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Tonight to you find me overlooking the river at seven. Week will be | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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mapping out a world war two mystery here. Also, how a to overcome | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
crippling debt. The judge asked for money and I don't even had the | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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tenpins. And a crime wave hitting farmers in | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
a region. It is a crime that has more than | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
doubled in the past 12 months. It is costing farmers �6 million a | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
year. It is sheep rustling. And earlier | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
this year a couple from Swadlincote, just starting out in farming, | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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discovered how devastating this crime can be. I thought they had | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
taken my sheep, they have ruined my life. Standing here in this field I | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
could not leave me she had gone. -- believe the man she had gone. | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
seeing any sheep following year his awful when you were standing here. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Rick and Rachel lost 90 sheep in that single raid valued at around | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
�18,000. Farmers all over the country are suffering similar and | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
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sometimes much larger losses. have had incidents where there have | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
been over 300 lost. It is all well or old organisation that is | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
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stealing them, not one or two people. In 2011, 67,000 sheep were | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
stolen across the UK. That has cost the industry around �6 million. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
So what is driving this crime? Quite simply, economics. Here at | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
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Melton Mowbray the sale price of sheep has never been higher. | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
years ago we saw she prices between 50 per ounce and �65 and now it is | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
�70 or at �80. Then we peaked at �100. In the last two years we have | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
seen prices higher than we have seen them before. Today with | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
everyone going out to work and no money about it is easy pickings. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
They do know what they're doing and they know where to go to do it. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
are an easy target. Every day Rick and Rachel nervously | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
count their remaining sheep. They lost half their stock in that raid, | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
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and now some more appear to be missing. The Ivy, underneath there? | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
-- weir ROV? If you lose them then you lose a lot because you work | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
hard to get where you are and then an old Fleet -- no free lunches in | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
farming. These sheep are very much part of | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
the family, most have been given names. And there were some real | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
favourites amongst those stolen. This one was a pure breed, she was | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
beautiful. She would have alarmed next year. Then we had this one | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
with a tail who used to go after the bridge for that day. And then | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
another, this one, she was a survivor. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Combat actually escaped from the rustlers. And here she is, the hero | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
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of today's flock. This is the one that escaped. We did not know until | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
we rounded them up. Luckily, she jumped the fence and ran in the | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
field in the bush somewhere. So where do these stolen sheep go? | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
It is widely thought they are illegally slaughtered and sold on | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
the black market. And that is worrying Trading Standards officers. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
The meat might be slaughtered in an on hygienic environment. There | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
might be additional residues from medication administered from the | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
former. Some farmers have gone to | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
extraordinary lengths to deter the rustlers. On Dartmoor, one flock | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
were dyed orange to make them stand out. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Could better tagging of sheep defeat this crime? At the moment | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
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all sheep are tagged, but it's hardly a foolproof system. Attacks | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
are plastic and with a peer of scissors you can take it off. | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
This man may have the answer. It is a technique that has been trialled | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
in Northern Ireland and is now about to be applied here in | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Derbyshire. No wonder these sheep are looking a little wary. Every | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
sheep's eye is unique and this camera captures an image of the | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
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retina with a GPS location. gives the ability to give up | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
isometric passport to follow the animal for life. -- bile metric. It | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
is a smoking than to say that that is not years, it belongs to someone | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
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else. For individual farmers it can be a deterrent. An island we got | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
the police involved and but signed up shake-up seen that these animals | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
were protected. We saw the theft in the area at drop. -- we put a sign | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
up. And we could also prove that they were not theirs. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Convincing all farmers to get behind such a scheme might take | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
some doing, but it may be one of the only ways of defeating this | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
multi-million pound crime. Well, it has been a few months | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
since we first started filming with Rick and Rachel. Immediately after | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
their sheep were stolen things looked pretty bleak. I have come | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
back to see how they are getting on. It affected everything that we | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
worked for four years and they took it away in one night. That is why I | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
am so determined. I want to continue what I am doing. We could | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
not even walk up the field when it happened because it was so | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
upsetting. Rachel has now got someone else to | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
keep her busy - new arrival baby Harriet. And with an extra mouth to | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
feed, she is determined to succeed. In the back of my mind I cannot | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
believe it happened to was but you have to continue on and make life | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
better. That is what we're continuing to do, it is not easy | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
because it went at the beginning, financially it is not good either. | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
But we have cracked on and hopefully it will be better. I am | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
going to pursue beer and hopefully in a few years' time I might be | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
able to be where I was last year. It will take a lot of hard work | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
again. I just have to keep on going for it. I have to try and not let | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
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them win. You can tot was on Twitter right | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
now. If you have a story from the West Midlands that you think should | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
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be covering then do drop me an e- mail. | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
Still to come: we attempt to uncover the mystery of hecklers | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
plan for a rich north. The fact that they chose what before them | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
would be a very remote Elia led me to realise that they had very | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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special ideas for this the rear. Two years ago, Inside Out met | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Sharon Fox. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer and we followed | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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her through her mastectomy and reconstruction. It feels like a | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
distant memory, so much has happened. I want to start living in | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
making up but the last two years. So much has happened since Sharon | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
was diagnosed, but one thing really caught her by surprise - the impact | :10:40. | :10:49. | |
her illness had on the family finances. When I was diagnosed we | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
were both working and you go from two in comes down to almost one | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
full-time income and that has a dramatic effect not only on your | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
weekly and monthly outgoings, but also on your lifestyle. We had a | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
really good standard of living before cancer and had a nice car | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
and home. We never had to worry too much about switching the heating on. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
But after six months, we started to shuffle things around and put | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
things on to a credit card, and then it would come to the end of | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
the month and actually we could not find that �100 for the credit card. | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
It is easy to get into despair over finances, definitely. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
The money problems were a surprise, but as we found out last time we | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
met her, Sharon is not one to give up easily. She helped herself, and | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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also set up a cancer support centre to help others. There is one lady | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
in this room this evening who is not very happy with her here at the | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
moment. We're going to give her and make over. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
The centre started out giving advice, counselling and therapies. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
But Sharon has also introduced a service offering support on money | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
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I'm really not good at asking for help, which is why I wanted to set | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
up the support centre which has the relaxed atmosphere, and people can | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
walk in, feel like they are walking into their own lounge. I wanted to | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
put our experiences under one roof in an informal and non medical way | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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so people didn't face the hurdles I was going through. Hello, only me! | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
I work as a parrot legal doing debt recovery, and you realise the other | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
side of it when you work in that area, how people are suffering from | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
debt and I wanted to flip the coin and do something for charity. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Giving Sharon a hand with financial advice at the centre is her "money | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
angel" Carole Moore. I meet people who are suffering from dead. They | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
come in off the street, really upset, and I just want to explain | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
to them in layman's terms what they can do. I help them sort out things | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
like the Blue badge for parking, housing benefit, council tax | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
benefit, disability living allowance, carer's allowance, the | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
benefits they can have. What I don't know, I research on the | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
internet and point them in the right direction. Sharon is helping | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
others tackle the hidden costs of cancer at her support centre. It | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
seems there are plenty of people out there needing help. Last year | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
cancer charity Macmillan said it paid out more than �2.5 million, | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
just so people could pay their heating bills. Would you like to | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
come through this way? Just take a seat. That would be great. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Bedworth, Warwickshire, Macmillan has teamed up with the Citizen's | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Advice Bureau. Among those who've turned to this service is Jane, | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
who's asked not to be identified. She felt there was so much stigma | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
attached to having money problems she simply couldn't talk to anyone | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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else. I don't want to say I'm struggling financially because it | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
is like a downward spiral. I don't want to be a failure, I want to be | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
there with the kids found the family. Things like when they say, | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
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I have to trot out to the bank to get even more money so I don't let | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
the kids down and that pressure is going on me. It is difficult to | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
talk to anybody else about it without them wanting to actually | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
give you money, which is not what you want to do. When I came to | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
Macmillan, it was a load off my mind. Jane's been using the service | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
for around six months now and believes her financial difficulties | :15:39. | :15:48. | |
could be coming to an end. I feel like we are almost threw it now and | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
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we are going to come out on top. We are a family, and... You know, that | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
is just what matters. Whatever else, you know, we can get through | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
anything. Thanks to Macmillan and the CAB, Jane and her family are | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
finally back on track. But, as we know, there are lots of others out | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
there needing help. So, is there anything people can do themselves | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
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to avoid getting into problems? think that cancer and debt problems | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
unfortunately tend to go hand in hand. A lot of physical and mental | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
illnesses can lead to debt because you are not feeling your best or | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
concentrating on financial circumstances, which is fair enough | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
but it is important to take the stigma out of this. The ways of | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
dealing with debt is the same whether you have cancer or | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
suffering from depression, there was a lot you can do about this. I | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
would say start by drawing a proper budget and trying to reduce your | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
outgoings. This is crucial because it will help to identify any | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
problems spending areas you need to get rid of, as well as anything you | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
can do to cut back. Secondly, check your benefits entitlement. There | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
are specific benefits available for people with health problems like | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
cancer so they can be useful in times when you find yourself in | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
financial hardship. To check this, you would use an online benefits | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
calculator. They tell you what kind of help you could be entitled to do. | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
I also say on this, talk to your lender. This is a really good way | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
to make sure you have good communication which is open because | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
if they don't know what is going on they will not be able to help. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
is all you need to do, just concentrate on paying for it really. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
So, there are ways of tackling the hidden costs of cancer, as well as | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
services that can help people get back on their feet. As for Sharon? | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Well, she's now set up her own business a fancy dress and wedding | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
hire shop. After two years of struggling, she hopes her money | :18:17. | :18:26. | |
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problems are finally behind her. is quite nice to invest in my own | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
business, and to make that kind of big step in to being self-employed | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
and having my own company, which, because cities across the way from | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
the Cancer Support Unit, I can be over there are fine needed as well | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
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so it is the best of both worlds and quite a fun job to be in. | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
The programme tonight is coming from Bridgnorth, where Ritchie has | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
been unravelling the Second World War mystery. Did Hitler really want | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
to set up a base in the town? Bridgnorth a pretty market town | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
nestling on the banks of the River Severn. It's a haven for day | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
trippers from all across the West Midlands, many drawn to the town by | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
the famous Severn Valley Railway. We're more than 800 miles from | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Berlin, but I'm told that during World War II Bridgnorth could have | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
become a base for Adolf Hitler. It's an intriguing tale that starts | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
with a gobsmacked auctioneer, who was asked to sell some rather | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
special documents. There was one map which detailed the whole of the | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
area centred on Bridgnorth with all of the various villages around, | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
trailing down towards Ludlow here. Coming from Shropshire, that was a | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
great shock. A British soldier found the papers | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
at a deserted Nazi post in Belgium in 1945, and took them home as a | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
war souvenir. 60 years on, and the maps worked their way to the | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
auction room, turning the spotlight on Bridgnorth as a potential UK | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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base for The Fuhrer. They could have chosen anywhere. The fact they | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
chose what seemed to be a very remote area right in the middle of | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
the English Midlands here, that led me to realise that in fact they | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
have very special ideas for this area. And you have seen other maps | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
of Britain, no other town or villages were planned out like | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
that? If no, not at all. There were detailed town plans for the major | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
metropolitan areas like Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol, but in | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
terms of a rural arrangement of towns and villages, this was the | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
only one. To think that something so significant to Bridgnorth's | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
history would pop up at an auction of military memorabilia just 20 | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
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miles away in Ludlow is amazing. have a lot of items related to the | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
Second World War, to the punch up, items from stage and screen, | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
sporting memorabilia, so the documents come in a whole range. | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
just goes to show what you can find when lots go under the hammer. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Perhaps I'll find something just as stunning when I try my hand at | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
driving up the bids. Our first item is a bit of football memorabilia. | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
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We have a 1954 FA Cup programme. 40 pounds anywhere? 40, 50? Thank you. | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
�60, we have got 70. 75? Lovely. We have got 80. Anywhere else? Going | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
once, going twice. �80 to the feller in the corner. That was | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
great fun, but I think I'll leave the art of auctioneering to David | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Dickinson. I've got some Hitler detective work to concentrate on. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
We do know that Hitler enjoyed being in the countryside. We know | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
he loved his home high in the Bavarian Alps, but could the | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
rolling hills of south Shropshire really have become his base? | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
Opinion seems divided among the good people of Bridgnorth. Have you | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
heard that Adolf Hitler back in the war was thinking of coming to | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
Bridgnorth to set up a base? If I have heard that actually, yes. What | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
were your thoughts on art? The to is a beautiful town, a good | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
location, and you have the castle walk down there so you can see | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
everything coming around so I'm not surprised. Why this area? Probably | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
the rivers and the access. No, I wouldn't think they would come here. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Even though they have found maps? Have they? That may be different | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
then. But the maps are very detailed. | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Hitler's men clearly spent plenty of time highlighting roads, | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
railways, electrical hubs and power stations. It still seems odd to me | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
though. You could understand him wanting to come to one of our major | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
cities, but Bridgnorth? Well maybe my old mate and historian Nick | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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Barratt can help me find out if the story sticks. Looking at this | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Shropshire countryside is beautiful. It is hard to imagine what might | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
have been. It is a typical English countryside scene. Rolling hills, | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
beautiful forest, but you almost get the sense this could be part of | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Germany, the Black Forest area perhaps, so it is not too much of | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
the stretch of the imagination. It is perfect in many ways with good | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
rail connections, good road networks, canals and an air base | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
nearby so in many ways it makes a lot of sense. In your opinion, do | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
you think this story is true? is nothing to say it is not true, | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
but we need more information to make a final decision perhaps. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
We've managed to track down the original maps and I can't wait to | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
take a closer look. We can see this clearly labelled as Bridgnorth. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Here you have a map of Great Britain, telecommunications and | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
various different areas, really important, and yet you have a box | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
there clearly labelled Bridgnorth so they were looking at this area. | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
You can understand how it would have worked. Birmingham is a key | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
area, London, Newcastle, that his howl England works. We are looking | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
slightly out of that region so if you are looking for a base, and | :25:28. | :25:37. | |
operational headquarters, and we know Hitler wanted to take Glenarm | :25:37. | :25:46. | |
-- Blenheim Palace, so you don't want to be too near a built-up area | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
where there is likely to be resistance and fighting, suddenly | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
Bridgnorth makes sense because it is close enough to the industrial | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
heartlands, but it is far enough out to be strategically saved. | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
what you have seen here, do you think there is more truth in this | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
story that Hitler had targeted Bridgnorth and Shropshire for his | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
face? If Bridgnorth seems to be significant. This is from the | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
invasion of 1940, a communications map which is crucial if you want to | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
invade the country. Bridgnorth is singled out for special attention | :26:25. | :26:34. | |
so this could easily be were Hitler wanted to base himself. You could | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
also argue that being a communications network, this is | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
where the Germans thought we had our centre of communications. We | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
don't know what they were planning because this comes from a wider | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
collection, but Bridgnorth has got prime significance. I am much more | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
convinced that they were going to come, because for all of the maps | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
we have seen, Bridgnorth is the only town, and let's face it it is | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
the only one that has been highlighted. It shows the | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
communication network as well so I am pretty convinced now, and having | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
spoken to you, that he was coming to shop Show. There is a good bit | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
of fishing on the river so maybe he thought it was a good place to go, | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
as I did as a kid! What we do know of course is that Hitler wanted to | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
invade Britain, and there seems compelling evidence that Bridgnorth | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
was very much on his radar. But thanks to the bravery of thousands | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
of men and women, this will always be a story of ambition that was | :27:45. | :27:54. | |
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