Inside Out East Midlands - 08/02/2010

When cars become lethal weapons: Inside Out investigates whether tougher sentences for dangerous drivers who kill could save lives. Marie Ashby meets two grieving mothers united in a campaign for a new minimum sentence. Julie Taylor's son Adam and Julie Holwell's daughter Becki were both passengers in crashes in Leicestershire. Adam was killed when his friend Lewis Hardy lost control while speeding. Hardy had drunk 15 cans of strong lager and taken cocaine. He was jailed for five years. Following Becki Holwell's death her boyfriend Ben Crossley was given a two year sentence. Becki's mum Julie told us: "Cars in the wrong hands are lethal weapons. Hopefully if they know that ten years is going to mean ten years they will think twice." Also in the programme: They've been condemned for their secrecy, their rituals have been ridiculed and they've been accused of looking after their own interests. But what is Freemasonry all about? Who are the Freemasons and what do they do? Tony Roe gets an invitation into a secret world. With the 2010 Winter Olympics underway in Canada, Great Britain is expected to have its usual lack of success in the blue ribbon downhill skiing events. But while other countries may win the medals, it's a little known fact that the sport owes its very existence to a father and son from rural Lincolnshire. Simon Hare looks at how two men from one of England's flattest counties brought skiing to the slopes of Switzerland.