21/11/2011 Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Welcome to Inside Out from Lincolnshire.

This week, could the future of the famous Red Arrows based here at RAF

Scampton be in jeopardy? After two tragic deaths N3 months,

could they fall victim to defence cuts? -- in three months.

You really have to think, the game is up unless they buy the planes.

Stopping the litter louts - at a time when councils are looking to

cut costs, how do we deal with the problem?

You dropped some litter there. A fag packet.

Pigs might fly. The East Yorkshire pig farming business setting its

The tragic deaths of two Red Arrows pilots in three months has brought

unwelcome attention on one of the military's most famous institutions.

Now a defence Allott -- analyst has told us that, with the armed forces

facing cutbacks, the RAF may have to consider a future without its

famous display team. The pilot, who had been thrown from

the aircraft, was pronounced dead at the scene. He always gave his

most, for his job or in his life. It is with great regret that I can

confirm that there has been a ground incident involving when --

one of the team, which has in -- resulted in the death of the pilot.

I could not save enough nice things about him. This has obviously been

a very tragic time. We must get to the bottom of what happened.

Red Arrows are normally a familiar sight here in Lincolnshire. For the

past week the skies has been -- have been empty as investigations

continue. The latest tragic death comes at a time when some are

questioning the future of the Red Arrows.

We are coming up to crunch.. It is too close to call. For the Red

Arrows it is one of the most challenging periods in their 50

year history, two fatal accidents in quick succession. In August

Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging died in an air show in Dorset after

crashing into the ground near Bournemouth, and eight days after

his memorial service the team suffered a not -- another blow,

with the death of Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham at the Red Arrows

base in Scampton. He died after being ejected from his Hawk T1 on

the ground. Inquiries have been carried out by

a team of crash investigators from the Military Aviation Authority.

Professor Graham Braithwaite is director of the Safety and Accident

Investigation Centre, where the men charged with discovering the facts

are trained. This is the laboratory where the investigations are

carried out. Some of these wrecks have been involved in real

accidents. When people see two Red Arrows crashes in a matter of

months, they might draw their own conclusions. I would expect the

investigators to look at whether there is a pattern, but they might

be unrelated. I think it would be too soon to draw any conclusions

about a pattern. The latest inquiry is focusing on be plain's Martin

Baker mark 10 ejection seat. -- and the plains. -- the aeroplanes'. A

directive has been given out to all planes with the same ejection seat.

The ejection seat manufacturer Martin Baker told Inside Out that

he is co-operating fully with the inquiry. It said it was confident

the issue of the seed was not related to the manufacture or

design but that it would be inappropriate to comment further

until the full facts are known. It added that it has over 5,000 seats

in service worldwide and to date it has saved 489 lives. It may have

fired as a result of something else that was happening. You have to

look at the evidence, the witnesses, and work with the manufacturer to

look at whether this is something that has happened before. It is

about gathering facts and not jumping to conclusions. I think

people will look quite deep beyond the incident. The past year has

been extremely difficult for the Red Arrows. While the attention is

on their immediate future, at some point that will have to switch to

what happens in the long term. The RAF have been using Hawk jets since

1976 and the Red Arrows currently have a fleet of 13 based at

Scampton. They were made at BAE Systems in Brough but production of

the jets in East Yorkshire is being phased out. This man is an expert

for Jane's Defence. He says that, while the recent accents --

accidents are tragic, there is a significant long-term problem.

What are the threat to the Red Arrows? The life of their aircraft.

They have been used since the 1970s and they only have so much life in

them. They are only expected to be used until about 2017. They may

have not decided to buy a replacement. According to his

figures it would cost between �350 million and �400 million to replace

the Red Arrows fleet, which in the current climate look mate -- makes

Within a year, 18 months, unless they decide to buy the planes, you

have to think the game is up. Brough, where 900 workers are due

to be made redundant, the worry is that whatever planes replace the

Hawk, they will not be made in Britain, a decision which unions

say will be a trap -- a tragedy for the British aerospace industry.

may have the Red Arrows flying a Korean Air -- aeroplane in the

future. It has to be a nonsense that we would have ambassadors of

the Red Arrows taking their planes a round-the-world in a plane that

is not from the UK. It comes at a time when the RAF is told it has to

lose 5,000 personnel in four years and between 25 % and 30 % of its

civilian staff, 930 redundancies having already been announced.

Although the RAF is having to think very carefully about its future

funding, one former Air Vice Marshall believes it would be a

mistake to make the Red Arrows a scapegoat. Jered -- Gerry Connolly,

a defence aerospace consultant, says they still have a relevance

that goes far beyond their stunning aerial acrobatics. They come from

the phone line, they go to the Red Arrows for three years, and they go

back to the front line. What they do it in the Red Arrows, and all of

that -- all that that means for UK plc, they are at the top of their

game and by a process of osmosis that goes across the Royal Air

Force. They deliver a lot more than just displays on the day. The MoD

dismissed talk about the future of the Red Arrows as pure speculation.

They say the fleet of Hawks are not due to leave service until 2018.

But, as the RAF and the families of the two dead pilots continue to

mourn their loss, the people at Scampton are only too aware of how

quickly things can change. When it happens that this guy is

RMT in Scampton for the summer, we know they are away doing shows, but

when they are empty over the winter, there is an eeriness about it.

had a memorial service at the cathedral only a few weeks ago for

a Jon and it seems as soon as that was over this happened. -- for Jon.

It has stunned the village. What will be will be. It is just for me

to make sure that I put my feeling across for the village and

everybody that we love them dearly. But amid the Soren there is a

pragmatism but nothing can be taken for granted. -- sorrowful stop

Steve Hand helped to paint the Red Arrows their distinctive colour.

There are still children aspiring to be aviators when they get older

and the Red Arrows are something to aspire to. In the economic climate

at the moment, if it is a struggle to keep funding them. I would hate

to think that the writing is on the wall for them. The future of the

Red Arrows is unlikely to be decided in the next weeks or months

but at some point in the not too distant future the decision will

have to be made. As soon as the Red Arrows are clear

to start flying again, they can get back to rehearsing next year's

routines and they will be hoping that the coming 12 months bring a

much-needed change in their Three northern towns trying to

become cities, trying to deal with one problem. It is disgusting,

everything is on the floor. Chips, gravy, Greece. The British are the

fattest people in Europe. They can't control themselves and they

don't care about public spending. Councils in Barnsley, Rotherham and

the Dearne Valley have told us that picking up litter is a waste of

money. If you thought it wasn't a problem, take another look. Every

place has a different tactic. In This is possibly the toughest

council in England would it comes to litter enforcement. Their

targets for the round of fines handed out -- there are targets.

have got to be in a situation where we have got to have teeth. They do

it because they would rather not spend money from increasingly

stretched budget by picking up our rubbish. In England alone, the

local authorities spend �880 million on street cleansing. That

is money which could be much better spent on other things. Doncaster

would have �3 million every year to spend on other things. Across the

Pennines, but it costs 2.8 million. -- litre costs. The focus is much

more on changing people's behaviour, and if that doesn't work, they tell

you off. But the man in the black jacket and a grey trousers please

pick up the litter. Five years ago, talking cameras were brought 10.

covers a lot of ground. Have you seen it work? Yes, we have got some

footage of a later -- a lady whipping up a Yellow Pages book.

Doncaster, they find fear works better. They will be fined. We know

it isn't the back of people's minds. -- we know it is end. But not with

everyone. They ended up fining me. It is the government's way of

making money. They can sit on their houses and get paid. In Doncaster

last year, they raised a cool �120,000 in fines, compared to

6,000 in Bolton and just �250 in Middlesbrough. It is a major

success. We don't need to find people. So, you don't borrow the

Doncaster is raking money in for the council? -- you don't worry.

Even campaign groups are arguing about litter. It is a British

institution. Keep Britain tidy has been around for 50 years. But

continuing to fund it is throwing taxpayers' money in the bin.

campaigning dust has not worked. There are streets like this all

over England. John Read launched Clean Up Britain this year with the

help of celebrities. Litter is a big issue in this country. You

wouldn't throw away litter in Europe house. There are a group of

individuals who have got together on a voluntary basis to run this

campaign. And by saying the campaign is failing, they have

caused quite a stir. It seems a bit daft but that is what they have

chosen to do. But campaigns like this a part funded by the taxpayer,

and on top of that, they ask town - - councils in towns like Doncaster

for even more money. Can we afford it? In Bolton, they are already

feeling the pinch. It has deteriorated because of the

workforce. You need to make sure people don't drop litter in the

first base. It is a mindset that needs to change. People used to

clean in front of their houses. Even if you think littering is

wrong, day you into being? This man confronted two teenagers for

throwing rubbish. He was punched in the face and he died with a head

injury. You have dropped some litter just there. Why did you do

it? Are you going to stop? Why did you put it down there for someone

else to pick up? I know you're sorry, let's find a bend. It's just

there. Its embarrassing, isn't it? Most people, when you tell them

about it, they know they have done something wrong. If councils didn't

pick up litter? Do Be Really Want To Keep Britain tidy? Bolton agreed

to leave 100 metres of a Town Street and cleaned for a day. --

without cleaning Friday. This is what we found. The majority of

people who saw that litter were shocked. Normally, it would have

been cleaned away in the early hours. We asked local children to

help clean up the mess. But in Middlesbrough, it's going to be a

much tougher job. The council left a mile of its busiest road and

cleaned for a whole weekend. It is disgusting. Chris packets, fag

packets. Cleaning up our own bit of the streets might not be a bad idea

with council budgets under pressure. And in this Middlesbrough Road, we

collected 24 full bags of rubbish. Food for thought? Next time you see

somebody dropping a crisp packet on the floor, just imagine that is

your five-pound note because you're paying to pick it up. As the

eurozone lectures from one -- from one crisis to another, businesses

are increasingly looking for Forest to market. One company is not only

taking its animals to China, but bringing China to its animals.

pigs, pigs! They're not always seen as the most glamorous or lucrative

part of the farming business. But for one East Yorkshire company,

raising pigs has been honed to a scientific process where animals

are bred for their genetic superiority. The animals we're

providing are the top of the pyramid. They require high

attention to detail to get the optimum results. Pigs from JSR

Genetics near Driffield are now being exported all over the world

and in particular to the world's biggest market for pork, China.

There are nearly 50 million sows in China. Their requirement for a

protein is increasing. So JSR is going where the money and the pork

is. They're providing 1,500 breeding sows and boars to a

Chinese company called HB Coff. These animals will then form the

basis for a huge pig breeding unit with over a million pigs. This

afternoon, we will go to the structure... Bobo, Yann, Amber and

Lee work for HB Coff in China. They've been brought over to live

in Driffield for several weeks to learn about British pig farming

methods. I would like you to make a list of the traits that you think

we would look for. And it's not long before they're out of the

classroom and onto one of JSR's farms in Oxfordshire and I'm going

along too for a free pig farming lesson. Hyde, Steve Bull stop --

hello, steep. We need to get you showered through to protect our

pigs for many diseases. I've signed in, now it's time to shower down

and put on unit clothes. While I'm in the shower, our cameraman Mark

has to make sure all his equipment is free of any nasty germs that the

pigs might pick up. I'm showered and clean and I'm wearing Wellies

two sizes too big. The first thing we're learning is weighing and

measuring, but first a bit of pig Jason, which area of the pig had

you just been measuring. He is measuring from this the end, the

depth, this measurement here. gives the pork the really nice

flavour? This marbling effect here. We need to see if we can improve on

taste and flavour. I catch up with Lee and Bobo in between lessons.

China, we used a lot of human beings. But in the UK, we used a

lot of machines and technology to raise the pigs. What British

customs do you think you will take back with you to China? If I could

get the chance, I would suggest to my boss to give me coffee time in

the morning! Now we're onto the most important issue - breeding.

The students go to JSR's boar stud near Selby to learn about semen

collection. Once the delicate process of producing semen is over,

it is then taken to the lab to be diluted into individual doses.

have done 21 doses per boar. We have some boars that can do a lot

more. The smallest amount... Once it leaves here, it goes to the

farms and the farmers then inseminate their sows. Back in

Oxfordshire, we're about to see how that works. I'm just going in with

Lee now to learn about AI, which stands for artificial insemination.

Tom shows Lee how to inseminate the sow the scientific way, using the

diluted boar's semen. It's not a particularly pleasant job but Lee

doesn't seem phased. The most important part to remember is to go

upwards. How often do you inseminate the pics? On a weekly

basis, from Monday to to Friday. Each gilt will have Freeserve's,

whereas a sow will only have two -- three serves. We need a steady flow

of AI flowing. It helps them to think they have a boar with them.

How was it to learn about AI? think I need to learn to be patient.

It is relatively simple. Are you nervous about your first

insemination? Yes, I'm nervous and I'm also curious. The first pigs

for the new unit in China will be loaded onto planes in the next few

days. This really is a large scale industrial operation which seems

quite remote from my idea of traditional pig farming. People

have the perception of genetics of people in white coats. We're not

doing that. Testing is undertaken on the farm, the data is gathered

and it is run to a computer. The top rank animals are retained in

the breeding programme. What would you say to people who describe

these sorts of farming methods as factory methods? And animal will

not perform to its highest per -- potential without everything it

requires, which is environment, food, water, it has got to be

comfortable. Without that, it will fail to perform. For the Chinese

workers, the training is over and it's time to celebrate and say

goodbye to their training manager James. And what better way to do it

than with a meal out in York? In a Chinese restaurant, of course. Can

I order the shredded pork and preserved vegetable soup? James

devised the training plan for the Chinese workers and has spent the

last six weeks with them. It is by sea. It has been a new experience

for me, but in training plans together for people from different

cultures, and trying to learn a little bit about their culture.

Have you been over to China? yet. What have they told you to

expect? Spicy food! And there's more to come as the joint venture

between East Yorkshire and China was cemented a couple of weeks ago

with the opening of a brand new pig unit in Guandong province. See soon.

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