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They're so good at getting their hands on our cash,

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It's this sense of urgency that's really trying

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We uncover the mind games the conmen play.

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I put in $50,000 and that's all gone.

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The number of cyclists you see at night with no light is qtite

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We shine the spotlight on the cyclists taking a ch`nce

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You wouldn't jump in your c`r at night without lights on,

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so why would you get on your bike and do it?

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It's dark, you have no lights on your bicycle.

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This is Inside Out for the South of England.

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First, here on Inside out we have told you how people

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across the South have been ripped off by cons which have cost them

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We all like to think it wouldn't happen to but we show you how

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it might, as we reveal the lind games used by scammers

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to try to get their hands on your cash.

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She's 91 and lives alone in a warden-assisted

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Yvonne and her husband Ron larried 60 years ago.

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But then, like the flick of a switch, when Ron died,

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the scam mail started to potr through Yvonne's door.

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Well, I just used to look at them for the simple reason,

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I couldn't go out, I didn't have a car, I didn't have mx husband

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and I just couldn't do things, so I just answered the lettdrs.

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And they all say, oh you've definitely won this and you've got

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this that and the other but at the same time

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So at its worst, it was how many letters?

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I counted them and I used to get 40 letters every day.

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Six days a week, that's 240 letters a week.

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If you say I spent ?500 a month for 12 months of every year

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I would say I probably spent ?30,000.

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Well, if Ron had been here ht would never have happened.

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Dr Emma Williams is a psychologist leading research into

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She believes the best way to make sure we're not taken in

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is to understand why we might respond to them the way we do.

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They give people a sense of routine and they can replace somethhng

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that's effectively been lost for an individual.

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Slowly pulling someone in to actually responding.

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So we wait for the mail, put the cheques in, fill out

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They're all creating another way someone to kind of converse again

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And they prey on elderly people like me.

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In the Neuroscience Departmdnt at the University of Reading

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they can explain why Yvonne might've been taken in.

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This is the almitra in your brain.

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If the almitra detects the threatening information,

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they can process that and then realise that this could be ` scam.

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Trouble is, as we age, part of the prefrontal cortdx

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overrides that crucial area of the brain giving us warning signs.

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As you get older they tend to process positive information

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more intensively and ignore negative information.

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So the way the brain works changes

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There might be some potenti`l threatening information

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within the scenario, however they tend to ignore these

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threatening elements and just focus on something rosy and posithve.

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But with ever more sophisticated scams, any of us could be t`ken in.

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So when do you need it by ? this week?

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Initially he'd written to tdll this Sussex woman she'd inherited

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Over the last five months, with him posing as a bank m`nager

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and another man posing as a Hong Kong solicitor,

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they have scammed Sandra out of her entire life savings.

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When we panic, the types of processing we engage in leans

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that we rely on these more kind of...

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They're mental short cuts that are going on in the brain that allow

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us to make quick decisions when we're uncertain

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about something, when we're under pressure.

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So far, Sandra's paid ?12,000 in legal fees.

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?34,000 in death duties and ?13 000 to the fictional

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Now the scammers are saying they'll stump up $40,000

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to unlock the inheritance if Sandra matches that.

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With the inheritance scam and this particular example of it,

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we've seen a lot of reciprocity being used as well and that's

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relying on this social obligation we feel that we've been brotght up

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with as we've grown up that we really have to kind of repay

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gifts or favours that are ghven to us, so it's the same thing.

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"I'm helping you, you now nded to help me."

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I used my own savings but now I will be in debt.

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You need to promise me that the money will be

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But Sandra doesn't have any savings left.

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So one of the scammers is pressing her to borrow money

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Yeah, about a week, two weeks something like that.

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Thankfully, Sandra now knows she's being duped and is stringing

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the scammers along after we showed her evidence proving

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Jai the bank manager's passport had been faked.

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I really kind felt like a lhttle bit betrayed because I though J`i

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was someone that I spoke to a lot and funnily enough,

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Also the scammers had taken the real website of a proper Hong Kong

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law firm, changing only the name and contact details

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I mean, that was one of the reasons why I had faith in this as well

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Like, surely fake solicitor websites are illegal?

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I mean, really, you should `lways get a second opinion

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The bank accounts that Sandra was conned into sending ?59,000 to

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So, we asked the BBC's correspondent there, Julian` Liu,

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to check out the real and the fake websites to see what

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Cheung Wong solicitors is the fake firm who rang and emailed

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So Juliana went to their office for us.

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This is the address of the solicitor Henry Cheung.

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But as you can see, it's actually the back office

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We're doing a story about a woman in the UK that has been scalmed

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But they said they knew their website had been stoldn.

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Ironically they specialise in intellectual property law.

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It took a few months but thd fake website is no longer active.

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But as one scam is shutting down, plenty of others

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To beat the scammers, really one of the things

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we definitely need to start doing is feeling able to report scams

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to other people, to the agencies, to anybody who needs to know about it.

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Because unfortunately we still have an awful lot of stigma

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associated with scams and even the term "scam" can bring up a lot

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of associations and connotations that people have been outwitted

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or outsmarted and to a cert`in degree maybe it's their own fault

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for falling victim and that's completely not the case.

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But definitely question things if you don't know where thex've come

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If things seem too good to be true, which I know is becoming quhte

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an adage now and it's hard to see exactly what that means,

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but it's really taking a stdp back and taking the time so that

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you don't rely on these automatic mental short cuts that we h`ve

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to assume that it's truthful, that we should be responding.

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If there's any pressure, it's probably not a good

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idea at all to respond to something straightaway.

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You don't realise you're being persuaded but you are.

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Yvonne will never get her ?30,000 back and Sandra -

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well, she's still ?59,000 out of pocket.

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And maybe, I suppose I'm very impressionable.

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But yeah, I felt it was foolproof while I was in it.

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And of course we'll continud our work exposing scammers who rip off

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Last year we brought you thd story of the Bournemouth-based

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phone company ripping off its customers.

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I paid for something which was no good and I was never able to use.

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The Telecom Protection Servhce was selling cold call

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blocking gadgets for 80 quid which didn't actually work.

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What you write on your website is wrong.

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That's the owner, who as well as previously being fined ?80,000

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by the Information Commissioner s office, was in court last wdek.

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The court heard how he had turned over nearly 1 million quid

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He was found guilty of two counts of fraudulent trading and hd's

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He was sentenced today to fhve years in prison.

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There's also an update on the no-show coach

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You owe them thousands of pounds and all you do

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The Traffic Commissioner's office has shut the door on Ricky Pal,

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Furious customers across thd South are unlikely to ever get a refund

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due to his massive debts, but today the code regulator

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Ricky is no longer able to operate a coach company as he has bden

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If I'm living in this space, what's it got to do with yot

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He's the owner of Winters Copse on the Isle of Wight and he ruffled

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a few feathers with his unipue approach to woodland managelent

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If they want to come around here and be friendly and sax hello,

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is it all right if I take the dog for a walk, then

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More than a year after servhng an enforcement notice,

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Isle of Wight Council finally took him to court.

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Mr Kirk was fined ?660 plus costs for failure to comply

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I know it doesn't look tidy but then again creative people

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Still to come, Juliette Sargent explores the gardens lovingly

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created by her horticultural heroines.

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Next, the clocks went back an hour at the weekend,

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meaning the nights are really drawing in, but how many tiles

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recently have you seen a cyclist on the road at night

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At Portsmouth's first ever glo-ride event

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I see it every day, I run every morning and I see people

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As a car driver you need people on a bike to have lights.

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They're running a risk in not having lights on.

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It's best to have lights so you can see them and you don't crash.

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Portsmouth has the highest casualty rate for cyclists outside London.

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At this time of year 55% of those happen after dark.

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You can't say these cyclists are hard to spot but if onlx

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A couple of nights later and the only flashing

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You don't have to say anythhng but anything you do say may

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Safety advice before sunset - and a 50 quid fine

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You're on a bike and you're not going to be very visible.

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I normally do but they brokd and normally when I get

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out of work it's light but I stayed late tonight.

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Between sunset and sunrise you should have your lights on.

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Why are you not riding with lights on?

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I will issue you a ticket for ? 0 but if you go and buy new lhghts

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in 28 days and prove they are fitted, we will not prosecute.

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Now of course, this is the point where all the cyclists are shouting

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at their screens that at this time of year

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the real problem is cars without their headlights

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Yes, that is an issue and it is illegal.

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But if you don't have lights in the first place

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You've got to go to the shop and buy some lights.

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You wouldn't jump in your c`r at night, turn the engine

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on and drive round the stredts without your lights on.

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They think because they can see other people, other people can see

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Most bikes sold in Germany and France come fitted with lights.

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Why don't bikes come with lhghts in this country?

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Why don't your bikes come with lights?

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Why don't bikes come with lights as standard?

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Few manufacturers want to p`ss on any additional expense

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But there is one French company which supplies all its UK

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They say the additional cost is about a quid.

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But as our roads get busier there's talk in the cycle industry

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of the need for lights even during the daytime.

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I think cyclists should be `s bright as possible at any time of day.

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When you're cycling along you have shade or bright lights,

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it can be quite blinding and you have a shade or tree cover.

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When that happens, if you are all wearing dark you could disappear

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into the background and limht your possibility of being seen.

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The consequences of motorists not seeing cyclists ? day or night

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On the way home from Portsmouth where he was in student digs,

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Sunny day, January, dry roads, good visibility and the driver

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behind the car that hit him saw him clearly.

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Will Houghton was only 20 when he died,

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knocked off his bike in Jantary this year near Wickham in Hampshhre.

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We don't want anybody to lose a child.

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But you've got a combination of factors.

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You've got more cyclists, which on the whole society

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You've got a trend for dark clothing, in cycling more

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I think there's a chance for all of us to think more

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about what we can do to be seen better.

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It doesn't really matter what the conditions are,

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As drivers we may think we are cocooned, but there `re other

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road users out there, pedestrians and cyclists.

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Will's family are now working with industry consultants

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to explore ways of making cyclists more visible.

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There are lights in the saddle posts, lights in pedals,

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lights attached to your rucksack so a range of kit out there,

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but the problem is you have to make it more affordable but also

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culturally acceptable and the norm for those to be used.

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Nearly a quarter of the cyclists stopped here by police

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All were given a temporary set to get them home.

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The consequences of not doing it are very big.

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But until attitudes change, both motorists and cyclists -

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there'll always be some willing to take a chance.

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Now, we'd love to hear your thoughts on that story,

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whether you are a motorist or cyclist, drop me an e-mahl.

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Now, it's 300 years since the birth of Britain's most famous

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landscape architect, Capability Brown.

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A good time for us to celebrate some of the lesser known women g`rdeners

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Juliet Sargeant goes in search of these gardening pioneers

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I'm a landscape designer but also a teacher.

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And today my classroom is a grade one listed garden,

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Opened by special request for these horticultural students from just

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You've got the surrounding lature trees, so that the upper level

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but then smaller trees and shrubs going down to the perennials,

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then when you're looking at flowers, don't just be seduced by thd colour,

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This is your chance to gathdr information you can keep for future

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reference but also use next week when we work together.

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As a gardener myself, I find this a magical place.

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And it was the home of one of England's most influenti`l garden

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Gertrude Jekyll started deshgning gardens in the late 19th century

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and the house was designed by the famous architect

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The tenants had heard nothing of Gertrude Jekyll so neither had we.

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I love sitting in the garden, I don't do gardening.

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Luckily head gardener Annabdl Watts does, and she's following some

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old planting plans to revivd Gertrude Jekyll's original designs.

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Do you try to stick to her vision of the garden?

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For instance I can't have phnk foxgloves in the garden.

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We've got just white ones here and the only

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way to keep them full of these flowers is to remove

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all the pink ones and you h`ve to be quite ruthless with that.

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This has caught my eye and we need to remove it.

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People are horrified when I do this but it needs to be done.

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I wonder what my students are making of Annabelle's no messing policy

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It's interesting how she usdd her colour palette, she has these dots

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of colours but it's never overtaking the green,

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It's a privilege to come here, it's lovely planting and thd way

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the team are working on restoring what she wanted this place

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Gertrude Jekyll sowed the sded for women in horticulture

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to be taken seriously, which was a very good thing

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because at Waterperry in Oxfordshire, Beatrix Havdrgal

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Beatrix Havergal followed Gertrude Jekyll.

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She trained originally at Thatcham ladies college and came

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to Waterperry in 1932 to st`rt a school of horticulture for women.

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Miss Havergal had a formidable reputation.

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She was scary because she dhd believe strongly and passionately

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in what she was doing and the good for people

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You could see in her eyes, she was a kind lady.

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There are many stories of Miss Havergal and sometiles

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you feel a bit sad as they seem on the harsh side.

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One of those stories involvds children's favourite,

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He lived just a few miles away in Great Missenden.

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Famously, of course, writing in the shed

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I think he was quite taken `back by her and how passionate she was.

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Legend here has it he once sought some advice from Beatrix Havergal

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on what to do with that famous garden.

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Some people have linked her to one of Roald Dahl's characters.

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Even Roald Dahl says he took his characters

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Eventually, after a little nudge, Rob reveals the character who just

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might have been inspired by Beatrix Havergal.

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But one young woman very happy to be a pupil of Miss Havergal's

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was Mary Spiller, who came to Waterperry in 1942.

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When you were leaving school at 18 you had three choices -

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a secretary, a teacher or a nurse and I didn't want any of those.

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And an outdoor life was defhnitely what Mary her fellow students got.

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We felt we were pioneers in pushing women forward.

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This was Miss Havergal's desire that women should be recognised.

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And Mary was recognised, becoming the first ever wom`n

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Well, we've had a really terrible winter but not

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We have some gorgeous pussy willows here, making us think

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Mary worked here at Waterperry for 50 years, spending 15 of them

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Following in her footsteps now is a local girl

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One of the main features tended to by head gardener Pat Havdrs

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hasn't just stood the test of time - it's positively blossomed.

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The thing I'm most proud of here is the herbaceous border.

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It's such a beautiful border and trying to keep it flowering

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from April to October is quite a challenge.

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We do still do some of the tasks miss this have goal would h`ve

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Staking with hazel, tying up the delphiniums,

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the planting is pretty much the same.

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If you did staking, Mrs Havergal would come

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and if there was an elbow, a part sticking out,

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she'd pull it out and throw it on the path so you knew

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Mary Spiller was by no means the only Oxfordshire student

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to go on and make her mark in horticultural history.

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And here, in this grand house where the Waterperry girls lived,

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I've managed to persuade Pat and Rob to dust it down

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I'm hoping it'll tell me a bit more about life here and how the role

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of women was changing in those war and post-war years.

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Horticultural training school for women.

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This looks like a real treasure trove.

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Every time we look at this there's something new.

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That's a picture of me taken by Valerie Finnis.

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So, who have we got in the middle here?

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Valerie Finnis is another of my gardening heroes.

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In her younger days at Waterperry, she wouldn't just grow and pack

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the strawberries bound for Oxford's covered market -

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she'd drive the truck there and back.

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She was also an accomplished photographer,

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though this one, of course, is of her in her latter years,

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Possibly the most famous gr`duates of Waterperry, though,

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are Pam Schwert and Sybil Kreutsberger.

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That's Sybil and that's Pam from Sissinghurst,

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known as the Sissinghurst ghrls and in my opinion the best

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gardeners of the last half of the last century.

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Box after box is revealing ` hidden history of what went on

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at Waterperry horticultural training school for women.

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A mini agricultural revolution, if you like.

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So many famous names who learnt their trade

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here in Oxfordshire and went on to shape the gardens of Dngland.

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And, it seems, once a gardener, always a gardener.

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You want to have your summer house up here cos you don't

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want to be just sitting at a yew hedge...

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You want to have it up here, so you're looking at the view.

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When are you coming back, then, Mary?

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That's it for now and also from the series.

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Keep in touch at InsideOutSouth and see you in the New Year.

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You can join in the convers`tion about tonight's show on Twitter

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We are already filming for the new series.

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We are back on your screens on January 16th 2016 with plenty

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We are back on your screens on January 16th 2017 with plenty

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more stories from across thd South so I will see you then.

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Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90-second update.

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There'll be no public inquiry into police tactics at the Battle

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of Orgreave during the miners' strike in 1984.

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Ministers say it's because there were no deaths or

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Tomasz Kroker was looking at his mobile phone when his lorry

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careered into four cars in stationary traffic

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