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now on bbc news, we are england: northern sole. one of the largest shoe factories in the uk is celebrating its 40th anniversary. we spend time with two new starters and say farewell to veteran roy who's been there a0 years. you don't realise how much goes into a trainer until you actually make them. there is a lot to learn. the first day i went in, i was like, "oh, jesus. what?!" when i make a good shoe, i'm like, "i'm class."

wahey! it comes in the box and it says "made in flimby." yeah, pretty special. teamwork makes the dream work. let's have a good day. i will. i'll try my best, michael. thank you. so this was all part of millers at that time. it's been an unbelievable journey. we are just out of the way, a little place out of the way. the same as everything, once you know what you're doing, it's easy enough. i've been working since i left school, so it's time to give it a day, i think. give me some love. keep the faith, everybody.

i've been at the factory for about five months. we're just on the way to work. it's not a long journey. monday to thursday, every day. the first day i went in, i was like, "what? !" but it's the same as everything, do and it's easy enough. you don't realise how much goes into a trainer until you actually make them. we are just out the way. a little place out of the way. especially flimby, where it's based, you know, no—one�*s heard of flimby, but we're literally as far in the corner of the country

as you can get. i've drove past a thousand times, and i've never thought it was that big and there was all these things inside there and quite a lot to take in when you first go in there. let's move vicki across. i'll come in 7:00, and the first thing i'll do is i'll talk to my team leaders as they come in. we'll look at if we've got any staffing issues, if we've got

anybody that's off. so, then we've got another option to at least put ryan back in there and keep sourced numbers going. ryan goes in there. you'll take cath back, mike, yeah? nick would be your primer, got michelle spare. we have approximately 275 associates. not all manufacturing. there's about 220, 230 manufacturing associates. the rest are employed through planning departments and engineering departments. we have a brief meeting with each of the team leaders to review that first hour of the morning. morning, all. safety checks have all been done. 0k. so what you like with people in your own team? any new absences? no, no new absences. so really it's about identifying the issues they've got on a daily basis as it's happening, so that we can then take that away with the areas of support

that we've got and put in place for them to be a success. can you actually get that 180 through today? well, we're getting a lot of slipped stitching on one of the passes. so what's the problem initially, then? well, we're struggling to get it in the machine, so when we get to here, it was hard to push it into the machine. we've had this problem before with a football boot we had. can we try a few and see if you can get that momentum and consistency right? stitching is one of the hardestjobs in the factory because you're notjust stitching with one needle. you're following two needles round and stitch at an angle. so you've got to, like, be really experienced to follow a shoe all the way around. right, so you're almost having to force that through as well as it walking through? yeah. that almost suggests to me that one needle is higher than the other. you're kind of swivelling on the top needle to some degree. yeah. we're set up in a very lean manufacturing way in our value streams, and a problem on one machine can stop the whole team and it's

that that causes the pressure because everyone wants to do well. i'm happy with that one. do you feel like you can do that consistently now, or...? it's ok now going forward? yes. let's have a good day. i will, i'll try my best, michael. thank you. the company started in 1906, and kind of catered to the business of people who had foot problems. and then ultimately in 1937 made the first running shoe. it's been an unbelievable journey, growing as we have over those 50—plus years.

i think to make a high—end, high—quality product, you need experienced operators. experienced cutters, experienced stitchers, experienced lasting and making operations that are so critical in the shoe. we're at around 370,000 pair a year and we have our five—year plan that gets us to around half a million pair. and i think another natural goal would be a million.

but we will continue to employ significant numbers of people here making those products. i would say that there are plenty of people around, it's a question of training and being patient with them and getting them up to the skill set, which can take up to six months for an operator to attain the skillset and then the speed. it was �*82 when it opened, and i started in 1983. myjob is leather cutting and i've done it since i left school when i was 15, 16, probably, when i got into it. david's cutting that. those two pieces there, the saddle and the tip, and i'm cutting that piece at the back at the moment. when you get a job

on a style of leather, you should really check it all out before you start cutting it. you just look at it, weigh it all up, look at it and go, "i can't put that in, i can't put that in," and just work round it. you can see there is a mark on here and i've got to work out what's the best way of going round it without wasting too much material. i'll have to change my method of cutting to get around that mark. so you can see here now, i've more or less gone around it without wasting a lot of material. you've got to think forward all the time. you've got to keep thinking forward. you know material is expensive,

when you think about it. say something gets cut wrong and it goes right the way through all those processes within the team, there's 22 people on a team, and if you don't start it off properly, it will end up badly. you know, you can cost the company a lot of time. do the same thing every day, do it to the best of my abilities and hopefully i don't get no rejects. hello, roy, how are you? hello, mate. how have you been? i've been 0k. good, good. we're going to miss you for sure, and i'll know you'll miss us. of course i will. the camaraderie with the whole team. yeah. i've enjoyed my time here. i'll enjoy my life away from it. i'll do what i wanted to do for a very long time — show me dogs, judge me dogs and do a bit of spinning

with my records, northern soul. northern soul, yep. i've always liked northern soul and motown. when i was about 16, i went to a place down wolverhampton and seeing people dancing. it was a different scene. it was all proper northern soul, soul music. and of course, i went to wigan casino in 1973 and never looked back really. it was all to do with the music and the collecting of records and the dancing and that sound. used to get the hair stand up on the back of your neck when you heard that sound and everybody was together. everyone was there for reason only, for the music, and it was just a fantastic scene.

there you go. frank wilson, indeed i do. and the scene's never died, it's still bigger than ever. each team does different styles and have different targets. leather shoes and they'll do pig skin shoes or new buck shoes. i get the shoe once it's all been stitched together. basically, my main two jobs at the moment are, i toe last the shoe, which is obviously the front of it, the toe. i put it in the machine, and it wraps the toe around so it's nice and flat under it. and then i side last it, so i do the same with the back and i shave off any lumps or excess glue on there and then i put that in the robot

and then that goes on to the next person. the reason we brought them in is, we recognise that we make a handmade shoe, and we want to continue to do that. the craftsmanship, our customers love the fact that they're handmade shoes, so we have to be careful about the balance between automation and manual work. the reason for the robots was actually all about protecting our associates, so the manual roughing process as it used to be was quite impactful in terms of rsi. you have this perception outside that everything is moving to really advanced technology, and everything is automated. actually, it's not — we're making handmade shoes here. when i make a good shoe, i'm like, "i'm class." i've never really looked at how many people wear the product up until i've been working there but you realise it's massive, especially in the local area.

this is the first time i've actually been down this way for over 30—odd year, i would have thought. you can see the factory now as it was. obviously, it's been done up a lot since then. this was all part of millers at that time, they used every room in this place. when i left school, you could get a job in a few days — steelworks, millers shoe factory, barter, that's not there now. well, i started off and you were called barrow boys and you used to go around taking all the wastage off the cutters. and i learnt how to cut linings and progressed onto cutting sandals and then on to cutting dress shoes and then onto cutting boots. it was all another step upwards all the time.

millers at that time, they were getting work from harrods and top—quality designer shops and things. it's been shut for about 30—odd years now, 35 year now. it's a bit sad, really, because it was a big employer of cockermouth at that time. it was 1,800 people when i started at that time in 1970. yeah, sad. but it's like anything else — things shut down, don't they? in the early �*80s, we saw a lot of demand and we looked around england and found cumbria, where there was a lot of shoe makers, buildings were already set up here, infrastructure and suppliers. we felt this would be a good

location for us within europe and we started production in august of 1982. one of the unique features we've been able to put in there is that anniversary tongue label thatjust lets people know they're a little different from our normal shoe. 1982 to 2022. 80% of what we manufacture here is exported across the world, so anybody picking up a pair of these shoes will know that they're celebrating, for us, the 40 years that we've been manufacturing here. it's been a great time, and hopefully we'll be around for the next a0 years.

we do the ns on the saddles, the foxing on the back of the shoe, the collars along the top of the back of the shoe and then the tongue tops. teamwork makes the dream work. gemma keeps us in check. she's hilarious. have you showed him your clocking in card? oh, no. oh, you need to see this. gemma, where's yours, just for comparison? i said, "do i have tojust stand here and smile or can i do a little peace and pout?" she said, "you can do whatever you want," so i was like... so these go onto the back of the shoe. it's quite nice to do because theyjust run right through.

some days go quicker than others. i think itjust depends what you're on. this has been nice material to work because it's went quite fast. if it's things like leather, leather always stops and leather always snaps needles. 0bviously once a needle�*s snapped in one saddle, then you have to bin that and get it recut. when it's, like, bad and you're stopping every five minutes, it's like, "oh the day's never going to end," but there we go. as long as we get four lines an hour, we're 0k. it's not so bad. no, it's not bad because you're always changing shoes. yeah, and we get to move around. yeah, we take turns on either side, so it's not one thing, like, the same thing over and over. it's quite satisfying to watch, you know, when itjust goes and it's like, "oh, that's nice." i was in subway for three weeks and then, before that, i was in costa and, before that, i was in a takeaway. i went from barely having any

weekend off to every weekend off and i didn't realise how much of a lack of a social life i had until now. now it's getting closer, i'm like... honestly, like, a year ago, i was like, "everything will get sorted, it's all done, just need to get excited now." and now it's literally like two months, and everything's gone wrong. we've just sacked our singer. what about them people from wigton that your mam and dad know? what, my aunties? no, the singers, unless your aunties can sing? oh, no. no, we're not having them. why? if he gets on a mic when he's drinking, it'll be like something out of a horror programme for us. two years to the day since we got engaged. we met on tinder, that is literally it.

we both swiped right. we're here to pay off the rest of the wedding bill, please. so £108.50 is the balance. card, please. cheers for your help. spot on. see ya now, bye. it's all paid now. we can start getting excited eventually. start off left hand on top. yep. it's all technique. once you get comfortable doing it, you won't even think about it. basically, you want to mark around the shoe with a pen so when it goes to the next person, they put cement on the bottom of the sole and on the bottom of the shoe so when it goes through the machine, it heats up and the next person

can put it together. it's not bad but... it could be better. yeah. see how it's a bit off to the side there? it needs to be a bit more centred. well, at first i thought, "i'm struggling a little bit here," because i see other people doing it and they're just like... they grab the shoe, right round, two seconds, it's done. he's doing well. it's quite a hard job to pick up but, once you get the hang of it, it's not a bad job, to be honest. i'm only 5'6", 55" maybe when i've got shoes off. you're quite high up with your arms. do you want me to get you a yellow pages? maybe, aye. he's a good laugh, paul. you can tell, even when he's having a laugh, you know when he thinks you've done a good job. that's spot on, that. that's perfect. you would have thought i'd done that myself. but as you progress, you'll be a natural. i'll be the man. i wouldn't go that far.

you all right? i'll watch any football matches — i've been working since i left school, so it's time to give it a day, i think. love them, love them to bits. well, this is jake, he's won three times at crufts. faith is always in the top three wherever she's at. that was a picture of me with jake when he won in 2020. very proud day that was when he won that class. whatever you get at crufts, it's exciting, if you get anything from first down to fifth in the class, it's an honour.

good girl. i'll probably get more emotional as the morning goes on. # please don't go #. it's like losing a member of the family. keep the faith. aye, keep the faith. first thing you said to me, that. keep the faith. end of an era, yeah, sir alex ferguson of new balance. we've had a collection for you, that's just something to help you on in your retirement. thank you very much. we wish you all the best. thank you. hip—hip, hooray! you'll have to call in and see us.

i will. all the best, pal. enjoy your life. i'll miss people, don't get me wrong. i've said that to my mates at work. but i'm prepared for it. it's all right. it can be emotional. you've spent a lot of time with people. i know it will be emotional for roy. take care, sweetheart. yeah, that was a bit tough, that. don't drink or dance too much. actually, do. and he'll be missed. you know, any challenge to a manger is replacing experience and because you can't just go out and buy it, and it has an impact. give us some love, son. all the best, pal. i really appreciate what everybody�*s done, and i've got some good

friends and colleagues, so i wish everyone all the best and good health. keep the faith. keep the faith, everybody. she plays: for he's a jolly good fellow. bye, everybody. have you got the key? i'll probably stay at the factory for a long time now. love you, bye. love you. i've got my pension there, i've got my insurance, and it's an easyjob — it's four days a week, with every weekend off. you can't really fault it, can you?

i can see myself staying there for a long time. i'm sure i'd like to move on in the factory to something more than what i'm doing but there are always places to go within the business. so, yeah, as long as i can keep progressing myself personally while doing it, yeah, absolutely.

hello, it is unusually warm across the uk at the moment, yesterday was the uk at the moment, yesterday was the warmest armistice day on record, tomorrow for remembrance sunday we may see temperatures higher still. it is going to be very mild through the remainder of the day, southerly wind bringing air to us from a long way south. generally drying aid, patchy cloud around in the west, low cloud coming in from the north sea, mist and for potentially down the eastern side of scotland for the north—east of england and east anglia, these open a close more like the daytime highs we would see at this point in november. remembrance sunday could see some low cloud, mist and fog persisting across eastern most areas, right in the west, when picking up later, rainfall arriving into northern ireland and the south—west by nightfall. take a look at the

temperatures. highs widely16—18 c, potentially even 19 in the south.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines. the ukrainian government says national morale has been given a huge boost by the recapture of the city of kherson after months of occupation. allies of the justice secretary dominic raab have defended his conduct, after reports he behaved aggressively towards staff during his previous stint in the role. meanwhile, former health secretary matt hancock has expressed regret for his actions as health secretary during covid on the reality tv show i'm a celebrity get me out of here. what i'm really looking for is a bit of forgiveness, that's all. a petition on childcare ratios, created by the parents of a boy who died in nursery will be debated in parliament after getting more than 100,000 signatures. and in the rugby union world cup final heartbreak for the red roses —