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Take a look at this. I have come to a graveyard for aeroplanes, where

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aviation after light is big business. Later, we will be seen

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how these metal monsters are dismantled and recycled. Also

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coming up - Birmingham poet Benjamin Zephaniah gets inside the

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minds of animal rights activists. So on people will attack

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individuals, property. I believe in non-violence, but what would pick

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me over the edge? For most tonight, wider motorway network has become a

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magnet for metal thieves. Even though police report a 60% drop in

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metal thefts across the West Midlands this year, there is a big

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problem on the motorways. Three males walking off along the field.

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Yes, we have got them on CCTV. Three people ambling through the

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park, not seeming to be in a hurry, but they are not out for a

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lunchtime stroll. Norman's earlier they were Stepping cables from

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trenches by the M6. Welcome to the world of motor way metal thieves.

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Metal death is not new. We have here the about lead being stripped

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from roofs and stolen of red cables, but it is no longer about Georges

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and railways, because these are turning their attention to the

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roads. And here in the Midlands, pickings are rich. In the last year,

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around three-quarters of all metal theft incidents on English

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motorways were in this region. Nationally, the Bill to repair and

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replace it all is almost �6 million. We had an unbelievable amount of

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cable getting stolen. Probably on a nightly basis, not just in this

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area, but in other, surrounding force areas. Officers are on patrol

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early in the morning, looking for law-breakers by the side of the

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carriageway, Crooks, stealing valuable cables. The price of

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copper has risen massively in the last couple of years. And what is

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in the cables is very expensive. It is a viewed as a product to be

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stolen, it is very high volume and quite profitable even when it is

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sold as scrap. It is a profitable business. Thieves can strike, night

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or day. It is on the off-chance that you're in the location at the

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right time. We put two and two together and think, is that a

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potential cable theft we have attended, and sometimes we have

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been lucky. You can see where it has been pulled up. One of those

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lucky moments involved in these three parkland strollers, who have

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dumped the cable they were trying to steal, then trying to act

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natural, but they walk straight into the police. They have come

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under the bridge, and chopped the cable. Whilst some of them are

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caught, plenty of others escaped and one reason is they use sides

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trees, fields and people's gardens to escape. James Sargeant lives

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next to the M6 and has been visited by Cable thieves, both male and

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female. He burst out of the Karen front of me at the gates, opened

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the boot, and we saw a big role of cable flying over the fence, then

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two chaps jumping over. She was looking out of the window at the

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chaps, she chucked it in the back of the carp and did not even give

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them time to close the book, because there was still cable

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hanging out of it, and then she drove off. It was like watching a

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robbery on telly. And just like on telly there have been plenty of

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rupees. Jim has got so fed up with thieves using his garden, he has

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installed CCTV. He says his family are still living in fear. When I go

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out to work on a night I have always got it in the back of my

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head about my wife and children being there on their own. You just

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try and secured the castle. these crooks have got some fund and

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they know that the chances of being caught are slim. Last year there

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were almost 150 incidents of metal theft on West Midlands motorways.

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So, why do they like you, so much? It is mainly because of the sort of

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roads that we have got. A motorway network has a great deal of

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technology on it, new technology that has been introduced as part of

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the managed motorways that we have. The use of the hard shoulder. It

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enables us to offer an extra lane to the travelling public at times

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of congestion, so what is being targeted is the communications and

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the power cable that is feeding all these devices. Show me examples of

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what they steel. Typically, this is the cable that is being targeted,

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95 millimetre power cable. This is the new type, so it is marked

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internally and corporately. What about the cost of replacing this,

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the cost of manpower, the cost of disruption to traffic? The cost of

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this is going to be quite significant. Metal theft cost the

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nation �770 million last year. For the Highways Agency, it is �5

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million, and that is just for the replacement cable, so the taxpayer

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is bearing the cost of this kind of criminal activity. We are all

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paying the price. Is there anything more that can be done to tackle

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this crime? Three objectives today, one is to work in partnership with

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scrap-metal dealers... The cables are being security-marked, and the

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police are making it harder to offload the goods. Thirdly, to

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target scrap-metal dealers that are not following legislation. I am

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joining the police and the Black Country on the sort of operation

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that might be a common sight in future. Changes in the lock from

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December will make it illegal for dealers to buy cash for scrap-metal

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which will make it easier for police to trace material that is

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stolen. The difficult part is identify metal that has been stolen.

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We should be well to look at it and say straight away that that is our

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cable. They can look at that and no because of the number of cables,

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the stands and the colours, that it is their cable. So of it could be

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located back to the motorway? Definitely, yes, it depends how it

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is cut up or strip before it comes in. There was nothing untoward in

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that yard, but an eagle-eyed British Telecom's employee has

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spotted some stolen table. -- cable. You can see the end there, it is

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mark. When it is a load like this, there is 50 kilograms? It is going

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to be lost and that. recollection who brought it in?

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idea whatsoever. To find that their, is unbelievable. The cable

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confiscated, but other than that, this scrapyard gets a clean bill of

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health. Across the Black Country, the prospect of a change in the

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loch is having an effect. We are not finding as much stolen metal

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over the last few months. It does not mean that it is not going on,

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that unscrupulous people are not doing it in other ways, but from

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the visits we have done we are happy there is not as much stolen

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material coming through. So the trade is declining a little? That

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is one way of looking at it. they cannot catch them on the

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carriageway, the police will to stop the crooks by hitting demand,

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but, these are Praf the characters, and back on the road, the police

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know they need to be on their toes. There will always be opportunists

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to try to beat the system. Hopefully, these new laws will be -

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- will mean that we can catch them as well and there is a better

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chance of them being caught. can talk to us on Twitter, using a

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hash attack inside out. -- the hashtag =insideout. Still to come,

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what happens to these planes ones they have stopped carrying

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thousands of passengers around the globe? If I wanted one of Rosa much

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would it cost? That would cost 25,000 as it is at the moment, and

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it is fully complete inside. Next, what drives people to break the

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lock for the love of animals? Birmingham poet, Benjamin Zephaniah,

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a well-known animal lover, has never been tempted, but he tries to

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get inside the mind set of the activists who have been. Some

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people think animals are put on this earth to search humans. Others

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believe the opposite, that an animal's life is worth as much as a

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human. The debate about animal rights is heated. I am Benjamin

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Zephaniah. I am passionate about animal rights. I express it through

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my poetry, but others express that in another way. There are some

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people that will attack individuals, property, will sabotage

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organisations and hunts and other people will go to all kinds of

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extremes to defend their rights to use animals. But, I ask myself,

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could I be driven at far? I believe in non-violence. But what would

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Tonight I venture into the world of animal-rights, and ask what drives

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these people? I also meet a victim. I meet a cancer that sort who has

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been jailed at various times. -- a hunt saboteur of.. I was in and out

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of prison, I was like a yo-yo. I find it difficult to talk about it.

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I desecrated a grave, we knew it was shocking, that is why we did it.

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The what drove you have to desiccated someone's grave? I

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wanted to hurt them. Life is a lot more complicated, and if I believed

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that we could change society by force, it would be forced all the

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way. That is a nonsensical idea, that we can force compassion down

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people's probes. There are very strong feelings, people won't

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understand it. Chickens are my brothers and my sisters, and I

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don't expect everyone to understand that. The people that do understand

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will understand what I'm on about. If it was crazy, it was mad, but it

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had a place in history. Hopefully there would be any more desecration,

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it belongs in history. John said he would not do it again, but for me,

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digging up a grave is a line that I would not cross. He does have some

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remorse. He is also very much into the movement, he still cares about

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animals. I can see why people who were not in the movement would be

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shocked, digging up a grave, that is the worst thing you can do. Four

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people on the other side of the fence, treating animals really

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badly, killing them, experimenting on them, that is also the worst

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thing you can do. For every extreme act by an activist, there is

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someone on the other end. This dairy farmer has experienced it,

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tuberculosis was killing his cattle, he received death threats for his

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part of the badger cull. I have received death threats are my phone,

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some of it was disgusting. A lot of threats. -- death threats on my

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phone. I found it quite disgusting. It says here that you enjoy killing

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wildlife we Arona gratification. That is not true. I am not a hunter.

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I look after wildlife. I enjoy a wildlife. Our businesses that

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feeding people. It is about managing the countryside. I have an

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innate love of animals, I care for them. You have been farming or

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alive, but have you ever felt, in light of the recent threats, of

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giving it up. It is very worrying, we have grown children visiting,

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and it is worrying about them. -- grandchildren. It is interesting

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seeing someone who has been personified as being evil, he is

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quite a nice man. He says he cares about animals, but as I pointed out,

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it is a different kind of caring. I could never care about an animal,

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that at it in the eye, and then send it off to slaughter. -- look

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at it in the eye. How different it hearings about caring by animals

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will never change. Some people's opinions to change. I'm about to

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meet Jim Barron, he was a chief executive of an animal rights

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organisation, he has you turned, and now is campaigning to end the

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fox hunting ban. He believes it is bad for animals and the countryside.

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Does this change in belief means he has fallen out of love of animals?

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Not at all, it has got stronger. But the crucial difference between

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Val -- between wealth and rights, that is a human concept. Animal-

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rights have some very limited people. They are thinking more

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about themselves, than what can be done. People have done some crazy

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things, can you understand where they are coming from? I can, I

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think I felt that passion, two were -- to a degree, I can still feel it.

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They have to understand that the work has to mean some sort of

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reality. I don't want to put people laugh who are trying to help

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animals. A simple blanket of view, Dodi way to the animal, will not

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work. -- don't do it. Jim still campaigns for animals, as they

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begin I have always believed in protecting animals, they have the

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same rights as humans. People have different kinds of extremes. I

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could not see myself digging up a grave, as a matter how bad things

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got. -- doesn't matter how bad things. I could not see myself

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sending someone a threatening letter. They both involve death,

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they are serious things. Everybody takes extreme measure feels that no

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one is listening. It is a matter of life and death. Today I have seen

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what drives extremist, and the results of their actions. Luckily

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for me, I get passionate, I get angry, but I don't go to extreme,

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because I have my poetry to express myself.

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You are watching Inside out in the West Midlands. We are at an

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airfield, what happens when planes have taxied off the runway for the

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final time? Deep in the Cotswolds, and marks

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the chocolate -- and months that the chocolate-box villages, an

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extraordinary business has taken Ever wondered what happens to

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redundant jet airliners? Well, so far, over 500 have ended up here,

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the largest and busiest a recycling business in Britain. This is a

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salvage international, they were launched 15 years ago, when a Mark

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Gregory to go gamble and risked �1,000 on an old airplane. He was

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working for an airline that went bust. I stripped it down on my own

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with no help from anyone. Quite a challenge! In no time he had sold

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the doors of �4,000, and realised he was on to something. He ended up

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we employing quite a fee -- quite a few people. He employs over 40

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people, and recycles 40 aircraft a year. Almost every part of a modern

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plane can be used again. I would say 95% of the plane can be re-used.

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Everything has a part and so real number. Everything is traceable.

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it is not traceable, it is worthless. The most prized part is

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the engine. This is amazing. You come to work every day? Explain

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what you doing here. The engine on the right hand side has been sold.

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We are going to preserve the engine. How much as an engine sell for?

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About $1 million. We are going to fire up an engine that has been

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sold for $1 million. Which Barton do we press? That one. -- which

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button. On the other side of the air way it is as quiet as a

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graveyard. Film companies are queuing up to get hold of these

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planes before the demolition starts. This will eventually go on to a

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lorry, and go where? This is going up to Scotland for Warner Brothers.

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We have been involved in Doctor Who, James Bond, a -- Casualty. I cannot

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afford it, and I cannot afford this. Vodka martini, shaken not stirred.

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Maybe not. Just occasionally they come across something very special,

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like this gold-plated jet. It was once owned by an Arab sheikh. This

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is far too good to scrap, said they are turning it into a -- they are

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turning it into a high end of recreation suite. Rather than the

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mile-high club, it will be the 10th that High Club. Last year every

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team dismantling of brought a whole new meaning to flying high. He we

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had a huge drugs find. Around $4 million a of cocaine. Apparently it

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was traced back to South America. I am amazed no one discovered that.

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What was the resolution? I do not think they are around now. There is

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quite often real drama in this business. S Savage becomes truly

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international when it is called on to recover part of a crash, or a

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cockpit fire like this. July 29th, 2011, this flight was taking off in

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Cairo, when a fire took hold. 300 passengers were evacuated, and the

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plane was written off. Restricted down, we restored most of the parts.

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They are going on the market to be sold. It is really exciting. The

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engineers really love it, we are always on standby to go out on

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court to recover aircraft. -- on call. They really enjoy their work

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here, all that is left is the Albion body which goes to soft

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drink manufacturers for the cans. - - aluminium. It is the artistic and

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unusual design uses a that really This designer terms jumbo jets into

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art. What have you done with this. I have taken the seat from a Boeing

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737, built legs to read, stripped it out, and give it a car to paint.

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Someone will buy this? Enthusiasts. Anyone who likes the look of it.

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will be around �650. This looks like a lie and borrow light

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fitting? That is a hydraulic event, it is a lamb. How much were they

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sell for? A row on top hundred pounds. At this business is

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expanding, and a long would it be demand for new planes. There I

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think this piece would look good in the garden.

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That is its for 29. Don't forget you can find be

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information on our Facebook page. Good night. Coming upon next week's

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