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Hello from the New Forest. Welcome to Inside Out. Here's what is

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coming up. Cold callers are cashing in on global warming. How not to

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get your fingers burned on carbon credits.

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More attacks on arteries as Britain tries to tackle problem diseases

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and problem pests. If we don't act soon, we will end up with a

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landscape which is just like a scrub, almost.

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And underwater archaeology. Unique clues to life in prehistoric

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southern England. The first waves of colonisation are following the

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last Ice Age. It is the backbone to British history. This is Inside Out

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First tonight, we're always told we should your bit to save the planet.

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So if somebody says you can do just that and make a bit of money, you

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might be tempted. Welcome to the world of carbon trading. A world

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that is causing some people to see red over going green. The

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temperature is rising and the planet is heating up. Experts say a

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major factor is the production of greenhouse gases, predominantly

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carbon dioxide. As we try to wean ourselves of fossil fuels, sea

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levels are rising and vast areas of the Earth are turning to dust. Time

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is running out. We have discovered a Winchester company cashing in on

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the planet's pride by ripping off people with carbon credits. Enviro

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Associates could be damaging an industry which is tackling global

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warming. There are many ways of tackling climate change. Gone is

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carbon credits, where companies in effect a make up for the pollution

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they create -- one hears. A carbon credit is the equivalent of one

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Cuba tonne of carbon dioxide. The cash paid for it is usually

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invested in environmentally friendly and ethically responsible

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project. Indoor air pollution kills 2 million people a year. Projects

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like this Africa and coke stove which was paid for by carbon

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credits. -- Pook stove. -- cook. It uses 80 % less would then be

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regular fire. The accumulative emissions from something like this

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are huge, all the way across the developing world. The stoves help

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to prevent the deforestation and cut down on respiratory disease,

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the biggest killer in the Third World. So, with carbon credits, who

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is buying them? Usually, it is extremely responsible companies who

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have already reduced as much as they possibly can internally, and

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they want to take responsibility for their residual emissions.

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Everyone from car manufacturers like Land Rover to large

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supermarkets, down to small businesses and individuals. Carbon

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finance is making a real difference in the lives of some of the poorest

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people in the world on the planet today. But where somebody is doing

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some good, there is always somebody trying to ruin the party. Tony

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knows all about carbon credits. He was called called by in London

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company -- called called. You're doing your bit for the environment.

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Are these people? Absolutely nothing for the environment.

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Everything to try to enrich themselves as -- at other people's

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expenses. They are targeting older men, and rarely women. They are

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targeting older people with money because they believe things and

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they're more trusting. All the people tend to have savings.

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there are also quite clever because there is this feel good about

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helping the environment. Yes, you're helping something that is

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green, you're helping combat global warming and doing all these

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wonderful things. Of course, you're not, you're putting huge sums of

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money into their pockets. Wonderful, thank you very much. Meet Luke Ryan.

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His very proud of his green credentials. -- he is. It's Luke

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Ryan. He is director of Enviro Associates, and he's got a great

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idea to make a lot of money. The Financial Services Authority has

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recently warned the public to be aware of cold calls from

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salespeople offering carbon credits as an investment, because it is

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just too complicated. But that hasn't stopped Luke Ryan of Enviro

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Associates of Southgate Street herein Winchester from selling

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carbon credits. One of his salesmen cold called a producer and claimed

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carbon credits were an investment opportunity not to be missed.

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still on a promotional offer, �5.50. What will they be worth when they

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come to sell them? They have to sell at �16, so we could

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potentially per share prices up, possibly to �14. We believe Enviro

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Associates and Luke Ryan were misleading us, but over have been

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floating the prices of their carbon credits. -- by over in plating. So

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we arranged a meeting with blue choir, he thought we had �10,000 to

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spend. -- with Luke Ryan. We showed our findings to Edward Hanrahan, a

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member of the legitimate Cup and Industry. At first, Luke Ryan is

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difficult to pin down. An expert is not impressed if. That is

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absolutely not true. He is creating a figure which is 100 times more

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than the actual figure. Luke Ryan finally gets into his stride and

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offers are husband-and-wife team a discount of one pound 50 on the

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retail price of �7. It's not that we couldn't sell them at �7, but

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surely it is more attractive but bypass 50? So if we have got the

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opportunity to sell the match by pounds 50, we want to get excited -

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- sell them at �5.50. What an offer. Credits for that particular

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projects fell from 25p but town up to about 90p per tonne -- fell.

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but he is quitting seven how stunned �5.50 because it is a

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special discount? �7 -- he is quoting �7 down to �5.54. In a

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year's time, it could be 12, �13. would be absolutely amazed if it

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was even �5.50 in a year's time. It is not worth that now, it is only

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worth between 20p and 90p. Just because you're paying that much for

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something, doesn't mean it is worth bypass 50. -- a -- �5.50. What

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these guys are doing is asking you to buy it bottle of milk today

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because there will be a world milk shortage in 10 years' time.

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Although Luke Ryan makes it clear the sale of carbon credits is

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unregulated, he says are many will be held at in an account protected

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by the Financial Services Authority. This is completely untrue. It is

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something extra to help build a bit of trust and confidence and

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security with purchasing carbon credits. Nick Ryan has got a lot of

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upfront claiming the financial- services authority will protect

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your money -- you acquired. He was previously banned by the FSA for

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selling shares using high-pressure phone techniques. The FSA said he

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and his fellow directors would pose a serious risk if they were to act

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as senior managers in an authorised firm. And then there is this, the

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internet advert which claims their company is regulated by the

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Financial Services Authority. The very organisation that has warned

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against businesses just like his. Enviro Associates agreed the

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internet advert is misleading, and say they have removed it. They say:

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They also say they use the services provided by a company which is

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regulated to emphasise the integrity and validity of their

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Enviro Associates justified its price market by comparing carbon

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credits to Milken a supermarket -- price Markup by comparing carbon

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credits to milk in a supermarket. It makes me very annoyed because it

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is giving a very bad name to a highly valuable part of the fight

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against climate change. To create community-based projects that

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alleviate poverty and deliver real increases in public health. That is

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what the voluntary carbon market is really designed to do. People are

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told that they will make fantastic gains and some of them, the victims,

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their critical faster -- faculty's get switched off. They are blind to

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anything else, and that is what these guys were riled. Ultimately,

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as long as people are going to believe the unbelievable, this sort

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of thing is going to happen. It is disgraceful. They should go to

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And if you think you have got a story for me, you know the e-mail.

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Next, the New Forest is one of our most loved ancient woodlands. As

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the government tries to stop the spread of ash dieback disease, some

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aspect -- experts are saying more should have been done sooner. They

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say are other threats to our trees are not being taken seriously

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They made England green and pleasant. They give first seasons

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of colour. They have been with us since we were children. And they

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are even planted in memory of our loved ones. Trees are essential to

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life as we know it. Every routes, every branch, has an important role

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to play. There is a hidden threat, something silently killing, often

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going unnoticed. If we are dead act sooner we will end up with and

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landscape that looks like a moonscape. Pests and diseases are

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threatening the very existence of the trees we laugh. This year 4,500

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trees in Kent have had to be felled and burnt. The cause of all this

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destruction is the people around three centimetres long. It is

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called the Asian longhorn beetle and it is thought to have travelled

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here on wood packaging imported from China. It is not fussy, will

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go for anything. The only trees that have escaped, eight hectors,

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are, first, eucalyptus and English oak. Everything else has gone.

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beetle larvae cause the damage by burying inside the park and eating

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would -- inside the bark and eating the wood. It is the most

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destructive tree best UK has had to face. Both the Forestry Commission

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and Food and Environment Agency are desperate to stop it spreading.

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They have even brought in sniffer dogs from Austria to hunt down any

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traces of the insect that may remain. In 2009 we started with

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detection with dogs. The visual control is not enough for the

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detection. Why has there been an increase in the number of pests and

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diseases entering our country over the past few years. Many believe it

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is due to be allowance of free trade between European Union

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countries. You have free trade between nations, so the normal

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strict quarantine rules are modified and slackened, to allow

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this to happen. You get free trade in goods and services which what

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Brussels wants, but you get freed - - free trade in pests and diseases.

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Is the government doing enough? Martin what is responsible for core

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mating plant health policy across the UK. You are in charge of

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containing the crisis. We have always had new arrivals, it would

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be impossible to keep everything out. We consult every year and

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several new pests and diseases we have found, and we target action

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against those which cause the most damage. We'd certainly agree we

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need to get better at anticipating threats. Why not have stricter

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restrictions on imported plants or material, one of quarantine them?

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We have to be able to justify any controls, controls or movements

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between the EU or imports from third countries on the basis of

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scientific evidence and we have to consult all the stakeholders that

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might be affected. People were to be able to move plants around the

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world, import exotic plants, it is not so simple as to be able to stop

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all trade. But they are importing pillars of our tree population.

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That is justification, surely? need to make sure we are importing

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goods without the pests. These pests and diseases are threatening

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our landscape and commercial woodland. There was a bigger risk.

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It is not just the tree's health, it is our health as well. Another

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test is the a procession remark. If it is thought to have arrived on a

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truce from the Dutch nursery been 2005. If the infested trees had

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eggs on the branches which are very hard to spot, even with an expert

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eye. Once hatched the caterpillar produces thousands of toxic tears.

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They can kill animals, give people a nasty rash, and in rare cases

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caused much more serious symptoms. You can get severe itching,

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dermatitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis. There are cases where there are

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schools in Germany where they are frightened to open the windows for

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their pupils in summer because they are frightened of the toxic tears

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coming in. In Bromley in Kent there has been an outbreak and this tree

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surgeon is working to control it. Some trees are completely clean.

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The tree next to it could have 60, 70 nests. On this site so far we

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have removed in excess of 1,200 nests. So far it has been treated

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as a tree on problem so all the actions are being led by the

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Forestry Commission but on the Continent it is treated as public

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health issue. If something is treated as a public health issue

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that automatically increases the political will, the resources

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available, public awareness, which will then help manage it.

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Germany the government pays for the removal of oak possession room off,

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but in the UK if you find a nest in your garden you have to take to

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remove it. Local authorities have to pay if it is in a public place.

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Dr Ma but police this cost means action is often avoided. If the

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government spent a few hundred �1,000 backing 2060 control some

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infected trees in Ealing and Richmond look at the savings they

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could have made it has been in this country for six years. If you are

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taken swift action we would be the situation we're in now. You can

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always do more and we have to work with it the resources we have

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available. The action that has been taken on a procession him off with

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landowners is working at limiting the spread on a now. We don't

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expect to be eradicated from west London but we are intending to live

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at the stroke -- bread. Now ash dieback has been discovered in the

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UK countryside. Maybe it is time to be more vigilant when it comes to

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protecting trees from unwelcome pests and diseases. Like millions

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of people in this country I love the native woodlands. I was say to

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people the way things are going, if you appreciate you wouldn't, one to

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remember what they look like, you get have a look at them now because

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the way things are going they will look completely different 20 years'

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time for. Have you ever wondered what lurks beneath the Solent?

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Would you believe, a vast ancient world there was once inhabited by

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humans. Fighter called for me, so we sent John MacIntyre Downer --

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far too cold for me. -- we sent a MacIntyre down there.

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These marine archaeologists are heading into the sea and I am

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filming the dive. It is a rare opportunity to investigate the

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unique underwater site. The team know they were in a race against

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time to collect vital clues about the origins of British life. We are

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heading to the north-west coast of the Isle of Wight, to the site of a

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settlement that existed 8,000 years ago, when the Continent and Britain

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were still linked, and the English Channel had yet to be formed. Most

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of this water was once land. But then the sea level raised and it

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disappeared under the waves. Divers from the Hampshire Trust for

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maritime archaeology a working tirelessly to uncover evidence of

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civilisation, Bury for thousands of years by a protective blanket of

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sediment. -- buried. In the cold murky Solent waters the site is now

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under threat because of a regime. Today we are working on the site

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there was a land bridge to the Isle of Wight and joint to France

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further down. This is a river valley, there was a campsite near

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it, people swapping flints for things, hunter-gatherers. They

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found huts, or kicking things, -- cooking things. The site is about

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200 metres long. A we will get down, get orientated, and then... Gary

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has been directing the investigation for 15 years. This is

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about 30 centimetres deep, and on the base a few more pieces of

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Mesolithic, middle stone-age work. Quo vulnerable on the floor, this

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The evidence of this archaeological mystery and a busy first came to

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light in the 1970s when there was in oyster fishing industry of the

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Isle of Wight. The fishermen brought up artifacts in their

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catches, which proved a revelation to the maritime community. I was

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astonished at the things they will finding, it was another world. I

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think I have been misled by so many people by the map. You just see

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blue UN up and think it is a liquid plane. It is hills and valleys

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under the water. The oyster fishing industry was incredibly boring, and

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in the winter and cold and wet, and to spice this up anything that came

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up in the dredge that wasn't an oyster and looks interesting kept

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us occupied. Did use of thing to lookout. Including this sort of the

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rich are up Mesolithic flint axes. They gave us the thrill, when you

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pick one of these out of the dredger, hoping to get it before

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the jet working alongside you get it, you're the first person to

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judge that from 6,000 BC, 1000 years ago, still gives me a thrill

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now, actually, holding it here today. We have arrived at this

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ancient site which we are about to die for. The idea is city marketed

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their evidence throughout the day which will help them put together

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this jigsaw puzzle to find out exactly what charity lived here all

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those thousands of years ago. The tides and currents of the Solent

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are notoriously strong. So the dive to have to work in especially

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challenging conditions. Gary uses an in-built microphone to talk us

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through what he finds. We have 1,000 think about 10 metres long.

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It is still lying here after 1000 years. If it was alive today you

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would see some branches sticking out the water. The tree was part of

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a vast forest, Gary has brought up pieces of wood to examine back in

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the lab. Some of it resembles parts of a log boat or canoe, all of us

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suggesting this was once a significant but building site. --

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boat-building. But Gary is also interested in taking sediment from

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the sea bed itself to give us more clues about what went on. It is

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difficult -- getting difficult than here. The tide has picked up and

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The fall Gary the results of their dive amount to nothing more than

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finding a time capsule. We started off here with a layer, Arnold Lunn

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surface. That is where we are finding the evidence. There appears

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to be some kind of flood a build-up of sediment, year on year, then

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going back in time to this one here, 8,100 and. The final inundation was

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7990 years ago and then you get to a bit beyond here to repeat --

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reveal this deposit which has got compressed on the seabed. I have

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got another sample which came with it. This is the same sample, Pete,

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it is like breaking open a fossil. All these layers of branches and

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you even get leaves preserved in a stable environment, see how well

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that has been preserved. It have been buried a few weeks ago. It is

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compacted, you are not put a bit. That is a bit of Bach. -- Bach. You

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don't find this on land, this material, this is well under the

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water in its depths. As well as natural vegetation there are also

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it -- they are also finding material that has been worked by

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human hands. This charcoal, the fat lots and lots of it. They have been

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heating or carbonised in the wood, burning it, so they could Pricket

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and fashion it said the work there would with a flint tools. The start

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of the industrial process. Laws of evidence indicating we have got an

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industrial site. Changes in the structure of the sea bed itself

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mean the site is now rapidly eroding. The divers need to find

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out as much as they can before the story of the last people to live

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It is a site that is revealing information about a period in

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history we know little about. about the people that came and

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occupied Britain before we separated from north-west Europe.

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It is the first waves of colonisation, following the last

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Ice Age. It is the backbone to John MacIntyre there, last seen

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heading for a very hot bath. I will see you next week for more stories

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