00:00hello sir what's your name? David and uh Dave sorry to meet you under such crap circumstances
00:05but this is your business in um tatters behind that's right isn't it what did you do Dave?
00:10selling engines car parts yeah or servicing and repairs selling oh selling sorry yeah
00:18so if you had to put a value on um stock that's gone up would you have a rough idea as of yet
00:24close to 200 yeah you said it's 10 years of your life's work life savings yeah
00:31so daft question how you feeling mate must be sick as a pig yeah yeah yeah and you're meant
00:38to be booked in to go away on holiday tomorrow weren't you yeah so today you were meant to be
00:42having a lovely day prepping for holiday and yeah yeah so i guess you just don't know where
00:48you stand yeah at this stage yeah with a business yeah no way and up till now it's been a good good
00:5510 years been looking after you like business wise now 10 years i was drafted somewhere else
01:00to open my own business oh i got yeah yeah how long you've had this place open six months six
01:04months oh jeez man and it was lovely six months i need to lie yeah and you were saying you kind of
01:13you know you expect maybe to get a call that something's been robbed off site maybe but not
01:18to come and see the whole lot yeah like this yeah yeah not good at all mate
01:25good name chap jonathan evans hello john and you represent jtb pressing yeah i'm a director for my
01:30dad's business and you're one of the businesses that's been affected that right yeah took a big
01:34loss today yeah um i had to move all the staff down the bottom um it's affected a few other
01:40businesses down here about four businesses isn't it four businesses yeah um we've been helping the
01:45everybody out in the local community 20 years we've been here yeah this is it is all today
01:50yeah well the printing business has been here 22 as well isn't it so you know a lot of long
01:54established businesses and they've been affected like a million pounds worth of you know machinery
01:59and buildings have gone down yeah what about it how's it affected you guys the structure
02:05you're building or it's affected us still structural um there's a investigation going
02:10suspected arson we don't know yet yeah um but regarding the business work it's you know it's
02:17one of them but you move on you know you'll pull together and move on you had any problems
02:22over the 20 years here before a couple of fires three or four fifths um with steel
02:29that's it really all the years and then this this just happened now yeah you know can't believe
02:33what's what's going on to be fair it must be devastated yeah it's crippling everybody um
02:38but like i said everybody sticks together around here all small businesses
02:42which are trying to grow and we all need to look out for each other
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