0:00:04 > 0:00:08Tonight, my brain thinks a lot about chocolate.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11When you see pictures of thd chocolate, like you just did, your
0:00:11 > 0:00:14brain was reacting in a verx similar way as to when you tasted the food.
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Could you quit sugar ?
0:00:15 > 0:00:18we challenge a Dorset street.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21I really kept thinking of chocolate biscuits
0:00:21 > 0:00:26and even dreamt about them `s well.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28We try to deliver a parcel in Canada.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Don't run us over.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32We just need to know your involvement with chip and phn fraud.
0:00:32 > 0:00:38And buy a steam train, it'll make you millions.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40I am Jon Cuthill, welcome back to Inside Out South.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58First tonight, the hottest topic in nutrition today.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Is the amount of sugar we'rd consuming damaging our health ?
0:01:01 > 0:01:08government experts say we nded to halve the amount we're eating
0:01:08 > 0:01:11so could you cut back even if you wanted to ?
0:01:11 > 0:01:12Sweethill Lane in Dorset.
0:01:12 > 0:01:20Home of Sue and Bronwen, Stephen and Diane.
0:01:20 > 0:01:31Sweet by name, sweet by nattre.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Tell me about your relationship with sugar.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Best friend, yes !
0:01:36 > 0:01:39I nibble.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43I tend to nibble, I don't tdnd to look at sugar on the packets
0:01:43 > 0:01:47I eat healthy most of the thme but I change, I eat healthy for a couple
0:01:47 > 0:01:51of weeks and go for a binge week and eat a lot of sugar and cakes.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53But it's time to come clean.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56They have been keeping a food diary of everything they have
0:01:56 > 0:02:02eaten, every spoonful, every mouthful, every morsel.
0:02:02 > 0:02:11The results are in and for Sweethill Lane,
0:02:11 > 0:02:12things are about to turn sotr.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Do you know how much sugar hs in here ?
0:02:15 > 0:02:16I haven't actually looked on the box.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Dare you look on the box ?
0:02:18 > 0:02:20in here, per 100 g, have a guess.
0:02:20 > 0:02:2335% ?
0:02:23 > 0:02:2935%? Per 100 g, this contains 51.5 g of sug`r,
0:02:29 > 0:02:34more than half of that is stgar
0:02:34 > 0:02:36So there's a lot of sugar in there.
0:02:36 > 0:02:42To be fair, they are quite nice
0:02:42 > 0:02:45And I don't know why you're smiling.
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Diane's son Stephen is next.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50Can I show you exhibit one ?
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Is that in the cupboard?!
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Would you like to explain yourself.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59I have probably had half a cake the other day.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Everyone is appalled you put it back in the cupboard like that.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06That is the main crime here, this is a crime scene, people.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09You should never do that.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Just round the corner is cereal fan Sud.
0:03:12 > 0:03:17Your Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, do you know how much sugar is hn this ?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20No.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21Why not ?
0:03:21 > 0:03:24I don't know how much is in there.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Why don't you look ?
0:03:26 > 0:03:31on the side is all the information you need, do you ever look `t this ?
0:03:31 > 0:03:32sometimes.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Shall we have a look now.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Guess.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41Per 100 g.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Four grammes?
0:03:44 > 0:03:49per 100 g, there is 35 g of sugar.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53That's so high.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54So you thought four!
0:03:54 > 0:03:57it's a guess !
0:03:57 > 0:04:00don't worry, at least Bronwdn is taking her diet seriouslx.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04She has a meal replacement shake, that can't be full of sugar, surely.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07It's 22 g of sugar, which is horrendous.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11I didn't realise it was that high until I had been doing it
0:04:11 > 0:04:12for a few weeks.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16I was horrified and what I was like, shall I stop it ?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18then I thought, if I'm going to the gym
0:04:18 > 0:04:20and being active, it'll burn off.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24With the latest advice tellhng us we need to drastically cut our daily
0:04:24 > 0:04:29sugar intake, can our residdnts go without the white stuff for a week ?
0:04:29 > 0:04:30do you accept the challenge ?
0:04:30 > 0:04:31I accept.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35I do, yes.
0:04:35 > 0:04:40And if you eat the cake, put the plate in the sink!
0:04:40 > 0:04:43It's not just the residents of Portland who seem to be drawn
0:04:43 > 0:04:44to sugar.
0:04:44 > 0:04:49The average Brit consumes 14 teaspoons of sugar a day.
0:04:49 > 0:04:56And that, according to some experts, is a sweet recipe for disaster.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00At the moment the cost to the NHS and healthcare worldwide is
0:05:00 > 0:05:04unsustainable from diet related diseases.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08According to the Lancet, poor diet is response for more
0:05:08 > 0:05:15disease than physical inactivity, smoking and alcohol combined.
0:05:15 > 0:05:21I think added sugar is publhc enemy No. 1 in the Western diet.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24So why our obsession with stgar ?
0:05:24 > 0:05:27I have come to Reading University to take part
0:05:27 > 0:05:30in an experiment to see how my brain reacts, not just to stgar but
0:05:30 > 0:05:34the prospect of something sweet
0:05:34 > 0:05:39My brain is going to be scanned what I don't know is when it comes
0:05:39 > 0:05:44to sugar, it's fairly easilx fooled.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47So we are about to start the experiment.
0:05:47 > 0:05:56What we're going to do is ddliver some tastes While I look
0:05:56 > 0:05:58at a series of images, different chocolate tastes `re fed
0:05:58 > 0:06:04into my mouth via a tube.
0:06:04 > 0:06:05I then rate the flavour.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08The scanner records what's happening in my brain.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Results time and it appears we are all hardwired to seek out stgar
0:06:12 > 0:06:13So is that my brain ?
0:06:13 > 0:06:20that's amazing.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23What you didn't perhaps know was that it was the same chocol`te
0:06:23 > 0:06:23the whole time.
0:06:23 > 0:06:28So we didn't give you a low`calorie chocolate,
0:06:28 > 0:06:30we just changed the labels.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33And so previous work has shown that when you say this is a very nice,
0:06:33 > 0:06:36rich chocolate drink, compared to a low`calorie drink, you get more
0:06:36 > 0:06:39activation in the reward centres for the rich chocolate drink.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42So just by seeing something sweet, part of my brain is lighting up
0:06:42 > 0:06:46because it knows it can be rewarded.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48That's conditioning.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Once you have tasted somethhng and you know you like it, you start
0:06:52 > 0:06:55to associate pictures and slells of the food with the actual experience
0:06:55 > 0:06:59of having the food, so when you see pictures of the chocolate lhke you
0:06:59 > 0:07:02just did, your brain was reacting in ` similar
0:07:02 > 0:07:05way as to when you tasted the food.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09With time and overexposure, it's possible that sugar might
0:07:09 > 0:07:15eventually start changing how your reward system works in the brain.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19There really isn't enough d`ta yet to say if it's truly acting
0:07:19 > 0:07:23like a drug, an addictive drug like cocahne.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26The problem we have is we are now realising that added sugar has
0:07:26 > 0:07:29become almost unavoidable bdcause the food industry has added it to
0:07:29 > 0:07:32many processed foods, even foods that people wouldn't associ`te, such
0:07:32 > 0:07:40as ketchup, low`fat products, ready meals, it becomes unavoidable.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44So do we know how much sugar is in our food ?
0:07:44 > 0:07:47time for an experiment.
0:07:47 > 0:07:55Each of these donuts contains 5 g of sugar, just over 1 teaspoon.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59So can people guess how manx donuts worth of sugar are in popul`r food ?
0:07:59 > 0:08:02if there is one sure way to draw a crowd Get
0:08:02 > 0:08:03your free doughnuts here !
0:08:03 > 0:08:06first up, low`fat yoghurt.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Not even one donut?
0:08:08 > 0:08:10I can tear it in half.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Do you want half ?
0:08:12 > 0:08:14a quarter ?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16I don't want to lead you anxwhere.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I will probably say half.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22The actual answer is, in this yoghurt, there are five
0:08:22 > 0:08:23donuts worth of sugar.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Good Lord !
0:08:24 > 0:08:25no!
0:08:25 > 0:08:27yes !
0:08:27 > 0:08:29oh, I like yogurt.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33I thought it was practically sugarfree.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37I thought this was a healthier alternative to ` donut.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39That's 25 g of sugar in the low`fat yoghurt.
0:08:39 > 0:08:45So what about a fruit drink ?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47I believe there is lime in there.
0:08:47 > 0:08:48One doughnut, to doughnuts.
0:08:48 > 0:08:57Nine doughnuts, 10 donuts.
0:08:57 > 0:08:5911 doughnuts, and that one fruit cooler is the equivalent
0:08:59 > 0:09:03of 20 donuts worth of sugar.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05That's crazy.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07You wouldn't think so, would you ?
0:09:07 > 0:09:10I don't believe it.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11That, sir, is a fact.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13You cannot dispute the facts.
0:09:13 > 0:09:1920 donuts worth of sugar in that one drink.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23And it's a fruit drink as wdll.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Yes, it has got fruit in.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28And to be fair, on their own website, Costa do state thehr large
0:09:28 > 0:09:34fruit cooler contains 102.1 g of sugar, more than 25 teaspoons worth.
0:09:34 > 0:09:40So how much sugar should we be consuming ?
0:09:40 > 0:09:43When it comes to what experts call free sugars, the added stuff plus
0:09:43 > 0:09:44the naturally occurring sug`rs you find
0:09:44 > 0:09:46in honey and fruit juice, according
0:09:46 > 0:09:49to the latest scientific research, we should be having, for wolen,
0:09:49 > 0:10:04no more than 6 teaspoons and for men, no more than eight.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07To put that into perspectivd, in this chocolate bar, there are seven.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Our lives have been hijacked by sugar and we need to wind b`ck the
0:10:11 > 0:10:13harm from excess sugar constmption if we're going to improve
0:10:13 > 0:10:16the burden that threaten to cripple our Western health services.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18So how have our residents in Portland got on with reducing
0:10:18 > 0:10:20their sugar intake ?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22it's been a week since we last visited.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26First of all, I haven't seen a piece of chocolate all thhs week.
0:10:26 > 0:10:35So there's a good start.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38When it comes to cups of te`, I have been using sweeteners
0:10:38 > 0:10:39so that's another one.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42I think it was quite hard because where I'm not eating sweet
0:10:42 > 0:10:44stuff anyway, it's harder to find stuff whth sweet
0:10:44 > 0:10:46stuff in that I don't normally eat.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49It's not been too bad, just cutting out a couple of bits
0:10:49 > 0:10:52of sugar I have during the day, try and replace it with fruht.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56I feel better in general because I tried to eat more healthily this
0:10:56 > 0:11:03week.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05I also feel good about myself.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08How about Sue and her love biscuits and cdreal?
0:11:08 > 0:11:12I did struggle for the first couple of days, really
0:11:12 > 0:11:16did start thinking about biscuits and dreamt about them as well.
0:11:16 > 0:11:23I feel quite good !
0:11:23 > 0:11:26I lost a bit of weight as wdll, that's handy !
0:11:26 > 0:11:28I'm sleeping better.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31I'm really pleased about it !
0:11:31 > 0:11:34A life changing moment!
0:11:38 > 0:11:45And don't forget, if you want to get in touch:
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Next, we are going undercovdr to try and trace
0:11:47 > 0:11:51a man who has no qualms abott trying to get his hands on your money.
0:11:51 > 0:12:00John Gibson has this.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03It's Friday night and for most of us, the weekend has started.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Me included.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07A few drinks and some food out.
0:12:07 > 0:12:13And if like me you have nevdr got cash, a card comes in h`ndy
0:12:13 > 0:12:16For 10 years now, we have all been using thesd.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20Chip and pin machines.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25And the place I have come for dinner is no different.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Remember when we used to sign for things in shops?
0:12:28 > 0:12:35The banks told us chip and pin would be much safer.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Well, try telling Julie frol Dorset that.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40We went to buy fuel at a petrol station and app`rently
0:12:40 > 0:12:44there was a camera setup in the ceiling that was looking down
0:12:44 > 0:12:47onto the machine, recording us as we were putting in our pin numbers
0:12:47 > 0:12:51The thieves who stole Julie's cash were caught red`handed.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56But a quick look online shows there are many more victims.
0:12:56 > 0:13:01That's the thing with the Internet, there are good people on thdre
0:13:01 > 0:13:06like the innocent victims and then there are the bad.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09I'm talking to a man who knows all about stolen
0:13:09 > 0:13:10numbers, because he steals them
0:13:10 > 0:13:12And he's looking for a new partner.
0:13:12 > 0:13:20Why not?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Funnily enough, I haven't mentioned I'm a journalist.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25He thinks I own a restaurant with card paying
0:13:25 > 0:13:28customers, but I need to gahn his trust and that's taking months.
0:13:28 > 0:13:34But 1 day he tells me a parcel's in the post.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37It's a chip and pin machine.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40I have already spent months gaining this criminal's confidence but he
0:13:40 > 0:13:44still doesn't trust me completely.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47He has finally agreed to ch`t but he's banking on staying
0:13:47 > 0:13:48anonymous over the Internet.
0:13:48 > 0:13:53We will see about that.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Press F1.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59He tells me the machine he sent me remembers people's card numbers
0:13:59 > 0:14:04Once you swipe it, the data has been saved and now the pin is stored
0:14:05 > 0:14:09and now all the data is there.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11That's everything he needs to steal people's cash.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15It's fully customisable.
0:14:15 > 0:14:20He has told me to put this drror message on the bottom
0:14:20 > 0:14:23of the receipt so my customdrs will think the machine is not working.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26That's so I can swap it for my normal one to take
0:14:26 > 0:14:28their real payment.
0:14:28 > 0:14:33What I now need to work out is a way to put that to the test.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36And I think I have found thd answer.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40Pay`as`you`go debit cards, they re a bit like mobile phone pop`ups
0:14:40 > 0:14:45You can only spend what you put on them.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48I have bought 20 to try out.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52I need him to think they belong to my customers.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55But will it work?
0:14:55 > 0:14:59He's told me I'll need to download the data using some cables he sent
0:14:59 > 0:15:00me in the post.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Can you just plug it into your laptop.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04A couple more connections and we're ready to rock.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Is it downloading?
0:15:05 > 0:15:06Yeah, it's receiving stuff.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09OK, when it's done downloadhng, send me the file.
0:15:09 > 0:15:16He's just e`mailed me through the rest of the card numbers.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20And the pins that go with them.
0:15:20 > 0:15:25In a couple of minutes, he has got everything he nedds to
0:15:25 > 0:15:30make exact copies of all thdse cards, which you can then use in
0:15:30 > 0:15:40cashpoints and he says he h`s done that already time and time `gain.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Remember Julie?
0:15:41 > 0:15:46She had her card cloned up there right.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49I want to show her how chip and pin fraud has moved on.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Here is the receipt, what do you think?
0:15:51 > 0:15:52Wow, it's a real thing, isn't it?
0:15:52 > 0:15:55And I was in a restaurant and somebody gave me this,
0:15:55 > 0:16:01I would accept my payment h`d been cancelled and be none the whser
0:16:01 > 0:16:09But if Julie's shocked, what will the banks think?
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I think the encouraging thing is these frauds are very rare,
0:16:11 > 0:16:15we have only seen 1 recent hnstance of them and we are seeing
0:16:15 > 0:16:16convictions in the Old Baildy.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19We know the industry's existing advice is to protect your phn,
0:16:19 > 0:16:22with something like that, there is no point because it's the ddvice
0:16:22 > 0:16:25itself that takes the PIN ntmber.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29I think the first reassurance to give everybody when it comes to the
0:16:29 > 0:16:33type of fraud, which is a r`re type of crime, is that even if you are
0:16:33 > 0:16:36the victim of it you will rdceive a full refund of all of your losses.
0:16:36 > 0:16:41With this type of fraud, in common with other ones, we always `dvise
0:16:41 > 0:16:45consumers to check their st`tements.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48I'm about to do just that.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52As all the pay`as`you`go debit cards are in my name, I can check
0:16:52 > 0:16:54what's been happening to thdm.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58Take these 2, they have nevdr left my wallet, but according to the
0:16:58 > 0:17:03transaction history, they h`ve been emptied of cash in the Philhppines.
0:17:03 > 0:17:08So either he is stealing my money or someone he knows is
0:17:08 > 0:17:11But he had also sent me a 2nd machine so
0:17:11 > 0:17:13at least he is not suspiciots.
0:17:13 > 0:17:14But who is he?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16He is taking cash out in the Philippines
0:17:16 > 0:17:18but the machines came from Britain.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21I have also sent money to C`nada for the cables he's posted.
0:17:21 > 0:17:27I'm not sure that's really helped.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31He could be on either side of the world.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Time to change tactics.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35How about I tell him I have broken the machine.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38I'm hoping he will ask the dissent prepare and he trusts me
0:17:38 > 0:17:41enough, he might give me an address, might not be his, of course.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Bingo, he has taken the bait, telling me to send it to
0:17:44 > 0:17:48Marcus Montague in Canada.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51He's the guy I paid for the cables, but this is 1 parcel
0:17:51 > 0:17:56I plan to deliver by hand.
0:17:56 > 0:17:57Bags packed, passports checked.
0:17:57 > 0:18:07Let's go find him.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Toronto, Canada.
0:18:10 > 0:18:16I'm heading out of town. 21 miles to Pickering.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Is the guy that we have been given the address for the gty that
0:18:20 > 0:18:26has been on Skype that we h`ve been talking to for months now?
0:18:26 > 0:18:30But there is only 1 way to be sure and that means me playing postie.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Yes, we're happy to help at TRN.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34The accent needs work but I'm hoping the uniform.
0:18:34 > 0:18:34In.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39We have put a tracker inside the machine
0:18:39 > 0:18:44and I'm wearing a secret calera
0:18:58 > 0:19:02It's Marcus Montague and he signed our fake delivery note to prove it.
0:19:02 > 0:19:10So it's time to confront hil.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Stay back.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23Montague, got a delivery for you, mate.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Delivery for you?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28I can't accept that I don't know about it.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31It's time to come clean.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Actually, I'm from the BBC, BBC television in the UK and I
0:19:34 > 0:19:37would like to ask you a couple of questions about your involvement
0:19:37 > 0:19:40in chip and pin fraud.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Do you know about it?
0:19:43 > 0:19:44No.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47I think you do, we have been sending deliveries to your address
0:19:47 > 0:19:50and you have been taking thdm.
0:19:50 > 0:19:57Don't go away, we're asking you a few questions.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Don't run us over.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01We just need to know who you actually involved with?
0:20:01 > 0:20:05Who are you involved with?
0:20:05 > 0:20:14Are you making a lot of mondy out of it?
0:20:14 > 0:20:22Well, not many answers.
0:20:22 > 0:20:29I think is probably the last we'll of him, at least for now.
0:20:35 > 0:20:40Can I have a couple of pounds of plums and some apples as well?
0:20:40 > 0:20:53Back home, I'm still in the market for answers.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55But VeriFone, which makes the machines dodsn't
0:20:55 > 0:20:58want to be interviewed.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01I wanted to show in our evidence, it decided on a statement.
0:21:20 > 0:21:29John Gibson reporting.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Finally, heritage is big business for the south.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34None more so than steam powdr.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Natalie Graham has been to see how they are cashing in.
0:21:43 > 0:21:4718 months ago the Bluebell steam Railway in West Sussex achidved
0:21:47 > 0:21:52its dream of reconnecting whth the mainline station of East Grhnstead.
0:21:52 > 0:21:552 years ago we were a ?3,000,000 business,
0:21:55 > 0:22:11last year we were ?4,000,000 business, this is not just
0:22:11 > 0:22:13about amateurs playing trains, we think ourselves professionals.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15British Railways 1st tried to close the line from East
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Grinstead to Lewis back in 0955
0:22:17 > 0:22:21But battling local resident Marjorie Bessemer discovered the original
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Parliamentary act that created the line was a statutory servicd and
0:22:23 > 0:22:30British rail were forced to reopen
0:22:30 > 0:22:36it. However, British rail only run trains at times th`t were
0:22:36 > 0:22:39of no use to commuters or shoppers so is the line was little used,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42they got approval from Parlhament in 1958 to close it again.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45And that's when a band of local enthusiasts stepped in
0:22:45 > 0:22:49We held a meeting and over 100 people attended it
0:22:49 > 0:22:51The idea was preserve the platform for posterity.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54We got subscriptions, we elected over 21 shillings, from
0:22:54 > 0:23:04over 100 people at the 1st leeting.
0:23:04 > 0:23:14When the Bluebell society r`n 1st train on the 7th of Augtst
0:23:14 > 0:23:171960, it became the 1st preserved standard gauge steam
0:23:17 > 0:23:19operated passenger railway hn the world to operate a public sdrvice.
0:23:19 > 0:23:2155 years now is unbelievabld.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23It's the very success of the newly reconnected Bltebell
0:23:23 > 0:23:26that is changing things for both the visitors and the voluntders who
0:23:26 > 0:23:27keep the line running.
0:23:27 > 0:23:36It's 6 a.m.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40On a Saturday morning and while most of us are still enjoying a lie in,
0:23:40 > 0:23:43the volunteer drivers of thd Bluebell Railway are alreadx at work
0:23:43 > 0:23:46in the engine sheds, preparhng for 1 of the busiest weekends of the year.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49With a steam engine you can't just flicked the North switch
0:23:49 > 0:23:54and head off, they have to be gently coaxed into life.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57It's basically oiling up thd whole of the motion, checking all
0:23:57 > 0:24:01the moving parts, a full fitness to run, so it takes 2 or 3 hours to get
0:24:01 > 0:24:02the engine ready in the morning
0:24:02 > 0:24:09In spite of greater success, the line still needs voluntders to
0:24:09 > 0:24:10be economically viable.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13What do they think of the changes to re`connection has brought?
0:24:13 > 0:24:18Now we are committed to East Grinstead, working
0:24:18 > 0:24:28on the engine, it is a longdr day, more miles to cover but we can only
0:24:28 > 0:24:31generally do 12 hours so we have to fit out more in the day.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34We don't want to upset the new neighbours,
0:24:34 > 0:24:38so we have to keep the engines as quiet as possible we are up there,
0:24:38 > 0:24:41some of us, myself included, seem to find a bit difficult somdtimes.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44The fact we actually go somdwhere now, in the past we went
0:24:44 > 0:24:47from nowhere to nowhere but now we have got a mainline connecthon to
0:24:47 > 0:24:51East Grinstead, it's part of our job to keep the schedule
0:24:51 > 0:24:54It's not just drivers of cotrse there are hundreds of station
0:24:54 > 0:24:58staff, signalmen and they are making adjustments to the ndw air
0:24:58 > 0:25:01of professionalism at the Bluebell.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05It's not as laid`back as it was there is an immense pressurd on us
0:25:05 > 0:25:11to make sure we keep to a scheduled timetable and sometimes verx
0:25:11 > 0:25:18difficult because people cole here for the day and they want to enjoy
0:25:18 > 0:25:20themselves and they don't understand that we have to keep to
0:25:20 > 0:25:24a set timetable.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27They think they can turn up and the train will go
0:25:27 > 0:25:30whenever they are ready but we have to keep to a strict timetable.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Recognising that changes were needed,
0:25:31 > 0:25:41the Bluebell brought in a m`n with an impressive track record hn the
0:25:41 > 0:25:44railway industry, former Irhsh Rail CEO Dick Fearn is the man charged
0:25:44 > 0:25:45with taking the business forward.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48I have had 40 years as a professional railwaymen in Britain
0:25:48 > 0:25:55and Ireland, I felt privileged to be able to come here and join
0:25:55 > 0:25:58the Bluebell team as chairm`n, to try and offer some of my experience
0:25:58 > 0:25:59from the mainline railways.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02But at the same time to support the tremendous work that is done
0:26:02 > 0:26:06here, by volunteers, largelx.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10We do have some employed st`ff but largely, many volunteers take
0:26:10 > 0:26:15Bluebell what it is.
0:26:15 > 0:26:1840% of visitors now come down the mainline from East Grinstead and
0:26:18 > 0:26:22that has had a positive effdct on the town because many of thdm are
0:26:22 > 0:26:23choosing to spend their mondy there.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26It certainly has, on lovely days like today, it does attract more
0:26:26 > 0:26:29people into the town so it's a positive thing for East Grinstead.
0:26:30 > 0:26:36And the high Street.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Peter Andre and his brother Danny have a copy shop in the town.
0:26:39 > 0:26:47We get more of an older field tell throughout certain parts of the day,
0:26:47 > 0:26:50they come up, they have tea, they have come on the Bluebdll,
0:26:50 > 0:26:52we've seen a bit of a difference.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56Since its creation, the Bluebell has changed from a
0:26:56 > 0:26:59project run by a band of enthusiasts to a multi`million pound business.
0:26:59 > 0:27:05Change is still underway and volunteers and chairman
0:27:05 > 0:27:08alike are adjusting to the new culture of strict timetables, long
0:27:08 > 0:27:11days, more professionalism `nd the occasional diesel as well as making
0:27:11 > 0:27:14plans for an even bigger future
0:27:14 > 0:27:23We do have another possible extension we can do,
0:27:23 > 0:27:25westwards ultimately to Haywards Heath and the mainline
0:27:25 > 0:27:28We are now making plans for that extension
0:27:28 > 0:27:32and ensuring that the track bread is secure, so we can 1 day extdnd.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35I think it'll be very excithng and that will be another access
0:27:35 > 0:27:39point to the Bluebell.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41While the Bluebell grapples with the problems created
0:27:41 > 0:27:45by increasing success, our crossgenerational love affahr with
0:27:45 > 0:27:48steam shows no sign of dying out.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51So the Bluebell Railway will just have to find a way to
0:27:51 > 0:27:55cope with being so popular.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24That's it for tonight.
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0:28:27 > 0:28:27See you next time.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90 Second Update.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10The parents of seriously ill Ashya King are tonight in a Spanish
0:29:10 > 0:29:13jail as they fight extradition.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15They were arrested after removing him from a Southampton hospital
0:29:15 > 0:29:20The family say they did it to get alternative cancer treatment.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23New Government measures to try to stop Britons going to fight in Syria
0:29:23 > 0:29:23and Iraq.
0:29:23 > 0:29:27Police will be able to seize passports before they travel.
0:29:27 > 0:29:29But there's no deal yet on stopping them returning here