:00:10. > :00:14.Welcome to inside-out. This is home to one of the most important
:00:14. > :00:19.collections of vehicles in the country. We will be meeting
:00:19. > :00:23.Britain's biggest fan of the Ford Transit van while we discover there
:00:23. > :00:28.is only one Turkey on the minds of Southampton workers this Christmas
:00:28. > :00:34.as jobs are going. You put your heart and soul into making
:00:35. > :00:38.something work and you get no thanks for it. Also, arson. How a
:00:38. > :00:46.pub landlord and himself -- his wife tried to cover their tracks as
:00:46. > :00:51.they set light to their business. What a year it has been. We meet
:00:51. > :00:57.some of the family struggling to cope with 2012's incredible
:00:57. > :01:03.downfalls. I will be glad when 2012 has finished and we can get on with
:01:03. > :01:13.hopefully a normal life in 2013. The citizens Saadi for the South of
:01:13. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:29.-- This is inside-out for the South I will explain why we have come
:01:29. > :01:33.inside in just a moment. But first arson, it is thought every week in
:01:33. > :01:38.the UK 2000 fires are started deliberately. The cost - �14
:01:38. > :01:48.million. When Hampshire Fire Investigation teams will call to a
:01:48. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:51.pub in Lymington, the cameras were there. Summer, 2011 and a local pub
:01:51. > :01:54.is ablaze. Five people are inside when the alarm goes off. The
:01:54. > :01:58.landlord and his dog are plucked to safety by firefighters. But is
:01:58. > :02:04.everything as it seems? Mind you step down here. The arson
:02:04. > :02:11.investigation team has been called in. We have come to the other end
:02:11. > :02:14.of the building so we must have at least 10 metres walk. What you have
:02:14. > :02:19.his plastic that has melted down from the emergency lighting. The
:02:19. > :02:23.heat has got such in this room, it has melted lighting, the smoke
:02:23. > :02:28.detector up there. This is good evidence as to why you should close
:02:28. > :02:32.the doors. If you look to the damage to this rule and the damp --
:02:32. > :02:37.damage to the store, which was closed at the time, you can see him
:02:37. > :02:43.there, the amount of damage which is considerably less. It's down to
:02:43. > :02:47.Andy and his team to piece together where and how this fire started.
:02:47. > :02:51.The crews were met with a well- developed fire in the stairwell.
:02:51. > :02:57.What happened originally, the occupiers were woken by the smoke
:02:57. > :03:02.detector. The occupier found a fire in the bar area, and he could see
:03:02. > :03:12.the flames under the door. there is a more worrying part to
:03:12. > :03:13.
:03:13. > :03:18.their story. If we push the door open. It would appear this mob was
:03:18. > :03:25.in this position unlike so. This was used by whoever said the fire
:03:25. > :03:30.to prevent anybody escaping. And it doesn't take long to sniff out
:03:30. > :03:37.something's been used to start the blaze. We have evidence on the
:03:37. > :03:42.carpet out here which is possibly liquid. And it has a petrol smell
:03:42. > :03:47.to it. It will be taken away for scientific analysis. The landlord
:03:47. > :03:52.told the firemen he had been blocked from getting out. This is
:03:52. > :03:56.the Fyodor the gentleman tried to use to make escape with his family.
:03:56. > :04:01.He was unable to open the door because this piece of timber was
:04:01. > :04:05.wedged up against it. Someone had come round to the back of the
:04:06. > :04:09.building and render the fire escape useless. With alarming stories from
:04:09. > :04:15.the landlord and his family it was Andy's job to make sense of what
:04:15. > :04:19.appeared to an appalling crime. have not seen anything like this
:04:19. > :04:24.before where people have gone to the effort to block a fire exit and
:04:24. > :04:28.blocked the door into the bar as well. Potentially trapping five
:04:28. > :04:33.people within a property that has been set light to, with no means of
:04:33. > :04:37.escape other than a window where they risk a fall from height. In
:04:37. > :04:42.fact, one of the occupiers had to be rescued by fire crews on a
:04:42. > :04:46.ladder. It is unusual. It was easy enough to work out an arsonist was
:04:46. > :04:50.to blame, and the hunt was on to find the culprit. But in the end
:04:50. > :04:52.they wouldn't have to look far. So that firefighters know how to spot
:04:52. > :05:02.suspicious fires there's regular training at Hampshire Fire Service
:05:02. > :05:03.
:05:03. > :05:09.HQ in Eastleigh. We have a bed, or computer, a video. Stuff on the
:05:09. > :05:14.walls. It is a room set up. We will set up a fire and hopefully we will
:05:14. > :05:19.find the seat. We are looking for the seat of the fire. When you find
:05:19. > :05:23.the seat of the fire you can establish the cause. But petrol
:05:23. > :05:29.Virk, Labour trail down. The room is packed with red herrings - soon
:05:29. > :05:33.to be smoked out. They could investigator will investigate every
:05:33. > :05:36.possible cause when he gets to the seat of the fire. But will today's
:05:36. > :05:39.students spot how this blaze was started? Back at Lymington, police
:05:39. > :05:42.forensic teams are looking for clues. A nearby field is being
:05:42. > :05:45.searched for any discarded fuel containers and the hunt is on for
:05:45. > :05:52.finger prints. The Landlord's wife Mylinda Thomas has implicated her
:05:52. > :05:57.brother - who she claims had been making threatening phone calls. He
:05:57. > :06:00.will be exonerated and no charges or will it be brought against him.
:06:00. > :06:05.When the breathing apparatus crews came to make an entrance, they
:06:05. > :06:11.found signs of a forced entry through the toilet. When a window
:06:11. > :06:15.is broken, you get glass fragments, microscopic incise coming back
:06:15. > :06:19.towards the offender. They will be able to look at the clothing and
:06:19. > :06:26.the glass fragments and tide that up to see if it is the same class.
:06:26. > :06:28.It will put back person on this side at that particular time.
:06:28. > :06:31.it's this evidence that will eventually lead police and fire
:06:31. > :06:36.investigators to the culprits. So how are the students getting on
:06:36. > :06:46.back at Hampshire Fire Service HQ? Obviously we have the least damaged
:06:46. > :06:46.
:06:46. > :06:55.at this end. The The new recruits get to work. Sooner they are hot on
:06:55. > :06:59.the trail. What does that look like? Batteries. A lot of the
:06:59. > :07:03.carpet has been consumed. There is nothing here to develop the fire in
:07:03. > :07:10.this part. But we have had a serious fire in this part of the
:07:10. > :07:14.room. I am thinking, has something been introduced? You get a bit of a
:07:14. > :07:21.feel and think, not at all is right. Sometimes you cannot put your
:07:21. > :07:23.finger on what is wrong, it just doesn't seem right. And back in
:07:24. > :07:26.Lymington things definitely don't look right. What looked like
:07:26. > :07:32.someone trying to burn down a landlord's beloved pub, now looks
:07:32. > :07:36.like an inside job. On closer inspection during the investigation,
:07:36. > :07:40.certain pieces of evidence did not tie up with what the gentleman was
:07:40. > :07:45.telling us. Something just didn't seem right with the blocked back
:07:45. > :07:48.door. Initial reports from a landlord at the property, it told
:07:48. > :07:54.us of the door was a wedged shut and they were unable to escape
:07:54. > :07:59.through it. When we looked at the door closely, there were salt
:07:59. > :08:03.deposits, so the smoke particles had stuck to the door which
:08:03. > :08:06.indicated the door had been open at the time of the fire. Police also
:08:06. > :08:09.find a bag containing clothes, petrol and fragments of glass from
:08:09. > :08:12.the bathroom window. They take it away but leave secret cameras to
:08:12. > :08:15.see if the guilty parties will come back to get rid of this crucial
:08:15. > :08:23.piece of evidence. And guess who comes back? The landlord and his
:08:23. > :08:26.wife. And it seems obvious they're looking for the hidden bag. No
:08:26. > :08:31.surprise then that last week, Dean and Melynda Thomas appeared in
:08:31. > :08:34.court charged with arson. The prosecution claims the landlord
:08:34. > :08:41.started the fire as they were heavily in debt and the pub
:08:41. > :08:45.business was failing. It is a bit surprising people would do that.
:08:45. > :08:51.However, these things to happen. Had they remained within the
:08:51. > :08:56.property, I am quite confident we would have had fatalities due to
:08:56. > :09:01.the level of the smoke. But it is worth remembering, it is not just
:09:01. > :09:04.those people who were put at risk. There was the risks to responding
:09:04. > :09:10.emergency crews. And the firefighters face an element of
:09:10. > :09:14.danger when dealing with an incident like this. Two members of
:09:14. > :09:21.the breathing apparatus crew got tangled in wires dropping down from
:09:21. > :09:24.the ceiling and had to be cut free. Dean and Mylinda Thomas were found
:09:24. > :09:27.guilty of life-threatening arson. The judge warned Dean he could face
:09:27. > :09:31.a lengthy prison sentence. For I think a lot of people who commit
:09:32. > :09:36.arson think they will get away with it. Otherwise they wouldn't do it.
:09:36. > :09:42.They are under the impression most of the evidence will be destroyed.
:09:42. > :09:45.That is not the case. With the fire investigation and the crime scene
:09:45. > :09:50.investigators, we often find the evidence people would have thought
:09:50. > :09:56.to be destroyed and it enabled us to paint a fuller picture. In
:09:56. > :10:00.Hampshire, the arrest rate is six times the national average and
:10:00. > :10:09.conviction rate fasten in Hampshire is a massive 23 times the national
:10:09. > :10:14.average. -- for our son. This you could call a forerunner of
:10:14. > :10:17.the Ford transit. It has been a few months and workers at the
:10:17. > :10:21.Southampton plans were told production would switch to Turkey.
:10:21. > :10:25.Questions and accusations have flown as to how and why it was
:10:25. > :10:35.allowed to happen. It is a sorry end to a great piece of British
:10:35. > :10:39.
:10:39. > :10:48.motoring history. Southampton's had a love affair with the Transit
:10:48. > :10:55.since the first van rolled off its production line in 1972. Welcome to
:10:55. > :11:01.transit land. There is a mobile library at the back. Ambulances, a
:11:01. > :11:09.billion van, another Luton. I got my first fan in 1981 before I could
:11:09. > :11:15.drive. You have heard of white van man. I am blue van woman. And they
:11:16. > :11:20.are like part of the family. have dogs as well. We say dogs of
:11:20. > :11:23.the dogs, the vans are the children. Yep, you've Guessed it - Fred
:11:23. > :11:26.collects Ford Transits. But next year if she wants a shiny new one
:11:26. > :11:36.it'll come from further affield as Ford moves the entire production of
:11:36. > :11:43.
:11:43. > :11:50.You do move heaven and earth for them. You choose between me and the
:11:50. > :11:58.van. Two months ago Ford announced it was separating from the
:11:58. > :12:08.Southampton factory which has love it for 40 years. Businesses and
:12:08. > :12:10.
:12:10. > :12:16.union leaders tried to save the marriage of a city and a farm.
:12:16. > :12:26.angry at the way it has been handled. There is a genuine feeling
:12:26. > :12:30.
:12:30. > :12:37.of anger and disbelief. It is 2:30pm and these workers are coming
:12:37. > :12:41.off shift. In six months' time the factory could fall silent. An
:12:41. > :12:46.estimated �8 million it brings to the local economy could be lost.
:12:46. > :12:56.Phil Mellor has worked here for her eight years. His father works here
:12:56. > :12:57.
:12:57. > :13:01.also as does his uncle. I am the main breadwinner. When you first
:13:01. > :13:06.start here, you start with a pension, think in the future is
:13:06. > :13:13.going to be bright. If something happens you have to start re-
:13:13. > :13:17.evaluating everything. Things do not work out the way you expected.
:13:17. > :13:25.Karen Sharp used to work at Ford in Dagenham but prettier in 1985
:13:26. > :13:31.thinking the job he was more secure. -- moved here in 1985. She is
:13:31. > :13:37.counting pay packets until the factory closes. You put your heart
:13:37. > :13:42.into making something work. You get no thanks for it. No respect. No
:13:42. > :13:52.respect whatsoever. This will have such an effect and Southampton. It
:13:52. > :13:55.
:13:55. > :14:01.will be a domino effect. All the small businesses that rely on
:14:01. > :14:05.Transit will close. It will have eyes huge impact. But a was of very
:14:05. > :14:10.different for Ford in 1972. They grew production of the whole
:14:10. > :14:15.Transit from Berkshire to Southampton. It brought an economic
:14:15. > :14:23.boost to the area. Is there extra jobs for local people? I at the
:14:23. > :14:28.moment about 700. A total workforce of 3,000. Further expansion plan?
:14:28. > :14:35.We are always in the field for further expansion. We are thinking
:14:35. > :14:40.ahead, planning ahead. We are always ready to expand. Ford says
:14:40. > :14:44.what is necessary now is moving all production to Turkey. It comes
:14:44. > :14:50.after the European Investment Bank granted Ford �80 million for its
:14:51. > :14:55.plant. Labour costs are one third of what they are here. Two years
:14:55. > :14:58.before that Ford received �450 million in alone encouraged by the
:14:58. > :15:04.then they go government believing it would help keep jobs in it did
:15:05. > :15:11.UK for some time to come. -- encouraged by the then Labour
:15:11. > :15:20.government. We were told to keep the factory open and we would be
:15:20. > :15:26.helped with loans. If the European Investment Bank knew what would
:15:26. > :15:29.happen up in the European Union it might have been a different answer.
:15:29. > :15:35.Did the European Investment Bank have all the facts when it agreed a
:15:35. > :15:42.cheap loan to a motor manufacturing giant. -- a motor manufacturing
:15:42. > :15:48.giant? The point about the Turkish loan was that all to the
:15:48. > :15:55.development of the loan up to and including the approval of that loan,
:15:55. > :16:00.it was clear that Ford expected to continue production at Southampton.
:16:00. > :16:07.My understanding is that Ford only took the decision to close the
:16:07. > :16:13.Southampton operation in October. You will have to talk to them about
:16:13. > :16:18.the reasons why they made that decision. We went to the UK
:16:18. > :16:20.headquarters to ask them. They confirmed that �80 million loan was
:16:20. > :16:25.to update the Transit plant in Turkey but categorically exist it
:16:25. > :16:35.had no bearing on the home of the Chadderton Southampton. --
:16:35. > :16:39.categorically insists. It has no direct impact on Southampton. It
:16:39. > :16:44.was not to achieve incremental capacity. It was Updating the plant
:16:44. > :16:48.in preparation for the new vehicle that was coming forward. Our
:16:48. > :16:54.decisions have been driven by Very Severe economic crisis in Europe
:16:54. > :17:01.which has had a knock-on effect on the vehicle sales. Vehicle sales
:17:01. > :17:08.are down by 25 %. That has left us with the situation where we have
:17:08. > :17:11.too much capacity chasing too few customers. Ford says the �450
:17:11. > :17:15.million it got two years ago was spent on research and development
:17:16. > :17:19.in Dunton. Amongst other things they were looking at a new low
:17:20. > :17:25.carbon engine which will be built in the UK. Good news for Essex boys
:17:26. > :17:29.and girls, not much comfort for workers at Southampton. At this
:17:29. > :17:35.point the decision has been made by executives and destroyed. The best
:17:35. > :17:43.we can do as local members is get the best redundancy package. --
:17:43. > :17:46.executives in Detroit. There is a big package therefore afford's own
:17:46. > :17:50.employees. There are people who work here who are not direct
:17:50. > :17:57.employees. They have been offered that in like the same terms and
:17:57. > :18:01.conditions. This man is lucky. He has a redundancy package. He would
:18:02. > :18:10.prefer to keep his job. Some of the contractors are not getting what we
:18:10. > :18:15.have got. I feel sorry for them. What ever you get is never going to
:18:15. > :18:23.be enough. What is your future. You have made plans. That has all come
:18:23. > :18:30.out the window. I do not know what figure you can put on that. We are
:18:30. > :18:34.currently engaged in talking with employees about their options. Once
:18:34. > :18:38.they have considered the terms that are on offer, whether the good
:18:38. > :18:40.fight to stay with us, advocate and the redeployment opportunities,
:18:40. > :18:50.there are generous provisions for those who want to stay with us.
:18:50. > :18:51.
:18:51. > :18:58.Those discussions are happening now on a one-to-one basis. My mother
:18:58. > :19:01.worked at Dagenham. My father turned round to me and said a few
:19:01. > :19:10.years ago if Turkey takes off Southampton will not be here any
:19:10. > :19:20.longer. It will be gone. He said that seven years ago. He said that
:19:20. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:39.the writing would be on the wall of Fred is still doting on her
:19:39. > :19:43.increasingly rare Southampton made fan collection. This is a 76 fan.
:19:43. > :19:50.That could have come from Southampton. The consultation
:19:50. > :20:00.period ends in January next year. You are on a housing estate. You're
:20:00. > :20:05.out with your mates. You hear this. There is that the sound of the
:20:05. > :20:15.1970s? It seems factory workers are not the only ones wishing some
:20:15. > :20:23.things did not have to change. If you have been affected by the
:20:23. > :20:27.news that Ford to let me know. Hundreds of families across the
:20:27. > :20:32.region are facing a miserable Christmas because of the flooding.
:20:32. > :20:35.It has been an unprecedented year for weather. We have been following
:20:35. > :20:42.one Dorset village as it tries to get back on track after a series of
:20:42. > :20:47.extraordinary events. Much of the South of England is
:20:47. > :20:51.chalk country. Usually that is good news. Chalk acts like a sponge and
:20:51. > :20:58.regulates water that goes into our rivers and cover of her taps,
:20:58. > :21:08.holding it until we need more. Shortly after a drought was
:21:08. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:15.announced in 2012 the spans became very wet. -- comes out of our taps.
:21:15. > :21:20.Usually the Winterbournes only has running streams in winter. At the
:21:20. > :21:26.height of what should have been the summer the stream became dangerous.
:21:26. > :21:36.Ground water began to force its way up through flowers and gardens.
:21:36. > :21:40.That target came up. I thought I had this book in a house. I laughed.
:21:40. > :21:45.Then it came through. It was a torrent. It went up the wall. It
:21:45. > :21:51.was like a shower. It came straight up through the carpet. There was no
:21:51. > :22:00.time. You can still hear it under the floorboards. It was pandemonium.
:22:00. > :22:07.We ran out into the street. There was pandemonium in the road. It had
:22:07. > :22:13.burst its banks within one hour. Framed by Hell's Winterbourne Abbas
:22:13. > :22:18.was sitting on a header tank. The first week in July brought to be
:22:18. > :22:27.times the expected rainfall for the month. Standing on chalk. It is
:22:27. > :22:31.full of water. The force of that water is fortunate that to
:22:31. > :22:35.weaknesses in the rock. If that happens to be in somebody's front
:22:35. > :22:43.room it is of such a pressure that it forces its way up through
:22:43. > :22:49.floorboards. There is a lot of pressure involved here. Natural
:22:49. > :22:55.forces at work. The water came up there. It lifted the plant pot. A
:22:55. > :23:00.plump woman flying across the room. It exploded in here. Right through
:23:00. > :23:05.into my dining room. It came straight up in the hallway into the
:23:05. > :23:14.kitchen. When I would doubt the back, there was raw sewage pouring
:23:14. > :23:19.in. British Geological Survey and universities are researching the
:23:19. > :23:24.ground. They point out that some measures which might help drain
:23:24. > :23:28.water a we could have a negative affect in times of drought. They
:23:28. > :23:32.should be perfect places to live next to. That is why people built
:23:32. > :23:36.mills next to them for centuries. The water is controllable most of
:23:36. > :23:41.the time. It rises and falls with the season. It is good for
:23:41. > :23:45.Agriculture. That is why people have flocked to them for ages past.
:23:45. > :23:52.Every now and again you get deluges of rain in winter, out of winter
:23:52. > :23:59.where we are at the moment, and that has some of the and impact. In
:23:59. > :24:05.1955 a village down the road at 270 mm of rain in 24 hours. That was a
:24:05. > :24:11.British record. It happens every now and again. If you were in the
:24:11. > :24:19.wrong place at the wrong time it will have devastating consequences.
:24:19. > :24:25.This car it was only down in October. -- this car that.
:24:25. > :24:28.I could hear gurgling noises. The garden was very soggy. It was only
:24:29. > :24:37.when my partner had gone to bed and also steered let the light on in
:24:37. > :24:41.the garage. By open the garage door and all the water poured in. You
:24:41. > :24:48.that has got to wait. That is a heartbreaking thing. You cannot do
:24:48. > :24:53.anything about it. It is horrible. They every time it rains a start
:24:53. > :25:02.trembling. In the local guesthouse Jane Deller found springs extolling
:25:02. > :25:10.through her floor. Just in the corner there. We have never had
:25:10. > :25:18.water in. There is a spring that is coming all the way along here. The
:25:18. > :25:23.water is bubbling right up. You just have to give up and admit
:25:23. > :25:26.defeat. We had no idea it was happening. My
:25:26. > :25:31.husband and son were busy helping the couple in the cottage next door
:25:31. > :25:36.who had the river flowing into their house. I was busy moving
:25:36. > :25:42.staff around their thinking we would be careful. I walked into my
:25:42. > :25:46.store room and found a paddle. I decided to try and what that up. --
:25:46. > :25:55.at puddle. The water was just streaming up to the floor. Within
:25:55. > :25:59.one hour the whole of the back area was flooded.
:25:59. > :26:02.Disasters do not just happen in one day. With Christmas just over one
:26:02. > :26:09.week away many families are still struggling to get back to normal.
:26:09. > :26:16.Come in and have a look. It is a disaster at the moment.
:26:16. > :26:21.We're getting there slowly. This is phase one. Last time you were here
:26:21. > :26:27.- red carpet. Complete the ruined. It thing is complete been ruined.
:26:27. > :26:35.It have to be stripped out. It could not try. -- it would not
:26:35. > :26:39.drive. This is as far as we have got.
:26:39. > :26:42.Hoped next week builders will come in. I have not been at work for
:26:42. > :26:47.five weeks because I was offered stress. I am going back on Thursday.
:26:47. > :26:52.I have gone as far as I can go. The rest is down to the insurance
:26:52. > :26:56.company and the builders. How will you remember 2012? It was a
:26:56. > :27:05.nightmare. The Olympics came and went. I did not see any of it. I
:27:05. > :27:14.was too busy dealing with this. guest house manage to stay open for
:27:14. > :27:22.the season. With the builders now in it is gales. -- chaos. It has
:27:22. > :27:26.been miserable. Everything has been messy. My home has not been my own.
:27:26. > :27:34.Little things like putting a washing machine on - I have got to
:27:34. > :27:41.negotiate past builders, cement mixers, planks across floors. It
:27:41. > :27:51.has been a misery. We have got through it. We have got to worse. I
:27:51. > :27:53.
:27:53. > :28:03.am still smiling. At least the floor is going back in now. It is a
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:28:07. > :28:17.positive thing. I will be glad when 2012 is
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:28:24. > :28:29.The best of luck took everyone the year. We are back on January 7th