:00:00. > :00:09.Tonight - built in Bristol, the world s fastest
:00:10. > :00:15.This car is a class apart ? I have never
:00:16. > :00:18.driven anything quite like this before.
:00:19. > :00:29.And an incredible tale of recycling ? before it was trendy.
:00:30. > :00:35.You can see the island goes in behind me because this is
:00:36. > :00:47.Welcome to tonight s Inside Out West.
:00:48. > :00:50.But first, most children are lucky enough to grow
:00:51. > :00:56.But for some, life in a children s home is as good as it gets.
:00:57. > :01:08.Some viewers might find what comes next upsetting.
:01:09. > :01:12.Marlowe Child and Family Services say they provide specialist
:01:13. > :01:17.therapeutic care to children who ve often suffered abuse and neglect ?
:01:18. > :01:24.I think I got more traumatised in my two years at Marlowe
:01:25. > :01:28.I think the organisation is more interested in making money
:01:29. > :01:37.And we ve heard disturbing reports about sexual grooming.
:01:38. > :01:40.They made it easy for those men to come and get me.
:01:41. > :01:50.Local Authorities all over the country send some of their most
:01:51. > :01:56.They run five private children s homes in Gloucestershire, which each
:01:57. > :02:03.They re inspected by Ofsted, whose recent reports into some
:02:04. > :02:05.of the homes are damning ? they describe a very high turnover
:02:06. > :02:14.They say inexperienced carers fail to control highly dangerous
:02:15. > :02:18.behaviours by the young people ? like smashing windows and throwing
:02:19. > :02:25.We ve spoken to people who ve worked for Marlowe within the last year.
:02:26. > :02:28.We heard that at one home the children had cuts
:02:29. > :02:33.Someone else described the home as like Beirut -
:02:34. > :02:37.a terrible place, not safe for anyone.
:02:38. > :02:40.We d be violent to each other, there d be violence
:02:41. > :02:45.This young woman lived at a Marlowe home for over a year,
:02:46. > :02:48.after a series of other care placements broke down.
:02:49. > :02:54.I ended up having my window boarded shut so that I couldn t abscond out
:02:55. > :02:59.of my window and it felt like a bit of a prison.
:03:00. > :03:02.Ofsted points to ineffective behaviour management
:03:03. > :03:04.at one of the homes, saying that, Since the last
:03:05. > :03:08.inspection, which was three months earlier, there have been 67
:03:09. > :03:17.On at least five occasions a restraint lasted an hour.
:03:18. > :03:23.You could be restrained for hours on end multiple times a day.
:03:24. > :03:29.Some people say restrain was for your own good.
:03:30. > :03:31.The staff would say it s a last resort.
:03:32. > :03:39.Being pinned down against the floor by numerous adults,
:03:40. > :03:43.predominantly male, was the worst experience.
:03:44. > :03:48.The restraint was used it as a punishment.
:03:49. > :03:51.One of Marlowe s homes is here, in this quiet part
:03:52. > :03:54.of the Gloucestershire countryside, and like their other homes
:03:55. > :04:06.There s no shops, buses, cafes, basically no facilities at all.
:04:07. > :04:13.Linda has lived next to one of Marlowe s homes
:04:14. > :04:17.for more than 10 years, and takes a close
:04:18. > :04:23.After highly critical Ofsted reports, it and some of the other
:04:24. > :04:28.homes are currently closed, but she worries they ll soon reopen.
:04:29. > :04:31.In the past I ve been spat at, property damaged,
:04:32. > :04:34.four separate riots that I can think of, swearing, shouting, yeah,
:04:35. > :04:47.I phoned up the home ? relatively recently ? and I spoke to a young
:04:48. > :04:51.lady and I said is there any way that you can kind of do something
:04:52. > :05:01.I'm really sorry but I have to confess it s the first
:05:02. > :05:05.I don t know the children and I don t know the staff but I ll
:05:06. > :05:09.Now you can t leave somebody that s got no knowledge or certainly
:05:10. > :05:11.of the children in charge of the home.
:05:12. > :05:15.Isn t this just a case of NIMBYism?
:05:16. > :05:19.These kids are difficult and you don t want them near you?
:05:20. > :05:25.When the home was well run ? when it had a very good manageress in there,
:05:26. > :05:28.which it did for about 18 months ? I didn t have any problems,
:05:29. > :05:35.But it s worrying that there are people out there that
:05:36. > :05:40.are being paid what is a huge amount of money to care for children
:05:41. > :05:46.We asked some Local Authorities who ve sent children to Marlowe
:05:47. > :05:51.homes how much it cost - the average price is around
:05:52. > :06:02.It s in line with fees for other private residential homes ?
:06:03. > :06:05.but is it good value to the taxpayer, if Marlowe isn t
:06:06. > :06:11.helping children become happy, productive members of society?
:06:12. > :06:18.Where was the money for my therapeutic intervention going?
:06:19. > :06:20.Those staff were on minimum wage or close to it.
:06:21. > :06:28.Marlowe Child and Family Services told us it is wholly committed
:06:29. > :06:31.to continued investment in the recovery of young people
:06:32. > :06:35.who have always had appropriate therapeutic support, including
:06:36. > :06:42.It says money is not the prime motivation in continuing
:06:43. > :06:46.The company strongly refutes the notion of restraint
:06:47. > :06:52.It says the Board has appointed a new and expert
:06:53. > :06:55.senior management team, who have a proven record of turning
:06:56. > :07:01.around health and social care settingsThese changes were made
:07:02. > :07:03.in March 2017 and regulators are already noting improvements.
:07:04. > :07:06.The company added it is unaware of any specific damage
:07:07. > :07:14.to Linda s property But we ve also heard disturbing allegations
:07:15. > :07:24.about sexual exploitation from people outside the home.
:07:25. > :07:28.I was outside the children s home and the staff were watching us
:07:29. > :07:32.and this van pulled over, told me I was pretty,
:07:33. > :07:58.And the staff would know that I was going out and having sex
:07:59. > :08:07.The first incident of when I was pimped out ? as you like -
:08:08. > :08:16.I took another one of the girls with me and I was raped in a van.
:08:17. > :08:19.And it went on like that and it got worse.
:08:20. > :08:24.It wasn t just one man that raped me then, it would be multiple.
:08:25. > :08:29.And I d come home and I d be covered in bodily fluids from these men.
:08:30. > :08:33.I remember getting back in the early hours of the morning one night.
:08:34. > :08:38.I got a bottle of bleach and locked myself in the bathroom and had
:08:39. > :08:45.We ve seen documents showing staff were aware
:08:46. > :08:48.of the men picking her up, that Marlowe put a risk
:08:49. > :08:52.strategy in place and that the police were involved.
:08:53. > :08:55.One social worker describes trying to talk to her about it.
:08:56. > :09:01.Eventually they moved her to a placement outside the county.
:09:02. > :09:08.But she says ultimately the home failed to keep her safe.
:09:09. > :09:12.One member of staff who really cared ? he chased the van down the road
:09:13. > :09:20.There were a significant number of staff who had
:09:21. > :09:24.the illusion that I was just a promiscuous little girl.
:09:25. > :09:28.A member a staff said to me, if it was that bad,
:09:29. > :09:38.really answer that today, all these years later.
:09:39. > :09:41.So you cried out for help but nothing came?
:09:42. > :09:46.I cried and I cried and I cried and I cried and I cried.
:09:47. > :09:53.And honestly, it s only last year that I ve realised
:09:54. > :09:56.that it wasn t normal, for groups of males
:09:57. > :10:08.Why didn t anybody tell me that it wasn t?
:10:09. > :10:15.Marlowe Child and Family Services do not accept the allegations.
:10:16. > :10:19.At no time have any investigations found any
:10:20. > :10:23.of our staff were indifferent to the systematic grooming and/or
:10:24. > :10:29.We are certain that all safeguarding events have been reported
:10:30. > :10:40.Nine out of 17 children s homes in Gloucestershire are rated good
:10:41. > :10:46.But some seem to be failing our most vulnerable children
:10:47. > :10:57.Had I not gone through the extensive sexual abuse while I was at Marlowe,
:10:58. > :11:06.Maybe I wouldn t have of the choices that I ve made?
:11:07. > :11:15.Maybe if somebody had of nurtured me at 14,
:11:16. > :11:22.they said they would do that, maybe if they ve have done everything
:11:23. > :11:26.that they advertised on the tin, things wouldn t
:11:27. > :11:37.Please get in touch with me about your experiences ?
:11:38. > :11:46.That's exactly what lots of you did after our programme last week.
:11:47. > :11:49.We told you about controversial surgery to fix bowel
:11:50. > :11:56.The operations were carried out in Bristol by surgeon Tony Dixon.
:11:57. > :12:00.He s currently under investigation by the NHS and we understand
:12:01. > :12:06.Scores of his patients contacted us with their experiences
:12:07. > :12:13.I d like you to read you this one ? it's fairly typical:
:12:14. > :12:16.I am one of Mr Tony Dixon's patients and have had several
:12:17. > :12:21.My life is a living hell and has been for the last few years
:12:22. > :12:33.Our investigation was also raised in Parliament last week
:12:34. > :12:37.in a debate on mesh surgery ? calling for all forms of this
:12:38. > :12:53.over the coming weeks ? and we still want to hear from you.
:12:54. > :12:55.Here in the West innovation is in our blood
:12:56. > :13:00.the edge of the M5, a car is being built that could one
:13:01. > :13:02.day go faster than the speed of sound.
:13:03. > :13:06.And on Thursday we ll get a chance to see Bloodhound SSC in action
:13:07. > :13:23.Imagine driving a mile in just 3.6 seconds
:13:24. > :13:25.You d need a pretty extraordinary car to do it ?
:13:26. > :13:36.A car that could one day travel at a truly hair-raising 1000mph ?
:13:37. > :13:44.and I m here to find out exactly how they re going to do it.
:13:45. > :13:46.Well this is that extraordinary car -
:13:47. > :13:53.Bloodhound SSC, built in Avonmouth, aiming to astonish the world.
:13:54. > :13:56.Those initials by the way ? stand for Super Sonic Car.
:13:57. > :14:04.In fact it d get from Bristol to London in under 10 minutes.
:14:05. > :14:09.But no-one really wants to drive that fast do they?
:14:10. > :14:24.it s his own record that Andy s trying to break.
:14:25. > :14:26.Andy was in the driver s seat when Thrust
:14:27. > :14:33.SSC went 763 mph in 1997 ? making it the first car to exceed
:14:34. > :15:14.being involved with some of solving problems that have never been solved
:15:15. > :15:19.before, that we have not but to go that is why are you trying to break
:15:20. > :15:23.it to go not just a bit faster but can be a risky business VO: This
:15:24. > :15:27.is Richard Noble ? he s now the project director
:15:28. > :15:31.of Bloodhound and Thrust SSC. But his own World Land Speed Record
:15:32. > :15:34.attempt over 30 years ago Seven miles an hour more
:15:35. > :15:49.and the car would have taken off. American driver Craig Breedlove also
:15:50. > :15:53.had a close shave when trying to break the record in 1996 Archive
:15:54. > :16:02.? on Breedlove s last run On the American black rock desert ?
:16:03. > :16:07.his car flipped on its side ? and careered off course ?
:16:08. > :16:20.miraculously he was unhurt. Bloodhound will have far more
:16:21. > :16:23.power than those cars, so getting the design
:16:24. > :16:28.right is critical. I like to push boundaries
:16:29. > :16:32.and someone of my age does not normally get the
:16:33. > :16:36.opportunity to do so. Retired missile scientist
:16:37. > :16:40.Ron Ayers is behind Bloodhound s design ? as the project s chief
:16:41. > :16:42.aerodynamicist - it s his job to make sure
:16:43. > :16:48.the car doesn t take off. Any mismatch in the forces
:16:49. > :17:30.around the car will be enough at the front, a lot of it gets
:17:31. > :17:40.squeezed we to lift the front end so that air there are three the car
:17:41. > :17:49.would stay The key to Bloodhound s
:17:50. > :17:51.speed is that as well as a jet engine ? Ron has
:17:52. > :18:03.designed a spot for a rocket. coming it is one of the loudest
:18:04. > :18:14.noises Bloodhound has been
:18:15. > :18:16.in development since 2008 ? but raising the money to keep
:18:17. > :18:19.a project like this going is almost as complicated
:18:20. > :18:36.as building the car itself. there has never been anything we
:18:37. > :18:40.would like but we are dictated by the cash flow as
:18:41. > :18:42.The car is here at Newquay airfield because
:18:43. > :18:45.the plan is Andy will test drive Bloodhound in full public gaze
:18:46. > :18:51.to check everything s working as planned.
:18:52. > :18:53.The run will test all the mechanics but the short
:18:54. > :18:56.runway means she ll only hit a top speed of 200mph ? but it s
:18:57. > :19:09.still set to impress Jemma ? just a leg stretch going to be a wow.
:19:10. > :19:17.this is 200 miles an hour is a fifth of our target speeds were just
:19:18. > :19:22.getting the you will have the crowd standing 100 as you will ever get at
:19:23. > :19:26.an airshow and you will physically feel it her organs will move with
:19:27. > :19:32.the low frequency vibration. It is genuinely going to grab people will
:19:33. > :19:32.be and they can raise enough money -
:19:33. > :19:35.the plan is to take Bloodhound to the South African desert in 2019
:19:36. > :19:38.? and it s there that attempts Driving this little car doesn t seem
:19:39. > :19:44.so impressive now ? but hey at least I know roughly what s
:19:45. > :19:47.going to happen when I put my foot Now check this out ? I ve
:19:48. > :20:03.never noticed it before. But this plaque is actually a copy
:20:04. > :20:06.of another one 2,000 A subtle nod to a jaw
:20:07. > :20:16.dropping story. This is a tale of two cities,
:20:17. > :20:19.and how the foundations of the future can be built
:20:20. > :20:27.on the ruins of the past. In November 1940 Britain had entered
:20:28. > :20:31.the Second World War and was bracing itself for waves
:20:32. > :20:34.of bombing attacks On the evening of the 24th
:20:35. > :20:42.November, German bombers Their mission, to attack Bristol
:20:43. > :20:47.and at around 6.30 in the evening, 12,000 incendiary bombs and 160
:20:48. > :20:55.tons of high explosive The devastation was huge,
:20:56. > :21:01.and in some places total. Castle Park here in the historic
:21:02. > :21:04.heart of the city, This was just one of many raids
:21:05. > :21:11.that struck the city Sheila Carey was only seven
:21:12. > :21:19.when the Bristol Blitz happened, but still remembers the night
:21:20. > :21:24.when the first bombs fell. We heard a whistle,
:21:25. > :21:26.we knew it was a bomb, we didn t see it but we heard it,
:21:27. > :21:30.and all of a sudden we heard this terrible noise and all the dust
:21:31. > :21:36.and stones from across the road was all gushing down,
:21:37. > :21:40.and the next thing we heard was my father running up the road
:21:41. > :21:44.and saying quick get out get out! But all I remember then
:21:45. > :21:47.was my mother grabbing us and running up the road
:21:48. > :21:50.and the people were shouting out, be careful, be careful,
:21:51. > :21:53.there s shrapnel and that, and we were running up the road
:21:54. > :21:58.like this because we were so scared. Our neighbours that we lived next
:21:59. > :22:05.door to, all they were killed in the bomb, and that was very,
:22:06. > :22:08.very sad, cause they had a little Their son was in the army
:22:09. > :22:14.and when was sent home, he just stood at the top
:22:15. > :22:18.of the street and cried. It was sad I ve never forgotten it
:22:19. > :22:22.but it s something that sticks Tell me about this
:22:23. > :22:29.road, what was it like? Well it was entirely different
:22:30. > :22:32.to what it is now, this road, here behind was Cabot Street
:22:33. > :22:34.which is where I lived Ted Williams was only
:22:35. > :22:37.five when the Blitz There was a church,
:22:38. > :22:43.St Johns Church, well right up until I left school,
:22:44. > :22:45.this was our playground. In November 1940, that s
:22:46. > :22:47.when it was bombed, When the bomb dropped and we came
:22:48. > :22:53.out there was all skulls and bones around the place where it blew up,
:22:54. > :22:55.the graves blew up. What was that night like,
:22:56. > :22:59.can you remember that? Well because you were in
:23:00. > :23:01.the shelter you didn t know until it was all over,
:23:02. > :23:04.then you d come out and see all the sky red,
:23:05. > :23:08.the flames everywhere. Like anything after a while it s
:23:09. > :23:12.a way of life, you get the bombs in you get the sirens going off,
:23:13. > :23:15.you get the all clear going off, You didn t realise it until you grew
:23:16. > :23:24.that was the life that you lived. By the time the raids
:23:25. > :23:28.were over, nearly 1,300 people had been killed,
:23:29. > :23:30.with a similar number Hollywood superstar Cary Grant,
:23:31. > :23:36.real name was Archie Leach, Several members
:23:37. > :23:42.of his family were killed when their house here in Dean street
:23:43. > :23:46.was destroyed in December 1940 Over 80,000 buildings were ruined,
:23:47. > :23:51.most of them homes. The survivors were reliant
:23:52. > :23:54.on humanitarian aid for help. Yes we were homeless,
:23:55. > :24:00.we lost everything. The next day we were told
:24:01. > :24:04.that we haven t got a home to go back to, and all the clothes we had
:24:05. > :24:09.on, we had to keep that until we were sorted out to go
:24:10. > :24:13.to the people that were making from the United States
:24:14. > :24:39.and the Lend-Lease Programme, signed in 1941 would provide over
:24:40. > :24:41.$30 billion dollars of aid But the large convoys of merchant
:24:42. > :24:48.vessels transporting this valuable After unloading their goods,
:24:49. > :24:54.the ship s needed ballast Local historian Julian
:24:55. > :24:59.Lea-Jones has been looking into how the solution came
:25:00. > :25:04.from an unlikely place. The merchant navy,
:25:05. > :25:07.they insisted on putting something in the ships,
:25:08. > :25:09.when they went back. to keep the thing sat down
:25:10. > :25:16.in the sea and not riding across We had a problem in Bristol
:25:17. > :25:23.with clearing the streets for the emergency services,
:25:24. > :25:26.and you had rubbles from the bomb sites, people s houses,
:25:27. > :25:29.people s homes, and they were just taking it in barges down and dumping
:25:30. > :25:32.it in the Severn Estuary, And then somebody had
:25:33. > :25:36.this brilliant idea, we ll use the bomb site rubble,
:25:37. > :25:40.to put it into the ships, when they went back empty,
:25:41. > :25:43.when they got back to bring One man who remembers this
:25:44. > :25:53.is Sheila s husband Ron, who as a boy watched the trucks
:25:54. > :25:57.arrive at Avonmouth. Well they were coming down
:25:58. > :26:00.with lorries, tipping it in, and the dockers were getting it
:26:01. > :26:03.all and chucking it It was a bit of a joke,
:26:04. > :26:08.it were a laugh to the dockers, because they was saying
:26:09. > :26:11.ooh, Bristol s moving. But, this wasn t
:26:12. > :26:19.the end of the story. of Manhattan was engaged
:26:20. > :26:23.in a massive construction project, The large amount of stone arriving
:26:24. > :26:28.at the docks was just what was required to add
:26:29. > :26:31.the necessary landfill In total, 14 acres of land
:26:32. > :26:37.was reclaimed using You can see that
:26:38. > :26:41.the island goes back in again behind me,
:26:42. > :26:43.this is because this In June 1942,
:26:44. > :26:50.the section of road was opened, and a grand ceremony held to rename
:26:51. > :27:16.the area as Bristol Basin . the union crated at that because
:27:17. > :27:22.there was construction that these buildings that you see around me and
:27:23. > :27:36.when the towers were finished we created a ceremony
:27:37. > :28:12.part air he was very moved and spoke about his family and he and to have
:28:13. > :28:13.this remembrance The plaque, passed
:28:14. > :28:14.by joggers, tourists and commuters every day,
:28:15. > :28:16.reminds us even here more than 2,000 miles away and more
:28:17. > :28:19.than 75 years later, the sacrifices of Bristol
:28:20. > :28:21.during the Second World War, Fascinating isn t it
:28:22. > :28:28.? I mean who knew? That s it for tonight
:28:29. > :28:40.? see you next week. Next week, we investigate
:28:41. > :28:43.the violent drug gangs Next thing, there was
:28:44. > :28:50.a knock at the door. go. That's it for others to night
:28:51. > :29:07.from the Medway Hello, I'm Riz Lateef
:29:08. > :29:09.with your 90 second update. The European Commission has denied
:29:10. > :29:12.a report that Theresa May "begged" the EU for help
:29:13. > :29:14.in the Brexit talks. It's claimed she appeared
:29:15. > :29:16."anxious" during a dinner with the Commission president,
:29:17. > :29:21.Jean-Claude Juncker, last week.