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Hello from Winchester and welcome to the programme. Lots to tell you | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
about. Here is what is coming up. How a �6000 loan to buy a car like | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
this nearly cost one woman her home. I was so afraid because I had | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
visions of bailiffs banging on the door and coming in and evicting me. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Born 200 years too late and now swapping goodies for ballots. Can | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
these kids put aside their prejudice and take pride in a local | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
opera. I am not really interested in the order books. The story just | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
drags on. Knocking the system, is a farming under threat as councils | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
sell off land and farmhouses to balance the books. If you are a | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
young couple starting out on a farm, you don't need a great big | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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farmhouse. This is Inside Out for the South of England. | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
First how a straightforward car loan nearly cost one woman from | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Hampshire clearly everything. The nightmare is nearly over but only | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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because she got in contact with us. I was just sitting wondering what | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
was the best thing to do and just praying that something, someone | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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would come along and say, no, this is wrong. When I first met Brenda, | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
she was about to sign away her home. She faced a massive debt because | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
her husband had taken out a loan to buy a second higher -- second-hand | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
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car. Phil Cains went to the now defunct Yes Car for his loan, a | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
company which many now believe took a fair few people for a ride with | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
its seemingly too good to be true offers of credit. None of us will | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
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be getting knighted. You are saying it I can get a car on credit? | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
you could. I could see a huge choice of cars and drive away the | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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same day? Yes, of course you could. He went to them and bought a car | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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which was �3600. They sold him on top of that, PPI for over �1000. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
There was more insurance which was a good insurance which I think is | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
for mechanics. The total cost of that credit agreement then went to | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
�8600. While everything appeared rosy on the surface, behind the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
scenes, Phil was struggling to meet the payments and some months later | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the car was repossessed. Phil told Brenda the car loan company said | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
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that would be the end of it. That �8000 debt continued to spiral to | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
the point where it could have bought that car. That car and that | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
car, all of three. �97,000 worth. In 2009, Phil was declared bankrupt | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
but it was a year when other tragedies would strike. Thank you | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
for the best holiday I have ever had. In November of that year, he | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
died suddenly. Two weeks after my sister died. Two weeks after her | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
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funeral, he died. So I rang the Insolvency Agency and said, I Asim | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
that was the end of the matter because this bankruptcy was not by | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
bankruptcy, it was his. He said, no, the bankruptcy is now a years. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
problem was that Brenda remortgaged her home to pay for a new kitchen | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
and some other bits and pieces. With any mortgage, she put Phil's | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
name on the deeds of the property which previously had been hers | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
alone. Unwittingly she became liable for his mounting debts. When | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
someone is made bankrupt, a trustee is appointed to take control of | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
assets and pay creditors. The trustee is entitled to be paid for | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
what is clearly a complex job. But how could a nearly �9,000 debt | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
multiply to over ten times the original sum. Sadly it's not an | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
uncommon story. It seems like they have this immense power, not only | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
to put you in a position where you are terrified, but in a position to | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
take everything you have worked for in your life. The worst times are | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
at the night times because you go to bed in terror. You get up in | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
terror. You have to face another day. There must be a time when you | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
have been thinking, why did I put him on the market? I know you did | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
it for the right reasons because he was the man you loved, you are | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
married to this man, you want him to part of your life. There must be | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
a time when you think, if only I hadn't done that. That's right. At | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
the beginning, I was so angry. I was upset and angry. He was beside | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
himself, he didn't know what to do. Originally he didn't tell me he was | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
bankrupt. He had letters, he was one of those people that if you put | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
it in a draw, it didn't exist. Meanwhile following a storm of | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
complaints, Yes Car shut up shop. Phil's car loan debt was bought by | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
another company, Go Debt Limited, who vigorously pursued the money. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
With Phil's death and the surprise news that she had inherited nothing | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
but bankruptcy, came solicitors' bills, but one after another her | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
advisors all reached the same expensive conclusion. Her house had | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
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to be sold. I go to work, I have never claimed benefits, so you had | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
to put this face on for work and do your job and then you would come | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
back on again. When you're in that situation, particularly when you | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
have a panic attack, your home is a sanctuary and they took a way that | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
security as well because I was afraid because by that time I had | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
got home, I thought they were going to take it from me. I had visions | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
of bailiffs banging down the door and coming in and saying, right, | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
and just add it to me. Nobody knows what the terror is like and they | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
are awful. Now all this didn't seem right to us when we heard Brenda's | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
story so we decided it was time to bring in an expert. He agreed to | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
look into Brenda's case for free, concerned that the bankruptcy | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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trustee was charging too much to sort out Phil's affairs. There was | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
one thing I was very secure about and that was this, � 97,000 ft on a | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
�6000 bankruptcy is not right and therefore there was going to be a | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
way of dealing with that and have either showing the trust deed that | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
this was not right and you would have to reduce it or showing a | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
judge that this was the case. The big message for this is that | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Brendan didn't know which way to turn and therefore, should that | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
this was normal. She had a trustee telling her, this is the fee you | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
have to pay. She thought it was normal. I got a bill not long after | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
that said I had to pay �30,000. The next one was � 40,000. I had never | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
ever said there is nothing to pay but it has to be fair and relative | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
to what has happened. It isn't fair for him to take my home, take what | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
is owed by all means, but please don't take my home. It is wrong. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
With Dean's intervention, the trustee agreed to reduce their | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
charges explaining that their costs had been significantly increased | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
because Brenda had several solicitors acting for her one after | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
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another and that had created a long, repetitive and expensive workload. | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
After months of negotiation, Dean achieved what was near impossible. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
The car loan is still to be paid off but it is more like �20,000 and | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
most importantly, Brenda's home is safe. Now I am really glad to say | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
that the situation now is that the trustees these are at �10,000, | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
we've got to pay the original petitioning creditor's these, that | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
is the car company and that is the end of it. But here is the biggest. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
That I am most pleased to say, she is not losing her house. It remains | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
intact, no one will come after it, she does nobody any money any more | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
and she can get on with her life. The worst thing people can do, and | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
many people do it, is buried her head in the sand with debt. It | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
doesn't go away. It never does. It has to be dealt with and faced head | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
on. If it had not been for the intervention of the programme, I | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
wouldn't be sitting here now. I would not owned by on property and | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
it would have had to pay for something at the end of the day | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
that was not mine. All of that and all the panic and the terror, that | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
will never go away. The terror still haunts me. But now, at this | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
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moment in time, I am elated. We're here to mark the 200 | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
anniversary of a literary classic. Jane Austen spent her last days | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
just around the corner. But how relevant is her work. Would a group | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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of kids be too proud to enjoy it? This is Stanmore, a typical housing | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
estate on the edge of Winchester. Just up the road lived one of | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
England's most well-loved authors, Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
was recently voted the nation's favourite novel. But is it still a | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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It's not really my type of thing. I don't see the point. As an 18-year- | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
old MC, Dale might not realise it but his word play could make him | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
quite the Mr Darcy. I've read one book I can remember. And there's | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
14-year-old Kelsey. Currently doing her GCSEs at Kings' School in | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
Winchester. Reading is not that important to me because I have got | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
better things to do like socialising with my friends, going | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
out, having fun, so I'm not really interested in the older books. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
them hang out here. We have thrown down a Regency gauntlet, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
challenging them to drop their prejudice and take pride in their | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
local literary legend. We're taking them on a whistlestop tour to | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
discover Jane Austen's witty and wise words. But will generation | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
text click and like, or just LOL? First stop, the Dolphin Hotel in | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Southampton where it's believed Jane Austen celebrated her 18th | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
birthday. So what can our new literary critics tell us? She is | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
dead. She was born in 1775. Has she got Twitter? In her lifetime, she | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
completed six novels. How old would she be right now? Pretty good. But | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Google won't help them now. Time to hand over the phones cos we've | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
lined up a little surprise. And here it is. The Regency dancers to | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
recreate the get-togethers Jane Austen wrote about in pride and | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
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This is from the old school, when they used to do it. I am amazed at | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
this stuff. That's crazy. assembly's happened once a week | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
here at the Dolphin Hotel. If you wanted to get your daughters | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
married, then this was the place you would hopefully get them to | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
meet an eligible bachelor. We have got some costumes for you to wear | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
to give you the impression of being back to 100 years ago, so you get | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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an idea. Forget Gangham style. This is all about Regency Style! Why are | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
old jackets so hard? They've got the look but have they got the | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
moves? Time to partner up and put their best foot forward. Just as | :15:01. | :15:11. | |
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Elizabeth and Darcy did at Ladies look diagonally. Go right to | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
your partner. Getting line. Once they got engaged in it, they could | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
see some of the Graces that were expected of young people at that | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
time. It is very different. I think they coped with it very well indeed. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
I never seen anything like that before. I may have seen it on TV, | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
but I would never have put us here doing that. Literally never, ever. | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
Jane Austen never married, but her characters in Pride And Prejudice | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
did. Mrs Bennett was desperate to marry off her five daughters to | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
wealthy men. Back then there were two societies. Rich people and poor | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
people. Now there's loads of different categories. Your parents | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
would pass him over to someone who they thought was right for you. | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
Your family ain't got money so you're not marrying my daughter. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
Even though you are madly in love. With the themes of Pride And | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Prejudice firmly in their minds, it's time to find out more about | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Jane Austen at her former home in the Hampshire village of Chawton. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
wouldn't mind living in a place like this in the 1700s. Hello, | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
everybody. I am a Louise and I and the curator at Jane Austen's house | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
and this is where she lived for the last eight years of her life, and | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
it's really important because it is where she did nearly all of her | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
writing. What I really want to show you in here, this little table. | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
What do you think about it? Beautiful. It is very small. | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
doesn't look like something you would right-on. This letter was | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
written by Jane Austen at 200 years ago. And it is telling her sister | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
that she has got her first copy of pride and prejudice. She calls it | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
her darling child from London. We talked about the fact she didn't | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
get married and have children. books were her kids. I think it was | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
when you are looking at the letter, they got the fact that it was | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
authentic, that was the actual writing, which is brilliant, | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
because that's the bit which gets me every time. That is Jane | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
Austen's father as her. It's interesting they have original | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
stuff and copies and they kept their hair, which is weird now. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
was interesting, yes. I've never seen anything like that. So some of | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
the things in there, you didn't think they would still be alive, | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
the table that she wrote on for so Powell does that table? I wouldn't | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
ever think, I'm going to go to Jane Austen's house. With the history | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
behind them, we're in search of a more modern take on Pride And | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Prejudice. We've come to Orbital Comics to show our teenagers that | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
reading doesn't have to be boring. In an attempt to bring the 200- | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
year-old novel up to date, Pride And Prejudice has recently been | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
rewritten, brazenly throwing in zombies to entice a different sort | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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The joy about mash-ups. It's the fact you get to take established | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
characters, characters people know, and place them in these situations | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
and, because of the fact you have this unknown it with the unknown, | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
it gives a more visceral reading experience. Pushing it one tap -- | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
step further, Tony Lee adapted Pride and Prejudice And Zombies | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
into a graphic novel and thinks the mash-up is a gateway to the | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
original text. Graphic novels can provide something more visual, | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
especially with pride and prejudice and zombies. You also have an | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
injures. It's something kids can get into. But is mixing Mr Darcy | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
with the undead, a literary sacrilege? Ewan Morrison certainly | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
thinks so. The longer form of the book narrative can't sustain the | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
mash up. It is quite irreverent. You'd take one thing from one | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
context and prodded against another. It is like a single line a joke | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
which has gone on for too long. joke or not, the comics are | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
tempting our reluctant readers. This is the quietest they've been | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
all day. It's colourful. When you go into a bookshop, it's boring, | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
not some way you want to be. In here, it's a lot more exciting and | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
you want to read everything. There's an argument that you can | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
lead children into reading classic books by segueing in through mass | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
cultural products, but this does not lead to towards pride and | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
prejudice. It probably doesn't give you any insight into any of the | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
tensions, the social tensions, which exist in the book. At the end | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
of the day, reading his reading. I went from comics into adaptations | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
of books, in two books themselves, and if that's the lazy way to read, | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
I'm happy to carry on doing that. It is its 200 anniversary, has what | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
you have learned over the last couple of places you have been too, | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
when you danced and enter the museum, and been here, has that | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
changed? Yes. It's made me want to read it more but I would rather | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
read the comic-book version. don't know if I want to read it. I | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
want to watch the DVD first. It has inspired us to learn about it, | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
hasn't it? I thought it was going to be some old fashioned book which | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
would be really boring but it's been really interesting. I did a | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
judge it because its 200 years ago, but it's made me want to read it | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
more and watch the film. And a tell other people about it. Jane Austen | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
knew better than most that pride and prejudice can be overcome. It | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
seems 200 years on, the message is still getting through. It's only | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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just gone into 2013, but this will If that inspired you, why not put | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
virtual pen to paper and send us a message. Finally tonight, the | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
financial crisis is rarely out of the news at the moment but one | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
solution to the problem is proving particularly controversial. The | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
sell-off of successful farms owned by the council putting tenant | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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The County farms service dates back to 1908. In a bid to combat rural | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
depopulation, councils bought farms and offered them for rent, | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
providing opportunities for people who wanted to farm but who couldn't | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
afford a farm of their own. And so it has remained for a century right | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
across the UK. Until now. Devon is amongst a handful of local | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
authorities who still offer farms to let. Lower Farm in High | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Bickington is one of 75 that they own. With the current farmer | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
retiring, there's an opportunity here for somebody new. Our I'm | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
struck I'm struck by the side of the crowd. Those people of all ages | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
and this is for a relatively small 85 acre farm. We will almost | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
certainly have to draw up a shortlist of candidate to take | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
forward for interview. It's a stepping stone. The idea of these | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
farms is to get you up and running into farming. Without the stepping- | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
stone of County farms, getting your own farm can cost a fortune. Is it | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
possible how much this farm costs to rent as opposed to the value of | :23:19. | :23:29. | |
the farm to buy privately? �10,000 a year to rent this farm. To buy, | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
current land value, around �10,000 an acre, three-quarters of a | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
million? I'm heading across the border into Somerset. The council | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
takes a very different view of its County Farm estate. This farm is | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
near Ilminster or owned by Somerset County Council but for the last 12 | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
years, run by its tenant,. The tiny just the 8 o'clock which means, | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
just like every morning, milking will be under way. It's one of | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
those jobs you have got to want to do. But what have always wanted to | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
do really. But David's days here are numbered. Somerset County | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Council has decided to sell half its County farms and Davids is on | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
the list. When the land has gone, everything will be gone. What is to | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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stop you buying it? Nothing only the price. We have been offered it. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
How much do they want for it? want �1,085,000 for it. And that's | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
not an option for you? If I had �1,085,000 I wouldn't be a tenant | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
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farmer really. Why are Somerset selling so many of their farms? | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
I've come to Dillington House, where the councillor who instigated | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
the sell-off is attending a budget meeting. The Council currently has | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
a debt of �354 million. The farmers in some ways were the first victims | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
of the financial crisis in Somerset. Our tenant farmers. Because they | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
were the first to see that their livelihoods might be under threat | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
because of the financial pressure that we're into. We cannot borrow | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
any more money. We have to sell assets. The majority of the assets | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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that we are selling currently are the county farms. We are very lucky | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
we have the most beautiful county and working farms make it tick. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Selling assets is also part of Dorset County Council's approach | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
but with a difference. Here at Yardsgrove Farm near Sturminster | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Newton, as they've done across the county, the council is selling this | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
large expensive farm house. But keeping the land. With the profit | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
from the sale, half goes into council coffers and half goes into | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
a modern house for the farmer and improving the farms. If you're a | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
young couple starting out on a farm, you don't need a hulking great | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
farmhouse. What you need are good facilities. You need the best | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
facilities to have the best opportunity of making your business, | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
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which is farming, succeed. I wonder what Dorsets tenants think? Having | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
proved themselves on a small starter farm, Louise and Luke | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
Trowbridge and family moved to Provost Farm, near Shaftesbury, | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
three years ago. They may not have a manor sized farmhouse but they do | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
have some spanking new sheds. So this is very impressive new looking | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
shed. Did you build this? Half of it was here and we put up the other | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
half. The council have helped us with the structural work and we've | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
put in labour. So they haven't quite matched us pound for pound. | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
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People do generally think that it's subsidised by the council like a | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
council house but it's a completely different estate. These are | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
businesses. We employ local people, tradesmen that have helped build | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
this barn. They're all local from Dorset, so it's all creating money. | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
So it's all a positive thing for our area. Would you have been able | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
to grow this farm if hadn't been for the opportunity of County | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
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Farms? No. So, no county farms, no farm for you at all. No. To date | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Somerset have sold 16 farms and made �12.2 million through selling | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
its old farm houses. Dorset has raised �12.9 million and kept its | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
estate. Each make a profit of around half a million a year from | :28:01. | :28:08. | |
rent. I wonder why Somerset aren't following Dorset's approach? Once | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
it is sold, it is sold. They can only sell at once and then they | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
will want money for something else. If they sell off the farm, you lose | :28:16. | :28:26. | |
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the rent as well, so I think it's Keep us busy with your e-mails. I | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
will see you next time. Next week, shocking attacks on guide dogs | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
caught on CCTV. One local woman tells of the devastating effects it | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
can have. The owners of the Dogger couldn't get their dog under | :28:42. | :28:47. |