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The Christmas parties are Rover, behind their peers have just about | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
one-off, but now we are being told we should you drink so much -- the | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
hangovers. Tonight, how Bristol's revellers have been stretching | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
public services to the limit. want to go home! | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Wildlife presenter Mike Dilger takes his own Dry December | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Challenge, a month of festive merriment without alcohol. I have | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
not had a month without alcohol since the age of slightly less than | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
18. I have no idea what I expect, it could be tough, could be quite | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
easy. To is the West Country's otters | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
population getting out of control? Angry anglers say they are eating | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
too many fish. When the specimen fish have gone, what will it lead? | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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He will attack things. It is that time of year when many | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
of us decide to give up alcohol to allow our bodies to recover from | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
the over indulgences of Christmas. Television naturalist Mike Dilger | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
is one step ahead of the game. We challenged him to go without | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
alcohol for the most sociable month of the year, and to explore how | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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alcohol abuse is stretching public It is 20th November, which is why I | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
am making this a large one. In today's I am heading for a mother | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
of sobriety, no alcohol will touch my lips in the month of December. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
The government reckons 10 million of us are drinking too much. Our | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
health is suffering. I got wrecked tonight and I was sick everywhere. | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
Any idea how many units you have had? Probably about 20. I can't | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
live like this, waking up in the morning shaking like a leaf. Will I | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
find it easy to break my own habits? Sunday lunch without a | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
glass of red? Cheers. I have worked out how much I have been drinking. | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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I reckon five for six nights a week. Really? Yes. I didn't know you | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
drunk that much. I have two bottles of wine each week, and five or six | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
pints. It is young people the medics are | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
particularly worried about. We are getting young people in who | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
really, if they don't sort out their drinking and stop drinking | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
now, will probably not survive. we all need to watch our drinking? | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
Before I start my Dry December I am getting check out by a Bristol GP. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
On an average week, how many units do you drink? Probably five or six | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
nights a week, I would say probably a couple of bottles of wine, and | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
five or six pints of beer. bottles of wine, �5, about 30 units. | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
Government guidelines say 21, up to 20 units for men, for women, | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
significantly less. He then runs be through a tough questionnaire on my | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
drinking habits. The audits court is seven. A total of over five, | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
increased -- indicate a high risk drinker. The red light is on the | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
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dashboard. Let's put you on the scales. 82 kilos. With your shoes | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
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off. 120 over 76, I would say. Pretty good. Am pleased with that. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
There has been that little warning. Maybe a month off will do me good. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Very good luck with that. We shall meet again in a month's time and | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
repeat all this and we will see what, if any different, there is. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
am not the only presenter who is giving up alcohol this Christmas. | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
Luckily, 11 others, one from every BBC broadcast region, are joining | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
me on this crusade. It is November 30th, so tonight is our last night | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
on the source. Gentlemen, I have to say, I have not had a month without | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
alcohol since the age of slightly less than 18. I have no idea what I | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
am expecting. Bigger be carnage, could be tough, to be quite easy. - | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
- it could be. Weight loss, an inevitability. That is good. We are | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
going to meet up for a lime and soda in the middle of December, | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
looking forward to it. We are when away. We were about to sober up | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
fast, because joining us tonight is a forensic photographer who can | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
project what we will look like in 10 years, if we carry on drinking | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
at the same rate. Stand-up comedian Toby Foster is a presenter for | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Radio Sheffield. He admits he puts a few away. Faced with an | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
impression of himself after 10 years drinking, he is shocked. | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
is not me! That is a Jim Henson character. He is dead. And then it | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
is my turn. Surely it cannot be that bad. Alec Alex Curran that | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
come with a street. I also look about 57, a lot more than I am now, | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
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for the record. A lot of sagging, filling out, a lot of drop. Alcohol | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
accelerates the ageing process so everything will start to drop | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
quicker than it would do if you were not drinking so much but you | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
have a bit of weight gain from the calories in alcohol. We have a one | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
hour left to drown our sorrows and by closing time, we are very merry. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Is it in appropriate after about five pts to say I love you? I love | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
you too. I think I love you more. Happy Christmas. | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
I haven't drunk that much in a long time. But after all, I am giving it | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
all up for a whole month. It is 3rd December. I am three days into my | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
Dry December challenge. The first two days, police with it. Not | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
having alcohol this month, telling everybody. Feeling good about | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
myself. Saturday evening, watching X-factor, I'm not sitting he would | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
you without a large glass of red wine, it feels quite peculiar. It | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
is the Saturday before Christmas in Bristol city centre. The police | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
have their hands full dealing with drunken revellers. I, of course, | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
and stone-cold sober but I want to find out how much people drink on | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
an average weekend night. When you start coming up and drinking? | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
don't know. What is your favourite drink? Jager master. Any idea how | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
many units? No. What are you drinking tonight? Ford Kirk, wind, | :07:55. | :08:04. | |
whatever I can get my hands on -- Any idea how much units you have | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
had? About 20. Do you know the recommended limit for women for a | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
week? No. 14. A I am probably gone. It is not just the youngster's | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
exceeding the limits. Five pints of Stella, I expect. I couldn't drink | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
five pints of Stella. You know what they call that, don't you? Most | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
drinkers could probably cut down if they chose to. But those who become | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
addicted will need professional help. I have come to meet staff | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
Noble who runs a rehab centre in Weston-super-Mare. One of the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
biggest changes I have seen has been the amount of damage and | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
particularly liver damage we are seeing in relatively young people, | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
particularly when huge quantities of alcohol are being consumed at | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
the age is coming further down, younger and younger people are | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
drinking more and more of golf, and we are seeing the effects of that. | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
Today I am also meeting Kate and Kieran, both recovering alcoholics | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
who have been treated at Broadway Lodge. Kieran is only 31. Drinking | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
started when there was about 13 years old. With my friends, after | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
school, hanging about, it getting someone to buy us a drink and | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
drinking in the park. I would wake up and I would be shaking, | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
borderline fitting. Really ill. My doctor committee p, told me he was | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
keeping the a life. -- keeping me alive. Last Christmas you're in a | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
bad way, how will you be this Christmas? Spending it with my | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
family. They will be able to trust me and I will be able to enjoy it | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
and remember it. Kate was a respectable teacher in her late | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
forties when she became addicted to alcohol. At my worst, this was not | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
know was teaching, I would drink three bottles of wine in a day. It | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
affected my eating patterns, I didn't eat much. It affected my | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
sleep. I couldn't sleep and divided sleep it was a fitful sleep which | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
gave me no comfort or release. It affected me at the level of having | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
physical shakes. It affected my whole mental co-ordination. What | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
has this place done for you? It was an escape. I will be honest and say | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
that. It was a haven of peace, tranquillity. That is my perception. | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
At the Bristol and North Somerset addiction recovery agency and | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
meeting up with 32-year-old Luke, still very much in the grip of | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
alcoholism. You have had a couple of gigs today? Yes. Why was that? | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
was shaking like a leaf. -- couple of drinks. I can't function if I | :11:13. | :11:22. | |
don't have a drink. How much are you drinking at the moment? 10 cans | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
of cider, 7.5%. What happens if you don't have any alcohol at all? | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
violently ill. I drink to the point where I don't have a clue what I am | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
doing. It is like the same, one is too many, 28 is not enough. -- | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
saying. I have won and that is it, and a flat cap. Do you want to stop, | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
though? That is a tough question. No, I don't. I cannot imagine life | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
without not at having a drink. Stopping the drink is harder than | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
giving up heroin. I can swear down now, that is the truth because I | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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I want to go home! Back on the streets of Bristol, and | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
whilst these drinkers may not be alcoholics, there been shrinking | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
will be harming them. I think there has probably been a slow change in | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
the terms of people's own personal responsibility around the mud of | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
alcohol they drink. There are a lot of people that get completely drunk, | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
intoxicated, then find it difficult to look after themselves. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
Fairly obvious what has happened, the police have detained a guy he | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
was pretty drunk, swearing, shouting. They want to detain him | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
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Perhaps a night in the cells will sober him up. He sounds and smells | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
intoxicated. A bit of a heavy night. What happened? We had a bottle of | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
wine before we came out, three bottles between us. Between how | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
many? Just us two. I was sick in the toilet. I waited for an hour. | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
My friend was waiting for me. often does that happen? Every | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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It is Saturday night, it is just like a zoo down here. Everything is | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
kicking a. I have seen so many drug people tonight, people shouting at | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
us, -- drunk people. It is all down to alcohol. Why are some young | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
people becoming such big drinkers? What has changed in the last 10 | :13:59. | :14:09. | |
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Alcopops is obviously targeted to young drinkers. Introducing | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
children to alcohol earlier, they get a liking for it and it becomes | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
a cultural thing. And it is cheap as well. Go into any supermarket | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
and you will be bombarded with deals, savings and promotions. | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
is cheaper than a water. It is killing me because I can afford it. | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
They would -- the addiction recovery agency says the government | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
must act now. The cheaper it is, the more people drink and the more | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
problems we have. Clearly, restricting availability. Clearly, | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
increasing the price will have a direct impact on the consumption | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
and therefore be problems. Up a whole has clearly become ingrained | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
in our culture to be. Where 80 do not drink you are regarded as a bit | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
odd. The peer pressure at my local party is tough but I am still on | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
the lime and soda. The first of a raft of Christmas parties and this | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
was at a local Christmas party. I have gone to some evening functions | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
and I think it is going to be where a lot of alcohol is drunk and I | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
will be severely ribs. It should be fascinating. Come Christmas Day, I | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
have had enough and so has my partner. But I cannot help thinking | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
how hard today must be for Luke. Imagine going to a birthday party | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
or Christmas. New year's day. I did really wants to stop at the minute. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
But I want to cut down. I cannot live like this, waking up in the | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
morning and shaking like a leaf. It is not good. It is not a way to | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
live. My dry December is almost finished. Just a matter of hours | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
left until New year's Eve. I am proud to say I have not touched a | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
drop. But has it made any difference to my blood pressure? | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
Last time it was normal and this is quite a bit lower. About 15 % less. | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
That might be significant. I have got lower blood pressure. I suspect | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
that is related to a month off the alcohol. Lower blood pressure, | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
which is good. A slight increase in weight. It is Christmas. Any advice | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
you can give me for alcohol consumption in 2012 was bark you | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
are in a high risk --?. You are in a high risk profession but your | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
blood tests are fine. You stay in the guidelines. You have mentioned | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
difficulty finding something else to do instead of drinking a glass | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
of wine. Find an activity. Reach for an apple instead. Maybe a quick | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
computer game. Thank you, doctor. Congratulations. It is New year's | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Eve and it is the end of a long month. Dry December is about to | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
finish. In six minutes I am going to be drinking alcohol. For me it | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
has been an interesting experiment and it has been an eye-opener. But | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
for some people, giving up alcohol is actually a matter of life or | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
death. I am lucky. I can carry on enjoying a drink, in moderation. | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
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What a way to start the new year. And later this week, there's a | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
documentary charting 100 years of boozing on BBC Four. It's called | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Timeshift - The Rules of Drinking. It is on at 9 o'clock on Wednesday | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
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If you'd like details of organisations which can offer | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
advice and support on alcohol advice and support on alcohol | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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Next, a conservation success story that's got some anglers hot under | :18:47. | :18:56. | |
the collar. The West Country's otters are doing rather well, but | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
that's bad news for some angling clubs who say the otters are eating | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
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This beautiful creature is blissfully unaware of the almighty | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
row he is causing. When the Environment Agency recently | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
announced that otters were back in every county in England, not | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
everyone applauded. In fact, there are some pretty angry anglers out | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
there. When the fish has gone, what will it keep? It will eat the water | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
bolts. It will be a complete caricature to suggest that the fish | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
populations are under threat because the natural predator is | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
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back in the environment. It is I love this valley. I have been | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
coming here for 70 years. It is one of the most beautiful valleys in | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
England. Richard Patrick has been fishing for Barbel on this | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
wonderful stretch of the Bristol Avon in Bathampton since he was a | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
boy. I am at peace with the wildlife. But something is | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
disturbing his peace of mind. used to be in the top five at | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
barbel rivers in the country but it would not be anywhere near that now. | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
I am not catching anywhere near as much. What is causing the downturn? | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
The fishing stock has been decimated, not just the barbel. The | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
chub, Reg. They are predators, B otters. They will eat anything. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Beautiful creatures. It is magnificent to see them out there. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
But there are too many of them. could otters really be that | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
widespread already? After all, they almost disappeared right across the | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
country 50 years ago, the culprit was pesticides in the rivers. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
accumulate in the tissues of top predators and they did with otters | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
and birds of prey. That wiped them out across much of the UK. In a | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
short space of time. Are they more numerous now? A lot more. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
Pesticides were successfully removed over a period of time. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
Populations have responded and they have recovered and food supplies | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
have become less contaminated. They have colonised again. This recovery | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
will inevitably have some impact on fishing. And some anglers feel that | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
their concerns are not being taken seriously. In fact, there are fears | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
that a small number may even be shooting this highly protected | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
species. We understand we have got a legal killing of otters taking | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
place. This might be the tip of the iceberg. Where you get predator's | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
conflicting with personal interests of people, people will take the law | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
into their own hands. We completely condemn that. We think it is | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
irresponsible but we understand it happens. The killing of otters is | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
condemned by responsible anglers. Martin Bowler from Chippenham is | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
one of the country's top professionals. But he does point | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
out that feelings are running very high within his community. There | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
have been calls for quite radical action. We have even had rumours of | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
people taking the law into their hands and getting guns out. What | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
should be done? I think we need to understand desperate people. | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
Livelihoods are going. That is not right. I am not calling for Carling. | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
That would be the worst public relations possible. -- killing. It | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
is just desperate. I would say the community is scared and I would | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
pick it would be fair to say that they would be fairly split because | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
they do not understand the right way forward. Martin believes that | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
the otter's recovery has not been a natural one and that they have been | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
"put back" into our rivers. Also, that otters being released from | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
wildlife sanctuaries are throwing the delicate eco-system on the | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
rivers out of balance. As far as I understood the indigenous species, | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
they should have a massive area. I should not be able to see five or | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
six swimming up the river together. I think somebody has opened a door | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
somewhere. It does not stack up but nobody would admit that. So is | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
there any truth in the rumour that wildlife sanctuaries are breeding | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
otters and releasing them into the rivers? I've come to the Secret | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
World Wildlife Rescue centre, near Burnham- on-Sea in Somerset to find | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
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What is his name? Otto. He has been with us since about 400 grams. Very | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
tiny. How did he end up here? came from Lincolnshire, | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
surprisingly. We saw two cards and they were concerned about them. We | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
told them to leave them alone but he was buried tiny and the other | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
one was very lethargic and we suggested that they did not pick it | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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up. Do you read otters? Certainly not. -- read. I understand of | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
nobody that is doing that. It is just the ones that we pick up. It | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
is often through a human intervention and actions where the | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
mother gets killed. You are talking about 30 animals per year across | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
But it's not just anglers on the river banks who are getting hot | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
under the collar. For a still water fishery owner, otters could be bad | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
for business. Some of Richard's specimen carp are worth around | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
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�1000 each. We had a couple of killings on site. I had a problem | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
in the fishery where it turned out that they had been released from an | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
RSPCA centre. This was a big animal. More than 3 ft in length. I pick it | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
was released to close to my fishery and without consultation with the | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
authorised bodies. The RSPCA weren't able to comment on | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
Richard's case but their guidelines say they should find a location for | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
releasing otters which is the most suitable to enable their survival. | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Despite all the evidence, anglers need a lot more convincing that | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
otters are recovering naturally. When we brought the Environment | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Agency's top otter expert to meet Martin Bowler, there was a "heated" | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
You can categorically assure every angler that there has never been | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
and never will be a cub put back that was not born in the wild? From | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
any wildlife park in this country? I can assure you that there is no | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
centre at the moment undertaking that work to my knowledge. No | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
reason to do that. You cannot deny politicians are quick to come out, | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
as soon as an otter has been found. It is a quick win it. They can say | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
we have got the rivers back. That is good news and we have not got | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
anything wrong with the government celebrating the fact that that has | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
happened. What about the population on this river? It has been | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
decimated by about 75 %. It has been taken out. Something is | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
completely wrong. Many of the complaints that we get our, the | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
rivers where we lost otters in the past 30 years. -- complaints. That | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
could be through a number of factors. But we have got specimen | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
fish not being a dominant part of the community. You love advertising | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
in your manuals when you open them up. We do not want unhealthy | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
fisheries. When the specimens have gone, what will it eat? It will eat | :27:23. | :27:32. | |
the water boiled. It will take this and dad. This is an Armageddon view | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
of the weather system. -- river It's clear this is an argument | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
that's not going to be resolved just yet It's the end of the day's | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
fishing and Richard didn't catch a thing, but then he didn't spot an | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
otter either. Whatever the true reason for the barbell's decline, | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
he says fishing here just isn't what it used to be. I still love it | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
and I still come here even though I catch nothing. But I think it is | :28:02. | :28:11. | |
different in a place like this. And if there's something you'd like | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
us to investigate then why not get in touch? You can find us on | :28:16. | :28:25. | |
Next week, a flurry of planning applications to create new village | :28:25. | :28:33. | |
greens. How much is it costing our local councils? Plus, cuts to | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
housing benefits and how they could force some people to move house. | :28:38. | :28:40. |