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Welcome. Here is what is happening tonight. Alvin Hall reveals the | 0:00:01 | 0:00:09 | |
full cost of a university education. �75,000. We need the Oxford | 0:00:09 | 0:00:13 | |
brothers still determined to go whatever the cost. It will be hard | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
to raise that money. Hopefully I will get a job that pays off the | 0:00:17 | 0:00:23 | |
dead. If you are passionate you'll do anything for it. Bringing | 0:00:23 | 0:00:28 | |
foreign wildlife into your home. These are not cuddly, they can be, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:34 | |
but on their terms. What price the latest exotic pets? It is an | 0:00:34 | 0:00:44 | |
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accident waiting to happen. Welcome First, you do not need a degree in | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
economics to work out that going to university is going to get more | 0:01:02 | 0:01:07 | |
expensive. What are the new costs in real terms? Is there a way to | 0:01:07 | 0:01:13 | |
avoid them? Albert Hall has been crunching the numbers. -- Alvin | 0:01:13 | 0:01:19 | |
Hall. Young, confused and afraid. This is what thousands of teenagers | 0:01:19 | 0:01:25 | |
in England fear. A lifetime on the run. What is chasing them? Student | 0:01:25 | 0:01:33 | |
debt. Is it really going to beat the horror-movie we have been led | 0:01:33 | 0:01:38 | |
to believe? Whether you think the height in fees is fair or not, it | 0:01:39 | 0:01:46 | |
is happening. Young people need to know what that fact. I will show | 0:01:46 | 0:01:52 | |
you what the degree will cost and how to avoid the fees. Next year, | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
at English universities will charge up to �9,000 per year. With living | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
costs on top, graduates can face debts of up to �50,000. How much | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
will they actually end up paying back? I have come to meet some | 0:02:07 | 0:02:13 | |
sixth-formers in Birmingham to show them. I think the number will shock | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
them. Earning interest whilst paying back alone is a number | 0:02:18 | 0:02:24 | |
people do not think about. If you graduate with �50,000 worth of debt | 0:02:24 | 0:02:33 | |
and you get a high-paying job, how much of that money do you have to | 0:02:33 | 0:02:41 | |
pay back? I am not sure, is it all that? It is all dead and more. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:51 | |
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Interest. You are right to be scared. �75,000. His back just for | 0:02:57 | 0:03:04 | |
one person? -- is that for one person. Is it for the average | 0:03:04 | 0:03:13 | |
degree? It is, if you take and the maximum loan. What if they are | 0:03:13 | 0:03:23 | |
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couriers do not go as planned? amount you paid back is zero. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:32 | |
their careers. What is going on? The repayment of the loan works | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
like taxes. If you never earn above a certain amount then you never | 0:03:36 | 0:03:43 | |
paid back a penny. The new independent task force on student | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
finance is led by Martyn Lewis. biggest confusion night there is | 0:03:47 | 0:03:56 | |
the price tag, �50,000, with the actual cost. This is a very | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
different type of system. Many people will not come close to be | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
paying in full what they borrowed. Some will not pay back anything at | 0:04:04 | 0:04:10 | |
all. We are putting people off going university because they are | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
looking at the price tag and not the cost is Bass -- is very bad. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:21 | |
Most people will face debt, so is there a way avoiding fees? Yes, you | 0:04:21 | 0:04:28 | |
can study abroad. At this they are in London, teenagers discovered how | 0:04:28 | 0:04:34 | |
much they can say. Everybody would rather go to university and pay | 0:04:34 | 0:04:42 | |
less. It is cheaper, that is attractive. In fact, dozens of | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
universities across Europe offer courses not in English. The fees | 0:04:46 | 0:04:52 | |
differ from country to country, but in Scandinavia tuition his fee. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:59 | |
Denmark we have no tuition fees at all because the Danish government | 0:04:59 | 0:05:08 | |
pays for Danish and EU students. This student has already taken the | 0:05:08 | 0:05:17 | |
plunge, and is off back to university in Slovakia. Over there, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:23 | |
she saves a fortune on living costs, spending just �100 per month. I | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
caught up with her by a web cam. What advice would you give to | 0:05:28 | 0:05:34 | |
anybody considering what you have done? If you are considering it you | 0:05:34 | 0:05:42 | |
should go for it. It is worth doing. You have to be brave, but I have | 0:05:42 | 0:05:52 | |
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never looked back. It is great. Time is up. I want my money. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:05 | |
Studying overseas may be one way to avoid the debt. But there are down | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
sides. If you study abroad, the government here will not make you a | 0:06:10 | 0:06:15 | |
loan. Only some of the courses are taught in English. Some employers | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
might not recognise foreign degrees, so you must do your homework. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:27 | |
Another way of beating the fees is getting someone else to pay. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
London's financial heartland is a good place to look. Do not be | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
fooled by the suits. Believe it or not, these youngsters are all | 0:06:35 | 0:06:41 | |
freshers. They are sponsored by an accountancy firm. The entire | 0:06:41 | 0:06:49 | |
package was a degree, salary, tuition fees were paid, and a job | 0:06:49 | 0:06:55 | |
at the end. You were helped to become a qualified and chartered | 0:06:55 | 0:07:02 | |
accountant. Is there a catch? is not a catch, I do not think so. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:10 | |
You must work hard, if you want, that is the catch. The man who runs | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
the programme tells me they do not offer the stereotypical student | 0:07:14 | 0:07:19 | |
experience. This is an extremely intensive programme, they have to | 0:07:19 | 0:07:25 | |
work for us, study for their degree, and obtain their qualification in | 0:07:25 | 0:07:32 | |
six years. That will require hard work. That is all we require. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
there are bursaries. Students from low-income families can get money | 0:07:37 | 0:07:44 | |
from various sources. It is worth trawling the Web. Is there another | 0:07:44 | 0:07:51 | |
way of avoiding the dead? -- avoiding the deficit? You can pay | 0:07:51 | 0:07:58 | |
up front. This girl is trying to do just that. As well as studying for | 0:07:59 | 0:08:04 | |
her A-levels, she sells beauty products on her website. I set up | 0:08:04 | 0:08:11 | |
my business to save up for university. My parents said it | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
would be too much for them to pay, and I hope to avoid not getting in | 0:08:16 | 0:08:23 | |
debt because I know it takes a long while to get out of it. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
government allows students to pay upfront but most will have to take | 0:08:26 | 0:08:33 | |
out a loan. One financial expert believes graduates could end up | 0:08:33 | 0:08:41 | |
paying far more than anyone has predicted. This financial | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
journalist warns students to be wary. The problem is the deal is | 0:08:46 | 0:08:56 | |
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not the deal. There are all these numbers flying about about payments | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
starting at �21,000, percentages, but none of those are in the | 0:09:00 | 0:09:07 | |
contract. In fact, the Government can change those numbers if it | 0:09:07 | 0:09:13 | |
wants to in five years or 10 years. Students could end up paying a lot | 0:09:13 | 0:09:21 | |
more. Any big changes would have to be approved by Parliament. Like | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
many Americans, I graduated with the equivalent of tens of thousands | 0:09:25 | 0:09:29 | |
of pounds worth of deficit. It was daunting, but if you know the facts, | 0:09:29 | 0:09:37 | |
student debt does not have to be scary. I confronted it and so can | 0:09:37 | 0:09:46 | |
you. Despite the worrying predictions, a | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
survey commissioned by asked shows that only 10 % of sixth-formers are | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
now worried about going on to university. The vast majority of | 0:09:55 | 0:10:00 | |
people are quite happy to leave home and eat cold baked beans. Once | 0:10:00 | 0:10:06 | |
they get there, how do they know they get value for money? I always | 0:10:06 | 0:10:14 | |
lock the door. Mary is doing A- levels in Winchester but hopes to | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
go to university. Her three-year degree course in journalism will | 0:10:17 | 0:10:23 | |
leave her with tuition fees of �27,000. She needs to be sure she | 0:10:23 | 0:10:28 | |
is making the right choice. In the beginning and looked at all the | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
prospectuses I could, got the feeling for many universities, and | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
look at the ones that did journalism courses, look at how | 0:10:36 | 0:10:41 | |
they were positioned in surveys, student satisfaction. Is it all | 0:10:41 | 0:10:49 | |
about league tables? Not completely, but you can tell, sometimes there | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
is a percentage of high many students get jobs when they come | 0:10:52 | 0:10:57 | |
out of university. The whole point of university is getting a | 0:10:57 | 0:11:04 | |
successful career. Today, she and sizes of others -- she and | 0:11:04 | 0:11:13 | |
thousands of others are checking out Bournemouth University. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:19 | |
Bournemouth will charge just over �8,000 for most courses. Mary's | 0:11:19 | 0:11:28 | |
degree will be the full 9,000. -- �9,000. At first it made me not | 0:11:28 | 0:11:33 | |
want to go to university but I have to go for it. I will pay off | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
eventually. Despite the horrible cost, I will get a degree and a | 0:11:37 | 0:11:42 | |
good job. One of the most important questions is you have to ask | 0:11:42 | 0:11:47 | |
yourself what you will earn over the course of a career, in | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
comparison to whether I go to university or not. The other thing | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
is to think about the benefits of university that are not just | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
financial. The networking, the opportunities to do things not | 0:11:58 | 0:12:04 | |
available to others. What is your favourite part about being here? | 0:12:04 | 0:12:11 | |
The beach is the best bit. The nearest beach for me used to be a | 0:12:11 | 0:12:17 | |
small one, so being able to go down the beach is really nice. Is it a | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
worry that she will potentially come out with a huge amount of | 0:12:21 | 0:12:28 | |
debt? It will always be in the back of my mind. If I could pay it back | 0:12:28 | 0:12:38 | |
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for her, we would try to do that. But if you have not paid for it in | 0:12:39 | 0:12:47 | |
30 years, it is written off. Like Mary, these three brothers from | 0:12:47 | 0:12:54 | |
Oxford who came from Somalia at as asylum seekers six years ago, all | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
want to go to university. If they do between them they will rack up | 0:12:58 | 0:13:08 | |
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I do not come from a wealthy background. It would be hard for me | 0:13:11 | 0:13:18 | |
to raise the money. It's a lot of money but it would help to get a | 0:13:18 | 0:13:24 | |
better job to pay off the debt and feed a family. It is value-for- | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
money if you know that is what you want to do, if you're passionate | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
about it and you would be willing to do anything. They are students | 0:13:32 | 0:13:38 | |
in Oxford and are determined to make it to university. If you try | 0:13:38 | 0:13:44 | |
your best there is hope, rather than not going to uni and being | 0:13:44 | 0:13:51 | |
useless. Going to you me, isn't it about being able to pick up those | 0:13:51 | 0:13:59 | |
qualities you need to pursue a job as well as from ships. Living in | 0:13:59 | 0:14:05 | |
Oxford, the boys have to universities on their doorstep. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:11 | |
Oxford Brookes and another with a slightly more global reputation. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:16 | |
Oxford University is ranked in the world's top 10, former students | 0:14:16 | 0:14:22 | |
include 26 prime ministers, Nobel Prize winners, six Kingers, 12 | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
Saints and possibly a partridge in a pear tree. With their reputation, | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
it is not surprising it attracts the best students with the best A- | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
level grades. As the oldest university in the English-speaking | 0:14:35 | 0:14:40 | |
world, it has had time to get it right. They have been teaching for | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
nearly 800 years. What makes a box that stand out is the use of | 0:14:45 | 0:14:51 | |
tutorials as the bedrock of teaching. One of two students meet | 0:14:51 | 0:14:56 | |
with an expert in their field but for the overall comparison to find | 0:14:56 | 0:15:01 | |
out how Oxford fares, you meet league tables. Let's look at a | 0:15:01 | 0:15:07 | |
random league table. One produced by the Telegraph for English. The | 0:15:07 | 0:15:13 | |
figures to look at, the student and staff ratio, 12-1, it varies across | 0:15:13 | 0:15:19 | |
the south, 22-1. Another interesting figure is the spend per | 0:15:19 | 0:15:27 | |
student, Oxford at over 7,000, the others around a half or two-thirds. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:34 | |
I would say to come and look around and speak to students, you can only | 0:15:34 | 0:15:39 | |
get some information from league tables but if you do a league table | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
of financial support, we are near the top. His Oxford still | 0:15:44 | 0:15:51 | |
attainable for anyone? -- his Oxford. You do not pay up front, it | 0:15:51 | 0:15:57 | |
depends when you pay it back, it is attainable for anyone. League | 0:15:57 | 0:16:02 | |
tables may be a rough guide but with more than 100 universities to | 0:16:02 | 0:16:07 | |
choose from, including Oxford, how do you choose? At Sherborne in | 0:16:07 | 0:16:13 | |
Dorset, 95% of students go to university and they are lucky | 0:16:13 | 0:16:19 | |
because the careers adviser is the man in the nave. You visited or 120 | 0:16:19 | 0:16:24 | |
universities across the UK. What have you learnt? The most important | 0:16:24 | 0:16:29 | |
thing is there is a rich diversity, one institution is different from | 0:16:29 | 0:16:35 | |
another. Can you rely on brand names? Definitely not. The first | 0:16:35 | 0:16:42 | |
rule in applying is not to rely on brand-name loyalty. But try to find | 0:16:42 | 0:16:49 | |
out the evidence of water is on offer. How do establish where the | 0:16:49 | 0:16:55 | |
university is a valuable? The value is an individual's judgment, the | 0:16:55 | 0:17:01 | |
applicants judgment. I do think that universities should give clear | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
evidence on what exactly they are delivering in terms of teaching and | 0:17:04 | 0:17:12 | |
how what is delivered. Charlie, you are interested in history. Yes. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:19 | |
Which universities on your list? The five are orcs that, as the | 0:17:19 | 0:17:27 | |
first Jewess, UCL, and then at Durham, Exeter and York. Is one | 0:17:27 | 0:17:33 | |
better because of the reputation? It depends what you want to pursue | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
as a career. And look at what universities provide the best | 0:17:37 | 0:17:46 | |
option rather than saying that this brand name is better than the other. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
If you go to big brand and a little brand but the little brand felt | 0:17:50 | 0:17:58 | |
better but the big brand did not feel so good on the inside, you | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
must look at what is good on the inside which has the quality of the | 0:18:02 | 0:18:08 | |
course. What is your top tip? at the student union website where | 0:18:08 | 0:18:13 | |
you might find election manifestos of the student union elections and | 0:18:13 | 0:18:19 | |
you might find sometimes that might show you some of the current issues. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:24 | |
The problems a bits-and-pieces. That is brilliant. A good top tip. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:30 | |
In the future, students will be giving more thought to where they | 0:18:30 | 0:18:35 | |
study, or for some other more important things than value for | 0:18:35 | 0:18:42 | |
money? She loves -- he leads dance and drama, what makes a difference | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
is what offers the best degree course in psychology plus the | 0:18:46 | 0:18:51 | |
opportunity to pursue his passion. For me, the process of university | 0:18:51 | 0:18:58 | |
is about having to struggle and suffer and learn from it. By taking | 0:18:58 | 0:19:04 | |
the risks, it helps to empower yourself as a person. I am looking | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
at how happy I will be here because I live here for three years. I need | 0:19:08 | 0:19:14 | |
to be somewhere where I will enjoy myself and to be learning. And it's | 0:19:14 | 0:19:23 | |
got a beach. Yes, I would not mind paying extra to be nearer beach! | 0:19:23 | 0:19:31 | |
Do not forget if you have a story, drop me an e-mail. Are you quite | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
sure that a fox is responsible for knocking over your bins at night | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
and scattering rubbish across your garden? I ask only because another | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
wily scavenger is becoming increasingly at home in our gardens | 0:19:40 | 0:19:45 | |
- Isolated escapees, or something more sinister? JG went to Hampshire | 0:19:45 | 0:19:52 | |
to learn more. I looked out of the window and I saw an animal walking | 0:19:52 | 0:19:57 | |
across the garden. I grabbed my camera and followed it around in to | 0:19:57 | 0:20:02 | |
the back garden. I took a few photographs. As I followed it, I | 0:20:02 | 0:20:07 | |
thought this is not a cat, it is bigger. It looked about 18 inches | 0:20:07 | 0:20:14 | |
long. It seemed quite tame. It was not afraid of me, it did not run | 0:20:14 | 0:20:20 | |
away. I was following it along. I thought our these dangerous | 0:20:20 | 0:20:27 | |
animals? Should I be worried? Will it bite me? I took small | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
photographs and we came to the back of the garden near the greenhouse | 0:20:30 | 0:20:34 | |
and a looked like it was a raccoon. Racoons in Chandlers Ford is just | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
for starters. Wild cats have been sighted in Southampton. Coypu are | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
roaming wild in West Berkshire and skunks are causing a pong in | 0:20:41 | 0:20:51 | |
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Gloucestershire. So where have they all come from? Meet Michelle. She | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
breeds and trades in exotic animals, and her favourite, the racoons, | 0:20:55 | 0:21:05 | |
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take centre stage in her Portsmouth home. Racoons are not for everyone, | 0:21:06 | 0:21:10 | |
I do not suggest any body with young children has won. It is a | 0:21:10 | 0:21:17 | |
business, not just a hobby. I have to be licensed because of the | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
volume of babies I am selling. If it was just my own I would not need | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
licensing but I am selling on behalf of our that readers. I like | 0:21:26 | 0:21:32 | |
to have my hands on the animals. I do advise people that have raccoons | 0:21:32 | 0:21:36 | |
to not treat it like a child, do not treated like a dog or anything | 0:21:36 | 0:21:42 | |
else. Let it be a reckoning. they breed the life question mark | 0:21:42 | 0:21:46 | |
note, the mail will mate with as many females as he can. But | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
Michelle is aware that racoons could easily survive if let loose | 0:21:49 | 0:21:55 | |
in the British countryside. If they got into the it while they would do | 0:21:55 | 0:22:02 | |
very well. That is down to good husbandry, -- into the wild. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:09 | |
Keeping them from escaping. This event at Vesham in | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
Worcestershire is one of many that gives the public an opportunity to | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
risk sticking their fingers in cages. Although no animals are for | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
sale today cards are handed out and deals done later for the people | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
still set on bringing something from the wild into their home - | 0:22:21 | 0:22:31 | |
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even the more bizarre ones. What is that? So guinea-pigs. They have | 0:22:32 | 0:22:39 | |
longer and flatter feet. It is like rubber. What is she saying about | 0:22:39 | 0:22:49 | |
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you! They are not domesticated. They are not like cats and dogs. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:59 | |
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They're still very wild. Hello, Derek. I have looked already, the | 0:23:00 | 0:23:06 | |
main thing is that the organisers insist this is about education and | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
not promotion. I want you to have a look. Into the lion's den steps | 0:23:11 | 0:23:16 | |
Derek Gow. He's a conservationist who's concerned at the havoc non- | 0:23:16 | 0:23:24 | |
native species could bring to British wildlife. I have been | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
involved in projects to reintroduce animals that should be here like | 0:23:27 | 0:23:32 | |
water voles and beavers. Quite a number of years there has been | 0:23:32 | 0:23:39 | |
fighting about it. Many of these animals are attuned to the British | 0:23:39 | 0:23:45 | |
environment. Many of these animals have nothing to do with here and | 0:23:45 | 0:23:51 | |
could cause long-term threats to his rival of native wildlife. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:57 | |
could spray in my face but it is unlikely. I am a mechanic. She | 0:23:57 | 0:24:02 | |
stays in the offices. So anyone that doesn't pay, you get her out? | 0:24:02 | 0:24:12 | |
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I am not the moral arbiter. It is a security issue, they should be | 0:24:14 | 0:24:19 | |
legislation when it comes to animals which could cause problems | 0:24:19 | 0:24:25 | |
for native wildlife. So if Derek's reintroducing the water vole to our | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
streams. Last thing he wants is a population of raccoons muscling in. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:34 | |
I have been involved with mammals for a long time. In 30 years I have | 0:24:34 | 0:24:40 | |
been involved with native species, there have been a number of | 0:24:40 | 0:24:47 | |
animals... The raccoons and reading on Loch Lomond and the potential is | 0:24:47 | 0:24:53 | |
for these animals to cause problems. The issue is this is a government | 0:24:53 | 0:24:58 | |
responsibility. You can now walk away from this. The implications | 0:24:58 | 0:25:03 | |
were not be in our lifetime but in the future. When it comes to it, if | 0:25:03 | 0:25:09 | |
you have established populations at wild it will have a knock-on impact | 0:25:09 | 0:25:13 | |
for native wildlife. It is the Government's responsibility. Back | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
in Portsmouth, Michelle sells dozens of raccoons a year, and sees | 0:25:16 | 0:25:26 | |
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no problem with it. You can understand if these things got into | 0:25:26 | 0:25:36 | |
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the countryside, it would be like mink for her. They are a handful, | 0:25:43 | 0:25:47 | |
as you can see. If the concerns are justified then this trade in | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
raccoons and Michelle's other wild animals will be more tightly | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
regulated if not banned completely. It'd be the end of Michelle's home | 0:25:54 | 0:26:03 | |
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pet shop. How much is this chap question mark �700. People pay it. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:11 | |
Imagine what you pay for a pedigree dog, it is the same line. What is | 0:26:11 | 0:26:18 | |
the attraction? They are an intelligent dog. They are more fun. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:23 | |
They are more exotic. There are different. These are becoming very | 0:26:23 | 0:26:32 | |
popular. They are really nice docile animals. I am getting daily | 0:26:32 | 0:26:36 | |
inquiries for skunks. Michelle has also set up a stall promoting her | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
animals at the Evesham show. Unlike Derek, she feels that exotic pets | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
are now part of our landscape, and self regulation should be the way | 0:26:42 | 0:26:51 | |
forward. You'll never stop people wanting to keep exotics. If I | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
police it, some of these animals are getting all of their needs met. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:59 | |
The problem is, it is not people that are responsible, it is people | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
who were irresponsible. Racoons are right to Europe now and the | 0:27:03 | 0:27:08 | |
potential for them to establish an do well in a climate and have a | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
profound knock-on implications for native species is incredibly | 0:27:11 | 0:27:20 | |
worrying. I do not disagree. I make sure that every person I sell a | 0:27:20 | 0:27:25 | |
Macken took his fully vetted. not a case of goodwill, they should | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
be legislation which makes it very difficult for people to have | 0:27:27 | 0:27:32 | |
animals like this and for some species to be prohibited. It is an | 0:27:32 | 0:27:36 | |
accident waiting to happen. It is only time. But for Michelle any | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
legislation would hit her hard, not just in her pocket but in the | 0:27:39 | 0:27:45 | |
pleasure she gets daily from her very wild lifestyle. I would go out | 0:27:45 | 0:27:49 | |
of my head if I didn't have my animals. I am not satisfied with a | 0:27:49 | 0:27:56 | |
cat and dog. I am not a doggie person. Dogs are to needy for me. | 0:27:56 | 0:28:01 | |
Interesting. I would find it horrible if I did not have my | 0:28:02 | 0:28:06 | |
animals. I would be devastated if they ban racoons. That means that | 0:28:06 | 0:28:11 | |
is it. When I have lost an, that is it. I would never be able to have | 0:28:11 | 0:28:19 | |
any others. -- lost them. I do not bite, drop me an e-mail and see | 0:28:19 | 0:28:28 | |
next week! The dangers of a life- saving heart operation for Harry. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:33 | |
They will pull him -- put him out with gas and air. This children's | 0:28:33 | 0:28:38 | |
unit in Southampton is threatened with closure. The government wants | 0:28:38 | 0:28:42 |