:00:00. > :00:08.Now, it might not look much, but this excavation on Cannock Chase
:00:09. > :00:11.could unearth a 90`year`old secret that would change our whole
:00:12. > :00:20.understanding of life in the World War I trenches.
:00:21. > :00:23.There is a general perception that there was a lack of training and
:00:24. > :00:27.bigger ship which resulted in massive casualties. The work we're
:00:28. > :00:33.doing is trying to show a different side to that.
:00:34. > :00:36.Also on the show: we follow one teenager's journey as surgeons
:00:37. > :00:42.battle to give his mum her face back.
:00:43. > :00:48.It's hard looking at my mum because she is not the same as used to be.
:00:49. > :00:54.And she's not right looking. It is strange. But I've come to accept it.
:00:55. > :01:02.That's all coming up on tonight's Inside Out with me, Mary Rhodes.
:01:03. > :01:05.But first tonight: When Matthew Ellis, Staffordshire's Police and
:01:06. > :01:08.Crime Commissioner, started in the job, he noticed that his officers
:01:09. > :01:12.were spending a lot of time dealing with people who suffered from mental
:01:13. > :01:15.health problems. In fact, he estimates that last year his force
:01:16. > :01:18.spent almost ?1 million tending to people who didn't necessarily need
:01:19. > :01:35.the police, but a more long`term solution. So we sent Sian Lloyd on
:01:36. > :01:39.shift to find out more. It's the busiest night of the week
:01:40. > :01:44.for Staffordshire police, but it is not crime that is top of the agenda.
:01:45. > :01:53.Chief inspector Amanda Davies is the officer in charge. It's 6pm. She's
:01:54. > :02:00.on her way to a major incident. He's on the roof. No, come away.
:02:01. > :02:04.Please, get down, please. We're going to Newcastle, we've had
:02:05. > :02:08.a call from a female who says her partner is walking in and out of
:02:09. > :02:13.traffic trying to kill himself. He's now gone to the top of a multistorey
:02:14. > :02:18.car park. The man is threatening to jump. PCs
:02:19. > :02:22.Pugh and Cook are also heading to the car park to secure the area.
:02:23. > :02:28.Upon approach, we need to make sure the area is clear of traffic ` he
:02:29. > :02:31.poses a risk to himself and others. The area is flooded with police who
:02:32. > :02:35.close surrounding roads while officers try and talk him down.
:02:36. > :02:41.We've got a patrol with him, currently negotiating. At the moment
:02:42. > :02:52.he is talking to the chap. He is not on the edge.
:02:53. > :02:55.At the moment he's talking to the chap. He's not immediately on the
:02:56. > :02:58.edge, but he's near enough. After almost an hour of
:02:59. > :03:01.negotiations, officers persuade the man to come down.
:03:02. > :03:05.Can you make sure that when they come down that they bring him here,
:03:06. > :03:09.and we'll just get a sense of his state of mind and what the officers
:03:10. > :03:14.are going to do with him, whether it's a 136 or whether it's? We've
:03:15. > :03:15.got some care that we can put him in to.
:03:16. > :03:19.The officers suspect he's got mental health problems ` section 136 of the
:03:20. > :03:22.Mental Health Act will give police the power to detain him for
:03:23. > :03:25.assessment. But the Police and Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire
:03:26. > :03:27.Police is worried. He says officers are spending too much time dealing
:03:28. > :03:31.with the mentally ill. It's even worse when you get a
:03:32. > :03:34.couple of officers taken off an entire shift simply to look after an
:03:35. > :03:38.individual who hasn't committed an offence, is simply ill, but still
:03:39. > :03:41.sees the inside of a police cell, with two officers watching them to
:03:42. > :03:44.make sure they're ok, it's not the right use of resources and its
:03:45. > :03:47.certainly not something police officers are qualified to do.
:03:48. > :03:51.So far ten officers have been sent to the incident. It's taken a lot of
:03:52. > :03:57.time and resources but it's a positive outcome.
:03:58. > :04:01.You haven't had any drink or drugs? Have you had problems in the past
:04:02. > :04:04.with mental health issues? He's been arrested under section 136
:04:05. > :04:10.of the mental health act so officers now have to go with him to hospital.
:04:11. > :04:14.My colleague is having to sit with him, keep him safe whilst we're
:04:15. > :04:17.waiting for the staff to take over responsibility for him, as we're
:04:18. > :04:21.speaking I can see my colleague coming back now but it could be five
:04:22. > :04:24.minutes, sometimes it could be three, four hours.
:04:25. > :04:28.Staffordshire's latest figures say that up to 25% of their officers
:04:29. > :04:37.time is being spent dealing with incidents that could be avoided.
:04:38. > :04:40.Thank you. It's coming from ambulance.
:04:41. > :04:48.It will always be our responsibility. People in crisis
:04:49. > :04:51.need somebody to talk to, be somebody to look We are here to
:04:52. > :04:55.protect life and limb. Out for them. Mental health will always be a part
:04:56. > :04:58.of our job. But we can't do it on our own.
:04:59. > :05:02.After an hour at the hospital, PC Pugh and Cook have finished with the
:05:03. > :05:07.car park jumper and are on their way to another call.
:05:08. > :05:12.Emergency, can I help you? They're trying to drill through and
:05:13. > :05:16.get into me. They're coming through the walls.
:05:17. > :05:20.The caller believes there are people trying to get into his home to harm
:05:21. > :05:23.him. We've been called to an address
:05:24. > :05:26.which is a residential unit for recovering alcoholics. A male's rang
:05:27. > :05:29.up who is just short of 25 years old, who's got clear issues and
:05:30. > :05:32.vulnerabilities around alcoholism, self`harming and mental health
:05:33. > :05:38.issues. The man called police four times
:05:39. > :05:43.last night. He has a history of mental illness and drug use.
:05:44. > :05:46.He called us repeatedly four or five times, saying that people were
:05:47. > :05:53.coming at him with knives sticks, bricks you name it.
:05:54. > :05:57.Officers check the premises and find nothing. The man is sent back to
:05:58. > :06:02.bed, but they know it won't be the last they hear from him This is
:06:03. > :06:04.where we need to be more joined up, we need to look at partnership
:06:05. > :06:08.approach, joining the services more closely together so for that
:06:09. > :06:12.individual we deal with him once, we deal with him properly and so not
:06:13. > :06:21.only does he not ring us again, he doesn't ring other services either.
:06:22. > :06:24.Hello, it's ambulance. The calls keep coming into the
:06:25. > :06:32.command centre. Officers are being deployed all over the county to
:06:33. > :06:35.unpredictable and desperate people. Had a job for men, a 48`year`old
:06:36. > :06:42.schizophrenic attempting self harm. He is having hallucinations. From
:06:43. > :06:48.previous cases and villains are saying he uses a knife.
:06:49. > :06:55.Aare you prepared to authorise tazer?
:06:56. > :06:58.If there is a risk involved are officers need to be protected.
:06:59. > :07:01.It's not to say that we will use tazer, but it's there as a
:07:02. > :07:05.contingency and will only be used as a last resort and only when they're
:07:06. > :07:07.feeling threatened the officers will always use their communication
:07:08. > :07:11.skills to engage with the person first, but no it isn't fair, that
:07:12. > :07:15.individual is obviously ill, and to then have to use tazer at some point
:07:16. > :07:19.is not really caring or meeting the needs of that individual at all.
:07:20. > :07:25.Back on the streets, and PCs Cook and Pugh on their way to a complaint
:07:26. > :07:29.about a drunken reveller. We've just got a call to a location
:07:30. > :07:32.about half mile outside of the city centre, male walking around in the
:07:33. > :07:38.road with his pants round his ankles. What's the problem?
:07:39. > :07:41.The man tells officers he has a mental health illness and he's been
:07:42. > :07:43.taking his medication with the alcohol.
:07:44. > :07:46.We've spoken to the male, he's totally incoherent, and no other
:07:47. > :07:58.address to go to, he's been arrested and handcuffed. He's made us aware
:07:59. > :08:02.he has a mental health problem but he's so incoherent he's going to be
:08:03. > :08:05.conveyed to custody by another patrol.
:08:06. > :08:15.Have you got a care nurse or somebody you speak to? You're going
:08:16. > :08:20.to have to look at my... It's all your records, is it?
:08:21. > :08:23.The man was taken into custody and monitored overnight. But police
:08:24. > :08:27.insist mental health is no excuse for criminal behaviour.
:08:28. > :08:30.As part of dealing with that crime their mental health needs will be
:08:31. > :08:33.met in custody, but if they're committing a crime, they're
:08:34. > :08:35.committing a crime and we should always have that as our first
:08:36. > :08:38.priority. It's the early hours of the morning,
:08:39. > :08:44.and officers have been called back to the address they attended just a
:08:45. > :08:47.few hours ago. Officers have searched the premises once tonight
:08:48. > :08:55.already, but the man is still insisting that there are people
:08:56. > :08:59.trying to get to him. I'm asking you the question, have
:09:00. > :09:05.you seen anyone in here tonight? I've seen them in the garden, I'm
:09:06. > :09:17.not lying. It's cracking me up this is. It's the monkey dust. I haven't
:09:18. > :09:20.touched it, ask me Mrs. Come on people to think I'm off my head,
:09:21. > :09:23.because we're not. The situation becomes volatile as
:09:24. > :09:28.the other residents are now being disturbed.
:09:29. > :09:32.You're saying it's going on here, when somebody says no, you say it is
:09:33. > :09:40.going on around the back. You keep changing.
:09:41. > :09:43.All caps indistinct Eventually officers are forced to arrest the
:09:44. > :09:53.man for a public order offence. At the station, there is concern for
:09:54. > :10:02.his mental health and state of mind. It's making me ill again. I've come
:10:03. > :10:05.a long way. You know what I mean? The Custody Sergeant has arranged
:10:06. > :10:11.for the man to see psychiatric nurse.
:10:12. > :10:15.You want a blanket or anything? Nothing? Below, cup of tea?
:10:16. > :10:19.The man doesn't need any further attention and is taken to his cell.
:10:20. > :10:22.Arrested, assessed and released ` the cycle that Staffordshire Police
:10:23. > :10:27.say too many people with mental health problems follow.
:10:28. > :10:34.Is this a cycle? Are you going to see him again?
:10:35. > :10:38.Probably, yes. I would hope that while he was in custody that he was
:10:39. > :10:44.offered all the support he needed by the clinical, psychiatric nurse in
:10:45. > :10:47.custody. Whether he takes up that referral or advice will be down to
:10:48. > :10:54.him, but probably, at some point, yes.
:10:55. > :10:57.The Home Office and the Department of Health said "barriers often lie
:10:58. > :11:01.at the crossroads between Police and health services". They've launched a
:11:02. > :11:04.pilot to put health care professionals alongside the police
:11:05. > :11:07."to give people with mental health problems the care they deserve."
:11:08. > :11:14.It's early morning and our shift has come to an end.
:11:15. > :11:18.The man arrested for drunk and disorderly was given a fixed penalty
:11:19. > :11:21.notice. The man from the hostel was given a 12`month conditional
:11:22. > :11:25.discharge and ordered to pay ?85 costs and the man who threatened to
:11:26. > :11:32.jump was not arrested for any criminal offence. With so much time
:11:33. > :11:38.and resources at stake, what's the solution?
:11:39. > :11:41.It's a broken system, and it's a system that needs fixing, because
:11:42. > :11:45.the police will not stop responding to this. But what also makes me
:11:46. > :11:48.angry is just that slight hint that other services know the police are a
:11:49. > :11:53.can`do service, and so they just let them get on with it, and that has to
:11:54. > :12:01.stop, and that's what's going to stop in Staffordshire.
:12:02. > :12:08.So what do you think the solution is? Or should the police just accept
:12:09. > :12:11.this is part of their job and get with it? Let me know what you think
:12:12. > :12:15.` e`mail me: mary.rhodes@bbc.co.uk. I'd love to hear from you.
:12:16. > :12:19.You're watching Inside Out for the Midlands, and next we've got Tom's
:12:20. > :12:24.story ` his Mum Susan was diagnosed with mouth cancer two years ago. She
:12:25. > :12:33.was lucky it was caught early and removed, but it's left her with a
:12:34. > :12:39.hole in her face. 13`year`old Tom now tells us the story of how his
:12:40. > :12:45.Mum got her face back. This is my Mum, Susan. People always
:12:46. > :12:49.want to know why she's got that bandage across her face. Sometimes
:12:50. > :12:52.we get a few funny looks when we're out, even the occasional comment. I
:12:53. > :12:56.have to try hard not to say something back. It's been there for
:12:57. > :13:03.two years, it all started when she found a lump in the top of her mouth
:13:04. > :13:08.and showed it to her dentist. They took a biopsy and I was due to go
:13:09. > :13:13.back in four weeks for the results, but they rang me within days and
:13:14. > :13:18.asked me to come in the following day. So I knew that it was, I was on
:13:19. > :13:28.is the pating it being cancer, because you don't get called in the
:13:29. > :13:35.following day. I won't lie to you. That was a tough day. I can't
:13:36. > :13:37.remember if I cried, but I was pretty crushed. Unfortunately,
:13:38. > :13:42.getting rid of the cancer meant they had to take out the roof of Mum's
:13:43. > :13:48.mouth and some of her face as well. I take this one off and then prepare
:13:49. > :13:58.a new tape with two pieces of dressing. Fold it up and then they
:13:59. > :14:06.just go over there. Like that. It's hard to look at her but I've stayed
:14:07. > :14:15.strong for Mum. All that's about to change, though. I have Dom terms
:14:16. > :14:24.with that and I have to stay strong my my mum. All that is about to
:14:25. > :14:31.change. We're coming to meet the man who's going to give Mum her face
:14:32. > :14:34.back. Susan Williams? This is Sat Palmer, a Maxillofacial Surgeon at
:14:35. > :14:40.the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. We would like to put
:14:41. > :14:44.some bone into your top jaw and we will take some bone from your leg.
:14:45. > :14:49.This is your nose and what you have got missing is a bit of skin in that
:14:50. > :14:55.area of your lip that you can't see on the model. We will be basically
:14:56. > :15:00.putting the skin in to seal that gap off as well. That denture is the
:15:01. > :15:06.single thing that is stopping every time she has anything to drink,
:15:07. > :15:14.fluids and food coming up. It is not working that well. So they'll use
:15:15. > :15:18.the leg bone to build a new roof for Mum's mouth and that will let them
:15:19. > :15:21.put dental implants in. I can't help worrying about what could go wrong,
:15:22. > :15:24.though. Is there a chance that she won't wake up? Basic... I don't
:15:25. > :15:29.know, there is always a chance that something like that could go wrong.
:15:30. > :15:35.However, this is something that we do routinely in Birmingham and your
:15:36. > :15:40.mother's you know young and totally fit and healthy. So we don't
:15:41. > :15:47.anticipate any problems at all. That looks pretty good. Sat sees a lot of
:15:48. > :15:50.cases like Mum's, but a lot of the time people don't actually make it
:15:51. > :15:54.this far. Having cancer is very heart`breaking, because if patients
:15:55. > :15:59.present early, by that I mean they seek help from the doctoror dentist
:16:00. > :16:09.and get referred to the specialist, your chances of being cured is
:16:10. > :16:12.between 80 to 90%. So why is it that so many people aren't diagnosed as
:16:13. > :16:16.quickly as Mum? Often it gets missed, purely because people don't
:16:17. > :16:22.know what they're looking for. That applies to the patients, but often a
:16:23. > :16:27.lot of GPs and dentists don't know when they're looking at a cancer and
:16:28. > :16:34.not getting an appropriate preferal quickly. `` referral quickly. A week
:16:35. > :16:38.later, Mum was all ready for surgery and things were finally going to be
:16:39. > :16:42.back to normal. A bit scared now of what it's going to look like. I have
:16:43. > :16:47.got used to wearing this for so long. I suppose it is excitement.
:16:48. > :16:55.But a bit apprehension at the same time. Yeah, it will be intriguing!
:16:56. > :16:59.But at the last minute there was a problem finding a bed for after the
:17:00. > :17:05.operation. Unfortunately we have had to cancel Susan's operation and I
:17:06. > :17:10.have just had to tell her that. Not surprisingly she is not taking it
:17:11. > :17:16.too well. I would be exactly the same. If I had worked myself up for
:17:17. > :17:22.the surgery, psychologically. Well obviously I'm bitterly disappointed.
:17:23. > :17:26.I understand why it's happened, basically some emergency's come in
:17:27. > :17:34.and taken the bed that could have been allocated to me. But I'm gutted
:17:35. > :17:38.to be honest. Mum's been cancelled, because there is no intensive care
:17:39. > :17:43.bed available. Coming home. Disappointing, but that is the way
:17:44. > :17:49.it goes. Love you. Kiss. That is pretty terrible really. I thought
:17:50. > :17:59.the operation was going to go ahead. But... Oh well. We can't do anything
:18:00. > :18:06.about it. It is the Tom cam and we are in the car on the way to
:18:07. > :18:15.Birmingham. I'm very nervous, obviously. And I'm scared. It was an
:18:16. > :18:20.anxious three week wait but on October 7th, the big day finally
:18:21. > :18:24.arrived. Are you happy for us to start? There were two teams of
:18:25. > :18:29.surgeons working on Mum at the same time. The plate we have had made for
:18:30. > :18:35.Susan, he will put that in, which will guide him to putting the bone
:18:36. > :18:40.in the right position. And because they have given us the measurements
:18:41. > :18:47.of how much skin they need and what shape they will, we will try and
:18:48. > :18:50.raise to it that sort of specification. Mum was under the
:18:51. > :18:54.knife for eight hours, but the wait seemed like forever. Connor's cut
:18:55. > :19:00.around the skin and he has found the area, the bottom end where we are
:19:01. > :19:07.going to basically, we have cut the bone and taken a segment out. Later
:19:08. > :19:13.that evening, I finally got the news I'd been waiting for. Mr Palmer's
:19:14. > :19:19.just rung and it was all good. I wasn't too nervous. I know Mr
:19:20. > :19:23.Palmer's a good surgeon. So I trusted him and he delivered and
:19:24. > :19:31.hopefully we are going to see mum tomorrow and let's hope that she
:19:32. > :19:35.looks good. Mum's recovery is going well. Only nine days after the
:19:36. > :19:43.operation, she's been told she can go home. I feel fine. There is a
:19:44. > :19:49.certain discomfort and the piece of skin that's gone into me mouth, that
:19:50. > :19:54.needs to have time to shrink further. But, yeah, everything's,
:19:55. > :20:00.everything feels great. Relevantaway `` really good. There's still a way
:20:01. > :20:03.to go. When this has healed they'll start rebuilding her teeth. But the
:20:04. > :20:07.main thing is, Mum's finally got her face back. I'm really excited about
:20:08. > :20:13.getting me teeth and sorting this nose out. That's got to be sort of
:20:14. > :20:19.you know sorted out a bit. So it's still bits and bobs to sort, but I'm
:20:20. > :20:24.happy with what I have got so far. I'm feeling good, because mum looks
:20:25. > :20:36.brilliant, she looks fantastic and Mr Palmer's done a great job and
:20:37. > :20:40.this looks amazing. It's a story like Susan's that gets
:20:41. > :20:44.you thinking ` awareness of head and neck cancer is so low that late
:20:45. > :20:48.diagnosis is common, meaning 1 in 5 people die within 12 months of the
:20:49. > :20:51.initial diagnosis. Maybe you're worried and need some more
:20:52. > :20:59.information? Go to our website: bbc.co.uk/insideout.
:21:00. > :21:02.Now I'm here at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, where archaeologists
:21:03. > :21:05.have made a discovery that calls into question the widely`held belief
:21:06. > :21:15.that Britain's First World War soldiers were sent over the top
:21:16. > :21:21.without proper training or tactics. The team have found a scale model of
:21:22. > :21:32.a Belgian town used to prepare soldiers for battle. Could this
:21:33. > :21:37.prove generals did invest in both training and tactics? We've followed
:21:38. > :21:42.the project from beginning to end. What passing bells for those who
:21:43. > :21:46.die. The popular view of the First World
:21:47. > :21:49.War is that men were sent to fight, poorly led and ill`prepared. This
:21:50. > :21:57.was reinforced in popular culture by programmes like Blackadder. But
:21:58. > :22:03.Chief Archaeologist Stephen Dean is convinced we've got it all wrong.
:22:04. > :22:08.There is a perception there was a lack of training and leadership that
:22:09. > :22:18.leads to massive casualties. What the work that we are doing is trying
:22:19. > :22:25.to show a different side to that. By uncovering it he could help to
:22:26. > :22:29.dispel a popular view of the war: But there's a problem ` he only has
:22:30. > :22:33.four weeks before the money runs out. He'll have to battle the
:22:34. > :22:36.elements to get it done in time. We're up against it.
:22:37. > :22:44.It's week one of the excavation. Archaeologists are clearing a small
:22:45. > :22:51.section of the site. Excited about the dig. Their
:22:52. > :22:54.clearing the area. I know it is a unique site. There is nothing like
:22:55. > :23:00.it in the country. We are doing something that is singular and it is
:23:01. > :23:10.an exciting time to be an archaeologist.
:23:11. > :23:14.This is what he's looking for. This photo taken in 1918 appears to show
:23:15. > :23:17.a model of a First World War battlefield ` used to train troops
:23:18. > :23:21.for the frontline. If the model is as detailed as he thinks, it could
:23:22. > :23:24.prove they did get proper training. The model is a mock`up of the town
:23:25. > :23:28.of Messines in Belgium. It was designed and built by the New
:23:29. > :23:31.Zealand Rifle Brigade who were based at one of two huge military training
:23:32. > :23:34.camps on Cannock Chase during the war. It was drawn from their
:23:35. > :23:38.experiences of the Battle of Messines Ridge in 1917 ` one of the
:23:39. > :23:49.Allies most successful offensives ` and used to train troops for the
:23:50. > :23:57.front line. Look at this. And a lovely contour. Where is the
:23:58. > :24:00.contour? Here. Oh, fantastic. A week on, Stephen is already finding what
:24:01. > :24:08.he's looking for. We've in the centre of Messines
:24:09. > :24:14.itself. To my left we have got the market square. With we think it is a
:24:15. > :24:19.horse bath. Here, we can see the pond. That is one of the water
:24:20. > :24:26.features of the town and we can see the defensive lines. They are
:24:27. > :24:31.connected to cellars in the buildings. We have the road network
:24:32. > :24:36.and we have got more water features to my rear. So we are in the heart
:24:37. > :24:40.of it. The level of detail is incredible. This is why it is a
:24:41. > :24:49.great training feature. But it is becoming an act of commemoration for
:24:50. > :24:53.me. But there's a problem ` the team and
:24:54. > :24:56.their volunteers only have four weeks of funding from Natural
:24:57. > :25:00.England to get the site fully excavated.
:25:01. > :25:04.As you can see, on days like today there's really nothing we can do. As
:25:05. > :25:08.soon as you get on a monument like this, you start to churn it up, you
:25:09. > :25:12.cause more damage. So we've called it off for today and we're going to
:25:13. > :25:15.have to see what happens tomorrow. But the diggers fight back. Despite
:25:16. > :25:18.the unpredictable weather, a few days later there's been progress,
:25:19. > :25:21.with a large part of the site excavated. It's mostly down to the
:25:22. > :25:28.growing number of volunteers turning up to help. But the rain returns. We
:25:29. > :25:32.are always a hostage to the elements. We are quite up against it
:25:33. > :25:36.when this sort of thing happens. We have got a set amount of time and
:25:37. > :25:40.money from Natural England and we have got to try and get as much done
:25:41. > :25:45.as possible. But we will have to wait and see what the weather brings
:25:46. > :25:49.us. It's week four of the excavation ` a
:25:50. > :26:00.surprise visitor turns up bringing with him a revelation. You're on the
:26:01. > :26:03.site. Lieutenant Colonel Mike Beale from the New Zealand Army is based
:26:04. > :26:07.at the Commonwealth Office in London. Stephen and Kirsty take him
:26:08. > :26:13.on a tour of the model and keen to find out what a man in uniform
:26:14. > :26:17.thinks. What do you think? Amazed by the project, by the scale
:26:18. > :26:20.of it. From the number of people involved in uncovering it, right
:26:21. > :26:23.down to the detail. It's just incredible and shows the dedication
:26:24. > :26:31.of those who were involved in making the model at the time.
:26:32. > :26:35.And to the surprise of Stephen and Kirsty, he reveals that these types
:26:36. > :26:39.of models are still used by the army.
:26:40. > :26:51.Models like this are used by all militaries today. They used on the
:26:52. > :26:57.section. Before an operation will use what we call a mud model and
:26:58. > :27:02.scratch out the geographic details to plan where they're going to
:27:03. > :27:16.enable them to instill in the minds of those involved in the operation
:27:17. > :27:20.exactly what the grounds will like. So, far from being sent to the front
:27:21. > :27:23.with no training, they were actually ahead of their time. Thank you for
:27:24. > :27:30.showing me around and introducing me to the team doing a great job.
:27:31. > :27:34.The four weeks are up. The money's run out and the excavation is over.
:27:35. > :27:36.So after the long days and back`breaking work, with dozens of
:27:37. > :27:43.volunteers doing their bit and braving the weather, did they get
:27:44. > :27:46.what they set out to achieve? This tells us an awful lot about how
:27:47. > :27:49.troops are being trained, they're being prepared for the front,
:27:50. > :27:53.prepared for the trenches. It sort of goes against the idea that we see
:27:54. > :28:00.in Blackadder that troops are badly trained, badly led, badly equipped.
:28:01. > :28:03.That may have been the case early on, but by 1917 and 1918 with models
:28:04. > :28:23.like the Messines Terrain model, that's not the case here.
:28:24. > :28:27.That's it from me for tonight ` but before I go maybe there's a story
:28:28. > :28:28.you think I should know about. E`mail me at: mary.rhodes@bbc.co.uk.
:28:29. > :29:09.But for now, I'll see you next time. Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your
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