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tv   Inside Out  BBC News  April 2, 2017 4:30pm-5:01pm BST

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a fun loving boy and her mother as a woman who would always put others first. she asked that the family be given privacy during a distressing time. glorious out there, let's find out how the weather is looking. good deal of sunshine, this is the satellite sequence from earlier, thicker cloud across eastern areas, the odd spot of rain, but for many of usa the odd spot of rain, but for many of us a lovely day, the sunshine by daytime translating to clear skies overnight and much like last night it will turn quite chilly. more breeze in the north—west, more cloud, patchy win in the western isles by the end of the night. that will keep temperatures up, rural spots will go low. should be a bright start for much of england and wales, more cloud and breeze and patchy rain for elsewhere. jason day
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for the bulk of england and wales. not quite so warm on tuesday, graeme le saux the eastward early patchy rain but that doesn't last. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: more than 250 people have been killed, many more are missing, after mudslides in colombia. the president has declared a state of emergency in the region. six people have been arrested after what's been called a brutal attack on a 17—year—old kurdish iranian boy in south london. police are treating the incident as a hate crime. a teenager whose mother and brother were stabbed to death at home says the family is "devastated" — lydia wilkinson left flowers at the scene earlier. theresa may reassures gibraltar of britain's "steadfast" commitment and says she will work to secure the "best possible outcome" from brexit talks. now on bbc news it's time for inside out.
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what happens when one of the south ‘s busiest roads meets one of the world most important landscapes? for the panel to come out right where it is proposed to i cannot see a worst place. i feel very upset. also coming up how people with dementia are using music to help cope with their condition. it makes you feel good because they are not worried whether you play the wrong note or anything which happens quite a bit anyway. and butterfly expert and enthusiast matthew takes us on a tour of the south. no less than 46 of the 59 species in the uk have been found here. that is mega. first, plans to dig a tunnel to
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re—route the 8303 at stonehenge have seen some re—route the 8303 at stonehenge have seen some serious re—route the 8303 at stonehenge have seen some serious opposition, not least by the women who farms the land where the tunnel will go. so far she has refused to speak out publicly. until now. stonehenge is one of our top tourist attractions. that noise is the main route from cornwall to london, the a303. up to 30,000 vehicles a day in the summer. not good through road users or local residents or the setting of this world heritage site. now a
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setting of this world heritage site. nowa £i.4 setting of this world heritage site. now a £1.4 billion scheme to re—route the road through a tunnel and make it a dual carriageway has been given the go—ahead. you would think that was the perfect solution right? it's a total catastrophe. the plans recommended by the government are foran eight plans recommended by the government are for an eight metre high flyover just about 300 metres from where we are standing. it a modern scar on an ancient landscape. it breaks my heart. it breaks my heart. so why are they so against it? i've come to wiltshire museum. these artefacts are more than 40,000 years old. this dagger is astounding, it's difficult to see but the original had 140,000 tiny gold studs. they were found buried with the bronze age chieftain ina grave buried with the bronze age chieftain in a grave known as a barrow about half a mile south of stonehenge. he has become known as bush barrow man.
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the west end of the tunnel is planned to pass close to his grave. these images give us an idea of what is proposed. but what does it look like in real life? i have come to see. this is rachel and bush barrow is on his farm. it is one of many she looks after and she sees herself asa she looks after and she sees herself as a custodian and has adapted the way she farms around them. wheat grass down a proportion of the far end of the farm because there was archaeology. it is in what is known as the burial cemetery, around 40 others here. bush barrow is the key monument in this cemetery. under here is still bush barrow man. they took all the pots and the gold and
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the exciting bits and pieces so yes, it's quite exciting to think that a bush barrow man is still under our feet. where does the road go? stonehenge over there, it will come ina tunnel stonehenge over there, it will come in a tunnel south of stonehenge, tunnel underneath, it will come out the tunnel in the field we see opposite where the scars are on the field. how big a road are we talking about? massive, four carriageways. people will say you just don't want this on your land. i think it's important enough consideration is given to sensibly putting this road and the environment. it's got to be sensitive, not in front of bush barrow man. the high value of gold found here make it britain's registered bronze age burial. —— richest. but another close to the east end of the tunnel has experts worried will also be damaged. until
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recently this area of woodland two miles from stonehenge had largely been ignored by archaeologists. its true significance is only now being revealed. we have discovered where the communities that we lived here built the first monuments at stonehenge on the stonehenge knoll. we know they are living here around 8000 bc and these communities come back again and again and again all the way through to 4000 bc. this site is thought to be the longest continually habited place in the uk. david led archaeologists on a dig here in 2014. they found around 32,000 pieces of flint and more than a thousand pieces of animal bone. but the secret of this place is in the water. it is warmed by a natural spring meaning it did not freeze during the ice age. that brought
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people to settle here. this is it, this is where we have been begging over the last ten years. the basin behind us has got shed loads of this hunter gatherer archaeology in it. what percentage of this have you excavated? a tiny percentage, we have dug in total 23 metres square. everywhere we dig we are finding really important archaeology, almost certainly a much bigger complex. there will be a flyoverjust about 300 metres from where we are standing to the east. it will be eight metres high. if that wasn't bad enough, the road here is going to be banged up another seven metres. all that logistical work willdrain metres. all that logistical work will drain the spring and take down the water table which is preserving all of these objects which are thousands of years old. the road has
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got to go somewhere. it does but why does it have to go here? this is one of the most precious landscapes in the world. so what does the man in charge of the scheme had to say about david and rachel's fears? we have gone and visited the site with the professor to listen to what he is saying. across the road we have bush barrow and the owner of the land says having the tunnel will impact the world heritage. land says having the tunnel will impact the world heritagelj land says having the tunnel will impact the world heritage. i have met her, we are listening to what she is saying and what the other 9000 bits of correspondence are saying. will you change your plan if it does not work? we are still in consultation and are analysing it in taking a view on the best way forward. earlier this month more than 20 eminent archaeologists and historians registered there are objections to the scheme. they echoed those of rachel and the
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professor but they are also concerned that the tunnel entrance near to bush barrow will destroy the views of the winter sunset. now thought to be fundamental to the stones positioning. the final plan for the proposed tunnel is expected in the autumn. building work schedule to start in 2020. next, the power of music can be quite remarkable as one group of people in dorset has been finding out. margaret plays the violin with the bournemouth university dementia institute 0rchestra. we dropped in on rehearsals. bolero, shall we do bolero? concert next week, haven't we? we will play this. 0k, bolero? concert next week, haven't we? we will play this. ok, let's play some music. we will go easy or g, you decide. nothing? g, on
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nothing we tend to go... so it goes" nothing we tend to go... so it goes... welcome to my orchestra. you should hear the berlin philharmonic do this. some of us have dementia and some of us are carers. great! fantastic. that is joe and david, their partners don't come any more but they still join david, their partners don't come any more but they stilljoin us every week. it's all a bit emotional bully the moment. sorry, i lost my husband a year ago tomorrow. he loved it, absolutely loved it. didn't he? yeah. that's why i still come. my wife came up until the end of the
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year, she is to tell now. but she spent every session wreathed in smiles —— she is too ill now. she was lifted by the whole thing, great to see her enjoy it. it's become like a to see her enjoy it. it's become likeafamily to see her enjoy it. it's become like a family now. it's astonishing how it brings us all together. there is me and my husband might, can you guess which of us has dementia? that's one of the best things about the orchestra, when we are playing all of that melts away. you see dementia is difficult but it does not mean you cannot have fun or take
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on new challenges. even the violin. 0ne lady this week was thoroughly enjoying it, herface, i made you turn around and look at her, it was lovely. we a re turn around and look at her, it was lovely. we are able to chat together and swap stories, how is your husband, all, mine did that, reassure one another we are not alone. what is happening, we are not imagining. it's part of the problem we have. it's so nice, a lot of them are in the same boat that i am. but luckily i've only got its light. at the moment. just keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't get any worse. it can be very annoying because you are trying to remember things and
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u nfortu nately, u nless trying to remember things and unfortunately, unless it stands out iam afraid unfortunately, unless it stands out i am afraid it goes to the back of your mind and it can be quite annoying and i assure you. makes you feel good because they are not worried whether you play the wrong note or anything. which happens quite a bit anyway! hillary also has the early stages of dementia. she does not let it get her down. i was talking to the co nsulta nt her down. i was talking to the consultant and i said i keep losing memory, i cannot remember people's names. it's not that bad, i was borderline. and they said well, i said, can! borderline. and they said well, i said, can i have a scan? you
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understand? i said yes, i want to know what's going on. and they found the brain... shrinking did he say? yeah. when i see the poor folks at the university i think how sad for them because they don't speak but they can smile a little, they don't have a conversation, you cannot realise how they think about it, what they feel. it's just something thatis what they feel. it's just something that is there. several times to the week hillary will start chanting who are cantona. i practice at home, i sleep and think about it. it's not something which happens on the day, we think about it at other times during the week. this is the last
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time. fantastic, well done everyone. todayis time. fantastic, well done everyone. today is a big day. we are putting ona today is a big day. we are putting on a concert for a live audience. we perform regularly to prove to others what people with dementia are capable of. learning, performing and drawing crowds. we might not be the greatest musicians but with the professionals alongside us we do make a good sound. sometimes it goes wrong and it sounds better if you see what i mean. can we keep that bit end? it will go wrong, inevitably it will go wrong. it has brought me out a lot more, not so withdrawn or anything like that. i'm going to go on as long as i can, i don't know what is
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going to happen sol long as i can, i don't know what is going to happen so ijust live life to the full in that respect. you cannot tell when he is strumming his ukelele but richard is the player with the most advanced dementia. the days he not out, if we are not doing anything he just in days he not out, if we are not doing anything hejust in his chair nodding and it's awful. it can be tough. it can be tough. i get quite emotional at times. i could know that i will not let myself. not strong, mentally, that isn't me but the situation we are in. it's not one you expect. it's very debilitating, wipes out everything, all memories. holidays, nice times you have had, all gone. he's a lovely man. so we are just going to be together. it is a bit worrying for both of us if we see one that is
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further on and you think, help. i hope not. very difficult to surmise that you are going to be like that later. i try not to think about it. applause finally it's just over 250 years since the famous naturalist gilbert whyte recorded the first butterfly in hampshire and that's a good enough excuse to ask expert matthew to tell us more about these colourful wonders of nature. butterflies captivated me as a child
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and that fascination blossomed and became my life ‘s work. they have been admired, collected and recorded in southern england for 250 years. each summer i try to visit as many of the special places in which rare butterfly zakkar. —— butterflies a car. today this is a place of pilgrimage for naturalists, they are attracted here by the living memory of the reverend gilbert whyte, the forefather of natural history. this is where it all started, the first record for a butterfly in hampshire and meal brimstone seen on the 8th of march 1766 by the reverend here in selborne in hampshire. he
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regarded it as being the harbinger of spring and even today a butterfly people diligently look out for on the first warm days of spring. there are otherfamiliar the first warm days of spring. there are other familiar butterflies we may not know all of their names but we know them for what they are. the souls of summer hours. iam i am talking about garden butterflies like the peacock, is more for the shell and red admiral. there are many other less well—known butterflies which are specialists of central southern england. they have dazzling names, long, strange named families like skippers which are fiery tarts whizzing around at great speed. and the rather elusive. 0n the downs there are the exquisite
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blues, beautiful blue butterflies. and in the woods big bold and brassy butterflies. many are quite rare and restricted to certain places due to their specific needs and some of those places have become our nature reserves. just outside the village of selborne is a nature reserve which is one of the richest and best loved a butterfly localities in the british isles, no less than 46 of the 59 species of butterfly recorded regularly in the uk have been found here within the last 40 years. that is mega. butterflies love hot, sunny weather in spring and summer. 40 yea rs
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weather in spring and summer. 40 years ago of course it was the long hot summer of 1976 and we briefly experienced a mediterranean climate and butterflies that year abounded. they are creatures of the sun. 0ne particular sun loving speciality is found during the spring. the duke of burgundy. i spent many years studying the subtle butterfly, it is a thug and a bully boy but one of my favourites. if you spend time searching the vegetation you might find the duke and the duchess together. as soon as she is ready to fly her grace the duchess of burgundy will gravitate into amiel territory. there she will be a rdently territory. there she will be ardently and territory. there she will be a rdently a nd insta ntly territory. there she will be ardently and instantly mated. there is no courtship in this species whatsoever. crucially each species needs certain plant species on which
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to lay its eggs. and her grace needs cowsli ps to lay its eggs. and her grace needs cowslips and primroses. here in the new forest the duke of burgundy became extinct three or four decades ago. but for about 150 yea rs four decades ago. but for about 150 years the new forest was the premier locality in britain for butterfly collecting. and the old collectors, during the victorian and edwardian eras in particular, but even into the 50s and 60s used to come here in d roves, particularly the 50s and 60s used to come here in droves, particularly injuly. they we re droves, particularly injuly. they were especially interested in the silver washed volatility. and the green coloured. the collected
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cabinet‘s worth and they still reside in museums today. servicing the collecting of session was a major local industry in the forest for about 150 years. in terms of providing board and lodging, food and drink, transport and guide is and drink, transport and guide is and also dealers and breeders who sold unusual specimens dead or alive too often rather gullible collectors. in bygone days, many of the new forest woods looked like this, butterfly paradise. after the first world war many of the new forest's oak woods were failed and replaced with
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fast—growing non—native conifers in a glorious cultural experiment of which are butterflies were unscheduled victims. the conifer woods are too shady and otherwise unsuitable for most butterflies. national policy has now changed to gloriously, the policy is to restore broadleaf woodland long—term and also remove altogether some conifer plantations and restore the land to open heaths. these open heaths are renowned for their specialist flora and fauna which includes the exquisite minuscule silver studded blue. there is much we can do to help our so—called garden butterflies. these are highly mobile
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creatures that drift around both the countryside and the towns, co nsta ntly countryside and the towns, constantly seeking new places in which to breed and live and it's important to give them feeding stations along the way. there is no better way of doing that than by growing bodley is in your garden. the good way of doing that is that they come in all shapes and sizes and colours, there are even tiny patio side ones and they work, tracking butterflies, hoverflies, bees and moths. mobility is to butterflies. wildlife friendly gardening really does help. butterfly populations boom and bust and ebb and flow according to the d i ktats of and ebb and flow according to the diktats of the weather. but if we
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have learnt anything about butterflies over the last 250 years it's that we love them, we care deeply about them, we value them for their beauty and the special places they take us. and as symbols of freedom. butterflies need us and we need them. that's it for now, and indeed for the series, we are back on bbc one in the autumn, until then goodbye. decent second part to the weekend
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for the vast majority with a good deal of sunshine, it shows we saw some figure crowd across eastern areas, the odd spot of rain but for many it was a lovely day and the sunshine translates to clear skies overnight. much like last night it will turn chilly, more breeze in the north—west. patchy rain in the western isles by the end of the night. temperatures up around eight or9 night. temperatures up around eight or 9 degrees but across the heart of the uk down 256 degrees. it should bea the uk down 256 degrees. it should be a bright start for much of england and wales, more cloud and breeze and patchy rain for northern ireland and west of scotland, fringing into the western side of wales but for the bolt a decent day, 16 or 17 degrees the top temperature in the south—east corner. tuesday sta rts in the south—east corner. tuesday starts graeme le saux teased with
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early patchy rain, most places dry and bright. this is bbc news. the headlines at five: a state of emergency has been declared in colombia after more than 250 people are killed in mudslides; many more are missing. police in croydon are treating a brutal attack on a 17—year—old kurdish—iranian boy as a hate crime — six people have been arrested. this was a cowardly and despicable attack, this is a young man who has come to this country to seek sanctuary and it appears he has been set upon. the writer, broadcaster and civil
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liberties campaigner, darcus howe, has died at the age of 74. a teenager whose mother and brother were stabbed to death at home says the family is "devastated". lydia wilkinson left flowers at the scene earlier. theresa may reassures gibraltar of britain's "steadfast" commitment and says she will work to secure the "best possible outcome" from brexit talks.

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