0:00:00 > 0:00:05Hello and welcome to inside dealt with stories you need to know from
0:00:05 > 0:00:09across the Midlands. Continuing protests against higher
0:00:09 > 0:00:15university fees as figures released today suggest more than 40,000
0:00:15 > 0:00:19people have decided not to apply to study this year.
0:00:19 > 0:00:28Also in the programme, the volunteers trying to restore a
0:00:28 > 0:00:31canal between the Severn and the Thames.
0:00:31 > 0:00:37But first we investigate the bootleg booze are being sold on a
0:00:37 > 0:00:47street near you. In it is shocking that somebody is telling that to
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0:00:57 > 0:01:02people. They do not care. Racily police in Birmingham
0:01:02 > 0:01:07arrested a group of men suspected of making and supplying illegal
0:01:07 > 0:01:11alcohol. Before that, five men were killed in an explosion at an
0:01:11 > 0:01:14illegal factory in Lincolnshire putting bootleg booze family on the
0:01:14 > 0:01:24map. Do you know what you're drinking and what harm it might be
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0:01:25 > 0:01:35News overnight that five men had been killed in an explosion in
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0:01:37 > 0:01:42Boston in Lincolnshire. How does it look? There is Police tape.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46explosion revealed the secret world of bootleg booze. Inside the
0:01:46 > 0:01:53charred unit, fake vodka was manufactured. It looked just like
0:01:53 > 0:01:56this, the genuine article. The Boston blast open the public's are
0:01:56 > 0:02:02raised to this highly dangerous scam. It is often really hard to
0:02:02 > 0:02:05tell the difference between the fake, like this seized at a bootleg
0:02:05 > 0:02:14factory, and this the real thing. Drinking the wrong one could prove
0:02:14 > 0:02:18fatal. The fake brands disguise a little -- lethal blend of can cause.
0:02:18 > 0:02:23They do not care for anyone. They only care about lining their own
0:02:23 > 0:02:30pockets. The criminal gangs cost the taxpayer a billion pounds a
0:02:30 > 0:02:35year by failing to pay alcohol duty. Vodka is the easiest Biarritz to
0:02:35 > 0:02:40copy. You can make it on Monday and sell it on Tuesday. But it is the
0:02:40 > 0:02:44drinkers that pay the highest price, sometimes with their eyesight.
0:02:44 > 0:02:51feel lucky to be alive. I did not think I would be able to get out of
0:02:51 > 0:02:56bed ever again. Hidden in a remote corner of Leicestershire, one
0:02:56 > 0:03:00organised gang of bootleggers went undetected until undercover Customs
0:03:00 > 0:03:10officers tracked them down to a rented unit. They were making fake
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0:03:17 > 0:03:26vodka or at a place already known It was a wonderful feeling to know
0:03:27 > 0:03:36we had cracked it. There is someone messing around with the palette at
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0:03:38 > 0:03:48the back. We have identified which building it is. They are not paying
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0:03:50 > 0:03:54it any attention to us. We will go in nice and steady. During the raid,
0:03:54 > 0:03:5970 customs officers found a makeshift factory producing illegal
0:03:59 > 0:04:04vodka on a massive scale. The unit had the capacity to produce a
0:04:04 > 0:04:14bottle every five seconds. There is enough methylated spirit to produce
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0:04:15 > 0:04:20100,000 bottles of fake vodka. had a tank, a tank that cold --
0:04:20 > 0:04:25held the finished product before dropping it down to a bottling line.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29We had a commercial capping machine which put the counterfeit caps on
0:04:29 > 0:04:35the bottles. It then passed down the conveyor belt to a labelling
0:04:35 > 0:04:39machine which that the labels on. I had visited thousands of spirit
0:04:39 > 0:04:47bottling plants all over the world and I had never seen anything like
0:04:47 > 0:04:53this. Absolutely horrendous. Could have been a disaster in the making.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57Ed Binstead is a spirits industry safety expert. His evidence
0:04:57 > 0:05:03revealed how a simple spark could ignite alcohol vapours, triggering
0:05:03 > 0:05:09a major explosion. This was a time bomb. Look at what happened in
0:05:09 > 0:05:14Boston. These places popping up all over the UK at the moment. The gang
0:05:14 > 0:05:18of six has been sentenced to more than 20 years in jail. The
0:05:18 > 0:05:23mastermind was Kevin Eddie Shaw. His right-hand man was John
0:05:23 > 0:05:29Humphrys but the Chemist, the man who knew how to add beach to meths
0:05:29 > 0:05:36so it looked like vodka was this man from Poland. The counterfeiters
0:05:36 > 0:05:39had done a very good job at forging the bottles on to the labels. The
0:05:39 > 0:05:47bottles were sourced from a genuine brand supplier and the labels had
0:05:47 > 0:05:51been sourced from Poland. So the product look like the real thing.
0:05:51 > 0:05:56Counterfeit alcohol is now being seized across the country daily. It
0:05:56 > 0:06:02is a top priority for trading standards. We seized these from
0:06:02 > 0:06:05different parts of the county. problem is they can train
0:06:06 > 0:06:11industrial alcohol. These are the type of products you want to keep
0:06:11 > 0:06:17out of harm's way, cleaning fluids, paint strippers, not something you
0:06:17 > 0:06:26would want to be drinking. We are aware that somebody did die from
0:06:26 > 0:06:32drinking counterfeit alcohol. recent survey, almost 60 % of off-
0:06:32 > 0:06:38licences in Coventry sought illegal spirits. Across the whole of
0:06:38 > 0:06:42Staffordshire, out of more than 400 licensed stores, one in five sold
0:06:42 > 0:06:48counterfeit Biarritz generally fake vodka. The if we are talking about
0:06:48 > 0:06:53the production, the sale and avoidance of exercised duty, we are
0:06:53 > 0:06:57talking about a multi-million pound business and they would not be
0:06:57 > 0:07:00surprised if there is still an illegal operating in the East
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Midlands. People should regarded with alarm and be aware this is
0:07:04 > 0:07:09going on because the bargains they perceive these drinks are may not
0:07:09 > 0:07:14be the bargains they think they are. They could end up will. Students
0:07:14 > 0:07:19are on the lookout for cheap vodka. Lauren from Derbyshire bought what
0:07:19 > 0:07:26she now knows to be a bogus bound for �5.99. The man in the love
0:07:26 > 0:07:31licence joked, it would blind her. Two months on, he was not far wrong.
0:07:31 > 0:07:39I was growing up, I could not keep anything down. This lasted for two
0:07:39 > 0:07:45days. I was not able to get out of bed. The second day I just thought,
0:07:45 > 0:07:52am I ever going to feel better? I could not feel very well. My vision
0:07:52 > 0:07:58was blurred. I tend to lose my peripheral vision quite a lot.
0:07:58 > 0:08:03Crossing the road can be difficult. It is really scary. When you cannot
0:08:03 > 0:08:07see anything, when you're driving, even walking down the street, it is
0:08:07 > 0:08:12scary. Cash of two departments are starting to see more patients who
0:08:12 > 0:08:15think they have done a vodka or but it is really chemicals contained in
0:08:15 > 0:08:19industrial alcohol. There are drinking the same amount of alcohol
0:08:19 > 0:08:24they normally drink but they are getting more intense symptoms,
0:08:24 > 0:08:30thinking they may have had their drinks spiked. The symptoms are
0:08:30 > 0:08:38severe, abdominal pain, nausea so, intense vomiting and also visual
0:08:38 > 0:08:42problems. The problem with interesting stuff like this is it
0:08:42 > 0:08:46attacks the optic nerve and can cause permanent blindness. The
0:08:46 > 0:08:52optic nerve that -- runs from behind the eye and if that gets
0:08:52 > 0:08:56rolling, it can cause blindness. Near Moscow farm, the pub landlady
0:08:56 > 0:08:59is shocked at the ticking time bomb which was on their doorstep but can
0:08:59 > 0:09:07she tell the difference between a fake from the factory and the will
0:09:07 > 0:09:14bottle? No, I cannot believe it. It is exactly the same. Are you amazed
0:09:14 > 0:09:20at how good they are? Shock. There is one simple error - before just
0:09:20 > 0:09:25put the wrong figure of 28 units. Much of the Moscow farm fake could
0:09:25 > 0:09:28still be up there, along with thousands of other dangers bogus
0:09:28 > 0:09:34brands. The vodka distillers are well aware of the threat the
0:09:34 > 0:09:38bootleggers posts. Be experienced industry has to stay one step ahead
0:09:38 > 0:09:42of the bootlegger, not only to protect their brand but to protect
0:09:42 > 0:09:46the public. It is custom officers who face the challenge of seeking
0:09:46 > 0:09:51out these highly organised criminals. It is crucial that we
0:09:51 > 0:09:56find these places, take them out and dismantle them so that they
0:09:56 > 0:10:01cannot be used over again. The UK's consumption of real vodka has risen
0:10:01 > 0:10:06considerably over the past 10 years as drinkers seek out cheap booze,
0:10:06 > 0:10:14the bootleggers are leaving a lethal legacy. Pity shocking that
0:10:14 > 0:10:17somebody is selling that two people. They do not care.
0:10:17 > 0:10:27If it is still happening now, the problems with my vision, I assume
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0:10:29 > 0:10:33it is here from good and it is all It is the day we learned how many
0:10:33 > 0:10:37young people have applied to university. Despite the new higher
0:10:37 > 0:10:43fees. The controversy has not gone away. A recent report suggested
0:10:43 > 0:10:48that most students will not ever earn enough to pay back their loans,
0:10:48 > 0:10:55leaving the government with a massive bill. In many universities,
0:10:55 > 0:10:57the protests continue. Figures released today by the
0:10:57 > 0:11:02University Admissions Service show the number of students applying for
0:11:02 > 0:11:05a place this year has fallen by nearly 9%. Some say this is due to
0:11:05 > 0:11:09the rise in tuition fees. You may have thought the battle over these
0:11:10 > 0:11:18was lost but there is still some lively protests going on around the
0:11:18 > 0:11:24country and here in the Midlands. An occupation at the University of
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Birmingham. When students took over an abandoned building on campus,
0:11:27 > 0:11:31security moved in as fellow- students tried to join the protest
0:11:31 > 0:11:38or deliver supplies which they claimed was being blocked. The
0:11:38 > 0:11:44students filmed what happened next. Meet Hattie, we asked her to
0:11:44 > 0:11:48explain why she was protesting. disagree with the changes happening
0:11:48 > 0:11:54in higher education at the moment. We are angry that they have tripled
0:11:54 > 0:11:58the amount universities can now charge. Why students are worrying
0:11:58 > 0:12:01about starting their lives with so much debt, some economists are
0:12:01 > 0:12:07arguing that actually the government will end up spending
0:12:07 > 0:12:12more through the new system than the old. A report by investment
0:12:12 > 0:12:17managers says only graduates with the starting salary of �50,000 will
0:12:17 > 0:12:22pay back their loans in full. With salaries like that out of reach for
0:12:22 > 0:12:27most, it is predicted that in 30 years, the country will face a
0:12:27 > 0:12:31massive bill as unpaid loans are written off. If you are not
0:12:31 > 0:12:36employed you do not pay. If after 30 years there is an amount
0:12:36 > 0:12:40outstanding, you have nothing else to pay off. I am not surprised that
0:12:40 > 0:12:46students are protesting in terms of the increase in fees but I am not
0:12:46 > 0:12:50sure it has been presented to them effectively. Back in Birmingham, to
0:12:50 > 0:12:53stop the obligation -- the university paid for a High Court
0:12:54 > 0:13:03injunction that meant that the students had to leave or face
0:13:04 > 0:13:06
0:13:06 > 0:13:15The injunction bans all occupations on campus for the next 12 months.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19With students facing fines or rest if they carry on. This move by the
0:13:19 > 0:13:23university has been criticised with Amnesty International saying this
0:13:23 > 0:13:29could have a chilling effect on the legitimate exercise of fundamental
0:13:29 > 0:13:33human rights. And there should not be a group -- used as an excuse to
0:13:33 > 0:13:37prevent protests which are merely inconvenient or embarrassing. The
0:13:37 > 0:13:42Vice Chancellor of the Ministry of Birmingham, who turned down a
0:13:42 > 0:13:45request for a interview, denies he is trying to suppress protests and
0:13:45 > 0:13:49in a statement, said the investor got the injunction because the
0:13:49 > 0:13:53building was unsafe for that number of people and because of social
0:13:53 > 0:13:56networks statements suggesting further occupation be going to
0:13:56 > 0:14:02happen. -- Chancellor of the University of Birmingham. But
0:14:02 > 0:14:08Nottingham University, the main author of a it alternative... Is
0:14:08 > 0:14:12highly critical of Birmingham's Vice-Chancellor. I think it is very
0:14:12 > 0:14:18unfortunate and rather heavy-handed because the students want to engage
0:14:18 > 0:14:21in protest omen of the reasons is they are engaged and lively and
0:14:21 > 0:14:25people. What they were doing by occupier was not simply setting in
0:14:25 > 0:14:30but creating a space for debate. What do people away from the
0:14:30 > 0:14:34corridors of learning think? His university a privileged students
0:14:34 > 0:14:38should have to pay for? Will the new fees saddled students with
0:14:38 > 0:14:47unreasonable debt? Have got a nephew who has been through it off.
0:14:47 > 0:14:52He's got his doctorate degree and he cannot get a job. I have a
0:14:52 > 0:14:57grandson who went to university and the first thing they did when they
0:14:57 > 0:15:03got there was to take them on an almighty booze-up. If you half the
0:15:03 > 0:15:07drive and desire, you don't need it. If you want something, you will
0:15:07 > 0:15:16make it happen. You will not need anyone to open doors for you.
0:15:16 > 0:15:25you recommend university to the people? No. The education minister
0:15:25 > 0:15:29David Willetts, himself no stranger to these... His family comes from
0:15:29 > 0:15:32the city and his great-grandfather was a glazier who helped install
0:15:32 > 0:15:37the scale Glass -- stained glass windows in the Great Hall. What
0:15:37 > 0:15:41does he make of the continuing demonstrations? I say to the
0:15:41 > 0:15:44students, and I enjoy meeting the students, especially students from
0:15:44 > 0:15:49the River City of Birmingham, coming from Birmingham and with
0:15:49 > 0:15:52many family ties, I say to them this is a fair way of funding
0:15:52 > 0:15:56education and it will ensure universities like Birmingham are
0:15:56 > 0:16:03well financed in the future. It's in the interests of your but how
0:16:03 > 0:16:06financially strong universities -- interests of young people to have
0:16:06 > 0:16:10financially strong universities. That is what we are paying for. It
0:16:10 > 0:16:15is in your long-term interest. If you are a well paid graduate you,
0:16:15 > 0:16:18you pay back. If you are not in a well-paid job, you don't. Meanwhile,
0:16:18 > 0:16:28at the University of Birmingham, the students remain determined to
0:16:28 > 0:16:30
0:16:30 > 0:16:36be heard. They call them next tactic a jogupation. The idea is to
0:16:36 > 0:16:41jog around the campus and through buildings, to see how a security
0:16:41 > 0:16:50reactors, to illustrate the ridiculousness of the fact that
0:16:50 > 0:17:00universities security are employed to chose their own students. -- but
0:17:00 > 0:17:00
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Some students have criticised the protests carried out by a minority
0:17:03 > 0:17:06as disruptive and pointless but academics who argue that a --
0:17:07 > 0:17:11higher education should be publicly funded have not shifted onto
0:17:11 > 0:17:17students, believe Birmingham's vice chancellor is actively trying to
0:17:17 > 0:17:21suppress debate. He has recently argued in the Guardian newspaper
0:17:21 > 0:17:27that in fact public display it is unfortunate and important policy
0:17:27 > 0:17:32areas like education ought to be resolved by senior civil servants
0:17:32 > 0:17:34and ministers, behind closed doors. While he would not comment, it is
0:17:34 > 0:17:37alleged that even the Vice Chancellor of the University of
0:17:37 > 0:17:43Birmingham, who sat on the Brown revue which came up with the higher
0:17:43 > 0:17:49fees, does not believe the new scheme is sustainable. In at the
0:17:49 > 0:17:53longer term, it will not save money, it will cost more money. You are
0:17:53 > 0:17:58saying the government has got it wrong. But the government will not
0:17:58 > 0:18:02admit that. No government ever wants to admit that. Governments
0:18:02 > 0:18:05aren't come -- prepared to do it and that is why opposition debate
0:18:05 > 0:18:12is important. If governments do get it wrong, the people who pay our
0:18:12 > 0:18:16the public, not the government. latest move that Birmingham led to
0:18:16 > 0:18:20a sit in outside the Vice- Chancellor's office. A we went to
0:18:20 > 0:18:25show them that despite the fact they had this injunction, it wasn't
0:18:25 > 0:18:31going to stop us from continuing with peaceful process -- protest on
0:18:31 > 0:18:34campus. Students across the country say they will continue to fight the
0:18:35 > 0:18:38fees on behalf of younger generations. Further protests are
0:18:38 > 0:18:42being planned that will mean people from all over the country come to
0:18:42 > 0:18:46the Birmingham campus next month to campaign against the injunction and
0:18:46 > 0:18:50the increased fees. Public interest lawyers are now representing the
0:18:50 > 0:18:55students and have demanded the injunction be removed immediately.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00They say it represents an unexpected of restriction on the
0:19:00 > 0:19:05students with legitimate right to protest. The university says it is
0:19:05 > 0:19:10planning more formal debate around the fees. Despite the drop in
0:19:10 > 0:19:14applications, David Willetts insists the new system is fair.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Let's be clear, if people don't been more than �21,000 a year, they
0:19:17 > 0:19:23don't pay back and that is quite right. That is the design of the
0:19:23 > 0:19:29system. Who picks up the tab? taxpayer picks up the tab if people
0:19:29 > 0:19:35don't earn more than �21,000 a year. We reckon that roughly for every
0:19:35 > 0:19:40�1,000 Mill End, we get �700 back because the graduates of buy in
0:19:40 > 0:19:42large in well-paid jobs. But if you are not in a so much, you don't pay
0:19:43 > 0:19:48back and that is a deliberate feature of the system. That is why
0:19:48 > 0:19:52people should not worry. For the 44,002 did worry, economists say
0:19:52 > 0:19:56invested in education still pays off. Should the government have
0:19:56 > 0:20:00left things unchanged? There are pros and cons. The fact of the
0:20:00 > 0:20:03matter is those kids looking at going to university have
0:20:03 > 0:20:11information about tells them there is a spectacular advantage in going
0:20:11 > 0:20:21to university based on salary and life experience. Take it.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23
0:20:23 > 0:20:27What do you think? You can join in Our final story to write is about
0:20:27 > 0:20:33an ambitious project to restore a canal in the Cotswolds. The water
0:20:34 > 0:20:37we would run from the River Severn to the Thames. It would link
0:20:37 > 0:20:47England's two longest rivers. But not everyone is happy about the
0:20:47 > 0:20:52
0:20:52 > 0:20:57These boats are preparing for a journey from here to the River
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Thames. It should be a leisurely cruise of 36 miles across the
0:21:01 > 0:21:07Cotswolds canal which link the two places but there is a problem. It
0:21:07 > 0:21:14is quite simple. This whole business of canals is really about
0:21:15 > 0:21:21getting from A to B by boat. Or in this case, from Saul, about a
0:21:21 > 0:21:31quarter of a mile that we, too that bridge. -- that way. We're never
0:21:31 > 0:21:33
0:21:33 > 0:21:40But that low bridges are read the first obstacle blocking the
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Cotswold canals. When they opened it and 1789, there revolutionised
0:21:44 > 0:21:49transport for Stroud's mail industry by linking or Severn river
0:21:49 > 0:21:52with the Thames. But inevitably, the canals and they -- fell victim
0:21:52 > 0:21:57to the success of the railways and were abandoned. The last time a
0:21:57 > 0:22:04boat carrying cargo bit Virginia wrong this canal to Lech Laide was
0:22:04 > 0:22:07in 1911. That was 100 years ago. Back then, that journey took about
0:22:08 > 0:22:12three days. Now, whichever way you go, it will take considerably
0:22:12 > 0:22:18longer. We're going to take three weeks on that crews, there is a
0:22:18 > 0:22:27huge difference, and we are highlighting the fact the canal is
0:22:27 > 0:22:33being restored, to raise money. your marks, get set, Go! It will
0:22:33 > 0:22:37open up a nice, new cruising route. Instead of going on a dangerous
0:22:37 > 0:22:42route to Bristol, it means we will be able to go all the way to Tower
0:22:42 > 0:22:48Bridge. I will be catching up with the boats later but in the meantime,
0:22:48 > 0:22:54I want to find out a bit more about the restoration project. There are
0:22:54 > 0:23:006000 members of the Cotswold canals Trust and every week, about 200
0:23:00 > 0:23:07volunteers put in some hard graft. What makes you volunteer and do
0:23:07 > 0:23:11this? I have lived here for 50 years and in 20 years, I would like
0:23:12 > 0:23:15to see it all finished. That would be a good goal. At the moment, I'm
0:23:15 > 0:23:19looking for work and this is a valuable thing to do for one's own
0:23:19 > 0:23:24personal self-esteem. Restoration is well under way between us all
0:23:24 > 0:23:28and Stroud. That section is going to cost about �25 million and
0:23:28 > 0:23:32should be completed in three years. The idea is in the future, boats
0:23:33 > 0:23:36will be able to cruise through places like this village where the
0:23:36 > 0:23:41canal has been brought back to its former glory. But it is not all
0:23:41 > 0:23:46plain sailing. Some sections of the canal beyond Stroud lie on private
0:23:46 > 0:23:51property and it will take a lot of work and some persuasion to restore
0:23:52 > 0:23:58the waterway. Just behind you hear is the sight of the old canal. This
0:23:58 > 0:24:04is what they are proposing to dredge and for use again. It sounds
0:24:04 > 0:24:08like a good idea. Does it sound like a good idea to do? No, it's us
0:24:08 > 0:24:18like bloody rubbish. Anybody with sense would soon come to that
0:24:18 > 0:24:19
0:24:19 > 0:24:24decision. The canal over and there is the River Thames. Why do you
0:24:24 > 0:24:27want to have these two waterways? It means cutting my from Imhoff and
0:24:27 > 0:24:31it makes me from an operation more difficult. The money side of it is
0:24:31 > 0:24:36horrendous. All the district councils, who were queuing up to
0:24:36 > 0:24:42support the restoration before, apart from Stroud, are now worrying
0:24:42 > 0:24:46about the money. Stroud District Council is the lead partner in the
0:24:46 > 0:24:50restoration project. Can it justify this huge spent? What do you say to
0:24:50 > 0:24:53people who say could you not have spent money on something else?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56can always spend money on something else but this is part of our
0:24:56 > 0:25:02heritage and our past. We also think we are building something for
0:25:02 > 0:25:06the future. We felt this would be good for Stroud, the town and the
0:25:06 > 0:25:09district. It will attract more people to come here. It would be
0:25:09 > 0:25:13something in the leisure industry but also along this corridor, we
0:25:13 > 0:25:17would like to see it regeneration of both the industrial side, light
0:25:17 > 0:25:22engineering, the sort of stuff you see in these areas, along with some
0:25:22 > 0:25:27new residential, waterside living. People are naturally attracted to
0:25:27 > 0:25:30water, whether it is sea, canals, rivers, or whatever. But the cost
0:25:30 > 0:25:37is just one aspect that affects some of those troubled by this
0:25:37 > 0:25:42restoration. Another disused section of the canal runs through
0:25:42 > 0:25:47this garden in Frampton Mansell, east of Stroud. For water levels
0:25:47 > 0:25:52are very, very low. -- the water. In the summer, when people want to
0:25:52 > 0:25:57have their leisure pursuits, and in the winter we get probably too much
0:25:57 > 0:26:03water. We are very grateful to the empty canal because it is a very
0:26:03 > 0:26:10good flood defence. But keeping water in the canal was always a
0:26:10 > 0:26:13huge Channel Court -- a challenge, even in its heyday. I've come to
0:26:13 > 0:26:18their tunnel, at the highest point along the route, to find out how
0:26:18 > 0:26:22they are going to manage. We us standing on a quagmire at the
0:26:22 > 0:26:26moment but in cannot terms, this is as dry as it gets. How on earth do
0:26:27 > 0:26:33you go about getting water back into this thing? This is the eight-
0:26:33 > 0:26:37mile long... It supplies the whole canal. Water will have to be pumped
0:26:37 > 0:26:41him either from reservoirs or from lower down the canal where water
0:26:41 > 0:26:46availability is less of a problem. In addition to that, there is the
0:26:46 > 0:26:49potential for the canal to be used for transferring build water
0:26:49 > 0:26:53supplies from the Severn River area across to the Thames area to
0:26:53 > 0:26:57relieve shortages in the south-east. If that was to come off, the amount
0:26:57 > 0:27:05of water that would be needed for the boat traffic would be almost
0:27:05 > 0:27:10inconsequential compared with that the work would be available. At the
0:27:10 > 0:27:14far end of the canal, here, yet more volunteers are busy restoring
0:27:14 > 0:27:23one of the 56 locks and it is the place where the canal finally meets
0:27:23 > 0:27:30the River Thames. So, 36 miles back that way, along the canal, is were
0:27:30 > 0:27:33restarted three weeks ago. -- where we started. It is the final
0:27:33 > 0:27:43destination for the narrowboats after their epic journey. That
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0:27:44 > 0:27:47means just one thing. Hello! We'll go to desperately turnaround -- we
0:27:47 > 0:27:51are going to desperately turn around. A everything about narrow
0:27:51 > 0:27:55boating is slow. I guess that is its appeal. Let's hope it will not
0:27:55 > 0:28:05be another hundred years before these birds can take the short cut
0:28:05 > 0:28:11
0:28:11 > 0:28:14home along at the restored That is it for tonight but if
0:28:14 > 0:28:24you've got a story, or you'd like to let me know your thoughts on
0:28:24 > 0:28:27
0:28:27 > 0:28:32tonight's programme, drop me any male. -- drop me an email. See you
0:28:32 > 0:28:38next time. Next time, we follow a policeman
0:28:38 > 0:28:42who cycles to work who captures on- camera dangerous road use. People