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tv   Inside Out  BBC News  November 17, 2018 1:30pm-2:01pm GMT

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night, a record amount. thank you very much for your company during the morning. now, inside out joins a team of wreck divers revealing the story of the southwest trawlerman who gave their lives during the first world war. hello and welcome to inside out south west — stories and investigations from where you live. tonight: a search for heroes — finding the last resting place of the makeshift minesweepers. this is the last piece of the world war i wrecks that have not been found in falmouth. it'd just nice to have that complete. also tonight: we investigate the tragic consequences of mental—health misdiagnosis. it's hard to live with what i'm dealing with day in, day out and i just want the chance to be better, to live a normal life. and the dorset town that has it all, except young people. the house prices are
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pretty much through the roof. why is bridport so old? because people are spotting how great bridport is and they're moving here to retire, and then they're living longer than ever. i'm jemma woodman and this is inside out south—west. in a quiet backwater on the fal estuary, a team of divers is preparing to investigate a mystery, one that's puzzled historians since the first world war. they're trying to find the last resting place of 11 men who died protecting this stretch of coast. they weren't soldiers or full—time sailors, but fishermen. this is the little—known story of the british trawlermen who, during the first world war, became minesweepers. they were a band of men
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who would pay a huge price for their bravery. just as it is today, in 1914 falmouth was a vital deep water port in a strategic position for ships navigating atlantic trade routes. to challenge britain's superior naval power, the germans produced thousands of u—boats. they were effective as torpedo boats, but even more deadly as mine—layers, leaving highly explosive charges in british shipping lanes. britain responded by pressing more than 400 trawlers into service as makeshift minesweepers. they were small, manoeuvrable and their crews knew local waters, but this was a new type of warfare. there was no handbook or training. where they knew there was a minefield, you would send out these ships in pairs with, effectively, ropes strung
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between them with knots along the length of the rope. the idea was that this would then catch the mooring of the mine. once you know who've snagged something in it, the ships would steer in parallel in a zigzag, thus forcing the mine and it could be destroyed by rifle fire, generally. —— cable between two knots, until eventually it would be severed and it could be destroyed by rifle fire, generally. for trawlermen, life would have been extremely tense. they really were in imminent danger at any point. never knowing where that would come from leads to a huge build up of tension. they had an extremely high mortality rate. you've got nearly a i9% chance of dying doing this work, which is higher than if you're frontline infantry. in december 1916, a cornish trawler, the st ives, hit a mine and sank in falmouth bay. all 11 crew, local trawlermen and naval reservists, were lost.
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one name is remembered at kimberly park's war memorial in falmouth, but the wreck of the vessel has never been found. diver mark milburn and historian dave gibbins are now on a mission to find it, starting with the original telegram that reported the loss. and in it he states quite clearly that it was blown—up by a mine two miles west—south—west of st anthony, so we scaled off two miles. that's south west. west—south—west is approximately there, so we're somewhere off of penance point. i've dived this area extensively in the past. i've also dived it looking for the st ives and i've not found any information, i've not found any parts, any pieces that are relevant. they've also obtained a copy of the official war office report of the sinking and this gives the location not as west—south—west, but as south—south—west of st anthony — only one letter
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different, but more than a mile from the site where divers have been searching for nearly a century. could it be that a simple typing error has sent generations of divers to the wrong place? what would you expect to see of the st ives? well, the main thing probably would be boiler parts. which is going to be a small boiler. small plates with lots of holes in it. if it's intact, it is probably only going to be five, six foot long, may four foot in diameter. yeah. if the team's theory is correct, there's a challenge in store. there's already a known and significant wreck at this newly—identified site. in 1940, an oil carrier, the caroni river, hit a mine in falmouth bay. after partially sinking, she was still a hazard to shipping and had to be blown—up by the royal navy. it could be that the caroni river sank directly on top of the st ives and the divers will have to search
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for clues underneath this massive wreck. or the explosion to sink her may have mangled both ships together. what we do is we accrue ever more convincing we are in the middle of the wreckage, it is spread out. we go to the most northerly part. can wreckage from the st ives be found among the remains of the caroni river — a ship nearly four times it's size? the divers soon find the wreck of the caroni river. the site is more than 100 metres across. the twisted metal evidence of the huge explosion that sent her to the seabed. decades of tides, corrosion, silt and marine life have taken their toll on the site.
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it's going to be hard to distinguish the wreckage from two different ships. the site is covered in tonnes of netting. cutting it away so the divers can see what's beneath could take weeks. frustrated, the divers return to the surface. they've only searched a small area of the wreck site, but they're optimistic, convinced the wreckage of the st ives is down there somewhere. it could be under the net, it could be anywhere. this is a massive ship — 7,800 tonnes, it's 139 metres long. it's a massive thing. it's there somewhere, it's just exactly pinpointing we weren't able to do today. it's late summer and the divers are, once again, heading
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out into falmouth bay. another dive team has told mark about a separate section of wreck, south of the main area they've been diving so far. satellite navigation takes the team straight to the spot. we've covered that bit so well now, i'm thinking that it's got to be in this piece. finding this separate section of the caroni river should be easy. finding the wreck of the much smaller st ives will be much harder. two, one, go! and just minutes into the dive, mark finds what he's been looking for — the distinctive end plates of exactly the type of steam boiler that would have powered the st ives. the holes in these distinctive perforated slabs of steel would have held the rods that heated the water
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to make steam. this wreckage could never have been from the caroni river. mark's convinced this is the last resting place of the st ives and her crew. good to see it? yeah, yeah! i'm so glad we've found it at last. it's taken a while to find it. it's such a big area to search, it's just nice to actually find it at last. among the wreckage, mark has even found coal that might have fuelled the steam boiler. this is coal. it's right next to where the boiler was. they'll visit the wreck one more time, to pay their last respects to the 11 who died in a bloody, but forgotten chapter of the first world war. it's just nice to have found it at last. it could have taken forever. we still haven't seen the whole wreck. i'm very happy that we have found it and i'm convinced that it is the st ives. next, we had to west dorset
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and a place once voted by bbc viewers as one of the top ten best market towns in britain, but if it's that good, why are so many young people moving out? we sent our reporter claire jones to find out. a stone's throw from the world—famous jurassic coast lies beautiful bridport. who wouldn't want to live here? now i'm sort of like retired, not doing any work and i've got my bus pass, i canjustjump on the bus to bridport. we love it and we're trying to enjoy our last year's as much as we possibly whilst we've got the opportunity. i like the buildings. i like the mentality and, hopefully, my car won't get broken into! that's what i like about bridport! and you can see their points — bridport has a lot to offer. the town and its historic harbour
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at west bay are showcased by some of the best scenery in the south—west. the place is steeped in history. its rope and net—making dates back to at least the 13th century. it's easy to see why so many sing bridport‘s praises. and yet, like west dorset as a whole, the town is facing something of an economic crisis, a crisis rooted in the changing shape of its population. more than one—in—three people here are over 65. that's forecast to grow to nearly one—in—four in the next 20 years. what's happening is that people are spotting how great bridport is and they're moving here to retire, and then they're living longer than ever, but that's only part of what's going on here. rob warr is bridport born and bred. he works at a local pub and is settled here. but it's reckoned 3,000 people
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of working age are going to move out of dorset over the next ten years and rob's14—year—old son, eli, might end up being one of them. what's it like to grow up in a town that's got quite a lot of older if the house prices were lower, if there weren't so many people buying second homesjust to have somewhere to holiday, i think bridport would be better for young people, like in their late teens, early 205. i work with quite a few and a lot of them have said, i might have to move away, even just a across the border up round yeovil way, it's so much cheaper. such arguments are nothing new, as rob knows well. i can't see any sort of future job—wise. not the present way it's going, anyway. 37 years ago, rob was filmed for a documentary about the changing face of his hometown. i'm hoping to move away from bridport. there's not really sort of anything for the young people.
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it's boring. there's nothing to do. i think that's why most people turn to vandalism—type thing. it's because they've got nothing better to do so they think, "oh, we'll make our own entertainment". more and more retirees were moving in, pushing up the cost of housing. unemployment was heading for 12%. it was a tough time to be a teenager. all i've got to do is either go to the youth club and play badminton or pool or something, or stay at home, mainly. unless, of course, you've got the money to go in the pub. young rob escaped to london. but not for long. i thought london, the big city, the bright lights, you know, and it wasn't. it wasn't what i thought or what i had hoped. but, yeah, i came back and realised what i was actually, what i'd missed in the first place. this is where rob eventually found work as a young man,
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the town's biggest employer then and now. the business has changed hands over the years, but nets and ropes have been made on the site for generations. these days, it's high—tech stuff. the military is a big customer and so the business needs graduate engineers, exactly the sort of young people who could boost bridport‘s economy. for us, we have to offer them good packages and we are trying to offer them good benefits and we are trying to get them to come and actually visit the facility and see what we do what the company is about and actually getting them here is quite once they are here, —— quite hard, once they're here we stand a good chance of attracting them, but it's a difficult environment, especially to get young, skilled, highly—skilled engineers because there is a lot of good opportunities elsewhere in the country. if bridport owes its past to one kind of net, maybe its future is in another. this was the town's old library. now it's a beautifully restored cafe and shared workspace.
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it's home to crowdfunder, a high profile internet—based business that helps good causes raise money. founder simon devereux wants to raise interest in bridgeport, too. —— bridport. we need to attract, be part of that attraction of other businesses coming and seeing what we are doing here and making that decision and realisation that you can run their digital business, you can run a leading digital business from anywhere outside of one of the major cities around the uk, and i think by us being here we can attract other businesses to come and do the same thing here. nobody wants the town to die. we got to keep it fresh and have got to keep people motivated and i hope that when young people do leave, for whatever experiences they are leaving for, they will come back and bring that knowledge and experience back to the twon and share it with other people. and that's exactly what rob warr hopes for young eli. he's had a really good start in life, teaching—wise and that.
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so, it's now very much the ball is in his court to do what he wants what his heart wants to do. if he had to move away, then, yeah, i would support that. as any parent would. it's a condition that far more of us suffer from than you might think. and it carries a high risk of suicide. borderline personality disorder is often misdiagnosed, misunderstood and stigmatised. as the government pledges more money for mental health services, both patients and clinicians say it is time for change. joanna from west devon has been struggling with mental health issues for years. she has experienced huge mood swings often linked to problems in relationships. i have been treated
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for depression as long as i can remember, which at times has had that numbing effect on health we get —— and helped me get through, but i knew that wasn't the whole issue, the whole problem. at times the depth and intensity of her mood swings have brought on dark thoughts and dangerous behaviour. it's really exhausting. i'm notjust feeling like this occasionally, it is all day, every day i am battling with different emotions. sometimes i don't even know what my emotions are, they are just so overwhelming. there has been times i have thought that i just can't live like this any more, just day in, day out being this tired, this exhausted. after years of taking antidepressants, joanna researched her symptoms herself and, after seeing a sympathetic gp, was finally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. it is often marked by attachment issues, likejoanna has.
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it's thought it affects one in a hundred of us. amongst the most serious sufferers, there is an estimated 7% up to 10% suicide risk. a recognised effective treatment is something called dialectical behaviour therapy, a form of intense one—to—one counselling. but instead, joanna was offered a self—help course. basically, they referred me to a support group which was self—help. it was nothing about dbt. it was nothing that i was expecting. it was hugely frustrating. it's difficult to know that there is stuff out there, but to feel like you can't really cure it and things like that, but there is proof this treatment can help. i just want the opportunity to make myself better and live a better life. long waits are one issue,
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misdiagnosis is another problem. one thing that is not thought to help people with this is going into hospital. consultant psychiatrist andy montgomerie left the nhs last year. he believes to bpd diagnosis is often wrongly used as a way of managing access to expensive emergency beds. i have used the expression, a dirty little secret, to describe a phenomenon which occurs of people making a diagnosis of bpd as a justification for not admitting people into hospital. this is rising due to tremendous pressure in beds in the mental health services at the moment. there are not enough beds to support people who need them. clinicians look for reasons for justifying not admitting people the ——patients to hospital. one thing they can do is make
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a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder because we know that people with that often don't do well in hospital. unfortunately, that diagnosis is being used wrongly, inaccurately, leading to people who may benefit from going to hospital being excluded from services. carol was diagnosed with bpd last year, but she wasn't convinced they had the right diagnosis. when i went in to see the doctor initially, they diagnosed me with borderline personality disorder. i felt before i even went in they had an idea about what they thought of me before i went there. i didn't feel like i was listened to. when i came away from the appointment and i received a letter summarising the appointment giving me the diagnosis, it actually had incorrect information on the letter. for example, around self harm and things, symptoms that i didn't have. after a year with the bpd diagnosis, carol was told she was bipolar,
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or had manic depression. that is marked by mood swings, but they tend to be -- it is —— it isa —— it is a different condition. it is also marked by mood swings, but they tend to be much longer in duration and there is a hyperactive 01’ duration and there is a hyperactive or extended manic phase, that does not tend to happen with borderline personality disorder. sadly, this doesn't always happen accurately, the diagnosis is sometimes made inaccurately and i have witnessed in my clinical experience at least... many occasions, when people have experienced harm as the result of a wrong diagnosis, and on two occasions at least people have died following incorrect diagnosis as borderline personality disorder, thus excluded from mainstream services. carol is angry at misdiagnosis. living with the wrong diagnosis meant that i didn't get
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the correct treatment, which meant i had extreme mood swings for those two years, swinging between episodes of mania and episodes of severe depression, which affected my behaviour and the way i live my life, which then impacted on every aspect of my life, really. the treatment for borderline personality disorder does not at all tweets bipolar, so even though i was having bad, it didn't solve anything that was going on for me. carol is not on medication which controls her —— now on medication, which controls her symptoms and she is able to hold down a responsiblejob. here at oxford university's department of psychiatry, they are researching both bpd and bipolar to try and improve diagnosis between the two and work towards more effective treatment. dr kate saunders was part of the team that looked at how consultants diagnose the condition. what we found was that in routine clinical assessments, clinicians were not applying all of the diagnostic criteria for the disorder as they were assessing.
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despite that, many of them are still quite happy to make a diagnosis. it was very difficult to know what that was based on. for patients, getting the diagnosis right and understanding of his key in their engagement with any subsequent treatment, their understanding of their difficulties and ensuring they get a treatment that is evidence based. —— understanding it is key. kate's team is by looking into the two mood disorders. volunteers, some healthy, some with bpd and some with bipolar were asked to complete a regular mood survey ona smartphone application. at the same time, their sleep patterns and activity levels were monitored by a wristwatch. healthy people on the left—hand graph should clear periods —— showed clear periods between midnight and six when they were asleep. those with bpd on the right—hand graph showed much more random periods of activity and rest. people with bpd can be easily distinguished by the variability of
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their moods, but also they have a distinctly disturbed pattern of sleep, very distinct from healthy people and distinct from other psychiatric disorders. that is really interesting because of his —— it's specific to the diagnosis, but is something that we could specifically target. sleep is something for people with bpd that they report as a problem. it enables us to do something new that has the potential to really change things. back in devon, joanna still has little idea of when she will get the therapy she says is long overdue. ifeel like i have got so much potential in my family, my friends, they love and care for me and they do want to see me through when my life away, but it is hard to live with what i am dealing with,
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day in, day out and they just want the chance to be better, to live a normal life. from clinicians and sufferers alike, the plea is for both greater understanding of and greater resources for this complex, disabling condition. with mental health higher than ever before on the political agenda, the hope that at long last the condition attracts the funding needed for effective diagnosis and treatment. that is all from us for this week, butjoin us again next week when we revisit some of our best stories of 2018. i will see you then. getting sunnier story for many of us
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today. plenty of sunshine on the way tomorrow, before next week it is cloudy and going to be cold as well. some early cloud around in northamptonshire today but the blue sky has taken over for most of us by now, and with high pressure on the continent, it is drier air that has been coming in so far today. a lot of the cloud has been disappearing. not everywhere. around the uk, at apm, still a bit of patchy cloud through the isles of scilly, parts of cornwall and devon. part of north—east england along the coast, northern ireland and eastern scotland. elsewhere, plenty of
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sunshine. with cloud, you release —— masie a bit of drizzle but with some rain, a glorious afternoon. knocking on the door of the mid teens. elsewhere, around 9—12d in that south—easterly breeze, which for many of us if a little stronger wind than we are in the past couple of days. many others will be dry and clear overnight but still a bit of cloud in scotland and north east england. enough of a breeze to stop it going down too far. that will allow a touch of frost and places. the chilly start tomorrow morning but a glorious start, with plenty of sunshine around. for most of us, that will continue throughout the day. a sunny day in northern ireland, with a bit of patchy cloud and eastern scotland and for some in north—east england. the temperatures are fairly similar, still around 9-12 are fairly similar, still around 9—12 degrees. as a look at the picture going into monday, more of an easterly developing. that will usherin an easterly developing. that will
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usher in some colder. noticeably, more cloud around as well. the combination of the two comedy cold a plus cloud, will make it feel very different on monday. —— the two—day ash cold air plus cloud. with thicker cloud, you could encounter a bit of travel. into tuesday, perhaps a few more sunny spells around. you will notice the blue, a greater chance of a few showers. maybe wintry over the highest ground. in the stronger, easterly wind it will even cold on tuesday. into single figures for many of us. factor in the wind, particularly down the eastern side of the uk, it will feel closer to freezing, maybe even a little below. a big change in how the weatherfield coming up in the week. enjoy the sunshine and relative warmth that many of us have still this weekend. this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 2pm... five ministers in theresa may's
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