“p to 500 salisbury diners and pub goers are told to take precautions by england's chief medical officer after nerve agent traces are found. the people who were either in zizzi restau ra nt the people who were either in zizzi restaurant or the mill pub from 1:30pm last sunday on till evening closing on monday, should clean the clothes they wore. police say that officer nick bailey is still in a serious condition but is still —— is talking. the chancellor says there is cause for economic optimism ahead of his spring statement on tuesday. china approves the removal of term limits for its leader, effectively allowing president xi to remain in power indefinitely. welcome to a very cold inside out west midlands. tonight, the conman peddling dreams of breaking into the entertainment business. i am not a potential customer.

i'm a bbcjournalist and i have been investigating your business and you're conning people, aren't you? you're conning people out of thousands of pounds at a time. and the hunt for an historic shipwreck, lost for almost a century. it was just the most exciting moment in life, to have found it. we were hugging each other, dancing around the prop. and above a very ordinary shopping parade in birmingham, an almost mythical music venue, the who played here, led zepplin, black sabbath, fleetwood mac, jethro tull, eltonjohn played here the night before it closed. i am ayo akinwolere and this is inside out. tonight, we are in birmingham, and later on, we will be finding out about a festival celebrating some

of the extraordinary things that happened in the city 50 years ago, in 1968, but first, being a voice artist and doing things like computer games, adverts and audio books can be lucrative, but one serial conman has been cashing in on the dreams of those trying to break into the business. simon hare has been finding out more. hi, nice to meet you. come and have a sit down and we'll go through everything with you. ed harwell says he's a voice actor who can get you into the business. you are just where i was, sort of ten years ago. but ten years ago, inside out was exposing his nottingham company broadcast support. back then, he was using his real name, carl mould, and claiming he could help people become tv presenters but all he did was charge thousands for poor quality showreels and websites. five years ago he was jailed for conning pensioners out of thousands for mobility aids.

carl mould likes telling stories and creating characters. even one for himself, edward c harwell, filmed here at the custard factory in birmingham, a hub of creative businesses, including his own firm, sun king media. you are following me, aren't you? if i give you a story, will you go away? mould is full of tall stories. this is a promotional video on his website. i0,000—20,000 a month is achievable. my advice, get up early, work hard, and join sun king studios. now it is my full—time profession, i have absolutely no hesitation in recommending sun king media. glowing testimonials, but who are they and how accurate are those figures?

similar tales of high earnings have enticed dozens of victims, many of them pensioners. david taylor is a former president of his local rugby club in manchester. in his retirement, he has taken up acting and he gave ed harwell or carl mould £1,500 to help him become an audio book narrator. for 35 years i was in the prison service, and the last 20 of which i was a prison governor. you're probably going to say i should have known better, but we are all human, after all. the secret is, you play on people's desires, and that is the bit that i am really ashamed of, that i should have seen through it, really. i just feel a fool. all david got for his money was of foam—lined box described as a "home recording studio", a cheap microphone, and one audio recording uploaded to two free websites. i have come to see two voice—over industry experts.

hugh edwards is a casting director, and peter dixon one of the uk's best—known performers. i work in all the genres of voice—overs from commercials to big entertainment shows like x factor and britain's got talent, of course. it's time to face the music. it is a skill that you need to learn, and it takes time and practice. so what is their verdict on what david got for his money? that did not sound particularly professionally well done, the levels were too low, i was straining to hear it. you can do that yourself by recording yourself or paying maybe £100 to go into a studio and have some and press record, put it on youtube yourself for free. you can put it on amazon for free, you do not need to pay anyone to do this for you. that is appalling value for money that he's got there, it is saddening and sickening. i was always told... and what about those claims

of big money in return? 10,000—20,000 a month is achievable. there are voices artists in the world who do earn that, but you're talking about the top two or three percent. we all know in the industry that the audio book sector of the industry is low—paid. the sooner that this man who's running this company can be stopped the better. people need to be protected from him, soon. i want to see the sales pitch for myself. hello, i have got an appointment with sun king. i have come to meet ed harwell for what is billed as a free assessment of my voice—over potential. hi, nice to meet you. nice to meet you. sit down and we will go through everything with you. right. what the amazon group require from us is an audio book or a showreel that someone has worked on before.

right. our work area within the amazon group looks like this. but it isjust sun king media's youtube channel, and talk of links to amazon keep coming. we are affiliated with the amazon group. we are approved content providers and work in conjunction with them. it is not long before there are claims of how much i could earn. i have people doing pretty well out of it. i will show you. that is you, edward c harwell? that is you? yeah. and you got £11,000? dollars. that is for one month? blimey. it's not too shabby. after a bit of prompting, harwell or mould finally records my voice for his professional assessment. i am a broadcaster, but no actor. daughters of a deeply royalistic man convinced he was doing the king's work.

brilliant. nothing wrong with that at all. oh, right. absolutely bang on. you are just where i was ten years ago. i like to think i am leaving some kind of legacy. i wouldn't know what else to do now. i have found my niche. it has been a lucrative niche. inside out estimates he has taken more than £100,000 over the last 18 months. the custard factory says it was completely unaware of what mould was doing. it is grateful to inside out for bringing the matter to its attention, and it has terminated his lease. and the people in the video, we tracked them down to the website fivesquid.com, offering video testimonials forjust £10 or £20. they and the website expressed concern but said such testimonials are provided on condition they are clearly labelled as a paid—for promotion, something which mould did not do. the audio book company

within the amazon group, audible, says narrators are at the heart of its work. it takes this misrepresentation very seriously and its lawyers are contacting sun king media. it is time to confront mould. i have arranged to meet him outside a bank in birmingham. i am not a potential customer. i am a bbcjournalist and i have been investigating your business and you're conning people, aren't you? you're conning people out of thousands of pounds a time? really? yeah, you are. you're uploading poor quality audio to free to use websites, you're making false claims about how much money people can earn. you're making false claims about your relationship with amazon. you're not ed harwell, are you? you are carl mould, serial conman. do you want to say sorry? sorry for what? for conning people?

it is just rubbish. did you write all these stories in prison? because you were on a creative writing course in prison last time. is that the end of this interview? how long is it going to go on for? as long as you stand there. are you sorry? are you sorry for what you've done? i am not sorry for anything, i have not done anything wrong. so you do not think you've done anything wrong? absolutely not, no. inside out understands he has since left his offices at the custard factory but in a letter he told us that if anyone was not happy with the service he provided, they could come back and record it again. we recorded a special message for him. carl mould, it's time to stop conning the public! next tonight, an underwater detective story. it all started off with one man's dream to find an historic wreck lost for decades in a remote location. behind the doors of the national maritime museum in london lie a thousand stories of the sea. during the great war of 1914—1918, britain lost more than 5,000 ships across the globe. there were tales of glory,

there were tales of tragedy. there are some incredible naval war stories that are remembered and honoured in here today, but there is one tale you will not find in here, about the first merchant ship to be sunk during world war i. the city of winchester. a 6,000 tonne cargo ship that was sunk by a german cruiser in 1914, somewhere in the arabian sea. its whereabouts remained a mystery for more than 80 years, until one man changed all of that and found more than he could ever have imagined possible lurking at the bottom of the sea. steve dover from warwickshire heard whispers of a world war i wreck around the coast of oman in the 1980s. it began a 12 year obsession which started with him tracking down which ship it could be,

buying it from the british government for a pound, and ended with him convincing a team of divers to follow him to the hallaniyat islands. they are remote, the seas are dangerous between the mainland and the islands. we got there, 35 divers, in three boats, on—site, and i pretty much knew that i would find that wreck on the first dive. i was really, really confident. but confidence on land can quickly turn to doubt when you're 30 metres underwater. i was so confident. i had been organising and raising funds for two and a half years, 12 years of research, this was the moment. down the anchor line we went, hit the bottom, nothing. so we went along for a bit, i got my compass out, pretending i knew the way, which i didn't. and pete was right by my side.

he points down to my buoyancy compensator, the jacket that you wear, and underneath the flap of the jacket was a tiny little fish that had yellow and silver stripes on it, it is called a sergeant major fish. what he knew as a marine biologist was that this is a reef fish, so he is signalling to me follow this thing, follow this fish, and the two of us were following it. it was like a scene from finding nemo and the fish put on a final spurt and disappeared into the blue, and this shadow appeared in front of my eyes, and that was the stern of the city of winchester, the wreck. and it was just the most exciting moment in life to have found it and we were dancing, we were hugging each other, dancing around the prop, the propeller at the bottom of the rudder. not only was steve's discovery

important for historians, they caused ripples through the scientific community as well. so what we have is this wreck which over the course of 70 or 80 years has become a real haven for marine life, and because it is a metal hull, and it is a very long metal hull, all sorts of marine life is attached to it that would not necessarily want to attach to rocks. one of the exciting things about having a range of colourful fishes is it attracts other life as well, and that is why we were recording pods of dolphins every day. what had begun with looking for a 100—year—old shipwreck had now opened up a whole new world to explore. the city of winchester was once forgotten, but unlike all these relics of sunken warships that now are in a museum, it has a new lease of life, not just about the past but supporting life for the future. with quite literally the biggest finding imaginable. i have film of humpback

whales on the surface, of one humpback whale actually giving birth, and within the same time period, we have got film of them feeding. humpback whales do not feed and breed at the same time in the same place. this caused confusion. why were these humpback whales acting so out of character? could it be that this was an altogether new species? further studies were made by the ministry of foreign by the ministry for environment in the country. it was all followed up and in 2014, they declared a brand—new species of humpback whale as a consequence of what i found, the arabian sea humpback. but the ecosystem that's built up around the city of winchester is now in danger. when i went back there last year, after 17 years and dived around,

it was very clear there'd been a great depletion of fish life and species. when i spoke to the islanders they'd said to me that the fishing rights had been sold. you can't stop us and it's on the brink i would say of breaking down. one day there will be no arabian sea humpback whales in that area because they don't travel around, they tend to like their home, so if there is a threat they're stuck there. steve's idea is for a conservation area around the islands and the government of oman are considering his proposal. there's also a strict 25 mile no—take zone around the wreck. the no—go zone combined will mean the marine life will bounce back to where it was in about 5—10 years.

this could be the lifeline needed, to protect notjust the whales but this whole incredible ecosystem. there is such a wealth of research to do over the next decade and even then we will not have found all of the species and all of the many many things that i am certain dwell in and around the waters of those islands. so, the amazing tale of the city of winchester now has a new chapter at the bottom of the sea. and i wonder, how many other stories are out there, waiting to be discovered? the birmingham flatpack festival will start soon and this year it will feature a series of events marking things that happened in the city 50 years ago. so we sent comedian tom price back in time, well, sort of, to find out more. '# if i only had time # only time #.

it's no secret that we in the media love an anniversary, and they don't get much bigger than 50 years. well, ok, technically they do, but let's not get bogged down in details because 50 years ago, 1968, to be precise, was a pretty big year. in fact, there was so much going on that ian francis, founder of the flatpack film festival, held every year in birmingham, is organising a series of events to mark the year. a really interesting time in the city. all sorts of things going on, new bands, counter culture, student protests, so we've got a whole programme of exhibitions, screenings and events all over the city as the first weekend of the festival. one of the events will focus on an almost mythical music venue

which opened in the north of birmingham in1968, right here on erdington high street. yep, i know what you're thinking, it looks like that sort of place, doesn't it? this is music historianjez collins and we're meeting outside what was voted the best club in the world two years running, known simply as mothers. the club was only open three years but boy did it leave a legacy, and i'm not talking about the fact that it's now a supermarket. it's absolutely incredible, on erdington high street, not many people know about it, there's a little sign above, but honestly, this was the home of sounds. the who played here, led zeppelin, black sabbath, fleetwood mac, jethro tull. eltonjohn played here the night before it closed and moaned about it not having a grand piano. john peel was the resident dj, there's a gate behind us and he used to park his winnebago and sleep there, and he'd dj. so a really important place, notjust in birmingham but in terms of rock music history. they had a membership

that reached 45,0000, which is just insane for a club that could hold 300 people. 45,000 people became members at the time it closed. apparently global stars joan baez and bob dylan were members. well, i haven't been able to get them here today, to be honest, i didn't actually try, but i have arranged to meet two otherformer members, rob moore and syd wall, who are just as a—list but a bit more local. i hardly recognised it when i walked in. i can still remember where the stage was. where was the stage, then? the stage was over there. it went from that corner right over to here. i went to most of these. there's a couple that i didn't see. the one that i wish i had seen which i couldn't get to was this pink floyd one. whatever happened to them? where did they go?! when zeppelin first played, it was the first gig of their first uk tour.

my brother has got photographs of the gig, and they are in the loft, he said he can't find them. got to get in there! try and find them, try and find them. syd's brother's photos aside, regrettably there seems to be very little archive of the club, but, although mothers closed in 1971, in 2016 its name cropped up in american courts when led zeppelin were successfully defending themselves against a charge of plagiarism brought about by the band spirit, who alleged their song taurus was the inspiration for stairway to heaven. well, when spirit came to play here at mothers there were rumours that page and plant were here, and part of that evidence was that plant and page were here and they would have heard taurus played and that planted that seed in their minds that that music hook turned into stairway to heaven. life in late ‘60s birmingham

wasn't all glamour and rock and roll, though. in the south of the city, american photographer janet mendelsohn spent much of 1968 documenting balsall heath, a down on its luck suburb. her pictures will form one of the exhibitions in the flatpack festival. why was she drawn to balsall heath? it was a big subject in the media for various reasons, really, to do with housing, immigration. there were lots of photographers coming here. but on the whole, the media covered it in kind of a sensationalist way and janet's project was much more about, let's show life, the everyday fabric of life. you've got pictures of this crossroads here, so this is a butcher's, grocer‘s here. so that is literally that? yeah. that corner there is that? that corner there.

that's incredible. a number of cafes. it was a very busy spot. yeah. and this treasure trove of photographs, we nearly lost it, didn't we? yeah, it was hidden away for many years. she went back to america, it ended up in her attic in massachusetts. that's amazing to think that great resource was sitting in an attic in massachusetts. yeah, we has no idea about any of this. a guy at the university got in touch with her a few years ago and she just basically sent two massive boxes full of prints and negatives. and suddenly we've got this incredible document of what balsall heath was like in the 1960s. it's hardly surprising these photos have generated such interest amongst historians, but there's also a personal side to them. whilst researching the project, ian found a photo taken in 1968 of the shop uncles. the owner, mr singh, opened it shortly after arriving in the uk from india but didn't have any pictures of it from the time. surinder, tell us, how did you and your dad feel when ian found

this amazing photograph? taken aback, as you can imagine we've never had a photograph. dad was tearsome, it did bring tears to his eyes. just overwhelming, really. what makes the photo even more poignant is that the woman in the alley is mr singh‘s wife, surinder‘s mother. she died in 1977. mr singh, how did it feel to see this? i was really glad, i was really glad when i seen this picture. i don't know if you know this, but ian has been looking into the archives, there's a new exhibition coming up. and whilst researching that new exhibition, he's found some other photographs. so, ian, over to you. you mentioned that the lady in the alleyway was your wife, your mum.

i had a dig around and there were actually a couple of closer shots from the collection. there's your mum. is it? fantastic. yeah, that's mum. that is a truly, truly great photo. isn't that gorgeous? look at that. i love that. and who is the child? she's my daughter. it's great. very nice. we haven't got many pictures of mum. this is really nice. now in her 70s and unlikely to return to birmingham again, janet and the singhs will probably never meet, but we've sent her this footage so she can see for herself just what an impact her photos are still having on people, half a century after she took them. well, there we are, just a snapshot of the plethora of things

going on in birmingham in 1968, 50 years ago. hope you enjoyed it. i'll be back next year with a special feature looking at 1969. that's how this works, right? has anyone got a history book i can borrow? right, that's your lot for tonight. don't forget, we are on the iplayer and also on twitter at bbciowm. we'll see you next week, have a good one. bye— bye. most of us are seeing some sunshine occasionally today but umbrellas at the ready. there are showers around particularly into england and wales, it is turning wetter across south—west england as we speak. there is still snow on the ground as we know, across some areas, despite the fact temperatures have come up. yesterday there was rain on snow. the area of low pressure providing showers towards the south—west of the uk at the moment and we will see along the of rain edging into pots

of cornwall and devon. this is the radar picture. it will push into parts of southern england and south wales as the afternoon goes on. one to showers around but plenty of dry, fine weather to be had, too. this is how it looks as we go through the next few hours. bring on the far north of scotland becoming confined to ship them. showers may pop up to what parts of northern england but much of northern england, northern ireland and scotland staying fine. a mild afternoon in scotland. in some spots the temperature creeps into double figures. a little bit lower to the south, after yesterday, beating 15 celsius. the warmest day of the year so far. through tonight we will take a band of rain northwards to the rest of england and wales. further showers will follow one. eventually rain reaches dear eastern parts of northern ireland and southern scotland tomorrow morning. a few fog patches developing. more so into scotland, low cloud and fog around here. and for most of us tempered to sustain just above freezing. this is how

monday is shaping up. low pressure to the south producing showers, longer spells of rain. and the east of northern ireland into southern parts of scotland, much of scotland will be fine. the best of the sunny spells would be to the western side of northern ireland and western parts of scotland. as the temperatures, they are relatively low compared to today. more of us in single brother than double figures. the picture for tuesday. a lot of cloud and patchy rain in the east to start the day. a bridge of high—pressure moving in but low pressure is following on from the south—west and that will dominate things from wednesday onwards. this is how the week ahead is shaping up. asimilar is how the week ahead is shaping up. a similar picture for much of the uk. tuesday is quieter but wednesday onwards there will be some rain around at times due to low pressure. these temperatures are fairly close to average for the time of year, so for many others it will be close to double figures. more updates online and through the hour.

this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 2pm: up to 500 salisbury diners and pub—goers are told to take precautions by england's chief medical officer after nerve agent traces are found. the people who were in either zizzi restaurant or the mill pub from 1:30pm last sunday until evening closing on monday, should clean the clothes they wore. police have given an update on the condition of the sick officer, nick bailey,

and pay tribute to his bravery. nick isa nick is a much loved, dedicated police officer with us in wiltshire. he isa police officer with us in wiltshire. he is a large character and we miss him. also in the next hour — china's congress approves