:00:07. > :00:12.Hello, tonight we are in Weston- super-Mare reporting on a crisis in
:00:12. > :00:18.the classroom. Children here are being taught in school buildings
:00:18. > :00:24.that are badly in need of repairs. Our biggest worry is we have had
:00:24. > :00:27.badgers under the building. Badgers? Badgers. Also in the
:00:27. > :00:31.programme: A tribute to the Gloucestershire teenager who
:00:31. > :00:41.inspired thousands of people with an online diary charting her battle
:00:41. > :00:42.
:00:42. > :00:47.with cancer are. You have a bad day. On the 400 anniversary of the King
:00:47. > :00:51.James Bible, we tell the epic story of how it was first translated into
:00:51. > :00:55.English. The fact we have the Bible
:00:55. > :01:05.available to us in English at all is due to one of the most
:01:05. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:18.courageous men in history. Save Our School!
:01:18. > :01:22.The state of our schools has always been big news and public spending
:01:22. > :01:28.cuts are keeping it in the headlines, but just how bad are the
:01:28. > :01:32.class runs we expect an Asian's children to learn in? I am going
:01:32. > :01:38.through the gates of one school where conditions have got so bad
:01:38. > :01:44.it's governors have decided it is time to speak out. I was absolutely
:01:44. > :01:51.appalled. I see for myself just how bad things are. Our biggest fear is
:01:51. > :01:56.that building will suddenly drop. Just collapse? Yes. The man in
:01:56. > :02:01.charge admits this is just the tip of a �32 million a backlog of
:02:01. > :02:07.repairs. It is not good enough? it is not good enough. The
:02:07. > :02:13.resources are not there and we are struggling. This is Ashcombe
:02:13. > :02:18.Primary School in Weston-super-Mare. Ofsted inspectors say it provides a
:02:18. > :02:25.satisfactory level of education to his 420 pupils, people like these
:02:25. > :02:30.two. Their mum fears conditions are far from picture-perfect. If you
:02:30. > :02:34.look around, it is worn. The building has outlived the lifespan
:02:34. > :02:39.it was meant to have. It is an accident waiting to happen. They
:02:39. > :02:44.are not the only ones with concerns. William Hunter became a parent
:02:44. > :02:48.governor only a year ago. He was shocked by what he discovered.
:02:48. > :02:52.thought it was fine when I first started taking my children there.
:02:52. > :02:57.When I became a school governor I started realising the conditions it
:02:57. > :03:02.was then. It concerns me wonder whether I am doing the right thing
:03:02. > :03:07.sending them to be school. We want to find out how bad conditions are,
:03:07. > :03:11.so we have come to have an unofficial look around. Pat Brown
:03:11. > :03:15.is the chair of the school governors. They are sneaking our
:03:15. > :03:20.cameras in out of hours. The pupils and the parents and the staff do
:03:20. > :03:24.not know we are here. Why have the governors invited us then? They are
:03:24. > :03:30.very concerned about the safety of the buildings and our ability to
:03:30. > :03:35.keep them saved. Let's have a look around. Come this way. It first
:03:35. > :03:40.opened 40 years ago. It is falling apart and has clearly seen better
:03:40. > :03:46.days. It just crumbles. Like schools up and down the country,
:03:46. > :03:50.children have to be taught in temporary classrooms. They were put
:03:51. > :03:57.here in 1971. I am informed they were not new when they were put
:03:57. > :04:03.here and they had a life of 25 years, which meant... That takes
:04:03. > :04:08.you to 1996. They have been here longer than expected. And old
:04:08. > :04:11.buildings being hidden problems, even steps can be a hazard.
:04:11. > :04:16.original wooden ones collapsed before the end of term and there
:04:16. > :04:24.was a member of staff on them. this was your home, you would not
:04:24. > :04:29.live there any more? No, you would not. Why is this happening to the
:04:29. > :04:35.school? Lack of funding is what it comes down to. Where has all the
:04:35. > :04:39.cash on? Last year, the Government scrapped the �55 billion national
:04:40. > :04:44.school rebuilding scheme. That decision caused outrage and protest,
:04:44. > :04:48.but fewer people notice when a second major cuts took money from
:04:48. > :04:55.the maintenance budget of every school in the country. That meant
:04:55. > :05:00.direct funding for repairs fell from �559 million to �182 million.
:05:00. > :05:03.In north Somerset, schools lost two-thirds of their direct funding
:05:03. > :05:09.and Ashcombe Primary School was given just �8,000 to spend on
:05:09. > :05:14.repairs. What problems are you having with the classrooms? We have
:05:14. > :05:19.had leaking skylight switch because of the asbestos were expensive. It
:05:19. > :05:25.is not unsafe, just anything that has got as best as in it put up the
:05:25. > :05:31.cost of repairs. As they asbestos was not bad enough, the floor has
:05:31. > :05:38.hired a major problem. I can show you our biggest worry and we have
:05:38. > :05:43.badgers under the building. Badgers? Badgers. They first tried
:05:43. > :05:48.to get in on that corner, but there is a piece of stone, so they tried
:05:48. > :05:54.an easier route through the rotting wood here. I have got a torch with
:05:54. > :05:59.me. Let's have a look. We believe this is one of their walk ways.
:05:59. > :06:06.They have been under one of our oldest, temporary buildings.
:06:06. > :06:11.According to the expert they have displaced about 7.5 tonnes of earth.
:06:11. > :06:15.From under the temporary buildings? Yes, and our fear is that building
:06:16. > :06:20.will suddenly drop. We took this to the National Association of Head
:06:20. > :06:26.Teachers. That is quite shocking and those conditions are not
:06:26. > :06:31.acceptable. We owe it to the pupils and our children to have a
:06:31. > :06:36.reasonable place for them to go and spend the majority of their day.
:06:37. > :06:41.They need to have that ability to be in there in safety. North
:06:41. > :06:45.Somerset council insists that schools should be saved, so much so
:06:45. > :06:49.it decided not to spend any of its own money on repair it last year.
:06:49. > :06:54.That we have got our hands on a building report commissioned by the
:06:54. > :06:59.school's six months ago and it makes for troubling reading. It
:06:59. > :07:04.says potentially dangerous, widespread damp and rot, the
:07:04. > :07:10.structure is significantly weakened. Half of all the items identified
:07:10. > :07:15.need urgent attention. Where does this leave you? Very worried, but
:07:15. > :07:20.as a governing body determined to get his work done. You must be
:07:20. > :07:24.getting quite worried about the risk to the peoples themselves?
:07:24. > :07:30.Potentially it is dangerous. Department for Education declined
:07:30. > :07:34.an interview, but it was keen to brief us on one issue. It says the
:07:34. > :07:38.funding taken from schools has not disappeared, but has been
:07:38. > :07:41.reallocated to local authorities. I have come to the local council to
:07:41. > :07:48.ask the man in charge of North Somerset schools what has happened
:07:48. > :07:55.to all the money. This school, yes, it is in a bad condition. I can
:07:55. > :07:59.find as bad elsewhere. But this is one school. I have got 100 sites,
:07:59. > :08:04.74 schools including academies, where we are trying to work
:08:04. > :08:08.together. We need to build new schools just to deal with the
:08:08. > :08:17.birthrate. A few tens of thousands of pounds would make a difference
:08:17. > :08:23.to a school like that. Yes, but a few tens of thousands to 74 schools.
:08:23. > :08:27.The amount of money involved is enormous. We could spend �32
:08:27. > :08:30.million tomorrow morning on maintenance backlog. For Ashcombe
:08:30. > :08:35.Primary School it seems there is little hope on the horizon, but
:08:35. > :08:41.they are not giving up just yet. Do you think there could be a point
:08:41. > :08:48.where you say, enough is enough? Never. We are in here fighting for
:08:48. > :08:58.this goal. If there is something you would like us to investigate,
:08:58. > :09:08.sent us an e-mail. Later in the programme: The book that changed
:09:08. > :09:09.
:09:09. > :09:14.the world forever. That is in 10 minutes. It was two years ago that
:09:14. > :09:22.we first met Rosie Kilburn, a teenager from Gloucestershire who
:09:22. > :09:28.was writing an online diary as she battles cancer. And I have got
:09:28. > :09:34.cancer. Rosie made two TV features with us on Inside Out. She shared
:09:34. > :09:40.every detail of her treatment. have got no hair. And of her fund-
:09:40. > :09:45.raising fashion business, all with extraordinary honesty. The idea was
:09:46. > :09:51.making it less of a taboo subject. Sadly, three weeks ago, aged just
:09:51. > :09:56.19, Rosie died. Since then her charity work and her writing have
:09:56. > :10:05.had more effect than ever and her family have asked that her wish to
:10:05. > :10:10.make a third TV version of her blog goes ahead. From the start of the
:10:10. > :10:20.year, Rosie was beginning to get physically weaker. She responded by
:10:20. > :10:26.organising a huge fund-raising fitness event. Three hours of zumba.
:10:26. > :10:30.I think people will turn up, but I have no idea how many. 30th April
:10:30. > :10:35.and the doctors are discussing the next course of action after Rosie
:10:35. > :10:43.suffered twice from severe, internal bleeding. I needed 11
:10:43. > :10:50.units of blood, over a body's worth of new blood, in one day. If I had
:10:50. > :10:55.gone to hospital any later, I would have died. Today, they can be
:10:55. > :11:00.telling us anything from they can do nothing to major surgery. We
:11:00. > :11:07.have no idea what they are going to suggest. But the news today is not
:11:07. > :11:14.drastic. He said I could go on holiday. That is all I remember.
:11:14. > :11:24.She has got more of the same for a few months or years. Yes. Much
:11:24. > :11:24.
:11:24. > :11:31.better than it was half an hour ago. It is just death. I do not see why
:11:31. > :11:41.everyone is so scared of talking about death because everyone dies.
:11:41. > :11:43.
:11:43. > :11:50.It is not a unique thing. Just to say I spent today in hospital. It
:11:50. > :11:55.was only a day, but still in hospital, not fantastic, just
:11:55. > :12:04.because I had really dance shoulder pain. I have to log off now so it
:12:04. > :12:10.does not hurt any more. And the dance marathon in one week. Can you
:12:10. > :12:20.move that table to here? 28th May, the day a crazy's three our fund-
:12:20. > :12:22.
:12:22. > :12:27.The doctors have said she must not dance herself, but Rosie never lets
:12:27. > :12:37.cancer get in the wake of a good party. -- in the wake of a good
:12:37. > :12:41.
:12:41. > :12:48.Hundreds of a knock-on effect supporters strut their stuff. They
:12:48. > :12:56.are raising money for the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in Cheltenham.
:12:56. > :13:01.There is an estimate that many have made �1,500. I am less tired than I
:13:01. > :13:08.thought I would be. I feel I won't have to do it right tomorrow off. I
:13:08. > :13:17.feel like I will actually be all right to get out of bed. So, I am
:13:17. > :13:22.just checking in to say I am going on holiday tomorrow. She was
:13:22. > :13:26.determined she was going to go. weren't so sure it was a guy deer
:13:26. > :13:36.and had lots of plans for what we would do to get her back, but she
:13:36. > :13:40.
:13:40. > :13:50.She recognised her limitations and accounted for them. We went out and
:13:50. > :14:03.
:14:03. > :14:07.Because Rosie was so positive about everything, it was a massive shock.
:14:07. > :14:13.It is also silly to say was a shock, because it was at the back of your
:14:13. > :14:17.mind, but it was. Towards the end of that day, Rosie said she had to
:14:17. > :14:23.write on a website and we got to everyone who needed to be told, so
:14:23. > :14:28.she sat in here and wrote it and we sat with her and just watch this
:14:28. > :14:37.absolute explosion of comments from people all over the world. It was
:14:37. > :14:45.the most phenomenal feeling, and we had gone from feeling indescribable
:14:45. > :14:50.sadness into suddenly feeling so supported, and she did as well.
:14:50. > :14:53.Rosie's favourite charities called Hope. This summer she gave them
:14:54. > :14:59.�1,000 to fund a sailing trip for children coping with the life
:14:59. > :15:03.threatening illness of a close relative. I met Rosie and she was
:15:03. > :15:10.replete with the work we were doing, and that is why it feels great she
:15:10. > :15:13.could come on the trip. What she has done has been inspirational.
:15:13. > :15:17.Rosie's health faded significantly over the summer. A hospital bed and
:15:17. > :15:23.medical equipment were installed in her bedroom at home. She kept
:15:23. > :15:32.writing, but found her video diary too much. Until early September,
:15:32. > :15:38.when she filmed her thoughts. the last time. OK. I get a bit
:15:38. > :15:47.breathless, but I will carry on. On Tuesday night I had a terrible
:15:47. > :15:57.night. You would not believe. You would not believe it. The day after
:15:57. > :15:57.
:15:58. > :16:00.she was fined, so although it looks like she's on her way out, because
:16:00. > :16:10.she sounds and she looks quite rough, there was no indication at
:16:10. > :16:21.
:16:21. > :16:31.the time that this was what the Monday 12th September. Cutting
:16:31. > :16:33.
:16:33. > :16:43.straight to the chase, our beautiful, feisty, and we,
:16:43. > :16:44.
:16:44. > :16:50.The aid was very, very peaceful. I don't know whether she knew she was
:16:50. > :16:53.dying or not, but she was not distressed. She absolutely knew
:16:53. > :16:58.that she was surrounded by people that love her and cared for her.
:16:58. > :17:08.She felt safe. And I think she probably felt it was time to go,
:17:08. > :17:21.
:17:21. > :17:26.26th September. Rosie's funeral. The day when hundreds of people who
:17:26. > :17:32.followed her story on the internet came to mourn her and celebrate 19
:17:32. > :17:35.years of life lived to the full. The thing that stood out for me
:17:35. > :17:41.where people who knew her really well, but other people who were
:17:41. > :17:51.coming up and saying they had never met Herbert felt like they knew her.
:17:51. > :17:52.
:17:52. > :17:58.What a testimony to leave behind, I just loved the procession down to
:17:58. > :18:08.the church, because Rosie liked spectacle, and that was a spectacle.
:18:08. > :18:19.
:18:19. > :18:25.It was lovely, but so solemn and I think she would be proud to note
:18:25. > :18:30.that more people than she would ever know about said that she had
:18:30. > :18:37.changed her attitude to life. really believed in avoiding
:18:37. > :18:44.euphemism and platitude. She very much did not pass away after her
:18:44. > :18:51.serious illness, she died of cancer. That is very much how she wanted it
:18:51. > :18:54.to be seen. That is how she wanted to approach things. Rosie's family
:18:54. > :19:04.and friends have resolved that the website and fund raising will
:19:04. > :19:27.
:19:27. > :19:37.And you can see all the details of the ongoing charity work on Rosie's
:19:37. > :19:39.
:19:39. > :19:43.Finally, tonight, the epic story of a book which changed the world
:19:43. > :19:48.forever. It is a tale of extraordinary courage, of a man
:19:48. > :19:58.whose work as a translator was punished with death. Here is our
:19:58. > :20:00.
:20:00. > :20:05.The King James Bible is exactly 400 years old this year. Among the
:20:05. > :20:15.anniversary celebrations is an online invitation for anyone to
:20:15. > :20:17.
:20:17. > :20:26.The idea is to present the whole King James Bible in an up-to-date,
:20:26. > :20:31.accessible format. Not given to But the fact we have the Bible
:20:31. > :20:36.available to us in English at all is due to one of the most
:20:36. > :20:41.courageous men in history. This window tells his extraordinary
:20:41. > :20:46.story. Right here in the building where I work at Bristol University.
:20:46. > :20:52.William Tyndale from Gloucestershire, who was killed for
:20:52. > :20:58.translating the Bible into English. I am going to set off to discover
:20:58. > :21:08.what drove a young man to risk his life for this book, to try and
:21:08. > :21:20.
:21:20. > :21:25.grasp the magnitude of this SPEAKS LATIN. Sorry, I got lost! It
:21:25. > :21:30.makes no sense at all. Andy wouldn't have made much sense 500
:21:30. > :21:38.years ago either. But in the early 16th century the Church only
:21:38. > :21:42.allowed the Bible to be heard in Latin. And that is what William
:21:42. > :21:46.Tyndale considered so unfair. William Tyndale was frustrated with
:21:46. > :21:50.the clergy, who themselves had very little knowledge of Nat -- Latin.
:21:50. > :21:56.He said he was Desert -- disturb the Latin they read in church they
:21:56. > :21:59.hardly knew themselves which caused him on one occasion to say he would
:21:59. > :22:02.cause the plough boy who pushes the plough to know more of the
:22:02. > :22:06.scriptures than you, so he set about translating the scriptures in
:22:06. > :22:12.a way that would be really familiar and domestic and readily
:22:12. > :22:16.understandable by ordinary people. As an academic, I believe that
:22:16. > :22:22.knowledge should be shared by everyone. Actually, William Tyndale
:22:22. > :22:26.was very much a man after my own heart. Which is actually one of the
:22:26. > :22:31.expressions he invented for his translation of the Bible, along
:22:31. > :22:39.with, signs of the Times, broken hearted, filthy lucre, the powers
:22:39. > :22:44.that be and eat, drink and be merry. He studied languages to an
:22:44. > :22:48.extremely high level. Working in both Oxford and Cambridge. But he
:22:48. > :22:56.began the gargantuan task of translating the Bible into everyday
:22:56. > :22:59.English when he was working as a chaplain here in little Sudbury.
:22:59. > :23:04.But the manor house where he lived is never open to the public these
:23:04. > :23:09.days. And this tiny place of worship in the grounds tumbled down
:23:09. > :23:13.years ago. So visitors have to make do with this small chapel which is
:23:13. > :23:18.reputed to be a copy of the original church where he once
:23:18. > :23:27.served. They say that the oldest stonework was brought here from the
:23:27. > :23:32.ruins, along with the bell, which sadly was recast in the 1700s. But,
:23:32. > :23:40.an archaeologist is never off duty. Look what I have just found. This
:23:40. > :23:49.may well be the original clapper of the bell that William Tyndale
:23:49. > :23:52.sounded every morning. As he continued in his task of
:23:53. > :24:00.translating the Bible, William Tyndale realised his life was now
:24:00. > :24:05.in danger. The church authorities had labelled him a heretic, and in
:24:05. > :24:10.1524 he fled to Germany so he could work in hiding. Two years later he
:24:10. > :24:15.completed his English New Testament, and the first copies were printed.
:24:15. > :24:21.To get these Bibles back to England, they had to be smuggled illegally
:24:21. > :24:25.by Tyndale's supporters. It was nearly 500 years ago when there was
:24:25. > :24:28.such a need in this country for people to have access to Bibles
:24:28. > :24:32.they could read in their own language. Well, today there are
:24:32. > :24:37.many millions of Christians in various countries all over the
:24:37. > :24:41.world who face that very same problem. To get an insight into the
:24:41. > :24:47.risks taken by Tyndale's friends, we formed an anonymous interview
:24:47. > :24:50.with a present-day Bible smuggler. But there are countries where it is
:24:50. > :24:55.still illegal to own a Bible in your own language. Obviously there
:24:55. > :24:59.are places in Asia, throughout the Middle East and the North Africa,
:24:59. > :25:07.but to be more precise, what actually put some of the operations
:25:07. > :25:11.at risk is the fact it is illegal to take them into the country and
:25:11. > :25:18.the punishment can be severe. any of Tyndale's Bibles were
:25:18. > :25:24.discovered they were, for there are now only three known copies
:25:24. > :25:29.anywhere in the world. Until 1994, one was kept here in the lecture
:25:29. > :25:37.room in which I teach every day. This building used to be the
:25:37. > :25:40.Bristol Baptist College, and inside two secured saves, they scored
:25:40. > :25:43.Tyndale's bible. It was bought by the British Library for over �1
:25:43. > :25:48.million, the most they had ever paid for a single volume. This, of
:25:48. > :25:51.course, is a copy of the regional held in the British Library. Look
:25:51. > :25:56.how small it is. It was deliberately designed to be hidden
:25:56. > :26:02.and smuggled and kept in the back pocket. But despite the attempts to
:26:02. > :26:06.keep his word secret, in 1535 Tyndale was betrayed to the
:26:06. > :26:12.authorities. A year later, in Belgium, he was strangled and burnt
:26:12. > :26:19.at the stake. His dying words were reported to be, "Lord, open the
:26:19. > :26:24.eyes of the King.". The painful irony is that within three years of
:26:24. > :26:29.his death, Henry VII ordered that are translated by Paul be placed in
:26:29. > :26:37.every parish church in England, largely based on Tyndale's original
:26:37. > :26:43.translation. There was a delightful domesticity about his translation
:26:43. > :26:47.which would have really appealed to the ordinary man in the pew and the
:26:47. > :26:52.boy driving a plough, as he said, and they would have really grasped
:26:52. > :26:57.something about what it was about. While Tyndale's words remain
:26:57. > :27:00.unchanged over the centuries, the boy that drives the Plough uses
:27:00. > :27:07.more sophisticated equipment these days. It is a tragedy that he never
:27:07. > :27:10.lived to see his vision fulfilled. But eventually Tyndale's dream that
:27:10. > :27:20.anyone should be able to read and understand a bible for themselves
:27:20. > :27:22.
:27:22. > :27:29.A solo went out to sow his seat, and as he sowed, some fell by the
:27:29. > :27:35.wayside and it was trodden down and the air devoured it. Some fell upon
:27:35. > :27:40.a rock. I cannot help but feel that Tyndale would approve of our 21st
:27:40. > :27:46.century Plough Boy using YouTube to spread the word. And other fell on
:27:46. > :27:51.good ground and spread out their food 100 fold. Towering above the
:27:51. > :27:56.Cotswold Edge at North Nibley is Tyndale's monument, but this is not
:27:56. > :28:00.the memorial that affect most people. His real legacy was to be
:28:00. > :28:08.the foundations of a global language using his every day
:28:08. > :28:12.Gloucestershire English in this And if you would like to see those
:28:12. > :28:18.Bible readings, they are now available on YouTube. That is about
:28:18. > :28:28.it for this week. But you can keep in touch with what we are up to by
:28:28. > :28:33.following inside-out West on Next Monday, with tuition fees
:28:33. > :28:38.going up, is it still worth going to university? Alvin Hall does the
:28:38. > :28:43.sums and works out just how much debt students will have to take on.