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Heller Overstone welcome to a brand-new series of Inside Out.

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Here is what is coming on tonight. We follow a Hampshire carer

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persistent as she delivers minute- by-minute care paid for by local

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authorities. They do have to make cuts but 15 minutes to a carer, she

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won't get in the door before she is out again. The reality is, the time

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to chat is not time we have got to pay for. Battered and bruised, his

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new legislation needed to control mobility scooters? People are

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getting hurt, people are getting killed using these mobility scooter

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is because they don't know how to use them safely.

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We go behind the scenes of an ambitious project to trace the

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history of an entire Sussex town. Today, I am finding it quite

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emotional. Just talking about the people. I did not realise that was

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going to happen. This is Inside Out First tonight, how we look after

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each other as we get older is always going to be a hot topic. It

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has put Homecare visits under the spotlight. Cash-strapped councils

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but carers for the minimum time possible. One care invited us out

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to show us how tough it is getting to do the job she loves.

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For home carer, Elaine, it is the start of a very busy day. The do

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sleep well? I'm going to login. has been a carer for 23 years and

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seen a lot of changes. One of which is the introduction of clocking in

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when she arrives and clocking out when she leaves. Hampshire County

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Council is tracking her every minute. Do you want to soak your

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hand? He it is a juggling act, helping with personal care while

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maintaining Joan's dignity. Joan washes her own face and then we do

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eight general tidy up of the bed and if you need to put clean pads

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on the bed just for her protection. After a length of this is assessed

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by the council, Joan is one of the lucky ones. It is 45 minutes. We

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normally get shown up and wash, she has gell on her back and knees and

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a clean nightie. Even 45 minutes feels a rush that one in six visits

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in Hampshire is now 15 minutes. likes her marmalade. Joan guess two

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45 minute visits a day. Elaine is very good. But sometimes she is

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here much longer than she should be. But she never rushes me. She is

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always very caring. In reality, Elaine is in a hurry. See you later.

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Her next call is a ten-minute drive away. If sometimes it can be

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difficult to fit within the time restrictions because of the

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travelling. The tracking systems allows us to go the quickest route.

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It isn't always the quickest route, the least miles. Elaine is not paid

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travelling time and her mileage rate has been 25p for the last

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seven years. How why you? Clean clothes, then these, socks. I had a

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stroke in 2010. That changed my life. My whole world changed. The

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whole way and the world looks a you changes. It is a frightening time

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because you are never sure of anything. Some of us have paid into

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the NHS all our lives. I have worked all my life. Care should be

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for those who have done that. They do have to make cuts but 15 minutes

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to a carer, she won't get in the dock before she is out again. That

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person won't have time to speak to them. That is the most important

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thing. What they're doing with their hands is by the by. As far as

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I am aware, Hampshire County Council and going to be paying the

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care that is received. If you have a 30 minute call to someone and say

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the new welfare for 28 minutes, you will be paid for 28 minutes. If you

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are longer than 32 minutes on a 30 minute call, you must then ring the

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office to explain why you were there longer. You can then get paid.

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They have to ask for the payments from social services. I don't know

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any other job that is paid minute to minute. Hampshire County Council

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say they are not paying by the minute but do monitor to ensure

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people get the care that has been commissioned. They also say shorter

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visits are becoming rarer and they are committed to delivering safe

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and effective care. 15 minute visit to account for one in six calls and

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can be part of larger care packages. It is like some days you can do

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your ran and a run so smoothly and easily but all you need is just

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somebody to have had a fall, somebody to be upset. It does not

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feel like half-an-hour. They have gotta think of the time one of the

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time. Their minds is on the time. It is putting extra pressure on

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people. Colin Angel from the Homecare Providers Association says

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councils across the South region as a whole are buying shorter and

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shorter visits. Across the south of England we estimate that almost

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two-thirds of visits are 30 minutes or fewer. That is not a lot of time

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to deliver quite intimate personal care to people. Certainly, it is

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increasingly difficult to do that with dignity and safety. We

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recently surveyed home care providers across the UK and the

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fundamental thing they were telling us was how concerned they were

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about the use of short visits, making it really difficult to

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deliver care safely and certainly with the dignity that is required.

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This is Mrs Gingell. This is Mr Gingell. Elaine has arrived to find

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this visit is going to take longer than scheduled. There has been a

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complaint this morning. The commode was not empowered -- empty. He does

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not have the correct hat on. He has an might pad on. It means it takes

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a wee bit longer. Having to undress and dress again. We get there.

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Hello, sir. I am just going to take your shoes off. I have got

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arthritis so made -- so one day I might need careful study think

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about how you might want to be treated yourself. I don't take it

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home. You have to be able to detach yourself. It does not stop you

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worrying or thinking about people so maybe I do take it home a little

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bet. I don't think you can be a carer if you don't do that. Even

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with extra jobs, after 30 minutes time is up. You are now locked out.

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That is it. The this is not for laundry, this is to walk on. At the

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next house it is one of the controversial Short cuts. -- short

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calls. It is to make sure that medication is taken, we leave a

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piece of cake for a biscuit, a cup of tea, glass of water and

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medication is taken. We check clothes, windows and if she was the

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curtains closed. Television, any lights. She puts herself to bed.

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Sometimes if she uses the toilet I have to shout goodbye to her and

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tell everything is waiting for her downstairs when she comes down.

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That is the best you can do in 15 minutes. Today's the 15 minutes

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left little time to be sociable. Let's be clear, not everybody is

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commissioning everything in 15 minutes units but it is happening.

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Where we have got needs to be met an elegant its budget, we have got

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to do it. We have got to make the money stretch. The reality of the

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world is the time for chat is not time we have got to pay for. If you

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want is to give people a bit more social interaction, home carer

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agencies are not the weight to do that. But Elaine believes talking

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is a crucial part of her job. about nice forests and mountains

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streams and babbling brooks. I am not trying to be humble on anything

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like that but I love my work. I would not do it if they did not

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enjoy it. I enjoy caring. I enjoy If you have got a story for us then

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droppers and e-mail. -- dropped us and e-mail. Next, you can pick one

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up for a couple of hundred pounds and you don't need a licence to

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ride one. A godsend if you are struggling to get around birds and

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menace to society says others. Is it time for a new registration for

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mobility scoters. It is boy racers who get the bad press and face sky

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high insurance costs. But drivers in a smaller machine and grinding

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people's years across the south. Many have no insurance, no tax and

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no experience. Pullover and make way for the mobility scooter.

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see these every day. They go about four miles an hour, they go up and

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down the pavements. Myself and some friends thought it would be a good

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idea if we could put an engine in one. I am convinced this is

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Britain's fastest mobility scooter. Most scooters don't reach the

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City's concern are capable of reaching eight miles an hour and

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there is limited legislation controlling them. Mobility scooters

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can do a lot of damage. People are getting hurt, people are getting

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killed using these scooters because they don't know how to use them

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safely. Her a quick trip to the shops ended in hospital for Graham

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Marsland. Battered, bruised and broken he is the latest victim of

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the scooter accident. I went over foreign loaf of bread and as I

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stepped out of the shop on to the pavement I got hit. It was a

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mobility scooter. It was quite a shock. It knocked me about eight

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feet. He broke my hip. I have had an operation on my shoulder. The

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accident left Graham semi-conscious on the pavement. The scooter driver

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was also shaken by the Commission. She was sat in shock. I felt a bit

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sorry for her. It was a bit of a loser lose situation for both of us.

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The police got involved. She would have been traumatised to a degree

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as well. While Graham was taken to hospital the scooter ended up here

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among the mangled vaccinate police garage. It is being checked to see

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if the speed setting was on for miles an hour. That is the legal

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Bit is happening more often, people are getting involved in collisions

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with these things. This one ways in excess of 140 kilos. With the

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driver on top of that, it is a considerable weight to be on the

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pavement. Jenny Doe felt the full force of a mobility scooter on a

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day out at a local show. It just kept coming, and when I turned

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around, there was this elderly lady in his buggy, in this invalid, you

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know, mobility scooter, and a I went, you have hit my leg! And she

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just looked at me as though, so? Just four hours later, this is what

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her leg looked like. It was swollen because it was trapped underneath

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the actual thing. It was swollen all round here. It just seems to me

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that they are getting big here, -- bigger and heavier. Elderly people

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- she was an elderly lady - have they got the strength to control

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them?. Back in September, in Fareham, the victim was the driver

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himself, but the 82-year-old man who crashed through a window off a

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walkway leading to the local medical centre. He died at the

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scene, after falling 12ft to the pavement below. Despite the

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accidents, demand is high, with mobility scooter shops looking more

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like car showrooms. They give people a lifeline, don't they?

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do, without this, they could not leave the house. This one is the

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maximum speed, 8mph. I do not need a licence, training or insurance.

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That's right. It is not right, there should be a legal requirement,

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but there is no actual or regulation, no legal the deletion.

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Do you think there should be some changes to the law? Yes, I believe

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there should be some kind of regulation from our level, we

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should be regulated. It took Joyce Steeples six months to recover from

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an accident after she was hit by a mobility scooter. She ended up in

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hospital after getting knocked down on a pavement. I could not get up,

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I was just dazed. I think the police car which was passing, they

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phoned for the imbalance. Even when you were on the ground, the scooter

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was still bumping into you? You do not expect to be knocked down on

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the pavement, it is not right.. a scooter is involved in an

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accident, the police have limited powers to prosecute, because they

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are not classed as vehicles, but as medical devices.? The legislation

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does not cover them, unlike motorcycles or cars. We have

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limited if any powers to deal with it.. The few rules there are have

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not changed since the days of these vehicles, which have been obsolete

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since the 1970s. Scott Moy said he would be lost without his scooter.

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He cannot walk very far. I would be stuck in here 24/7.. Every year

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around Christmas, former soldier Scott decks out his scooter with

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tinsel and all the trimmings. it every year for the kiddies, they

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come to accept it now. If I go down and I have not go to town, they

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would be shocked. Scott has had no accidents in eight years as a

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scooter driver. He does not feel welcome on the pavements or on the

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roads, but he says he has got no choice. We are not allowed to use

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the bus lane or the cycle path. If we are right in the middle of the

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road, going more than 8mph, we are in the middle, with all of the cars.

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Then you get people shouting at you, get off the road. What do you do?

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Safety campaign a John Seamons and says it is up to people to ride

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their scooters responsibly, and not like this, with one being used as a

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carpet carrier in Somerset. There is no restriction on who can buy

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them, who can sell them, who can use them. You would not put a

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person who cannot drive a car into a car and say, off you go. You

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would not do the same thing with a motorbike. Johns says it is obvious

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what needs to be done. Legislation stating these vehicles must be

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checked every 12 months, like a car, to make sure they are safe,

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training, and it does not take a lot of training... It just means

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building the confidence of the person up. Today, John's wife,

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Betty, is getting her first lesson in scooter riding from trainer

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Simon Parrott. Do you drive cars? No, I do not. Oh, good. Until now,

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she has been too nervous to use one. Turned it. Do not touch that one or

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that one. I was a little bit scared. When you first get on one, they

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tend to run away with you. They tend to go too fast, and I did not

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Within an hour, she is braving the I certainly feel more confident.

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And Betty is convinced insurance is a must. If you do not someone over,

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that person has not got a leg to stand on. Meanwhile, Graham

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Marsland has learnt that the police are taking no action against the

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woman who knocked him down. have to deal with it. The irony is,

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it is me who now needs the mobility scooter! But it is serious, really.

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The Department of Transport says it is now looking at bringing in a

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test for new users. Campaigners believe that is the only way to

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Join the debate on Twitter about mobility scooters. Finally tonight,

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tracing your family ancestry could not be easier these days, mainly

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thanks to the Internet. But how about tracing the ancestry of an

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entire tome? Things get a bit trickier. But that is exactly what

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this gang of enthusiastic volunteers is hoping to do here on

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the Sussex coast. They are trying to find out as much as they can

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about the ancestors of Eastbourne. I am really pleased with this

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little but if, I think it is a lamb shoulder blade, but I found it!

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is interesting, you do not know what you're looking at. Once you

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start to find something nice, you do not want to stop. You just want

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to get it done. This is the first year of a unique two-year project,

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called Eastbourne Ancestors, a combination of archaeological digs,

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scientific research and investigation which it is hoped

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will make connections between people who live here today and the

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people who lived here long ago. Archaeologist Jo Seaman is the man

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behind it. It is about building up a picture of the people and the

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place, whether that's Saxons that were living here, or Romans, Roman

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British, even prehistoric people. Bronze Age and beyond, it could be.

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Jo Seaman thinks more people would be interested in the history on

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their doorstep if only they knew what was there. Ann and Simon Eyre

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had no idea what was under their back doorstep until they decided to

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build a bigger garage. This gave Jo Seaman's team the opportunity to

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explore the garden, which happens to be close to an ancient burial

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ground. We have lived here 25 years, and we have absolutely no idea that

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we were sitting on top of this. thought that there has people --

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there has been people living here for years and years and years,

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unbeknown to us, and sisters sitting under the back lawn for a

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long time! Most towns in this part of the world are dotted with

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evidence of previous human activity. Wartime bombing raids destroyed the

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main museum in Eastbourne, so much of its history has had to be boxed

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up. This town literally has skeletons in its claws it. We have

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got about 300 of them down in the basement of the town hall, which we

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have accumulated over the past 40 years, mainly from excavations in

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Eastbourne. But they have not really been analysed properly, so

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nobody has looked at them in depth to find out more about the people,

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maybe the diseases they had, how they lived their lives. Show me

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what you have got in here. We have got a male individual, and you can

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see from his jaw, he has got really bad tooth decay. Osteo-

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archaeologist Hayley Forsyth has been examining the skeletons of

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about 200 Eastbourne Saxons. She says it is amazing what you can

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tell from just a few bones and teeth. The enamel has been worn

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away from things like grit in the diet, probably, and exposed the

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area where than nervous are, so it would have been really painful.

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is probably safe to say that this is the first time these Saxons had

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overseen a toothbrush. There is a substantial team of volunteers from

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near and far, working to learn more about the history of Eastbourne.

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Tori Zeeger has come all away from Michigan, USA, to examine the

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incredible collection of clavicles. It is the collarbone, which is

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right up under your neck. It has three muscles attached to it, and

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every time you move those muscles, the tendons will pull on the

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clavicle, causing morphological changes. So, you can see where the

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muscles attached. These clavicles show how active our ancestors were.

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These were not puny, short Saxons, some of them were more than 6ft

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tall and very strong. This clavicle is unusual. It has been suggested

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that this man might have used a narrow extensively. You can tell he

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is right handed. This is his right clavicle. His left, much less

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developed. It is really awesome. Just down the hill from the Anglo-

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Saxon burial ground is a strip of land which Jo believes was once the

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location of a large house, dating back to the 14th century. What is

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more, he thinks he has got the photographs to prove it. We are

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hesitant to say it is a Manor House at this stage, but it has that kind

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of feel. At least, a very wealthy landowner, I would think. And you

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can see the flint work, it is quite detailed, isn't it? Yes, again, it

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is indicative of a high-status building. The building was

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demolished back in the 1960s to make way for a new housing estate,

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but the Eastbourne Ancestors team has discovered that the medieval

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foundations are still here, and it looks like Jo's plan to do high-vis

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history is working. Eastbourne resident Ken Larkin saw the work

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going on and brought along some photographs of his own. This is my

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home, my area. The fields, the marsh, everything around here, my

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playground. It was from that road to the railway line. And from here,

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to the park. I had all of that to run about in. The strange thing is,

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today, I find it quite emotional. Sort of just talking about the

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people - I did not realise that was going to happen. And seeing it all

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dug up as an archaeological site? The volunteers have found pottery,

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bricks, belt buckles and all kinds of items, from the Bronze Age,

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3,000 years ago, up to modern times. They have also found the wall of a

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cellar, and by dating the material embedded above and below it, Jo has

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worked out when the castle was built. I would doubt whether it

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would be earlier than 1250. That fits in with medieval times, when

:27:07.:27:17.
:27:17.:27:18.

The Eastbourne Ancestors jigsaw puzzle is slowly coming together,

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piece by piece, but this is just the beginning. Over the next 12

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months, there will be more digs, and much more detailed analysis of

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the skeletons in the town hall, including carbon dating, and even

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reconstructing the faces of some of the Saxons, so that we can see what

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they looked like. So, Jo is on the lookout for even more people to

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roll up their sleeves and get involved, because he believes it is

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important for all of us to get to know something of the people who

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once lived where we live. People say, what is the point in digging

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up the past? Well, it is a cliche, but the past can tell you so much

:27:57.:28:01.

about the future, how to do things in the future. Even if all it does

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is to give you respect for the area you are living in, or like to visit,

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And we will have plenty more stories for you, same time next

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week. Until then, bye-bye. Next time on Inside Out... At first we

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moved away from family and friends to bring the children up down here,

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to live the dream, but now, it has become more of a nightmare. We will

:28:32.:28:36.

be meeting the West Sussex community which is fighting to save

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