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years ago, I was walking along this road when a stranger attacked me. My | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
big decision that night was not to scream and to try and escape from | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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him, but to befriend him, and that with Matt Baker - And Alex Jones. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Jessica will be telling her incredible story of | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
self-preservation very shortly, and here to watch it with us is | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
tonight's guest. He's gone from the nation's | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
favourite Pop Idol to award-winning West End star - it's the lovely | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
William. APPLAUSE | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
Love you. That's the best reception I've ever had. Thank you. It's | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
because you're such a friend of the show, so welcome back. I love your | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
jumper. Listen, novelty jumpers - did you not get the memo? You don't | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
know what pants I am wearing! I didn't realise it was just jumpers. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
Get them off! Get them off! Joking. Looking forward the hearing about | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
your return to the classic musical Cabaret later on, but first, | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Jessica's story, which is part of our series on people who have to | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
make incredibly big decisions in their life. It's one which forces | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
all of us to wonder what we would do in a similar situation. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Many of us wonder how we would react if we were ever attacked. In the | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
summer of 2011, Jessica Price, who was then 21, was setting off home | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
after an evening out with friends in Nottingham's city centre. What time | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
was it when you started saying goodbye to your friends? It was | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
already 3. 30am in the morning, and my friends decided to get in the | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
taxi, but they weren't going very far, and I didn't have any money, so | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
I thought I would just take a walk home. It was something I'd done | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
before. I took all of the main streets. There were still people | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
around in the centre of town. she walked further from the centre, | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
the roads became quieter, and soon Jessica could see only one person in | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
the distance behind her. Is so I thought they're so far away. I don't | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
care. But very quickly the man was just a few feet behind her. | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
About five seconds later he grabbed me around the neck. Jessica showed | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
me where she dragged her to. That was the most terrifying part, when | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
he got me behind the wall. I thought I am finished. If I don't work out a | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
way out of this I don't know what'll become me. At this point she made | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
the big decision to befriend her attacker. I wasn't going to scream | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
or get away from him. I was just going to try to find a connection | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
with him on a level he saw that he didn't need to carry on being like | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
that with me, and I was going to find a way to convince him to let me | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
go. I started to cry. He apologised know. Then he started to roll a | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
cigarette. I thought I should start to make him relate to me more and | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
make him feel comfortable and join many. Was there any point you just | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
felt like screaming? I was pretty sure there was nobody in near enough | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
distance to hear me anyway. When he calmed down, I suggested we walk | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
home together because we were walking in the right directionen and | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
just anything to get out of that area behind the wall. Her strategy | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
worked so well, that looking back at CCTV footage, which was later used | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
as evidence in court, she can be seen walking hand in hand with her | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
attacker. Even at one point he was trying to | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
kiss me. He said, "I thought you'd forgiven me." I said, "Of course. I | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
just have to get home". What's it like looking back at this? | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
It's really difficult. We look like a regular couple. She kept up the | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
pretence, engiving him her phone number. Convinced he might get a | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
date, he let her go. When I got further down the road and he wasn't | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
following me, I started to freak out. Then I called my mum. She was | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
very garbled, and I could only make out a couple of words, and the words | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
that stick many my mind were, "Mum, hands around my neck". I was very | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
concerned. It hit me how lucky I had been. She had no idea how luckily | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
she'd been because when she contacted the police, she discovered | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
there had been a similar attack nearby just four weeks earlier. That | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
attack had resulted in the murder of Caroline Coin, a young mother of | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
two. Jessica's evidence led to the breakthrough the police had been | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
looking for to solve that murder. Yes, sirca had been very, very | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
switched onto what happened to her, was able to convince this man to | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
light a cigarette and throw it down into a particular area and then lead | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
us directly to it, so we were able to get some DNA from that very | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
quickly. The DNA matched up with Carl Powell, who was already on the | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
police database, and someone the Caroline Coin murder team had an | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
interest in. Jessica's evidence coupled with the similarities | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
between the two cases led to him being found guilty of both attacks | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
and sentenced to life in prison. Her evidence was critical in | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
convicting Carl Powell of the murder. I think the message to women | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
across the country is very simple - have a plan. Jessica Price was | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
clever enough to talk her way out of a far more serious attack. In the | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
end, it was how I acted really that saved my life on that night. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Jessica was incredibly brave then, managed to keep her cool, didn't | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
she? Do you have any idea how you'd react in that circumstance? Well, | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
I'd like to think I would use, as Jessica did, my brain to very | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
quickly assess what would be the best thing to do, but it's hard to | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
tell if you haven't been in it. I mean, I'm sort of terrified by | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
seeing that, but also in awe of her actions. It's something you don't | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
ever think would ever happen to you, but when you see that, you think, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
right, what would I do if I was in that situation? We've got Hamish | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Brown here. He's a retired Scotland Yard inspector specialising in | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
crimes against women. Obviously, you don't know how you are going to | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
react there, Hamish, but have you got any worlds of advice for any | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
women who could just bear it in mind if it did ever occur? Certainly. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Jessica was very cool. There she did very well. I commend her. There are | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
some simple things you can do when you go out - stay in a group if | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
you're drinking together. Have a good time, by all means. If one of | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
your friends has had one too many, look after them. Make sure someone | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
takes them home. How about arranging a cab before you go out, not an | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
unlicensed cab. Book one up. Maybe it's those independent ones that | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
have looked after everybody else and they're on their way home. That's | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
the tricky... That's right, and making your way home, perhaps | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
walking with the traffic coming towards you, just be aware of what's | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
going on around. If you've got your music on, you can't hear people | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
coming up behind you, simple things to do, but act as a team. It's that | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
simple question of do you go on your phone or do you not go on your | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
phone? How have crime figures changed over the last couple of | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
years? Have women- or anybody really - more at risk now? I am pleased the | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
crime figures have gone down, but the street crime has gone up because | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
of the mobile phones, consumer goods, laptops, that sort of thing. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
I think what's got to be said is over the last five years, women are | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
not more likely to be attacked in street crime, so, you know, the - | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
it's levelled out there, really, but be sensible about it. If you've got | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
a computer, then put it in an old shopping bag, not in a designer bag. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
If you're using your mobile phone, don't advertise it to everyone in | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
the middle of the street. Maybe stand to one side. If you're in a | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
coffee shop, don't put it on the table and just leave it there, it | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
could be snatched. Don't be frightened. Just be aware. Do you | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
have daughters yourself? I have a son and daughter. What I would say | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
to them is - and if they're watching, they'll a laugh at this. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
We used to have something at hole called the magic jar - for ice | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
creams and stuff like that. But if they need a cab, the money is at | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
home. I had emergency money in my shoe as a young lad, a rolled up | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
fiver in there. How did you not spend it? It's emergency money. | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
That's why. Thank you for your advice. There is more advice on our | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
website. Taxi drivers are always boasting about the famous people | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
they've had in the back of their cabs - but in Norway, you could find | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
the most famous person in the country, the Prime Minister, in the | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
driving seat. Can you believe it? Martell Maxwell has been to Glasgow | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
to see if our own leader should be taking notes. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
The Norwegian Prime Minister recently became a taxi driver for a | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
day to find out the views of his public, so we took to the streets of | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Glasgow to ask the people what our own Prime Minister could learn if he | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
did their job for one day. If the Prime Minister were to do my | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
job, he'd learn how to suss out people who had had a bit too much to | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
drink. He'd learn how to live on a normal wage. Bill, if the Prime | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Minister was to do your job for one day, what would he learn about | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
running the country? Well, I'm retired, so personally, I think I | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
could think of no better job for David Cameron than this. The sooner, | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
the better, I think. The business rates are having a negative effect | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
on small businesses such as myself. Working class, living on minimum | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
wage, just trying to make a living, get by. If the Prime Minister was to | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
do your job for one day, what would he learn about running the country? | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
I work in social housing and health for many years. He would learn of | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
the impact of his welfare reform. I mean, the so-called bedroom tax, the | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
impact it's having on people. would learn about how hard it is to | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
deal with the general public, how hard it is to be on your feet all | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
day. We give out advice all the time, and people give us advice all | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
the time, and it's just - we have to listen, and if you don't listen to | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
people, you know, what's life all about? Thanks to the people of | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Glasgow, and I'm sure some of those comments could be directed at other | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
party leaders as well. Will, if we did the same thing and asked the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
cast of cab and what their reaction would be, what do you think they'd | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
say? What, to...David Cameron? David Cameron driving around? | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
I don't know what they'd say! My God. David Cameron could learn quite | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
a bit, could he, from being in... see. If he was in Cabaret, he'd | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
learn how to truly communicate with the audience. Cabaret is very | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
political, so it would make sense. Cabaret - well, it's sort of lived | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
for so long since the 1960s when it first came out. It's a very | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
political story, and what you do through Cabaret is you couch what | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
you're saying about society in very sort of friendly, comedic ways, but | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
actually - there's a song called Money - how appropriate is that? | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
There is. Is that why you love it so much? Because you were in it until | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
January. You have had this break. You have gone back to it. Yeah, it | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
started with the Olivier Awards because the show got nominated, got | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
nominated and John Phillips, who is in it, a me and the company did a | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
performance of it, and I just thought, this is so great. I just | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
want to do it again. It finished quite early as well, so... You said, | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Cabaret was first performed on Broadway in 1966, then the film came | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
out in 1973, didn't it, with Liza Minelli? What do you think makes it | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
work today? Why is it relevant? Particularly because of that | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
political stori... Think it's that? The thing is I think a great musical | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
has to have a great story. There are different types of musicals. The | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
writers of Cabaret - it does have this amazing story that's set in the | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
1930s in n Germany as the Nazis were, you know, beginning to take | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
over Germany, so there's this - all these multifaceted layers going on | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
within the play. There's a love story. You know, and then also | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
there's me in a giant fat suit singing about money. Which is the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
bet bit. What's not to love?We've got some brilliant shots of you | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
here. To be honest with you, you haven't got that much on, but let's | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
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# Come here the music play # Take my hand! | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
# Welcome # To Cabaret | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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APPLAUSE There you go! Woo! I just love it. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
You know, the best thing is like - literally watching that, it just | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
makes me so happy. There are not that many parts that you can do as | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
an actor that are that freeing, you know? You could just do anything | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
with him. How hard is it, then, not to try to replicate Joel Grey's | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
performance because he obviously won an Oscar for it, for the film. Is it | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
difficult to find your own take on the MC? It's funny, I was saying to | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
one of my agents the other day that actually - because you can't live up | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
to that kind of thing. You almost have to find your own way, because | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
to replicate someone like Joel Grey - it's impossible. You know, so | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
you've got to find your own way into it. Going back to it, then, will you | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
feel more kind of liberated now or... That's a worrying thing, you | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
know? That is a worrying thing, because he's so mental. I did say, | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
you know - I started bringing up bits of fruit to the director. I was | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
like, maybe he'd come on with some raspberries or something like that. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
My director is like, you've got to cut it now. You have had a lot of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
time to think about it because what have you been doing in your time | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
off? Sabbatical! You know, I have become obsessed with my compost - | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
didn't expect that, did you? Because I have been living in Cornwall. I | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
have a place there. I have got right into gardening. We have to ask you | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
as well, rumours are rife - you might be a busy boy soon - now that | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
Jessica Price and Danny have left The Voice, you might fill one of | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
their chairs. En they'd gone. Concentrate on the compost, | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
honestly! That's a show in itself - Compost Idol. Would you do it? | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
I do it? Come on, Will.They gave it to me once and they took it away! | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Stick to the compost, then. Give us a million quid. I'll think about it. | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
That'll buy a lot of compost. Wimbledon on the 28th of August and | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
then Cabaret goes all around the country. As a cyclist, we do know | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
that you would welcome yesterday's announcement of �148 million of | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
funding to improve cycle routes all across England. It's also music to | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
the ears of the man who created the first cycle path in the UK nearly 40 | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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years ago. Ade Adepitan went to meet him. 50 years ago, quiet country | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
stations and stopping trains were mostly ended and since then we have | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
got used to trains as fast, intercity transport. Little lines | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
like this one become more for tourists. Well, they were. But now | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
our old railway tracks are part of a transport revolution and I am off to | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
that meet the man who started it. This is the Bristol to Bath cycle | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
path and it was John Grimshaw's dream. He turned a disused railway | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
into a traffic free cycle path. It grew from this five section across | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
Britain. Now the charity Sustrans runs a huge network of paths. | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
far are you going? To the south of France! I hope you have got your | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
passport! This started in 1977 when there was not one millimetre of | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
cycling fruit in this area. We kindly got charity grant of �10,000, | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
which was just enough to buy tonnes and tonnes of stone dust and rebuild | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
the five miles in three months. We just backed the lorries and they | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
would drop the dust off in little heaps and we would rake it. It was | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
so well used from day one. I came to the conclusion that every town in | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
the country needed a place where you could learn to cycle. This path was | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
the catalyst for huge change in the country. Everyone of us has the | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
opportunity of making a change. Everybody can cycle. There is | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
amazing British invention in these tunnels. How great Victorian | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
engineers made the gradients as shallow as possible. They are great | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
for leisure and commuting and fruits like this can really open up the | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
world for people with restricted mobility. Like Mike. I broke my back | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
when I was 20, 41 years ago. It gives me space where I can be me, I | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
am free, I can be moving. I can go fast or slow down. I started | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
competing in sport because it gave me confidence and I felt if I was | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
fit, I did not have to rely on anyone. You got confidence, I get | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
calm. This beautiful corridor of greenery. With dark shades and light | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
shades and the smells that come off these plants growing beside me. | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
Today, 75% of us are within two miles of a Sustrans route. There are | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
14,000 miles of tracks. One third of the network is free of traffic and | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
90% of it is connected to it. How did the cycle network get so big | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
without anyone noticing? John is the charity's regional manager for | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
Bristol. This has grown into the busiest cycle path in the country. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
2.5 million trips a year. If they want on this path, where would they | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
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be? Clogging up the road network. 1995 was when Sustrans was first | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
awarded �42 million from the National Lottery. The more we see | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
cycling as a normal activity, the more people will be encouraged to | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
take it up and the more relaxed we will be when we do it. Let the | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
cyclists be free, let them run free! It may cost to buy your bike but | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
cycling is good for you and cheap. How much money does it save? If I | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
didn't cycle I would have to get them us, for pounds 50. �1000 a | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
year. I would have to cycle on a really busy road or get the bus to | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
work, which takes a very long time. Cycling is a clean and healthy form | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
of transport and this path shows that one man's crazy idea can really | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
make a difference. I love the idea of cycling | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
underneath those tunnels. It was beautiful. It was so scenic and a | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
lot of fun. What was announced yesterday, bring us up to date? Rail | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
fares will go up a 4.1% so the government are keen to get people on | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
their bikes. The government is spending �100 million of new money | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
to improve safety for cyclists. The money will go to eight urban areas | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
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Also you can see the national parks as well. Is this enough to bring us | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
up to speed to our European neighbours? It is not all milk and | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
honey. In the Netherlands, they spent �20 per head on cycling | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
compared to �2 over here, and the eight urban areas that have been | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
signposted, that will be �10, but still only half the money of the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
Netherlands. You have a brand-new documentary on Channel four next | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
week which takes you back to Nigeria. Yes, I went back to Nigeria | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
for only the second time. There are only three countries left in the | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
world where polio is endemic and I went back to find out what my life | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
would have been like if my parents had not brought me back to the UK -- | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
brought me to the UK, and Nigeria is one of the richest countries in | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
Africa yet the only one with polio. What is the main reason? | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
combination of reasons, hard to reach areas, where vaccinations | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
can't get to, villages they cannot reach. There is a nomadic tribe who | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
moved back and forth across the border. There is miss trust for the | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
vaccine. Also vaccine fatigue, where people have to come back three times | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
and some people think, why do they keep coming back? You were telling | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
us about a revelation, after filming the documentary. Do you mind sharing | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
:22:35. | :22:42. | ||
that? I spoke to my mum and asked her how come I never got vaccinated? | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
What happened was you get three courses of injections before the age | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
of five and I had two and after my second one, I contracted polio, so I | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
was one injection away from not having polio. It was so close. Those | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
are the things that life deals you. You mentioned how sport a few | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
confidence and you saw a great example of that in Nigeria with a | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
new sport, even for you? I met a group of boys who live under the | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
bridge. They live under a motorway bridge and they all have polio and | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
they have created this brand-new sport, para-soccer. The aim is to | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
try to score a goal with their hands. It is a fantastic sport. They | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
want to make it into a Paralympic sport. And with your involvement... | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
? I would like to speak to the head of the International Paralympic | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
committee and say, yet that's bought into the Paralympics, it will be | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
Africa's gift to the world -- get that sport. Thanks, Ade. Ade | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Adepitan Journey of My Lifetime is on Channel four next Monday 19th | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
August at 8pm. We have got a film just for you, | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
because you are a keen bird-watcher. This on the big, greedy British bird | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
that is causing anger amongst anglers. | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
For centuries this has been a wildlife spectacle. Coastal cliffs | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
thronging with noisy sea birds and one of the largest is the native | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
cormorant. With their primitive looking wings, cormorants seem | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
clumsy on land but don't be deceived because these birds are lethal in | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
the water. Capable of travelling at 70 kilometres per hour to depths of | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
40 metres, these birds are formidable predators of fish. The | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
cormorant was perceived as a threat to fish stocks and these native | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
birds were trapped and cold extensively across Europe. But | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
tighter laws on culling has seen numbers recover. Today these | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
voracious eaters are thriving in land and anglers are not happy. | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
Cormorants are big fish eaters. average they eat a pound of fish a | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
day and numbers have exploded from 2020 years ago to 30,000 now, and | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
that equates to �3 million of fish every winter -- from 2000 over 20 | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
years ago. Use it to anglers who fished in the 1980s and they have | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
never seen a cormorant inland, they were always a coastal bird. They eat | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
so many fish. I have seen fishing clubs close down, fishermen do not | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
come and fish and pay their subscriptions, but it is also a | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
concern for the ecology of our rivers. They are eating fish that | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
would otherwise be eaten by kingfishers and other birds, which | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
do not have a sustainable food supply now. It is not fully | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
understood what has attracted these sea birds to come in land but one | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
possible draw is the better conservation of our lakes and | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
rivers. In Somerset, birds from the newly created wetlands of these | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
marshes of fire with fishermen 's for the right to hunt. --. We | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
capture evidence that Britain's anglers are facing competition from | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
the cormorants. Cormorants can eat fish up to half a metre in length | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
because of their elastic 80 throats which expand, allowing them to | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
swallow fish of up to half their body weight. Some anglers are | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
calling for cormorants to be controlled under law, allowing an | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
unlimited number to face culling, but not everyone agrees. Jeff Knott | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
is the species policy officer of the RSVP to be. I met him in | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
Cambridgeshire, home to one of the largest inland cormorant colonies in | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
Britain. -- RSPB. Anglers claim cormorants are decimating fish. | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
are native to the UK. Some fishermen do have a concern but there is no | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
evidence for a national impact on fish stocks. Where there are | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
particular areas that feel they have a particular problem, if they can | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
present good evidence to show cormorants are having a particularly | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
bad effect on their fish stocks, they can apply for a licence. | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
debate will go on about the cormorants appetite for our fish | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
stocks but there will always be plenty of people who come out to see | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
this unusual bird. When you see them up close, they are not just black, | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
they can look at deep chocolate brown and they have patches of | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
white, and with the sunlight on them, they can look iridescent, | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
green and blue. If they were not rare, people would not travel | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
hundreds of miles to see them. at this, admitting that fish. | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
Extraordinary! Get that down your neck! That is like me with a curry. | :28:16. | :28:25. | |
What do you think? A friend of mine, who has says it is, to deter | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
the buzzards he hangs old shiny CDs in the woods. He doesn't shoot them, | :28:30. | :28:38. | |
he deters them. Before we go, you have got a little something. | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
bashed into your wing mirror so I have bought you a car with wing | :28:42. | :28:49. | |
mirrors. And on that note, we have to say good night. That is all we | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
have time for. Cabaret is in Wimbledon on the 28th of August. | :28:53. | :28:57. |