tv Inside Out BBC News January 28, 2017 2:30pm-3:01pm GMT
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hello. this is bbc news, with lu kwesa burak. the headlines at 2.30pm: breaking news coming to us following that meeting between theresa may and the turkish president erdogan. it has been announced that a landmark deal, a defence agreement has been signed between turkey and the uk, they have signed something called a heads of agreement which will establish a partnership for the continued development of the ambitious turkish fighter programme known as, worth over £100 million and this first contract has been signalled as having the potential to facilitate multi—billion contracts between the uk and turkish firms over the lifetime of the project. hence strengthening links between the uk and turkey, the uk prime ministers salaries are made saying andi ministers salaries are made saying and i will give you this great, this agreement underlines once again that
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britain is a great, global trading nation and that we are open for business. it marks the start of a new and ebay trading relationship with turkey and will potentially secure british and turkish jobs and prosperity for decades to come. that is breaking news coming following that between edible and —— erdogan, and theresa may, a agreement signed for the programme known as tfx, worth £100 million for britain. now on bbc news, inside out. hello. you wouldn't drive drunk but would you drive tired? she's got glazed features, really long blinks. you can see the muscle tone in her face has started to slacken. saving our lives, but risking their own. the junior doctors driving home tired after night shifts. really i think it's just almost too easy to kind of think that it won't happen to you. we set off to find her
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and we could see the accident on the other side of the road. also, stripped and shipped. the unlikely british classic being stolen to order and smuggled abroad. and we hotfoot it to the legendary shoemakers that's shutting up shop. inside out, we are always a step ahead. first, driving tired can bejust as dangerous as drink—driving. in a recent online survey of more than 1,100 junior doctors, a1% admitted falling asleep behind the wheel following a night shift, so is it time we all woke up to the danger? i know of four colleagues who died within my first two years of qualifying. all were driving home after night shifts. i have an ii—month—old daughter,
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and i continually worry about having an accident. i was driving in the slow lane on the motorway, then woke up in the fast lane. these are genuine testimonies from junior doctors currently working in our nhs. i almost drove into the back of a lorry when i fell asleep briefly. i have also driven up the curb, which woke me up. after seven consecutive nights, i fell asleep driving home and crashed my car into a concrete pillar. in the nhs as it is, there are greater pressures, fewer doctors, and it is easy tojust keep pushing yourself to the absolute limit, until you break. a junior doctor in oxford, sam jayaweera is getting ready for a 13—hour night shift in intensive care. she often works four of these in a row. after only a few months on thejob,
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she had a near miss driving home. about five minutes away from home, i was on one of the country roads and found myself on the opposite side of the road. thank goodness, there was nothing coming the other way... and in fact, onlyjust last year, i was going to a night shift and i came across a car just flipped in the road, an unlit country road, and it was anotherjunior doctor coming back from their late shift. on that occasion, the driver escaped unhurt, but sadly that's not always the case. when she came off the night shift, she phoned home and said she was leaving. she had a chat with her mum, and explained that the night shift had gone well. brian's daughter lauren connelly was driving home after her first—ever night shift is a newly—qualified doctor. she was a bit concerned about how things might go, because it was a new experience
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for her being in charge and she was feeling quite pleased with herself. but nevertheless, on the journey back home, she fell asleep. how did you find out something had gone wrong? because we were expecting her home, we set off to find her, and while we were driving, we could see the accident on the other side of the road. at the time, junior doctors in scotland could work up to seven night shifts in a row. brian's campaigning has helped cut this to five. i'm lauren's voice now. she's not able to speak for herself. i think that she did speak up initially... but wasn't able to carry that through. i'm trying to do it now. pressure within a sphere...
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18 months ago, after a run of night shift, a junior doctor from gosport was heading home to his pregnant wife. dr ronak patel was travelling home after the third of three night shift when his car collided with a lorry... the doctor, who died in a head—on collision, probably fell asleep according to evidence heard at an inquest... dr ronak patel was just 33 years old. i think it's almostjust too easy to think that it won't happen to you, but i think that when you have tragedies that are so close to home, to someone who's pretty much exactly like you, it really is scary. it's something that really does make me think. keen to learn if she's right to be concerned, sam has agreed to take a driving reactions test after working a 13—hour night shift. we'll find out later how she got on. it's estimated there are more
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than three million of us regularly working through the night in all kinds ofjobs. dr michael farquar is a sleep consultant and teaches the importance of rest to newly recruited junior doctors. when we work at night, our brains think we should be asleep and that is like fighting against jet lag the whole time. the teaching that we do is all about making sure that we encourage ourjunior doctors, nursing colleagues, everybody working at night that it is not a sign of weakness at all to take resting breaks when we are working. there is very much a hero attitude in medicine and nursing that our own needs come second to the needs of the patient, but actually if you are overtired, fatigued, not rested, you are not able to give the best year patient. even though there may be ten patients waiting to see you in the emergency department, if you take half an hour to take a break, to combat the fatigue that does build up in this type of work is absolutely important. in oxford, sam hasjust
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finished her night shift. how are you feeling? pretty tired. it was really busy, quite stressful. i cover intensive care and we had a full unit of patients. i managed to grab a cup of coffee at about half three, but i've been pretty much on the go the whole time. before sam can go home to bed, it's time for her driving reactions test at the transport research lab in berkshire. if you'd like to come through to the simulator and take a seat. simon tong is in charge of driver fatigue research, and will be analysing her performance. fatigue is a huge road safety problem. our own perception tends to lag behind reality, and by the time we have realised it, we could have already made a serious mistake that could have led to a collision.
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we would like you to keep below 60 mph for the whole time, please. it's one of those things, where i know i'm tired, but if i want to get home, i need to get home, i would...get into the car. sam has to drive along a virtual motorway for the next 90 minutes. we're monitoring her reactions from the control room. so it's lots of blinking, sometimes you see those long blinks. afterjust a few minutes, sam starts blinking more rapidly, in a failed attempt to increase her alertness. you can tell she is fighting it as well. she'll have a moment where she is tired... and then lots of blinking to try and clear the sleep. you can see with the mouth movements as well. after 19 minutes, sam's eyes start to blink more slowly. she is having micro sleeps. microsleep isjust a slightly longer blink, to 15 seconds. it isneurologically usually an indicator that someone is disengaged from the task.
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look! she is getting quite bad now. at motorway speeds, if your eyes shut for a second, how far you can travel, think about what you will miss. yeah, tens of metres can be travelled in that distance. sam's meant to stick to the inside lane for the whole journey, but she's struggling to stay on course. she just moved out there onto to the right, and almost overcompensated to get back into the left. that is quite typical when someone is fatigued, the inputs tend to be quite exaggerated. she has glazed features and the muscle tone has started to slacken. really long—sight closures. hi, sam. you can now stop the vehicle. please, bring it to a halt. test over, and simon has the results. one of the key indicators of fatigue is lane departures, and today, 69 occasions you left the inside lane of the motorway. that meant that it was almost in 2.5 minutes youspent
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outside of the lane you're meant to be travelling in. what's really worrying is the number of times that your reaction speed was slower than 1.5 seconds and therefore dangerous. there were 12 occasions when you failed to respond quickly enough. on one instance, it was 5.5 seconds later. was it really? yes. how do you feel when you hear those numbers? that particular one is really shocking. 5.5 seconds on a motorway to not look... as you say, that could cause a collision. that is terrifying. that is really, really scary. clearly, driving when this tired is dangerous. across the country, junior doctors are working long, high—intensity shifts... some clocking up 91 hours a week.
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last year, the health secretary's controversial newjunior doctor contact reduced the number of consecutive night shifts from seven to four. the working week for junior doctors was also cut. tired doctors risk patient safety, so in the new contract the maximum number of hours that can be worked in one week will be reduced from 91 to 72. i think he should be ashamed of himself. boasting about that?! we're asking junior doctors to work nearly twice as much as the rest of the population, and that's a boast?! the department of health declined to be interviewed, but told us that they expect the nhs to ensure all staff are properly rested. we're going to be looking for 40 years of service of a junior doctor, but we're not going to get if they're so exhausted and have accidents
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like like lauren, or otherwise. no one should leave their home and not return from work. still to come, we see a fond farewell to an oxford institution. all good things come to an end, but thank you much for your custom. as ever, love to hear thoughts about the show. you can drop me an e—mail. next, the land rover defender, the british workhorse with cult status with enthusiasts... and car thieves. glen campbell investigates. some of these land rovers are worth more than £50,000. lovingly built and tinkered with over decades, to their owners, these vehicles are more than just a car. the problem is, to
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organised gangs of car thieves, the land rover has become a top target. we have a couple of facebook pages to give people information about the club, always somebody coming on there saying their land rover has been stolen. probably once a week. who is stealing land rovers and why are they doing it? where are they all going to? i had one stolen 18 months, two years ago. just off the drive in the middle of the night, someone broke into it, disappeared never saw it again. this one lives in my garage under lock and key. everything else i have is well secured. stealable, because the last land rover defender rolled off the production line in 2016, and since then this car has become the second most stolen vehicle in england. when you buy a land rover, you're not buying a car, you're buying a hobby.
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it's the heart and soul, these cehicles, it's a car that people love, cherish, sometimes it's a car that has been passed down through the family. the impact from having it stolen is like losing your dog. it's not nice. this land rover was the pride and joy of leicestershire police, until the thieves took it apart overnight. it was parked outside a local police station. all the stolen land rovers have got to be going somewhere, so what exactly is happening to them? because they stopped making them, the spare parts are few and far between. with a box of spanners. you could have it in bits completely in an hour. there is no codes stamped on most of the parts, so they appear on ebay and there's a market for stolen parts. john is a land rover mechanic from sussex who was hit by the thieves last year. as someone who knows land rovers inside out, i have set him a little challenge. the plan is to unbolt parts of the land rover
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until we end up with as big a pile of bits and as little land rover as we can finish with. ok, chaps, that's 23 minutes gone. john firmly believes his beloved land rover was stolen to order and cannibalised for parts. with the clock ticking and multiple cameras running, we will check back in with him in a while. henry moforth is a mechanic on slightly larger vehicles. he's a steam train engineer. his land rover was special. it was his wedding car. we used it to get from the church to the reception, my wife, me and my son. i use it all the time and that was my first vehicle. henry's land rover was stolen from the car park of the kent and sussex railway so if you have seen ssy8a1, one steam engine driver would love to have her back.
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i was never envisaging getting rid of it, it was going to be with me alive, handed down to my son if he was interested and so on and so. it is soul destroying when you have spent all that time with it and now it is just gone. car crime is now a high—tech business, this garage is full of top—end range rovers. the manufacturer of the all of these cloud with at least one tracker for the benefit of their owners, but the car gangs have a trick up their sleeves. they're now using one of these, a magic wand to sniff the track and disable it. beeping ijust turn that up. they will know that there's something in the vehicle. a tracker. now when people steal a car, they will block the signal, any signal coming out of the car, take it to somewhere safe, take it to a side road or leave it in a unit somewhere and when they feel safe, they will switch this unit on, and try and find the tracking unit. as soon as they find it, it will be disconnected. being one step ahead
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of the thieves is the only way to catch them, and the latest gadget does just that. a tiny, highly intelligent tracker that cannot be sniffed out by the magic wand. what is the product that you have come up with? what is this secret tracker? well... and that is the point. i would love to tell you, and show you the device, we do not do that. it could be anything on the car. it's not one particular unit, it's well hidden, we don't talk about it. it could be in the headlight, anywhere. i won't show you specification for it. we don't want the thieves to get the upper hand on us. neal's intelligent tracker is getting results. it can run for months and send a a signal from inside a shipping container. here, police are recovering land rovers at southampton docks just about to be shipped abroad. back in john's barn, how is his attempt at stripping a land rover in under an hour going? was it a case of gone in 60 minutes? now you see it,
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now you don't. that is time. we're done! the land rover stripped in 60 minutes. are you surprised, john, that you did it this quick? i am quite surprised, yes. i don't think i would want to do it as a business. chaps, now put it back together. thank you. that will take longer. glen campbell, reporting there. don't forget, we are on twitter. you can find us at @inside0utsouth... now, i'm resisting the urge to say that final story is a load of old cobblers. here is james in oxford. it's often said there's an awful lot you can tell about a person from their shoes. but then again, i would say that. i am a bespoke shoe maker. i have making shoes by hand
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for the past 20 years. from designing them, to hand stitching them. and in a world of fast everything, i'm proud to be a part of something much slower. at ducker and son in oxford, they have been making shoes in a similar way since 1888. but sadly, after nearly 120 years, it is closing. so when i found out such an iconic shoe makers as ducker & son was sorting up shop, i had to go for one last time before they close their doors forever. my name is james ducker, apparently no relation. though both of our families are from north norfolk. so you never know. my namesake was an engineer before turning his hand to shoemaking. bob avery also changed career.
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before teaching himself shoemaking, he was a shoe repairer at woolworth's, and before that, a bus conductor. the ledgers here go back to 1910 and reveal the history of the city through its shoes. so each one of those is an order for a pair of shoes? this is everything they've made on their acccount and the prices accordingly at the time. in today's money, 140... one pound, eight shillings and sixpence in old money. i have no idea what that means! any particular style you are looking for colours? i love everything! this is an old—fashioned shop, and a lot of the work ethics are still old—fashioned. you don't come in here at nine o'clock and start walking out the door at five. my wife's come into the shop at 9:30pm to ask me if i have any intention of coming home. do think there's a little
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bit of you in every pair that goes out of the door? you put your mark on every single pair. beautiful. these wooden mast of the starting point for the shoes ever made here, the footprints if you like, of a century of loyal customers. my name is george. i have about nine or ten pairs of ducker‘s shoes. i'm 97. you are now going to admire my agility. nobody in my family has ever lived this long. these are my beauties. aren't they beautiful ducker‘s shoes? these are very old, these are back into the 50s. tremendous age. i came up to christchurch in 19116,
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i wasn't at all rich but i got in a way of buying my shoes at ducker‘s and there is a little man working for duckers called laurelie, and i demurred one day at the price on a pair of shoes, and he said where do you get your shoes from? i told him castell‘s. he said if you can go to casstell‘s, you can afford to buy these shoes. i like directness. those are ducker‘s shoes, they must be 50 years old. they're beautiful, aren't they? there's a number but people in this world who have not been to ducker‘s, they should be imprisoned! they're probably... ten years old but they look as good as new as far as i am concerned. they look lovely. are you a loyal customer? iam indeed. i first came here
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as an undergraduate, when i came up in 1976, i have been coming here ever since. how many pairs of duckers do think you have? probably about 30 pairs, i think. for some, it is the last chance to own a bit of oxford's history. ijust bought a pair of duckers and i think you can tell a lot about a place through its shoes. in this case, oxford is on a flood plain and there are generations of students and dons and fellows of colleges who have been used to walking in and out of colleges and college gardens and tramping along the thames which is just over there and you have got this great proximity of city and countryside, it is one of the distinctive features of oxford so the shoes that ducker's famous for, rubber—soled, for the wet. the bead that runs around the shoe, stops the water getting in, and what they call a rustic grain which is the embossed look which is much more resistant to scratching. it's at home in town
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and in the countryside. even though people walk in, it is a lot more relaxed today. you never know who is going to walk in. baron von plessen there, and baron von richthoven there who actually did not pay his bill. but he collected his shoes! descendants of his came in 1989, they honoured the account. is that what that says? that entry in red, there, yeah. there is another entry there, you may know who that is. evelyn waugh, the author, he was atjesus college. 1912. perhaps the most famous customer is lord of the rings authorjrr tolkien who studied english at oxford. he played football. i have enjoyed every minute of it, and it's not that i'm fed up,
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i have reached an age where i am in god's time. there is a little something here for you to thank you so much for so many years looking after me, and my shoes. and it comes with my great thanks for so many years. thank you. completely unnecessary, but thank you. thank you for your continued custom throughout the years. i'm only a tiny tiny part in this legend, a tiny part. best to go while everyoneis clapping. everyone is clapping. i think it was cinderella who said a shoe can change your life. as they turn the key here for the last time, isabel and bob would probably agree. james ducker reporting there.
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always sad to see the old things disappear. talking of which, i will see you next week! goodbye! well, hopefully here's one thing that went to disappear too soon. a lot of you would like to get rid of some filthy weather and it has been that way across a good part of scotland, 2 degrees i hear in glasgow with the sleet. transition you must have to go through with the
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rain before the blue sky but some areas already have plenty. south counties, parts of anglia, parts of wales, too, faring quite nicely. the cloud is fit enough for persistent rain over much of scotland, but with time drifting away towards the north. clearing skies mean a lot of ice with surfaces not treated, and across parts of scotland and north of england and the north midlands do, lowered temperatures, lowering the countryside. cloud and mild conditions across the south—west. cool start elsewhere as that call—out rolls over it, you might lock in in the northern ireland and wales, a cool day demo cooler in the north but a fine day. further south, things turn milder. you don't want to stand outside and this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak.
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the headlines. britain signs a deal with turkey to develop turkish fighterjets worth more than £100 million as talks continue for a trade boost post—brexit. we both want to build on our existing links and i believe that doing so will be to the benefit of both our countries and for the prosperity president trump signs an order banning all refugees from entering the united states — there's also a three month ban for citizens from seven nations with a muslim—majority population. tributes to one of britain's most respected actors, sirjohn hurt, who has died at the age of 77.
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