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