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a danger of rewriting the past. a statue of princess diana will be built in kensington palace by her sons, prince harry and the duke of cambridge. they said 20 years after her death the time is right to recognise their mother's positive impact around the world. i'll be back with a full bulletin of the top of the hour. now on bbc news, inside out. hello. you wouldn't drive drunk. but would you drive tired? she's got glazed features, you can see the muscle tone in her face has started to slacken. really long eye closures. saving our lives but risking their own, the junior doctors driving home after night shifts. i think it's almost just too easy to kind of think that it won't happen to you. we set off to find her 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 are shutting up shop.
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inside out, we are always a step ahead. first, driving tired can bejust as dangerous as string driving. first, driving tired can bejust as dangerous as drink driving. a recent online survey of more than 1100 junior doctors, 41% 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've got an ii—month—old daughter 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.
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i almost drove into the back of a lorry when i fell asleep briefly. i also drove 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 to just keep pushing yourself to the absolute limit until you break. ajunior doctor in oxford, samjay 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 the job, she had a near miss driving home. about five minutes away from home, i was on one of the country roads and find myself on the opposite side of the road. thank goodness there was nothing coming the other way. in fact, onlyjust last year, i was going to a night shift
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and i came across a car which was flipped in the road. it was an unlit country road. and it was anotherjunior doctor coming back from the 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 the night shift had actually gone well. brian's daughter lauren connolly 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 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?
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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. 18 months ago, after a run of night shifts, a junior doctor from gosport was heading home to his pregnant wife. the doctor was travelling home after three night shifts when his car collided...
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he probably fell asleep... dr 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 are so close to home, like 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 is 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 than 3 million of us regularly working through the night in all kinds ofjobs. this doctor 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 it's like fighting
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againstjet lag the whole time. the teaching that we do is all about making sure that we encourage ourjunior doctors, nursing colleagues, everybody who is working at night, that it is not a sign of weakness at all to take resting breaks and we are working. there is very much a hero attitude in medicine and nursing that are only come second to the needs of the patient, but actually our own needs come second to the needs of the patient, but actually if you're overtired, fatigued, you are not able to give the best to your patient. even though there may be ten patients waiting to see you, 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 0xford, sam hasjust finished her night shift. how are you feeling? really tired. it was really busy, quite stressful. i cover intensive care and we had a full unit of patients.
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i managed to grab a cup of cofee at about half three and 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. all right, 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 sam's performance. fatigue is a huge road safety problem. our own perception of our own fatigue level tends to lack behind reality and by the time we have realised it, we could have made a serious mistake that could lead to a collision. we would like you to keep you below 60 mph, please. is one of those things, where if i'm tired, i would push the car. sam has to drive along a virtual motorway for the next 90 minutes. we're monitoring her reactions
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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 field attempt to increase her alertness. you can tell she is fighting it as well. you have a moment when she is tired and then lots of blinking to try and clear the sleep. you can see the mouth movements as well. after 19 minutes, sam's eyes start to blink more slowly. she is having micro—sleeps. a microsleep isjust a longer blink, up to 15 seconds. but neurologically, it is usually an indicator that someone is disengaged from the task. she is getting quite bad now. at motorway speeds, if your eyes shut for a second,
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think about what you will miss. tens of metres can be travelled in that distance. sam is meant to stick to the inside lane for the whole journey, but she is struggling to stay on course. she just moved out there onto to the right and she almost overcompensated to be back and be left. so my guess, that is quite typical when someone is fatigued, the impetus came to be quite exaggerated. she has glazed features and new muscle tone has started to slacken. really long eye closures. hi, sam. you can stop the vehicle. please, bring it to a halt. test over and simon has the results. so, one of the key indicators of fatigue is lane departures. today, 69 occasions you left the inside lane of the motorway. that meant that it was almost in 2.5 minutes you spent
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outside the lane you're meant to be travelling in. what's really worrying is the number of times your reaction speed was slower than 1.5 seconds and therefore dangerous. the work of occasions when you fail to respond quickly enough. on one instance, it was 5.5 seconds later. was it really? yeah. how do you feel when you hear those numbers? that particular one is really shocking. as you say, that could cause a collision. there is terrifying. there 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. last year, the health secretary's controversial newjunior doctor contact reduce the number of consecutive night shifts from seven to four. the working week for junior doctors was also cut. tired doctors risk patient safety,
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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 are asking junior doctors to work nearly twice as much as the rest of the population and that is a boast? the department of health declined to be interviewed, but told us they expect the nhs staff to be properly rested. we are going to be looking for 40 years of service for a junior doctor, but were not going to get if we are so exhausted and have accidents like like lauren or otherwise.
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no one should leave their home and not return from work. still to come, we say a fond farewell to an oxford institution. all good things come to an end. thank you much for your custom. as ever, we will love to hear reports about the show. you can drop me an e—mail. next, the land rover defender, which has a 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 a decade, to their owners, these vehicles are more than just a car. the problem is, to organised gangs of car thieves, the land rover has become a top target.
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we have a couple of facebook pages to give people information about the club, always somebody coming on there saying the land rover has been stolen. housing is once a week. he is still in the land rovers and why are they doing it? and where are they all going to? i had one still in 18 months ago. just off the drive in the middle of the night, someone broke into it, disappeared and never saw it again. this one now lives in my garage under lock and key and everything else i have is very well secured. it is an sealable. the last land rover rolled up the production line in 2016 and since then the sky has become the second. vehicle in england. when you buy a land rover, you're buying a hobby. people love, cherish,
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sometimes it has been passed on to the family. the impact from the civil image had it stolen is like losing your dog. it's not nice. this land rover is the pride and joy of leicestershire police and the thieves took it apart overnight. it was parried his heady local police station. all the stolen land rovers have got to be going somewhere, is what exactly is happening to them? because they stopped making them, the spare parts are few and far between. you could have won in its completely in an hour. there is no code stamped on most of the parts, so they appear on ebay. unfortunately, there is a market for stolen bits. john is a land rover mechanic from sussex who was hit by the thieves last year. as someone who knows land rover is inside out, i have set him a challenge. the plan is to unbolt parts of the land rover until we end up with a bigger pile of bits and as little land rover as we can finish with. john firmly believes his beloved land rover was stolen to order
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and cannibalised for parts. with the clock ticking and multiple cameras running, we will check back in withjohn in a while. henry 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. me and my son. so i used to do 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 it, one steam engine driver would love to have her back. i was never envisioning getting rid of it, it was going to be with me for life and then handed down to my son if he was interested
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and so on and so forth. 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 land rovers. the manufacture of the all of these cloud with at least one tracker for the benefit of their owners that the car gangs have a trick up their sleeves. they are now using one of these, a magic wand to snip the track and disable it. ijust turn that up. so they will know that there is something in the vehicle. a tracker. now, when people steal a car, they will block the signal, so they will block 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 fight it, it will be disconnected. being one step ahead 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. so what is the product that you have come up with? what is the secret tracker?
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that is the point. i would love to tell you it and show you the device, we do not do that. it could be anything on the car. it is not one particular unit, it is well hidden, we do not talk about it. it could be in the headlight, anywhere. i wouldn't be showing you any specific patient for it. specification for it. we don't want the thieves to get the upper hand on us. neil's intelligence tracker is getting results. it can run from a signal from inside shipping container. here, police are recovering land rovers at southampton docks just about to be shipped abroad. back in john's barn, how was 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, now you don't. time! the land rover was stripped in 60 minutes.
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i use iusea i use a prized you did it this quickly? —— are you surprised? i am quite surprised, yes. i don't think i would want to do it as a business though! now put it back together. thank you. that will take longer. glen campbell reporting there. don't forget, we are on twitter. finally, i am resisting the urge to say that final story is a load of old cobblers. but here's james ducker 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'm a bespoke shoe maker. i have making shoes by hand for the past 20 years. from designing them to hand—stitching them. and in the world of fast everything, i am proud to be a part of something much slower. at ducker and son in oxford,
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they have been making shoes in a similar way since 1898. but sadly, after nearly 120 years, it is closing. so when i found out such an iconic shoemakers as duckers 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 from north norfolk. so you never know. my namesake was an engineer before turning his hand to shoemaking. bob avery also changed career. before teaching himself shoemaking, he was a shoe repairer at woolworths, and before that, a bus conductor. the legers here back to 1910 and reveal a history of the city through its shoes.
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so each one of those is an order for a pair of shoes? this is everything they have made on their account and the prices accordingly about time. in today's money, 1110. 0ne pound 8 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 has come into this shop at 9:30pm to as me if i have any intention of coming home! do think there's a little bit of you in every pair that goes out of the door? you put your mark on every single pair. these wooden lasts are the starting point for the shoes ever made here, the footprints, if you like, of over
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a century of loyal customers. my name is george. i have about nine or ten pairs of duckers shoes. let me slip in here! i'm 97, you are now going to admire my agility. nobody in my family has ever lived this long. these are my beauties. look at them, aren't they lovely? these are very old, these are back into the 50s. tremendous age. i came up to christchurch in 19116, i wasn't at all rich but i got in a way of buying my shoes at duckers and there is a little man working for duckers and i demured
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at the price of shoes one day and he said where'd you get your shoes from? she said if you can go there, you can afford to buy the shoes! i like the directness. those are ducker shoes, they must be 50 years old. they're beautiful, aren't they? there's another but people in this world who have not been to duckers, 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 duckers customer? iam indeed. i first came here as an undergraduate, in 1976, and 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 0xford's history.
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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 plane and there are generations of students and fellows of colleges who have been used to walking in and out of colleges and college gardens and trampling on 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 is famous for, rubber soled, this runs around the shoe, and what they call a rustic grain which is the embossed look which is much more resistant to scratching. it is at home at town 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. there is a baron von
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richtoven there, who actually did not pay his bill! he collected his shoes. descendants of his came in 1989, they honoured the account. is that what that os? that entry is there. there is another entry which you know who that is... evelyn waugh, he was atjesus college. 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, i really do. it's not that i'm fed up, but i have reached an age
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where i am in god's time. thank you so much for so many years looking after me and my shoes. it comes with my great thanks to so many years. thank you for your continued custom throughout the years. i'm only a tiny, tiny part in this legend. tiny part. best to go while 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. always sad to see the old things disappear. talking of which, i'll see you next week. bye! good morning. mixed fortunes
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weather—wise today. some of us seeing rain and sun getting sunshine. 0vernight last night we had quite a storm through cumbria that brought this, not snow but hail to whitehaven cumbria. that storm system sliding across the north—west of england. to be honest at the moment we have got a bit of rain working through south—east —— south—west england. a fuse showers around coastal fringes but for many of us it has been a beautiful start to the day. in aberdeenshire and
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much of northern england and scotla nd much of northern england and scotland we will keep the drier weather much of the day but the rain is really gathering in the south—west and midlands of england and it will slide towards the south—east. as we head into the afternoon there is a chance it will stay dry across parts of the north—east midlands and east anglia until after dark when the rain will move its way in. a bit of uncertainty about that. some rain in northern ireland in the middle of the day. in the sunshine it is quite cool the day. in the sunshine it is quite cool, temperatures 4—6dc. we will keep some showers going in the northern and western isles. 0vernight tonight, watch out for some icy stretches on untreated roads, where we have got those clear skies leading to a touch of frost. mild in northern ireland and wales, where it will stay gloomy. that ta kes where it will stay gloomy. that takes us into monday's forecast and
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the forecast for the rest of the week, it is looking quite unsettled. looking at some spells of rain and becoming quite windy with severe gales developing later in the week with winds often coming in from a south—westerly direction, so it will be quite mild. some mist and hill fog patches and turning damp through the day through northern ireland and western parts of england and —— wales also picking up some rain. still cooler for north—east england and scotland, again about 5 degrees and scotland, again about 5 degrees and early morning sunshine, turning cloudy through the afternoon. the slow—moving weather front will be dawdling its way across the united kingdom by tuesday. a lot of cloud around and these temperatures pushing their way right through scotland. even 1a degrees possible across parts of england on tuesday. the milder weather is here to stay. that is your weather. this is bbc news. i'm maxine mawhinney. the headlines at 11. ajudge in the us issues a temporary halt to the deportation of visa
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holders or refugees, stranded at airports following president trump's executive order. downing street says theresa may does not agree with president trump's ban, after she was criticised for not condemning it during her trip to turkey. the prime minister is not a shoot from the hip politician. she wants to see the evidence and see what precisely the implications are. northern ireland secretary james brokenshire says inquiries into killings during the troubles are concentrating too much on the police and the army. a statue of diana, princess of wales, is to be built in kensington palace by her sons prince harry and the duke of cambridge. also in the next hour — two of the greats of modern tennis clash in the final
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