01/09/2014 Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Welcome to a brand`new series of Inside Out. Ron Bradford. `` from

Bradford. Good evening and welcome to inside

out. Behind me is one of the great centres for the wool industry back

in its heyday. Later we will hear about attempts to stage a mini

revival in the textile industry in Yorkshire. First, we investigate the

fraudsters who want to get your credit card details. And find out

what happened when they do. In a couple of minutes, he has got

everything he needs to make exact copies of all these cards which she

can then using cashpoints. Also tonight: They are supposed to

be helping people quit smoking but just how safe are e`cigarettes.

If you consume on of these, you have no idea what you're putting into

your lungs. When Chip and pin machines were

introduced to shops, they were supposed to give us protection from

credit card fraud. But a Inside Out investigation has found criminal

gangs using specially adapted machines to steal your bank details

and then your cash. A reporter Jonathan Gibson has confronted one

such protest. For ten years now we've all been

using these ` chip and PIN machines. And the place I've come for dinner

is no different. Remember when we used to sign for

things in shops? The banks told us chip and PIN would be much safer.

Well try telling Julie Cleaver that. He said it had been declined but

then someone in America to money out of my bank account a couple of weeks

later. I'm talking to a man who knows all

about stolen numbers because he steals them and he's looking for a

new partner. and the PINs that go with them

for these cards here. In a couple

of minutes he's got everything he needs to make exact copies of all

these cards which he can then use in cashpoints and he says he's done

that already time and time again. She had her card cloned

at the garage. And there's the receipt,

what do you think? I think the encouraging thing to say

is that these frauds are very rare, we've only seen one recent instance

of them and we're seeing convictions in the Old Bailey in respect

of that at the moment. The industry's existing advice to

consumers is to protect your PIN. Well, with something like that

there's no point, is there? Well, I think the first reassurance

to give everybody when it comes to this type of fraud which is a very

rare type of crime is that even if you are the victim of it you'll

receive a full refund of all of your losses but we always advise

customers to check their statements. As all the pay as you go debit cards

are in my name, I can also check They've never left my wallet

but according to the transaction history they've been

emptied of cash in the Philippines. So either he's stealing

my money or someone he knows is. But he's also sent me

a second machine so He's taking cash out

in the Philippines I've also sent money to Canada

for the cables he's posted. How about I tell him I've busted

the machine? I'm hoping he'll ask me to send it

for repair and if he trusts me enough,

he might give me an address, though He's taken the bait,

telling me to send it to But this is one parcel I

plan to deliver by hand. I'm heading out of town ` 25 miles

along the freeway to Pickering. Is the guy we've been given

the address for the guy that's been on Skype, that we've been talking

to for, what, months now. We've put a tracker

inside the machine. Yep,

it's Marcus Montague and he's signed Montague, I've got a delivery

for you, mate, a delivery for you? No, I can't accept, I can't accept

if I don't know about it, you know. Actually, mate, I'm from the BBC,

BBC television in the UK, and I'd like to ask you a couple

of questions actually about your Chip and PIN fraud, mate,

do you know about it? I think you do because we've been

sending deliveries to your address Ah, don't go away, mate, we're

asking you a few questions here. No, no,

I'm not trying to run you over. We just need to know, mate, your

involvement with chip and PIN fraud? Who are you actually

involved with then? Who are you actually

working with then? Are you making a lot of money out

of it, are you making a lot Well, not many answers raised

a few more questions perhaps but whatever the case he wasn't

very keen to hang around, was he? I think that's probably the last

we'll see of him, at least for now. Verifone, which makes the machines,

is also the market leader. It decided

on a statement saying the fraud is a data very seriously, it works with

the authorities to uncover fraud all you want us to look into

something, contact us. Coming up on Inside Out: one woman's quest to

revive. `` to revive Yorkshire's traditional wool industry.

When e`cigarettes came along it seemed like a unique opportunity to

stop smoking. But how safe are e`cigarettes? In a television first,

we put them to the test, with some shocking results.

It provides the addictive nicotine hit,

I think in five or ten years time we are going to see a huge increase in

strokes and heart attacks. But e`cigarettes are hugely

controversial, I think some of them will ultimately

be found to be harmful. My suspicions are that it was a

contributor to my husband's death. Tobacco smoking is the UK's biggest

killer, accounting for But the smoking rate is falling all

the time and it is e`cigarettes taking a lot of the credit. It has

been estimated that in the last two years the number of people using

these has tripled. Newcastle actor Chris Connel is one

of them, having swapped smoking It will be about 18 months now. I

started off on quite a reasonable dose of nicotine and I have brought

it right down. I have never wanted a single cigarette since I started

doing it. There is not one moment when I have looked at somebody

smoking a cigarette, and that took me totally by surprise. Do you feel

healthier? Yes. I have smoked since I was 13 so I did not know that it

made me feel ill. Within a couple of weeks of vaping, I don't get as many

colds, I don't get out of breath as easily.

Even the most committed smokers are showing an interest.

Not getting on with your electronic cigarette, then? Oh, you don't like

it! What else do I do with it? But some medics have bigger

problems with e`cigarettes. If we have not found out the first

`` in the first two or three years of using e`cigarettes all the things

that bad about them, does that mean there is nothing bad about them

absolutely not. So the burning question is `

do people really know what they're Replacing the pack

of 20 is the bottle of liquid refill, with hundreds of

brands and flavours to choose from. I am at the local market to buy

some. I'll try the chocolate at 18mg

of nicotine, please. OK, I've bought two different brands

of e`liquid from the market, plus I've got a couple

of others from shops nearby. The contents of e`cigarettes is

a subject close to the heart This photo is five days before he

died. Glynis believes

an e`cigarette was responsible Glynis' husband, Terry,

died from lipoid pneumonia after oil was found in his lungs ` nine months

after he started vaping. The doctor got some of the liquid of

Terry to analyse it and discovered there was oil in it, so we started

to think there was a link there. When Terry died, he asked for an

inquest. Terry was a real fan of these, wasn't he? Yes, he told

everybody smoking, stop that and get one of these. It was like a walking

advertisement for e`cigarettes and he felt healthier. I thought, right,

OK. At the time I never gave it a second thought that anything like

that could happen. And this was all very rapid? Yes. 40 days from

actually going to the doctor to him dying.

The coroner investigating Terry Miller's death was unable to

confirm or rule out that the e`cigarette was a factor.

Of course, the e`cigarette industry will turn around and say, Terry was

a heavy smoker, you cannot pin it on this. If someone came to me and said

that did not cause your husband to have oil inside his lungs, they can

give me the answer to how the answer to how they all got there. But I do

not think anybody can give me that answer.

Smoking`related deaths are more common in the North of England

Fresh is very open`minded about developments like electronic

cigarettes. We need really robust monitoring and surveillance though

and we welcome research into the products.

What does this machine do? Separates the components of the solutions we

have got, and identifies them. OK. A couple of hours later,

the results are in. What have we found? If we have a

look at the first sample, we will see here we have got glycerol and

nicotine... And those are the three ingredients they declare? Yes. The

next two liquids look fine, too but on the final sample, Chris has an

something. This double spike is showing the presence of diacetyl. It

is a flavouring, but a sort of flavour so it is used in foods, in

margarines and popcorn and a number of other food products. It has this

property that although it is safe to eat it is not very safe to inhale.

Of course, that is exactly what you do read these. Exactly. So we found

that in the VIP butterscotch flavour, so we need to go to see

them. That particular chemical is associated with an unusual but well

established long condition. It has been inhaled in significant

quantities in people who have worked in popcorn manufacturing and in

those individuals it has caused very serious lung conditions, serious

enough to warrant a lung transplant. We bought the potentially harmful

e`liquid in the boutique`style VIP We've contacted VIP and they've said

they did know about this issue, after discovering diacetyl

in the butterscotch flavour through We are very disappointed that you

were able to buy one because we had done a withdrawal of the product

beforehand. Sadly, in the store you purchased it from there was a change

of store management. The product has now been completely withdrawn. You

knew it was harmful. Yes. Because of the small amount that would be

consumed, it was deemed that in the short term there would be no health

concerns. Long`term there could be but we discarded it was a withdrawal

that was needed, based on what our trade body told us.

The day after we contacted VIP about our findings

and arranged this interview, we were also able to order another bottle

of butterscotch flavour from one of their approved online retailers.

Would it surprise you to know that after we inform you about diacetyl

and you said it was withdrawn, we were still able to buy it online?

That does surprise me because you shouldn't have been able to at all

and if you would give us those details we will take it up. If we

can't rely on you to withdraw products successfully, how can we

rely on you when you say how safe it is? Our trade body is very robust

and this is our first issue in five years. We are very sorry it has

happened. We are investigating how it happened. We take this

exceedingly seriously. VIP butterscotch e`liquid is

no longer available to buy. You happened to find that particular

chemical in that particular product but there are thousands of products

and thousands of chemicals. For me, harm reduction is the best option.

So you are still an addict? Yes. Salts Mill is testament to the fact

that textiles used to play a huge part in Yorkshire's economy. From

the sheep of the Dales to the hundreds of Mills and thousands of

workers. But the rise of cheap foreign manufacturing meant that the

industry all but died. Now report has been to meet a woman who has set

the wheels of that industry spinning again.

Once upon a time, mills like this one in Farsley near

I'm here to meet a woman who refused to let the industry go.

When her family weaving business closed down, she kept their unique

archive of four generations of manufacturing, Textile designer

`` archive of four generations of manufacturing.

Susan Gaunt wanted to revamp British woollen cloth and take it upmarket.

I did not know what I was looking for but I knew that coming here to

this calm space, wonderful light, looking through fabrics, they would

be something that would help me. She went through every stage

in the production process, right down to the structure

of the fibres, trying to make British wool has a reputation for

being scratchy and itchy. It is to do with our climate, but it is all

down to processing. Susan worked out how short the

journey would be from the sheep in a It is a new cloth we have developed

using the skills in Yorkshire. Can every bit of the process be done

within 40 miles? I am going to find out. I am wondering what kind of

textile industry is still out there in that 40 miles. First the raw

First the raw ingredients.

You can't get more local than this Mule sheep bred in the

Their fleeces go to Bradford, home of the British Wool Marketing Board.

It's also the place where all the wool in the UK is sold at auction.

A few years ago, it was costing farmers more to rear their sheep

Trade for the last 18 months has been pretty good. Prices and

clearances have been very strong in the auction, and we are doing

It was just the germ of an idea. Wouldn't it be brilliant to get at

least one of these looms up and running again. And all up and

running with the 40 mile John. Everyone kept expecting it to work

straightaway and I said, this machine has not run for about 50

years. You need to treat it nicely and it will come back!

Getting hold of machinery parts was difficult.

But a bigger problem was finding someone

Enter Greg, one of the last skilled weavers in the business.

When I was asked to come down, I said, yes, I can do it. When I saw

it, I thought to myself, what have I let myself in for? I think, what can

I do to get this right? But I have done it.

Now it's running smoothly enough for Greg to give me a lesson in weaving.

The way we do it, what we have at the back here is a set of shafts.

Through those shafts we run threads. We have to open up those

threads to create a tunnel. Send the shuttle through the tunnel. As it

goes across, it is leaving behind that thread. I have a go? You can

indeed. Susan's idea is to use the Armley

cloth to promote Yorkshire textiles. With that in mind, she's showing it

to a local hotelier, who's put in I am a great champion of Yorkshire

and I believe we have a little`known secret here. And we have such

fabulous workmanship. So much of the time your products do not get used

locally. But perhaps someone will come and stay in the hotel and

realised that there is a textile industry in Yorkshire, and they will

ask more about the products. The Armley fabric is

a micro`project. Scaled up and woven

on a more industrial scale in Huddersfield, Susan's fabric is

being made into classic clothing. High street retailer Jaeger is using

it for a line of men's jackets, and a Leeds tailor has produced

a range for women. So,

from fleece to fabric to catwalk. The 40`mile fleece is centre stage

at a fashion show to promote Yorkshire's textiles to

an international market. The figures are increasing. There is

growth again. It is employing more people. It is crying out for skills.

In the overseas market, people can even name mills in Yorkshire where

people here probably don't even know were still producing and increasing

production, but it is the very top end.

So, a success story ` from scratchy Yorkshire sheep to a luxury fabric.

And the moment I've been waiting for ` my turn to try on a jacket.

Wow. Great colour. It is so nice to know I have designed a fabric that

people are wearing that is properly British wool, Yorkshire made, and we

could only do big here with the skills we have got. `` do it here

with these skills we have got. That is all for tonight. Make sure

you join us next week. We will be following the country's first Roma

special constable back to his homeland, and finding out what the

Tour De France has done for Yorkshire, plus we celebrate 65

years of our national parks. Hello, I'm Amy Garcia with

the latest from Look North.