Bogus
Tradesmen | | Bogus
tradesmen prey on the vulnerable |
Their victims are often
elderly, their tactics devious and cold-hearted.
When bogus traders pay
a visit, they leave behind a legacy of heartbreak and misery.
Inside Out
goes on the trail of the conmen who earn a living by preying on the vulnerable
in their own homes.
We hear from the woman who claims her elderly mothers
health deteriorated after a confrontation with bogus workmen. The pensioner later
died.
And we speak to the councillor who paid contractors £5,500
for a new driveway surface but when cracks and bumps started to appear
the workers could not be traced.
But police and Trading Standards officials
are fighting back.
Presenter Ashley Blake goes on the road with a specialist
team set up to put bogus traders out of business.
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Narrowboat
challenge  | | Benjamin
Zephaniah takes to the water |
A growing number of people are
choosing to live and play on the West Midlands waterways.
But while
narrowboating has become a popular past-time, very few black and Asian people
can be seen enjoying the regions network of canals.
Poet Benjamin
Zephaniah takes a narrowboat trip and asks if more could be done to attract ethnic
minorities to a life on the water.
Along the way, he chats to the Warwickshire-born
Rastafarian who sold his house, paid off his debts and now lives full-time on
a canal boat.
And Benjamin seeks to solve the puzzle of the mysterious
black boatman who was photographed working on the regions waterways more
than 80 years ago.
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Inside
Out - West Midlands: Monday February 6, 2006
