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Hello from Somerset, where we're investigating lyme disease. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Treatment should be simple, but we've discovered people travelling | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
to America for alternatives that are expensive. These are my medications | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
I take on a daily basis. And potentially fatal. Once you've | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
treated the infection for long enough to eradicate the organise any | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
more, additionalantibiotic will not help. They will encourage the growth | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
of other infection was resistance will be you. You may develop a super | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
infection. How serious? Death. Also tonight, Miranda turns her hand | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
to cider making, using apples from her own garden. | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
First tonight, a disease you can catch walking right here in the his, | :01:05. | :01:31. | |
tiny ticks carry lyme disease. While it is treatable, a number of | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
sufferers are angry about the way they're being looked after. Instead | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
they're travelling to America for expensive treatment that can be | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
dangerous, even potentially fatal. Our health correspondent imagine ewe | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Hill has the story. `` Matthew Hill has the story. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
In places like this, lyme disease is on the increase, spread by ticks. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
For sufferers, it's a terrible and debilitating illness. My vision is | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
blurry. I've always got a low`grade headache I don't feel safe in my own | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
body. There's no vaccine. Testing is complicate and not an exact science. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
We have to accept there is no perfect test for lyme disease. My | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
own blood looked at by the country's leading expert to find out what | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
patients are going through with surprising results. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
To a normal patient, getting that result, would they not think, I ve | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
got lyme disease? I think they might well. Some tests are convincing | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
people to travel here to America for expensive and potentially dangerous | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
treatment. So, I've been investigating whether the doctors | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
divided by the Atlantic can ever reach a compromise. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
How is it good for patients not knowing who to believe? It's | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
terrible for patients. They're caught in the middle. It's a sad | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
situation. We don't know what to think. We're just caught in the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
middle of this war, above our heads. We're the victims of this. | :03:06. | :03:18. | |
The quantocks, an area of outstanding national beauty. Walkers | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
can get close to wildlife. Not everything here in friendly. It s a | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
significant place for people to enjoy the countryside. | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Groups need to be made aware when they're in this environment, they're | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
in tick country, in a sense. The tick to beings. Exactly. `` tick | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
tocks. Exactly. Tim Russelluals a ranger here for years. `` Tim | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
Russell was a ranger here for years. Presumably, if you just brush it | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
like that, is that how you get them? Yeah, yeah. For me, for example now, | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
just walking past like that, brush onto your trousers. One of the | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
things we suggest is to wear light coloured clothing. Ticks are | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
generally quite dark coloured. If you have light`coloured clothing you | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
can see a tick on you and British it off. Best not to wear shorts, then? | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Some of the advice we give in this open countryside is not to walk | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
around in shorts and sandals, wear boots, leggings if possible and long | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
trousers. Keep your arms covered. A very simple suggestion for people is | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
stick on the paths. Ticks live off the blood of wild animals, but if | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
they atoo much to `` to human, the bacteria causes lime zeez, which | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
begins with a rash and flu`like symptoms and can lead to newer | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
logical problems. The estimated number of lyme disease cases in | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
England is between 2,000 and 3, 00 a year according to public health | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
England, lower than in the US. Although some campaigners here | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
believe the real figure is much higher. I've come to meet one | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
campaigner in Dorset. She says they're not being taken seriously. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
And that testing, treatment and knowledge of lyme here is not as | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
good as it should be. Hi. Hi, nice to meet you. Natasha. Come o in | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
Natasha Metcalf knows all about this. She first became ill when she | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
was a teenager. When I was 16 years old, I experienced night sweats and | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
terrible concentration, suddenly couldn't concentrate at school. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Very, very swollen glands. But it was never picked up then, sadly I | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
managed to recover myself just by being in bed a lot. The second time | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
I was 19. Same thing happened again. I couldn't concentrate almost | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
overnight. Everything became very fuzzy. Then I managed to spend about | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
nine months in bed and recovered myself again, somehow. 21, it | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
happened again. The last time was 24. In 2008, that was. I haven't | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
bounced back since. Extremely ill. She's had days when she hasn't | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
managed to get out of bed. It's been very worrying. Natasha's family have | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
taken her to more than 40 doctors and spent ?75,000 trying to solve | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
the problem. They now believe they have a solution ` long`term | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
antibiotics. These are my medications I take on a daily basis. | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
Here are the two anti`buy yot ickds I'm take `` two antibiotics I'm | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
taking at the moment. Along with them I'm taking a high quality | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
pro`biotic, which is important to protect the gut with long`term aebz | :07:03. | :07:17. | |
therapy. `` antibiotics therapy For my doctor in America so far we | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
totalled it for 11,000, for one visit and phone consultations toer a | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
year. `` for a year. Many in her group, she feelles she has no `` | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
feels she has no choice. She says her long`term illness needs long | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
hover term antibiotics. `` long`term antibiotics. I've done the ME route | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
and the psychiatric route. I'm still sick. There's a big divide between | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
those who can afford to go abroad and those who can't. Natasha went | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
back to the US for more treatment. We'll catch up with her later. I | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
wanted to find out what the experts here think, are there any down | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
sides? I've come to see the top doctor in the country in charge of | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
fighting lyme disease. That's doctor Tim Brooks. He's recently taken over | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
responsibility for lyme. The rule here ` treat early with a short | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
course of antibiotics. Some people may benefit from a second course, he | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
says. But long`term use can be dangerous. Once you've treated the | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
infection for long enough to eradicate the organism, any | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
additional antibiotics will not make a difference. What they will do is | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
encourage the growth of other infections resistant to the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
antibiotics within you. You might, for example, develop a funningal | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
infection, what we call a superinfection, that can be | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
extremely serious in some cases Serious? There are reported deaths | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
for people who have been given long`term treatment with intravenous | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
antibiotics. That's related to lyme disease? That was treatment for lyme | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
disease. I've come to the US to find out if | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
British patients here should be worried. Natasha put me in touch | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
with a doctor in San Francisco, her own declined to be interviewed. Hi. | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
Nice to meet you. Let's go into the consultation room. Raphael Stricker | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
says he's treated more than 2,5 0 people for lyme disease. So any | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
treatment can be harmful. So there's a risk`benefit ratio. You have to | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
weigh the risk of this type of treatment versus the benefit for | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
people who have chronic, debilitating disease. What evidence | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
is there that long`term antibiotics work? The studies that have been | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
done on long`term antibiotics are limited. There is at least one study | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
and in fact, there are others, that show for newer logic lyme disease, | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
it may take between six and 12 months of intravenous therapy to get | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
those patients better. Definitely longer than what's recommended by | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
the infectious disease experts. Can you assign me the author of that? | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
You're talking to him. Natasha was also in California for treatment. We | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
asked her to film for us. Ironically we've just driven by a huge bill | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
board saying "protect yourself from ticks". A big picture of a tick on | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
it. So clearly, they are doing their bit here to raise awareness. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Patients like Natasha say they're benefitting from the treatment | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
doctors, like Raphael Stricker, are prescribing. One thing that's been | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
almost strange for me, but also a relief, is being surrounded by | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
people in the I V Room in the clinic who are going through exactly the | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
same thing and who also had such a tough time being diagnosed. It's | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
taken them years and years to get the help that they need as well | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
It's been such a relief being able to talk to them about their journey | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
and their stories. Natasha may feel it's working for her here. But with | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
the warnings I'd heard I decided to take a look at the American tests | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
being paid for by hundreds of British patients. So, who should | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
patients like Natasha believe? We've decided to carry out our own little | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
experiment to test the tests vment `` tests. Back in the UK, two | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
colleagues and I had blood taken and sent to the lab. Also to a private | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
lab in the US. The same lab Natasha used. As far as we know, none of us | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
have ever had lyme disease. What we're expecting is that they should | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
all come back the same. From both the NHS and the American lab. | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Testing is based on finding antibodies to the lyme bacteria | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
It's only part of the diagnostic picture, but it's crucial. This | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
project concluded in January this year. At a conference in London last | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
year `` last year on lyme disease, one campaign explained why. All the | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
tests vary. I think we all have to accept that there is no perfect test | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
for lyme disease. Still the position stands that people can go to a | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
private laboratory overseas and get a test. That test might not be | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
specific to lyme disease. And the poor patient then has an official | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
looking piece of paper that says they have lyme disease and the | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
doctor back in the UK doesn't know what to do with it. Natasha was also | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
at the conference. So, a chance to catch up after her four`and`a`half | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
weeks of antibiotics in the states. Still got a long way to goment I | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
felt really `` go. I felt really good having IV treatment. But I | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
can't stay there forever, so had to come home. But I'm still under the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
care of the doctor. Natasha has since returned to the US for more | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
treatment. This is where it all happens for the test? It is. Our | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
test results are in. From the three of us tested one of us was given the | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
all clear by the American lab and porton. If we look at this one, this | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
is James and it's completely negative. My producer also came back | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
negative in the UK. This is Dickens, if you look at it here, there's a | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
very faint band there and it is less dark than that control band there. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
It's present but negative. But this came back as positive from the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
American lab, which has a lower testing threshold. They do stress | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
results must be looked at alongside symptoms and history. Any British | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
patient seeing that result from Igenex what would you imagine they | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
would do as a result of seeing a positive? I think the problem with | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
the way it's presented is that it looks like it's positive and it s | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
stated as being a real positive Our difficulty in any test of this sort | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
is setting what we call a cut off, the difference between a nonspecific | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
random reaction, the background noise, and the true response. We | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
think that actually, there isn't an absolute right or wrong in any of | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
these things. They all have to be taken into context of the patient's | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
symptoms. Me, the test was negative from Porton. There is nothing at all | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
to see. But according to Igenex I should also see a doctor as I could | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
have lyme disease. They have given you a positive to an antigen called | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
P 31, which we don't measure in the UK. Another protein and a strong | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
positive to one called P41 here which has a problem in the sense | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
that around half of normal people will have antibodies to that whether | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
or not they've ever seen lyme disease. So it's meaningless really? | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
So, it's unhelpful, rather than meaningless. Igenex told us there is | :15:34. | :15:43. | |
no perfect test but the P41 is useful in showing up long`term lyme | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
disease. They tell patients my type of result would need more tests No | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
wonder then that this is confusing and difficult for worried patients. | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
They may feel let down in the UK, but is their faith in America | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
misplaced? Aren't you offering a lot of these patients false hope on | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
little evidence of it actually working? They should be coming up | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
with better treatment for these patients who are sick and who can't | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
get treated because of what they're doing. I would say that having seen | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
literally thousands of patients now with lyme disease, who get better, | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
when you treat them, that I would err on the side of treating. I don't | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
think it's false hope to make patients better. That's what we as | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
physicians try to do. Lyme disease still divides medical opinion. But | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Igenex and Porton are talking about sharing data. Dr Brooks want | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
difintive research into the illness. I don't think we can go on with a | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
system where different laboratories have different results and cause | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
confusion to patients, different management try tiara for `` criteria | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
for patients and some patients being treated inappropriately and others | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
missed. New guidelines are on their way too, which some feel are long | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
overdue. Where we would agree there's a | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
deficiency is that the guidance is not necessarily friendly to the | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
broader community and it's not necessarily all in one place, that | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
makes it very easy to put together a set of pathways which a general | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
practitioner faced with a patient for the first time can follow to | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
ensure nothing is missed. The proof, of course, will be when patients | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
like Natasha start trusting the system again. I feel like we get | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
told we're these crazy activists and we don't know what to think. We re | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
caught in the middle of this war, effectively, above our heads and | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
we're actually the victims of this. Next tonight, what if you bought a | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
house and discovered in the garden one of the country's most important | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
collections of apple trees? Well, naturally you'd get on with making | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
some cider. That's what Miranda did. After 100 years of studying and | :18:02. | :18:15. | |
advancing the science of cider making, the Long Ashton cider | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
institute closed its doors in 2 03. The closure was a sad loss, but when | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
my husband Nick and I bought our house on part of the old site, we | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
were offered the chance to keep a part of the cider`making tradition | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
alive. We were given these cider apple trees when we moved in. They | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
were going to be grubbed up and turned into a housing estate. We | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
were given these trees, planted them in the garden and all of them | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
survived. This is a tradition that we want to keep going every year. | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
It's late October, which can only mean one thing: Harvest time. Push, | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
push! Our annual cider apple picking party is about to get started. We | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
have the man, woman and child power, I've just got my fingers crossed | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
that the rain holds offment `` off. That's good. Yeah. There's plenty of | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
fallen fruit to be collected first. But the real fun starts as Nick | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
organises the tree shaking. We'll get some steps up and wriggle them | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
off the tree. Basically what we do is sit everybody under the tree and | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
shake the trees. All the apples come down. The kids love it because it | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
rains apples. Very exciting. They're going to do this one now. One, two, | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
three ` go! Many hands make light work. | :19:37. | :19:48. | |
Commercially they have tree shakers, but we use a bit of man power. It | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
works brilliantly. It really is great fun for the kids. Look at the | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
colour of those apples. They're fabulous. Well done. Do you want to | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
see my naughty apple? It looks like a bum. | :20:02. | :20:02. | |
Look. The picking party is going well and | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
even the arrival of the threatened rain hasn't dammened spirits. The | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
children don't really `` dampened the spirits. The children don't | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
really care they're getting wet In fact, my daughter is up the tree | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
getting the very last apples. Shake her out of the tree! But perhaps not | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
everyone is enjoying it. When are we going in? When we've | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
shaken all the trees. With the rain pouring down, we wrap | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
up the party and it's just us left to gather the final bounty. Watch | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
out. One, two, three... Seriously heavy. Normally we take them to Guy | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
who presses them. This year there's an apple fair in the village. We're | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
taking them there to press them instead. It's going to be great OK. | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Ready? Let's go! The village of Long Ashton with the | :21:11. | :21:30. | |
cider apple goes back a long way. Today, they're celebrating it in all | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
its glory. # You know I love you | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
# I always will # My mind's made up | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
# By the way that I feel... # The research station was based here | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
for 100 years and was responsible for the creation of many of today's | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
cider apple varieties. Tanned was one of the station's former | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
employees that helped us save the last trees from the site. Thanks so | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
much for making that initial introduction, for us with the cider. | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
If we hadn't talked to you, we would never have got connected with it. It | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
was just fortunate that you were there at the right time. The trees | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
would have been lost because of the redevelopment. Feels really good to | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
put cider back onto that site as well. Oh, yeah. It was all | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
destroyed. So the trees were saved from the mulcher. But their apples | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
are destined for the chop. Our harvest is finally shredded. `` | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
finely shredded. Bingo. Do I need to fill it up? Then transferred into | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
the hydropress where the juice is squeezed out. It's coming out now. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
It's all done using only water pressure from the tap. We had how | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
many kilos of apples? About 15 kilos of apples and we've got 1. 5 to two | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
gallons, nearly ten litres of juice. That's really good. And quickly | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Very quickly. We have plenty more sacks to go as well. So, now we ve | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
got the raw material, a week later, Nick and I are back at home, ready | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
to work some cider magic. We've got the juice that we pressed | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
the other day down at the apple festival. This is where I hand over | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
to my husband, Nick, because he does the chemistry. Set up on the kitchen | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
table. What do we need to do? Basically, the juice is full of | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
natural sugar. We put just juice into the demijons over there. We let | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
the sugar ferment into alcohol. Carbon dioxide comes out through the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
air trap at the top. We're left a few months later w, cider. `` with, | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
cider. The juice will need at least three months to ferment. Last year's | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
batch is ready for the next step in the process. This one is secondary | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
fermentation. We've got, we're coming to the end of the primary | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
fermentation. So we're just about ready to put that into bottles now. | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
Sugar in this one? Sugar in that one. OK. Bit more. There's just one | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
final, crucial step needed if you want a sparkling cider. Why would | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
you add more sugar? The fermentation is nearly finished and we just need | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
to feed the yeast that little bit more to allow it to breathe some | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
carbon dioxide into the bottle to give it the fizz and sparkle. OK, | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
simple as putting one of these in here. Lid goes on. That's the beauty | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
about cider is the simplicity. All we've got in that bottle is apple | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
juice, fermented with natural yeast. We've put a tiny tiny bit of sugar | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
`` a tiny bit of shug for athe final fizz `` sugar for the final fizz. We | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
could never drink all we produce. But now comes the bit that this has | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
all been building up to. Every year in late January, we hold a | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
wassailing party. It's a traditional celebration to bless the apple trees | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
and ward off evil spirits and it's all about to kick off. It's January. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
It's the beginning of the cider year, where we are just about to | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
bless the cider apple trees an drink some of last year's cider. We've got | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
about 150 people coming this evening. We have a massive bonfire | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
outside. Hopefully, we will be out there, round the bonfire, wassailing | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
the trees and celebrating the cider. The sausages are on. And the guests | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
are getting stuck into the cider, so it's time to get this all going | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
Cheers. In Hello everybody. Welcome. This is our fifth annual wassail. | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
Thank you very much for coming. You can drink as much cider as you | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
possibly can. In a moment, we are going out to the fire and process | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
around the trees. The idea, especially from the children, so we | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
make a load of noise, because we have evil spirits to chase away from | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
the trees. Armed with anything that will make a noise, the whole party | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
heads into the orchard, where the fire is going strong. And the music | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
is hotting up. Now, it's time to make some real noise. | :26:46. | :27:01. | |
MUSIC: Here we go round the mulberry bush As much noise as possible, go! | :27:02. | :27:16. | |
If the racket we're making is anything to go by, I'm sure we're | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
due another bumper crop this year. When we bought this house, we had no | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
idea about the history of the cider that went along with it. We planted | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
this orchard and now, we are getting together with the local community | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
and celebrating something as simple and pleasurable as a cider apple. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
It's a magical thing. I think these customs are great to keep going in | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
our busy lives, modern lives, we don't have a lot of this. These | :27:44. | :27:44. | |
moments are really special. Wassail! Wassail! Wassail! | :27:45. | :28:01. | |
APPLAUSE Well, that's just about all we have | :28:02. | :28:20. | |
time for tonight. Don't forget, keep in touch with us on Twitter. Or send | :28:21. | :28:28. | |
us an e`mail@insideoutwest at bbc.co.uk. From all of us here in | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
Somerset, thanks for watching, good night. | :28:34. | :28:41. | |
Next week the house builders and councils ripping up their legal | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
commitments to build affordable homes in the West. | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
She really needs to be in her own bedroom. But we just make do with | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
what we have got. Jude Law has given evidence at the | :28:54. | :29:17. | |
phone hacking trial. The court heard a family member had sold stories | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
about him. A former reporter said he discussed intercepting phone calls | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
between two newspapers. Anger over flooding, a government minister has | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
been heckled by residents in Somerset. | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
He promised an action plan. Dave Lee Travis has told the court | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
he is not a sexual predator. He said he has a cuddly nature towards women | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
and denies indecent assault charges. Bill Roach has been cleared of one | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
offence. His defence should start tomorrow. | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
At the Grammy towards last night, Daft | :30:00. | :30:00. |