:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight, exploitation in Weston - teenagers speak out.
:00:08. > :00:11.We had to make sure that we looked OK and we basically dressed
:00:12. > :00:14.like prostitutes and stood on street corners -
:00:15. > :00:21.We investigate the special offers which don't
:00:22. > :00:35.And you won't believe what's under the hatch.
:00:36. > :00:40.In the middle of somewhere very ordinary is something extraordinary
:00:41. > :00:55.and I've been given the chance to explore it.
:00:56. > :01:00.Most seaside towns have a seedier side, but here in Weston-Super-Mare
:01:01. > :01:04.we've discovered something much more sinister - vulnerable teenagers
:01:05. > :01:09.prone to sexual predators, and it's been happening right under
:01:10. > :01:12.the noses of those who are supposed to be protecting them.
:01:13. > :01:22.Weston-Super-Mare is known for its nightlife.
:01:23. > :01:26.Some of it above board - and some of it not.
:01:27. > :01:29.It's a magnet for vulnerable young people, and I've got evidence
:01:30. > :01:36.This is Butterflys, a brothel right in the centre of town.
:01:37. > :01:42.The council and police know about the brothel and were told
:01:43. > :01:47.Why and how is a 15-year-old girl walking around town dressed
:01:48. > :01:51.like a prostitute selling a load of leaflets for a lot of money?
:01:52. > :01:55.They also knew about the violent sexual comments being posted
:01:56. > :02:00.on the Facebook account of a council officer and about the predatory
:02:01. > :02:06.behaviour of one man on the town's estates.
:02:07. > :02:09.He went to put his hands down my trousers which is when I said,
:02:10. > :02:14.So is enough being done to protect young people in Weston?
:02:15. > :02:31.This area I'd say is quite known for drugs, a lot of, I'd say,
:02:32. > :02:37.the Class A drugs are from around the Bourneville area.
:02:38. > :02:40.When she was younger, she struggled with drugs.
:02:41. > :02:42.With her boyfriend Callum, she showed me around
:02:43. > :02:45.the Bourneville, an estate in Weston where she once lived.
:02:46. > :02:58.They say it's not good to bring a kid up around here.
:02:59. > :03:01.Her own upbringing wasn't easy - and at her most vulnerable she says
:03:02. > :03:04.she and a friend handed out leaflets for Butterflys.
:03:05. > :03:08.It's described as a massage parlour - but it's a brothel.
:03:09. > :03:12.We'd had to make sure that we'd look OK and that we'd basically dress
:03:13. > :03:16.like a load of prostitutes stood on a street corner -
:03:17. > :03:21.Did Social Services know about you being there?
:03:22. > :03:25.People were telling them that I was walking around dressed
:03:26. > :03:28.like that handing out a load of leaflets in town
:03:29. > :03:32.but they didn't have, they didn't do anything about it.
:03:33. > :03:34.These aren't the leaflets but she says she even
:03:35. > :03:39.used her own image on them and that she helped out inside.
:03:40. > :03:42.I've cleaned quite a few rooms in there before and, like,
:03:43. > :03:46.It's like, the way that it's all done it's like a show,
:03:47. > :03:49.they're ready to show off their bodies.
:03:50. > :03:53.A man would sit in a chair and all the women would walk
:03:54. > :03:55.in in their underwear and he'd literally get to pick
:03:56. > :03:58.You were seeing things that a 15-year-old shouldn't see.
:03:59. > :04:04.I've seen a lot in my time, yeah, that I should have not seen.
:04:05. > :04:08.I've been working for more than a year on this investigation,
:04:09. > :04:12.which has taken us deep into Weston's underworld.
:04:13. > :04:14.And I've discovered that for the last ten years,
:04:15. > :04:18.the woman with the lease on the brothel is Natalie Davis.
:04:19. > :04:24.Well, this is Butterflys' website - it's clearly more
:04:25. > :04:30.There's Natalie's mobile number and it says, we aim to keep
:04:31. > :04:38.Confidential minutes show Avon and Somerset Police
:04:39. > :04:44.and North Somerset Council discussed Butterflys in 2015, and that
:04:45. > :04:52.Working in a brothel is not illegal - but running one is.
:04:53. > :05:16.The routine's the same as Amber described.
:05:17. > :05:19.We were shown four women and asked about their ages.
:05:20. > :05:33.At this point, we made our excuses and left.
:05:34. > :05:37.But I wanted to talk to the woman we believe runs Butterflys.
:05:38. > :05:44.You knew about a 15-year-old girl delivering leaflets there
:05:45. > :05:47.who'd worked in the brothel cleaning as well.
:05:48. > :05:53.At that time, when she came to us, we gave her both advice and very
:05:54. > :05:56.strong support around how dangerous that was.
:05:57. > :06:00.But your staff should have been aware?
:06:01. > :06:03.My staff passed that information on to the police
:06:04. > :06:06.in regards to an establishment that was a massage parlour
:06:07. > :06:09.using a 15-year-old to distribute leaflets and the police took that
:06:10. > :06:14.information and then did some checks and we have had no more referrals
:06:15. > :06:21.through to us around young people frequenting that establishment.
:06:22. > :06:26.But Butterflys seems to be part of a bigger picture about what
:06:27. > :06:31.goes on under the radar in Weston - even within the council itself.
:06:32. > :06:35.He worked as a clerk for the council.
:06:36. > :06:38.We've seen sexually violent comments on his Facebook account
:06:39. > :06:44.Well, this is one of the comments posted on Facebook.
:06:45. > :06:50.That's about one of the only few I can read out.
:06:51. > :06:54.At the time, Jellings had written a report
:06:55. > :07:00.into child sexual exploitation following the Rotherham review.
:07:01. > :07:04.We know they discussed the damage to their reputation,
:07:05. > :07:09.They insist their main concern was safeguarding.
:07:10. > :07:15.There was quite lengthy discussions with colleagues from the police
:07:16. > :07:20.who asked us not to suspend him immediately cos that would allow him
:07:21. > :07:23.But I mean, you could have suspended him anyway
:07:24. > :07:25.and told the police, well, you print out
:07:26. > :07:27.what is on Facebook now and secure your evidence.
:07:28. > :07:30.But you let him carry on for months and then
:07:31. > :07:36.We let him carry on in a role in which he had no access
:07:37. > :07:37.to children and no access to confidential information
:07:38. > :07:40.about children or indeed any broader confidential information.
:07:41. > :07:45.There needed to be redundancies within democratic services
:07:46. > :07:48.so it was an entirely legitimate, transparent process that was gone
:07:49. > :07:52.through to arrive at him being made redundant.
:07:53. > :07:55.Jellings denies all the allegations against him.
:07:56. > :07:58.The police found no offences had been committed
:07:59. > :08:11.There's a mix here of vulnerable people and predatory men.
:08:12. > :08:17.None more well-known than Kevin Stokes.
:08:18. > :08:21.Stokes' name was familiar to everyone I spoke to.
:08:22. > :08:24.Police information - known to the council -
:08:25. > :08:30.was that he was reported to be involved in 35 sexual offences.
:08:31. > :08:34.I found one of his victims - a vulnerable teenager back then.
:08:35. > :08:39.She met Stokes when she was 14 and moved in with him three years later.
:08:40. > :08:43.He had this other 16-year-old girl in his bed so we both had to share
:08:44. > :08:49.I just kind of froze with his hands under my top.
:08:50. > :08:52.He went to put his hands down my trousers which is when I said,
:08:53. > :08:57.He said, I'm having fun with your young body.
:08:58. > :08:59.You reported this to social services, what did they do?
:09:00. > :09:05.I said yes please, I got into the shower.
:09:06. > :09:09.So when I did see the police and give DNA I had nothing to give
:09:10. > :09:16.The case was dropped because of a lack of evidence.
:09:17. > :09:19.I don't believe that people would think on the basis
:09:20. > :09:23.of what that young woman told us initially that there was going to be
:09:24. > :09:30.She was clearly OK to talk to police about what had happened.
:09:31. > :09:33.Surely it would have been wiser to have just taken her
:09:34. > :09:36.It was offered by the housing worker.
:09:37. > :09:38.The young woman herself took that offer up.
:09:39. > :09:41.At no point did the police come back to us and say,
:09:42. > :09:44.how absurd, you have destroyed forensic evidence.
:09:45. > :09:54.His name had come up repeatedly in council meetings
:09:55. > :09:58.They'd investigated him twice before but didn't get the evidence.
:09:59. > :10:00.Neither have they found evidence of underage girls
:10:01. > :10:04.But remember Natalie, the woman we believe runs it?
:10:05. > :10:23.Why you employing 15-year-old girls to work in your brothel?
:10:24. > :10:30.Natalie has just closed both the curtains.
:10:31. > :10:32.Clearly she doesn't want to talk to us about these very
:10:33. > :10:41.The council say they're proactive on safeguarding and the welfare
:10:42. > :10:43.of vulnerable children is a priority.
:10:44. > :10:46.Police told us they take safeguarding seriously.
:10:47. > :10:49.All allegations are assessed and they will always take
:10:50. > :10:54.action when they have evidence of criminality.
:10:55. > :10:59.Despite all the problems in Weston, Amber has turned her life around.
:11:00. > :11:07.I think that we've all got to through hell and back to be
:11:08. > :11:11.who we are today and I wouldn't be the person I am today with the stuff
:11:12. > :11:28.But what about all the other troubled teenagers in Weston?
:11:29. > :11:56.I've just not got to feel terrified of the closed space.
:11:57. > :12:01.Jonathan Gibson's been investigating Tesco,
:12:02. > :12:05.Britain's biggest supermarket, where some special offers aren't
:12:06. > :12:20.Most of us are, and Tesco knows it, too.
:12:21. > :12:22.That's why the shelves at Britain's biggest supermarket
:12:23. > :12:32.And we all take it for granted that the price we see on the shelf
:12:33. > :12:35.is the price we will pay at the till, right?
:12:36. > :12:38.But what if things don't quite add up when you get home
:12:39. > :12:43.I've just bought a few bits at Tesco and I'm sure these products
:12:44. > :12:54.According to my receipt, I've paid full price.
:12:55. > :12:59.I've paid 60% more than the deal on the shelf.
:13:00. > :13:07.At another Tesco store, I spot two for ?2 on ice cream.
:13:08. > :13:10.But, at the till, it's the full price, as well.
:13:11. > :13:20.Martin works for Trading Standards and says the law
:13:21. > :13:30.They must put a price on goods so you know what you're going to pay
:13:31. > :13:33.and that price must be accurate, so you don't get charged
:13:34. > :13:35.more than you thought you were going to pay.
:13:36. > :13:38.Sounds simple enough, and, with more than 3500 stores nationwide,
:13:39. > :13:47.That's what I want to find out, so I'm using my phone and some
:13:48. > :13:50.secret cameras to see how many offers on the shelves don't
:13:51. > :14:09.It's now the middle of January but when the assistant
:14:10. > :14:32.And at the other end of the aisle, another mistake.
:14:33. > :14:37.Multi-buy deals are being left on the shelves after the tills have
:14:38. > :14:57.been told they ended, and these ended weeks ago.
:14:58. > :14:59.But three weeks after they should have been removed,
:15:00. > :15:02.they are still on display, and at this store in Gloucester
:15:03. > :15:09.I find another one that's even older.
:15:10. > :15:12.That's a month out of date and it's not just
:15:13. > :15:16.At this Tesco Express back in Bristol, the shelf says this
:15:17. > :15:26.cheese is on offer but it's not according to the till.
:15:27. > :15:29.It's another pricing error workers haven't spotted
:15:30. > :15:37.I checked the lot in just a few minutes, so why hasn't Tesco?
:15:38. > :15:42.I've started making a list of how many offers are wrong in how many
:15:43. > :15:44.places, but is what's happening in Bristol and Gloucester also
:15:45. > :15:52.Because if it is, it's not just a problem for Tesco
:15:53. > :16:04.At this Tesco store in Liverpool, sauce marked ?1 on the shelf
:16:05. > :16:19.And as I head across the country, the same thing keeps happening
:16:20. > :17:07.It doesn't seem a terribly difficult or perhaps that long a job to
:17:08. > :17:11.walk around the store, assuming everyone knows what day it is,
:17:12. > :17:16.to go around and tear off anything that has had its day.
:17:17. > :17:28.And it's not just shoppers left confused as old and new promotions
:17:29. > :17:44.The longer the offer has been wrong, the bigger the failure of diligence
:17:45. > :18:00.Then he's not going to like what's coming up next.
:18:01. > :18:02.At this store the cashier checks the out of date label
:18:03. > :18:05.but doesn't remove it, and when I return the next day,
:18:06. > :18:08.neither does someone else, so a week later I go back and it
:18:09. > :18:11.is still on display, and when I returned a month later,
:18:12. > :18:13.The fourth worker finally removes it.
:18:14. > :18:17.It's pretty basic that if one customer has shown something wrong
:18:18. > :18:24.then it's put right to stop other customers being misled.
:18:25. > :18:27.But at 33 of the 50 stores I went to, the till price was more
:18:28. > :18:50.If Customer A has come back and complained and been refunded,
:18:51. > :18:53.that doesn't mean there weren't 20 other customers who didn't spot it.
:18:54. > :18:58.There were obviously major problems with their control of special offers
:18:59. > :19:01.and it's the special offers that bring people in and make people
:19:02. > :19:04.perhaps spend more than they meant to when they came in,
:19:05. > :19:08.The company wouldn't provide anyone for interview
:19:09. > :19:27.but after reviewing our evidence told this programme...
:19:28. > :19:32.Following our investigation, Britain's biggest supermarket has
:19:33. > :19:34.said it will be double checking the accuracy of
:19:35. > :19:42.That's more than 3500 stores across Britain.
:19:43. > :19:55.I mean, you'd never find me in a red suit, rubber gloves
:19:56. > :20:12.A group of intrepid explorers is about to descend deep underground
:20:13. > :20:25.Ahead lie tight squeezes, bruising crawls and total darkness.
:20:26. > :20:29.But we're not in some far-flung location -
:20:30. > :20:37.No, this adventure begins on the side of a road in Southmead.
:20:38. > :20:41.That's my last chance for a wee gone.
:20:42. > :20:46.My guides are Linda and Chris and they're taking us to what looks
:20:47. > :20:54.like an unremarkable manhole in the woods.
:20:55. > :20:56.In fact, it's the entrance to a natural wonder -
:20:57. > :20:59.Pen Park Hole, a cave so extraordinary
:21:00. > :21:03.it's just been declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest
:21:04. > :21:09.And there's a bit of a knack for getting in it.
:21:10. > :21:13.Laura, down like I am, then on your tummy.
:21:14. > :21:25.OK, Laura, if you could come down, your left leg sideways.
:21:26. > :21:28.Now is not a time to forget which leg is what.
:21:29. > :21:42.Cameras and lights prefer to be clean and dry -
:21:43. > :21:50.It would be nice to get the shot from the other side.
:21:51. > :21:53.We've only come about 20 metres into the cave
:21:54. > :22:00.Laura, you're coming into the first chamber of the cave now.
:22:01. > :22:03.People coming into the cave had to mine through that bit.
:22:04. > :22:08.You can see evidence on the wall where people drilled and blasted
:22:09. > :22:19.In the middle of the 1800s people were coming here looking for lead
:22:20. > :22:29.and they found this enormous layer of crystal, about a foot thick.
:22:30. > :22:31.If you look on top the crystals look brown,
:22:32. > :22:39.and called dogtooth crystals, and when they were broken off
:22:40. > :22:42.by the miners, that is when you see this white crystalline effect.
:22:43. > :22:44.The miners weren't the first people down here -
:22:45. > :22:47.the world's first published cave survey was done here in the 1600s.
:22:48. > :22:48.That survey didn't include the resident wildlife.
:22:49. > :22:51.In this tiny pool lives a recently discovered creature -
:22:52. > :22:57.They are called Niphargus kochianus and they are really important,
:22:58. > :23:02.they are not normally found in large underground lakes
:23:03. > :23:08.They are very small, about two or three millimetres long
:23:09. > :23:11.and they arrived here, we believe, through
:23:12. > :23:17.They feed on whatever they can find, they're omnivorous.
:23:18. > :23:20.You notice on the surface there are a few flies
:23:21. > :23:28.It was a tight squeeze to get this far, but that was nothing compared
:23:29. > :23:43.Your feet are about six inches off the floor.
:23:44. > :23:50.I've just got to not feel terrified of the enclosed space.
:23:51. > :24:07.This is where we've got the later stalactites,
:24:08. > :24:09.so this is a lot younger than the rest of the crystals.
:24:10. > :24:22.The squeezing and crawling are worth it.
:24:23. > :24:28.I feel like we're getting to a bigger bit.
:24:29. > :24:32.It feels like you're coming into a bigger space.
:24:33. > :24:47.My goodness, after coming through this tiny rocky bit,
:24:48. > :24:49.now to be like this feels so much better.
:24:50. > :24:55.Even though we're further underground so I should be more
:24:56. > :24:57.scared, it actually feels better simply because the
:24:58. > :24:59.rocks aren't quite so close to my face.
:25:00. > :25:07.Yes, this is what we have done it all for.
:25:08. > :25:15.This is the immense cave, this is what we have come to see.
:25:16. > :25:17.Down there from top to bottom you have a chamber
:25:18. > :25:25.Up there is where the first entrance to the cave was,
:25:26. > :25:28.so people would have come down that slope on a rope with candles.
:25:29. > :25:34.It's hard to believe where we're standing is only about 25 metres
:25:35. > :25:46.At the bottom of this huge chamber is a lake whose level rises
:25:47. > :25:49.and falls by as much as 25 metres - and no one really knows why.
:25:50. > :25:54.The only way I'll see it is to lean out over the edge.
:25:55. > :26:08.I can tell because there are ripples on the edge of the lake
:26:09. > :26:12.at the bottom and that water is a long way down.
:26:13. > :26:15.More shrimps live down there - but they're not the only reason
:26:16. > :26:22.In terms of what makes it an SSSI, what really excites you?
:26:23. > :26:28.It's the best-known hydrothermal cave in the UK,
:26:29. > :26:33.so hydrothermal caves, quite different from most other caves,
:26:34. > :26:39.it's formed by hot water rising up from beneath rather than cold water
:26:40. > :26:45.descending and that is what created the amazing cavern we are in now.
:26:46. > :26:49.You've told me it's quite safe but have there ever been any
:26:50. > :27:02.Around 1775 a chap called Reverend Newman came out
:27:03. > :27:04.here with his girlfriend and a friend one afternoon for a picnic.
:27:05. > :27:10.flung his arms around a branch over the hole to swing out
:27:11. > :27:13.and see what was down the hole, the branch broke.
:27:14. > :27:17.And so Reverend Newman plummeted to his doom,
:27:18. > :27:27.The day before his accident, he preached a sermon
:27:28. > :27:29.in which he said that sinners will be cast down into
:27:30. > :27:39.This is as far as we go - time now to retrace our steps,
:27:40. > :27:46.our scrambles and our crawls back to the entrance 100 metres away.
:27:47. > :27:50.When the cave was formed some 200 million years ago,
:27:51. > :27:55.I'd have been emerging into a world ruled by dinosaurs.
:27:56. > :27:59.Instead it's into a welcome breath of fresh air.
:28:00. > :28:09.I have totally lost any sense of time.
:28:10. > :28:12.I can hardly believe it still daylight.
:28:13. > :28:14.It feels like we have been down there for ever.
:28:15. > :28:18.The mud and the bruises are worth it for the privilege of being one
:28:19. > :28:20.of the few people ever to have explored Pen Park Hole
:28:21. > :28:23.and thanks to being made a SSSI, the cave is protected -
:28:24. > :28:31.and the Pen Park prawns can have their dinner in peace.
:28:32. > :28:36.Don't forget there is much more on Facebook and Twitter.
:28:37. > :28:54.We're taking a break next week but we are back with you on the 27th of
:28:55. > :29:05.February at the same time. Hello, I'm Alex Bushill
:29:06. > :29:07.with your 90 second update. Drug abuse, violence
:29:08. > :29:08.and faulty alarms. Just some of the major
:29:09. > :29:10.security failings a BBC investigation has uncovered
:29:11. > :29:14.at a Northumberland prison. Stay tuned for Panorama
:29:15. > :29:16.after Eastenders. Well, new research shows pensioner
:29:17. > :29:21.households are, on average, ?20 a week better off
:29:22. > :29:26.than those of working age.