:00:00. > :00:10.Hello from Severn Beach. Tonight, the growing problem of flygrazing -
:00:11. > :00:18.that's dumping animals on other people's land.
:00:19. > :00:30.I catch up with a repeat offender. And I join a horse bailiff on a late
:00:31. > :00:32.night rescue. Hopefully you are not compromised.
:00:33. > :00:40.Also tonight, what happens when the mental health service your family
:00:41. > :00:44.relies on closes down. If you do not look after the
:00:45. > :00:48.children when they really need help, later on in life they will become a
:00:49. > :00:58.problem to society. And the country's oldest military
:00:59. > :01:02.jet aircraft finds a new home. It is lying ex-mac it is flying again
:01:03. > :01:03.ex-mac isn't that terrific ?? new line I'm Alastair McKee, and this is
:01:04. > :01:17.Inside Out West. First tonight, we're investigating
:01:18. > :01:20.the cruel practice of dumping animals - mostly horses - on other
:01:21. > :01:24.people's land. It's known as fly-grazing and it's on the rise. In
:01:25. > :01:27.worst cases the animals are deprived of food and water and just left to
:01:28. > :01:30.die. And as I've been finding out, there's little the law can do to
:01:31. > :01:34.stop it. Caught on camera. Two brothers -
:01:35. > :01:39.Eddie and Connie Mullane. And they've brought some of their family
:01:40. > :01:42.along to help. These travellers make a living from breeding horses. But
:01:43. > :01:45.they don't use their own land - they leave them on someone else's. This
:01:46. > :01:49.is fly-grazing. And if the Mullanes fly-grazed their
:01:50. > :01:55.horses on your land, you'd find it hard to legally remove them. You
:01:56. > :01:58.can't just take them away. The process can cost thousands, and if
:01:59. > :02:03.you're not careful, you could end up being prosecuted.
:02:04. > :02:07.The police say the Mullanes are the biggest fly-Grazers in the West. But
:02:08. > :02:12.they're not the only ones doing this. Fly-grazing's on the increase.
:02:13. > :02:18.I'll be meeting some people who're taking extreme measures to tackle
:02:19. > :02:23.problem. And finding out if a new approach by the police and council
:02:24. > :02:26.will stop the Mullanes for good. Are you going to stop grazing your
:02:27. > :02:31.horses on other people's land? BEEP!
:02:32. > :02:37.It's late at night and we've come to a field near Frome in Somerset. The
:02:38. > :02:47.landowner's paid a bailiff to remove some horses from his land. It's a
:02:48. > :02:50.lot simpler than doing it himself. You see, moving a horse is a complex
:02:51. > :02:53.process. It's a legal minefield. If you want to remove a fly-grazed
:02:54. > :02:57.horse from your land, by law you have to give the owner 14 days'
:02:58. > :03:04.notice. You can do this by putting up a sign in the field where the
:03:05. > :03:07.horse is. If you don't hear anything from the owner within that time, you
:03:08. > :03:11.are allowed to remove the animal, but first you have to pay for a
:03:12. > :03:13.horse passport and a microchip. And to get those, you have to take
:03:14. > :03:17.ownership of the horse. No wonder the owner of this field
:03:18. > :03:20.has chosen a much simpler option - he's paid for a horse bailiff. It's
:03:21. > :03:23.expensive, but he transfers all legal responsibility to the bailiff.
:03:24. > :03:26.The team discuss tactics. The most important thing is not to be
:03:27. > :03:37.detected by the owner who's believed to be a traveller living nearby. The
:03:38. > :03:42.animals are quite docile and it doesn't take much to get them under
:03:43. > :03:45.control. We've got head collars on three of
:03:46. > :03:52.the animals. And they're the three that we've selected to take. I'll be
:03:53. > :03:55.calling the lorry in a moment, and once the lorry's here we're going to
:03:56. > :03:57.load them and we're going to be away.
:03:58. > :04:01.One by one, they're loaded into the horse box.
:04:02. > :04:09.Getting them on the box is always the biggest challenge. Hopefully,
:04:10. > :04:13.we're not compromised. These animals are now classed as
:04:14. > :04:22.abandoned and are being taken to a horse welfare charity. A lot of
:04:23. > :04:30.fly-grazed animals are owned by gypsies and travellers. But there's
:04:31. > :04:33.a couple of brothers who are prolific at it. They live on this
:04:34. > :04:36.council-funded traveller site near Winterbourne in South
:04:37. > :04:45.Gloucestershire. They're big horse breeders. But they don't like
:04:46. > :04:51.grazing their animals here. Oh no, they like to bring them here. To
:04:52. > :04:54.this stretch of Severn Beach. But with 40 foot tides and a busy
:04:55. > :04:58.railway line, it can be treacherous for horses. These are the Mullanes,
:04:59. > :05:01.Eddie and brother Connie. In April, they were caught on CCTV fly-grazing
:05:02. > :05:04.this animal there. However, the only criminal act they committed was to
:05:05. > :05:09.cut the fence. Fly-grazing itself is not a crime. It's a civil matter, so
:05:10. > :05:11.how do you police it? Avon and Somerset Constabulary has been
:05:12. > :05:23.struggling but that might be about to change.
:05:24. > :05:25.It has been very difficult. Some of the powers we thought we had
:05:26. > :05:29.available to us didn't really provide the robustness that we
:05:30. > :05:32.thought we would want. Unable to bring a case under criminal law,
:05:33. > :05:38.they've now teamed up with South Gloucestershire Council to use Anti
:05:39. > :05:42.Social Behaviour legislation. Yes, explain to me how the ASBO rules
:05:43. > :05:45.were used in this case? Anti Social Behaviour Orders allow us to take
:05:46. > :06:01.action against people where quite often there isn't criminal law to
:06:02. > :06:04.deal with those offences. We use them to protect the wider community,
:06:05. > :06:07.to protect the residents in south Gloucestershire and it allows us to
:06:08. > :06:09.ask for prohibitions which prevent people from engaging in certain
:06:10. > :06:13.acts. If they're successful, it'll be the first time a full ASBO has
:06:14. > :06:16.been used to deal with fly-grazing in the UK. The case is being heard
:06:17. > :06:18.at North Avon Magistrate's Court in Yate, but only Eddie's turned up to
:06:19. > :06:22.the hearing. Well, Mr Mullane's in court at the
:06:23. > :06:26.moment. When he comes out, I'm going to ask him why he does it, and
:06:27. > :06:27.whether this is enough to make him stop.
:06:28. > :06:30.An increasing number of fly-grazed horses are ending up at the
:06:31. > :06:34.Whitchurch-based charity Horseworld. It currently has 48 on its books.
:06:35. > :06:41.That's nearly half of all its animals - a 21% increase on last
:06:42. > :06:44.year. Gerry Watkins is in charge of animal
:06:45. > :06:46.welfare here. So who's actually doing this? Who's
:06:47. > :06:50.responsible? Certainly, our empirical evidence is
:06:51. > :06:56.a lot of this is to do with the travelling community.
:06:57. > :06:59.So it's travellers who are buying horses, selling horses, but they're
:07:00. > :07:02.using the fly-grazing to save money. It's about profits. It's like any
:07:03. > :07:05.industry - if you're spending money on fodder and renting ground on
:07:06. > :07:14.which to put animals, then that's biting into your profits.
:07:15. > :07:18.One of the horses they've rescued was found on Severn Beach in the
:07:19. > :07:26.middle of winter with no food or water. We're told it belonged to
:07:27. > :07:30.Eddie Mullane. It's going to be a pretty stark case
:07:31. > :07:35.we're going to now, a gelding that we rescued last year and he was in
:07:36. > :07:47.real dire straits. The horse he wants me to see is
:07:48. > :07:50.being held in a secret location. We drive along the motorway for half an
:07:51. > :07:53.hour to get there. The fly-grazed animals Horseworld rescues are kept
:07:54. > :07:56.away from the charity's land. Because if the owner knew where they
:07:57. > :08:00.were, he might steal them back. And it's this particular animal here.
:08:01. > :08:03.The one on the left. Indeed it is. That is Severn Up. And what's the
:08:04. > :08:07.story with Severn Up? Severn Up. Interesting fella, really. He was in
:08:08. > :08:13.seriously dire straits when we were called. We went out to the location
:08:14. > :08:16.and found in fact he wasn't just lying down - he was in full
:08:17. > :08:19.collapse. Deathly cold, very emaciated and extremely close to
:08:20. > :08:22.death. We quickly got a veterinary surgeon on site and it was certainly
:08:23. > :08:25.her opinion that the animal would have died in the next hour or so.
:08:26. > :08:28.What's interesting, he was right alongside a hole and it was
:08:29. > :08:31.subsequently proved that this was his grave. This had been dug by the
:08:32. > :08:34.individual who had been fly-grazing on this ground. This animal was so
:08:35. > :08:38.collapsed and frail that he had no value, and his intention was, once
:08:39. > :08:41.he'd died, he was going to roll him into a hole and cover him with soil.
:08:42. > :08:49.Horseworld estimates the number of fly-grazed animals nationwide to be
:08:50. > :08:52.in the region of 4,000. So how have the Mullanes got on in court? After
:08:53. > :09:00.two hours of deliberations, the court rules against them. Eddie's
:09:01. > :09:04.been given 48 hours to remove his horses from Severn Beach. It's the
:09:05. > :09:10.first time an ASBO has been used in this way in England. This may be the
:09:11. > :09:13.beginning of the end for fly-grazing. What we want to do is
:09:14. > :09:17.send out a very clear message locally and nationally that this is
:09:18. > :09:20.a way you can deal with it if you are a strong partnership, and we
:09:21. > :09:23.feel we have that with the local authority and ourselves, but also
:09:24. > :09:30.the fact that we will come and we will challenge you. Let's find out
:09:31. > :09:34.what he has to say for himself. Mr Mullane, why do you dump so many of
:09:35. > :09:57.your horses on other people's land? BEEP! Are you going to stop it?
:09:58. > :10:14.BEEP! Are you going to stop grazing the horses? Have you anything to
:10:15. > :10:18.say? You have upset a lot of people. What about the harm you have done to
:10:19. > :10:21.horses? Thanks to this ground-breaking legal
:10:22. > :10:24.action, Eddie and his brother Connie now have ASBOs banning them from
:10:25. > :10:26.keeping horses on land without prior permission. What's happened here
:10:27. > :10:30.today could be an example for other authorities to follow.
:10:31. > :10:35.Coming up, what do you do with an old neglected jet plane? They've
:10:36. > :10:37.found a new home for it and it's about to take to the skies for one
:10:38. > :10:51.last time. Supporting a child with mental
:10:52. > :10:57.health problems can be a struggle for any parent. But for one mother
:10:58. > :11:03.of an 11-year old boy, things became even more difficult when the centre
:11:04. > :11:14.that was supporting him closed down. This is their story. The Lumsden
:11:15. > :11:16.Walker Service in Bristol provided essential help for children with
:11:17. > :11:20.significant mental health problems and for their parents often
:11:21. > :11:22.struggling to cope. The Lumsden Walker Service in Bristol helped
:11:23. > :11:25.children with psychiatric illnesses. In May, it shut its doors for the
:11:26. > :11:27.last time. But before it closed, we met those
:11:28. > :11:29.it helped. What's the point of closing down
:11:30. > :11:33.something which helps kids? I could not believe that they could
:11:34. > :11:35.actually do that, knowing these are the children who need the help the
:11:36. > :11:38.most. And the families who struggled to
:11:39. > :11:41.get support before it shut. Time is something that isn't there anymore.
:11:42. > :11:44.So it does feel a bit bleak right now.
:11:45. > :11:47.And we look to the future, and what support will be put in its place.
:11:48. > :11:59.What will happen to these young people? Are they being abandoned?
:12:00. > :12:02.I've got lots of books up there. One in ten children is diagnosed with
:12:03. > :12:04.mental illness. 11-year-old Will is one of them.
:12:05. > :12:08.I used to have a massive wardrobe there, but I smashed it down. I used
:12:09. > :12:11.to have a massive glass thing there, but I smashed it. You can see up
:12:12. > :12:13.here, there are marks from years ago. I think I threw something at
:12:14. > :12:23.the wall like a glass ball. Will was just a toddler when was
:12:24. > :12:25.referred to Bristol's mental health service. As he got older, his
:12:26. > :12:29.behaviour became even less manageable. He'd swear at people,
:12:30. > :12:38.kick the teachers. He'd come home and he'd hit me, break my things,
:12:39. > :12:41.hurt his brother. Although Will was at nearly the
:12:42. > :12:47.highest level of support, the family still wasn't coping. You have a
:12:48. > :12:51.child that has a behavioural problem, and not understanding why
:12:52. > :12:57.they're like it. People looking at you as if you can't control your
:12:58. > :13:02.child. I cried a lot, you know. It was not good.
:13:03. > :13:04.Lorna asked for more help. Will was invited to the Lumsden Walker
:13:05. > :13:07.Service, based at the Fairfield Resource Centre in Bristol. There
:13:08. > :13:10.was a parent support group, and regular appointments with
:13:11. > :13:18.specialists. They've been a lot of help to me.
:13:19. > :13:21.Now I'm like a proper normal person. Will has now finished his treatment,
:13:22. > :13:27.but one of his friends, called Elliot, is still using the Lumsden
:13:28. > :13:31.Walker Service. We first meet the family in April. They've just found
:13:32. > :13:37.out about the closure. I thought, what's going to happen?
:13:38. > :13:47.My own anxiety is that if things get worse down the road, where are we
:13:48. > :13:51.going to go? Who's going to help us? They helped me and I want it to
:13:52. > :13:56.carry on. But, it can't unfortunately. It would be nice to
:13:57. > :14:00.carry on, because I worry quite a lot. Sometimes I don't understand
:14:01. > :14:14.what I'm doing and maybe with my temper, because I still get a bit
:14:15. > :14:18.angry sometimes. The families are trying to find out
:14:19. > :14:21.why the centre's closing. North Bristol NHS Trust says fewer young
:14:22. > :14:31.people are using it, making it difficult to keep it open. It's two
:14:32. > :14:34.weeks before the centre closes, and families still haven't been told
:14:35. > :14:36.whether there'll be a replacement service. Lorna's just been to a
:14:37. > :14:40.meeting with the council. They've told her about a possible
:14:41. > :14:42.alternative. What I don't understand is why
:14:43. > :14:46.they're investing money in something new when there is already an
:14:47. > :14:50.existing service in place, which is working very well.
:14:51. > :14:53.A new team of specialists will be employed by Bristol City Council
:14:54. > :15:01.rather than the health trust.But Elliot's family hasn't been told
:15:02. > :15:20.about the new service. It's May, and the centre closed a week ago. I
:15:21. > :15:26.can't believe they have shut down some fantastically trained staff who
:15:27. > :15:29.helped parents to understand and cope with their children, and to
:15:30. > :15:35.throw them out on the street, that's how it feels. A letter's arrived in
:15:36. > :15:38.the post. It says the Lumsden Walker service has been withdrawn by the
:15:39. > :15:41.health trust. Charlotte hasn't been offered an alternative. In fact, the
:15:42. > :15:44.letter advises her to call the police, if Elliot is violent towards
:15:45. > :15:46.her or his sister Emily. He's still at primary school.
:15:47. > :15:51.It feels very daunting to me. I've invested a lot of effort in looking
:15:52. > :15:58.after my children. If that's the solution to care, then it doesn't
:15:59. > :16:01.work for me. It doesn't make sense to me either. He's an 11-year-old
:16:02. > :16:04.boy. North Bristol NHS Trust says it's
:16:05. > :16:08.always advised families to contact the police if they need urgent help.
:16:09. > :16:11.But one former probation officer says before it closed, the Lumsden
:16:12. > :16:19.Walker Service kept youths on the right side of the law.
:16:20. > :16:22.It meant these young people were not going to end up going to court, were
:16:23. > :16:26.not going to end up being arrested by the police. They would be helped
:16:27. > :16:30.in other ways. Mike Campbell is part of the Protect
:16:31. > :16:34.Our NHS group in Bristol. He's been asking why the Lumsden Walker unit
:16:35. > :16:39.was closed, on behalf of parents and former staff members.
:16:40. > :16:43.I think there's been a muddle around the process. I think at the same
:16:44. > :16:51.time North Bristol Trust is having to make cuts. But we're talking
:16:52. > :16:57.about cuts affecting the most vulnerable people in society. It may
:16:58. > :17:01.not be able to reopened, but they should ensure these services are
:17:02. > :17:04.continued to be provided. North Bristol NHS Trust says the
:17:05. > :17:10.same help will be provided through other services. But it's now four
:17:11. > :17:21.months since the unit shut, and Charlotte's still struggling to deal
:17:22. > :17:25.with the closure. It's just gone and you literally are on your own.
:17:26. > :17:27.Elliot's now been discharged from the mental health service
:17:28. > :17:32.completely, and the family's paying for private help. If Elliot becomes
:17:33. > :17:42.unwell, they've been warned social services could step in. We are just
:17:43. > :17:49.not sure what is going on. We feel quite blatant -- threatened and we
:17:50. > :17:53.are doing the best we can to look after children, but it feels very
:17:54. > :17:55.scary to me. Unlike Elliot, Will finished his
:17:56. > :18:00.treatment before the Lumsden Walker Service closed. Thanks to the help
:18:01. > :18:12.he received there, he's just started mainstream secondary school.
:18:13. > :18:15.I'm going to try to focus on everything so I can get better and
:18:16. > :18:29.good grades, and better behaviour, so I can get better stuff in my
:18:30. > :18:31.life. I'm really excited. Will was fortunate to get the help he needed
:18:32. > :18:34.before the service closed. But Charlotte feels her family's been
:18:35. > :18:40.left without help and with little hope. If you don't look after the
:18:41. > :18:45.children when they really need the help and are learning, later on they
:18:46. > :18:48.will become a problem to society and that is what they think is going to
:18:49. > :18:52.happen. In our final film tonight, we tell
:18:53. > :18:55.the story of Britain's first ever jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor. It
:18:56. > :19:00.first took flight 70 years ago and as you can imagine there aren't many
:19:01. > :19:02.left today. Well, this summer we followed an audacious campaign to
:19:03. > :19:18.rescue one of the few remaining planes.
:19:19. > :19:35.70 years ago a Meteor went through our sky at incredible speed. In
:19:36. > :19:41.1943, they took one of Frank Whittle jet engines and put it in one of the
:19:42. > :19:47.new planes. A new age in aviation history began. One of these has been
:19:48. > :19:53.resting at barracks just outside Gloucester since 1981. It used to
:19:54. > :20:00.stand guard at the gate but has recently been left a bit unloved,
:20:01. > :20:04.standing alone between a couple of buildings. But not for much longer.
:20:05. > :20:08.They have found a new home for it and with the help of this Chinook
:20:09. > :20:19.it's about to take to the sky one last time! This Meteor T7 has just
:20:20. > :20:26.been bought by the local Jet Air Museum soon to open at Gloucester
:20:27. > :20:38.Airport. But as it is not fit for flying on its own, the MOD is coming
:20:39. > :20:41.to the rescue. Six weeks before the planned helicopter lift and the
:20:42. > :20:44.Chinook ringing crew is coming to check if it will be possible to air
:20:45. > :20:49.lift the plane. Today, it is an initial safety check. You have to
:20:50. > :20:54.take safety into account every time so we do not want to lift it and
:20:55. > :20:59.find it bends or we lose part of the aircraft. For over a decade a small
:21:00. > :21:01.team have been dreaming of opening the Jet Age Museum to preserve
:21:02. > :21:05.Gloucestershire's rich aviation heritage. Martin Clarke is part of
:21:06. > :21:14.the museum team and together with a friend, just bought the plane for
:21:15. > :21:17.the Museum for ?3000. The Gloster Meteor can claim to be the first jet
:21:18. > :21:24.fighter to enter operational service. Is it significant beyond
:21:25. > :21:30.that? What does it mean to you? It was the very first Allied jet
:21:31. > :21:35.aircraft which flew as part of the RAF but it was not allowed to fly
:21:36. > :21:40.over enemy territory because they had secured some of these materials,
:21:41. > :21:46.the end of the war could have been drastically different. What would it
:21:47. > :21:55.mean to you to see the plane landing close to this museum you have worked
:21:56. > :21:59.so hard to build? It is such an important history. After the Second
:22:00. > :22:05.World War, the Gloster Meteor played a vital role in the export market
:22:06. > :22:11.but even more importantly it marked the beginning of a new age in
:22:12. > :22:20.aviation. How important was it to the new age of jet travel? It is the
:22:21. > :22:28.first step. The general public go on holiday now from big airports but 70
:22:29. > :22:33.years ago, this was the start. It broke the speed record a couple of
:22:34. > :22:50.times and the first jet era followed in the next decade. It set the civil
:22:51. > :22:57.aviation scene on the road. Four weeks before the planned helicopter
:22:58. > :23:01.left, -- lift, the rigging crew is back. They want to do a test lift
:23:02. > :23:05.with a crane but first they have to move it from its current location.
:23:06. > :23:08.But wet grass means this may prove more difficult than anticipated. No
:23:09. > :23:21.truck to pull it. Let's do it by hand.
:23:22. > :24:00.As soon as it was moving, once it was off the grass, it was very easy.
:24:01. > :24:03.For Martin, seeing this is particularly significant. 25 years
:24:04. > :24:12.ago, he met his wife while restoring the plane. I was introduced to a new
:24:13. > :24:21.member of the restoration group. I fell in love with her immediately
:24:22. > :24:26.and after that, we were married by the time my daughter was born and we
:24:27. > :24:31.remained married for seven years before she died from cancer. I
:24:32. > :24:38.brought my daughter up on my own after that and as a tribute to my
:24:39. > :24:42.wife, I bought the Gloster Meteor along with one of my colleagues from
:24:43. > :24:46.the museum. With the Meteor finally moved on to a hard surface, they can
:24:47. > :24:49.now test and adjust the rigging to make sure that on the day of the
:24:50. > :24:58.helicopter lift, the plane is safely secured. Looks spot on. This
:24:59. > :25:05.particular Meteor was in service between 1949 until 1968 and saw
:25:06. > :25:17.service including Malta. And one of its pilots was no other than Lord
:25:18. > :25:23.Tebbit. I bought a microwave oven recently and the instruction book
:25:24. > :25:28.was longer than it was for the Gloster Meteor. I am not sure what I
:25:29. > :25:39.should conclude from that. Victor W 453. That is what I flew back in
:25:40. > :25:49.1951, somewhere about them. There is a battered old log book here which
:25:50. > :25:53.records that flight. I think what struck me about it was the
:25:54. > :26:01.breathtaking performance in terms of the acceleration down the runway and
:26:02. > :26:06.then they pull up into the claim which was vastly more rapid than
:26:07. > :26:08.anything I had experienced before. All of that comes back when I think
:26:09. > :26:11.about it. After weeks of preparation, that's
:26:12. > :26:22.it. Lord Tebbit's old plane is finally going to get airborne for
:26:23. > :27:05.one last time. I think I can see it, should be a now.
:27:06. > :27:09.It looks really good, in line with the helicopter and it is flying.
:27:10. > :27:23.Isn't that terrific? Hundreds of people have come to look
:27:24. > :27:35.at the air lift and after its short flight to Gloucester airport it
:27:36. > :27:42.lands safely next to his new home. Thank you very much. That is
:27:43. > :27:46.wonderful. It is here! So thanks to the determination of a
:27:47. > :27:48.few plane fanatics together with the help of the MOD, a 70-year-old piece
:27:49. > :27:55.of British aviation heritage will now be preserved for future
:27:56. > :28:04.generations. But for Martin, this was always personal. What better
:28:05. > :28:09.tribute could I give to my wife, the aircraft that she actually worked
:28:10. > :28:14.on, and it's part of my history as well as the museum's.
:28:15. > :28:18.Well that's just about it for this week but if you'd like to keep in
:28:19. > :28:27.touch with what we're up to then you can find us Twitter. Or you can
:28:28. > :28:36.email us. But from all of us here in Severn Beach, thanks for watching
:28:37. > :28:49.and good night. Next week, faith in Bristol.
:28:50. > :28:55.We go undercover to investigate religious discrimination. They
:28:56. > :28:58.seemed very nice to your face but the reality is different.