role that this top secret facility played in defending
0:22:19 > 0:22:27Britain continued throughout the Second World War, expanding to
0:22:27 > 0:22:29cover over 100 acres of land, Priddy's Hard was the biggest
0:22:29 > 0:22:39employer in Gosport, with local people joining as soon as they
0:22:39 > 0:22:42
0:22:42 > 0:22:49When you came into work, you came through the tunnel, a dirty area,
0:22:49 > 0:22:53into the store, and across the middle of the room was a barrier
0:22:53 > 0:22:56about one foot high painted red. You step over that barrier, then
0:22:56 > 0:23:00you were in the clean it area. There was no dirt or anything
0:23:00 > 0:23:09officially allowed. Do stop contamination?
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Yes, of the explosives. This was known as the Proof House.
0:23:13 > 0:23:20When the shells and cartridges and fuses were worked on in the
0:23:20 > 0:23:28laboratory, a certain amount of them were taken as proof. They were
0:23:28 > 0:23:34fired to make sure it worked. All day long there was an enormous bang,
0:23:34 > 0:23:38bang, bang. In those days, sometimes you went in a room and
0:23:38 > 0:23:44you were there almost for your life, and there were a lot of people who
0:23:44 > 0:23:47worked in the Proof House, who went home stone deaf. In those days you
0:23:47 > 0:23:51did not wear ear protection or anything, it was one of the risks
0:23:51 > 0:23:57of the job. Another risk was working with
0:23:57 > 0:24:00explosives. Brothers surprising, then, that it was done in the
0:24:01 > 0:24:06wooden huts. If there was a lot of stone or
0:24:06 > 0:24:10brick, they would for a few milliseconds hold of the explosion
0:24:11 > 0:24:15in and make it worse. So would almost protected it?
0:24:15 > 0:24:20Yes. For Bill, Priddy's Hard was
0:24:20 > 0:24:24something of a family business. Your father worked here?
0:24:24 > 0:24:29My grandfather did, as well. Three generations all making,
0:24:29 > 0:24:39testing, developing munitions. And my son did after me.
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0:24:43 > 0:24:46No Mike! Really. The name is well known here.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49At the other end of the supply chain was Vice Admiral Sir Tim
0:24:49 > 0:24:53McClement who received the weapons that were stored at Priddy's Hard.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57In 1982 he was an acting Lieutenant Commander and 2nd in command of HMS
0:24:57 > 0:25:03Conqueror the ship that sank the Belgrano in the Falklands Conflict.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06One 2nd May, when the captain went to action stations, he fired three
0:25:06 > 0:25:13of the mark eighth second-world-war torpedoes against the Belgrano. We
0:25:13 > 0:25:17decided the best weapon to use of the two types of torpedo we had was
0:25:17 > 0:25:21the mark the eighth, a Second World War weapon. The modern weapon is
0:25:21 > 0:25:25designed to go one beneath the surface target, explode when it is
0:25:25 > 0:25:32directly underneath, and it forms a gas bubble that rises quickly under
0:25:32 > 0:25:35the ship, raises the ship out of the water and breaks its back. We
0:25:35 > 0:25:40were not sure this a new weapon would half the size of bobble
0:25:40 > 0:25:46required to lift a cruiser with eight inches of armour-plating, so
0:25:46 > 0:25:52we decided to use the Second World War designed torpedo defined
0:25:52 > 0:25:57against a Second World War are designed warship. The car --
0:25:57 > 0:26:01captain carried out a classic attack from 1,400 yards. But of
0:26:01 > 0:26:05three torpedoes, two hit, the first one blue of the boat, the second of
0:26:05 > 0:26:12the stern. The captain came up to have a look shortly afterwards, or
0:26:12 > 0:26:16he planned to, but as he was coming up we received the first of what we
0:26:16 > 0:26:21considered to be depth charges, but we thought the escorts were looking
0:26:21 > 0:26:23for us. There was a second pattern of debt charges, so the captain
0:26:23 > 0:26:26took the submarine much deeper and clear de area.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29The Falklands Conflict was the last time Priddy's Hard was operational.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32The MoD relocated in 1989 and they left behind one of the largest
0:26:32 > 0:26:39collections of military naval weaponry in Britain that now makes
0:26:40 > 0:26:44up the Explosion Museum. This is our big gun store. The
0:26:44 > 0:26:47whole story of the development of technology is about cause and
0:26:47 > 0:26:54effect, one side producing something and that the other side
0:26:54 > 0:27:00producing something to counter it. The ultimate development of an arms
0:27:00 > 0:27:05race is the nuclear arms race. This is a Polaris nuclear missile.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08I am touching a nuclear weapon? Yes, obviously this one has been
0:27:08 > 0:27:12completely demilitarised, but it is pretty sinister.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15It really makes you think the number of times the world has
0:27:15 > 0:27:19teetered on the brink of catastrophe.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21There was always a submarine at any given time loaded with these
0:27:21 > 0:27:24missiles and pointing them somewhere.
0:27:24 > 0:27:31With only a twentieth of its surface ships still in operation,
0:27:31 > 0:27:36the Navy no longer needed Priddy's Hard, but its memory lives on.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38We can that it might if you had a red badge on, you were working on
0:27:38 > 0:27:46gunpowder. With traditional explosives like
0:27:46 > 0:27:53TNT, it was a black badge. By the Red?
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Because gunpowder emit dust. T N T under cordite were solid. It was
0:27:57 > 0:28:01not so potentially flammable. Does it make you quite sad to come
0:28:01 > 0:28:07here? It does, really.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11It really is a bygone era, isn't Yes, I remember all the people I
0:28:11 > 0:28:21worked with for all those years. It was not just a job, it was a way of
0:28:21 > 0:28:26
0:28:26 > 0:28:30That is just about it for now, Jon Cuthill, a Bible see you next
0:28:30 > 0:28:34Monday. -- I will see you next Monday.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37Next Week, it is High Noon for our High Streets. But have the Olympics