Tensions Explode as Locals Clash with Roma Community

[00:00:04]Paige Hall, Sheffield.

[00:00:09]>> An area once predominantly white, workingass, and Asian, it is now experiencing another period of huge change through immigration.

[00:00:17]>> That's what happens when you leave your car down here. There's all nationalities. Slovakian, Asian, >> Polish community, >> Jamaican, >> Yemen community, >> African.

[00:00:25]>> It's all just mixed around here.

[00:00:27]>> And that's the best thing about it. They don't know which side of road to drive on down in this area. You know what I mean?

[00:00:35]>> For many, it offers a chance to alter [music] the course of their lives.

[00:00:38]>> National is not what I want. This TV is mine. I buy from internet.

[00:00:47]>> In the last 5 years, 1500 Slovakian Roma have made the area their home.

[00:00:56]>> English people move out. Eastern Europeans [music] move in. That's it.

[00:00:59]>> And many of the locals are finding it hard to accept the Roma way of doing things.

[00:01:05]>> Born [ __ ] >> It's all right living here sometimes, but not most of the time.

[00:01:16]>> You want me to come [ __ ] you up?

[00:01:18]>> They're following the path of Paige Hall's Pakistanis.

[00:01:21]>> Camera them. Camera them. Asian taxi drivers >> who left home seeking a better life and became the community.

[00:01:27]>> If you take away all the small businesses that are owned by the Pakistani Kashmir community in the area, what would you be left with? A ghost town that all new arrivals are trying to keep up with.

[00:01:50]Mom and dad were immigrants. These guys will go through the same thing. But bombs we don't deal with enough Indian and too many chief here.

[00:01:59]One's doing things, one doing other thing, one doing things. I'm the governor.

[00:02:04][music] >> What you filming? Channel 4 documentary called >> about >> uh the area New >> This area.

[00:02:23]>> This area.

[00:02:25]>> I'm born and bred here. 49 years old.

[00:02:27]>> Yeah.

[00:02:27]>> And you want to film about this area, kid?

[00:02:30]>> Yeah.

[00:02:31]>> I'll leave in 2 weeks and I can't wait.

[00:02:33]>> Why?

[00:02:34]>> What? Just look around you.

[00:02:43]>> In the last 5 years, about 1,500 [music] Slovakian Roma have made their homes here.

[00:02:50]in one of the streets of terrorist housing that make up the area of Paige Hall on the north side of Sheffield.

[00:02:57]>> See, see this happens every night. This happens 24/7. [music] Shouting, screaming. This is our sleep. That's my window. This is our sleep. Now it's nice. Bang. [music] Bang. Bang. All of that. Why? Why can't they just go to bed like everybody else? This is my Oh, this is where the [ __ ] pissing off. At night they stand here shing back and pick up com.

[00:03:22]>> Many locals find it hard to accept the customs [music] they claim some Roma have brought with them.

[00:03:28]>> They're nice and tidy as you can see.

[00:03:30]Look, >> they're eat lots of food and they chuck them all around their house [music] and then they don't even pick it up.

[00:03:39]>> Why are children running around the streets midnight?

[00:03:44]>> It's a tip. Litter everywhere. I mean, what's happening here?

[00:03:51]>> Look at that. Who the hell wants to [ __ ] use nappies all over the world?

[00:03:56]>> This is life.

[00:03:58]>> Photograph that. This is an art operation through stress. Put that on your Channel 4 program and we'll work that one out, shall we? Cheers, mate.

[00:04:12]This is fix my street. Um, when I'm out and about, if I see a I come back, take a photo if I can, put a pin in, and report it to council department. This was the most annoying. And this was down street. That is disgusting.

[00:04:32]>> Linda has never spoken to her Roma neighbors about the litter. Instead, she has used her energy to try to persuade the police and council to take Paige Hall's problems seriously.

[00:04:43]>> Which stinks a cat?

[00:04:45]>> That one.

[00:04:46]>> To aid their cause, her husband Allan has fitted cameras to their car.

[00:04:51]>> That one's dash cam. I know I shouldn't say that, but it's because of these.

[00:04:56][music] >> But look at all these kids. We're the parents. Here you go. You see straight out. Don't bother looking.

[00:05:07]>> And another one. And then they >> they're off course.

[00:05:12]>> Since we've been out, it's recorded, [music] which is And if anything happens, hand it to police and then they know exactly what.

[00:05:21]>> Now you might understand why we've got camera. [music] >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Here we go. Look. Beds. Okay. There.

[00:05:29]>> In a few weeks time, the Queen will be visiting Sheffield. It's obligatory around here. A mattress on the street.

[00:05:35]More rubbish.

[00:05:39]>> Paige Hall is not on her itinerary.

[00:05:41]>> If they thought for one minute that Queen were coming round here, everybody would have window boxes. You'd be able to take your dinner off streets. That's what would happen if Queen were coming round here. But litter all over. They want to make round here the villages that they've come from and they're succeeding and the council and everybody else is letting them.

[00:06:03]>> [music] >> The villages that most of Page Hall's Roma come from are Rudani and Bistrani.

[00:06:14]And they're kept apart from the rest of Slovakian society, living in squalid conditions with no fresh water.

[00:06:31]>> [laughter] >> To escape their impoverished surroundings, the younger generation board one of the frequent buses to the UK.

[00:07:19]And we're not nasty. people. But this situation is making us very, very [music] resentful.

[00:07:26]>> You feel as if you're in a foreign country. I've now started calling this pot chef.

[00:07:32]>> What you feeling, Linda?

[00:07:33]>> Can I swear?

[00:07:34]>> No.

[00:07:35]>> Pissed off.

[00:07:38]>> Well, that'd be bleeped.

[00:07:40]>> Really pissed off.

[00:07:43][music] But not everyone in the community takes the same view.

[00:07:51]Rome people are here legally. They need to be given a chance. We need to say to them, look, you're here, but this is how things are done. And we can live in a harmony. Right. I'll take you where Rasto is in the kitchen. Hello.

[00:08:03]>> The people from England, yeah, there's certain jobs they don't want to do. The Eastern European people or anybody that's coming from abroad actually looking for work are serving a purpose.

[00:08:14]cuz they're filling the gap that other people don't want to do.

[00:08:16]>> You enjoy. Good. You enjoy >> job? Ah, yeah. Good job.

[00:08:22]>> Yeah.

[00:08:22]>> Yeah. Happy. Big happy.

[00:08:24]>> They come on time. They listen to you. I I can't swag at me. I I I I think they're good.

[00:08:33]>> What's your name, brother?

[00:08:34]>> Peter.

[00:08:34]>> Peter. Peter Q. Nice to meet you, >> brother. I need I need as well Vincent to help him. I need mechanic body work putting bumper on car.

[00:08:43]>> My job is like mechanic. So I want >> You want to do mechanic?

[00:08:47]>> My job. Yeah.

[00:08:48]>> Yeah. Yeah. So brother, I have jobs for you mechanic.

[00:08:51]>> Because there are so many Roma looking for work. During the day the streets of Paige Hall turn into an informal recruitment center.

[00:09:00]>> I come your house. I pick you up.

[00:09:03]>> I take you.

[00:09:04]>> We are all same people.

[00:09:05]>> Yeah.

[00:09:06]>> We are not English people.

[00:09:07]>> I'm not English. You know if we speak English you know English people English people don't give us job. It's true.

[00:09:13]>> I will give you try brother if you can do and I know you can do this one I know but maybe he will do. I guarantee you he won't last a week. [laughter] But this chap I know he will. Peter is my friend. I'm going to come pick you up in the morning. Yeah. I know this brother. He's not going to let me down.

[00:09:33]>> What's my name? Q.

[00:09:35]>> Very easy.

[00:09:37]>> [music] >> for you have job.

[00:09:59]>> Yeah. Mechanic. Mechanic. Sebastian is another of Q's recruits. He's recently arrived in Page Hall with his wife and their two children.

[00:10:17]Get this jet wash machine. Make sure the pipes are not tangled up. Yeah. [music] And bring it down here.

[00:10:23]>> My mom and dad were immigrants. You know, they went through the same things.

[00:10:26]These guys will go through the same thing. In 10 years time, it'll be someone else.

[00:10:32]It doesn't matter where you're from. If you got that work ethic and you can carry out a job, you're more than welcome.

[00:10:38]>> But bums. We don't deal with all the lower side of the car. Yeah.

[00:10:43]He's been told he'll get30 a day starting as a car washer.

[00:10:47]>> Hold it back a bit.

[00:10:48]>> Once he's bought over, they're quite [ __ ] at the moment. I told him to bring some women over, put them up car wash, get bras on cleaning up.

[00:10:59]>> What's the best? What's he like?

[00:11:01]>> He's lazy. But don't forget they've not done no work, have they? So >> they don't really know.

[00:11:06]>> He's all right as a worker, but he just, you know, you have to guide him, don't you? It's like you have to keep telling them again and again and again.

[00:11:13]>> Leave that.

[00:11:14]>> There's always a place in this country for workers, not for lazy horses. I mean, at the moment, we have got these lazy asses, but we're trying to get them towards work.

[00:11:22]>> The sign on time.

[00:11:24]>> They don't come to work on time.

[00:11:32]>> You missed a bit, mate.

[00:11:34]>> That's it.

[00:11:37]>> To get to it. Pains me to say it, but it it's gone that way. You know, if you want society to progress, people at the top have got to look at the problems and they've got to do something about it.

[00:11:53]How often do you see council people, government people coming down here and trying to sort it out what they doing?

[00:12:01]>> It's not a racist thing. It's more a cultural thing. And you've got to say to this bit, right, this is English cult.

[00:12:06]That's how we do things.

[00:12:14]>> Nobody minds anybody coming here if the adapted way of life and blend in come part of community like it were before were well multicultural [music] before these Roma Slovak people moved in.

[00:12:27]>> Why are they coming here?

[00:12:29]>> You know why don't they? Free bank, free house, free doctor, free dentist, and us mugs that's been here all his life after bleeding pay.

[00:12:39]>> Well, isn't life where they live [ __ ] >> Are they not making it [ __ ] around here with with this law?

[00:12:44]>> Do you not think it just takes time for people to amalgamate?

[00:12:47]>> You shouldn't take this long.

[00:12:54]>> Martin isn't here to claim benefits.

[00:12:57]He's 16, has a wife and a baby, and a disabled mother to support.

[00:13:03]>> I want to get job because I want to helping in the family. Any job like clean, any job, any which one is g to me? Any >> But to get legal employment, he first needs a national insurance number.

[00:13:19]Not easy when you're unfamiliar with the system.

[00:13:22]>> Hello. I want to get insurance number because I don't know where the insurance number.

[00:13:26]>> You haven't got one.

[00:13:28]>> You need to ring that number there.

[00:13:33]>> So cool.

[00:13:34]>> Welcome to job center pass part of the department for work and pensions. What's the reason for your call?

[00:13:41]>> I want to call for is insurance number.

[00:13:43]I make sure I want to know is already have the insurance number because I don't know. I want to change your insurance number.

[00:13:54]>> Sorry. Changing your income. Is that right? Yes or no?

[00:13:58]>> No. National is insurance number. I want >> Are you calling about yourself?

[00:14:03]>> Yes.

[00:14:06]>> Can I help?

[00:14:07]>> Good afternoon. I want to do I pay for my insurance number.

[00:14:11]>> Hello. I want to ask you have already the insurance number or no.

[00:14:16]>> How long you live in the UK?

[00:14:18]>> Uh nearly 3 years.

[00:14:21]How old are you?

[00:14:22]>> 16 years old. But >> you wouldn't have an ask insurance number.

[00:14:26]>> Uh, can I have the insurance number, please? I want to like to get the insurance number because I don't have the insurance number. I want to find for me some work.

[00:14:35]>> All right. They're looking for a job.

[00:14:37]You need to go to a job center.

[00:14:41][music] >> You recording, man?

[00:14:45]>> Get these [ __ ] bags off our road.

[00:14:48]>> Come on, man. OH, SORRY. WHAT ABOUT WHEN HE WOULD GET THESE BACK get back home?

[00:14:54]Get these [ __ ] man off back home. See that kind of, you know, attitude, you know, they forget that, you know, once upon a time it was them. They suffered this racism and now that they're not suffering, now that they're not the target. Oh, now it's all right to, you know, make somebody else the target.

[00:15:08]When actually no, it's not. You know, it's never all right. It wasn't all right then and it's not all right now.

[00:15:18]like to be proven right by saying give them a chance. It can so easily go wrong and I can become the target of resentment saying you're the guy that said give him a chance. You're the guy that fed him this food. You're the guy that stuck an egg out kind of thing. You know what I mean?

[00:15:36]>> Did you used to face a lot of um a lot?

[00:15:39]Not a lot is not the word. Daily should I say >> turn around when possible. You have reached your destination. No, I haven't.

[00:15:46]>> You have reached your destin.

[00:15:50]>> You'd get a lot of abuse a lot and swearing, name calling. They like physically eat you.

[00:15:58]>> Really?

[00:15:58]>> Yeah. Great for you outside school. This is when we were when we were 6 7 8 9 10.

[00:16:03]You know what I mean?

[00:16:05]>> I think what's what what's happened to you is kind of happening to the Roma as well at the moment.

[00:16:10]>> It is happening to them to a level. Yes.

[00:16:12]Not as bad, but to a level. And and the sad thing is some of the perpetrators are children of people that had similar things done to them and it's embarrassing.

[00:16:23]There's some Asian kids out there when you listen to them and they say some of the things that they say about the Roman that and the way they say them. I suppose it's lack of education and lack of integration with other communities that when they speak like that and and that's what the white community were lacking at that time as well. Number right, then turn right.

[00:16:43]>> Righties.

[00:16:46]>> Partly to challenge prejudice.

[00:16:48]>> This song you have, I think you no problem.

[00:16:50]>> Wah has put his business acumen behind a Paige Hall Roma original.

[00:16:56]>> Tatanic. Tatanic. Titanic.

[00:16:58]>> I want to be pop star. I want to do something special.

[00:17:03]>> Mixing bits of in there into it sounds okay when it comes out to me to an untrained person. I have that inclination that he might get somewhere with it. And if he does, I don't want somebody to kind of take advantage of him. Okay.

[00:17:16]>> Okay.

[00:17:18]>> That's better.

[00:17:19]>> That's That's a lot better. But you got to put some feeling in there, some energy in there. Okay. You've got to listen. You've got to make them people say, "Wow."

[00:17:26]>> And with every rehearsal, he's becoming a mini celebrity in Paige Hall, breaking down racial and cultural barriers along the way.

[00:17:36][screaming] This guy is serious singer.

[00:17:45]Page Joel ever had any uh superstars?

[00:17:48]>> Not really. Not that I can remember, but anyway.

[00:17:53][applause] >> You'll be the first one.

[00:17:55]>> He's good. I I've got hairs on me arm standing up.

[00:17:58]>> REALLY?

[00:17:59]>> YEAH, THAT was good. [laughter] >> Thank you, love.

[00:18:02]>> Some hand movement, some expression.

[00:18:06]He's one of those people that's come from another country, come from a poor background, got an opportunity, taken it by the scruff of the neck and going for it. So, good luck to him.

[00:18:15]>> Give it a go. There's no harm in it.

[00:18:17]>> What do you think of his voice?

[00:18:18]>> So nice.

[00:18:19]>> The face part is so proper.

[00:18:25]>> It's for me so nice.

[00:18:27]>> It's a weird weird industry, isn't it?

[00:18:30]Entertainment because you need that bit of uh bit of a character. You need something unusual, something that people are going to want to watch something. So, he's got that bit about him, aren't he?

[00:18:44]>> Thank you very much. Very kind of you, Eric.

[00:18:54]>> After weeks of campaigning, the efforts of some of Paige Hall's residents are beginning to see an effect.

[00:19:02]Police and crime commissioners coming in that the old South Yorkshire area that Alan Billings is having a walk about.

[00:19:09]See what area is like. Why you having a look then?

[00:19:12]>> Because amount of complaints he's getting about. She told what it is.

[00:19:16]>> Are you going down there?

[00:19:17]>> Yes. Abia. So will you know Linda, don't you? Commissioner Alan Billings has accepted an invitation to tour the area in the company of the Pakistani Advice and Community Association and some of the residents.

[00:19:34]I don't know whether it was cuz he come.

[00:19:36]The area was absolutely swamped with police yesterday.

[00:19:40]>> I've got a feeling our Eastern European friends have been told to stay indoors. So >> there were all sorts of vans going around, all sorts of cars. They were pulling all sorts of cars up. I don't know whether they were trying to give sort of a scar warning, gypsies warning, whatever you want to call it, that things were going to happen and they weren't going to let it happen while he were here. Let them see what it's like in the ghetto.

[00:20:04]The purpose of today's meeting is a lot of the residents asked me as a local counselor invite our police commissioner to see for himself what is the real situation in this area. Some of the issues which you raised with myself was with regards to 101 service noise nuisance and there there is a litter problem in the area as well. Now Alan can't deal with the litter because that's not you.

[00:20:31]>> That's our self council.

[00:20:33]>> Are you okay to walk?

[00:20:34]>> Yes, I'm the boys. Do they are they >> not with us?

[00:20:37]>> They're ro with us.

[00:20:39]>> There should be none here at this time.

[00:20:40]>> There shouldn't be. You can see one of the m at top of street you can see one of the main problems just outside the shop there children playing football in the car.

[00:20:50]>> The only ones not represented in the touring party are the Roma.

[00:20:56]>> It's a case of us and them. Us meaning everybody who's longstanding all English, Asians, black people, Arab people and things like that. And them.

[00:21:13]>> [music] >> And the noise people especially night in night time they are congregating on this junction they congregating on that junction and they intimidate people you know we we've got fear >> [music] >> half an hour ago. If you would have come into this area, you wouldn't be able to walk past any of these rules literally.

[00:21:54]And that's what we wanted you to see.

[00:21:57]When is [music] >> the solution?

[00:22:08]We don't know what the solution be some suggestions.

[00:22:27]English people used to call them cracking and all this and they called us racist. Not me. I didn't call them. I'm not racist. But I'm saying that's what it was. And now they're doing it to them.

[00:22:37]>> Police and crime commissioners come to you.

[00:22:42]>> We all have to live together, don't we?

[00:22:45]>> I wrote a letter to the prime minister.

[00:22:46]Vick, >> what is it that's going on?

[00:22:48]>> No, it's football at night quarter 1 in the morning.

[00:22:52]>> Cars.

[00:22:52]>> Cars.

[00:22:53]>> People speak.

[00:22:54]>> Terrible. Terrible. Not to mention litter and rubbish and >> the the police are not >> but but the but the police are are coming down Willoughby Street and they're coming down here. They're just driving through. They may as well not be on the street. There's no point if they don't do something police this area but what they don't they'll have some trouble here and I mean trouble. They'll finish up with riots like they had down London. That's what happened here.

[00:23:27]not I I answer, you know, I I'll say hello, but I don't want to. I do it grudgingly.

[00:23:36]And that sounds awful. And I know it sounds awful, but that's how that's how it's that's how it's got me.

[00:23:52]She's no good. No good gypsy.

[00:23:59]>> Right. I'm not going to get no more warnings. I ask you to move. If you don't move, I'll take you to custo.

[00:24:04]Right. Simple. Right.

[00:24:09]We're going next to you. Following it.

[00:24:11]We got it.

[00:24:19]This is the same brother shop. Yeah.

[00:24:21]Selling food.

[00:24:22]>> Yeah.

[00:24:23]>> What do you do here? Uh >> everything.

[00:24:27]>> Eric works in the supermarket run by Wahed's brothers.

[00:24:33]>> This is my brother Zafa. Yeah. Very nice person. Look, he's cutting chicken now.

[00:24:37]And usually every morning time with him standing here. He always learning me how to do this job. He want to learn me. He want to make me butcher.

[00:24:45]>> Yeah.

[00:24:45]>> Yes.

[00:24:46]>> He's my dad's lost son.

[00:24:49]>> Me dad must have had an affair with a Slovakian woman like 30 years ago.

[00:24:53]>> Adopting. Yeah. You have no family in England in it.

[00:24:56]>> No.

[00:24:56]>> Only us now look after you in it. That's right.

[00:24:59]>> This is Miss Meat. Yeah.

[00:25:01]>> He spends most of his time behind the meat counter.

[00:25:05]>> Everybody like him a brilliant guy.

[00:25:08]>> It's a Nike low five and he mixes into the community. Well, that's the main thing, right? He's a universal person.

[00:25:15]>> Excuse me.

[00:25:16]>> How does he fit into the Asian world?

[00:25:17]The Pakistan.

[00:25:18]>> Asian world. Pakistani people love him.

[00:25:20]They they love him. Why? Because he respects and calls him uncle auntie like Asians do. That's the reason. And a lot of respect him because he gives them charity, a lot of money away. He works and he gives a lot of his money away to people >> because I think the way to what's happened right because he has had nothing in life and he's got everything now and he appreciates it and he and he likes to help people.

[00:25:42]>> He lives in the flat above the shop.

[00:25:45]>> You can see this sofa. Brand new sofa.

[00:25:49]>> Yeah. This TV is mine. I buy from internet. I want to show you buff now.

[00:25:55]Yeah. This is Qybuff.

[00:25:57]>> Do you ever sing in the bath?

[00:25:59]>> I like singing. Yeah, best way singing B. [laughter] >> And it's here where he is refining his act.

[00:26:07]>> I won't wear I think Pakistani clothes today. I know it's a wedding dress but you have to wearing this one if you go singing. Well, this is cool because Pakistani clothes I go diamond and this one wearing sparkling then you go stage. Oh my god.

[00:26:28]Very nice. I want to give my my experience.

[00:26:33]>> I want to give my experience, >> my my love, man.

[00:26:38]>> My love, my time, everything.

[00:26:41]>> So, >> are you ready?

[00:26:44]>> I just said uh you want to >> No, no. I talk to him.

[00:26:50]>> You ready? Come on, boys. Come on. Yeah.

[00:26:54]>> You have t-shirt because I cry now. No.

[00:26:56]>> Come on. Get cuz you want to I put a suit on. You must like them clothes.

[00:27:02]Aren't they from a real wedding?

[00:27:04]>> Yeah, this one better.

[00:27:05]>> Oh, you like them.

[00:27:07]>> Good morning.

[00:27:08]>> Our new superstar. Where's our new superstar? Give me a kiss then.

[00:27:18]See you later.

[00:27:25]face.

[00:27:27]>> Want to go in there all confident, arrogant, [music] give it all you got and, you know, get some jive while you're in there. You know what I mean?

[00:27:33]>> Yeah.

[00:27:44]Selen never know where this I think so Simon laughing me he tell me maybe >> Eric Eric you are not a woman and you are not Selind >> all right >> Eric's been selected for the broadcast round of Britain's Got Talent but he and Wahed first have some creative differences to resolve >> and it's got Eric on going to be riding the airwaves you reckon >> yeah but you go to singing ladies song understand >> yeah it doesn't mean you go in a bloody dress does it you're a bloke So, we're going to wear blouse clothes.

[00:28:15]Thank you very much.

[00:28:17]>> I knew it. You're slowly going to the woman's department. Oh my god. Oh, look at that, Eric. Can you imagine that with a little cap on your head as well and some high heels?

[00:28:28]>> This is star stage. So beautiful, isn't it?

[00:28:31]>> I won't be seen dead with it if you wore that. I'm sorry.

[00:28:35]Ain't me.

[00:28:40]>> Oh, look.

[00:28:42]This is star close. Yeah, this is star to this is star stage. When you go to stage >> must be a vacuum thing, but not everyone has the same kind of relationship with their employer.

[00:29:02]>> K, have you rang Sebastian this morning?

[00:29:05]Why has he not come in?

[00:29:05]>> I rang him yesterday to confirm to come in for today. And uh yesterday his his family and dad they were pretending that they couldn't understand. They were just being awkward.

[00:29:13]>> I think he would have gone a long way actually. I think he had the ability but obviously not got the work ethic.

[00:29:18]>> What happened with the job?

[00:29:20]>> Finish. Finish.

[00:29:21]>> No good. That guy.

[00:29:23]>> Sebastian is in dispute with the garage over how much money he is owed.

[00:29:29]>> After one week finish give me my money.

[00:29:34]Oh, £60 [ __ ] ticket. Give me my money.

[00:29:40]>> He claims he has owed a week's money but only received two days pay. Q has another version of events.

[00:29:48]>> So I ran them yesterday to make sure you're coming in on Monday and they just the way they were like going off. Oh, I phone you. I see you. I don't know. I don't know.

[00:29:57]>> People don't put a value in work ethic.

[00:29:59]Maybe it'll skip a couple of generations and the generation that will probably be raised here, born here, who will feel like they're part of society. Maybe they will be the ones who take that first step, second step, third step. So maybe we will see a uh a Slovakian working in a a professional environment.

[00:30:16]>> [ __ ] that guy. [ __ ] [ __ ] Nobody's lying.

[00:30:20]>> They got an art decent football team as well. Actually, I watched them today on uh I think they won. Who plays for him now? Martin Skir, is he Slovakian? No.

[00:30:29]No, no, no. Deja Lin success.

[00:30:39]>> A snake on loose.

[00:30:40]>> Well, apparently the RSPCA are aware of it.

[00:30:44]>> Snake on loose and it's in that hole in that wall now.

[00:30:47]>> How big is it?

[00:30:48]>> It's like being fishing with it. Oh, it's >> enormous.

[00:30:52]>> But I'm having heart attack here and I don't care whether it's a little worm snake or what the hell it is. Can we have >> aidophobe Linda is calling on the police to remove the snake hiding in her nextdoor neighbor's wall.

[00:31:03]>> How do I know where it is when I come out?

[00:31:06]>> Just calm down.

[00:31:08]>> Don't bother. Don't bother, love.

[00:31:09][music] Don't bother.

[00:31:11]>> Very stupid pillock.

[00:31:13]>> That would please waste a flaming time.

[00:31:16]>> You think you're token?

[00:31:20]>> Do you think you could pull it out? What if it is [ __ ] venomous? I just want somebody to come.

[00:31:26]>> Yeah.

[00:31:26]>> And help us.

[00:31:28]>> But where are they?

[00:31:29]>> More means me. Look at the snake.

[00:31:34]>> How big is it?

[00:31:36]>> Let me have a look.

[00:31:38]>> Holy [ __ ] That's not a slow worm. Oh my god.

[00:31:43]>> Oh Jesus.

[00:31:46]>> You got Bluetooth?

[00:31:49]While she waits for the RSPCA to arrive, Linda's best hope of seeing the snake safely removed rests in the hands of a group of Roma men who happen to be passing by.

[00:32:11]Okay.

[00:32:31]What you going to do? We need a bag to put it in.

[00:32:47]Okay.

[00:32:49][cheering] >> Oh, bless you.

[00:32:54]>> Okie do. So, it's a it's a little and thin about it's probably >> I just didn't want anybody killing it.

[00:33:00]>> You know, you do you two dots in there.

[00:33:03]That's cool. Okay. [laughter] That's quus.

[00:33:08]You know your two daughters to school you?

[00:33:11]>> Yeah.

[00:33:11]>> Teacher is very good. My teach for my son.

[00:33:15]>> Yeah. Yeah. Both my both my daughters long time we've lived here.

[00:33:20]>> Yeah.

[00:33:21]>> Any problems the Slovakian people seem to doing for you?

[00:33:25]>> Well, we're okay. The what we don't want is for you know cars with music. Boom boom boom. Uh-huh.

[00:33:34]>> No. No. You know why? Same thing Pakistani doing first. Pakistan doing that.

[00:33:42]>> No, >> English people doing that. After Slovak doing that, >> but mainly on here it's Slovak.

[00:33:51]>> It's not Asian. It's not British. It's It's Slovak. We've got numbers at cars.

[00:33:58]>> Really?

[00:33:58]>> Yes. So, we know >> that's it.

[00:34:05]This time it's Bert. English people.

[00:34:12]>> He's just showing off. So that's lost argument.

[00:34:16]That's the first interaction we've really had. Yeah.

[00:34:21]But just cuz we've had a bit of interaction over a snake don't make everything right, do we?

[00:34:28]Still got a hell of a long way to go.

[00:34:33]And a bit of sweet talking and a bit of laughter don't make much difference to me, I'm afraid. Sorry, but that's how I feel.

[00:34:48]>> Yeah, brave or stupid cuz it could have been poisonous. [laughter] [music] >> I don't know what's to become an area. I really don't. If they're here to stay and they want to come and live here permanently, they're going to have to make some effort. And it's going to take effort on both sides because like I said, there's good and there's bad in in all nationalities. But they've not ended theirelves to me.

[00:35:18][music] I wearing this one sparkle. This is superstar. Oh yes.

[00:35:35]>> Welcome to gentlemen's Eric Celindion.

[00:35:42]>> It's the morning of Eric's appearance on Britain's Got Talent.

[00:35:47]>> I'm sick now.

[00:35:48]>> And the nerves are beginning to show.

[00:35:53]I tell you why.

[00:35:56]I tell you why I'm sick. Because superstar people when they have big show have to been have to been sick because this is stress and the when you sick when you seek all the stress all the headache you take out from your body and you feel after better.

[00:36:13]>> Okay you go now I shower now.

[00:36:23]Listen, when you go out on stage, introduce yourself. Say, "I'm Eric." Say hi to the crowd. Yeah. You got to get the crowd on your side. Yeah. Yeah. You got to say hi. And then they say, "Hi."

[00:36:48]Say, "I didn't hear you." Say hi again.

[00:36:51]Yeah.

[00:36:51]>> Hi.

[00:36:53]Not you. You idiot. You say that to the when the crowd say hi to you. Yeah. You say to them, "I didn't hear you."

[00:37:02]>> Today, if you can do it, the doors are going to open. Yeah. And if you can't do it, sorry, boy. Back to your normal life again. Yeah.

[00:37:12][music] >> Oh my god. Is it women's work?

[00:37:17]>> Quiet, please. He's wearing a woman's >> It's a woman's cardigan.

[00:37:21]>> It's a woman's.

[00:37:23]>> Just leave him. Please [laughter] leave me alone.

[00:37:26]>> Chill. Give me five.

[00:37:48]>> [screaming] [screaming] >> I'm proud of him because he's done something very brave.

[00:38:09]Despite not making it through to the next round, Eric's found on his return to the meat counter that he's getting more recognition than ever.

[00:38:19]>> I am anywhere famous. When I'm going to shop, the people just recognizes me. Oh, this is that person for British Got Talent. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is amazing.

[00:38:29]Doesn't matter. No, no problem. I go again. Again, go. No problem. You know this is Elizabeth with that. You know this is Elizabeth.

[00:38:38]>> Wow.

[00:38:38]>> Yeah. This is an Elizabeth. Yeah. You will see her tomorrow when you go down.

[00:38:43]>> You have to go see her. That's why you in this country cuz the queen.

[00:38:54]The queen is indeed in Sheffield on an official visit for the first time in 15 years. But not everybody in Paige Hall is willing to grace her with their presence. [music] >> Looks like Bedum up town.

[00:39:07]>> I did see her.

[00:39:08]>> You did?

[00:39:09]>> Ah, she drove up past WH Smiths. I nearly invited to come and have a look around here to see how her loyal subjects were living, but I won't inflict that on her.

[00:39:19]>> Gave the old royal wave.

[00:39:20]>> Ah, I'll pop rounds. Uh, or perhaps not.

[00:39:28]they get on their way. See you in a bit.

[00:39:30]See you.

[00:39:32]>> And dealer just bumped into Ian walking down to it.

[00:39:36]>> So the queen's coming today. Not going to see her. Linda.

[00:39:40]>> Yeah. Well, she knows where I live.

[00:39:42][laughter] I'll do it a bro.

[00:39:48]I used to be a royalist, but now I'm not so sure.

[00:39:56][music] >> When you take these life in the UK test and all that, they ask you these kind of questions about royalty, about British culture and and the background towards all this.

[00:40:06]So, if you don't know about this, you won't get a British passport anymore.

[00:40:10]That is the most important building in Sheffield. Come on, [music] >> it's not about power. It's about respect. She's a figurehead. She represents all the people.

[00:40:24]>> But you see, I'd like to see all Yoni and Jacks out on everybody's house.

[00:40:30]>> Controversial, I know. But >> uh >> very controversial bit.

[00:40:36]>> What's that?

[00:40:53]Oh, Prince.

[00:40:55]>> Very good view there.

[00:40:57]>> Wow.

[00:40:58]>> Yeah.

[00:40:58]>> Prince been there. Prince.

[00:41:00]>> Prince Phillip. Yes.

[00:41:01]>> Yes.

[00:41:02]>> That's her husband. [music] >> We're not patriotic enough. We don't stand up for our sins, do we?

[00:41:08]Let people ride rough shot over us all.

[00:41:10]>> Yeah, we've gone too politically >> correct.

[00:41:12]>> Does that make you feel a bit more British now?

[00:41:15]>> Make me more to feel British. Now I understand. Was that me British? Because you asked me was is British and now I'm understand.

[00:41:24]>> Okay. Can you let go? You know what I mean?

[00:41:26]>> I'll tell you something else. I know.

[00:41:28]I've told my kids best thing to do get this end's good jobs and then booger off in this country.

[00:41:35]>> I love I love green.

[00:41:38]And I love police office.

[00:41:40]>> There you are. You know your next community profile thing.

[00:41:45]>> I am British.

[00:41:53][music] >> [music] >> What a lot of English people don't consider is if they was from Slovakia or somewhere, you know, some Eastern European and they had the opportunity to come to England for a better life.

[00:42:19][music] That's exactly what they do.

[00:42:20]It's a shame that people just don't see the bigger picture, I think.

[00:42:28]>> [music] >> They've got all those lot being against a very small minority.

[00:42:35]>> Like I said, we're not racist. Come in.

[00:42:37]>> We're not racist at all.

[00:42:40][music] >> Focus is wrong. It's not their fault that why the country is in a state.

[00:42:48]>> Lived here for 53 years and I love it.

[00:42:52]We're old school from Pel, aren't we?

[00:42:55]Old school.

[00:43:06]mess together.

[00:43:16][music] They come off [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:43:43]>> [music]