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with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. Tonight we've a pair | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
of fiery female Dragons. It's the new 'Designer Dragon, Kelly Hoppen, | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
and the Green Goddess Dragon, Deborah Meaden. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
APPLAUSE Welcome the green green. I like | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
that. It's lovely to have you both here. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Congratulations in your new role. Thank you. We know it must be very | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
nerve-racking for the entrepreneurs when they go into the Den for the | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
first time but how was your experience? I have to say all the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
old dragons babe Dee sat me very well. The first hour was a bit | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
daunting because it's a new show but to be honest the minute you're | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
sitting in there you forget you have five cameras in there and you get | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
engresed with these entrepreneurs coming in and telling their stories | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
and trying to sell what they're doing. At the same time you're | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
trying to fight off people like Deborah... Didn't need a lot of baby | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
sitting in fairness. When you have to say the words "I am out", how | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
about that moment? That actually probably was the scariest because | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
you want to be in. The other thing is, when you see something you like | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
and you're not tucking yet, and everyone else is talking, and you're | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
trying not to show you're that enthusiastic, and one of the things | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
I remember today is there is often that silence when nobody wants to be | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
the first person to say, "I'll make you an offer". And that makes for | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
amazing tension in the Den as well. I suppose you have to have quite a | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
poker face, don't you, to stop the others from realising you're | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
desperate? You do. That's the thing people don't think about. They think | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
about the relationship between the entrepreneur and the dragon, but you | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
have to be tuned in this way too. Eyes in the back of your head | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
literally. We're now moving on to another businesswoman. This is a | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
woman who is struggling to keep her business afloat. It's Melanie Wood. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
She's the Managing Director of Pleasure Island Theme Park in | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. In April Declan Curry witnessed just | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
323 visitors come through the gates on the first day of the season . He | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
has been back to see in the sunshine has brought out the punters and a | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
return to profit. On my first visit to the Pleasure | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Island Theme Park in Cleethorpes, owner Melanie Wood was struggling to | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
keep the park going. We've managed to survive one bad year. I wouldn't | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
like to make any predictions at this point, but to survive two years like | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
that would be very, very difficult. It's been four months since I was | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
last here, and with the crucial school holidays now in full swing, | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
I'm back to see in the park can be Hello. Good morning.How lovely to | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
see you again. Thanks for coming.We have had this lovely heatwave. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Surely, that has been of some help to you. The weather was lovely, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
certainly for the two middle weeks of July. Unfortunately, that's not | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
when certainly the English schools were off. And since school holidays | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
have begun, the mixed weather has so far failed to draw the crowds. What | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
are your finances like? Are you even covering the costs of just keeping | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
the park open? We are, you know, I've got �120,000 down. That's a | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
fairly big sum. It is. It means the summer holidays are now critical to | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
you. Absolutely. 60% of my business happens during the summer holidays, | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
so really, it's now or never. The park has been in her family for 20 | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
years. In its heyday, 35,000 people visited every week, but that's | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
plummeted to just 10,000 in recent times, and she's not the only one | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
who is worried. The town's other tourist attractions depend on the | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
park to bring in paying customers. It's the major attraction here, and | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
we all rely on it. The pleasure park is really important to Cleethorpes, | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
provides a huge amount of inward investment to the resort. Pleasure | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Island Theme Park is doing well, I think the whole resort is doing | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
well. Without them, we'd lose a lot of customers, to be honest with you. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
So far, Melanie struggled to get financial help from the banks, and | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
she's been forced to prop up the business with her personal savings. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
I get really cross really because there's all this support - | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
financial, you know, funds, grants, whatever, for businesses that are | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
new and setting up, very little help and support for established | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
businesses. You can't keep this going forever. At some point, you're | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
going to run out of money. Absolutely, and it comes to the | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
point where, you know, enough is enough. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
With almost �1 million of savingses tied up in the park, the whole | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
family is feeling the pressure. It's not just about me. It's about the | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
children and, you know, the fact that my dad started this. It's a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
family thing, very much a family thing. You hear your mum talk about | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
the park. Do you worry about it? do. I ask her. I e-mail her if | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
there's any school bookings in each day and shoo how she's doing. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
you've got this kind of commitment - this kind of emotional and financial | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
attachment to anything, you can't just cut off, so it's 52 weeks a | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
year. Melanie's not giving up yet. She hopes a new 4D cinema attraction | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
could save the day, but it won't come cheap. The 4th Dimension is the | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
motion, the sensory stimulation. You have all sorts going on in the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
films. It can be steam, heat. The beauty of this is the second year | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
you can have a new film, so in effect you have a new attraction. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
How much would this set her back? She's looking at around �150,000. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
That's a lot of money, particularly when things aren't great at the | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
moment. It's all about keeping our customers interested, keeping our | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
customers coming back. While things aren't so good, you still have to | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
consider this. But before any more money is spent, | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
a tough decision will have to be made about the future. There has to | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
be an end to it. You can't keep throwing good money after bad, but | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
the emotional attachment to the park has probably made us invest more | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
than anybody else would have done. How close are you to giving serious | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
thought to closure? It's not really something that I'm going to think | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
about until I have to, you know? We've got four, five weeks in front | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
of us whereby everything could change, and that's what we have to | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
hope and pray for, and that's what we're working towards. I'll be back | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
at Pleasure Island later in the year to see how the crucial summer season | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
went and to find out whether the park has a future. | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
You can't help really sympathising with Melanie, can you? But in your | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
heart of hearts, what do you think? Is she throwing good money after | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
bad? I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens this | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
season because honestly the weather has been lovely. It has.The | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
domestic market has recovered. They should have had a good year. I | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
worry. I was hearing about spending �150,000, was it, on a 4D cinema? If | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
you're going to spend that money, it has to be on something that is so | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
different people will think, that's amazing. We need to go and see it. I | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
am worried that a 4D cinema isn't going to do that. What would you | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
spend that money on? Now you have put me on the spot! I honestly don't | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
know because I shouldn't know. It should be something so new and | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
different. You have put me on the spot, but it should be so new, I'd | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
be out there right now looking at what's going on in the rest of the | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
world and thinking nobody else has got that in the UK. You have some | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
different ways how she should spend some money. It all looked a bit old. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
I would spend the money making it look a bit newer. People want | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
newness, but it's a family business. My heart goes out to her. It can be | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
a burden. That's what was heart wrenching, watching it. That's what | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
she's thinking about all the time. She's not stepping outside the box. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
She's just going, family business, family business. It's not stepping | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
outside the box, and as she says, going and seeing what is out there. | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
You can't throw more money into something that is not working. | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
That's a disaster. You have to plan it. Debra, you started out in the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
leisure industry. Absolutely.Would you perhaps go up there and have a | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
word with Melanie? This is a world trend story through the leisure | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
industry because actually, the leisure pound is a totally | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
discretionary pound, so the leisure industry is finding the next thing. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
I would be fascinated to go and see her. I'd like to think maybe I could | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
offer some insight or help. I would love to. Super. Great.I am sure she | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
would appreciate that. I am sure she would. Great. As Declan said, we'll | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
go back and see what happens. Hopefully, your in input might have | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
had a bit of difference. countdown to the Commonwealth Games | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
begins a week tomorrow with the arrival in Glasgow of the Baton , | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
the equivalent, really, of the Olympic Torch, and it will all be | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
live here on the One Show. Tickets for the games go on sale the | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
following Monday, so it's no wonder the city has been sprucing itself | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
High above the hustle and bustle of Glasgow Central Station - | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
unbeknownst to the travellers down below, a dedicated team is hard at | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
work down below, cleaning the windows. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Built in 189, Glasgow Central Station will be one of the main | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
thorough fares for the Commonwealth Games in 2014, so the pressure is on | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
to make the station shine for a worldwide audience. At over 48,000 | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
panes, it's actually the largest continuous glass roof in the world, | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
and it's all been meticulously cleaned by hand over a 15-week | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
programme. Give me your hand.I'm spending the day with experienced | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
cleaners John, Joe, Robert and Joe's son, Joe jr. The cleaning is coming | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
to an end, but some of the toughest parts have been left for me to | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
tackle. Look at the state of these windows. There's some stubborn | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
stains on this I tell you. How often does it need doing, this? Every time | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
for the Commonwealth Games! Joe and John will be hoping the thousands of | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
athletes that are coming to the games next year will look up and | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
notice their hard work, especially if star attraction Usain Bolt makes | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
an appearance. Do you think he might look up at the roof and say, wow. | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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day, then? How many windows?How many windows? More than you.I went | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
off to chat to Joe Jr, who is especially motivated to do the | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
windows, as he's going for gold, representing the games in boxing. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
What's it like working with your dad? It's great. He's not just my | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
dad. He's also my boxing trainer. You're going to be competing at the | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Commonwealth Games? Yeah. We'll be training as hard as we can, cutting | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
no corners. We should win the gold medal. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
I have been promoted. I'm going to do some squirting. Hold the lines. | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
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Pull the trigger. Keep the gun low. Tell you what, though, it's a | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
cracking view from up here. It is. That's one of the perks of the job. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
You can actually see my horse from here. Right there. So 48,000 panes | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
of glass - it must get boring. How do you keep your mind from going | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
completely crazy? You have a bamter with the guys. They like to have a | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
laugh up here. I think if you didn't have a laugh, you would go crazy. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
With the end in sight, the Bos boss of the cleaning company turns up to | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
check on our progress. It's a good job we're not slacking. What you | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
need to do is soak your hand - for the sweat! | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
LAUGHTER What a job you're doing! It's like | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
big grown house now. I think the people that grow tomatoes ought to | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
come see this place. They will. Don't let him give you the | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
brush-off, OK? LAUGHTER | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Doing this kind of job, you will get job satisfaction because you will | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
see an end product. Yeah.Guys, that's a wrap. Hey! Fantastic. Hang | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
on. My train's due. I'm going to have to shoot off. Thanks, big man. | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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Thanks, Joe. See you later. Ta-ra. If it all goes wrong, I can go and | :12:56. | :13:04. | |
clean the roof of Glasgow Central Station. In outfit.Show me the | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
squeegee. We know you as an interior designer with some of the most | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
flamboyant clients in the world - Elton John, the Beckhamses, but how | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
did it all start for you from a business point of view? I was very | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
young, 16-and-a-half, and my father had a friend who had a kitchen that | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
needed doing. You fitted a kitchen? No, as a designer! Very good. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
LAUGHTER And it was a total disaster, and it | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
was ghastly, then I had a good friend who happened to be having an | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
awe affair with a racing driver who was really famous, and I got the | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
job! Wow. It was a big job, and basically, he had seen my house that | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
I had done when I was 17. That's how the business started. I was | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
fearless. I think when you're young and passionate about what you do, | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
you don't worry about things. You just go in. You're a doer. I like to | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
do things and do them well, and I still love it. Have you ever had | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
your own personal Dragons Den' moment, where you have had to | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
convince somebody to believe in you? We laugh because I say, every day, I | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
get people to believe in me! But yes, in a sense, I pitch every time | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
I go and present a job because you come to me and say, "I want you to | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
build my house." It's not like going to a hairdresser and saying, "Do my | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
hair" because after an hour, your hair is done and you go, well done. | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Fantastic. Sometimes people have to wait. Until they see my pitch - I | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
have to sell it, then they have to wait a year or two until they see | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
it, so I have to continually make them believe I know what I am doing. | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
I have many image that you would have to pitch to the other Dragons | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
to get a job as a Dragon... I so wish that's what happened. Sunday | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
two came in and you're at loggerheads with them. Let's have a | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
look. You kind of walked in here unexcited about a product I actually | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
like, although it's so out of my sphere of what I do as a living, but | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
I don't think you're going to sell enough. I'm quite impressed with the | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
pluck of you telling somebody who does cut logs big time and has done | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
for 50-odd year... You always have to look at a person at the end of | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
the day and think, how would we work together? And we wouldn't. We would | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
kill each other. LAUGHTER | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
APPLAUSE there | :15:37. | :15:37. | |
there it | :15:37. | :15:37. | |
there it is. | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
there it is. OK. | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
there it is. OK. Don't go and clean the roof of Glasgow Central Station. | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
Join him. So many options! I tell you, there is a slight change, isn't | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
there, this series, because you have ramped up the tension for the way | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
everybody enters the Den? We have. It's interesting this year, they | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
arrive in a lift. I wasn't sure that would work but actually, I think | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
it's kind of more tense. You can see from these pictures, there's cameras | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
in the lift, then, to get their reactions. My word, yeah. You get | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
the before and the after as well, when they think - when the doors | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
have closed, they think nobody is watching them. It's more tense | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
because when they walk up the stairs, you're doing something. You | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
are moving into the room. They're kind of standing there and the doors | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
open and you see them all go, gulp. There is a kind of moment where they | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
think- At least they're not out of breath coming up the stairs. That's | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
true. It's a nice design feature. think it's more the fact they're | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
captured when they leave. They can't get out. They're waiting - the | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
producers are waiting for that moment. Run! We can't. If you do | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
have a successful business, nothing says you've made it more than | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
turning up on your yacht for Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight. Michael | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
Douglas has set sale for the island to see if he can cut it on the ocean | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
waves. Cowes, this place calls itself the home of world yachting, | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
and right now I can't argue with that. | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
# I wish that we could sail # There are a thousand boats here, and | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
more than 8,000 sailors competing in 35 events, and unless they're all | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
really into the wind-swept look, then they're going to be happy to | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
see me. I am here cutting hair. Should we | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
cut aur all your hair off? You're all right. See you, then, you big | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
scaredy cat. This is Dee. She's a round-the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
-world sailor, would you believe? Have you done that on your own or? | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
have done it on my own and with my crew. It's a little bit loan lip | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
when you're on your own. What are you more scared of, sharks or | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
capsizing? It's illness or injury because you have to be your own | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
doctor. I have a doctor on call and I send a photo saying, "Is this | :17:53. | :18:02. | |
normal?" And he advises me. My big fear is a sore throat. When you're | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
offshore, there is less bugs, so you're in the best place. It's when | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
you come back and start meeting everybody and interacting, you get | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
ill again. Go on. You might as well take a look. Wow.You like it? | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Don't I look glamorous? It's like a wind machine just following you | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
around. # Rock the boat | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
# Don't rock the boat, baby # These guys aren't the only ones who | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
have to take to the water today. There are so many people blocking | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
the shoreline here that the best way for me to get around Cowes is by | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
boat. Somebody said to me, sail a boat through that lot, I'd be | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
terrified. Look at the state of it all. I much prefer the boat in Miami | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Vice. Remember that one? So this is the lovely Alex, and she has been | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
coming here for 18 years, and do you sail at all? My dad actually keeps a | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
boat in East Cowes. It's a 36-foot boat, so quite big. Just a 36-foot! | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
What have you been doing today? went for a in the swimming pool. The | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
sea is quite cold. Get yourself in there, no? I just don't like salty | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
water. Oh, my gosh. That's so much! Don't worry about that. Don't worry | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
about that. How often does that happen? I think every time a boat | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
finishes. He gets shot - he's finished. Kill him! Take a look. | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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It's nice. I really, really like it. # Somewhere beyond the sea # | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
I think she looked better after I did Dee's hair. Don't you think? Who | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
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is winning at the moment? We will one of the organisers here who works | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
on this all year around. So - other sailing regular at that is there? | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Henley? That's a rowing regular at that. What's the difference? They're | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
all boats. Crikey. Do you sail? you know, I actually don't. I know I | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
am probably in the wrong job, but I get incredibly seasick. I have been | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
sailing once in Ibiza, as you can imagine. We took a catamaran out and | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
crashed it straight into the side of a 50-foot yacht. You and me going | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
out together... You would be crashing it. I would be being sick. | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
Who is winning at the moment? sounds like a straight-forward | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
question. It is. It requires a very normal answer. But we have 34 | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
classeses of boats. So there's 34 people in first place. Exactly. At | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
the end of the event, there is one overall winner. Take a look.I love | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
it! Yeah. Thank you very much. Come out a winner - on a slightly | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
wobbly floor. And the tragic thing is, it's time to leave, and they say | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
this place doesn't really kick off until after sunset. They also say | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
you would be a fool to leave early. See you! | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
LAUGHTER Looks brilliant out there. Tell you | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
what, in those conditions, remarkable haircuts. Thank you very | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
much because it is tough, really tough. And Cowes Week is on at the | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
moment. When is the final? The final race is Saturday, but they have a | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
mass massive party on Friday. There's Red Arrows and all sorts. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
a hairdresser, Michael, you know if somebody finds a brilliant product | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
for the hair market, there is a heap of cash to be made, case in point on | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
the table. This little monkey was pitched on Dragons Den six years | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
ago. I remember this! Take a look. Tangle 'S theers - uniquely designed | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
teeth will gently , effortless effortlessly glide through the hair | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
virtually eliminating hair damage and breakage that is the cause | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
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associated with conventional tools this stage? I was calling security, | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
actually, at that time because he was - I don't know what he was doing | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
to the dummy! But actually, I will openly moit that's one that got away | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
from me. I think I was slightly hung up on the fact he accused me of | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
having dyed hair. That's not a good idea. Did he?Even if it is dyed, | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
never say it on national TV. I think he's gone on to be a huge success. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Michael will deliver the stats. of these is sold every eight seconds | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
around the world, pretty impressive, and the forecast for turnover is �12 | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
million this year. Wow. That's phenomenal. Do you think, I | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
genuinely don't mind being wrong when you hear stories like that. | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
That's a good wrong, isn't it? say, your hair looks much better now | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
than it did then. Thank you. endorsement. Talking of ways of | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
cutting hair, you've got a wonderful little demonstration set up over | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
here. I have. Let me make my way over here. This is a mixture of a | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
vacuum cleaner and a haircutting device. So you have a vacuum cleaner | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
here. There are blades in here. I did see the once on Wayne's World, | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
and it was called the Suck and Cut, goes in there and it starts to cut | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
the hair. Wow. It looks good so far. Debra, obviously, you missed this | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
one. Are you going to be in with that? Am I going to be in with that | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
one? It cuts and Hoovers the hair - sounds like a good idea. Kelly? | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Absolutely not, terrifying, no. results are pretty shocking. | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
Remarkably efficient. Let's go back to Michael and El-Davo. It's so | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
efficient! LAUGHTER | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
very good. You're looking smart, man. Thanks, Michael and thanks, | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
El-Davo. Joking aside, two million of those have been sold. Terrifying | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
machine! It's quite an experience, having your hair cut. Deborah loves | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
them, and Kelly hates them. Tonight Mike Dilger discovers why the common | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
dormouse isn't quite as common as Nocturnal, charming and rare, this | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
is the common dormouse. A deceptive name, as they're anything but | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
common. The neglect of woodlands and the destruction of hedge rows has | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
meant these beautiful creatures are now decidedly scarce, and in some | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
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regions almost extinct. Cost cop cops create a unique environment for | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
the dormouse. As the cops declined, the dormouse died out. But a project | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
plans to reverse this decline. I have come to a secret location in | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
central England where we're going to follow the reintroduction of 34 | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
dormouse as they take their first tentative steps into the wild. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
The whereabouts is kept under wraps so they can settle in undisturbed by | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
humans. Deep in this woodland, Ian White, the director of the release, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
gives me the opportunity to see this animal up close. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
There is no mistaking a dormouse, is there? There isn't. They're only a | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
small mammal with a nice furry tail and a nice furry coat, those big, | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
black eyes that help them see at night well and these with his s | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Kerrs. What's your plan for a reintroduction? A coped woodland is | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
important. It gives them a diversity of food plants for them. What's the | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
key? Honeysuckle, nuts, blackberries, which are important | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
because it's got a long flowering and fruiting season and also oak | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
because it has a lot of insects which they can feed on. They get | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
their name from "to sleep" in lattin. Known for long periods of | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
hibernation, they have been known sleep for six months or longer if | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
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it's cool. The hazel dormouse is a name given by cops workers who have | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
been known disturb the dormouse. They have travelled from breeding | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
programmes across the UK for today's release. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
We're surrounded by door mice. These aren't going to be turned out into | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
the big wide world today on their own, are they? They're not. We put | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
some cages out a couple of weeks ago. We'll put a male and a female | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
in each cage. They'll be fed and watered. Then the cages will be | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
opened. They'll be free to go. cage is monitored with an electronic | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
chip. Together with stud book, this ensures the pair pairs are not | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
related and healthy. The door mice have all importantly | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
been health checked, and if the pairs are compatible, we might have | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
babies in the summer. The cage ensures the residents are | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
acclimatised in their new home, but given the disturbance of their | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
journey, it might be hours before they leave their nest boxes. This is | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
male? This is the female.Time to release them into their pen. | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
those two in will. It's as easy as that. What is your measure as to the | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
success of the project? We come back and check the boxes in September. | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
Hopefully, before then we'll have lots of door mice and young door | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
mice as well who have started to live in this wood. But will we see | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
the elusive little mammals before we leave? We have installed cameras | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
into their cages to capture the first moment they leave their boxes. | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
By dusk it's pouring with rain, but luckily for us, it doesn't deter our | :28:31. | :28:39. | |
first intrepid adventurer. We come back to take a closer look. | :28:39. | :28:46. | |
18 cages have now been placed in the woodland, each with a dormouse | :28:46. | :28:53. | |
copsland side. Let's hope this ensures this shy, adorable character | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
returns to our woodlands for good. Everybody was saying - this, apart | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
from Kelly, who was hiding behind her hair. That's all we have time | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
for. Thanks to our guests. Dragons Den returns Sunday night on BBC Two | :29:07. | :29:08. |