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the series. It's Inside Out with Mary Rhodes and tonight, shd's in

Leamington Spa with more surprising stories.

How did you earn money when you were a student? Tonight, we investigate

the growing trend of students turning to sugar daddies to pay

their way through uni. I get paid ?250 per meet with one of them, and

that's just for lunch. And then I get paid ?150 for the other one

also for meeting up for dinner or something like that. Also on the

show, we meet the Gloucester man who ran across Canada. Yes, you heard

that right, Canada. 5000 mile run... Across Canada!

But first tonight, online d`ting is almost the norm now, with nhne

million Brits logging on to find love. What about logging on to make

cash? Antony meets a student who has found a controversial way of making

online dating pay. You'll find cash`strapped students

doing all manner of things to see themselves through college. I'm

working at a cafe. I work in a store. I serve champagne. As a

part`time job, I work as a waiter in a restaurant. I'm a lifeguard at a

swimming pool. For a part`thme job, I work in retail. Debt levels are

rising around campus and sole are finding other ways to make loney. To

be honest, I don't like discussing money with them. Maybe that sounds

stupid because of the naturd of the site. I get paid ?250 per mdet with

one of them. And that's just for lunch. And then I get paid ?150 from

the other one, also for meeting for dinner or something like th`t. And

then also occasionally I'll get paid ?40 on Skype, just for talkhng and

catching up. So that's ?150`?25 for a dinner date. Rachel's a stgar

baby. We changed her name and voice to protect her identity. Shd's 0,

in her first year at uni and goes on dates with sugar daddies for cash.

Yeah, at the moment I have two that I still talk to. I have one that

I've had for about... Since the beginning, so two or three xears.

And then one more recent ond, in the past year or so, on and off. Hang on

a minute, that means this stgar baby started hooking up with richer,

older men when she was 17, still in the sixth form. I was in thd last

year of sixth form in school. Cos my mum was kind of struggling with

money and things so I thought I d help out by not having to ask her

all the time for money. It seemed like quite an easy way to m`ke cash.

She meets them through an online dating agency which says it signed

up over 2000 new students in the UK last year. The financial arrangement

is called a sugar baby scholarship. Well, they're pretty bold on these

websites. This one is talking about a sugar baby scholarship next to a

picture of a young woman in her underwear covered in money. And they

also suggest ways in which xou can say goodbye to college debt. I just

wonder what the sugar babies are expected to do for that mondy.

I went into it quite naivelx, thinking that it was just company

that most of the men wanted from the site. And he hadn't said anxthing

otherwise so I thought I'd leet him in a public place. And then he kind

of wanted me to get in his car and I was very stupid and got in the car,

I think because of nerves and it being the first time I'd evdr done

it. And then as soon as I got in the car, I knew it was a mistakd. And I

was kind of panicking because he kept driving. And he eventu`lly

stopped at an apartment complex and I just looked at him and sahd, I

think you have the wrong idda about this." And I was very lucky because

he was really quite embarrassed by it and kept apologising and

everything. So I got away whth that but it could have gone a lot worse.

The website explicitly says prostitution is not allowed and

warns that members involved in sex for cash will be booted off. But

Rachel's first date was with a man who expected a lot more than dinner.

I think it is kind of luck of the draw who you talk to. But I've got a

lot of messages from people who clearly just want, I mean, ` girl

for the night that kind of thing. You just have to learn to ignore

those and just keep going and finding ones who just genuinely want

company. Her profile makes ht clear that a dinner date is all she is

offering. But she still gets requests from men who aren't getting

the message. So who checks these sites to make sure everyone's

playing by the rules? As far as I know, there is no specific

definition of what makes an escort agency. So it's a matter of

consumers being very careful when they sign up to a site like this

that they know what they ard signing up to. Anyone who wants to sign up

to any form of dating agencx or introduction agency needs to be

very, very careful they know what they are signing up for, thdy know

who they're meeting but thex keep all their data as private as

possible and they don't do `nything without checking out the colpany

first. So there's nothing illegal about it. The sites aren't dven

regulated. What's the worry? Well, we've come to Wales to find out

Research from Kingston Univdrsity suggests that the number of students

turning to the sex industry has doubled in recent years. So the

National Union of Students hn Cardiff is on the case. What do you

make of websites that seem to be offering, well, in one case a sugar

daddy scholarship, or sugar baby scholarships? I mean, it sotnds as

if it's an easy fix to their financial problems. It does. And

it's certainly being adverthsed as such. Those websites are definitely

growing and technology is ddfinitely broadening the sex industry and

the, kind of, options that people are taking. Prior to the sttdent sex

work project that we are dohng here in Wales, there hasn't been any

research at all in the UK on students entering the sex industry.

Just absolutely nothing concrete so everything was done on anecdotal

evidence. Everything we, kind of, said or any statement that we made

wasn't really based on anything solid. So it's really important to

get this research done. So the fact that you don't actually know how

many students out there are involved in the sex industry suggests that

yourself, universities, are somewhat behind the times on this. I think we

dropped the ball for a numbdr of years. And now we've picked it up

again. Certainly with the Sdx Work Project. But you're still playing

catch up now? I think so, ydah. In anything, in terms of public policy

and lawmaking, those things are generally slow to catch up with new

technology. So there's definitely, in terms of legislation, a very slow

catch up being done in terms of the new technology and the new forms of

sex work that that's brought. The academic research is called the

Student Sex Work Project. It will be published this spring. Still in her

first year, our student's m`naging to keep her head above water and on

the right side of her own rtles just about. I don't have a sexual

relationship with them but H have... I have... I don't know how

to describe it... Got with one of them. But that was purely bdcause I

started to like him as a person I didn't enjoy it and I said that I

didn't want it to happen ag`in, especially because he tried to pay

me for it and I hated that! I didn't like that at all. So I wouldn't say

that I would be repeating that again. Definitely no further than

where I took it. Rachel inshsts she'll never have sex for money but

still wouldn't want her pardnts finding out about her sugar daddies.

Obviously I didn't feel right about that at all. I don't even lhke the

bit where I accept money for lunch. Especially because I know the

person, I feel a bit guilty now that I'm still making him pay for my

company. But obviously I wotldn t have become friends with hil under

any other circumstance so... The Seeking Arrangement website that

Rachel belongs to is based hn Las Vegas. So I've arranged for an

online interview with PR chhef Ange;a Bermudo. `` Angela. H want

her to explain to me what m`kes them different from an escort agdncy

Seeking Arrangement is a dating website. It's about finding a

relationship with somebody who shares the values that you're

looking for. A lot of peopld may have a hard time understandhng

because we are involving, you know, financial assistance in the

relationships. However, it hs far removed from agencies like dscort

services or prostitution. Btt what I'm saying is... Although you say

that you don't encourage it, it still goes on. Men are still using

your, or abusing, your platform I understand that some people are

tempting them to solicit sex for money. We find them, you know,

through message monitoring `nd immediately put them off thd site.

And what about the fact that Rachel was only 17 when she signed up? It's

important to note that when you are signing up for our site, yot are

entering a legal contract that says that all your information that you

enter is in fact correct, especially the fact that you are of agd. If we

do find anybody that's under age on the side, like I said, we stspend

their account, we ask for ftrther verification of information and all

members who have had any communication with that member are

notified. So the people behhnd this site insist they monitor thdir

members' behaviour and take action against those who break the rules.

Rachel's an adult making her own choices and for now, she chooses to

be a sugar baby. If money w`sn't such a big issue for you, would you

still be doing this? I don't think I would have ever signed up in the

first place if money wasn't an issue. But now that I've discovered

it... I don't think I'd necdssarily stop seeing the two that I've met if

I suddenly came into more money Just because it's a safe wax to make

a lot of money through not very much, just having lunch with

someone. So I think I'd continue doing it, yeah.

So what do you think? I'm stre the subject is going to spark a debate.

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Midlands. And tonight, I'm hn Leamington Spa because legend has it

in 1918, a Warwickshire private refused to shoot an injured German

soldier. Well, the soldier he unwittingly let go was Adolf Hitler.

Tricia went in search of thd truth about the private who could have

killed Hitler. Royal Leamington Spa has a

fascinating history and as ` local radio presenter, I thought H knew

most of it. But there is ond name I haven't heard before, Henry Tandey.

And there are traces of him all over town. He is listed among thd free

men of the borough in the town hall. He's even got a blue plaque

dedicated to him. It says hd was the most decorated private soldher of

World War I. But if you dig a little deeper, it

seems that he actually hit the headlines for having Adolf Hitler in

his sights and not pulling the trigger. They say Henry Tandey could

have prevented the World War II and after the Coventry Blitz, Hdnry was

racked with guilt for letting Hitler go. But is it really true? H'm here

to find out. Leamington Town Hall seems like a good place to start.

Bobby Taylor is from the town's blue plaque committee and he knows the

tale well. Hitler remembered being wounded on the Western front and

remembered a British soldier pointing his gun at him and then

deliberately not firing, in other words refusing to kill him. Much

later on, when Hitler was in power, he saw a photograph of a picture

which shows a British soldidr carrying a wounded British soldier.

And when Hitler saw this, hd recognised the soldier doing the

carrying as the man who had refused to kill him. Do you think it's true?

Well, the whole story I find plausible, not proved. And H would

give it 6`4 on as being trud. So there could be some truth in it The

man carrying the wounded soldier is none other than private Henry

Tandey. The painting is of his regilent the

Green Howards, marching out of the Menin Crossroads, near Ypres. And

the original is currently on show in Kipling Hall in Yorkshire. So how

did Hitler come to see it? Hitler certainly received a copy and a

photograph of this painting. We have a letter from Hitler's adjutant

thanking us for the large photograph.

Henry's regiment sent Hitler a copy of the picture as a gesture of

goodwill, because he also sdrved in the battle it shows. Some ydars

later, in 1938, he met the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

in Munich. Hitler was very proud of the fact that he had actually seen

military service and showed the photograph to Chamberlain and

pointed out Tandey in it. So he obviously knew about Tandey. And

Chamberlain, so the story goes, when he came back after waving hhs white

note saying peace in our tile, apparently rang up Tandey, near

Coventry, and could not get through to Tandey because Tandey was out but

spoke to a member of the falily to say that it was the Prime Mhnister

speaking and that he had sedn the photograph of Tandey when hd was

with Herr Hitler. Hitler had asked Chamberlain to pass on his thanks to

Henry, and if the story is to be believed the Prime Minister did just

that. From that point on, hd was forever labelled the man who

could've shot Hitler, but not everyone believes it. It's `n

incredible story, David, if it's true, but you don't think its true,

do you, this story about Henry Tandey. No, I don't think it's true.

No. Warwickshire Historian David Johnson is the author of a book

about Henry's life, and he thinks all the evidence points to the story

not being true. In 1997, Lidutenant Colonel McIntosh, who was the

regimental secretary of the Green Howards, tried to get to thd bottom

of this story. And he contacted the Bavarian state archives. Thdy

confirmed that Hitler was actually on leave from the 25th to the 2 th

of September, the event where his life is spared is supposed to have

happened on the 28th. But then it turned out that on the 17th, he d

been transferred to another part of the line anyway, so he would've been

50 miles away. It's pretty hard to have anyone in your sights from 50

miles away, let alone Hitler, but what about the phone call from

Chamberlain? There were two things about that that troubled me. One,

that Chamberlain would've bden busy in 1938. So I went to the University

of Birmingham and went throtgh the Chamberlain papers and therd was

nothing about this at all. So no record of the phone call th`t

Neville Chamberlain would'vd made to Henry Tandey? No, that's right. And

also, I was troubled by, wotld Henry Tandey have had a telephone in his

house? So, through the BT archives, I was able to establish that they

didn't have a telephone, so he couldn't have received that call.

You have to say, at the end of that day on the 28th September, Henry had

been wounded twice. He was losing a lot of blood. He would've bden

covered in blood, covered in all sorts of dirt from the battle, as

would Hitler. So the chances of Hitler recognising him from a

painting was extremely unlikely True or not, it's a fantasthc story,

and one that people are happy to continue debating. The incidents

that were remembered by both people were incidents that people would

remember. Also, Tandey never boasted about what he had done, the mercy

he'd shown. He didn't say that Hitler was the man in his gtn

sights. He said he rememberdd the incident but not the face of the

human being. It is very difficult to say. Could be Tandey seeing a

photograph of Hitler in his German uniform and he rather felt that

there was someone similar to who he fired at. It's a very difficult

question to answer. Henry T`ndey left the army in 1926 and rdturned

to civilian life. He moved to Coventry where he worked for the

standard motor company. But he never shook off the story that he'd let

Adolf Hitler go. I think th`t he still suffers a little bit from his

legacy. He suffers a little bit from this story. It is very interesting

to me, for example, that if you go round the National Army Musdum in

London or you go round the Hmperial War Museum, there's nothing in the

collections about Henry Tandey at all and yet he's the most ddcorated

private soldier to survive the First World War. So you have to ask, well,

why is that? I think there's some snobbery and still this Hitler story

is casting a long shadow. Hdnry Tandey died at his home in Coventry

on 20th December 1977, aged 86. His ashes were taken to France by his

nephew and great nephew and are buried at the Masnieres British

Cemetery near Marconing. I so wanted to believe that this incredhble

story was indeed true, but `ll the evidence suggests that it is just an

urban myth. But whatever yot believe, I hope Henry Tandex is

remembered as the great man and soldier that he indeed was. He was a

remarkably gallant man. He won the Military Medal for going out into no

man's land and bringing thrde men back on separate occasions tnder

fire. He won the Distinguished Conduct Medal for attacking a German

machine gun by himself and capturing 20 Germans, and his Victori` Cross

was a series of very gallant occasions. I think Henry nedds to be

remembered as this extremelx brave man who had already, by the time he

won his medals, been mentioned in dispatches five times, he'd been

wounded twice. He's a man that we should all feel proud of, and if

you're looking for a hero, xou couldn't do any better.

Well, it just goes to show sometimes you need to question stories that

are presented as fact. But laybe you've got a story I should know

about. If so, drop me an e`lail I will get back to you.

Now, how many of you are sthll on the fitness push post Christmas If

you've taken up running, have you made the five kilometre landmark

yet? That's great, but you've still got quite a bit of training to do if

you want to beat Gloucester man Jamie McDonald. He pledged to run

5,000 miles coast to coast hn Canada for charity.

The Atlantic Ocean at the easternmost point of Canada, and the

starting point for Jamie McDonald's epic cross country run. He's aiming

to become the first Briton to run unsupported across the

second`biggest country in the world. 5,000 miles across Canada! @head

lies months of extremes ` hhghs and lows. I'm going east instead of

west! This is the story of his epic journey.

Training`wise, I've done a few one, two mile runs. I haven't re`lly

thought it through. Jamie ldft his comfy home in Gloucester last March.

I'm going to be camping on the side of the road. I kind of like sleeping

just anywhere and everywherd. He began months of roadside running and

camping in the freezing Can`dian winter. I'm going to be on the

Trans`Canada Highway for thd next 400 miles. But right from d`y one,

it's obvious that camping bx the side of the road just isn't an

option on the snowy ground. I just knocked on that door and thdy're

letting me stay in the garddn. Jamie soon discovers why Canadians

have such a friendly reputation Over the following 11 months, he's

put up for the night. He's fed like a king. I have myself a Sunday roast

dinner. They've even laid ott sandwiches for me on my bed to take

with me on the road. And he's even given a practical buggy to replace

the heavy backpack. Most of his time is spent running on his own. I've

seen that sign before! I've gone the wrong way! How have I done ht?!

Argh! That little mistake h`s added an extra ten miles to the journey.

I'd better get running. Makd me feel better. A young man from England is

running across Canada to help raise money for children's hospit`ls, and

he's doing it... As word of his exploits spreads, donations begin to

roll in. Thank you very much. Isn't it amazing? I came out of that

restaurant with over $100 for sick kids. The reason for taking on this

Canadian adventure goes way back to Jamie's childhood when he spent

months in hospital. I've got a condition called syringomyelia,

which is extremely rare. I tsed to have epilepsy and immune deficiency.

I had a whole year off school at one point. Now he's raising mondy for

children's hospitals in England and Canada. I'd like to give thhs on

behalf of the staff and man`gement here for your cause. That's amazing.

Thank you so much for what xou're doing. As word of his adventure

spreads, Jamie gets a taste of fame. Front page! Front page, man. People

start to join him on the run. We have a group. ALL: Whoo! In June, he

heads into the french`speakhng province of Quebec. Bonjour,

monsieur! A new city, and time for a flash new

look. Inspired by his new stperhero outfit, he makes a 300`mile detour

to make an emotional visit to one of the hospitals he's raising loney

for. Close to crying. Hold ht together.

He continues running past the Great Lakes with their spectacular scenery

and wildlife. Looks like it is walking aw`y.

That's good. Beyond is the endless expanse of the

prairies. After nine months on the road, the going is getting dver

tougher. I can't do it no more. I just.. I'm

so close but yet so far. I'll miss spending Christmas with my family.

Just not fast enough. But ghving up isn't an option. Jamie beats his

demons but then faces perhaps the greatest challenge of the whole

journey ` crossing the Rockhes in the depths of winter. They `re just

something else. Absolutely breathtaking. The ever`friendly

Canadians make sure he's not alone in the mountains, especiallx at

Christmas. Three, two, one... But while celebrating the New Ydar in

Banff, he is beaten up and robbed. From then on, it's downhill all the

way to Vancouver. And it's ` hero's welcome after 332 days on the road.

Thanks so much. It's finally happened. I've dreamt

about it for 11 months. Every single day I walk up. And I didn't think I

could do it. I kept going somehow. Who's your daddy? There havd been so

many moments on this journex that it hasn't quite worked out, and I don't

think you can do a journey like this for it to work out. But at the end,

I would not change any of those experiences for the world, good or

bad. An incredible story, and he's raised

over ?100,000 for children's hospitals in Canada and in the UK.

Hats off to you, Jamie. Well, that's it from me till the autumn when

we'll be back with more surprising stories from where you live. But if

you want to get in touch, jtst e`mail me. Until then, thanks for

watching, and I'll see you next time.

Hello. The 92nd update. The Oscar Pistorius trial has begun in South

Africa. He pleaded not guilty to murdering his girlfriend at his home

last year. A neighbour said she had terrible screams on the night.

Russia sends more soldiers into Ukraine and will stay there until

the crisis comes down. A corporal killed herself and her Wiltshire

barracks, today a coroner said bullying and an alleged rape were

two factors. A good night