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scientific interest completely.

And it's something of a personal tragedy

and great sadness across

the scientific community.

It is alarming!

Well, look what security

did to me a long time ago -

came out of nowhere, stopped my car,

hands on bonnet, and I got a scare.

They're saying that's for the lorries,

that cars and pick-ups and

everything can still use our road.

Look, we've got a gap

in the trees already.

Well, those trees are seemingly coming

down, which they shouldn't be taking down.

They're targeting Mike Forbes.

That's where their spring

is, up in these trees.

Mike, you are going to have

problems with your water.

I'm really horrified to see

this bank. I mean, what is it?

I think it's a road, and that

these trees are coming down.

This is absolutely horrendous.

That will be the end of the spring.

Who are you with?

I'm a freelance.

As all the rest of the press,

anyone who comes in

here, would have the...

Do you want to turn that

off or to leave it on or...?

I'll just leave it on, yeah.

As I'm sure you are well aware,

we've had a lot of damage here.

If I was causing damage...

No, no! I'm only putting

you in the picture.

You know, I'm just basically

overlooking from this bank.

Shouldn't be any health and safety

considerations, should there?

No, no, no, no, there isn't.

But again, I would ask you to

announce yourself to the site.

It's the wish of the clients.

If you wish to film on site,

we've no issue with it at all.

You know, there's no problem.

Sorry?

I'm just freelance, yeah.

Hi, there.

Hello. What you doing down here?

Just doing a bit of filming.

If you're freelance, are

you filming for yourself?

Yeah. Just filming for myself.

- There's a lot of publicity going on about this area just now.

- Yeah.

And a lot of this area down here

is now classed as a work site.

Yeah.

So for health and safety reasons,

you should really be

contacting the department.

- This is estate land...

- Right. But I thought, there's not a sort of

right to roam, is

there not, in Scotland.

There is, but not within vehicles.

But I wasn't in a vehicle, though.

But again...

Excuse me one second, could you

switch your camera off, please?

But, of course, you can't

cut across the dunes now,

because they've built this road.

That's the road they've built,

they've laid those across

the natural drainage,

so they're trapping

water all over the place.

Look, look at that.

It goes up and down with

the tide, all this lot.

- Oh, hello.

- Hello, how are you?

It's terrific, that water.

Yes, well, they've virtually dammed

us and they've put in that road.

Mike's concern is, where

are they going to pump it to?

Trees suck up water, that's

why the trees are planted.

Now they've taken the trees

away and buried them in a hole.

Took 'em away and buried them in a hole.

They dug a big hole over the back there.

They took all the trees and put

them in a hole and buried them.

HE CHUCKLES:

According to my neighbour,

he says it was 400 trees

they buried over there.

Oh, me.

Marram grass being stripped into blocks

and taken away in huge dumpers.

And as you can see from

the last time we were here,

there's been vast

quantity of sand taken.

I just can't believe it.

Be interesting to see where

all this sand is coming from.

That's the sand dunes that's driving it.

It's the sand dunes from over

there they are putting on over here.

I didn't think they

were allowed to move 'em.

That should be on now. Yeah, that's it.

And then, you just press

that, that button there.

Yeah, the one on the right.

- Yeah.

- So I'm filming...all this.

To come here every day,

you really get an idea of the

destruction that's happening.

Also notice there doesn't

seem to be anybody coming down,

checking on anything.

There's nae naebody.

You never see a...the only

person you ever see is security,

keeping...keeping people away, really.

I look at Mr Forbes

and his disgusting

conditions in which he lives.

And that people have to look at that.

And it's about time

that somebody spoke up.

It's almost like, in fact, it

is like a slum-like condition.

For people to have to look at

this virtual slum is a disgrace.

Mr Forbes is not a man that people

in Scotland should be proud of.

Mr Forbes is not a respected man

among the people that he lives with.

I mean, people have come up to

us, they've written us notes,

they've written us letters, that

this guy is all sorts of things.

And I won't say it. They're saying it.

Mr Forbes lives in a pig-like

atmosphere. It's disgusting.

They are really lovely, genuine,

honest, authentic people.

And they are really sincere people.

And, yeah, an absolute pleasure to

be involved in a project with them.

David McCue, he's an artist.

And he got in touch with me,

asking me if it would be OK

if he did an art exhibition.

I said, "Yeah, if you like, yeah."

So we were going to do it

in a marquee tent out here.

But he wasn't for that. He had

to have it in that shed there.

Why, I don't know, but he

had to have it in that shed.

HE CHUCKLES:

The worst shed I've got, and

he had to have it in that.

I think we'll just stick

with that for just now.

I think if we put all four up...

I love the barn,

because the minute you started

to change and put things in there,

it kind of recontextualised the work

in exactly the way I hoped it would do.

It was great meeting

Michael's wife, Sheila.

Seriously, what the hell

do you think you're doing?

She's really feisty and

has a great sense of humour,

a great sense of who she

is, her own kind of identity.

Sheila chooses to sometimes

be out of the limelight,

but other times, I think it's

important to hear her voice too.

The drawing represents...

as a metaphor for, "Behind

every successful man,

"there's a strong woman."

I really wanted to find for

myself what the truth was,

at what was happening at that site.

Like the security

presence, for instance.

And that is really stressful

for Sheila and Michael,

and Molly as well.

You know, that's their homes.

And there would just be a vehicle

that would circle their land

and stop, pause and then move off again.

But it's intimidating.

And I certainly felt like

that the week that I was there.

This one, for me, was very much

the very typical Trump stance

and pose that he does very often.

It's almost like a trademark,

the way he gestures

and his body language.

Obviously, referenced

Warhol quite considerably

with the repeat pattern

of the dollar sign,

that's like a brick wall -

you've hit a brick wall, dead end,

kind of scenario.

The media has been

coming down to this place,

it's been talking about it as a

slum, which it certainly isn't.

And to be able to sort of show

off the interior of that barn,

which we've always just

seen the exterior of,

and get a real glimpse into the

history, the heritage of the space.

I glimpse out of the back square

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