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Hello from the Memorial Ground in remarkable personal journey from | :00:04. | :00:17. | |
football hooligan to Bristol Rover's team chaplain. What do you think | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
Also on the programme, compensation at last, but only for some of those | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
suffering the side—effects of the absolutely disgusting. This vaccine | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
has irreversibly changed his life forever and there is nothing we | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
has irreversibly changed his life do about this. He has to take a | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
has irreversibly changed his life strong cocktail of drugs to just get | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
And I'm discovering the real story behind Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
In our first film tonight, we have a fascinating development of a story | :01:02. | :01:19. | |
first reported here on Inside Out West. In December 2011 we revealed | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
millions of children, and the sleep disorder narcolepsy. On Friday the | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
government admitted there was a disorder narcolepsy. On Friday the | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
and announced a compensation scheme. But, as our health correspondent | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Matthew Hill reports, this will But, as our health correspondent | :01:36. | :01:47. | |
for 8—year—old Josh, sleep dominates his life. Josh? You have got to | :01:47. | :02:00. | |
for 8—year—old Josh, sleep dominates up. Josh has to take a powerful | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
cocktail of medication every day. He has a very rare condition called | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
narcolepsy that means he can't regulate his sleep patterns. He | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
narcolepsy that means he can't collapses whenever he gets excited, | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
a condition known as catoplexy. collapses whenever he gets excited, | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
just after he was vaccinated against swine flu. Initially put it down to | :02:17. | :02:28. | |
it being the end of term, coming up to half term, he was tired. Then he | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
started losing muscle control. He could not hold things properly. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
started losing muscle control. He needed you to support his hand, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
started losing muscle control. He dropping forward. It was horrible. I | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
happened. For the past three years Caroline has been campaigning to get | :02:52. | :02:52. | |
condition was caused by the swine Caroline has been campaigning to get | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
condition was caused by the swine the Government has agreed that the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
multinational GlaxosmithKline, is most likely to have contributed | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
multinational GlaxosmithKline, is impressed and pleased with the fact | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
that they have now admitted the links, they have it made a great | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
step forward. At the end of the links, they have it made a great | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
that is the main thing that we wanted from the government, to admit | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
that the vaccine was a problem. wanted from the government, to admit | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
am impressed with that. But it is the way we have been treated. It is | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
absolutely horrendous. So why has it taken so long for the problems to | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
come to light? How thoroughly had Pandemrix been tested in the first | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
original trials on Pandemrix took place. Now it was because the global | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
threat presented by a pandemic of swine flu that it was decided the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
trial should be fast—tracked so swine flu that it was decided the | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
results would be available sooner. But GSK were only happy for the | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
vaccine to be given if the British government gave them an indemnity. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
That means that if things went wrong it would be the British government | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
that would have to pay compensation rather than the drug company. But | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
for Caroline's son, something did go wrong and she's angry that the | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
government has been dragging its feet over the issue, failing to | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
government has been dragging its seriously mounting evidence from its | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
dangers of Pandemrix. In the middle of 2010 Finland withdrew the vaccine | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
for young people under 20. The decision followed a study by this | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
sleep expert who I met at the start of my investigation more than two | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
narcolepsy was 12 times higher, compared to not having it. We had | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
beginning of August, about the number of narcoleptic of children of | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
Pandemrix. No way I would have given it to any of my own children or | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
friends, I said, I have it because there is no risk but do not give it | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
to your children. Back in the UK though, nothing changed. In fact, | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
investigated Pandemrix, it was being seasonal flu vaccine. Through her | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
campaigning Caroline met up with Pauline Carlton from Liverpool. | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
Hello! You're right? She had her whole family vaccinated against | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
swine flu in January 2011, long after the vaccine had been withdrawn | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
in Finland. Nice to meet you. Soon after the vaccination, her youngest | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
symptoms as Josh. He was a humorous little boy, he used to make me laugh | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
so much, he had a wicked sense of humour, he had the silliest thing to | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
make me laugh. All that has gone. What is left is this little angry, | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
frustrated the full boy, it is heartbreaking. When I visited the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline two years ago, I wanted to know | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline they would acknowledge the apparent | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
narcolepsy in Josh, Lucas and other children. There is currently no | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
evidence at all to indicate there is a causal link between Pandemrix | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
evidence at all to indicate there is narcolepsy. We are working hard | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
evidence at all to indicate there is the regulatory authorities to try | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
and understand what is happening. Are you saying you disagree with the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Finnish Institute when they say there is a link with Pandemrix? At | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
authorities believe there is not a Pandemrix but we are working with | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
it. At the end of the day, patient safety is of utmost importance to us | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
and we would never put out a drug or leave it out there if we believed it | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
was a true issue. Then a year ago a study in Ireland found a 13 fold | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
Pandemrix. It took Caroline to meet another campaigner in Dublin to | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Pandemrix. It took Caroline to meet out how they were fighting for | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
compensation. We got a promise from the Minister from health here, that | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
support package proposal would be put to government in the summer | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
support package proposal would be that has not happened. We are now | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
putting pressure on them to do that. And finally Inside Out revealed | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
which showed English children have study by the health authorities | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
which showed English children have also been affected. Yet GSK were | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
still saying there was no data increase of narcolepsy among those | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
vaccinated. But one of the academics involved in the original trials | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
vaccinated. But one of the academics the vaccine disagreed. The bottom | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
line is that they have found that there was somewhere between ten | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
line is that they have found that 16 times more likely to have had | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
Pandemrix than other children. That confirms these other studies done in | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Finland, Sweden and Ireland. These researchers have put a number on it | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
risk was something like one in 52,000. Glaxo Smith Kline say they | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
now want to carry out more research into the claim to seek what is | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
causing the narcolepsy. This could include other factors such as the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
environment or genetics, they say. The company say the vaccine went to | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
a vigorous approval process and throughout development there was no | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
data to diet —— suggesting a link. But Josh is left battling daily | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
life. He needs powerful drugs to keep him awake, which may shorten | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
his life. The families have applied Caroline has just received a letter | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
that on balance of probability, Caroline has just received a letter | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
jab contributed to Josh's condition but he will not be eligible for | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
compensation because he is not disabled enough. Looking at their | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
something like, loss of eyesight or hearing, loss of limbs or not being | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
it to do anything. What do you think disgusting. I want them to take | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
it to do anything. What do you think burden of our soldiers, the guilt | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
that I feel everyday when I look at parents, to see him suffer on a | :09:32. | :09:43. | |
daily basis. He has to take a very strong cocktail of drugs each day to | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
get through a day. At the end of the day, this vaccine has irreversibly | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
changed his life for ever, there is nothing we can do about this. To | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
turn round to me and say that the result of the vaccination means | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
turn round to me and say that the his illness is not severe enough, | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
Coming up, Mark is in search of his illness is not severe enough, | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
hidden story bit —— behind the Lord of the rings. To think that this is | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
the ring that he became the model for the ring in the Hobbit! Anyone | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
in football will tell you there for the ring in the Hobbit! Anyone | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
times when players and fans turn to the power of prayer to get the right | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
It is no surprise that Bristol Rovers, who play their football | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
It is no surprise that Bristol at the Memorial Stadium, have their | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
own chaplain. Here is his remarkable Bristol's newest at 14 is enjoying | :10:41. | :10:51. | |
early success. In the couple —— newest football team, in their first | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
ever match. It is a proud moment for the chairman, Dave Jeal. Football is | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
his passion. He is a fixture on the chairman, Dave Jeal. Football is | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
terraces, supporting his beloved restored Rovers. But he has also | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
been involved in summer football's violent moments. What do you think | :11:13. | :11:25. | |
everything changed. What we want is a revolution. That is what we are | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
about, really, a revolution of love, not to hurt and destroyed. So can | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
born—again Christian convert his passion for the beautiful game into | :11:40. | :11:54. | |
Dave lives in North Bristol. The first match I went to, 1972. It | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
Dave lives in North Bristol. The passion, devotion? Yes, I love it. | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
But there was a time it to keep passion, devotion? Yes, I love it. | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
a dark path? The first time I saw football match violence was in the | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
70s, it was a pitch invasion, I football match violence was in the | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
fascinated by it. I was eight, I start off as a little dapper, going | :12:20. | :12:29. | |
to watch, and you can get a little bit more involved as you get older. | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
You come up through the ranks, it is aggression and anger and hatred | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
You come up through the ranks, it is particularly proud of it, although, | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
it has taught me a lot about life and people. And involvement in | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
football violence reached a high point at the European Championships | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
What are your memories of that? It was just a dark evening in my | :13:03. | :13:12. | |
He was arrested for punching a rival fan, leaving him unconscious on | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
He was arrested for punching a rival ground to be repeatedly kicked on | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
That looks really nasty. You can see me walking away. What do you think | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
when you see pictures like that me walking away. What do you think | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
Then there was an unexpected twist of fate. We ask God to kill us —— | :13:38. | :13:53. | |
He was persuaded, reluctantly, to go I didn't want people to see me | :13:53. | :14:07. | |
pretended I was praying. These two blokes came up and said I want to | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
pray for you. I said, do whatever you want, mate. They asked me what I | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
wanted and I said I want all the hits to go. They asked me to pray | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
and from that second I knew there was a god. The only good thing about | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
me as God. Left to my own devices, I am a pretty unpleasant person. When | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
I first became Christian I wanted to tell everybody. I just couldn't | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
believe it. I had never had a buzz like it. Legally. I thought I'd | :14:45. | :14:54. | |
believe it. I had never had a buzz had to tell people what it was like. | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
compelled them to spread the word. He is now a minister in his North | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
West. . You have also become the He joins the players once a week at | :15:06. | :15:22. | |
The players come to you? Sometimes. If they want to talk about faith, I | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
combination of Bristol Rovers and God is just the best job ever. I | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
love it. Even though I am just the ball boy. Do you pray every week for | :15:39. | :15:52. | |
a when? No, why would God be a Surely Friday he has a Bristol | :15:52. | :16:09. | |
No, no. I'd like him to the butt no. Are the those among your friends who | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
I am happy with that, we can go and on. The can't get much worse! | :16:15. | :18:47. | |
God, thank you for this game, Lord. Thank you that you love us no matter | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
what happens. Whatever Howarth —— whatever, however you feel, you | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
what happens. Whatever Howarth —— you ever caught in this choice | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
between the two, between God and football? No. No. It is different. | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
It is kind of like God is my family. And Rovers are like my friends. | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Family will always come first. In our final film tonight, we are | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
heavily off to Middle Earth to hear the secret story of a precious gold | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
ring hoped to —— thought to have inspired Lord of the Rings. Ours is | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
a tale of curses by cruel gods, dwarves and subterranean caves. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
a tale of curses by cruel gods, history man has been to the Forest | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
archaeologist excavating a Roman Gloucestershire was told of an | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
extraordinary discovery. Buried inside the temple, a small rolled up | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
demanding accursed be placed upon the wearer of a precious ring. The | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
find caught the attention of eminent academic called Professor J R R | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
Tolkien, a few years later, he published and now world famous book, | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
The story starts atop steep hill on Severn. Sometime in the fourth | :20:24. | :20:48. | |
century, a British women called Sylvie Alness made a pilgrimage | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
century, a British women called to this temple. Weary from his | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
travels, he used the thermal baths attached to the temple. Here in | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
travels, he used the thermal baths disrobed, and carefully removed | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
travels, he used the thermal baths that he left with his clothes. As he | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
went into the baths. Whilst the Roman was enjoying a luxury bath | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
here, back in the changing rooms, a thief stole his gold ring. To find | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
out what happened next, I am being joined an archaeologist with a | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
particular interest in Roman and iron age religion. So, the Roman has | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
lost his ring in the temple. If iron age religion. So, the Roman has | :21:44. | :21:57. | |
possesses. It has gone. It has been storing in a sacred place. It is | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
assessed and it is also sacrilege. What did he do next? He probably | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
engages ascribed to write on a piece of lead, this piece of lead, a | :22:08. | :22:19. | |
asking him to lay at curse on the thief. It said, to the God, and | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
asking him to lay at curse on the mentions the person who has been | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
robbed. He has lost his right —— his ring and he would give half of it, | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
the value, to the God on its return. Here's saying that anybody by this | :22:36. | :22:48. | |
name should receive the curse. He may have been a pilgrim. He is | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
definitely being fingered. What may have been a pilgrim. He is | :22:53. | :23:04. | |
he mean by getting damaged? Anything to do with bodily fluids, going | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
he mean by getting damaged? Anything the toilet, having sex, all gone. | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
Silvianus buried his curse deep within the temple and set off home, | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
waiting for his ring to be returned. But it never was. Before long, Roman | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
rule in Britain had come to an end abandoned. In the centuries that | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
followed, superstitious locals thought that the ruins and tunnels | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
were home to goblins and it works. untouched for a thousand years. | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
were home to goblins and it works. the site was excavated, in the late | :23:59. | :24:10. | |
1920s, the curse and the stories of the works and goblins attracted | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
experts. Including one Professor Tolkien. I think he was fascinated | :24:14. | :24:26. | |
because we don't often have names —— names for gods. The fact that he | :24:26. | :24:40. | |
lived here in this enchanted forest set Tolkien's mind away. This is | :24:40. | :24:56. | |
He came here, visited this magical place and was inspired. Absolutely | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
and the story started to become So what effect did all this have on | :25:01. | :25:19. | |
Tolkien? At the same time that he was contributing to an academic | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
report, he was writing another work about the nasty gods, cursed rings, | :25:25. | :25:39. | |
He was writing in 1926 or developing started work on that famous first | :25:39. | :25:54. | |
sentence, on a whole in the ground Tolkien was desperate to create | :25:54. | :26:07. | |
sentence, on a whole in the ground already explored the possibility of | :26:07. | :26:07. | |
melding earlier British history already explored the possibility of | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
the invasion of the Romans into already explored the possibility of | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
kind of prototype story that he already explored the possibility of | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
writing and saw all those things were feeding into his imagination at | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
the time and the creative process he This would eventually emerge into | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
Tolkien's first novel is famously known, especially in this film. | :26:37. | :27:04. | |
So what about Silvianus' stolen ring? Incredibly, it was found in | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
1785 in a field in Hampshire. It went on display in this National | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
Trust house and I am having a closer look. To think that this is the | :27:20. | :27:32. | |
actual ring that Silvianus stall —— It is not hard to be transported to | :27:32. | :27:46. | |
Middle—earth. It is just the sort of thing that might have inspired | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
Tolkien. Before I got the ring back there is just one or thing I want to | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
know. In The Hobbit, the bring his That is just about it for this week. | :27:58. | :28:15. | |
Before we go, there is just about time to tell you about a special | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
documentary about a school for on BBC One. You can keep in touch | :28:18. | :28:29. | |
with us at the address is on screen. From all of us, thanks for watching | :28:29. | :28:45. | |
temperature cull shows no sign in beating we look at the police trying | :28:45. | :28:48. |