0:00:10 > 0:00:12Tonight, a man who says he doesn't c`re.
0:00:12 > 0:00:13The camera doesn't bother md.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16You can put it on whatever TV you want.
0:00:16 > 0:00:16I don't care.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18Why money mattered in 1996.
0:00:18 > 0:00:19Do you know what the Ecu is?
0:00:19 > 0:00:20The what?
0:00:20 > 0:00:20The Ecu.
0:00:20 > 0:00:21The egg cube?
0:00:21 > 0:00:21No.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24And four people in a dark room who say no, ` lot.
0:00:24 > 0:00:25No. No.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26I don't like it.
0:00:26 > 0:00:27No, thank you.
0:00:27 > 0:00:40I'm John Cuthill and this is Inside Out for the South of England.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43First tonight, disabled parking badges.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Obviously, the people who use them are disabled themselves.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50It's not like anyone is going to try and use one
0:00:50 > 0:00:52when they are not entitled to.
0:00:52 > 0:00:53Surely.
0:00:53 > 0:00:59We are going to meet liars...
0:00:59 > 0:01:02He is going to rip me to shreds when I get home.
0:01:02 > 0:01:03..cheats...
0:01:03 > 0:01:05So why is there a disabled badge on your car?
0:01:06 > 0:01:07Because it was put there.
0:01:07 > 0:01:07By whom?
0:01:07 > 0:01:09By the man in the sky.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12..people who break the law...
0:01:13 > 0:01:14Because I shouldn't be doing it basically.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18The owner of that blue badgd has been dead for the last two xears.
0:01:18 > 0:01:25We are following parking enforcers.
0:01:25 > 0:01:34most vulnerable drivers.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38`` They are on the trail of fraudsters who abuse the rights of
0:01:38 > 0:01:38Portsmouth's
0:01:38 > 0:01:41most vulnerable drivers.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45It is a type of fraud that goes largely tnnoticed
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and yet it happens in plain sight, it happens in every town.
0:01:48 > 0:01:58And almost all offenders get away with it.
0:01:58 > 0:02:03There are just a handful of disabled parking bays in Portsmouth.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08Parked behind this wheelchahr user is a brand`new white sports car
0:02:08 > 0:02:13The blue badge allowing fred parking is registered to an 85`year`old man
0:02:13 > 0:02:16with limited mobility.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19The car is owned by a 23`year`old woman.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22A quick check reveals the badge was stolen.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24The blue badge is not valid.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27It is a criminal offence behng in possession of a stolen article and
0:02:27 > 0:02:32it is a criminal offence to display a blue badge that is not valid.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35So we will remove the vehicle, we will interview the person under
0:02:35 > 0:02:40caution and possible prosecttion.
0:02:40 > 0:02:47We will meet the driver but not for a few hours.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Across the city centre, council parking enforcer Stephen Goodall
0:02:51 > 0:02:58has found a woman who is lyhng about the blue badge in her car
0:02:58 > 0:03:00For half an hour, she claims her disabled husband
0:03:01 > 0:03:04is stuck in a toilet nearby.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07I have had a phone call from what I believed
0:03:07 > 0:03:08to be the badge holder.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09It is not.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11It then turns out it is her son
0:03:11 > 0:03:14He has given me two telephone calls saying he is stuck in the toilet,
0:03:14 > 0:03:15that he cannot get out.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17In fact, he is sitting at home.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21With us is Helen Dolphin, a disabled motoring campaigner.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24She wants to confront peopld who prevent her from parking
0:03:24 > 0:03:27and persuade them to change their attitude.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31So you did not think for ond minute how difficult you could be laking it
0:03:31 > 0:03:34for another disabled person that has not been able to park?
0:03:34 > 0:03:37If I had seen someone else that was going to park...
0:03:37 > 0:03:40The woman eventually admits she has been to the hairdresser
0:03:40 > 0:03:43I know it is stupid, it is for a hair cut, but I have
0:03:43 > 0:03:45been saving, I am on benefits..
0:03:45 > 0:03:46But the car is almost new.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49The blue badge is confiscatdd.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52What is it going to mean now, for your husband, having no badge?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Well, he is going to rip me to shreds when I get home.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Really rip me to shreds.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03Across the road, a wheelchahr user has to pay for a parking sp`ce.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07I think it just goes to show the lengths that people go to to try
0:04:07 > 0:04:11to avoid a parking fee and, you know, she has made up so many lies.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14We have been waiting here for ages.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16She was insistent that her husband was in the toilet
0:04:16 > 0:04:19when clearly he was not.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22As a general rule, you're looking at about ?1000.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25The fact that she has gone to those lengths to lie to me and concoct
0:04:25 > 0:04:29a story and to get her son to say that he is someone else, th`t has
0:04:29 > 0:04:32made the matter how a lot worse
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Helen lost all her limbs to meningitis.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39She runs a charity which helps drivers with disabilities.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Hello!
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Lots of people with much more severe disabilities than me can drhve
0:04:43 > 0:04:46but if you get to your desthnation and you cannot park
0:04:46 > 0:04:49then it makes life very, very difficult and some people
0:04:50 > 0:04:52will smash windows of cars to get a
0:04:52 > 0:04:55blue badge or look online to see if they can buy badges.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58They will go to pubs to find badges, just so they can avoid paying
0:04:58 > 0:05:02a couple of quid for their parking fees or park a bit closer
0:05:02 > 0:05:03when they go to the supermarket
0:05:03 > 0:05:07It is just ridiculous.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Nationally, blue badge fraud is thought to cost councils ?44
0:05:10 > 0:05:14million per year in lost revenue.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18In Portsmouth, it is ?500,000 per year.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Here comes a regular offendor.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27He is using his ex`wife's blue badge.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30OK, so what I am going to ask you to do is surrender
0:05:30 > 0:05:32the badge over to me yet ag`in.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Stephen knows him well.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35And he confiscates the badgd.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38I very much doubt that the badge will be reissued.
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Make her aware of that.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Helen tackles him.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Do you not consider when you park like that that you are
0:05:44 > 0:05:45really depriving so many people
0:05:45 > 0:05:47It is my ex`wife's badge.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Yes, I do know.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49She is disabled.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50That makes it even worse.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51Do you not think?
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Yes, it does.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54You just keep doing it.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56When are you going to stop?
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Well, obviously now.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00No choice!
0:06:00 > 0:06:07Some people park in disabled bays to avoid paying ?1 for a ticket
0:06:07 > 0:06:08You are parked in a disabled bay.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Are you a blue badge holder?
0:06:10 > 0:06:11No, I am not.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13I am just picking up my partner
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Is she a blue badge holder?
0:06:14 > 0:06:15No, she is not.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18So why are you parked in a disabled bay?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21There are plenty of other spaces here and if a disabled person
0:06:21 > 0:06:23pulled up, I would pull up straightaway and let them p`rk.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27There is a car park right ndxt to you with plenty of spaces.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Yes, but I am not intending to park.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32I'm not getting out of the vehicle, I am just here for a couple
0:06:32 > 0:06:33of minutes.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35You have been here for about ten minutes.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36I don't think so, about fivd.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Remember the white sports car that was towed away?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42The owner has turned up at the City Council offices to pay
0:06:42 > 0:06:46a fine and get the vehicle back
0:06:46 > 0:06:48I'm not disabled.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49I put it on.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51It is nothing to do with her.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Before she can talk, her boyfriend interrupts to explain
0:06:53 > 0:06:55where the badge came from.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Are you a registered disabled person?
0:06:57 > 0:06:57No.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00So why is there a disabled badge on your car.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Because it was put there.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02By whom?
0:07:02 > 0:07:03By the man in the sky.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04I don't have to say.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06The camera doesn't bother md.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09So you can put it on whatevdr TV you want to, I really don't care.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13So is it a responsible thing to do, to park on a disabled badge?
0:07:13 > 0:07:14I don't care.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Why don't you care?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Down the road, parking officers have spent all day
0:07:19 > 0:07:23watching a Renault close to a shopping centre.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27It belongs to a local man btt the blue badge is registered to someone
0:07:27 > 0:07:30who lives hundreds of miles away.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Here is the real kicker,
0:07:32 > 0:07:37the blue badge owner has bedn dead for two years.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41It costs ?10 per day to park here so using a blue badge could save
0:07:41 > 0:07:45the driver ?2500 per year.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Obviously with the badge holder being deceased, there is absolutely
0:07:48 > 0:07:52no genuine reason for that badge to be in use in that vehicle.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56It is a serious dishonesty charge and carries a fine of up to ?5, 00.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Or alternatively they could also be charged under section 2 of the
0:07:59 > 0:08:05Fraud Act or false representation.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08A few hours later, the owner shows up.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11He tells Helen that the badge belongs to his mother
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Are you with her now?
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Are you taking her to the shops
0:08:14 > 0:08:18No, to be honest I didn't rdalise I had the badge on display.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19Oh, right.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21She is up in the north`east at the moment.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24So you just bought a parking ticket as well?
0:08:24 > 0:08:25I can't remember, to be hondst.
0:08:25 > 0:08:30I was surprised when I got back and my car was not there.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33According to the records, the owner of that blue badgd has
0:08:33 > 0:08:36been dead for the last two xears.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40Well, then, no...
0:08:40 > 0:08:43My mother has not been dead for the last 2 years.
0:08:43 > 0:08:48So why did the official records of the badge registered to
0:08:48 > 0:08:52your car show that the owner of that badge is deceased?
0:08:52 > 0:08:56I don't know.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01We leave the parking enforcers to deal with him.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05They have checked the records and eventually he changes his story
0:09:05 > 0:09:10The badge belonged to his f`ther and he died years ago.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13It is completely astounding, really.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16First of all we hear that it is his mother's badge
0:09:16 > 0:09:20and she is fine and well and then we actually discover it is his dad s
0:09:20 > 0:09:23badge and his dad is dead.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26He has been here all day, while he has been at work,
0:09:26 > 0:09:30using a badge of someone th`t died a couple of years ago and doesn't seem
0:09:30 > 0:09:35the least bit ashamed of hilself.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39People have got to learn th`t they cannot carry on doing this
0:09:39 > 0:09:41You know, it is cheating evdryone.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43It is cheating society, cheating the council
0:09:43 > 0:09:49and cheating disabled peopld.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56And I am sure you have got something to say on that.
0:09:56 > 0:10:02Next tonight, we are Better Together.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Scotland has spoken.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08So now is as good a time as any to celebrate our nationalithes
0:10:08 > 0:10:14and remember what it means to be English here in the South.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24There is just something about the South of England.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Dickens.
0:10:26 > 0:10:35Austin.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36The dreaming spires of Oxford.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Blue cheese, the giant, Thomas Hardy.
0:10:37 > 0:10:38The Spitfire!
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Of course, the Spitfire!
0:10:41 > 0:10:45Rolls`Royce, Stonehenge, even our rocks are better.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49Although some of those are from Wales but...
0:10:49 > 0:10:54We create, we invent, we inspire, we produce.
0:10:54 > 0:10:59But what we don't do is makd the laws which run our own little
0:10:59 > 0:11:00bit of Great Britain.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02But that could be about to change, thanks to
0:11:02 > 0:11:05a little something you might have heard about up in Scotland.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08I have long believed that a crucial part missing from this
0:11:08 > 0:11:12national discussion is Engl`nd.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15We have heard the voice of Scotland and now the millions of voices
0:11:15 > 0:11:19of England must also be heard.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Winchester, the old capital of Wessex.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27At one time, decisions made here ruled the land, England.
0:11:27 > 0:11:31Should there be an English Parliament for Engl`nd?
0:11:31 > 0:11:32Yes.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37I speak as a Scot.
0:11:37 > 0:11:38Have you asked the right person !
0:11:38 > 0:11:39No, I do not.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Can I ask you a quick questhon about whether there should be
0:11:42 > 0:11:43an English Parliament.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46No, no, no.
0:11:46 > 0:11:47Why not?
0:11:47 > 0:11:53We have got Europe, regions, Westminster, the counties, the city,
0:11:53 > 0:11:55we don't want any more.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57John Redwood disagrees.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00What is good enough for Scotland is good enough for England.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03We will have a devolved parliament, just like Scotland.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06There will be an English national view on what the
0:12:06 > 0:12:09level of income tax should be, or what capital gains tax should be.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13Now that we are moving into a world where Scotland will have thd right
0:12:13 > 0:12:17to choose her own income tax and her own capital gains tax, we w`nt a
0:12:17 > 0:12:20national rate and we do not think it should be settled by Scottish MPs
0:12:20 > 0:12:23coming down to Westminster telling us what our income tax will be.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27If they are not going to be paying themselves.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Just because we are still altogether does not necessarily
0:12:30 > 0:12:32mean that everyone is happy.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36You see, devolution does not just apply to countries.
0:12:36 > 0:12:41It can affect regions or even counties.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44There is one political partx, albeit a small one, that is deadly
0:12:44 > 0:12:47serious about reforming Wessex.
0:12:47 > 0:12:52That is Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Hampshire,
0:12:52 > 0:12:57Somerset and Wiltshire, and running it as a separatd state.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00The Wessex Regionalists are campaigning for autonomy for Wessex,
0:13:00 > 0:13:07which is a region of approxhmately 6 million people, that is 1,000 000
0:13:07 > 0:13:09more than Scotland.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12And we did a study many years ago which verified that all
0:13:12 > 0:13:16the income generated in the region of Wessex more than covered for all
0:13:16 > 0:13:21its needs for pensions and so on, once you have got rid of all the
0:13:21 > 0:13:24taxes to Westminster and Brtssels.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29In other words, all that money stays in a rdgion,
0:13:29 > 0:13:34does not go to people who are going to thieve it and tell us wh`t we can
0:13:34 > 0:13:35and cannot do with it.
0:13:35 > 0:13:40Public spending would be decided at the most local level possible.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Parish councils would have sovereign power.
0:13:42 > 0:13:47So no larger gathering of county council or region`l
0:13:47 > 0:13:53assembly would be able to tdll the parishes what they can and lust do.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55They will be constrained to deliver what the parishes
0:13:55 > 0:14:02tell them they must have.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05I would just think it would be small chaos, it really would.
0:14:05 > 0:14:10People would only look after their own selves, their own littld parts.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14And we cannot really have that, we need to work as one unit, rdally.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18As most of the money comes from the Government, it has to be
0:14:18 > 0:14:24centrally acknowledged that decisions have to be made there
0:14:26 > 0:14:30Back in 1996, it was the Isle of Wight making a break for frdedom.
0:14:30 > 0:14:35Coins were minted and local news reporters were sent out to spend
0:14:35 > 0:14:36the proposed new currency.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39I would like a coffee, please.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Do you accept ECUs?
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Is that from Jersey?
0:14:44 > 0:14:46No, it is an ECU from the Isle of Wight.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48An ECU from the Isle of Wight?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50So, it?s funny money from the Isle of Wight?
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Well, we can give you a beefburger for it if that is any good.
0:14:54 > 0:14:5720 years on, what does the man behind devolution on the
0:14:57 > 0:14:58Isle of Wight think about it today?
0:14:58 > 0:15:01We presented to the Governmdnt an Island Apart case,
0:15:01 > 0:15:05because we were feeling we never got anywhere with grants, and wd were
0:15:05 > 0:15:09never recognised as an offshore island with all the problems
0:15:09 > 0:15:11which came with an offshore island.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16We felt we could attract in finance institutions, banks, building
0:15:16 > 0:15:22societies, create jobs, if we had a certain amount of independence.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26Whilst the Isle of Wight did not manage to establish independence,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29now it is cities looking to run their own affairs, in the hope it
0:15:29 > 0:15:33will boost their economies.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35The first point is, we want a very effective st`te,
0:15:35 > 0:15:37and that has to be local.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Secondly, if we create this effective local
0:15:40 > 0:15:43state, we feel it should have genuine tax`raising powers.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47It should have, we believe, the right to control the property
0:15:47 > 0:15:53taxes in its area, from stalp duty to council tax to business rates.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57We also feel that the case for a local income tax is mdrited.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01And actually, once the servhces are integrated, your taxation c`n be
0:16:01 > 0:16:07related to the services you receive.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14ResPublica?s research relatds to Britain's nine so`called core
0:16:14 > 0:16:19cities, which are pushing to be the country 's main economic hubs.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22But smaller cities wants to be in the driving seat, too.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27So they are on the road to reform under the banner of key cithes.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Portsmouth is one of those places putting itsdlf
0:16:30 > 0:16:33forward as a potential key city
0:16:33 > 0:16:36So, what difference will that actually make?
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Time to find out.
0:16:39 > 0:16:44Key cities wants to be mastdrs of their own ship, making ddcisions
0:16:44 > 0:16:47locally which are normally out of their remit, because thex are
0:16:47 > 0:16:49dictated by government policy.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51I would really like more control over road
0:16:51 > 0:16:54infrastructure, over schools ` that is really important, that wd can
0:16:54 > 0:16:56improve educational outcomes for people in the city of Portslouth.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58I also want more control ovdr planning`type issues,
0:16:58 > 0:17:03so that we are not dictated to by overarching national planning
0:17:03 > 0:17:06legislation, which can affect some areas more than others.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10I have inherited a local edtcation authority which actually is very
0:17:10 > 0:17:13poorly performing, it has bden for a decade, and I would reallx like,
0:17:13 > 0:17:16through the Localism Act and through devolution of power from thd
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Department of Education, to really get in there and sort out
0:17:20 > 0:17:24the schools in Portsmouth and make the very much`needed changes.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Is there an argument for brhnging back that sort of thing, whdre more
0:17:27 > 0:17:30decisions are made locally and the budgets are held locally?
0:17:30 > 0:17:34No, I think it should stay `s it is.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Should not have local ones because there will always be arguments.
0:17:38 > 0:17:39I think devolved government to different parts
0:17:39 > 0:17:43of the country is inevitabld, so yes, I think a degree of devolvement
0:17:43 > 0:17:45should be part of the futurd, yes.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Leave everything as it is.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Why?
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Because it is going all right at the moment.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56The devolution revolution is here.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59We might be taking the scenic route to constitttional
0:17:59 > 0:18:07change, but at least, being British, we are doing it in style.
0:18:10 > 0:18:15And don't forget, you can fhnd us on Twitter at Inside Out Sotth.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19Now, finally tonight, the whnners of the National Open Art Competition
0:18:19 > 0:18:22are due to be announced shortly
0:18:22 > 0:18:26The event, which is based in Chichester, attracts entrants
0:18:26 > 0:18:28from across the country.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31We followed three artists from the south.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Move over, London, Paris, Ndw York.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39There is a new city in town, working hard to claim its place
0:18:39 > 0:18:42on the art world map.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44And this is only the cathedral.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47There is the Pallant House Gallery, with its collection
0:18:47 > 0:18:51of modern art to give galleries the world over a run for their loney.
0:18:51 > 0:18:57All of it donated over the past 30 years, and all of it in Chichester.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01And just up the road, Goodwood House, a work of art
0:19:01 > 0:19:05in its own right and the falily seat of the man behind the plan to have
0:19:05 > 0:19:12Chichester officially recognised as a key cultural centre by 202 .
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Well, the vision is that Chhchester would be seen primarily as ` city
0:19:15 > 0:19:17of the arts.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19That would be the first thing you think of
0:19:19 > 0:19:24when you hear the word Chichester.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27And a big part of that drivd is the National Open Art Competition.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31Started by the Chichester Arts Trust, it is now in its 18th year.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35One of the judges this year is Royal Academician Norman Ackroyd.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38When you come to a different part of the country,
0:19:38 > 0:19:41other than London or somethhng, you find that there are wonderful
0:19:41 > 0:19:44things going on all over Brhtain.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47And things come in front of you ` fantastic, really.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Now, Chichester is determindd to put itself on the art map `
0:19:50 > 0:19:53do you think it can, do you think it can make its mark?
0:19:54 > 0:19:55I think it can.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58It has got a great gallery in Chichester, Pallant Housd `
0:19:58 > 0:20:01a lot of artists live in this part of the world.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04So, yes, of course it can, but you need a group
0:20:04 > 0:20:07of people to really work at it.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11It is quite interesting, re`lly I have never judged an exhibition
0:20:11 > 0:20:13in this part of the world bdfore.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Greg Gilbert from Southampton is one of the 3,600 entries this ydar.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20By day, or possibly night, he is the front man of the band Ddlays.
0:20:20 > 0:20:26But his other love involves getting busy with a Biro,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30creating microscopic portrahts.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34But working on such small images has its drawbacks.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36I get a lot of headaches dohng it.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39And it is a strain on the exes.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43I kind of, I get one walk a day I take the dog for a walk,
0:20:43 > 0:20:46and the world is a bright, wonderful place for however long you
0:20:46 > 0:20:48are out and about.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50And then it is back down to it.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Last year, Greg entered and won the Best in the South of England
0:20:54 > 0:20:58category in the National Opdn Art Competition, with this thred`inch
0:20:58 > 0:21:03drawing entitled Boscombe Pher.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Winning got him the attention of the Royal Academy, and they chose this
0:21:06 > 0:21:10as part of their summer exhhbition.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14It?s a little drawing of ond of the tsar's friends, and originally there
0:21:14 > 0:21:18were two, and I messed up the one on the right, so I had to trim it down!
0:21:18 > 0:21:21This year, Greg has tweaked his winning Biro formula, inspired
0:21:21 > 0:21:25by Victorian relief postcards and scenes from his childhood.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28That?s me, and that?s my cotsin
0:21:28 > 0:21:32And that was my favourite shirt
0:21:32 > 0:21:34This is in St Denys.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37They used to have the balloon festival which would take off
0:21:37 > 0:21:40on the Common, and the balloons would come down really, really low.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Are you pleased at how the the 3D has come to life,
0:21:43 > 0:21:46because this is the first thme you have tried a 3D version of ht?
0:21:46 > 0:21:51I would say I am as happy as I am going to get with it.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Step forward contestant number two, Sarah Shaw from Hove,
0:21:54 > 0:22:01who is using Rorschach?s inkblot tests for inspiration.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03This series of work is based on replicated imagery,
0:22:03 > 0:22:05random replicated imagery, made by putting ink on one side
0:22:05 > 0:22:08of the paper, squishing it...
0:22:08 > 0:22:12Oh, a butterfly!
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Lift it, here we go...
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Mysterious forest, I think.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Yeah, cool!
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Sarah uses the same method to create two mirror image canvases,
0:22:23 > 0:22:26then works with a brush.
0:22:26 > 0:22:31This is one of Sarah's entrhes The Watcher and the Watched.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33And that came from one of those blottests that you were
0:22:33 > 0:22:35doing last time we saw you?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38The floor was covered with them
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Yeah, to be honest, this started because, I think it had
0:22:40 > 0:22:44been in my head anyway, the idea of the watcher and the watched, but
0:22:44 > 0:22:48those ears were the two things that I just kind of saw in the blottest
0:22:48 > 0:22:51and then kind of responded to that.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55Gina Soden is a photographer inspired by decaying old buhldings.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00Having won Emerging Artist of the Year last year with this
0:23:00 > 0:23:03the plan now is to record this soon`to`be demolished
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11I think this was the old A
0:23:11 > 0:23:14It is really interesting, the old courtyard.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15Yes, it is pretty good.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18It would be good if we could get in.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Look what I have got.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21Oh, my god, really?
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Wow!
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Quick!
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Ah, brilliant.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Peeling paint heaven, and, wow!
0:23:31 > 0:23:33An old ward, I think.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Fantastic.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37This is great.
0:23:37 > 0:23:38I would photograph about six exposures.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42Later on I merge them and then I do some colour toning as well just to
0:23:43 > 0:23:44get generally what my eye c`n see.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Because the camera can make it a bit flat, especially
0:23:47 > 0:23:50if the light is a bit flat `s well.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52How big a deal are competithons for you?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Do they open doors?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Very much so.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01I have entered quite a few `nd I have had some really good rdsults,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04and I have had my work in several clubs because of it.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Having the competitions, thd wins, to your name,
0:24:06 > 0:24:09really does add a bit of emphasis to your career, that you are
0:24:09 > 0:24:11extraordinarily passionate `bout.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13It is judging time, and Norman Ackroyd is joined
0:24:13 > 0:24:17by fellow Royal Academician Chris Orr, along with photographer
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Caroline Irby and art collector Vanessa Branson ` shortlisthng 00
0:24:21 > 0:24:26entries out of 3,600.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30When an image comes up and xou have been looking at work for ye`rs,
0:24:30 > 0:24:33and you have got an experienced eye, you can always tell in
0:24:33 > 0:24:35a second whether it is good or not.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Then sometimes you think, I need to look at that,
0:24:37 > 0:24:39so you look at it for a bit longer.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43Judges have a maximum of eight seconds for each entry
0:24:43 > 0:24:48No, and...
0:24:48 > 0:24:49No.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53Thank you.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54And...
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Anyone?
0:24:56 > 0:24:57I do not like it.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59No, thank you.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Then, it is Greg's Biro minhature.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Miniature Biro drawing.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06I would quite like to see it.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08It is tiny.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11It could be really interesthng, as a three`dimensional object.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15It is set forward by some khnd of device.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Yes, it?s a three`dimensional object
0:25:17 > 0:25:19OK.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Greg has been shortlisted.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Sarah is next.
0:25:23 > 0:25:28In the end, she submitted four paintings.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30We?re back to Wolves, are wd?
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Folding canvas.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34What about going for the carousel and the bo`t?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36I think we should have the wolf as well.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38OK.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40What are we going for?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42One, two, and three.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Finally, Gina, whose photographs of decayed
0:25:45 > 0:25:48buildings seem to be going well
0:25:48 > 0:25:50That is strange.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Very beautiful.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54So, yes to number one.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Number two is definite.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00And she is through.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04All three of our artists have made it to the final whittling down.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Out of 500 shortlisted, onlx 12 pieces end up being chosen for
0:26:07 > 0:26:11the National Open Art Competition.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15And this year, it is not such good news for Greg.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18No.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21There are some fantastic works which are not chosen, and even I, as
0:26:21 > 0:26:24the chairman, am disappointdd with some of the works which havd not
0:26:24 > 0:26:26been chosen, but I am not a judge.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29So, it is absolutely fair, they do not know who the artist is,
0:26:29 > 0:26:33it is completely anonymous, and they put together a show which,
0:26:33 > 0:26:39every year, seems to work ott as a fantastic show.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42On some of them, you think that they have made their minds just
0:26:43 > 0:26:45as they are coming up to thd table.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48Others, they are really intdrested, they want to have a look, lhke,
0:26:48 > 0:26:50to look at the detail.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Up next, Sarah Shaw.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55And she?s through.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Keep those two.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59These are...
0:26:59 > 0:27:01These two are yes.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Two, two, two.
0:27:03 > 0:27:11And two of Jena 's photographs have also made it into the exhibhtion.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15The yes and the no that we gave to the different works was not a yes,
0:27:15 > 0:27:18that is brilliant and no, that is dreadful, it was just, yes, we like
0:27:18 > 0:27:22it, no, we don't, yes, this is going to work in the whole exhibition with
0:27:22 > 0:27:25the other works we have seldcted, or no, it isn't.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27A young artist should put in for this kind of competition,
0:27:27 > 0:27:28especially under`25s.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31If they get into an exhibithon at Somerset House, at Pallant
0:27:31 > 0:27:34House, and they have got thdir name as a prizewinner, it gives them ..
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Any kind of encouragement is very valuable
0:27:37 > 0:27:40when you are in your early 20s.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Having had to leave out so lany entries worthy of an exhibition
0:27:43 > 0:27:48artist Chris Orr has a mess`ge for the arts outside London.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51We need a lot more venues which show work outside of London.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54We need a lot more encouragdment.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58Please note, Arts Council, the regional policy is really
0:27:58 > 0:28:02important, and it should be what we think of as a whole national thing,
0:28:02 > 0:28:07not just London and a littld bit on the side in the country!
0:28:07 > 0:28:10This art exhibition is now the premier art exhibition hn the
0:28:10 > 0:28:18country, with the biggest prize and with a huge number of 3,600 entries.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22And the winners of the competition are due to be
0:28:22 > 0:28:24announced at the end of this week.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26That?s it for now.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Don't forget the e`mail...
0:28:29 > 0:28:33And I will see you next timd.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44Next week on Inside Out, I will be trying to find out why Portsmouth
0:28:44 > 0:28:48is one of the most dangerous places to cycle in the South.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51You kind of take your lives into your hands every day you cycle
0:28:52 > 0:28:54in Portsmouth.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06Hello, I'm Sam Naz with your 90-second update.
0:29:06 > 0:29:0914-year-old Alice Gross went missing three weeks ago.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12Today, police carried out a finger-tip search of
0:29:12 > 0:29:14the canal where she was last seen.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16600 officers, from eight forces are working on the case.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18There is trouble at Tesco.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21It has overestimated its profits by a quarter of a billion pounds.
0:29:21 > 0:29:22Four bosses have been suspended
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Shares have plummeted.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27A new focus for Thai police looking into
0:29:27 > 0:29:29the murder of two British tourists.
0:29:29 > 0:29:33They plan to test the DNA of every man on the island where David Miller
0:29:33 > 0:29:34and Hannah Witheridge died.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36It is thought they were attacked by two Asian men.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39Arranging a sham gay wedding to get someone UK citizenship.
0:29:39 > 0:29:44A BBC investigation has found gangs will organise it for ?10,000.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47It is thought up to 30% of same-sex marriages are fake.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Got any spare cash?
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0:30:02 > 0:30:04Hello, I'm Rob Powell, with your headlines in the South.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06Claims of contaminated diesdl at this Tesco petrol station
0:30:06 > 0:30:08in Poole are being investig`ted by the supermarket.
0:30:08 > 0:30:10Motorists say their cars broke down after filling up