 | | | | |  Inside Out - West Midlands: Monday January 30, 2006 | | Carjacking | | Carjacking - planned attacks are becoming more common |
A vehicle is stolen in the UK every 90 seconds. One in five of these is taken by carjackers.
The attacks are often carefully planned and extremely violent, leaving some victims with serious and sometimes life threatening - injuries.
Inside Out meets the father from Castle Bromwich who was knocked unconscious as he attempted to stop carjackers making off with his sons car.
We also hear from a Birmingham woman whose sports car was stolen when she was attacked after being shunted at traffic lights.
But is there anything that can be done to counter the carjacking threat?
Presenter Ashley Blake enrols on a driving course which teaches techniques aimed at foiling carjack attacks.
He also pays a visit to the University of Warwick, where new technology has been developed which allows stolen cars to be tracked and immobilised. Links relating to this story:The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites | | | Free email updates | Keep in touch and receive your free and informative Inside Out updates.
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| War Photography  | | War zone - documenting war stories |
For more than 90 years, one school has been teaching its students to take the best photographs in the worse possible situations.
Former pupils have gone on to take pictures and film footage in two world wars and many conflicts across the globe.
Today, the Defence School of Photography, now based in Cosford, Shropshire, trains around 1,000 people a year in a range of camera skills; from surveillance and combat photography, to portraits and public relations.
Inside Out joins two new young recruits on an intensive course which aims to prepare them for a career as an armed services photographer.
We also track down one of the schools first students to find out how the role of the military photographer has changed over the years. Links relating to this story:The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites | Coastline Couple  | | Pat and Ken are passionate about the coastline |
Pat and Ken Hathaway from landlocked Littleover in Derbyshire have been on a 15 year journey that has taken them the length of Britains coastline.
The couple claim to be the only people to have visited every village, town and city on the English, Scottish and Welsh coasts.
Pat and Ken, who are both retired, started in June 1990 in the village of Aust on the River Severn in South Gloucestershire and headed south.
Their tour took them on a 2,110-mile trek anti-clockwise around the mainland coast.
Inside Out caught up with the couple as their journey drew to a close and joined them as they revisited some of the most memorable places from their epic quest. Links relating to this story:The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites |
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