0:00:00 > 0:00:05Hello, welcome to Inside Out from the Humber Bridge.
0:00:05 > 0:00:09This week, we investigate the potentially lethal trade in illegal
0:00:10 > 0:00:15alcohol. Five men died in an explosion while producing fake
0:00:15 > 0:00:21vodka, but what are the dangers for those drinking this illegal booze?
0:00:21 > 0:00:25My vision goes blurred, I have black blotches. Also tonight, the
0:00:25 > 0:00:30birth of an icon. We celebrate the start of work on the Humber Bridge
0:00:30 > 0:00:4040 years ago. Everybody would be looking a power that. A beautiful
0:00:40 > 0:00:46day. The wind was howling through. And, a good listener. The man who
0:00:46 > 0:00:56has trekked to the east -- the North Pole and South Pole to record
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0:01:02 > 0:01:08An explosion which killed five men at an industrial unit in
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Lincolnshire put bootleg booze firmly on the map. The men died
0:01:12 > 0:01:22where fake vodka was being produced. So, what potentially lethal
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0:01:26 > 0:01:33concoction could you be drinking? Sarah Sturdey investigates.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Five men have been killed in Boston... How does a lot today?
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Police take prevents us from going around the corner...
0:01:40 > 0:01:44The explosion revealed the secret world of bootleg booze. Inside the
0:01:44 > 0:01:54charred unit, fake vodka was manufactured. It looked just like
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0:01:55 > 0:01:59this, the genuine article. It opened to public's eyes to this
0:01:59 > 0:02:04dangerous Gamp. It is often really hard to tell the difference between
0:02:04 > 0:02:08a fake like this, seized at a Leicestershire bit like factory,
0:02:08 > 0:02:15and this, the real thing. Drinking the wrong one could prove fatal.
0:02:15 > 0:02:20The fake brands disguise a lethal blend of chemicals. They do not
0:02:20 > 0:02:23care for anybody, they only care about lining their pockets.
0:02:23 > 0:02:31criminal gangs cost the taxpayer �1 billion a year by failing to pay
0:02:31 > 0:02:36alcohol duty. Walker is the easiest spirit to copy, you can make it on
0:02:36 > 0:02:41a Monday and sell it on a Tuesday - - vodka. But it's the drinkers who
0:02:41 > 0:02:45pay the highest price, sometimes with their eyesight. I feel lucky
0:02:45 > 0:02:48to be alive, I did not think of would be able to get out of bed
0:02:48 > 0:02:51ever again. Hidden in a remote corner of Leicestershire, one
0:02:51 > 0:02:58organised gang of bootleggers went undetected until undercover customs
0:02:58 > 0:03:08officers finally tracked them down to a rented unit. They were making
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0:03:15 > 0:03:22fake vodka at a place already known as Moscow Farm. It was a wonderful
0:03:22 > 0:03:26feeling to know we had cracked it. He is wearing a beige top and blue
0:03:26 > 0:03:33jeans, messing around with the pilots. They are not paying any
0:03:33 > 0:03:38attention to us. We are just going nice and steady, and when we have
0:03:38 > 0:03:40completed, we will be on our way back. During the raid, 70 customs
0:03:40 > 0:03:43officers found a makeshift factory producing illegal vodka on a
0:03:43 > 0:03:46massive scale. The unit had the capacity to produce a bottle every
0:03:46 > 0:03:56five seconds. There was enough methylated spirit to produce
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0:03:56 > 0:04:01100,000 bottles of fake vodka. had a stainless-steel tank which
0:04:01 > 0:04:08held the finished product, before dropping it on to the bottling line,
0:04:08 > 0:04:12and then they have a commercial capping machine, to put the caps on
0:04:12 > 0:04:17the bottles. Then it passed down the conveyor belt to a labelling
0:04:17 > 0:04:23machine, which starred the labels on. I have visited thousands of
0:04:23 > 0:04:28bottling plants, and I have never seen anything like this. It is
0:04:28 > 0:04:31horrendous. It could have been a disaster in the making. Ed Binsted
0:04:31 > 0:04:33is a spirits industry safety expert. His evidence in the trial of the
0:04:33 > 0:04:43convicted bootleggers revealed how a simple spark could ignite alcohol
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0:04:44 > 0:04:48vapours, triggering a major explosion. This was a time bomb.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53Look at what happened at Boston, and these places popping up all
0:04:53 > 0:04:59over the place. If anybody had been walking along this footpath, with a
0:04:59 > 0:05:04horse or anything, they would have been involved. I come past a few
0:05:04 > 0:05:08times a week, and when we found out, it was unbelievable. You cannot
0:05:08 > 0:05:12understand how that could go on in a place like this. It is quite
0:05:12 > 0:05:15frightening and shocking. The gang of six has been sentenced to a
0:05:15 > 0:05:18total of more than 20 years in jail. The mastermind, who was never seen
0:05:18 > 0:05:22at Moscow Farm, was Kevin Eddishaw. His right-hand man was John
0:05:22 > 0:05:32Humphries. Counterfeit alcohol is now being seized across the country
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0:05:34 > 0:05:38daily. The chemist was this man, from Poland. The counterfeiters
0:05:38 > 0:05:45have done a very good job of forging the bottles and the labels.
0:05:45 > 0:05:55The bottles were sourced from the buyer, and the labels were sourced
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0:05:58 > 0:06:03from Poland. The product look like the real thing. The finished
0:06:03 > 0:06:07product was stored near East Bridgford, 5000 litres was seized
0:06:07 > 0:06:17in Blackpool. It was found on sale in small independent off-licences
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0:06:20 > 0:06:30across the country. John Humphrys left the client in the car-park
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0:06:34 > 0:06:37while he went away to get the vodka from a store nearby. Counterfeit
0:06:37 > 0:06:42alcohol is now being seized across the country daily. It's a top
0:06:42 > 0:06:47priority for Trading Standards. have seized these from all parts of
0:06:47 > 0:06:51the county. These are the products you want to keep out of harm's way,
0:06:52 > 0:06:56cleaning fluids, paint strippers, methylated spirits, not something
0:06:56 > 0:07:03you would want to be drinking. We are aware that somebody in Scotland
0:07:03 > 0:07:07died from drinking counterfeit alcohol. The person running this
0:07:07 > 0:07:11off-licence has just been convicted of having four different fake
0:07:11 > 0:07:21brands. Mostly containing the chemical used for industrial
0:07:21 > 0:07:23
0:07:23 > 0:07:26cleaning. One contained Paul reform. -- chloroform. Students are on the
0:07:26 > 0:07:30lookout for cheap vodka. Lauren Platts from Derbyshire bought what
0:07:30 > 0:07:32she now knows to be a bogus brand for �5.99. The man in the off-
0:07:32 > 0:07:40licence near her Sheffield digs joked it would blind her. Two
0:07:40 > 0:07:47months on, he wasn't far wrong. was throwing up for two days. There
0:07:47 > 0:07:51could not get out of bed. -- I could not. On the second day, I
0:07:51 > 0:07:56thought, am I ever going to feel better? Could not see very well, my
0:07:56 > 0:08:01vision goes blurred, I have black blotches, I lose my peripheral
0:08:01 > 0:08:07vision quite a lot. Even cross the road, it can be difficult. It is
0:08:07 > 0:08:10really scary. When you cannot see anything, if you are driving, even
0:08:11 > 0:08:13walking down the street, trying to cross the road. Casualty
0:08:13 > 0:08:20departments are starting to see more patients who think they've
0:08:20 > 0:08:25drunk vodka, but it's really industrial alcohol. They are
0:08:25 > 0:08:28drinking the same amount of alcohol as normal, but they are getting
0:08:29 > 0:08:33more intense symptoms, they think they might have had their drink
0:08:33 > 0:08:40spiked. Their symptoms are more severe abdominal pain, staggering,
0:08:40 > 0:08:46feeling tortious, intense vomiting, and visual problems, which you do
0:08:46 > 0:08:51not see what ordinary alcohol. The methanol attacks the optic nerve,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54de-nerved that runs from behind the eye, and if that gets Swarland, it
0:08:54 > 0:08:58can cause permanent blindness. at Great Dalby, near Moscow Farm,
0:08:58 > 0:09:01the pub landlady is shocked at the ticking time bomb which was on
0:09:01 > 0:09:09their doorstep. But can she tell the difference between a fake from
0:09:09 > 0:09:15the factory and the real bottle? everything is exactly the same.
0:09:15 > 0:09:20you amazed? I am shocked! There's one simple error - the forgers got
0:09:20 > 0:09:25the bottle's units wrong. Much of the Moscow Farm fake could still be
0:09:25 > 0:09:34out there, along with thousands of other dangerous bogus brands. The
0:09:34 > 0:09:39vodka distillers are well aware of the threat the bootleggers pose.
0:09:39 > 0:09:44The experience industry has to stay ahead of the bootleggers, not just
0:09:44 > 0:09:46to protect their brand, but to protect the public. But it's
0:09:46 > 0:09:51customs officers who face the challenge of seeking out these
0:09:51 > 0:09:56highly-organised criminals. It is crucial that we find these places
0:09:56 > 0:09:59and we dismantle them, so they cannot be used ever again. The UK's
0:09:59 > 0:10:01consumption of real vodka has risen considerably over the past ten
0:10:01 > 0:10:10years. As drinkers seek out cheap booze, the bootleggers are leaving
0:10:10 > 0:10:18a lethal legacy. It is shocking, really, that somebody is sullied
0:10:18 > 0:10:22that two people. They do not care. If it is still happening now, the
0:10:22 > 0:10:28problems with my fishing, I assume it is here for good, and this is
0:10:28 > 0:10:36all from just one might -- problems with my vision.
0:10:36 > 0:10:46Coming up, the sound of nature. The man who travels to the ends of the
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0:10:57 > 0:11:07earth in search of a most As the bridge enters its middle-age,
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0:11:09 > 0:11:19our reporter has been taking a look. It was the moment many people
0:11:19 > 0:11:26thought they'd never see and plenty hoped they wouldn't. Heavy
0:11:26 > 0:11:29machinery begins to assemble. newly discovered images of work on
0:11:29 > 0:11:32both banks of the Humber capture a unique moment in our history - the
0:11:32 > 0:11:35birth and growing pains of one of the most expensive and
0:11:35 > 0:11:40controversial civic projects in Modern Britain. The building of the
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Humber Bridge. As one of the world's longest suspension bridges,
0:11:43 > 0:11:47the Humber Bridge has become one of the region's most photogenic
0:11:47 > 0:11:53tourist attractions. But 40 years ago, the landscape both physical
0:11:53 > 0:11:56and cultural was completely different. One man determined to
0:11:56 > 0:12:00capture this sea change in relations between North and South
0:12:00 > 0:12:03bank was amateur filmmaker William Prestell. He spent every spare hour
0:12:03 > 0:12:13over a decade painstakingly recording each stage of its
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0:12:13 > 0:12:20construction. Brady thing he cut the passion for it? He was a man
0:12:20 > 0:12:26they liked a challenge. -- Where do you think he got the passion.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31don't see many bridges built on your doorstep. He used to get in
0:12:31 > 0:12:37contact up with the contractors, especially the project manager, and
0:12:37 > 0:12:42he used to ask them to film him when certain things were going on.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47Then he would go down there at 8pm with his sandwiches and drinks and
0:12:47 > 0:12:56he would stay all day. He just wanted to get the film that he
0:12:57 > 0:13:02wanted. That's what he used to do. On 21st February 1977, if five
0:13:02 > 0:13:07millimetre diameter of steel rope was laid between the two banks. The
0:13:07 > 0:13:17north and south banks of the River Humber were finally linked.
0:13:17 > 0:13:22admire him for going down there. The only means of transport and
0:13:22 > 0:13:31equipment is by this cable car. Working at this height is extremely
0:13:31 > 0:13:38difficult. It is the unique thing, the building of the Humber Bridge.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41It is history in the making and is therefore to see in the future.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45while watching the bridge take shape was an entertaining hobby for
0:13:45 > 0:13:48some, for those who actually built it, it was arguably the hardest job
0:13:48 > 0:13:55of their careers. For the men who helped design and build it, even 40
0:13:55 > 0:14:00years on, the bridge still provokes bittersweet memories. I have bought
0:14:00 > 0:14:04a cake to help celebrate. It must bring back a lot of them is for you.
0:14:04 > 0:14:10This occasion does bring back a lot of memories, no doubt about it.
0:14:10 > 0:14:20Some good, some bad. The most satisfying day was when the first
0:14:20 > 0:14:24box was lifted. People couldn't really seem much progress for many
0:14:24 > 0:14:28months, and then suddenly the box was there. The bridge were starting
0:14:28 > 0:14:31to take shape. The multi-million pound project became infamous for
0:14:31 > 0:14:39slipped deadlines and spiralling costs, and today some of the key
0:14:39 > 0:14:45staff are back to lay a few ghosts to rest. What with the unique
0:14:45 > 0:14:49problems in building the bridge? There was the weather, inflation
0:14:49 > 0:14:54and industrial climate in the country. All these three things
0:14:54 > 0:15:00reflected the eventual costs of the structure. There was a time of road
0:15:00 > 0:15:08rubble, the three-day week and all the other aspects which influenced
0:15:08 > 0:15:13the climate here. Work was hampered by some bitterly cold winters.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17was absolutely freezing up there in the wintertime. They had runners
0:15:17 > 0:15:23coming up and down the bridge to bring coffee. And the howling North
0:15:23 > 0:15:30Sea wind also helped blow things off course. We were completely
0:15:30 > 0:15:37exposed. 30 miles per hour, absolute top speed that we could
0:15:37 > 0:15:40cope with, you just wouldn't be conscious of it. It was quite a bad
0:15:40 > 0:15:47press because everybody would be looking up saying, why are they not
0:15:47 > 0:15:51working? Beautiful day, and the wind was just howling. To put
0:15:51 > 0:16:01things in reality, a �is not the way to measure the value of the
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0:16:07 > 0:16:10bridge, it have the benefit for the community. -- a �1 fee. The bridge
0:16:10 > 0:16:14meant a new dawn for many. For others, it heralded the end of an
0:16:14 > 0:16:16era. Arthur Harvey is thought to be one of the last surviving Humber
0:16:16 > 0:16:23Ferry captains. He worked on crossings for 25 years before the
0:16:23 > 0:16:28bridge put him and his colleagues out of business. I did miss the
0:16:28 > 0:16:33daily contact I had with passengers. You need a lot of people in
0:16:33 > 0:16:42different professions. Some of them became good friends of mine. During
0:16:42 > 0:16:52this are, we used to do this trip down to Grimsby down -- brims be
0:16:52 > 0:16:57
0:16:57 > 0:17:04dance night. In eight years, it was something about 5 million people.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08And amid all those millions of passengers, one truly stood out.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12certain lady would not get out of the car, as per instructions. I
0:17:12 > 0:17:20went down there and I said, I will not shift Until you get out of that
0:17:20 > 0:17:30car. By then, one of our local passengers put pressure on them,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32
0:17:32 > 0:17:35saying, get out! That culminated in our marriage eventually! Today, the
0:17:35 > 0:17:39bridge acts as a vital lifeline for thousands of families, who rely on
0:17:39 > 0:17:42it for work or it regularly to keep in touch. Annette Hutchinson and
0:17:42 > 0:17:52her family from Scunthorpe have a special reason for being able to
0:17:52 > 0:17:53
0:17:53 > 0:17:59get across quickly by car. It is awe-inspiring, when you approach it.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04It is very important to keep in touch with family and to access the
0:18:04 > 0:18:07east coast. Without the bridge, a family crisis involving her brother,
0:18:07 > 0:18:16who lives on the opposite bank in Hull, might have been a whole lot
0:18:16 > 0:18:21worse. About two years ago, I had a stroke at work, and it was in
0:18:21 > 0:18:31hospital for seven or eight days. With the bridge being open, and it
0:18:31 > 0:18:31
0:18:31 > 0:18:41was able to get over and see me. They came regularly to see that a
0:18:41 > 0:18:55
0:18:55 > 0:19:00was all right. Was it -- it was a relief. It is �6 for a round trip.
0:19:00 > 0:19:10Plans which could see that hole cut in half by yet to be resolved.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13
0:19:13 > 0:19:23bridges much more convenient for crossing the Humber. It took a good
0:19:23 > 0:19:25
0:19:25 > 0:19:35bridge to put us out of work. Growing up, you never know what
0:19:35 > 0:19:39path your life will take. For one man, he was led to the corners of
0:19:39 > 0:19:43the Earth recording the sounds of nature. Wherever you find David
0:19:44 > 0:19:53Attenborough in the world, there is a good chance you will find Chris
0:19:54 > 0:20:17
0:20:17 > 0:20:27Watson there as well. To my ears, it is full of sound. It is amazing,
0:20:27 > 0:20:34
0:20:34 > 0:20:40what I heard. The insect life inside this oak tree. I have been
0:20:40 > 0:20:45passionate about working with sound for a long time. There are lots of
0:20:45 > 0:20:49devices and equipment, such as this, for getting sound on location. What
0:20:49 > 0:20:59will really interests me is getting microphones into places where we
0:20:59 > 0:21:04
0:21:04 > 0:21:14wouldn't normally want to put our ears. It sounds great. You really
0:21:14 > 0:21:19
0:21:19 > 0:21:28get that sense of power of the ocean. A lot of my work on Frozen
0:21:28 > 0:21:37Planet was to investigate the sounds. The songs of the seals can
0:21:37 > 0:21:40be heard over 15 miles away. This beautiful, haunting voice, which
0:21:40 > 0:21:50reflected the reality of their lives. There's very little
0:21:50 > 0:21:56visibility below the surface so they will deliver the sound. Chris
0:21:56 > 0:22:00has been working alongside David Attenborough for 15 years. This is
0:22:00 > 0:22:07the most southerly nesting of all penguins. And like the polar bear,
0:22:07 > 0:22:09are up in the north, their lives are dependent on the sea life.
0:22:09 > 0:22:17arrival in Antarctica, the Frozen Planet crew attracted a welcoming
0:22:17 > 0:22:23party. About 200 penguins came out of the sea and ran across to our
0:22:23 > 0:22:27helicopter and stood in a group. They set up this semi-circle and
0:22:27 > 0:22:35just sat and stared at our helicopters. The wildlife came to
0:22:35 > 0:22:40us. It's a career you can trace back to his childhood. My parents
0:22:40 > 0:22:45bought my tape-recorder when I was 11. You could see the birds through
0:22:45 > 0:22:49the kitchen window, but you couldn't hear them, so I took my
0:22:49 > 0:22:53little tape-recorder outside, put the microphone on the bird table.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57What I really learned about recording in this way and that you
0:22:57 > 0:23:07start to hear the world in quite a new and exciting way. One of the
0:23:07 > 0:23:16
0:23:16 > 0:23:26best ways to do that is to close And what works in your back garden
0:23:26 > 0:23:37
0:23:37 > 0:23:46This is the hugely scaled up version of a garden experiment.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49These are vultures in Kenya. Chris was playing with sound in the heady
0:23:49 > 0:23:59days of the experimental electronic music scene. He was a founder
0:23:59 > 0:24:03
0:24:03 > 0:24:08member of Sheffield's Cabaret There were three of us and I played
0:24:09 > 0:24:14keyboards and tape-recorder, and synthesiser, and so we worked in
0:24:14 > 0:24:22the studio creating music and we toured and troubled lot. It was
0:24:22 > 0:24:25just great. -- travelled a lot. mix of art and sound still appeals.
0:24:25 > 0:24:34He was commissioned by the National Gallery to create a soundtrack to
0:24:34 > 0:24:38one of its masterpieces to hold visitors' attention. The average
0:24:38 > 0:24:44time people spend in front of one of those great paintings is four
0:24:44 > 0:24:54seconds. I went and chose this painting, and it just created the
0:24:54 > 0:25:01
0:25:01 > 0:25:11sound of the few that John Constable had created. -- the view.
0:25:11 > 0:25:21In the middle of the 19th century, Suffolk is not placed -- played by
0:25:21 > 0:25:28
0:25:28 > 0:25:32-- plagued by noise pollution. I'm on the Ross Island in Antarctica.
0:25:32 > 0:25:40The quietness is almost below the threshold of this equipment. Why
0:25:40 > 0:25:46don't been there is any other place on earth as quiet as this, and
0:25:46 > 0:25:52there is certainly no noise pollution here. I think the heart
0:25:52 > 0:25:56down below, it is interesting to think this sounds they would have
0:25:56 > 0:25:59heard were much the same as we can hear today. The sound of silence
0:25:59 > 0:26:07above ground enables Chris to record the actual noise of the
0:26:07 > 0:26:12planet itself. You really get the sense that this isn't some inert,
0:26:12 > 0:26:17silent world. It is heaving with life, literally straining and
0:26:17 > 0:26:22groaning to make this ferries slow journey across the rocks into the
0:26:22 > 0:26:26sea. -- very slow. The sound is actually inaudible to the human ear,
0:26:26 > 0:26:36just as the movement of the glacier is invisible to the eye - but speed
0:26:36 > 0:26:37
0:26:37 > 0:26:47them both up, and they come alive. Nobody is prepared for what happens
0:26:47 > 0:26:52
0:26:52 > 0:26:59next. Three or four enormous or could just surfaced vertically to
0:27:00 > 0:27:04breathe, carrying about -- towering above us. They made eye-contact
0:27:04 > 0:27:11with us and slid below the surface. Quite been moving moment to get
0:27:11 > 0:27:13that proximity to such wild animals. Frozen Planet took more than two
0:27:13 > 0:27:21years to film, so the crew inevitably needed lots of stories
0:27:21 > 0:27:25to keep each other entertained. Chris has extraordinarily
0:27:25 > 0:27:29discriminating ears. For example, he maintains that he can tell the
0:27:29 > 0:27:35difference between the sound of waves in the Pacific and waste in
0:27:35 > 0:27:39the Atlantic. The factors that we don't know if he is joking or not.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42-- the fact is. Like David Attenborough, Chris Watson has been
0:27:42 > 0:27:48just about everywhere, and is one of the few people ever to have
0:27:48 > 0:27:53stood at both poles. I'm very lucky and privileged to travel the world
0:27:53 > 0:28:00making sound recordings, but it is a great leveller and relief and
0:28:00 > 0:28:08sense of relaxation for me. Coming home to places like this and
0:28:08 > 0:28:18walking out border collie, listening to the sounds that are
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0:28:19 > 0:28:27If you want to contact us about any of the stories into night's
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0:28:31 > 0:28:36sure you join us for next week's programme. We will be investigating
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