06/02/2012 Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

A welcome to Inside Out. This week, how safe are your

children on the Internet. 18 age girl tells how online

Billy's made her life hell. Also, the rise of the bug. Could we

all be getting that itchy feeling as the bed but sees a huge rise in

the North. Prof will play the worst I have

seen so far. There were thousands of them. Probably the worst.

For most of us, the internet and technology like smart phones have

revolutionised the way we live our lives, from catching a bus to

arranging the night's entertainment. But when we see headlines about

online grooming and arrests of paedophiles for downloading

pornographic images, we must question how safe is this window on

the world particularly when it It was pure hell, I dreaded turning

on the computer. I would have a bad day at school and I would come home

and I would think, oh my goodness. If the internet is an integral part

of our lives but does it dictates how we live?

Technology is a part of people's lives. They are more savvy. It puts

you in the dark. There will be people I'm and two are not to they

said they are. In most ways, this 15-year-old is

typical when it comes to her use of the Internet and social networking.

When I meet up with her after school she has already spent

several hours online. Today it is harmless but for a while, life on

the Internet made her question if she wanted to live in the real

world. People would give me abuse and they

would not get to know me for who I am. After about one hour of having

an account I had about 10 messages from the same person, saying, kill

yourself and everybody hates you. So people were telling you descend

you actually thought about it? It is all well and good people

saying you will get over it, it cannot be that bad. You just think,

it is that bad, you do not know how I feel. So why did you not just go

outside? It is not a possibility. We are the

generation of the Internet. We are so dependent on it for everything.

The number of homes with an intimate collection has increased a

lot. How can we enjoy the benefits of technology without falling

victim to the pet falls? I will talk to you about being on line and

out to be safe. With 40% of children admitting they

have been bullied on line, schools are getting proactive. This man's

job is to educate children and teachers.

Hands up if you have a fear spake profile?

I like playing games and ban on Facebook a lot. My mum and dad were

the first person to be my friend. do not have the pass word I can

only go on with my parents's permission.

Unlike those 10 year-olds I am not particularly upon technology.

Tim has invited me for a lesson. We are seeing a big move towards

official recognition so you could be using a certain application and

you could be walking down the street and actually gathered

information from someone else. Literally by taking a picture of

somebody? That is what things are moving too.

This application finds photographs from 10's kitchen table, we get

just two maquettes. But in a town or city a could be hundreds. There

could be images of young children. 10 will show may have a simple

photo could be a map to a potential victim.

You can see the picture is applauded and through the map

system, it can see exactly where that photo was taken and exactly

how. We have had cases in the past where young people have been

followed or stalked by others because of the fact they have used

applications like this. The evidence is perversely all over

the internet and there are many sites which off for help and advice.

How can adults make a difference when they have less knowledge?

This family all go on line in different ways at different times

for different reasons. There are parental controls set up and

internet safety packages are used. They try to supervise most Web

activities. Now they have allowed their girls to have Facebook pace -

- pages, they are worried it is not enough.

If their friends have it, they are like, my friends have it, and you

are letting me down. I asked ten to come with us to

check out their network and to point out any potential dangers.

Show me, using your Facebook page, how many friends have you got.

Did you know she had that many friends? No, I was unaware of that.

Do you know of these people? Yes. Sometimes people might be somebody

different to who they say they are. The privacy settings are high but

all of those friends can access everything she posts. He asks them

to check of the friends and turns of his DPS. -- DPS.

If this finds another Nintendo, data could be exchanged between

them. So somebody could be in the garden chatting to her without...?

Yes, it will send information. You can restrict the photo data that

can be exchanged. Is all of this just scaremongering?

Not if you consider the amount of investigations carried out by

police. In the three years since this unit

was set up, the team's caseload has steadily increased with social

networking site say right hunting ground.

I would not expect my child to walk down the street and hand-out

photographs of themselves in a real environment, however, in the safety

of your own, that is what is happening. Children are meeting

people on line and not knowing who they are.

Even read the headlines and warnings, will this new generation

alter their habits or do they even recognise the dangers?

A out for coffee with friends, these teams will not ignore their

virtual palace. Although they get the risks, they admit they feel the

danger does not apply to them. I used friends on Facebook with

people you are not friends with? I do not think I know 500 people.

would not at somebody I did not know of.

You have the option to not let people see what you do not want

them to. I think mine is still open so anyone could type in my user

name and see all of my profile. Doesn't that worry you? I should

probably change that actually. They obviously have plenty of of

first-hand knowledge of the benefits and for Edgbaston -- the

benefits and pitfalls. I would never meet somebody who I

did not know who it was. There are meet up slots through this website,

but you meet people just because you like what they posted.

I would not just made to some random, but I would meet people at

a meet up. You know the precautions and the

issues but you kind of presume it will not happen to you.

I do not have of many concerns for this group but strangely, if they

need help, the person who will be on hand is this woman. She is

channelling her power -- her past experiences into new areas. She

gives much of her free time to helping other victims of internet

bullying. If you have concerns about your

children's security on social media sites, we have some expert advice

for you. Coming up: quieter than the grave. Decipher in a medieval

message that might shed light on the country's bloodiest ever battle.

They are supposed to be a thing of the past but bedbugs are back and

they are coming to a room near you. Figures seen by us suggest a 50%

rise in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and it is predicted to get worse.

Our correspondent has been to see one of the worst infestations the

pest controller has seen for years. In a terraced house in Leeds Ryan

Bedingfield is on the hunt for some very unwelcome visitors. And

they've found them. These tiny pests hiding from the light are bed

bugs. Once almost eliminated from our homes, numbers are now soaring

again. And this house is crawling with them. There is one, sitting

there. Another one in here, look. He has fed fairly recently. There

was another one here, crawling down the piping. You actually have a

five just in this small location. These bed bugs have been feeding on

the students in this house, sucking their blood and leaving them with

nasty swollen bitemarks. My eye was Wallen and you can see some marks

here. And here. And my back and my neck and my legs.

This is a serious infestation but this case is not unusual. Bed bugs

are back and with a vengeance. are very tricky to get rid of. They

are very flat and they can hide in very small places which makes it

very hard to find where they are This is the culprit in close-up.

Meet Cimex Lectularius, the common bed bug. One bug can lay 500 eggs

in a lifetime and they can live for months without feeding. At night

they pick up on the carbon dioxide breathed out by us during sleep and

crawl out to suck our blood. They are in here. This is a fantastic

hidings place. Here are the blood spots right in the corner of the

hinge. In you can see that. That is quite big. The bottom is riddled in

blood spots. It just shows the importance of doing a good

investigation. They hide in all sorts of places. Why are they in

the wardrobe? It is dark and out of the way. They could be hiding

anywhere in his wardrobe. Within these clothes, all within the bags.

If you take this back to a hotel, you will be taking them with you.

Cities are the bed bugs' favourite home. Here they can hitch a lift on

clothing, luggage and public transport into cafes, hotels,

workplaces and ultimately into your home. I have just found out there

is a bed but infestation here... It's five years since Inside Out

first revealed that bed bugs were back. Our research shows that since

then bed bug cases in the North are up by as much as 40%. That's a

conservative estimate. Pinpointing a precise figure is tricky because

official records don't have to be kept. Night to find out more about

them. Sheffield University is a leading bed bugs Research Centre.

They have been keeping thousands of them here for years. We have 10 to

20,000 here. We have a few different methods of feeding them.

They feed quite a lot on me. how many of these things are you

feeding a week? 5,000 to 10,000. Richard is the human equivalent of

a mobile bed bug burger van. Here's how he does it. I drop them on the

back of my hand and they do not miss an opportunity. That has not

taken long at all. Does that hurt? It does not hurt. They have to be

able to feed on you and get away with it without you realising. They

also have an anaesthetic in their saliva which helps to non-U. They

are all getting a little bit fatter. So this well up? There you go.

you do not mind doing this? I am just used to it.

There's a very serious point to all this. Their work here shows bed

bugs are developing an alarming resistance to pesticides. We keep

some strains that have been in culture for 40 years, so we know

what I'm on resistant bed bugs is. We can compare these cultures to

one's collected recently in London. These may be thousands of times

more resistant to the kinds of insects the sides people use today.

-- insecticides. None of this bodes well. I've come

to London to try to find out how widespread the UK bed bug problem

really is. David Cain is a bed bug specialist.

While estimates suggest an increase of 40 to 50% in the North, he says

the problem countrywide is a lot worse than that and it is our

modern well-travelled lifestyle that's to blame. From the data we

have seen, in certain cities there seems to be a 300% to 500% increase,

you on you. That is not an unreasonable figure. It is a

multiple cities around the UK. We are certainly seeing that if not

greater increases in most of the global cities as well.

David used the Freedom of Information Act to request London

Borough bed bug records. The result is a map showing corridors of

infestation running through the capital from international airports

and public transport thoroughfares. He's about to map the whole of the

UK in a similar fashion but his predictions beyond 2012 are gloomy.

One year's worth of tourism in a nine-week period brings one year's

worth of bedbugs. You super charge the population of bed bugs in the

host cities. At the end of the Games, 98% of all hotels in Sydney

had at least one infected room. Within nine months, 75% of all the

rentable accommodation in the whole of Australia had at least one

infected room. It spreads that quickly.

Back at this student house in Leeds, it is time to chuck out the

infested sofa and let the students meet their unwelcome housemates

face to face. These are some of the bedbugs that were collected from

your room. The ones that are very dark brown, that is the colour of

your blood. They're the ones that have been feasting on news. You

were attacked. Your room was infested. It was horrible. After

doing an inspection on the whole house, I would say it was one of

the worst I have seen. There was thousands of them. They were all

over the place. This house will probably need

repeat treatments to catch all the bugs. Cases like this for now are

reasonably easily dealt with by professional pest controllers. But

for how long? It is a long way off before we see

new classes of insecticides that are effective against bedbugs. They

are good at all evolving resistance as well. How long do you have

before they find the mutation that gets round whatever insecticide you

are using? It is a gloomy outlook. And now more than ever the advice

for a good night is to sleep tight and after checking every corner and

crevice in your house hope the bed bugs don't bite.

One of the most important battles ever fought on British soil took

place write here in North Yorkshire. On that brittle day in 1461, an

influential nobleman was killed and buried in a churchyard nearby. Now,

a team of archaeologists from the University of York were using new

techniques to decipher a puzzling inscription on his medieval tombs.

In a chilly winter 550 years ago, the Wars of the Roses tore through

the Yorkshire countryside. On Towton fields near Tadcaster they

lined up for what would become the bloodiest battle ever fought on

English soil. Archer against archer, cousin against cousin, steel

against steel. The battle lasted from dawn until

dusk in freezing blizzards. 28,000 men died here, and some slowly.

Countless foot soldiers were lost and many noblemen, too, were to

perish on that Palm Sunday. One of them, the Lancastrian Lord Dacre,

would fall in the thick of the action. Fighting in full armour

would have been extremely hard work. Hot and thirsty, he removed his

helmet and drank what could be his last drink.

Some accounts tell of a boy with a crossbow hiding in a burr tree.

Others say it was a lucky archer who spotted the vulnerable

commander. Either way, the end was the same. He fell dead, an arrow

lodged in his neck. The unlucky Lord ended up buried close to where

he fell. In the nearby village of Saxton, the churchyard is the last

resting place for the bones of both Lancastrians and Yorkists. They're

all equal now. The ground under my feet will be heaving with the dead

from courage here. Most of them did not have their names in the history

books, but this final resting place is his. Legend has he was buried

upright and on his horse. The tomb dates from the 15th

century and the years have been far from kind. The ancient inscription

has all but worn away and the last time the words were legible enough

to transcribe was probably in the Victorian era. No-one can be sure

how accurate the previous interpretations of the complicated

Latin actually were, and in recent times, archaeologists have never

attempted to record exactly what remains of the inscription. Until

now. A team from the University of York,

led by archaeologist Tim Sutherland, are hoping to make a definitive

record of the tomb's Latin inscription and confirm what was

actually chiselled into the stone 500 years ago. It basically says,

here lies Lords Baker, the Lancastrian night he thought for

Henry the sixth. And although it is the Latin text, it is an

abbreviated Latin text, so what is not just a simple case of reading

it often that is not just what it says. There are sizable chunks

missing as well. Record in this with millimetre precision for the

very first time will give us new information. The person that

originally transcribe this did at several hundred years ago and so,

do we believe them? As with everything else connected with the

battles, we actually think we know a lot more than we actually do know.

The team set up their equipment and prepare to take hundreds of

photographs of the top of the tomb. Before they can begin, though,

they'll need darkness and a lot of patience on a chilly night. We are

breaking a light over the surface to try and bring out the shadows

and taking photographs and multiple directions to then stitch it back

together and try and see as much detail as possible. You are using

shadows to try and see what is there? Yes. By holding a low light,

it is remarkable how much detail can come out. We are going to

combine all those photographs into one photograph and that will allow

us to record the inscriptions left on the tomb.

It is a real jigsaw of light but immediately the photographs offer a

tantalising glimpse of abbreviated Latin text. We can already see it

has probably lost two or three mm of depth on the surface over the

past hundred years or so. That will accelerate. The more it wears, the

more water will freeze. It is very important to do it now. Look at

that! You can see the really faint but in the middle. We are already

finding things on it and that we did not know were there. There

appears to be some graffiti. Probably 200 years old! And you can

really see the effect of it now. is almost impossible to think you

cannot see this in daylight! It is showing up so nicely.

The team work through the night, managing to faithfully record every

It is just over a month since they photographed the tomb, and here at

the University of York, they are starting to piece together some of

the date of. And initial analysis quickly shows that the weathering

of the tomb's lettering is far worse than anyone thought. It is

pretty obvious that a lot of the stone has gone and it is extremely

difficult to read whole words or reconstruct the entire inscription

as it once was. That is just because it has just whether the way.

You are talking about losing a significant amount of the surface?

Exactly. Presumably, when this was fresh, when it was right from the

Maze and's hands. It would have been as smooth as this table top.

This is just the start. We have been in the field and collected the

data and put the data in a computer. Now we have to spend a long time

manipulating all the images and interpreting every single line and

crack on the surface of that tomb and what that will mean is, we will

come out with the most likely interpretation. That is all we can

do after 550 years of wear. I am not sure if we will be able to

reconstruct word for word the entire inscription, but we will be

able to identify key words, hopefully names, the date we can

probably polite. We need to just spend time comparing what we can

see with what the antiquarians 200 years ago thought they could see

and find out, going letter by letter, or in some cases, stroked

by stroke, to see the differences between them and try and puzzle out

what it says. Once the letters are pieced together, Latin experts will

have their say on the exact meaning of the words they make. A slow and

laborious process, but Tim's convinced it's worth all the effort.

This monument will only exist in this manner for a certain amount of

time before it crumbles into dust. It is exposed to all the elements.

We have just caught best in the nick of time so we can capture this

moment and the text. That is important.

For the moment, the exact inscription on Lord Dacre's tomb

may remain a perplexing puzzle but the archaeologists have managed, at

the very least, to cast light on a medieval message that was once lost

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