:00:08. > :00:13.Hello from Somerset, where we are investigating the problem of fly-
:00:13. > :00:18.tipping. Pass the council's policy led to Roque traders dumping their
:00:18. > :00:24.rubbish in country lanes? It is just disgusting. Local people
:00:24. > :00:30.should not have to go through that. Also tonight... 50 years on from
:00:30. > :00:35.the Bristol bus boycott, has there ever been an apology for a racism
:00:35. > :00:42.on the buses? Absolutely not. There could have been to set the record
:00:42. > :00:46.straight. We tell the extraordinary story of a Dorset barrister who is
:00:46. > :00:54.completing a transformation from a man to woman. I walk out on the
:00:54. > :01:04.street and people think I am female until I open my mouth. This is
:01:04. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:10.Inside Out West. It is an all-too-familiar sight,
:01:10. > :01:15.ruining some of almost cherished beauty spots. Fly-tipping is anti-
:01:15. > :01:18.social and illegal. Very few perpetrators ever end up in court.
:01:19. > :01:23.Here in Somerset, we have been investigating what the authorities
:01:23. > :01:28.are doing to catch fly-tippers and we are asking whether the county
:01:28. > :01:34.council's own policies might be making things worse.
:01:34. > :01:39.Brazen, casual and relentless. The scale of illegal dumping in this
:01:39. > :01:43.tiny network of lanes outside Frome has turned the area into eight
:01:43. > :01:51.notorious fly-tipping blackspot. The amount of rubbish that people
:01:51. > :01:55.dump is just truckloads, domestic, commercial, it is an eyesore.
:01:55. > :02:02.people who Dampier are not worried they will get caught. It is an easy
:02:02. > :02:08.peg down here. There is no street lighting and they can dump within
:02:08. > :02:13.seconds. Then they are gone. These lanes, from a hamlet of Berkley
:02:13. > :02:17.Marsh into Frome, ought to be a pleasant place to walk. Instead,
:02:17. > :02:24.residents feel they are living on the edge of an unofficial damp.
:02:24. > :02:30.you can see, there is lots of rubbish. It happens day and night.
:02:30. > :02:36.No sooner is some of it collected, the next day we are back to square
:02:36. > :02:41.run. Some of the lanes get blocked. We have had situations where the
:02:41. > :02:47.fire brigade cannot get down. It is horrible. To walk past base is
:02:47. > :02:52.disgusting. -- to walk past this. He illegal dumping has long been a
:02:52. > :02:57.problem here but in 2011, after Somerset introduce charges and cut
:02:57. > :03:07.opening hours at its official Dobbs, fly-tipping levels across the
:03:07. > :03:12.county sword. It has been a lot worse since the refuse centre has
:03:12. > :03:17.cut its Forest. It does not take a genius to work out. People put
:03:17. > :03:25.stuff in their cars to dump it legally, and they think, where will
:03:25. > :03:29.I go? Then they come down here and that is it. We filmed in the lanes
:03:29. > :03:34.over the course of several weeks and watched as the rubbish mounted
:03:34. > :03:39.up. This bridge across the bypass is a popular spot for free cuttings
:03:39. > :03:46.and garden waste. This lane is often completely blocked by rubbish,
:03:46. > :03:51.dumped in the middle of the road. For people who live and work near
:03:51. > :03:58.by, the illegal dumping is a constant problem. The fly-tipping
:03:58. > :04:04.round the local lanes adjacent to our alarms has been horrendous. --
:04:04. > :04:07.our man. The council claimed that every few weeks but in between, we
:04:07. > :04:13.often have to cure the lane and clear the gateways to gain access
:04:13. > :04:19.on to our food. Pick it is disgusting. Local people walking
:04:19. > :04:24.around should not have to go through all that. The owner of
:04:24. > :04:30.another family business is getting ready to welcome visitors. Chris
:04:30. > :04:35.Hays rents these chalets to people looking to relax in a rural setting.
:04:35. > :04:41.The lanes are a total disgrace. Sometimes they are impassable. We
:04:41. > :04:45.attract visitors from all over the country and all over the world.
:04:45. > :04:49.Sometimes they find themselves coming through the lanes and they
:04:49. > :04:54.arrived disgusted and wondering what sort of place they are coming
:04:54. > :04:58.to. Many local people blame the residents of this nearby
:04:58. > :05:04.travellers' site for the fly- tipping problem. But those living
:05:04. > :05:08.closest to billions say it is not that simple. -- to billions.
:05:08. > :05:16.know but travellers took the vegetation, but it is not all of
:05:16. > :05:21.them. I think a lot of them get tarred with the same brush. Also,
:05:21. > :05:26.local businesses think it is a soft touch and that they can blame the
:05:26. > :05:30.travellers. That is not the case. While we are filming, a man who
:05:30. > :05:39.lives on a travellers' site pulls up to make sure he is not being
:05:39. > :05:48.misrepresented. He is keen to reassure him. There is no dispute
:05:48. > :05:56.that it is not all of you. We are licensed, yeah. There are people
:05:56. > :06:01.just coming and coming up and that they are blaming you. Whoever is to
:06:01. > :06:04.blame knows they are likely to get away with it. It is jobs -- the job
:06:04. > :06:09.of the district council to track down those responsible for dumping
:06:09. > :06:13.rubbish in this way. The number of fines and convictions is tiny in
:06:13. > :06:19.comparison to the fly-tipping incidents reported each year.
:06:19. > :06:23.Enforcement officers are people with the unenviable job of
:06:23. > :06:27.investigating this. Mendip, the Council for the problem near Frome,
:06:27. > :06:33.did not want us to film their officers at work. We crossed the
:06:33. > :06:37.border into Bath and north-east Somerset to film this investigation
:06:38. > :06:42.at Burnett, on the outskirts of Keynsham. When it is household
:06:42. > :06:45.waste there is a good chance of getting evidence. We go through the
:06:46. > :06:53.waste and if we find any evidence we baguette and Highgate, and
:06:53. > :07:00.preserve it. -- we bike it and label it. We have got a receipt for
:07:00. > :07:08.something with a mobile telephone number on it. This is ago start --
:07:08. > :07:13.a good start to our investigation. Andy follows up every lead he gets.
:07:13. > :07:16.I have been going through some rubbish and there is one of your
:07:16. > :07:21.brochures with your name and telephone number. The you know
:07:21. > :07:28.anything about this waste? woman says she knows nothing. The
:07:28. > :07:35.brochure must have been something she gave to a customer. Can you
:07:35. > :07:42.send out some litter pickers, please? Back at home, Nick Marshall
:07:42. > :07:47.is on the phone to Mendip council, again. Residents understand that
:07:47. > :07:51.fly-tipping is a heart problem to solve, but they do not feel that
:07:51. > :07:58.their local authority is really trying. -- a heart problem to solve.
:07:58. > :08:06.We see no evidence of anything happening. It just carries on.
:08:06. > :08:11.think they liked to have worn spot where it is all left, so they only
:08:11. > :08:16.have to go to one place to clear it up. They only have to go within one
:08:16. > :08:20.mile to collect all the rubbish. Time to invite the local politician
:08:20. > :08:28.responsible for this area down to the lanes to your neck at the
:08:28. > :08:32.Residence' concerns. The council are saying they are going to do
:08:32. > :08:35.something, but what is going to happen? It is our firm intention to
:08:35. > :08:39.take part in activities with the police to make sure that the
:08:39. > :08:44.perpetrators of all of this disgusting waste on this piece of
:08:44. > :08:50.road, and on the other roads, that they are put -- brought to justice
:08:50. > :08:56.for their crimes. These are crimes that are at centre to bowl and
:08:56. > :09:01.triable in the Crown Courts. Hopefully that will reassure you.
:09:01. > :09:08.This has got worse and worse over 20 years. This cost the council
:09:08. > :09:13.money to clear-up. I am sure this money will be resolved -- this
:09:13. > :09:18.problem will be resolved as soon as possible. With the restricted hours
:09:18. > :09:21.in the recycling centre, there is another problem. Firstly, we did
:09:22. > :09:25.not change the hours because we wanted to, but because we had to.
:09:25. > :09:31.We have got the right balance between making the savings we have
:09:31. > :09:38.to make and keeping recycling centres open so people can use them
:09:38. > :09:47.freely. Every few weeks, the council pays for the lanes to be
:09:47. > :09:50.cleared. The authorities are tougher approach to catching the
:09:50. > :09:58.fly-tippers CERN. Local people can only hope. We have got a small
:09:58. > :10:04.voice and we cannot make enough noise. They just let it carry on.
:10:04. > :10:10.Coming up... From him to hurt. We follow this woman's life changing
:10:10. > :10:18.gender reassignment. This is the third day of three days of the
:10:18. > :10:22.treatment since I had a skin graft. 50 years ago, a young black man in
:10:22. > :10:27.Bristol was refused an interview for a job on the buses because of
:10:27. > :10:33.the collar of his skin. It sparked a protest which gained national
:10:33. > :10:38.attention and led to the country's first ever anti discrimination law.
:10:38. > :10:48.I have been to talk to some of the people involved and to ask if there
:10:48. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:52.has ever been an apology. In 1963, a period of post-war
:10:52. > :10:58.immigration in which nearly half a million black and Asian people had
:10:59. > :11:04.journey to Britain, was coming to an end. In many cities, racial
:11:04. > :11:11.tension was rising, particularly in the workplace, where some companies
:11:11. > :11:16.placed bans on non-white Labour. In April that year, an enormous step
:11:16. > :11:21.towards ending the cholera Bach took place. It happened right here
:11:21. > :11:28.in Bristol. For those involved in the Bristol bus boycott, but
:11:28. > :11:38.memories of 50 years ago are still raw. Have you ever received an
:11:38. > :11:51.
:11:51. > :11:58.Roy Hackett came over from Jamaica as a 24-year-old. Arriving in
:11:58. > :12:08.Bristol in 1957, he was immediately struck by its racism. When I came
:12:08. > :12:08.
:12:08. > :12:13.here I tried to get a room in a Bristol and a muscly, the wordings
:12:13. > :12:20.on their placard on the tour was no Irish, No gypsies, no dogs and no
:12:20. > :12:24.blacks. Roy became suspicious of a colour bar on the buses when his
:12:24. > :12:30.then wife applied for a job as a conductress and went along for an
:12:30. > :12:35.interview. They said that the job was filled but then the next day it
:12:35. > :12:42.was still in the newspaper. They said they wanted it drivers and
:12:42. > :12:48.conductors. All go and not a public policy, they colour bar had been
:12:48. > :12:50.agreed by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the local transport and
:12:50. > :12:58.General Workers' Union, the very union it to which Roy and other
:12:58. > :13:04.black men were members. One of the local branches passed in 1955 a ban
:13:04. > :13:08.on a black workers from working on anything except the maintenance
:13:08. > :13:16.departments for the buses. White workers did not want to work with
:13:16. > :13:21.black people. Paul Stephenson had come to Bristol to be a youth
:13:21. > :13:29.worker and after seven years in the RAF. He was appalled by the
:13:29. > :13:37.constant threat of racism. could be either assaulted or you
:13:37. > :13:42.could be barred from entering a public house because because she
:13:42. > :13:46.did not know if you would be accepted. Inspired by the civil
:13:46. > :13:51.rights movement in America, all got together with Roy Hackett and
:13:51. > :13:59.others to devise a plan to expose of the colour bar on the buses.
:13:59. > :14:04.They needed a stalking horse. Guy Bailey had just arrived in Bristol
:14:04. > :14:11.at the age of 18, a bright shown man who had been a Boys' Brigade
:14:11. > :14:17.officer in Jamaica and he wanted to work on the buses. I've got a
:14:17. > :14:21.driving a bus would be just what I wanted. However, you have to become
:14:21. > :14:27.a conductor first before you could become a driver but I did not mind
:14:27. > :14:33.that because I wanted to get on the bus. Guy Bailey attended evening
:14:33. > :14:37.classes run by Paul Stephenson who arranged an interview with him with
:14:37. > :14:44.the Bristol Omnibus Company. When I contacted the company, they did not
:14:44. > :14:48.know I was black. They said to send him a long because they were short
:14:48. > :14:57.of drivers and conductors. Why I got into reception, the lady said
:14:57. > :15:01.to the manager, you 2pm appointment is here. He is black. I heard and
:15:01. > :15:08.the managers say tell him all the vacancies are taken and there are
:15:08. > :15:15.no more. That was that. I was very disappointed. Really disappointed.
:15:15. > :15:18.Of course, the job was still available, two white candidates and
:15:18. > :15:24.at a hastily arranged press conference, Paul Stephenson called
:15:24. > :15:29.for a boycott of Bristol buses and the following day the city's 3,000
:15:29. > :15:39.strong West Indian community joined in. Then, Bristol University
:15:39. > :15:42.
:15:42. > :15:45.students took to the streets and the protest went national. The bus
:15:45. > :15:52.company and at the Union were furious and set about defending in
:15:52. > :15:56.their policy. But point is that whilst we cannot maintain it white
:15:56. > :16:01.labour in the city, we intended to go on engaging white labour rather
:16:01. > :16:11.than coloured labour. We do not want them on here, that is the main
:16:11. > :16:13.
:16:13. > :16:17.reason. Despite have a fight back, the campaign are ploughed on,
:16:18. > :16:22.securing in a public support of Trinidad's High Commissioner Sir
:16:22. > :16:25.Learie Constantine and Bristol MP Tony Benn who took the issue to
:16:25. > :16:33.Westminster. The cracks in the colour bar were becoming harder to
:16:33. > :16:37.ignore. In August 1963, after a long and tense discussions, the
:16:37. > :16:45.union and the bus company announced an end to the colour bar. Two weeks
:16:45. > :16:50.later, Bristol had its first non- white conductor. What are your
:16:50. > :16:55.views? The we are very pleased. I think this will be welcomed by
:16:55. > :17:00.coloured people all over Bristol and many Bristolian as. Be it help
:17:00. > :17:05.to change the political culture. It helped to expose local unions and
:17:05. > :17:08.employment practices. It brought into the light that kind of
:17:08. > :17:15.discrimination at that people up until men were happy to turn a
:17:15. > :17:20.blind eye to. Within five years, Harold Wilson's race Relations Act
:17:20. > :17:24.had banned discrimination in the workplace. For Guy Bailey, who had
:17:24. > :17:30.been refused even a job interview, there was never an apology, not
:17:30. > :17:38.from the Bristol Omnibus Company nor from his union. I felt that, at
:17:38. > :17:45.least, there could have been it some of four-one off apology to set
:17:45. > :17:51.the record straight. Why it is never too late to says Dore, we
:17:51. > :17:59.have been on at the phone to his former union, and the union is keen
:17:59. > :18:05.to make amends. I am at Lawrence Faircloth, the regional secretary.
:18:05. > :18:10.I am more than happy to offer our sincere regret for what Guy Bailey
:18:10. > :18:16.and the minority ethnic community endured half a century ago. It was
:18:16. > :18:19.completely unacceptable. I can understand the sense of injustice
:18:19. > :18:26.and pain of that has been felt because of what happened in Bristol
:18:26. > :18:36.all those years ago. I hope today's meeting and apology goes some way
:18:36. > :18:39.
:18:39. > :18:44.to writing a great wrong. When somebody says something, I think
:18:44. > :18:49.why didn't they say it 40 years ago? This is the meaning. Some
:18:49. > :18:53.people will say it is too late. It is better to late than never. What
:18:53. > :19:03.happens today it may not have solved all the problems, but it has
:19:03. > :19:07.gone some way personally for me to say we are sorry and we apologise
:19:07. > :19:17.for what happened and we are working hard to ensure it will
:19:17. > :19:25.
:19:25. > :19:30.never happen again. Which is what the whole thing is all about.
:19:30. > :19:35.nine months, we have been filming Robin White, a barrister from
:19:35. > :19:40.Sherborne in Dorset who has been undergoing a gender reassignment.
:19:40. > :19:50.In our final film tonight, we tell the story of the last crucial
:19:50. > :19:51.
:19:52. > :19:56.stages as Robin it completes the change from a man to woman. Middle
:19:56. > :20:02.Temple in London, workplace of Robin White, a high-flying
:20:02. > :20:08.barrister from Sherborne who is on a life-changing journey. I worked
:20:09. > :20:14.out what I thought I was aged 12 when I saw a programme on BBC Two.
:20:14. > :20:18.Into what -- of 2011, he made the momentous decision to start the
:20:18. > :20:24.transition from the nail it to female. We follow her throughout
:20:24. > :20:34.the process. This is the third day of her victory. It was since I had
:20:34. > :20:34.
:20:34. > :20:38.the skin graft. This is Robin's story. It is Saturday morning in a
:20:38. > :20:44.Sherborne in Dorset and Robin is on her way to a weekly appointment
:20:45. > :20:49.with a local beautician. The painful removal of her facial hair
:20:49. > :20:54.is just one small step towards becoming that the person she has
:20:54. > :20:58.always felt she is, but until now could not be. I made a decision in
:20:58. > :21:04.my twenties to try and live a live at I've got society wanted me to
:21:04. > :21:09.lead and if you try hard, is -- eventually the pretence becomes a
:21:09. > :21:13.reality. You got married and lived as a man until 2011 but then
:21:13. > :21:18.realising she could not continue, she began to live as a woman,
:21:18. > :21:21.something she must do for a full year before she is allowed to
:21:21. > :21:26.undergo gender reassignment surgery and on top of that, she is
:21:26. > :21:32.currently going through a divorce. It is one of the greatest regrets.
:21:32. > :21:35.My soon-to-be ex-wife is my best friend. We have a strong friendship
:21:35. > :21:40.but plainly, what I am going through does not make for a
:21:40. > :21:44.marriage. As a barrister, Robin says her colleagues and clients
:21:44. > :21:48.have taken her transition in their stride but there is one element of
:21:48. > :21:53.day-to-day life and that is proving to be particularly challenging.
:21:53. > :21:57.the moment, I have got appearance reasonably well sorted, walk down
:21:57. > :22:01.the street and people think I am female until I open my mouth and
:22:01. > :22:07.when I book a hotel room or speak to my internet banking service,
:22:07. > :22:10.people start to get confused and I would rather they did not. Robin is
:22:10. > :22:14.booked in for surgery that will shorten her vocal cords and this
:22:15. > :22:18.will heighten a picture of her voice. The results of the operation
:22:18. > :22:26.are never predictable. I look forward to being surprised when I
:22:26. > :22:30.hear myself and I will see where I get to. When we see Robin again, a
:22:30. > :22:34.week after the operation, she is back at work and her new voice is
:22:34. > :22:40.slowly getting stronger. Fortunately people know whatever
:22:40. > :22:45.else might get removed, my sense of humour is in place, particularly
:22:45. > :22:51.the dalek speak of last week caused utter hilarity and really only in
:22:51. > :22:56.the last day or so have I got anything approaching a normal voice.
:22:56. > :23:00.Robin bus transformation has not only meant changes that were. She
:23:00. > :23:07.has been a volunteer on the West Somerset Railway for nearly 30
:23:07. > :23:15.years and now she has a new uniform. She is one of just two the male
:23:15. > :23:20.signalman. It proved daunting at first. He is apprehensive. Like
:23:20. > :23:23.many of the moment I have been through. That first time when you
:23:23. > :23:29.get into the car and drive of macro and the someone else for the day. I
:23:29. > :23:33.am sure there has been a lot of discussion about how are was going
:23:33. > :23:37.to turn up but they have been lovely. The drivers are calling me
:23:37. > :23:42.love on occasion so I must be getting something right. The Ian
:23:42. > :23:48.Coleby is the signalman and has no rock and since they were at school
:23:48. > :23:55.together. For any it has been peculiar. I have no Robin a long
:23:55. > :23:59.time and we were quite good friends and all other such an my friend has
:23:59. > :24:02.disappeared and a new friend has come along. There are odd things,
:24:02. > :24:07.Robin used to come to my house and we will go out for a drink and that
:24:07. > :24:13.is more difficult. I am hoping it will not change our relationship. I
:24:13. > :24:17.am hoping it will enhance our relationship. After an idyllic
:24:17. > :24:27.weekend, it is time for Robin it to head back to London for more
:24:27. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:34.surgery. Today, we are targeting the Crown area. Robin is having an
:24:34. > :24:39.operation to replace her hair were she has started to go bald. The
:24:39. > :24:43.doctor takes a strip of skin from her scalp and from it, technicians
:24:43. > :24:47.remove the hair follicles and then small incisions are made where
:24:47. > :24:54.Robin is balding and of the follicles are painstakingly
:24:54. > :25:00.replanted, one by one. Four macro hours later, with 2000 new hair
:25:00. > :25:10.implants, Robin is wide awake. head is full of local anaesthetic
:25:10. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:17.so I do not feel painful. It is nice to not off another step.
:25:17. > :25:22.is one more a huge step for Robin to take, her gender reassignment
:25:22. > :25:28.surgery. She has now been living as a woman for one year and has
:25:28. > :25:32.decided to travel to Thailand for the operation. I can appreciate
:25:32. > :25:37.that a lot of people watching this might feel very squeamish about
:25:37. > :25:41.what is going to happen, particularly the men. For me, it is
:25:41. > :25:50.one more step in the process, one more step in getting closer to the
:25:50. > :25:56.person I would like to have always been. During her trip to Thailand,
:25:56. > :26:00.Robin records a video diary. While she is there, she will have two
:26:00. > :26:04.operations, one that to remove her male genitalia and create the new
:26:04. > :26:11.cavity and then she will have a skin graft to complete the
:26:11. > :26:17.transition. Processes kick off around 9am in the morning. How do I
:26:17. > :26:21.feel? I suppose I am a little bit nervous, it is serious surgery.
:26:22. > :26:31.I've really want to get on with this. I am looking forward to the
:26:32. > :26:34.
:26:34. > :26:38.result. I have not suffered any pain. I seem to be fine. I had been
:26:38. > :26:44.bedridden for her two or three days only and it was not particularly
:26:44. > :26:49.pleasant. Fortunately things have settled down to the point I can
:26:49. > :26:54.wander around with a bit of care. Things do not go so smoothly
:26:54. > :26:59.following the second operation. This is the third day of three days
:26:59. > :27:03.of purgatory since I had the skin graft. You have to stay in bed and
:27:03. > :27:13.stay still and I have been drifting in and out of sleep that during the
:27:13. > :27:14.
:27:14. > :27:18.day and night. Still, a few days in, 50 years it is not much to endure.
:27:18. > :27:26.She gets an infection which makes the last fortnight of her recovery
:27:26. > :27:33.extremely painful. Despite the setbacks, for Robin, the ordeal has
:27:33. > :27:36.been worth it. I am very happy with the surgery. I have been grinning
:27:37. > :27:45.and bearing the last week or two which have been unpleasant and I am
:27:45. > :27:50.ready to go home. Back in Bristol, when we catch up with Robin in the
:27:50. > :27:54.New Year, she is finally recovering well after a momentous winter.
:27:54. > :28:02.is nice to have all that finished and to be able to get on with life
:28:02. > :28:05.again without thinking about the process. I like to think that by
:28:05. > :28:08.being open about my circumstances and helping the general public
:28:08. > :28:13.understand what people in my circumstance go through, it will
:28:13. > :28:16.give them help and understanding and not think we are a threat or a
:28:16. > :28:23.freak or something unusual and if that helps a bit in that way then I
:28:23. > :28:28.am delighted. That is just about it for tonight and for this series.
:28:28. > :28:33.Before we go, there is time to tell you that we have won a prestigious
:28:33. > :28:38.RTS award and the presentation was made at the Old Vic in Bristol last
:28:38. > :28:44.night. Our film exposing a further abuse at Winterbourne View won the