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Tonight ` have you ever had your bike stolen? Well you're not alone ` | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
so did we. And Richie Woodhall's been tracking it down. Here is my | :00:13. | :00:24. | |
friend a game with my bike. He has had a good look at it and he has | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
what out a gain. Will he get his bike back? Stick | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
around to find out. Also on the show we're in Worcester, the slow worm | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
capital of the Midlands on the hunt for the gardeners' friend. We have | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
got one under fair. He looks like he is smiling. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
That's all to come on tonight's Inside Out for the Midlands ` with | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
me Mary Rhodes. First tonight ` there's been a | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
cycling boom in Britain. And that means more bikes to pinch. So we | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
thought we'd investigate just how bad the problem is ` asking how long | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
would it take before our bike was stolen and where exactly do they go. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Richie Woodhall now on the trail of the bike thieves. | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
More and more of us are getting on a bike. Cycling has never been more | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
popular. And that's just with thieves! | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
It's the first time that I'd been to this jump park and I'm fairly | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
convinced that somebody followed me home from the jump park, saw where I | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
kept my bike in the garage and then a few hours later broke into my | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
garage and took my bike. It was brand`new. I have not even | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
had a chance to ride it that much. I was devastated. It is also the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
nature of how my bike was taken. Somebody claimed in the back garden | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
while I was sat in the House. But if Jonathan was hoping to get | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
his back he was in for a bit of a shock. Only one in 20 bikes get | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
found and his wasn't one of them. So where do they go? I want to find | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
out. We already know bike thieves come to | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Birmingham city centre and I've got a shiny new one worth a few hundred | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
quid to tempt them with. Now it looks just like any other | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
bike but we've fitted this one with a GPS tracker so we'll know if it's | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
been pinched and more importantly we'll be able to track it and see | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
where it ends up ` but they're not having the helmet! | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
10% of all bikes bought are now stolen. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Bike theft is now so common even the police are asking for help. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
That's one every three minutes. That's why I've joined this group of | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
West Midlands police for a briefing on bike security. 500,000 bikes | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
stolen every year. In the Midlands almost 18,000 bikes | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
were reported as nicked last year but that's not the half of it. For | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
every one that gets stolen there are probably three or more that do not | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
get reported. Like crying is on the increase | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
because more people are out there on their bikes. `` like crying. The | :03:38. | :03:47. | |
more people that are using bikes the more opportunities there are four | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
thieves. We've been hoping to tempt thieves | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
with a bike of our own and I think we've hit the jackpot. Just eight | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
hours after locking it up someone's decided to pinch it. A text tells us | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
it's on the move. Our tracker means we'll be able to | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
follow it wherever it goes. We know he has been busy. He has | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
been at this road. But I'm not the only one hunting | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
down stolen bikes. John Moss from Leicester helps other bike theft | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
victims. He set up the stolen bike website after his got nicked. Now | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
he's working with other cyclists to find them. The website has been | :04:28. | :04:41. | |
running for one and a half years. Owners report their bike onto our | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
website. We advertise that to our social media. People keep their eyes | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
open. If they spot the bike they go online and let the victim now. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
So John's website is doing its bit but bike theft across the Midlands | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
runs into millions of pounds each year. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
And I'm on the trail of a few hundred quid of it! The bike we had | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
stolen from the centre of Birmingham. | :05:12. | :05:22. | |
At least we do know where he went as Halfords. That is our next stop. | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
Look what I have here? A vital piece of evidence. | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
This looks interesting. There is my bike. That certainly is not me. Yet | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
as my friend again walking back through the door with my bike. It is | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
a lovely bike. He has what out as plain as day. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
So we know where our bike has been and now we've got a good idea of | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
who's got it but where does he live? Our production team has been | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
checking out the rest of its route and we think we've got a possible | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
sighting. According to the tracker our bike is | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
in those flats there. So with a bit of help from our GPS | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
we're one step closer to recovering our bike but I've come to meet a man | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
who's convinced the same technology helped get his stolen. The garage | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
had been broken into and the bikes had been taken. They were worth over | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
?10,000 but is a lot of money. Kevin used to use GPS mapping to | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
share his route with other cyclists. Did that have anything to do with | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
the burglary? I have done a couple of big rides and I wonder if the | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
thieves had logged onto my account and see what I was able to do and | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
where I was writing and maybe work life where I live and that I had | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
high value bikes. Our bike isn't high value but we | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
still want it back so we've been keeping an eye on the flat it's been | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
taken to. We're using a specialist security | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
team to make our move so safety comes first. In other words don't | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
try this at home! We've already had a sighting of | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
someone riding about on our bike. But as day one comes to an end, our | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
security team decides the time's not right. Let's hope we have more luck | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
tomorrow. We have spent time on the targets. | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
We have spent time trying to work out what time he arrives home. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Day three and we're back on patrol. If we get our bike back we'll | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
identify it by its frame number. But not all suppliers put them on | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
anymore so is the industry doing enough? Bikes come mainly now from | :08:12. | :08:24. | |
the far east so they do not arrive here with a particular | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
identification on them. What you need to do is to make certain that | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the shop you get it from Marx but for you. `` marked its for you. | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
So some shops need to work harder to keep our bikes safe just like we've | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
been working hard to get ours back. We know where it is and we've | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
identified who's got it so it's time to say hello! | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
That is you on the bike yesterday. There is the receipt. That is where | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
you have been on that bike. We have been watching you for the last four | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
days. We know you are involved. I am not police. I am not interested in | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
that. We want the bike back. That is a tracking device. Either you | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
pinched it or somebody sold it to you. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
He tried to do a runner. He thought better of it. He has spoken to us. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
We have explained he is not the police. He has not admitted stealing | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
the bike. City was looking after that for somebody but does not deny | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
driving around Birmingham on it. That is you going into Halfords. | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
Did they sell you the bike? You were just looking after it. | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
He was not aware there was a tracking device. He had no problems | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
handing it back over. We have got the bike back. Job done. | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
It's taken time, technology and effort to reunite me with my bike | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
and it's been no easy task. It's also made me realise why thieves | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
think they're such easy pickings. So have you had your bike stolen ` | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who've had their bike returned? | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
E`mail me your story. I'd love to hear from you. | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
You're watching Inside Out for the Midlands. Next, Pakistani schoolgirl | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
Malala Yousafzai first came to public attention in 2009 when she | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
wrote a BBC diary about life under the Taliban. One child, one teacher, | :10:41. | :11:02. | |
one book and one pen can change the world. | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
Aged just 16, she is an inspiration to millions. And the youngest ever | :11:12. | :11:23. | |
nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Among her fans, politicians and film | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
stars. There was always something special about Malala. Calling on the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
entire world to ensure the right for every girl and boy to an education. | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
And she lives in Birmingham. Why? Because the city came to her rescue. | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
This is the story of how Birmingham threw open its arms to the most | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
famous schoolgirl in the world. Malala Yousafzai grew up in the Swat | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Valley in Pakistan, an area controlled largely by the Taliban. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
But when they banned girls from going to school, Malala wasn't | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
happy. Then aged 11, she started an internet blog, campaigning against | :12:09. | :12:09. | |
the ban. In Pakistan the Taliban says it was | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
responsible for a gun attack on a 14`year`old schoolgirl. But last | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
October the Taliban hit back. An assassin opened fire on Malala's | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
school bus. She was shot in the head and neck. Malala remains in | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
intensive care with her family by her bedside. But offers of help soon | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
came from across the world. At the time a British intensive care doctor | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
happened to be in the country. He was approached by Pakistan's Army | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Chief, who was choosing the most suitable place for Malala. He felt | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
that the United Kingdom was able to deliver that care, and clearly he | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
had heard of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, because the | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
British military send their injured soldiers and service personnel from | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Afghanistan and other theatres of operation back to Birmingham. Seven | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
days after she was shot, Malala arrived in Birmingham. There, | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
doctors woke her from her drug`induced coma. And to their | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
relief, she began communicating immediately. But her battle was far | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
from over. The bullet had severed a facial nerve, paralysing the left | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
side of her face. Surgeons embarked on a ten hour operation. | :13:32. | :13:47. | |
Malala's face began to recover. And in hospital, she made her first | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
English friend. Katherine Hackett, one of the Health Care assistants | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
looking after her. I think she was very curious about it, she thought | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
that Birmingham was very green actually because when you look out | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
of these windows they do look very, it does look very green but it's not | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
as green as it looks. Erm, she did ask and there was a book bought in | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
for her of things to do in Birmingham, what to do in | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Birmingham. It's March and Malala is out of hospital and on her way back | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
to school. It's her first day at Edgbaston High. Rarely has the | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
school run been such an act of defiance. I think it is the happiest | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
moment that I'm going back to my school and today I would have my | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
books, my bag. This is a classroom in which we teach Latin and | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
Classical Studies. The head teacher shows Malala around before her new | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
classmates arrive. Which I think is something you said you might be | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
interested in? Yes, I am interested. I have heard about it. I want to | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
learn. Her education and living costs are being paid for by the | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
authorities in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. She herself | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
wants to be a normal teenage girl and to have the support of other | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
girls around her. I think talking to her, that's something she's very | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
much mist during her time in hospital, the contact with her peer | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
group. And we aim that once she's in school, she'll be a normal girl. | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
She'll follow the normal rules along with everyone else. This is why | :15:21. | :15:32. | |
Malala must stay in Birmingham, close to her doctors and nurses. She | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
must squeeze in regular physio between international appearances | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
and homework. And with her next public speech just days away. Today | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
Malala is at the opening of her new local library, the ?189 million | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
Library of Birmingham! The girl who once fought to read one book can now | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
choose from over a million. But Malala is nervous. Today she is | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
guest of honour. In a few minutes the 16`year`old must make a speech | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
to hundreds of people in her new home city. It's a big moment. | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Honourable and distinguished guests and fellow Brummies. It is a great | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
honour for me to be here in Birmingham, the beating heart of | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
England. Birmingham is very special to me because it is here that I | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
found myself alive seven days after I was shot. | :16:30. | :16:42. | |
But Malala's biggest moment came in New York when she was asked to speak | :16:43. | :16:54. | |
at the United Nations, a teenager addressing the world. Being here | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
with such honourable people is a great moment in my life. Back in | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
Birmingham, the team that helped to mend Malala watched particularly | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
closely. Yes, I was looking, I was, I was observing her face, there's no | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
doubt about it but I was also listening to the powerful message | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
but yeah, I was delighted that she could do that and that's eight | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
months after her facial nerve repair. That in itself is | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
impressive. And then came a surprise, a thank you, on the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
biggest stage of them all. I would like to thank my nurses, doctors and | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
the staff of the hospitals in Pakistan and the UK. It bought a | :17:41. | :17:52. | |
tear to my eye actually because I hadn't seen her speak like that | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
before and to see such, you know, this young girl that I saw that was | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
very ill that had become very, very well now it was very hard actually | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
to see that. Did actually, did actually make me cry because she | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
just came across so well in it that. It was very nice to see. | :18:08. | :19:31. | |
Green spaces like this become even more important. This is what year | :19:32. | :19:55. | |
sex are doing in their garden. `` this is what Year Six are doing in | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
their school garden. At all. | :20:06. | :20:22. | |
Slugs and snails. Slugs and snails make the arch enemy of all gardeners | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
that they are vital to our ecosystem. We are in prime slow worm | :20:26. | :20:42. | |
territory. Long`standing and well`established green space. Long | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
grass. They will be safe from predators. I was on duty at | :20:53. | :21:10. | |
lunchtime. I went out to have a look and there it was. It was about that | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
big. It had slithered up onto the tarmac. Next time one glides by, we | :21:17. | :21:41. | |
want to persuade it to stay. We want to see if we can find a slow worm to | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
help us learn more about these legless lizards, and how we can | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
encourage them in to the school garden. It is a really good site for | :21:49. | :22:03. | |
slow worms. It is thought this site is the best urban location for slow | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
worms in the whole of the UK. So we should have a great chance of | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
finding some today. Have you got any idea where these slow worms might be | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
hiding? Under the tins. Are they right? I think they are. Let's have | :22:26. | :22:37. | |
a look. They are quite elusive, aren't they? The lead elusive lives. | :22:38. | :22:49. | |
Are they quick to scuttle off? If they are warm, they can be | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
surprisingly fast. They may be fast but our wildlife detectives don't | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
give up. That is a young one there. They do shed their tails as a | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
defence mechanism. These areas protect them and provide shelter. | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
Protection from predators, what are they hiding from? Domestic cats are | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
a big problem but magpies and blackbirds can take small ones. A | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
host of things. So, tip number one, the more sheltered spaces we can | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
create at school the better our chances. But the children are still | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
keen to find more slow worms. It is quite good because we have found two | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
so far. I like the colour of it because it is bright yellow and | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
green. That colour would be rare, I think. As the sun heats up so does | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
our search, and then bingo. We have got one and here. I will try to get | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
it out. That is one big slow worm. He looks like he is smiling. He is | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
probably happy that the sun has come out. It is amazing what they can do | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
with their bodies. It is amazing how they look like slugs. I love it. I | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
think James really brought the slow worm to life. When we got to see | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
one, you heard about their amazing features. It stoked a bit of | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
interest in them. I have a surprise for them later on and it will make | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
them excited about the slow worm. Now slow worms often suffer from a | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
case of mistaken identity, people think they're a snake but in fact | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
they're not and Langan Turner from Dudley Zoo has come along with a few | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
of his reptile friends. What is the difference between a snake and a | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
slow worm? Watch them blinking. Can you see them blinking? He can't | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
blink. He doesn't have eyelids. Snakes don't have eyelids. They are | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
like swimming goggles. Lizards are like slow warms, they can blink. I | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
can see the slow worm a little bit more with this. Let me pop you down | :25:32. | :25:44. | |
there. You can actually see if his legs kept on getting smaller, you | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
would end with a long bodied animal, a thick head and something | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
like a slow worm. These little dudes are a gardener 's friend mention of | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
the pests that eat our plans. What can you do to attract them to your | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
green space? Back to James, our man with a plan. Compost heaps are great | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
for slow worms. They provide warm and moist positions which are ideal | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
for when they want to hibernate and it provides shelter from predators. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
This is a big compost heap and everyone can have one of these in | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
their garden. You can build a hybrid macular. What is one? It is a fancy | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
name for recreating the conditions they need for hibernation. You would | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
build a similar structure out of rubble, sticks and earth. I like the | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
idea of going home and saying that you build one. Are we capable of | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
doing that? Guess. They are up for it. James is good at explaining why | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
these animals are so interesting and to get hands on was incredible. We | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
had these exotic animals that are related to animals that they can | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
find on their doorstep. I hope it has inspired them to attract some | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
slow warms to their garden at school. So back at the school, the | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
kids waste no time in building their slow worm des res. It is looking | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
quite good. It is looking quite good as well. Are you happy with this? So | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
are these wildlife workers confident that slow worms will use their new | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
home? It depends if it doesn't rain and if it is always sunny, we will | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
get some. I think they will because they like hiding and it is all | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
covered. All the other animals can't get into it so vacancy. A bit more | :27:51. | :27:59. | |
soil and water and we have... They've done a great job and with a | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
perfect pad all ready to move into, hopefully next time a slow worm is | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
passing through the playground it'll decide to stay. | :28:07. | :28:15. | |
Let us hope that the children of the school attract slow worms of their | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
own soon. That is it for this is that we will be back in the New Year | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
with more surprising stories from right across the Midlands. Goodbye | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
for now. The programme is back in the New | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
Year. In the meantime, the team are working on a documentary following a | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
family's campaign to get justice for the victims of the 1974 Birmingham | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
pub bombings. Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your | :28:43. | :29:07. | |
90-second update. Four people are dead after the worst UK storm for | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
years. Hurricane-force conditions left almost half a million homes | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
without power. In some areas wind speeds reached up to 99 | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
miles-per-hour. The weather caused travel chaos for many. Rail and road | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
services were disrupted because of fallen trees, while over a hundred | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
flights had to be cancelled at Heathrow. Get the latest updates on | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
BBC Local Radio. On trial over the phone-hacking | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
affair. Two former News of the World editors, Rebekah Brooks and Andy | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
Coulson. Both deny being involved in accessing voicemails. | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
The NHS in England must handle complaints better. That's according | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
to a new government report. It says there's a culture of delay and | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
denial which needs to change. Are our streets being lost under a | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
tide of litter? The charity Keep Britain Tidy thinks we're dropping | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
around thirty million tonnes every year. It estimates cleaning it up | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
costs more than a billion pounds. | :29:58. | :29:59. |