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widespread drug abuse and security failings at one of Britain's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Road to nowhere - anger as thousands of Motability claimants | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
I think the most frustrating thing is actually how | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
hard I have worked to walk, to go back to work, to live my life | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
and I feel like I have been penalised for that. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Police investigate an attempted murder tonight after a man is shot | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Why the Senior Service is looking for seniors | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
And wanted - a sweet-toothed taster sought for a job | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
It may sound an easy job but it's not as | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
They're regarded as a lifeline for hundreds of thousands | :00:50. | :01:06. | |
with long-term health problems and disabilities. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Some 620,000 people use the motability scheme | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
which provides leased vehicles, mostly funded by the Department | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
for Work and Pensions, costing in the region of ?55, | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
But applicants for the scheme are now losing their allowance, | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
and handing back their cars, at a rate of 800 a week. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Many who previously qualified for them under | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Disability Living Allowance are no longer eligible under | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
the new Personal Independence Payment, or PIP. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
So far, some 47,000 customers have already had | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Leah DeBus lost her leg in a motorbike accident five years ago. | :01:42. | :01:57. | |
She has a prosthetic but finds it too uncomfortable | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
She used to have a motobility car but had to hand it back after her | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
The decision was that I'm not entitled to any | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
With no mobility benefit, Leah lost the ?55 a week | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
She can no longer work because she can't | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
get there and is now totally dependent on benefits. | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
I had to turn down the new job that I had managed | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
to get, I had been for an interview, due to the location I couldn't get | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
I think the most frustrating thing is | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
actually how hard I have pushed myself throughout this last five | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
years, how hard I have worked to walk, to go back to work, | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
to live my life and I feel like I have been | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
They have taken it away from me and now they have | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
made it difficult, you know, impossible, nearly to live the life | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Becky Lewis says she could lose her specially adapted car | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
because she too has an artificial leg even though like Leah, | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
They think I might not be disabled enough because | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
They don't classify a prosthetic leg as a walking aid. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Wheelchairs, crutches, anything like that is | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
classified as a walking aid, apparently legs aren't. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Now that I've walked more than 20 metres that | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
ATOS says its assessments are done by health | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
The Department for Work and Pensions says decisions for | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
PIP are made after considering all the evidence from the claimant and | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
And that anyone who disagrees with the decision can | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
I just don't understand how they can say that I don't have | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
enough of a disability to warrant mobility. | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
Leah plans to appeal the decision but it is just one more | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
battle thousands of disabled people could do without. | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
Well, you saw Rebekah Lewis in that film. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
She's still waiting to hear if she can keep her car. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
She came into the studio, from her home in Stubbington, | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
and told me what it would mean to lose her Motability car. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
I would become pretty much housebound and very | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
reliant on public transport or patient transport | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
For the government, it is easier for them to give me my benefit money | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
What did the person who came to assess | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
He said that actually if I had lost both legs | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
that I would definitely be guaranteed to keep the car. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
I was quite surprised, quite angry and upset, | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
really, that it had to be that disabled in order to guarantee help. | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
So you talk about being disabled enough. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
They seem to change the rules and regulations quite a lot. | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
I think it depends on who you see as to how they interpret the paperwork. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
But they seem to want you as disabled as possible so that they | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
If you are half and half, then it can give them | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
So they don't work in a grey area, you are | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
saying it is the tick box system and if you tick the box, | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
I mean, the government will say this is a way of | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
saving money but it is also a way as, if you like, sifting out those | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
And there are a lot of people who have abused the system in the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
past but I think the paperwork and the whole assessment process now has | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
gone extreme and gone the other way and now they're punishing people | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
who are genuinely disabled, who are struggling | :05:47. | :05:47. | |
What do you think the solution is, then? | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
I think they need to take more notice of your own GP, | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
your consultants, maybe have an assessment once, | :05:56. | :05:56. | |
see how things are, see how disabled you are and leave it at that, | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
rather than dragging you in every two or three years to go | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Rebekah Lewis, thank you for talking to us. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
You can see more on Rebekah, on Inside Out, tonight | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
A man has been left with life-changing injuries | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
It happened in Waterlooville in Hampshire. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Police have arrested a man and a woman on suspicion | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
At ten to one last night, a man was shot in the head at this block of | :06:19. | :06:35. | |
flats just outside Waterlooville. He is still in a critically ill | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
condition in Southampton General Hospital with life changing | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
injuries. He has not been named but it is believed he is in his 30s and | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
the police have been here all day carrying out breast examinations and | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
talking to local people. Some of whom have told me that they are | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
shocked. -- carrying out forensic examinations. | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
It is, it is unnerving that it's right on the doorstep. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
I know a lot of people that live on this estate | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
and they are very nice, law-abiding people and I don't think | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
I have been here four years now, five years and I | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
An hour and a half after the incident, armed police went to an | :07:11. | :07:24. | |
address in Leigh Park where they arrested a 37-year-old man and a | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
38-year-old woman on of attempted murder. No charges have yet been | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
brought and the police are very keen to point out that this kind of | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
incident, this kind of shooting is very rare in this part of the world | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
indeed. Back to you, Valley. -- Sally. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Dealing with the loss of a loved one to Alzheimer's is traumatic enough. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
But meeting the spiralling costs of care for that person | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
Now a Hampshire man is setting up a petition calling | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
for a parliamentary debate on the issue. | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
Peter McManus had to find nearly ?400,000 to pay for the care | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
We met at Oxford will we'll both undergraduates in the early 60s. | :08:02. | :08:13. | |
Three years later, we got married. We started a family. In her 60s, | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
Margaret began to lose her memory. She went for a brain scan and that | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
it confirms that she had outsiders. Margaret went into a home and it | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
cost ?4000 a month. Repeated assessments always gave the same | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
answer. Margaret was said to need social care, not medical care | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
meaning Peter was the one who had to pay. She lacks mobility, she was | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
incontinent as is usual with Alzheimer's. She had to be fed. She | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
could not do anything for herself. She could not talk, these symptoms | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
which are fairly typical of advanced Alzheimer's, despite having all of | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
those, she wasn't considered to have a primary medical need. No one is | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
denying the system is unfair. In 2011, the government said there | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
should be a ?70,000 cap on care costs -- 70 2000. These would have | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
shielded older people from large bills, especially those with complex | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
care needs. But in the face of huge costs, the government has delayed | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
bringing in the changes until 2020. She was in care in total for just | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
under eight years. And the total bill ended up just under ?400,000. | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
Today, Peter launched an online petition in the hope of forcing a | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Parliamentary debate on the issue. It is something that the Alzheimer's | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
Society says is deeply unfair. The strain of having a wife or husband | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
or a mother or father with outsiders is a terrific strain itself. The | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
strain of how you're going to cope with pain up to ?50,000 each year, I | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
think that is horrible. -- cope with paying up to 50,000. | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
A man's been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman fell | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
to her death from a third floor flat, in Southsea, at the weekend. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
It happened in Clarendon Road yesterday morning. | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
The 46-year-old who was arrested has been released | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
Weather for the week coming up with Alexis and Lewis Coombes | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
is looking ahead to Bournemouth's big game tonight. | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
The lights on, the TV cameras have a right. Can must halt their slide | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
down the Premier League? We will have a preview shortly. -- can | :10:47. | :10:47. | |
Bournemouth. And it seems that name might be more | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
apt today than it's ever been. Because a so called "Dad's Navy" | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
of former sailors is being sought to fill key posts on Portsmouth's | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
new aircraft carriers and other ships because of a shortage | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
of skilled personnel. With its ships, submarines and | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
aircraft, the Royal Navy needs a lot But it has been facing a skills | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
shortage and to plug the gap, some people over the age of 60 | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
could be allowed to serve. Here in Portsmouth, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
the home of the Royal Navy, people I spoke to today said | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
they don't think that's a problem. I think it is sad | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
that they haven't got the people that are coming | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
the bottom as engineers to do it but obviously the experience | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
All those old seaman who are drifting | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
around at the moment doing nothing, they could be back on warships doing | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
If they were trained appropriately, they knew what | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
They've got skills and experience, yeah. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
The latest figures show the Royal Navy | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
and the Royal Marines have a manning deficit of 2.2%. | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
An advertising campaign was launched last September to try | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
The Navy is offering trained ex-regulars | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
It says there will be opportunities to | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
serve on the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers and | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
One former naval officer says it's not just the Armed Forces | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
who are having a problem recruiting engineers. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
There is a national shortage of engineers in this | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
country so the Navy is fishing in quite a small pond to get | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
It takes a long time to recruit and train people and the | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Navy seems to be putting a lot of effort, quite | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
rightly in my opinion, into retaining people in the Navy of | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
-- or getting back people who left a year or two ago. | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
Today, the Navy said in a statement, the upper age for | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
service is normally 60 but if there is a service requirement or | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
specialised skills, age waivers may be given on a case-by-case basis. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
And with the imminent arrival of the first | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
of the new aircraft carriers, the Navy's engineers face a very | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
Hepatitis C patients could be putting themselves at risk buying | :13:01. | :13:13. | |
drugs online from South Asia because they're being denied | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
Fewer than 5% of people with the condition in the south | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
will receive the new more effective treatment in this financial year. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
The Hepatitis C Trust unsuccessfully challenged the rationing and says | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
patients are turning to the internet because NHS England's policy | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
of treating the sickest patients first means they don't know how long | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
It's a drug with a cure rate of around 95% and the Hepatitis C Trust | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
says it could eliminate the disease as a serious public health concern. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
But the number of people allowed to have it through the NHS is limited. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Others, like Jaci Fleming, are buying it much more cheaply from | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
I have paid ?1100 to have the whole three course, | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
three-month course after years and years of gradual decline when even | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
to do it privately here, I would have to get a mortgage. | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
Harvoni, daklinza, viekirax and exviera are | :14:18. | :14:18. | |
treatments for hepatitis C that were by the NHS in November 2015. | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
They're considered better than other treatments because they have a | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
significant high cure rate without the chemotherapy-like side-effects | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
but they are also much more expensive. | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
As a result, NHS England has limited their use. | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
In the Wessex area, 327 of the 6848 patients will | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
If trusts treat more patients, they face financial penalties. | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
But buying drugs online could expose patients | :14:58. | :14:58. | |
People could put themselves in danger and certainly | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
could put themselves at risk of not getting cured when they could be | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
NHS England says it is spending an extra | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
?200 million a year on these new drugs and | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
it's reduced the number of people dying from | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
NHS England says the numbers being treated will increase | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
each year and that it hopes that as the costs of the drugs come | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
down, it will be able to further expand those numbers. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
In the meantime, patients such as Jaci have | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
Under sport now. Lewis is live at the stadium tonight where | :15:41. | :15:56. | |
Bournemouth are taking on Manchester city. I suspect fans are expecting a | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
great game, a cracking game in fact. That is right. When Bournemouth came | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
to the Premier League, these were the night that the band had been | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
waiting for. The floodlights are on, the sky TV cameras. Tonight is about | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
whether Bournemouth can halt their slide down the Premier League, the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
form has not been great, without a win this year. Six points above the | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
relegation zone. Chris has been following bomb this season. Has the | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
performance in as bad as the results suggest? It is yes and no. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Defensively yes they have been bad. Everton last time out, they have | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
been ravaged by injuries and suspension but has been a problem. | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
They have been at the length of Provence is by showing us what | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
Bournemouth is capable. Actually, they haven't managed to raise their | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
game against the big teams here and that will keep them in good stead | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
this evening. -- they have managed. Any indication for this evening? 15 | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
minutes away from getting the official teams, hopefully some good | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
news as far as the defence of the consent. The racks of Charlie | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Daniels and Adam Smith, it looks like they are going to be fit this | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
evening. That will be abused as well. Captain Simon Francis looks | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
fit as well. Reverting to some of the former season. Full commentary | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
on the radio. Bring a scarf, it is cold. Hopefully get the Manchester | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
city coach arriving shortly. Southampton had a confidence | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
boosting win ahead of their trip Saints who had lost six | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
of the previous seven in the league, now head into a two week break | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
on the back of a 4-0 January signing Manolo Gabbiadini | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
scored his second and third goals for the club to put | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Saints in control. A late own goal and Shane Long's | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
fifth goal of the season earned Claude Puel's side their first | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
points on the road this year. They're the right results | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
for us, you know? We haven't been playing badly | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
but we haven't been taking opportunities when they come | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
and sloppy goals and, you know, it all adds up but we | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
know our ability in the squad. We know that we are | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
better than what we are showing on the table | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
at the moment so nice to get another thing under our belts and hopefully | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
kick on from here. Meanwhile, Brighton continue to go | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
from strength to strength at the top And that's where we start our | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
round up of the rest Manager Chris Hughton | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
says just missing out on promotion last season, | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
is motivating his side Goals from Tomor Hemed | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
certainly help. Sam Baldock tapped home from close | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
range to make it two. And after more good | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
play from Solly March, Michael Kightly's free-kick | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
briefly gave Burton hope before Glenn Murray's header sealed | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
Brighton's sixth successive home league win, another step | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
towards the Premier League taken. Reading had plenty of the ball, | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
but couldn't find a way past A combination of wayward shooting | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
and a goalkeeper in form the reason. Swindon were dragged | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
into the League One relegation zone after defeat at fellow strugglers | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
Bury. James Vaughan's 37th-minute | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
penalty the difference after Raphael Rossi-Branco | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
was judged to have fouled. Oxford left it late but made | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
it five wins in a row thanks to substitute | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
Kane Hemming's glanced header. The U's could've made it two | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
in injury time But were thwarted not once, | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
not twice but three times Portsmouth defender Matt Clarke | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
hasn't scored for over a year, but he took just two minutes | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
to give his side the lead Substitute Kal Naismith sealed | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
the victory in added time, slotting home after being sent clear | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
by Noel Hunt. Pompey back to winning | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
ways in League Two. Good wins there. The man city coach | :19:59. | :20:14. | |
has just arrived here at the stadium. ?300 million of talent | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
getting. The fans out there. Let's do a round-up. | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
Onto ice hockey and four goals from Vanya Antonov helped | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
Basingstoke Bison to victory over Hull on Saturday. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Vanya both opened and closed the scoring in a 7-1 win, a match | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
which saw forward Ciaran Long become the club's record | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
Bison lost the reverse fixture 3-2 on Sunday. | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
After finishing second in the Vendee Globe round the world | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
yacht race last month, Gosport's Alex Thomson has announced | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
he's going to try again in four years' time! | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
Thousands of people braved the weather to welcome Thomson home | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
Despite sailing for much of this year's race with a damaged boat, | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
he broke several speed records along the way and now hopes to go one | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
Good luck to Alex. I'm sure we are going to follow his journey. | :21:04. | :21:20. | |
Manchester City had just arrived. Bournemouth will put on a | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
performance when the big boys roll into town, hopefully this time as | :21:24. | :21:24. | |
well. Thank you. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Time for the weather. Alexis is here. It was bitterly cold over the | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
weekend. We go into double figures in temperatures. | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
Natasha Weyers took this picture of the sunrise at Southampton Docks. | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
Cathy Anning photographed a seal after catching a fish | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
And Richard Welch took this picture on a walk in Petersfield. | :21:43. | :21:54. | |
Beautiful blue skies overhead. Last week, temperatures struggled to | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
raise to a high of just for starters. Into double figures today, | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
13 filters. Some brightness this week. Some patchy light rain at | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
times and a good deal of cloud as well through the course of the week. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Overnight tonight, eight few clear spells that may allow temperatures | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
full freezing or just below. These of values in our towns and cities. | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
The wind will ease by dawn tomorrow. There will be some brightness | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
berthing tomorrow. It will be fleeting because the cloud will | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
start to increase from the self and we will see some outbreaks of mainly | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
like an patchy rain. Not amounting to too much. A lot of cloud as well. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Nine to 11 Celsius beehive. The wind will be fairly light. Tomorrow | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
night, clear spells are possible. During the early hours of Wednesday | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
morning, temperatures start to rise. It will be a mild start Wednesday | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
with losers six to eight Celsius. When state itself, a lot of cloud. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
-- when states. The winds are gradually changing direction from | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
that south-easterly airflow to start date a more south-westerly airflow. | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
Driving in milder air. Through Wednesday, we are looking at Heise | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
to ten of 11 Celsius. Thursday, high pressure starts to build an even | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
further. A lot of cloud around on Thursday that there will be some | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
brighter and sunny spells and it should stay mainly dry as well. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Friday, very similar to that state. A mild day, ten to 11 Celsius. A lot | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
of cloud but some breaks in the cloud cover. The wind is fairly | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
light. As we look ahead to the weekend, mainly dry, high | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
dominating, the night will be chilly and it will be milder by day. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Temperatures remaining in double figures. Right, the subject. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
It may not have escaped your notice that tomorrow is Valentine's Day. | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
So here's a subject which is close to many of our hearts. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Because, believe it or not, a company in Berkshire is looking | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
for someone to take on the onerous task of testing their tasty chocs. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
We sent along our own "little sweetie", Ben Moore, to apply. | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
One of the world's biggest chocolate makers | :24:07. | :24:24. | |
really does want a new taster and it really could be you. | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
There's no real requirements that you can have for the | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
job, you know, you can't train for it. | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
It's basically what is in your mouth, it's the taste buds | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
Mondelez owns brands like Cadbury and Oreo so this is the big one. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
But getting this sweet job won't be a piece of cake. | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
It was advertised on social media so there | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
We are not looking to see whether they like the sample, we want them | :24:48. | :24:59. | |
to taste it and basically say what they see or say what they taste from | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
the product. It entails a fair bit of training. You would not think so | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
that you need training to eat chocolate. | :25:08. | :25:08. | |
Through the tasting hatch, there's a change of mood. | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
I can assure you it isn't seedy, we use a red light so when | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
the candidate is assessing the samples, it masks all of the colour | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
This is where the lucky applicant will be | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
confined with chocolate for seven and a half hours a week. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
So I'm ready to taste my first chocolate samples. | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
I open the hatch, there we are, three samples. | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
Now, this one is the control sample, I try this first and | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
then I have got to decide which of these two it tastes most | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
like and all the while, writing down what I | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
think about all the flavours of the chocolate. | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
Once I've done that, I eat a cracker, | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
This'll be the test they the short listed candidates over three days. | :25:48. | :26:10. | |
At the end, there will be left. -- there will be one left. | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
Yes, you have shown that you can discriminate but | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
sadly you've not quite made the grade to go onto one | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
There was no sweet talking my way round it. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
But I suppose for times like these, there's | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
So we weren't going to let Ben have all the fun | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
We have to try the chocolate in each of these three pots and decide | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
Slow down. Which is the odd one out? This as number 646. How many | :26:44. | :26:55. | |
chocolates are there? I have got the answers. I think this is the odd one | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
out. Probably not great with the cold because I don't think I can | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
taste as well. I could just keep eating chocolate. Which one? 646. | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
You'd think that is the different one? 272. I think we should carry on | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
eating chocolate. Never mind working out which is the odd one out. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Goodbye for now. Good night. | :27:26. | :27:31. |