:00:26. > :00:30.Take a look at this. I have come to a graveyard for aeroplanes, where
:00:30. > :00:35.aviation after light is big business. Later, we will be seen
:00:35. > :00:42.how these metal monsters are dismantled and recycled. Also
:00:42. > :00:47.coming up - Birmingham poet Benjamin Zephaniah gets inside the
:00:47. > :00:54.minds of animal rights activists. So on people will attack
:00:54. > :01:01.individuals, property. I believe in non-violence, but what would pick
:01:01. > :01:05.me over the edge? For most tonight, wider motorway network has become a
:01:05. > :01:10.magnet for metal thieves. Even though police report a 60% drop in
:01:10. > :01:20.metal thefts across the West Midlands this year, there is a big
:01:20. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:28.problem on the motorways. Three males walking off along the field.
:01:28. > :01:32.Yes, we have got them on CCTV. Three people ambling through the
:01:33. > :01:38.park, not seeming to be in a hurry, but they are not out for a
:01:38. > :01:43.lunchtime stroll. Norman's earlier they were Stepping cables from
:01:44. > :01:48.trenches by the M6. Welcome to the world of motor way metal thieves.
:01:48. > :01:53.Metal death is not new. We have here the about lead being stripped
:01:53. > :01:59.from roofs and stolen of red cables, but it is no longer about Georges
:01:59. > :02:05.and railways, because these are turning their attention to the
:02:05. > :02:10.roads. And here in the Midlands, pickings are rich. In the last year,
:02:10. > :02:14.around three-quarters of all metal theft incidents on English
:02:14. > :02:21.motorways were in this region. Nationally, the Bill to repair and
:02:21. > :02:26.replace it all is almost �6 million. We had an unbelievable amount of
:02:26. > :02:35.cable getting stolen. Probably on a nightly basis, not just in this
:02:35. > :02:40.area, but in other, surrounding force areas. Officers are on patrol
:02:40. > :02:45.early in the morning, looking for law-breakers by the side of the
:02:46. > :02:51.carriageway, Crooks, stealing valuable cables. The price of
:02:51. > :02:58.copper has risen massively in the last couple of years. And what is
:02:58. > :03:03.in the cables is very expensive. It is a viewed as a product to be
:03:03. > :03:09.stolen, it is very high volume and quite profitable even when it is
:03:09. > :03:18.sold as scrap. It is a profitable business. Thieves can strike, night
:03:18. > :03:23.or day. It is on the off-chance that you're in the location at the
:03:23. > :03:27.right time. We put two and two together and think, is that a
:03:27. > :03:33.potential cable theft we have attended, and sometimes we have
:03:34. > :03:38.been lucky. You can see where it has been pulled up. One of those
:03:38. > :03:45.lucky moments involved in these three parkland strollers, who have
:03:45. > :03:50.dumped the cable they were trying to steal, then trying to act
:03:50. > :03:56.natural, but they walk straight into the police. They have come
:03:56. > :04:02.under the bridge, and chopped the cable. Whilst some of them are
:04:02. > :04:06.caught, plenty of others escaped and one reason is they use sides
:04:06. > :04:11.trees, fields and people's gardens to escape. James Sargeant lives
:04:11. > :04:17.next to the M6 and has been visited by Cable thieves, both male and
:04:17. > :04:22.female. He burst out of the Karen front of me at the gates, opened
:04:22. > :04:27.the boot, and we saw a big role of cable flying over the fence, then
:04:27. > :04:30.two chaps jumping over. She was looking out of the window at the
:04:30. > :04:34.chaps, she chucked it in the back of the carp and did not even give
:04:35. > :04:40.them time to close the book, because there was still cable
:04:40. > :04:46.hanging out of it, and then she drove off. It was like watching a
:04:46. > :04:53.robbery on telly. And just like on telly there have been plenty of
:04:53. > :04:58.rupees. Jim has got so fed up with thieves using his garden, he has
:04:58. > :05:02.installed CCTV. He says his family are still living in fear. When I go
:05:02. > :05:08.out to work on a night I have always got it in the back of my
:05:08. > :05:16.head about my wife and children being there on their own. You just
:05:16. > :05:21.try and secured the castle. these crooks have got some fund and
:05:21. > :05:27.they know that the chances of being caught are slim. Last year there
:05:27. > :05:33.were almost 150 incidents of metal theft on West Midlands motorways.
:05:33. > :05:38.So, why do they like you, so much? It is mainly because of the sort of
:05:38. > :05:42.roads that we have got. A motorway network has a great deal of
:05:42. > :05:48.technology on it, new technology that has been introduced as part of
:05:48. > :05:52.the managed motorways that we have. The use of the hard shoulder. It
:05:52. > :05:57.enables us to offer an extra lane to the travelling public at times
:05:58. > :06:05.of congestion, so what is being targeted is the communications and
:06:05. > :06:10.the power cable that is feeding all these devices. Show me examples of
:06:10. > :06:18.what they steel. Typically, this is the cable that is being targeted,
:06:18. > :06:23.95 millimetre power cable. This is the new type, so it is marked
:06:23. > :06:28.internally and corporately. What about the cost of replacing this,
:06:28. > :06:33.the cost of manpower, the cost of disruption to traffic? The cost of
:06:33. > :06:38.this is going to be quite significant. Metal theft cost the
:06:38. > :06:42.nation �770 million last year. For the Highways Agency, it is �5
:06:42. > :06:48.million, and that is just for the replacement cable, so the taxpayer
:06:48. > :06:51.is bearing the cost of this kind of criminal activity. We are all
:06:51. > :06:59.paying the price. Is there anything more that can be done to tackle
:06:59. > :07:05.this crime? Three objectives today, one is to work in partnership with
:07:05. > :07:12.scrap-metal dealers... The cables are being security-marked, and the
:07:12. > :07:15.police are making it harder to offload the goods. Thirdly, to
:07:15. > :07:18.target scrap-metal dealers that are not following legislation. I am
:07:18. > :07:22.joining the police and the Black Country on the sort of operation
:07:22. > :07:27.that might be a common sight in future. Changes in the lock from
:07:27. > :07:33.December will make it illegal for dealers to buy cash for scrap-metal
:07:33. > :07:39.which will make it easier for police to trace material that is
:07:39. > :07:43.stolen. The difficult part is identify metal that has been stolen.
:07:43. > :07:48.We should be well to look at it and say straight away that that is our
:07:48. > :07:55.cable. They can look at that and no because of the number of cables,
:07:55. > :08:00.the stands and the colours, that it is their cable. So of it could be
:08:00. > :08:05.located back to the motorway? Definitely, yes, it depends how it
:08:05. > :08:10.is cut up or strip before it comes in. There was nothing untoward in
:08:10. > :08:20.that yard, but an eagle-eyed British Telecom's employee has
:08:20. > :08:20.
:08:20. > :08:30.spotted some stolen table. -- cable. You can see the end there, it is
:08:30. > :08:39.mark. When it is a load like this, there is 50 kilograms? It is going
:08:39. > :08:46.to be lost and that. recollection who brought it in?
:08:46. > :08:51.idea whatsoever. To find that their, is unbelievable. The cable
:08:51. > :08:56.confiscated, but other than that, this scrapyard gets a clean bill of
:08:56. > :09:00.health. Across the Black Country, the prospect of a change in the
:09:00. > :09:05.loch is having an effect. We are not finding as much stolen metal
:09:05. > :09:08.over the last few months. It does not mean that it is not going on,
:09:08. > :09:13.that unscrupulous people are not doing it in other ways, but from
:09:13. > :09:18.the visits we have done we are happy there is not as much stolen
:09:18. > :09:23.material coming through. So the trade is declining a little? That
:09:23. > :09:27.is one way of looking at it. they cannot catch them on the
:09:27. > :09:31.carriageway, the police will to stop the crooks by hitting demand,
:09:31. > :09:36.but, these are Praf the characters, and back on the road, the police
:09:36. > :09:42.know they need to be on their toes. There will always be opportunists
:09:42. > :09:46.to try to beat the system. Hopefully, these new laws will be -
:09:46. > :09:53.- will mean that we can catch them as well and there is a better
:09:53. > :10:03.chance of them being caught. can talk to us on Twitter, using a
:10:03. > :10:07.
:10:07. > :10:11.hash attack inside out. -- the hashtag =insideout. Still to come,
:10:11. > :10:18.what happens to these planes ones they have stopped carrying
:10:18. > :10:22.thousands of passengers around the globe? If I wanted one of Rosa much
:10:22. > :10:30.would it cost? That would cost 25,000 as it is at the moment, and
:10:30. > :10:34.it is fully complete inside. Next, what drives people to break the
:10:34. > :10:39.lock for the love of animals? Birmingham poet, Benjamin Zephaniah,
:10:39. > :10:45.a well-known animal lover, has never been tempted, but he tries to
:10:45. > :10:50.get inside the mind set of the activists who have been. Some
:10:50. > :10:55.people think animals are put on this earth to search humans. Others
:10:55. > :11:02.believe the opposite, that an animal's life is worth as much as a
:11:02. > :11:07.human. The debate about animal rights is heated. I am Benjamin
:11:07. > :11:12.Zephaniah. I am passionate about animal rights. I express it through
:11:12. > :11:19.my poetry, but others express that in another way. There are some
:11:19. > :11:23.people that will attack individuals, property, will sabotage
:11:23. > :11:28.organisations and hunts and other people will go to all kinds of
:11:28. > :11:35.extremes to defend their rights to use animals. But, I ask myself,
:11:35. > :11:45.could I be driven at far? I believe in non-violence. But what would
:11:45. > :11:46.
:11:46. > :11:55.Tonight I venture into the world of animal-rights, and ask what drives
:11:55. > :12:05.these people? I also meet a victim. I meet a cancer that sort who has
:12:05. > :12:15.
:12:15. > :12:23.been jailed at various times. -- a hunt saboteur of.. I was in and out
:12:23. > :12:33.of prison, I was like a yo-yo. I find it difficult to talk about it.
:12:33. > :12:37.I desecrated a grave, we knew it was shocking, that is why we did it.
:12:37. > :12:47.The what drove you have to desiccated someone's grave? I
:12:47. > :12:51.wanted to hurt them. Life is a lot more complicated, and if I believed
:12:51. > :12:59.that we could change society by force, it would be forced all the
:12:59. > :13:05.way. That is a nonsensical idea, that we can force compassion down
:13:05. > :13:09.people's probes. There are very strong feelings, people won't
:13:09. > :13:14.understand it. Chickens are my brothers and my sisters, and I
:13:14. > :13:18.don't expect everyone to understand that. The people that do understand
:13:18. > :13:23.will understand what I'm on about. If it was crazy, it was mad, but it
:13:23. > :13:32.had a place in history. Hopefully there would be any more desecration,
:13:32. > :13:36.it belongs in history. John said he would not do it again, but for me,
:13:36. > :13:42.digging up a grave is a line that I would not cross. He does have some
:13:42. > :13:49.remorse. He is also very much into the movement, he still cares about
:13:49. > :13:56.animals. I can see why people who were not in the movement would be
:13:56. > :14:02.shocked, digging up a grave, that is the worst thing you can do. Four
:14:02. > :14:05.people on the other side of the fence, treating animals really
:14:05. > :14:15.badly, killing them, experimenting on them, that is also the worst
:14:15. > :14:23.thing you can do. For every extreme act by an activist, there is
:14:23. > :14:29.someone on the other end. This dairy farmer has experienced it,
:14:29. > :14:38.tuberculosis was killing his cattle, he received death threats for his
:14:38. > :14:45.part of the badger cull. I have received death threats are my phone,
:14:45. > :14:55.some of it was disgusting. A lot of threats. -- death threats on my
:14:55. > :14:57.
:14:57. > :15:04.phone. I found it quite disgusting. It says here that you enjoy killing
:15:04. > :15:12.wildlife we Arona gratification. That is not true. I am not a hunter.
:15:12. > :15:18.I look after wildlife. I enjoy a wildlife. Our businesses that
:15:18. > :15:26.feeding people. It is about managing the countryside. I have an
:15:26. > :15:33.innate love of animals, I care for them. You have been farming or
:15:33. > :15:41.alive, but have you ever felt, in light of the recent threats, of
:15:41. > :15:51.giving it up. It is very worrying, we have grown children visiting,
:15:51. > :15:52.
:15:52. > :15:58.and it is worrying about them. -- grandchildren. It is interesting
:15:58. > :16:04.seeing someone who has been personified as being evil, he is
:16:05. > :16:10.quite a nice man. He says he cares about animals, but as I pointed out,
:16:10. > :16:15.it is a different kind of caring. I could never care about an animal,
:16:15. > :16:22.that at it in the eye, and then send it off to slaughter. -- look
:16:22. > :16:28.at it in the eye. How different it hearings about caring by animals
:16:28. > :16:32.will never change. Some people's opinions to change. I'm about to
:16:32. > :16:40.meet Jim Barron, he was a chief executive of an animal rights
:16:40. > :16:47.organisation, he has you turned, and now is campaigning to end the
:16:47. > :16:56.fox hunting ban. He believes it is bad for animals and the countryside.
:16:56. > :17:00.Does this change in belief means he has fallen out of love of animals?
:17:00. > :17:10.Not at all, it has got stronger. But the crucial difference between
:17:10. > :17:15.
:17:15. > :17:21.Val -- between wealth and rights, that is a human concept. Animal-
:17:21. > :17:31.rights have some very limited people. They are thinking more
:17:31. > :17:32.
:17:32. > :17:40.about themselves, than what can be done. People have done some crazy
:17:40. > :17:49.things, can you understand where they are coming from? I can, I
:17:49. > :17:56.think I felt that passion, two were -- to a degree, I can still feel it.
:17:56. > :18:00.They have to understand that the work has to mean some sort of
:18:00. > :18:05.reality. I don't want to put people laugh who are trying to help
:18:05. > :18:15.animals. A simple blanket of view, Dodi way to the animal, will not
:18:15. > :18:22.
:18:22. > :18:25.work. -- don't do it. Jim still campaigns for animals, as they
:18:25. > :18:32.begin I have always believed in protecting animals, they have the
:18:32. > :18:37.same rights as humans. People have different kinds of extremes. I
:18:37. > :18:47.could not see myself digging up a grave, as a matter how bad things
:18:47. > :18:53.got. -- doesn't matter how bad things. I could not see myself
:18:53. > :19:00.sending someone a threatening letter. They both involve death,
:19:00. > :19:08.they are serious things. Everybody takes extreme measure feels that no
:19:08. > :19:12.one is listening. It is a matter of life and death. Today I have seen
:19:12. > :19:20.what drives extremist, and the results of their actions. Luckily
:19:20. > :19:30.for me, I get passionate, I get angry, but I don't go to extreme,
:19:30. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:41.because I have my poetry to express myself.
:19:41. > :19:41.
:19:41. > :19:45.You are watching Inside out in the West Midlands. We are at an
:19:45. > :19:55.airfield, what happens when planes have taxied off the runway for the
:19:55. > :20:00.
:20:00. > :20:07.final time? Deep in the Cotswolds, and marks
:20:07. > :20:17.the chocolate -- and months that the chocolate-box villages, an
:20:17. > :20:20.
:20:20. > :20:29.extraordinary business has taken Ever wondered what happens to
:20:29. > :20:36.redundant jet airliners? Well, so far, over 500 have ended up here,
:20:36. > :20:43.the largest and busiest a recycling business in Britain. This is a
:20:43. > :20:52.salvage international, they were launched 15 years ago, when a Mark
:20:52. > :21:02.Gregory to go gamble and risked �1,000 on an old airplane. He was
:21:02. > :21:02.
:21:02. > :21:12.working for an airline that went bust. I stripped it down on my own
:21:12. > :21:13.
:21:13. > :21:21.with no help from anyone. Quite a challenge! In no time he had sold
:21:21. > :21:31.the doors of �4,000, and realised he was on to something. He ended up
:21:31. > :21:32.
:21:32. > :21:38.we employing quite a fee -- quite a few people. He employs over 40
:21:38. > :21:48.people, and recycles 40 aircraft a year. Almost every part of a modern
:21:48. > :21:53.
:21:53. > :21:58.plane can be used again. I would say 95% of the plane can be re-used.
:21:58. > :22:08.Everything has a part and so real number. Everything is traceable.
:22:08. > :22:09.
:22:09. > :22:14.it is not traceable, it is worthless. The most prized part is
:22:14. > :22:24.the engine. This is amazing. You come to work every day? Explain
:22:24. > :22:25.
:22:25. > :22:35.what you doing here. The engine on the right hand side has been sold.
:22:35. > :22:37.
:22:37. > :22:47.We are going to preserve the engine. How much as an engine sell for?
:22:47. > :22:57.About $1 million. We are going to fire up an engine that has been
:22:57. > :23:08.
:23:08. > :23:16.sold for $1 million. Which Barton do we press? That one. -- which
:23:16. > :23:21.button. On the other side of the air way it is as quiet as a
:23:21. > :23:28.graveyard. Film companies are queuing up to get hold of these
:23:28. > :23:38.planes before the demolition starts. This will eventually go on to a
:23:38. > :23:43.
:23:43. > :23:53.lorry, and go where? This is going up to Scotland for Warner Brothers.
:23:53. > :23:57.
:23:57. > :24:07.We have been involved in Doctor Who, James Bond, a -- Casualty. I cannot
:24:07. > :24:07.
:24:07. > :24:14.afford it, and I cannot afford this. Vodka martini, shaken not stirred.
:24:14. > :24:21.Maybe not. Just occasionally they come across something very special,
:24:21. > :24:28.like this gold-plated jet. It was once owned by an Arab sheikh. This
:24:28. > :24:37.is far too good to scrap, said they are turning it into a -- they are
:24:37. > :24:47.turning it into a high end of recreation suite. Rather than the
:24:47. > :24:47.
:24:47. > :24:53.mile-high club, it will be the 10th that High Club. Last year every
:24:53. > :25:02.team dismantling of brought a whole new meaning to flying high. He we
:25:02. > :25:12.had a huge drugs find. Around $4 million a of cocaine. Apparently it
:25:12. > :25:13.
:25:13. > :25:22.was traced back to South America. I am amazed no one discovered that.
:25:22. > :25:27.What was the resolution? I do not think they are around now. There is
:25:27. > :25:33.quite often real drama in this business. S Savage becomes truly
:25:33. > :25:43.international when it is called on to recover part of a crash, or a
:25:43. > :25:43.
:25:43. > :25:49.cockpit fire like this. July 29th, 2011, this flight was taking off in
:25:49. > :25:56.Cairo, when a fire took hold. 300 passengers were evacuated, and the
:25:56. > :26:02.plane was written off. Restricted down, we restored most of the parts.
:26:02. > :26:06.They are going on the market to be sold. It is really exciting. The
:26:06. > :26:16.engineers really love it, we are always on standby to go out on
:26:16. > :26:30.
:26:30. > :26:34.court to recover aircraft. -- on call. They really enjoy their work
:26:34. > :26:44.here, all that is left is the Albion body which goes to soft
:26:44. > :26:54.drink manufacturers for the cans. - - aluminium. It is the artistic and
:26:54. > :27:00.
:27:00. > :27:10.unusual design uses a that really This designer terms jumbo jets into
:27:10. > :27:12.
:27:13. > :27:21.art. What have you done with this. I have taken the seat from a Boeing
:27:21. > :27:28.737, built legs to read, stripped it out, and give it a car to paint.
:27:28. > :27:37.Someone will buy this? Enthusiasts. Anyone who likes the look of it.
:27:37. > :27:46.will be around �650. This looks like a lie and borrow light
:27:46. > :27:56.fitting? That is a hydraulic event, it is a lamb. How much were they
:27:56. > :28:05.sell for? A row on top hundred pounds. At this business is
:28:05. > :28:15.expanding, and a long would it be demand for new planes. There I
:28:15. > :28:16.
:28:16. > :28:24.think this piece would look good in the garden.
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