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Brain and more rain. How much more can the South take? The perils of | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
easy money. Why are payday loan `` why are payday loan could seriously | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
damage your health. And the charity trying to help | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
horses and donkeys through violent times in Egypt. | :00:40. | :00:57. | |
First tonight, what a dramatic start to 2014 has been. We have had | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
torrential rain, gale force winds, and of course, all of this flooding. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
It has turned thousands of people's lives in the South upside down, and | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
left many counting the cost. From Weymouth and Portland, along the | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
south coast and up to Oxfordshire, the Flood story just kept on | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
the residents of Purley on Thames are no strangers to seems like this. | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Waders and canoes have been essential items, as finally, the | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
Thames could just not cope. Is that the worst of it there? Across | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
England, at least 1700 homes and businesses have been flooded, | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
bringing misery to scores of families. Questions are being asked | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
over what this means for property values, insurance premiums, and | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
house`building policy. The government says almost one in six | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
homes could face scenes like this in the future. For Purley, floods have | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
become a way of life. Some, like Rory West, are helping stranded | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
neighbours. This morning, we had to go and buy an inflatable kayak just | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
to take goods down to the neighbours will get anybody out, or get | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
anything out we can. At five o'clock this morning, I came out to see what | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
was going on. I realised the water was an inch away from the door, so | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
we decided to get out at that point, and we will truly taking the last | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
few bits out when the water started coming up between the floorboards. I | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
was coming out at regular intervals through the night, and the road up | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
there was breached at three o'clock in the morning. Then, I knew we were | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
going to get flooded quite badly around the back here. So on the | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
right`hand side, there is a line. That is where it was in 2003. That | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
is the 2003 tide mark. It is a lots of misery for a lot of | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
people, but it is just one of those. You've got to do your bit, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
and that's it, really. As we all ask, is it ever going to stop? | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Weather experts say it is true we are getting more and more of these | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
big blocks of whether that hang around for a long time. We seem to | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
be getting more of these extremes because the active seems to sit for | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
periods of time. `` the pattern. In 2012, at the beginning, we were | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
looking at drought conditions, so by the end of March, water levels were | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
exceptionally low, very close to the summer of 1976. And then everything | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
changed. By April, the heavens opened, and it was called the | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
wettest trout on record, because things change so quickly. Heavy | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
rainfall soon took away the drought conditions and brought exceptional | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
flooding conditions, and 2012 was one of the wettest years we have | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
seen on record. We seem to be swinging from one extreme to | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
another, and it is down to these weather patterns that stick for | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
weeks and sometimes months in patterns of either settled | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
conditions, bringing drier conditions, or the mobile westerly | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
winds we have at the moment bringing flooding conditions. So what is Liz | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
Bentley's best guess on the outlook for the rest of the winter? We are | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
about halfway through the winter months in the middle of January, and | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
it has been a mild month so far, and a wet and stormy winter. For me, | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
looking ahead, I am looking to the top of the atmosphere, the jet | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
stream, to see what happens in the next couple of weeks. It looks as if | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
things will settle down a bit once we get to the end of January. Things | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
start to settle down, and we should see less rainfall. Depending on | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
where high pressure builds, which it looks like it will, we will either | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
get a cold spell coming in, if we get Easter leaves like last winter, | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
or it might just remain mild but dry, so it is really depending on | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
the high pressure. Dorset was hit hard by the floods. | :05:06. | :05:18. | |
News teams descended on a mobile home park for the over 50s on the | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
banks of the river Stour. Residents here had to evacuate their homes | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
with just a few hours' notice. Some still staying with friends will . | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
Some were allowed to camp for the last fortnight in a nearby church so | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
they were close to home. Can I give supplies to someone? It is all we | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
could think of. We couldn't think of anything to do for you, and you | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
probably don't want to see any more liquid at all! I thought I would get | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
you milk. It will take more than tea and biscuits to ease the misery | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
caused by flooding here. We were woken up Christmas morning by a | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
knock on the door at about quarter past four in the morning, and that | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
was it. It was up to the bottom of that step, and we just had to get | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
out. Sue Holloway and her 80`year`old husband had just ten | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
minutes to lead before water levels rose and flooded the inside of their | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
park home. How deep was it in here? It was all up in this draw, and all | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
opinion. You are kidding. And in that cupboard. All the carpets have | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
gone. We have taken them out. Everything else is ruined, but we | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
have left it down. So there is water in there? Yellow matter yes, in | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
there. All the carpets have gone. We have taken them out. Everything else | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
is ruined, but we have left it down. So there is water in there? Yellow | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
matter yes, in there. Only mild stuff will stop the washing machine | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
is broken. That was filled up with water. And I think people forget it | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
is not clean water, river water. No, it is dirty, sewage. This is your | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
home. It must be heartbreaking. It is, really, because we have nowhere | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
to go now. We are homeless. Across the South, people are asking if it | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
is right that we are allowed to set up home in areas thrown to flooding. | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
It is a known problem. I am a local lad. I grew up in Burton. There have | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
always been floods. What can be done to stop this happening again? This | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
is of course, a flood plain, and by virtue of the name on the door, this | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
is a mobile home park. Everybody could be lifted off here. They are | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
not subject to any planning permission. These homes are | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
licensed. They are licensed by the local authority. So, should they be | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
licensed? Whether it is right or wrong, I guess that should be for | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
future meetings to be held and decided. At one time, 70 families | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
were trapped in their homes with six feet of sea water around them. In | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
1979, storms lashed the coast of Dorset and good even worse flooding | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
them this time. Rita Prescott was living in either doubt the time. `` | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
Peter Prescott. In the flood of 1979, we lost everything we have. It | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
was quite horrendous. However horrendous it was, he did not want | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
to move, but having been flooded once, as you can imagine, insurance | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
premiums rocketed. The insurance was quite considerable. We paid over | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
?600 insurance, and we had a ?1000 access on any flood damage, so it | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
was already prohibitively expensive. But we cannot afford not to be | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
insured. I said to my wife, we can't not be insured. But while insurance | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
premiums go up, our property values going down? There are two homes for | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
sale on the bike at the moment, all offering an affordable way for | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
anyone over 50 to live in this part of Dorset. But will anyone actually | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
wants to buy them? Are you seeing more worrying people buying property | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
near rivers? We have had a number of quite high profile winters and | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
floods and stuff. Are people more cautious? They take note of the | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
agencies and advice, and there are more searches to do these days, so, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
yes, they are more aware of it. They don't just buy something and say, | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
this is OK. Look into it, and the 100% sure before you commit | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
yourself. Ayes what we got here? For sale currently is a two`bedroom, | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
about eight or nine years old. At the moment we are asking for sale | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
currently is a two`bedroom, about eight or nine years old. At the | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
moment we asking ?439,000. That is very realistic in the general market | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
conditions. `` ?139,000. Do you think what is happening in the last | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
few weeks will affect it? I think it will in the short term. How much | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
would it affect the price realistically? If it was | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
would it affect the price might have to drop 20,000, in the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
short term, but if she has to stick out for her prize, we will keep on. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
In the spring, it will bounce back. This is cyclical. I'm sure it | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
happened 1000 years ago, and it will happen in 1000 years time. It will | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
come and go just as quickly as it came. Peter Prescott has no doubt | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
there is anywhere else you would rather be living. Hopefully, a few | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
more years, but we would not live anywhere else. It is our little | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
kingdom. It is nice. We enjoy it. I would love to hear your thoughts on | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
how local agencies responded. I'll use salted now? `` all you sorted | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
now? You need a little bit of cash, | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
perhaps you are thinking of getting a short`term loan to pay off an | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
existing loan. Before you do, watch this. | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
On the high street where shops are shouting, you will find payday | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
lenders thriving. It is a ?2 billion industry which for some customers | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
can provide a lifeline, quick cash for people who cannot borrow money | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
elsewhere. But what happens when borrowers cannot pay the cash back | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
on time and the amount owed rockets thanks to hefty rates of interest? | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
The original loan amount, ?155. The current amount you owe, ?672. Wow. | :11:24. | :11:38. | |
When this coach driver found himself out of work, he borrowed a couple of | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
hundred pounds. Within months, he owed thousands. I am on my own. I | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
only have my income. I needed a bit of help. A loan, as bad as it was, I | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
thought it would be all right. Can you remember taking out your first | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
one? It was ?100. I had to pay back ?160. But it did not go to plan. You | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
have to pay more money back than you borrowed. It makes you that much | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
short of that month. So you have to take it out again. How many loans | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
did you have paying off other loans paying off other loans? About 13 | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
towards the end. Paul is not the only one to struggle with paying | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
back loans. With interest rates up to 6000% APR, debt can easily spiral | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
out of control. On the Isle of Wight, there has been a 100% | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
increase in the number of cases seen by the Citizens Advice Bureau. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
People are not doing it to buy flatscreen TVs, they are trying to | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
put food on the table and buy their kids new school uniforms and pay | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
rent. It is desperation. When people come to us, they are in crisis. It | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
is when the payday loans have stacked up and they have probably | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
got more than a handful of payday loans. They may owe ?6,000, ?10,000 | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
at an interest rate of 1000%. Where are people going to get to the end | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
of that? They can't. Desperate measures. | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
It is horrible. You get another one each month. You have to pay off the | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
last one and the fees. A few clicks on the Internet and you can get the | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
money within an hour most of the time. Wow. Your next action, pay | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
?1117. They want that in full. Immediately. It is so easy for | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
people to go onto the Internet and they do not feel like they are | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
borrowing money. The next week, I will have that one. That goes on | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
from there. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. You will never get to the end. | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
It seems not all payday loan companies are being entirely fair | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
when their customers fall behind with payments. One woman's | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
experience with Toothfairy Finance has left the CAB deeply concerned. | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
The client had a debt of ?300 and she could not paid within the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
specified two`week time frame. They added interest on the loan which | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
meant she could not afford the new increased loan amount which | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
unfortunately was passed on to election agencies, three different | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
agency at the same time. The debt is now over ?3000. Despite agreeing | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
with the collection agency and new payment plan, the woman who wants to | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
remain anonymous received ever`increasing demands for money. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
She has been having text messages throughout the day and evening, | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
weekend, bang, days. She nights so it is quite disruptive and very | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
stressful. `` anchor holidays. Government guidelines say borrowers | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
should not be put under undue pressure and that charges are | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
supposed to be proportionate to the main debt. We wanted to ask | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Toothfairy Finance first simple sums, how and why had heard that | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
multiplied by ten times the original amount? Welcome to Toothfairy | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
Finance. You are important to us. Please hold whilst we connect you to | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
an operator of who will be more than happy to discuss your options. But | :15:47. | :15:56. | |
we had to wait on our hands. `` a wait. Well, that is 20 minutes on | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
hold. They promise we will talk to an operator. We will keep waiting. | :16:08. | :16:27. | |
Cut off! Hello? It is cut off. After an hour and a half on hold, the | :16:28. | :16:41. | |
phone has just cut off. Could you imagine if you were paying for that | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
on a mobile phone? How frustrating! Toothfairy Finance appear to have | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
lost their sparkle in the customer services department. It is no wonder | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
we could not get through as Web Loans Processing who traded as | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
Toothfairy Finance was in the process of going into | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
administration. We have discovered the company had been under | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
investigation by the Office of Fair Trading. The government department | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
was unhappy with some of its working practices and proposing to remove | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
its credit licence. That is its ability to lend money. During our | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
investigation, we found other borrowers also upset with Toothfairy | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
Finance and the campaign group Toothfairy.con says it has received | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
hundreds of complaints. These are just some of them. Now that the | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
company Toothfairy Finance is out of business, the big question is, will | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
be borrowers have to pay back the money and more importantly, the | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
interest? Quite possibly, yes. Toothfairy Finance's books have been | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
sold to a company called, would you believe, Loads Of Dosh Ltd. They | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
have subsequently changed their name to DHR Capital. We want to ask that | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
very question to them, but as yet, no response. You know where we are. | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
The Consumer Finance Association which represents many of these sorts | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
of lenders says that payday loan is designed to be a short`term option | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
only and should never be used to try and fix larger long`term debt | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
problems. They state taking out one loan to pay off another is not | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
advisable and that they are working on a solution to let lenders see | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
when borrowers have other payday loans outstanding. The Financial | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
Conduct Authority is due to introduce new regulations for the | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
payday loan companies in April and the government too wants to put a | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
cap on the cost of payday loans. Campaigners say this is too little, | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
too late. There is a way somebody that exploits people's desperation. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
These are the ones who have stepped in here. I think it is time for us | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
as a community and the society to stand up against and say, this is | :19:03. | :19:14. | |
not all right. We are due a change. However, the people who run the | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
payday loan companies are clever businesspeople. I am quite sure they | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
will find a way around it. Paul continued to see his step rise | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
because he could not afford to pay back his loans `` his debt rise. How | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
bad did it get? I was depressed. All of them wanted money on my back. The | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
letters coming through the door, the phone lines on the landline and the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
mobile. I could not do my job. Did you get the knock on the door as | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
well from collectors? Yes. At the door, on the phone and through the | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
post. He sought help at the Citizens Advice Bureau but he was so much in | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
debt that the only thing he could do was declare himself bankrupt. It has | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
put a mark on my future. I cannot buy a house that at least six to ten | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
years time. I am screwed, basically. Do you regret taking out the first | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
loan? I do. I regret that first one when I click the button. I regret | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
that decision. That is half the reason that led me to the | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
bankruptcy. That one took of the mouse? That one click of the mouse. | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
You can find us on Twitter, don't forget. Finally tonight, the Sussex | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
woman who gave up everything to help animals abroad. When Kim Taylor set | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
up a sanctuary in Egypt, she had no idea of the turmoil the country was | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
about to descend into. Sally Taylor's report contains some | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
distressing scenes. Seven years ago, Inside Out made a | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
film about a West Sussex woman who ran a charity looking after horses | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
and donkeys in Egypt. Going really fast and he is still being beaten. | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
Kim Taylor gave up life in Boxgrove to move to Luxor, opening her | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
charity ACE, Animal Care in Egypt, in 2000. She wanted to teach people | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
how to look after working animals that often suffered appalling | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
neglect. Among the horrifying incidents we filmed was a horse | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
which had treated at the Centre for leg injury being put straight back | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
to work with devastating consequences. We have been able to | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
redraft its leg and it is now able to stand and eat and drink. Track | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
road we dress its leg. Around the corner was the Egyptian revolution. | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
We will see if we can convince the owner to let her out to grass for a | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
while. The struggle for democracy led to violent protest after 30 | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
years of oppression. The first elected president Mohamed Morsi now | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
faces charges himself. The constitutional referendum is under | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
way and mid continuing violence and tourists are steering clear. Over | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
the last few years, Egypt has changed. Luxor has certainly | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
changed. At one time, there was boats going up and down the River | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Nile, tourists everywhere. You had to queue to get into the temples and | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
tombs. Now it is deserted. Mostly because the Home Office have said it | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
is one of those places you should not go to. Therefore, people cannot | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
get insurance. No one is coming. It is really sad. Until 2010, we used | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
to receive 14 million clients every year. People were happy with this. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Now we are running between 3% and 4%. Most of the hotels are empty. We | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
have 286 boats. Many are now for sale. The government has to think | :23:06. | :23:17. | |
quick link what we will do. We have boats, horse carriages, buses, | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
everything has stopped. Life has stopped. It is nice of you all to | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
come today. There are hardly any tourists. With only a handful of | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
people now holidaying in Egypt, ACE has lost important funding from | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
international visitors. we were so impressed by the work that goes on, | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
it is so reassuring to know there is somewhere for the animals to come, | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
if they get hurt, which they often do. Kim says that one of the effects | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
of the revolution has been to bring up more animals on the streets, | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
which together with increasing poverty, this has meant a rising | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
workload the ACE. The working animals, they are bringing goods to | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
and from building sites. It is basically one vehicle, one animal on | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
the streets. There are so many animals working on the streets in | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Luxor. It is quite a shock when you first go there. You think you will | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
see the donkey but there are so many, thousands of horses and | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
donkeys working on the streets, but especially donkeys. Since the | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
beginning of the Egyptian revolution, the Arab Spring we have | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
had no fuel. We have had shortages of petrol and diesel. People have | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
been going back to animals they do not use any more, they are getting | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
them out. At least then they have some form of transport. There has | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
not been any petrol or diesel. The people just generally use animals in | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
a way that is like a tool. When it is broken, they will try to find | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
another tool. Some people are learning that if they take care of | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
their animals they will last longer and work better. That is something | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
we have been trying to instil in people from the beginning. This is | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
your business, your taxi. If you take care of it, it will last a long | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
time. Then it will work for you longer and work harder. But you have | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
got to put the effort and money in and food into the animal to get the | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
best out of it. We see lots of very bad traffic accidents. You do not | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
see that he is so much because people do actually go around horses | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
slowly. Whereas in Luxor, the traffic is moving very fast and | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
people do not really seem to care very much. We often have carriage | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
horses that have a foal tied beside the mother and the traffic will come | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
around and not see the baby and smack into it. Often horses get | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
loose and crash into each other. We see some really major traffic | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
accident wounds which are very bloody and graphic and horrible. At | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
the moment, people are also downgrading the food they give their | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
animals because they have not got the money to spend so they are | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
trying to cut down. They are feeding them something which will keep them | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
alive, but actually, they are not putting on weight. If they are | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
working, they are losing weight. That is horrible. We are trying to | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
feed as many animals as we can not coming to us just to try and keep | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
them alive, really, keep them balanced. As the constitutional | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
referendum gets under way, Kim is hopeful things will begin to settle | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
and the tourists will return. In the meantime, she is determined to carry | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
on running the centre than no salary with the help of a sympathetic | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
ex`husband, her family and well`wishers. The local people said, | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
you should be helping children. If you are coming here as a foreigner, | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
you should help the children or the poor people. I think everybody finds | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
their niche in life and it was something that I saw that people | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
were not maintaining their animals and the poorest of people are trying | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
to get the best from their animals and there was nobody there to help | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
them to do that. That is what we wanted to do, help those people to | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
get the best from their animals, look after the animals as we go | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
along the way and educate children along the way as well so that the | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
future will be better. I think you can think, yes, there are so many | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
problems on the planet. I see so many things and it brings me to | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
tears all of the time. But I have to blinker myself because it is | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
bettered to try and do one thing well done to do so many things and | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
then you just get lost. To be able to help the local poor people is to | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
help their animals. You could not go there and give poor people money. It | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
would not work. It is a way of helping poor people, the poorest | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
people. And the people accept me as the Mount Englishwoman that wants to | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
do something positive and not something destructive `` the mad | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
Englishwoman. Kim Taylor there, no relation to | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
Sally. That is it for this week. Don't forget my e`mail. I will see | :28:28. | :28:36. | |
you next time. Next week, how to heat your home for ?3 a month. I | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
think people are learning that you have got to keep yourself warm. You | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
cannot expect the house to do it all the time. And after the lights went | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
out at Christmas, who is to blame and could it happen again? | :28:53. | :29:04. | |
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let companies drill for shale gas. Critics have called the offer a | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
bribe, but the Government claims the process will give us cheaper energy. | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
More at 10pm. The biggest public inquiry into | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
child abuse in the UK has begun in Northern Ireland. It's looking at | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
care in church and state-run homes over 70 years. More than 400 people | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
have asked to give evidence. Mark Bridger was convicted of | :29:30. | :29:31. | |
murdering April | :29:32. | :29:32. |