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putting forward very pragmatic proposals for about separating the | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
investment and the detailed activities in balance, financial | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
transactions, but what Boris Johnson says he is, I'm sorry to | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
use a French word, but it is at cliche. This could all lead to one | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
interesting an actual contest this year. Onto the weather and Sara | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
Thornton is here. A great day today Towards the countryside but could | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
see grass frost as temperatures under the clear skies start to fall | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
into single figures so a chilly start for some of us and also | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
patchy drizzle to come through first thing and you can see for the | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
majority, clear skies for some time, cloud makes its way end tomorrow | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
morning from the West but temperatures as low as four degrees | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
and some drizzle making its way towards the West. Skirting towards | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
the south and the majority will not see this and in the afternoon, | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
bright spells coming through. Temperatures in the mid-teens, 14 | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
degrees, and through the next few days, we will continue with this | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
mild feel, temperatures above where they should be, Tuesday seeing the | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
peak and brighter spells sometimes. No problems with Frost, and it is a | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
taste of spring. That's all from us for now. We're back at 10.15pm. | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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Until then, enjoy the rest of your It has been a cracking day in the | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
sunshine, Aberdeenshire had 15 degrees but in Glasgow, just seven | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
degrees. And the cloud will spread across the north-west and that | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
moves south east tonight, taking rain with it. On the once it | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
reaches the drought parts of south- east England, later in and out, | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
barely enough to dampen the ground. Ahead of that, clear weather in | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
southern England, allowing for some ground frost in places but the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
temperature is recover. Elsewhere, it is a man start to Monday but | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
cloudy with more rain for Northern Ireland, heavier in western | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Scotland and that spreads southwards tomorrow. Tomorrow | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
afternoon, 3pm, across northern England and into the Midlands, more | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
rain and this will be a brighter slot perking things up across East | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Anglia and the south-east and the temperatures were left. In the far | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
south-west and across much of Wales, Wicky plenty of cloud. Damn, | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
drizzly in places with drier slots. Another band of rain moving across | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Wales for the evening. As that clears from Northern Ireland it | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
leaves behind a lot of cloud, for the damp weather and rain in | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
western Scotland. In north-east Scotland, it warms up again and | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
there will be a gusty, blustery wind. Very bad on Monday night and | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
on Tuesday, cloud in the West, but brighter weather further east. | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 77 seconds | :03:11. | :04:28. | |
Cornwall. The dramatic coastline in the North... | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
Sheltered bays in the south. In between, beautiful countryside. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
This county has it all. But there is a side to Cornwall you | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
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really do get to see. I am going to be getting access to | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
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a new tunnel that could bring the industry back to life. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
It years ago, a naval frigate was sucked down there to create an | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
artificial reef, and since then has been home to 250 marine species. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
There is a problem - this. I will be going under the waves to | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
find out what is happening to the Whilst I am exploring beneath the | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
waves, John is looking into what could be looking in our favourite | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
meat. We all know about the dangers of | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
food poisoning from undercooked meat up. Our fondness for chicken | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
has led to increased concerns about the risk. Is anything being done to | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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make the food we eat the saver. They really are the crudest of | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
animals, but she'd like this are at risk because of the viruses that | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
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have spread across Europe and have Cornwall, the longest coastline of | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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any county in the UK. The under my feet, why is a rich, | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
natural resource, networks of tunnels belonging to 2,000 disused | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
mines Riddle the rock beneath Cornwall. For centuries, men have | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
children as young as 12 worked in the darkness. As deep as 3,000 ft | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
underground, they were chipping away at precious minerals, as well | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
as keeping their families fed. They were supplying the world with | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
2:00am. Until, in the late 1,800, tin deposits were discovered around | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
the globe. The price plummeted, and they could | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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not compete. Today, the remnants star the Cornish landscape. 100 | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
years after the Cornish mines closed, one is hanging on. | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
This became the last 109 in Europe. It survived until 1998. Alan | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Reynolds worked there. Allen, while the mines were closing | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
across Cornwall, headed his stay open? -- how did this stay open? | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
The guys that were working here, it was their job, their life. We took | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
pay cuts, that kept them going. Is there any left under ground? | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
There is, there is an incredible tonnage left on the ground. When it | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
closed, there were 200 -- to 0.5 million tonnes still sitting there. | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
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There is probably as much left to 950 million cubic feet of metal was | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
removed from the site. The labyrinth of tunnels created was | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
enormous. Below a surface area of two square miles was a network of | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
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tunnels 400 miles long. That is the distance from here until yorked. | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
Each of these coloured shades is a tunnel where the miners worked. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Alan Buckley moved to Cornwall and became a miner, but even in his | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
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retirement he cannot shake it off. OK. I'm all set. Try your light. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Yep, it's working. Good, good. Super job. Right, so | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Matt Baker from Countryfile is leaving the surface and going | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
underground. Round here. Yep. Oh, OK. Here we | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
are. Thank you very much indeed. We're going down here, then? Mm-hm. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
That's a weird feeling! Straight down there, it just drops away. How | :09:31. | :09:41. | |
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There's not much of a view. Just That is a strange feeling. Alan! | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
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They're tiny passageways, aren't they? Yeah. They are a bit narrow. | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
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I thought they'd be much bigger And thinking back to the early | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
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miners with a little candle, hacking away at this rock. 'We | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
eventually reach a stope, 'a vast cave created as the miners removed | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
the ore.' When was this all taken out? | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
The very top of the mine, over there, was taken out as early as | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
the 1660s, in the records. about 50 feet above us, through | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
there, it was being stoped out in the early 18th century, almost 300 | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
years ago. The fascinating thing about this is not just the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
continuity in time but the families. The same families worked in these | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
stopes over generations. Was it really hard work? | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
The deeper you go, the hotter it gets, so it's obviously very, very | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
hot down there in places. The oxygen is low so the humidity is | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
high and, of course, you're working physically. I don't think there's a | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
harder job in the world than mining. How did it feel when you knew it | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
was going to come to an end? Oh, gutted. I think everybody did, | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
the whole community did, not just the miners. Everybody was really | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
gutted. We organised a march led by the town bands and it was good, but | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
it was also very emotional. There were old ladies in the doorways, | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
crying. Their families had worked there for generations and they just | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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couldn't believe it that, you know, it had actually come to an end. | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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'But today, tin prices are five times higher 'than when South | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Crofty closed. 'There's a chance the mine might not be condemned to | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
darkness forever.' The prospectors are back and I'm on my way to meet | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
them, half a mile down this tunnel. 'But first, John is suited up in | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
Lincolnshire, 'investigating a growing concern for anyone who | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
likes chicken.' In the UK, we have an enormous appetite for chicken. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Around 850 million birds like these are served up every year, and with | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
this massive consumer demand, food safety is the top priority. Poultry | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
is the world's fastest-growing meat sector. | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Global consumption has nearly quadrupled since the 1960s, but | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
with an expanding industry comes a serious problem. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
All chickens, whether they're reared in sheds like this one or in | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
outdoor systems, are prone to picking up campylobacter, a type of | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
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bacteria that can then travel from the farm to the kitchen. 'The | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
result can make you seriously ill 'and that's what happened to Paul | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Radcliffe 'after a night out.' How did you get it? | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Myself and a number of friends were dining at a restaurant and we all | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
ate the same thing and a couple of days after, we started to feel | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
unwell. And what were the symptoms? | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
I started to get a fever, high temperature, and then, that evening, | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
I got stomach cramps, which felt pretty severe at the time and then | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
it was acute diarrhoea for about two weeks after that. | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
Could you actually pin it down to what had caused it? | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Everyone who had it had had the chicken liver pate, so it looks | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
likely to be that. When it comes to fears over food | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
poisoning, we're probably more familiar with salmonella, but cases | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
of that are falling every year. Meanwhile, campylobacter incidents | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
are on the increase. Hundreds of thousands of us go down with it | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
every year in the UK and most cases are like Paul's - very nasty at the | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
time, but over in a week or so. But in some rare, extreme cases, | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
campylobacter can be deadly. 'About 80 people die every year, 'so I've | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
come to the University of Liverpool's veterinary school, | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
'where Professor Tom Humphrey is Is there more campylobacter around | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
than ever before? There is, John. Last year was a | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
record year. There were 75,000 reported cases, which means | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
probably about 700,000 cases in the UK in total. | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
And what's causing it? Why is there so much of it? | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
There are a number of ways we can catch it, from unpasteurised milk, | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
for example, drinking or bathing in contaminated water, contact with | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
pets that have got diarrhoea, but the biggest vehicle across the EU, | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
according to surveys, is chicken. Does it affect chickens as well? | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
It doesn't. That is what makes it so much more difficult to control, | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
because it's in the chicken gut as well but it does the animal no harm. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
You find it in pigs, you find it in sheep, you find it in cows... | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
And they're all OK? 'When the Food Standards Agency | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
tested samples of chicken 'on sale in the shops, they found that two- | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
thirds were contaminated. It's not clear if levels of bacteria are | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
increasing. We do know we're eating more chicken 'and the odds of | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
getting campylobacter are up. It starts off on the farm, and that's | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
a big challenge for chicken producers like Graham Porter. Bio- | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
security is their best defence. This is all pretty familiar to me | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
on farms, you know, this disinfectant, the protective | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
clothing and wellies, but how does it especially help in the fight | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
against campylobacter? Campylobacter's everywhere. It's | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
ubiquitous. And most diseases, John, are brought in on your feet. We | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
wear these overclothes so we don't bring things in on our clothes and | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
we also put our hoods on... Put these on as well? | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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..to keep it out of our hair! Shall we go in? Yes. This is quite | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
a sight, isn't it? How many chickens altogether are on this | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
farm? There's about 250,000. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
So you must be concerned about the rising levels of campylobacter, | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
then? Yes, John. We're doing all we can, | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
and all we can is basically not introducing the bacterium into the | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
house. The chicks arrive clean, we use clean feed and we make sure we | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
have clean water. Because you're dealing with an invisible foe, | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
aren't you? Absolutely, which is always | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
terrifying. Things you can't see are more worrying than things you | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
can. Despite all the precautions, | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
campylobacter still gets into the sheds and into the chickens. It's | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
estimated 70% of indoor flocks carry the bacteria. By the time | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
they reach the processing plants, campylobacter could be anywhere. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
1.6 million birds go through this factory alone every week. | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
What are the problems that campylobacter poses in a chicken- | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
processing plant like this one? Campylobacter is in the gut of the | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
bird, so it's when we're eviscerating the bird that there's | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
a risk area. Taking the insides out? | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
Yes, but also potentially on the feathers. We have systems in place | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
for any processing plant designed to reduce and deal with any hazards | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
there might be. Campylobacter is one of those areas, one of those | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
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risks that we're not succeeding at The war against campylobacter is | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
being fought all the way to the kitchen. If the bacteria manages to | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
get through the farm and through the meat-processing plant, the | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
final defence is with whoever's doing the cooking. At home, the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
responsibility lies with us. When we eat out, we rely on others to | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
cook our food safely. Proper cooking kills campylobacter, but | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
the Food Standards Agency is worried that the message isn't | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
being taken seriously enough, 'especially in some parts of the | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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In recent years, there's been a huge increase 'in the number of | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
outbreaks and the majority of those' can be traced back to | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
undercooked chicken liver pate. I'm sure this has been prepared | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
properly. This is perfectly safe. Yes, yes. Unfortunately, there | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
tends to be a trend with chefs to flash-fry the chicken livers so | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
that the inside is undercooked, they seem to like the nice, softer | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
texture, but the problem is the undercooking. You're not going to | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
kill off the campylobacter bacteria. How much of a priority is | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
campylobacter to the agency? Campylobacter is one of the top | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
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priorities for the Food Standards It's now pretty clear that the | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
danger of being affected by campylobacter goes hand-in-hand | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
with eating meat. And the boom in demand for chicken has certainly | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
added to the problem. So what can be done to try to stop the risk? | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
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That's what I will be asking later All across the UK farmers are | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
attending to their lambs but some of the new arrivals have been | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
affected by abide as which can have a devastating impact. There are | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
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images in this film you may find distressing. We have got about 750 | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
ewes. They will lamb on the farm. It is getting to be a busy time of | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
year. We want them all to be in very good health as they give birth | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
and one of the things we do is vaccinate them against areas a | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
bacterial diseases. That in unity goes through their blood into their | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
colostrum, the first milk that the Lambs drink. That protection will | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
go through to the Lambs. Healthy sheep are productive sheep. While | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
this vaccination protects against most common diseases, I am | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
concerned that a new virus that has recently hit the UK could affect my | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
livestock. It has the serious symptoms in sheep, cattle and goats. | :20:23. | :20:33. | |
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The main one is deformed lambs and caffs. I am on my way to East | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
Sussex which has recently had an outbreak of this bias. I want to | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
know what impact it is having. Thank you for letting me come to | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
visit you. You have a lovely flock of lambs but you have been struck | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
by this buyers? Yes, we have lost about 40 lambs. So many have died | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
or been born dead or we have had to put them down. Have you ever seen | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
anything like it before? Never. I find the whole thing most | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
distressing. I have been lambing sheep for 50 years and have never | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
had anything like it. Financially it will be quite devastating but | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
that is the wave farming goes. could just be the beginning of | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
something that could be quite horrendous right at the start of | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
the farming season. It sends a shiver down my spine. Horrible. It | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
is not easy having to deal with the victims of this spiders. They | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
suffer from the areas deformities and often have to be put down. This | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
contract climber knows best or only too well but some lambs she has | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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delivered have had that. There were triplets. One was very deformed and | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
born dead. This one has come a minor deformity. It has a very | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
strange job, it appears to be parrot mouth where its job does not | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
quite come together. The Jozsef should meet but they are not so | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
presumably suppling problems? -- the jaws should meet. Yes, suckling | :22:30. | :22:39. | |
problems. Best lamb has quite deformed front legs than do not | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
straighten up properly. I can see that. It has problems walking? | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
Doing fine but smaller than his sibling. When you are Lamming are | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
you they should be presented properly with their front feet | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
first. With deformities it must be really weird. A wet the first lamb | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
I delivered I wondered what it was and I thought I was dealing with a | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
breach but then I find the head. You have two very carefully deliver | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
these lambs from news and it is not easy. You do your absolute best and | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
there is nothing we can do about these lambs. There is no saving | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
them and it is really hard. Around 1,000 farms have been affected in | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
Europe come up over 60 in the UK. I am keen to find out how it has | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
spread and what precautions I can take. I am spreading -- heading to | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
North cookware and number of other cases have been discovered. I have | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
come to meet a veterinarian who has been dealing with the virus since | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
it first hit our shores in January. Where did this by his come from? | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
seems to have originated in northern Europe, we think it was | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
spread by midges and must have arrived here around | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
September/October. The problem comes when pregnant animals are | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
infected by the animals and particularly when they are affected | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
in the first third of the pregnancy. The virus can have devastating | :24:28. | :24:38. | |
:24:38. | :24:38. | ||
effects on the Thetis at that stage. -- the foetus. Because the sheep | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
has a five month pregnancy and the cow has a nine-month pregnancy we | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
would not expect to be seeing problems for four months after we | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
:24:57. | :24:58. | ||
see the problems in the sheep. farmer, of what should we be doing? | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
Do we have to notified the Government? Are there movement | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
restrictions? You are not legally obliged to notify anybody but it is | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
important that we know where this disease is, we get is spreading and | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
who is likely to see it next. Contact your local veterinarian. | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
There are no movement restrictions because we think it is spread by | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
midges, we do not think there is animal to animal restrictions so | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
there is no point in movement restriction. A new will not know if | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
these animals have the virus until lambing starts. It is a concern for | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
the farmer because he is used give birth in the fields. How difficult | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
could it be for you? I lamb them out in the field so it is difficult | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
because you have to have straight legs to get them to come out. I do | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
not know what is going to happen. I worry about it. The idea of having | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
to leave out you not knowing what will happen. They do not warrant | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
expensive caesarian operations. If I have difficult ones in the middle | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
of the night they will probably have to be destroyed. I really hope | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
his flock escape the virus. While there is a risk to sheep, cattle | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
and goats, what about humans? is no evidence that this will | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
affect humans. Because it is a new buyer is we cannot say | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
categorically but we do not think it will affect people. With blue | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
tongue we vaccinated quickly, how quickly will there be a vaccination | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
for this? My guess is that you are looking at a 12 month delay minimum, | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
maybe two years. A It is early days and it will be a while before we | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
know the true extent of this. I just hope that livestock farmers do | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
not get hit too hard and that I escaped this terrible virus with my | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
:27:22. | :27:22. | ||
animals. Earlier we heard how the cases of a type of food poisoning | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
caused by cooking -- eating undercooked chicken are on the rise | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
:27:36. | :27:36. | ||
but is there more we can do to make the food we eat safer? Worldwide, | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
this is the number one food born bacteria. It is the most common | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
cause of food poisoning in the UK. Cases are on the increase. It is | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
more commonplace in poultry which accounts for almost half of all the | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
meat we eat in the UK. There are calls for a tougher action to fight | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
this out deer. It poses a cost to our health and a huge cost to the | :28:05. | :28:14. | |
economy. That is the opinion of this food safety expert. 300 to 400 | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
people per year fall ill with this bounteous. They take time off work, | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
some will need medical attention, they go into hospital, some will | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
have long-term medical complications. Can we put a price | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
on it? The problem is underestimated but we can say half | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
a billion to start with. The feeling is a lot of this bacterial | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
infection is preventable but not enough people are paying attention | :28:47. | :28:55. | |
to it. There is so much uncertainty about bet that it will not be a | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
rapid response we get but as law Hall. The poultry industry is | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
funding research but until an answer such as an effective vaccine | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
is found chicken farmers like this one say there is always so much | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
they can do. We are hoping some bright spark will come up with a | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
solution. We hope there is a solution out there, we just have to | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
find it. Is it possible to her magically seal a place like this so | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
that nothing could get in during the length of a bird's life? | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
idea is technically correct but one thing we would lose his welfare. | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
The minimum we need to see the Chequers is twice per day and the | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
more attention you get them the better they perform. -- CD check- | :29:46. | :29:53. | |
ins. What about that seemed like that for backs and Ella? That is | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
what we are hoping for it. Perhaps solutions can be found in the | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
processing plants? In the United States carcasses are washed with a | :30:05. | :30:13. | |
chlorine based rents to tell of ITF but that practices banned here | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
because of EU regulations. There are certain techniques in place | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
right now that we are trying. You could freeze the Cheka, that would | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
kill it but most people want to buy their chicken fresh. Perhaps so per | :30:28. | :30:38. | |
:30:38. | :30:39. | ||
gelling the outside of the skin. Or eating ate like in milk. Washing | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
the bird as well. The demand for check-in seems to get bigger every | :30:44. | :30:51. | |
year, will it ever get easier to control this bacteria? We are | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
learning more about it all the time. We are doing everything we can to | :30:56. | :31:05. | |
make it as safe product that everyone can enjoy. Research into | :31:05. | :31:15. | |
:31:15. | :31:16. | ||
bad Teale resistant check-ins is about to get under way in Scotland. | :31:16. | :31:22. | |
-- bacterial resistant chickens. Every link in the chain must play | :31:22. | :31:29. | |
its part, that includes us. What time the golden rules to staying | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
safe? To cook the chicken thoroughly so that the juices run | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
clear. Despite Tiare spreads very easily around the kitchen so good | :31:39. | :31:45. | |
hygiene practices in the home are essential. You need to wash your | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
hands thoroughly once you have handled any chicken or raw meat. | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
You need to wash utensils and the chopping board but one practice we | :31:54. | :32:02. | |
would really like to stamp out is the washing of check-in at home. -- | :32:02. | :32:12. | |
:32:12. | :32:13. | ||
By washing it, you're potentially spreading those germs that have | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
been on the chicken around the kitchen, on two surfaces and food | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
that may not be cooked. That is the problem. The chances are you're | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
:32:32. | :32:36. | ||
going to come down with a nasty In the end, we have to remember | :32:36. | :32:42. | |
that bacteria like campylobacter, are all around us all the time. | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
Pressure is mounting to try to reduce the risks, but in the | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
meantime, all of us who enjoy eating chicken have to play a our | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
part by making sure that campylobacter it is beaten before | :32:54. | :33:04. | |
:33:04. | :33:10. | ||
Beautiful cliffs and craggy calls line Cornwall's shores. I have been | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
deep beneath the land in a disused tin mine. At 300 ft down there I am | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
about to enter a new drilling chamber where the search for | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
precious metals has begun again. It is from these depths that a team of | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
miners and prospectors are exploring what is buried in the | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
surrounding rock. Gareth is a geologist in charge of the team. | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
What is it you're looking for. We're looking for 10, as well as | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
copper, zinc and other metals. That the is what the team behind us are | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
busy with? That is right. We are drilling into | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
the rock to find samples and Seeboard is there. | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
And it is a diamond drill? For yes, if I show you a drill bit, | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
it is circular, and impregnated in it are different diamonds. | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
That will cut in two the rock and we get a tube of rock down the | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
middle, and after each three metres we pull the rug out, empty boat | :34:12. | :34:18. | |
into a box and see what is in it. We have lots of different minerals | :34:19. | :34:25. | |
here, Garnett, and sometimes within these we will set -- see a mineral | :34:25. | :34:35. | |
:34:35. | :34:39. | ||
load. So far, at the diamond drill has | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
cut 75,000 ft of core and will do again before the project is | :34:42. | :34:47. | |
finished. All of this ends up in this warehouse. | :34:47. | :34:54. | |
Won't see what we have here. Nice minerals. We can look at our | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
portable X-ray analyzer, and it will tell us what elements are in | :34:57. | :35:07. | |
:35:07. | :35:09. | ||
there and how much. OK, better get out the way then, eh? Yes, if you | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
stand behind me. Let's have a look, see what's there. | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
We've got 2.5% copper, about 4% zinc and almost 1% tin. Copper, | :35:15. | :35:21. | |
zinc and tin are the main minerals here. Those are the main minerals | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
we're mining. There's lots of smaller, more precious metals and | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
more valuable metals that we find here as well. Things like tungsten. | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
Indium, which has got quite a high value. It's used in modern | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
technologies, flatscreens, things like that. We've even found small | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
traces of gold and silver. Have you? | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
We have. Very small amounts, but we might be able to take some of it, | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
yeah. All of this information then is entered into a computer system. | :35:40. | :35:50. | |
We'll take all the zones of mineralization In a big 3D model | :35:50. | :36:00. | |
:36:00. | :36:03. | ||
and Seaborough we can call mining. 'Investing �60 million over the | :36:03. | :36:06. | |
next three years, 'this mine is hoping to pick up where it left | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
off.' It would be a huge boost to the area. | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
Everyone you talk to locally, you say you work at South Crofty, "Oh, | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
when's it opening? What's going on?" There is a sense of real | :36:15. | :36:22. | |
excitement. Modern technology is now driving | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
the price of precious metals through the roof and it could well | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
breathe new life into the old tin mines of Cornwall. In a moment, | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
Ellie will be going in search of hidden gems of her own beneath the | :36:32. | :36:34. | |
sea. But first, here's the Countryfile weather forecast for | :36:34. | :36:44. | |
:36:44. | :36:46. | ||
Our late winter weather has had more of a lick and feel of early | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
spring about it, recently. Especially on Thursday. Tony Watson | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
took this picture in Warwickshire, and it is here on Thursday in that | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
sunshine the temperature got close to 19 Celsius, the warmest February | :37:00. | :37:07. | |
day since 1992. -- 1998. This week there will not be much sunshine, | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
but very mild where the sun comes out. On the flipside, where we meet | :37:13. | :37:19. | |
the rain, -- where we need at the rain, the drought-hit parts of | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
central and eastern England, hardly any on offer. This weather front, | :37:24. | :37:29. | |
going into Tuesday, will introduce some vet -- mild oxygen once again. | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
Tomorrow, another weather system brings rain to Northern Ireland and | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
western Scotland, brisk winds, moving south during the day. | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
Through the afternoon in Scotland it will West, damp in Northern | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
Ireland. In north-eastern Scotland, it brightens up and will become | :37:47. | :37:53. | |
mild, but gusty winds. Rain moving down across northern England into | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
the Midlands will stop ahead of that there will be brighter | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
conditions, perking up across East Anglia into the south-east staying | :38:02. | :38:07. | |
at rather grey and damp across Wales and the far south-west. The | :38:07. | :38:13. | |
weather system moving again on Monday night, weakening when it | :38:13. | :38:20. | |
reaches the areas that needed most. Temperatures around the Moray Firth | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
could hold up into double figures, very unusual for the time of year | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
on Tuesday night. We have high pressure close by, but a rent that | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
we are bringing up this very mild air. Not everyone will get the same | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
degree of warmth and sunshine, because in to the west there will | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
be lots of cloud, Phil fog, patchy rain and drizzle, especially in | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
western Scotland. Further south, there will be sunnier breaks in the | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
east. This is where temperatures will climb in the sunshine. 17, | :38:54. | :39:00. | |
possibly 18 Celsius is possible. If we get there, in Scotland on | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
Tuesday that will be significant. The temperature we record -- | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
temperature records for February in Scotland is near 18 stealthiest in | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
Aberdeen. This year we have an extra day, it is the 29th on | :39:15. | :39:22. | |
Wednesday, but it will hardly be any different than Tuesday. It will | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
be mild on Wednesday, but we're not expecting the same giddy heights | :39:27. | :39:33. | |
the day before. On Thursday, more of the same, the weather fronts are | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
still trying to come in. Ahead of that, still cloud coming into the | :39:37. | :39:44. | |
West, drizzle, brighter brakes on high ground and still mild. Another | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
weather system running through the South possibly going into Friday. | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
By a lot of uncertainty about the end of the week, this next weather | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
system could come in late Friday into the weekend. For Friday, wet | :39:56. | :40:03. | |
weather for a time, and the South variable weather elsewhere. It will | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
be warm coming back, but for rain in the gardens, where it is most | :40:07. | :40:17. | |
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The Cornwall has got it on. Sleepy villages, beautiful beaches and | :40:48. | :40:58. | |
:40:58. | :41:13. | ||
oppressive clefs. I have been discovering its rich coastline. | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
Mount a Just round the coast from here, offshore at the bottom of the | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
sea, lies a wreck. But it's not just any old wreck, because it's | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
become one of our most significant marine life dive sites. I want to | :41:23. | :41:25. | |
experience it for myself. 'Paul Cox from the National Marine Aquarium | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
'is going to bring me up to speed with HMS Scylla.' So, tell me about | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
the back story of this wreck then. She was launched in 1968 and went | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
into service. She was in service for 25 years. Served in the cod | :41:36. | :41:38. | |
wars with Iceland, also was involved in hurricane relief in | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
Cayman Brac. She was then decommissioned in 1993. Must have | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
been a spectacular sight, the day that she was put down. The crowds | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
that appeared on the day were phenomenal. Thousands of people | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
lined the cliffs and it generated so much attention. Even now, when | :41:51. | :42:01. | |
:42:01. | :42:04. | ||
you talk about it locally, people remember that day. 'A specialist | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
diving team is taking us out to the site, 'but I must admit I'm a | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
little apprehensive.' I remember when I first learned to dive years | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
ago, it was freezing cold and it was snowing. There were a few wreck | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
items to look at under the water. I came away thinking, "Why would you | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
ever do this?" Then I discovered marine life, went diving in the | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
real world and had my lightbulb moment. I've got that same sense of | :42:23. | :42:25. | |
trepidation today,. It's perishingly cold. It may look | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
beautiful, but it's bitter. We're going to look at a wreck, which has | :42:29. | :42:39. | |
:42:39. | :42:40. | ||
got that slightly sinister feel to It's not long before we're floating | :42:40. | :42:49. | |
directly above the wreck. There we go. Rarr! I'm in. So it's obviously | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
very good for diving here. What about the marine life on this new | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
reef? When you put something like this in, life just attracts to it | :42:57. | :42:59. | |
and you get new colonisation. That's what we've been interested | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
in in the seven years since Scylla's been there. Watching that | :43:02. | :43:04. | |
colonisation and how it progresses and how animals out-compete each | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
other for space on the reef. it's not just a jolly today. | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
There's some bad news going on down there, isn't there? Yeah, we've had | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
reports that there's a net, some reports before Christmas that a net | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
had become attached to the reef. So we're going to have a look at that | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
today and see what kind of damage that's causing to the animals | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
living in and around the reef. what kind of net is it that's | :43:29. | :43:35. | |
caught down there? It's a fine monofilament. I've got a bit of it | :43:35. | :43:42. | |
down here that some divers removed previously. Oh, right. You can see | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
it's really tangly. I mean, if you can imagine it. Put it on here and | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
it just kind of snags. Catches on everything. Actually I can't get | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
that off. Oh, my word. There we go. What marine life have you seen | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
caught up in this? We've seen several fish, some crabs, lots of | :43:58. | :44:01. | |
crabs just kind of caught onto it with their claws. Also a cormorant. | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
There was a cormorant that had obviously been diving for food and | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
had got itself entangled in it. It's important that it gets taken | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
off? Yeah, as soon as possible. Also the diving season's coming up. | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
We don't want any divers getting entangled, so we need to get it of. | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
So, work to be done. Yeah. Paul and his team have counted almost 300 | :44:17. | :44:27. | |
:44:27. | :44:33. | ||
different species on the wreck. I First of all, Paul's taking me to | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
one of the only parts of the reef that isn't engulfed in netting. And | :44:38. | :44:47. | |
:44:48. | :44:50. |