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Hello, welcome to The One Show Alex Jones... And Matt Baker. If I

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was stranded on a desert island, I know what rugged, outdoorsy,

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handsome man I would like with me. Luckily, he is the SiteMeter night.

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It's Ray Mears! -- sat next to me. A-level results are out today. In

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It's Ray Mears! -- sat next to me. your autobiography, you said that

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you sleepwalked through? Of you seem not a happy time for you? If he went

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back and had to take one, what would you take? I don't think I would want

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to, it is my idea of hell. They are so stressful. They are probably

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harder than going to university. I don't think I would want to do

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another one. Fair enough. Because Ray is here, we are looking for

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extremes. We want the oldest and youngest to pass their A-levels

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today. Whatever your grades, send the photograph to the usual address.

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Ray is famous for spending up to 250 days a year sleeping outside. That

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will save you a few quid on hotel days a year sleeping outside. That

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bills. Tony Livsey has been to meet some other people that have opted to

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live in unusual places to save cash. How would you like to live in an old

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fire station like this, in Northumberland? Yours for just £180

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per month, including bills. What about this former police station in

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north Wales? Also available for just £180 per month, all in. It all

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sounds too good to be true, but I promised these prices are the real

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deal, but only if you are prepared to become what is known as a

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property guardian. You have to pay a licence to live there, but the cost

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is much lower than if you were officially renting it. NHS worker

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and artist Paula pays £180 per month to have her home in a former primary

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school in Salford. You just pay the licence fee, no bills, no council

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tax. My disposable income is quite big. Is this party Central?Know,

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one of the rules is we are not allowed parties. No pets, no

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parties. There is a banner outside, saying happy 30th birthday? We are

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allowed gatherings, but no parties. No dancing? Can they inspect for

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that? The landlord has a property they cannot do much with, so they

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handed to an agency which charges they cannot do much with, so they

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people to live in is, cheaply. Normally, you are not the only

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Guardian. Here, there are six people. Life is pretty communal, but

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you get a lot of space. The shower and kitchen are shared. Some places

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on holiday have frightened me, but this is not great. There are no

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Baathists. If you want a shower, you are in there. This arrangement

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allows the landlord, in this case Salford Council, to keep the empty

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property secure at a fraction of the cost of boarding it up or employing

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security. £180 per month? Crucially, it also keeps away

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squatters. Talk to me about the kind of people that live in a place like

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this. What kind of people do you allow to stay? They must be

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employed, no children. Is it lowering the bar of what is

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acceptable? The buildings need to be wind and water tight. Where there

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are maintenance issues, we address wind and water tight. Where there

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it. What is it say about modern day UK that professional people are

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living in buildings like this, that have seen better days? They are

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trying to do something themselves. You must remember, the monthly

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licence fee is significantly lower, sometimes four or five times lower,

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than you would pay for a similar space. It is one of the perils of

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communal living, brown sauce, without a crust. Living in the old

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school office block is 28-year-old teaching assistant Jessica. Allen

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people ask where I live, I say, I live in a primary school. People go,

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what? If you want to go and have a cup of tea in the kitchen, and a

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chat, it's lovely. I work as a teaching assistant, which doesn't

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pay enough to afford a flat on my own. People would say you are an

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unofficial security woman? There are so many pluses. It cancels

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unofficial security woman? There are other out. I do feel safe. There are

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unofficial security woman? There are attempted break-ins, but you always

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have someone around. Being a property Guardian does not come

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without catches. When you move into somewhere like this, you are asked

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without catches. When you move into to sign this. It is not a normal

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tenancy agreement, it is a licence to live here. It means you do not

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have the rights normally afforded to tenants. You don't have exclusive

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use of any of the building, tenants. You don't have exclusive

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including your own bedroom. And we could be asked to move out with as

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short notice as two weeks. It is always at the back of your mind,

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short notice as two weeks. It is something you need to deal with when

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it comes along. Fortunately, if you are a good Guardian, they will

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relocate you. This way of cheap living is becoming increasingly

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popular, especially in big cities. Critics worry it is making a

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2-tiered system of tenancy rights, those that can afford to have them

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and those that cannot. It is a form of unpaid labour, you are providing

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a service for the property owner and the property Guardian company, but

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you are paying for the privilege of doing so. That is not a tenancy. It

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is obvious why it is not everybody's cup of tea. I don't think I would

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like to hang my hat in a primary school cloakroom or go to sleep

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potentially under siege from thieves or vandals. But they are adults,

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they made their own choice, they or vandals. But they are adults,

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enjoying it and saving a lot of money. So isn't it surprising what

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can become home sweet home? What a great scheme. You can be so

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creative, as well. It is like having this studio as your bedroom. Imagine

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having a fire station as your home. Coming down the pole? It is like

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glamorous squatting. What is the most unusual place you have stayed

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in? A few rough hotels, one where most unusual place you have stayed

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high pitched a tent on the bed. It was so filthy that it was

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high pitched a tent on the bed. It There was no alternative. It was in

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a developing world town, it was really grim, in the tropics. House

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prices have been on the rise and figures out today suggest one of the

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prices have been on the rise and reasons is the government

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prices have been on the rise and involvement in this Help To Buy

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scheme? The Government are really pleased with this. If you are buying

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a new build home, you would put down 5% deposit, the government would

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give you 20% of the value, you would 5% deposit, the government would

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pay it back when you sold the house. 5% deposit, the government would

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It is interest-free for the first five years. They are going to roll

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this out in January to existing homes as well. They are pleased with

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it because they have had 10,000 sign-ups in the last four months. I

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guess you have to put context in it, 900 house sales a year, so it is a

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drop in the ocean. But a good start. House prices have risen, but it is

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nothing compared to past years? That have been some whopping price

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increases in the past. 1972, house prices were up by 22.6% in 1992, 22

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two and a half percent. We have got to remember that we

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two and a half percent. We have got to know that for every peak there is

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a trough. House prices have fallen to know that for every peak there is

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by 14%, between 2008 and 2012. So we still have a long way to go. There

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is a nice place on the market, nice estate, plenty of land? It is.

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Cotton's house, familiar to BBC viewers... No, it was

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Cotton's house, familiar to BBC Monarch of the Glen. Kilwillie

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Castle. Balavil House is its real name. How many bedrooms?20, all of

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them ensuite. Eight miles name. How many bedrooms?20, all of

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two miles wide. Eight houses with it, you get a flock of sheep, a herd

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of cows. The dining table can sit 30 people. Underfloor heating?Central

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heating throughout. How much do you reckon? £30 million. He could be in

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for this. With Help To Buy from the government, £7 million. Amazing.You

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would prefer to sleep in a tree house. The garden looks really good.

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Good news in Chester? There is a baby-boomer. Yes, well done,

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Chester. A little bit more out of the ordinary is that it involves one

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of the world's most Endangered Species Act.

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This is Zuri, an endangered black rhino about to give birth. To

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capture this amazing moment on camera is extremely rare. This

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footage was taken at Chester zoo earlier this year. Within a couple

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of hours, the baby is up and walking. In a few weeks, he is up

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and about. Just hiding behind his mother, a little baby. He is an

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eastern black rhino. They are critically endangered in the wild.

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At Chester, there is a new facility, ground-breaking techniques

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to help improve the birth rate of captive rhinos. For over a decade,

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Chester zoo had no baby rhino is born. In the last ten months, they

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have had three new arrivals. The first thing you notice is this

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incredible top lip. It is almost like a little elephant's trunk. She

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uses it to gently mug me of this food. They can pick exactly which

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morsel they want to eat. Breeding captive black rhinos is incredibly

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difficult. Females come into season captive black rhinos is incredibly

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once a month. It can be for as little as several days. They can now

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assess when they are likely to breed, and there is a crucial

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ingredient. It is all down to this, rhino dung. Around six years ago,

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Sue Walker discovered that rhino hormone levels can be gauged by

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analysing rhino dung. This allowed her to calculate when females were

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coming into season. We are not going to collect blood from them all

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coming into season. We are not going the time. What we can do is look at

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hormones in the poop. We are trying to track her cycles. We are looking

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for these nice waves. We can actually start making predictions.

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If we know how long the cycle is for her, and it is usually about a

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month, we can predict it softly when she is going to be in season. --

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exactly. When the wave comes down, she can be introduced to the mail.

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To ensure a good genetic mix, the rhinos are exchanged between zoos

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around the world. It useful to know when they can breed, but if they do

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around the world. It useful to know is down to the animals. Starting to

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feel a bit braver. She is mostly dominant. He feels a bit henpecked.

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It's really important, because he has a great love line? There is none

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of his bloodline in Britain or Europe, he came from Japan.

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Hopefully this will be a success story, adding to the grand total of

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five black rhinos born here story, adding to the grand total of

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last four years. Chester is also story, adding to the grand total of

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helping other zoos across Europe to achieve similar success. In the

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short term, the hope is that this innovative project at Chester zoo

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will ensure that the captive black rhino population in York will be

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maintained, as genetically diverse as possible. In the long term, would

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it not be a wonderful thought to have the great, great grandchildren

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released onto the African plains, where they definitely belong?

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What an incredible story. It makes you wonder where that is going to

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lead. In honour of Ray Mears, we have a baby meerkat to meet him.

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Have a little tickle. This is Lila, and she was abandoned by her mother

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at Chester. It has experienced its very own baby-boomer. How many

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compared to last year? 16, about twice as many as last year. With

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Lila being abandoned, is it hard twice as many as last year. With

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reintroduce her? It can be. They can be quite vicious. It is a

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matriarchal society. It did work. We monitored closely and it doesn't

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always work. But she is back in her original group. An incredible noise

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that she makes. The film is really important, the black rhino is so

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threatened. Hundreds of them were killed last year. Within ten years,

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we could lose the black rhino killed last year. Within ten years,

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altogether. So the thought killed last year. Within ten years,

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might be able to crack the breeding could really help. They are such

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wonderful animals. It is like watching a dinosaur. Recently we saw

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you getting up close and personal with a different creature. Have a

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look at this. I push you and close the gate? Throw it down in front of

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him. Just in front of his nose. the gate? Throw it down in front of

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That's it. Wow, look at the size of that. He starts to twitch.We know

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what you're up to. You can see of something like that got you, what

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chance would you have? Non-, if he takes you into the water it is all

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over, isn't it? We've been well and truly. You would be a goner if you

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dragged into the water but you think you could take it on dry land? If he

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gets hold of you, it is all over. That is the only cage with a large

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crocodile who was prepared to open That is the only cage with a large

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the gate, there were other big crocodiles where he would not open

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the gates and a few days later we had a researcher walking across the

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the gates and a few days later we gangway across the top and as she

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went across, he was six foot out of the water, bang. Oh, I jumped!It

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was something else, the power of those animals is unbelievable. Was

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she all right? Eric the crocodile. We know a lot about you as a

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survival expert, we don't know anything about you in terms of your

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personal life but September come you are releasing a candid

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personal life but September come you and you write about lots of stuff,

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your career and about lots of sad times in your life as well. You are

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not afraid to wear your heart on your sleeve, you write in a

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matter-of-fact style, don't you? I guess so, yes. I am 50 next year so

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it is a good time to do a biography. You have often been telling people

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about standing there but you have never felt like you were the centre

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of attention, so why is now the right time for you? 50 is a

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of attention, so why is now the time, the hard drive is getting a

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bit slow so you need to unload stuff to make more space. It is about

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right up, a good time. I don't really want to be the story. Is it

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hard to write about things like losing your dad and losing your

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first wife and sharing that with people, when you have been such a

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private man until now? It was immensely stressful, knowing what to

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leave out and so on. It was a very difficult thing to do and I would

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not want to do it again. Was quite cathartic for you? Not really. When

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you look over your life, I live in the present, so for me to look

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back, it is almost like it is somebody else's life, it is a very

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strange thing. It is interesting, you were open, you had a lot of

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anger and you did not want to take that into the woods and the outdoors

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because that was so beautiful so you went to the gym and got a lot of

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your tension out. That really hot. You have to do something. In

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your tension out. That really hot. survival skills we try to develop

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coping mechanisms and when you are dealing with such a trauma and a

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radical change in your life, you need to do something. Doing nothing

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isn't really a successful strategy. You need to find something to get

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you passed it and that really helps. The book starts in your childhood.

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We have some pictures that prove that you were a daredevil right from

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the off. This is a beautiful picture of you and your dad, is it? Where

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were you here? Biggin Hill, Biggin Hill air show, that is a Spitfire.

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You get more daring, he would wear shorts and socks like that? ! I was

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about three. The stabilisers were not on for a week, that is for sure.

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There have been lots of extraordinary events in your life

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but your involvement in attempts to track down Raoul Moat and help with

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the police force in Northumberland. That was entertaining. How did that

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come about? One of the skills I have is tracking. People think when you

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are on television you are just a TV presenter but that is not my main

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work. My main work is teaching the skills I showcase in television. I

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had the skill, there was the need and I was asked to help, so I did.

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How scared did you feel? Being part of that operation, where he was

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literally metres away in the end, wasn't he? It was a scary situation

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but I was not scared of him. I was more scared of messing up. At that

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moment, the whole thing was a tragedy, Alex. Everybody, for him,

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his victims, the community, but at the time it happened you become the

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point of the spear and what you the time it happened you become the

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concerned about is not making a mistake because everybody is

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depending upon you at that moment. You compile all of these stories

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because you are out on stage and going on tour across the country, on

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stage in An Evening With Ray Mears and it starts next month, when his

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stage in An Evening With Ray Mears autobiography is out as well, a

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great read. You may be wondering why this thing is hanging behind as on

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The One Show. That, would you believe it, is a hanging basket.

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Christine Walkden has been out celebrating Britain's best hanging

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baskets. Is it better than that one? Britain is basking in the best

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summer for years and the nation's flowers are enjoying it as much as

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the rest of us. Some of the best blooms are hanging up at head height

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so that everybody in the street can enjoy them. Hanging baskets took off

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in the mid-1800s, when new lightweight steel meant they could

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be made cheaply enough for widespread use, originally hanging

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be made cheaply enough for inside the home. These days,

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rustproof versions are more often found outside and they are a great

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way to create an instrument -- an instant, adaptable garden. I am in

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Oxfordshire on the trail of spectacular examples. Just look at

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these. Isn't this fantastic? With Ulysses, Petunias, Lobelia,

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traditional hanging basket plants. The person who listed here does not

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have a lot of garden but look at the colour. No garden? You don't need

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it. This is how to pull it off. I have to try to grab a word of this

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-- I have to grab a word with the owner of this vertical garden. These

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are beautiful baskets. You haven't got much garden but look at the

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colour. It proves you can do a lot with a little. You can clean it in a

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day, then what do you do all day? You gravitated towards making a

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vertical garden. How long does it take you to water this? About an

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hour and a half every evening, I water by hand and Deadhead each day.

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It doesn't matter how many times you go round, you find another one. We

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have lots of people who take pictures. As long as they don't

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pinch them, I don't mind. It shows pictures. As long as they don't

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that without a garden you can pictures. As long as they don't

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produce a marvellous display. For that real riot of colour, feed

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often, Deadhead regularly and make sure you choose the right number of

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plants. To get the most out of a traditional basket use small,

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colourful flowers and you will want at least one planned for East -- fit

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each inch of your basket's diameter. Look at these fantastic baskets,

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really inviting you in. I will have a drink and see how

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really inviting you in. I will have them. So what is it about pubs and

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hanging baskets? They go together. They do. It makes the beer garden

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feel more inviting. It is like an oasis in the middle of the town. Are

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you a natural Gardener? No, I am oasis in the middle of the town. Are

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pies and points man, I am afraid. We have a watering system that is on a

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timer, morning and night. It is a central pipe with tubes that has

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pipes which drip into the basket. central pipe with tubes that has

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You are doing a splendid job. Hanging baskets don't have to be

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just about flowers. They can be herbs, they can be cracked eye,

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fruit, tomatoes, you name it, you can put them in. The key thing is to

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keep them well watered. Now, these can put them in. The key thing is to

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are nice. Very imaginatively displayed. Just a simple colour

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scheme, but I love the fact they are dangling off rollers. Naidu has

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clearances for a living and over the years I have picked up these rollers

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-- I do has clearances for a living. I like the feature, the

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character of them. It is a great way to display a hanging basket other

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than on the side of the doorway. I have been doing it for the last four

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years since I joined the gardening competition. Who are you up against?

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My mum. Seriously?There is a lot of competition. Who are you up against?

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banter going on between me and my mum. I have the confidence of

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winning this year. We had better go mum. I have the confidence of

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and look and see who the competition really is. Luckily enough, his mum

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and look and see who the competition is just around the corner. Hi, I

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believe David will reckons he has won the competition. No way, it is

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mine. What about that then? It is good, but mine is better. We need an

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independent judge, there could be a family scrap. There could well be.

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Summer containers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and when they

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are a poor wall having height and variety, they don't half light up

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the street. Thank you, Christine, always full of

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colour. In Plymouth are very different type of display has been

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lighting up the area. There is something truly relaxing about being

:24:59.:25:02.

by the seaside. I don't know if it is the fresh air or the atmosphere

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but right now I am far from relaxed, probably to do with the fact I am

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surrounded by over a tonne under half of explosives. These explosives

:25:10.:25:17.

are not the demolition. Over 15,000 fireworks. Six teams of pyrotechnic

:25:17.:25:22.

experts and 100,000 bands of the public are brought together for two

:25:22.:25:25.

nights for the annual British firework Championships which are

:25:25.:25:29.

held in Plymouth every August. This year's competition is even more

:25:30.:25:32.

explosive because the previous six winners have been invited back to

:25:32.:25:36.

see who can be crowned the ultimate champion of champions. This is the

:25:36.:25:43.

number-1 competition in the UK, the best place for fireworks to be

:25:43.:25:47.

judged. Eight months of planning and hard work has gone into the

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judged. Eight months of planning and We want to be the champions in

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judged. Eight months of planning and United Kingdom. The panel of six

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judges will not be easily impressed. We want to see something we haven't

:25:57.:26:03.

seen before, creating the wow. How do the teams plan to blow their

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rivals away? We try to pull something out of the bag that the

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audience are not expecting. Our secret weapon is the union to back

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which is 12 metres by five metres. -- the union Jack. It will cost 30

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back -- it will cost 30,000 or £40,000. Trust me, this is a sure

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you have never seen before. It is not your average bonfire night. What

:26:29.:26:33.

makes this different from a rocket I can buy in the supermarket? It is

:26:33.:26:40.

fired like a cannonball. There will be over a kilo of powder in that

:26:40.:26:44.

firework. You will not be there with a match? Not -- absolutely not.

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Inside there is a head which creates a spark when an electric current is

:26:49.:26:55.

passed over it and that connects to our firing system. To is that

:26:55.:26:58.

everything off tonight, it is the press of this button? Press

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everything off tonight, it is the button and the computer runs itself.

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I am on the computer screen, this is a graphic? Yellow bobbin hopefully

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I am on the computer screen, this is it should run as it should on there.

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There is always a danger this could it should run as it should on there.

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go wrong. They could light each other by accident, trying to control

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and predictability. The worst thing would be to switch the panel on and

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there would be no power to fire the show. The time for talking is over.

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Let's see some fireworks. Mesmerised through that, weren't

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you? Mesmerising, good for the spirit. Great if you are celebrating

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a level results. Thank you for everybody who has e-mailed in.

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Congratulations to Danny Campbell from Denbigh high school, got two As

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in A-level maths, aged 15. Congratulations. Rate, thank you for

:29:09.:29:14.

your company, An Evening With Ray Mears starts in Shrewsbury Town

:29:14.:29:17.

sucked the 26 and it tours around the country and your autobiography,

:29:17.:29:22.

My Outdoor Life, is out next month. I will be here tomorrow with Chris

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and Gary Lineker and a special Commonwealth Games exclusive. See

:29:27.:29:29.

you then. Goodbye.

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