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Hello, welcome to The One Show Alex Jones... And Matt Baker. If I | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
was stranded on a desert island, I know what rugged, outdoorsy, | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
handsome man I would like with me. Luckily, he is the SiteMeter night. | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
It's Ray Mears! -- sat next to me. A-level results are out today. In | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
It's Ray Mears! -- sat next to me. your autobiography, you said that | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
you sleepwalked through? Of you seem not a happy time for you? If he went | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
back and had to take one, what would you take? I don't think I would want | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
to, it is my idea of hell. They are so stressful. They are probably | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
harder than going to university. I don't think I would want to do | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
another one. Fair enough. Because Ray is here, we are looking for | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
extremes. We want the oldest and youngest to pass their A-levels | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
today. Whatever your grades, send the photograph to the usual address. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Ray is famous for spending up to 250 days a year sleeping outside. That | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
will save you a few quid on hotel days a year sleeping outside. That | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
bills. Tony Livsey has been to meet some other people that have opted to | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
live in unusual places to save cash. How would you like to live in an old | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
fire station like this, in Northumberland? Yours for just £180 | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
per month, including bills. What about this former police station in | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
north Wales? Also available for just £180 per month, all in. It all | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
sounds too good to be true, but I promised these prices are the real | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
deal, but only if you are prepared to become what is known as a | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
property guardian. You have to pay a licence to live there, but the cost | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
is much lower than if you were officially renting it. NHS worker | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
and artist Paula pays £180 per month to have her home in a former primary | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
school in Salford. You just pay the licence fee, no bills, no council | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
tax. My disposable income is quite big. Is this party Central?Know, | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
one of the rules is we are not allowed parties. No pets, no | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
parties. There is a banner outside, saying happy 30th birthday? We are | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
allowed gatherings, but no parties. No dancing? Can they inspect for | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
that? The landlord has a property they cannot do much with, so they | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
handed to an agency which charges they cannot do much with, so they | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
people to live in is, cheaply. Normally, you are not the only | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Guardian. Here, there are six people. Life is pretty communal, but | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
you get a lot of space. The shower and kitchen are shared. Some places | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
on holiday have frightened me, but this is not great. There are no | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Baathists. If you want a shower, you are in there. This arrangement | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
allows the landlord, in this case Salford Council, to keep the empty | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
property secure at a fraction of the cost of boarding it up or employing | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
security. £180 per month? Crucially, it also keeps away | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
squatters. Talk to me about the kind of people that live in a place like | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
this. What kind of people do you allow to stay? They must be | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
employed, no children. Is it lowering the bar of what is | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
acceptable? The buildings need to be wind and water tight. Where there | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
are maintenance issues, we address wind and water tight. Where there | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
it. What is it say about modern day UK that professional people are | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
living in buildings like this, that have seen better days? They are | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
trying to do something themselves. You must remember, the monthly | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
licence fee is significantly lower, sometimes four or five times lower, | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
than you would pay for a similar space. It is one of the perils of | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
communal living, brown sauce, without a crust. Living in the old | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
school office block is 28-year-old teaching assistant Jessica. Allen | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
people ask where I live, I say, I live in a primary school. People go, | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
what? If you want to go and have a cup of tea in the kitchen, and a | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
chat, it's lovely. I work as a teaching assistant, which doesn't | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
pay enough to afford a flat on my own. People would say you are an | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
unofficial security woman? There are so many pluses. It cancels | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
unofficial security woman? There are other out. I do feel safe. There are | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
unofficial security woman? There are attempted break-ins, but you always | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
have someone around. Being a property Guardian does not come | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
without catches. When you move into somewhere like this, you are asked | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
without catches. When you move into to sign this. It is not a normal | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
tenancy agreement, it is a licence to live here. It means you do not | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
have the rights normally afforded to tenants. You don't have exclusive | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
use of any of the building, tenants. You don't have exclusive | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
including your own bedroom. And we could be asked to move out with as | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
short notice as two weeks. It is always at the back of your mind, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
short notice as two weeks. It is something you need to deal with when | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
it comes along. Fortunately, if you are a good Guardian, they will | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
relocate you. This way of cheap living is becoming increasingly | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
popular, especially in big cities. Critics worry it is making a | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
2-tiered system of tenancy rights, those that can afford to have them | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
and those that cannot. It is a form of unpaid labour, you are providing | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
a service for the property owner and the property Guardian company, but | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
you are paying for the privilege of doing so. That is not a tenancy. It | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
is obvious why it is not everybody's cup of tea. I don't think I would | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
like to hang my hat in a primary school cloakroom or go to sleep | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
potentially under siege from thieves or vandals. But they are adults, | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
they made their own choice, they or vandals. But they are adults, | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
enjoying it and saving a lot of money. So isn't it surprising what | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
can become home sweet home? What a great scheme. You can be so | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
creative, as well. It is like having this studio as your bedroom. Imagine | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
having a fire station as your home. Coming down the pole? It is like | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
glamorous squatting. What is the most unusual place you have stayed | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
in? A few rough hotels, one where most unusual place you have stayed | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
high pitched a tent on the bed. It was so filthy that it was | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
high pitched a tent on the bed. It There was no alternative. It was in | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
a developing world town, it was really grim, in the tropics. House | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
prices have been on the rise and figures out today suggest one of the | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
prices have been on the rise and reasons is the government | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
prices have been on the rise and involvement in this Help To Buy | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
scheme? The Government are really pleased with this. If you are buying | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
a new build home, you would put down 5% deposit, the government would | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
give you 20% of the value, you would 5% deposit, the government would | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
pay it back when you sold the house. 5% deposit, the government would | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
It is interest-free for the first five years. They are going to roll | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
this out in January to existing homes as well. They are pleased with | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
it because they have had 10,000 sign-ups in the last four months. I | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
guess you have to put context in it, 900 house sales a year, so it is a | :07:54. | :08:03. | |
drop in the ocean. But a good start. House prices have risen, but it is | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
nothing compared to past years? That have been some whopping price | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
increases in the past. 1972, house prices were up by 22.6% in 1992, 22 | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
two and a half percent. We have got to remember that we | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
two and a half percent. We have got to know that for every peak there is | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
a trough. House prices have fallen to know that for every peak there is | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
by 14%, between 2008 and 2012. So we still have a long way to go. There | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
is a nice place on the market, nice estate, plenty of land? It is. | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
Cotton's house, familiar to BBC viewers... No, it was | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Cotton's house, familiar to BBC Monarch of the Glen. Kilwillie | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Castle. Balavil House is its real name. How many bedrooms?20, all of | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
them ensuite. Eight miles name. How many bedrooms?20, all of | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
two miles wide. Eight houses with it, you get a flock of sheep, a herd | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
of cows. The dining table can sit 30 people. Underfloor heating?Central | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
heating throughout. How much do you reckon? £30 million. He could be in | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
for this. With Help To Buy from the government, £7 million. Amazing.You | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
would prefer to sleep in a tree house. The garden looks really good. | :09:34. | :09:42. | |
Good news in Chester? There is a baby-boomer. Yes, well done, | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
Chester. A little bit more out of the ordinary is that it involves one | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
of the world's most Endangered Species Act. | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
This is Zuri, an endangered black rhino about to give birth. To | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
capture this amazing moment on camera is extremely rare. This | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
footage was taken at Chester zoo earlier this year. Within a couple | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
of hours, the baby is up and walking. In a few weeks, he is up | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
and about. Just hiding behind his mother, a little baby. He is an | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
eastern black rhino. They are critically endangered in the wild. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
At Chester, there is a new facility, ground-breaking techniques | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
to help improve the birth rate of captive rhinos. For over a decade, | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
Chester zoo had no baby rhino is born. In the last ten months, they | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
have had three new arrivals. The first thing you notice is this | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
incredible top lip. It is almost like a little elephant's trunk. She | :10:55. | :11:07. | |
uses it to gently mug me of this food. They can pick exactly which | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
morsel they want to eat. Breeding captive black rhinos is incredibly | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
difficult. Females come into season captive black rhinos is incredibly | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
once a month. It can be for as little as several days. They can now | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
assess when they are likely to breed, and there is a crucial | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
ingredient. It is all down to this, rhino dung. Around six years ago, | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
Sue Walker discovered that rhino hormone levels can be gauged by | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
analysing rhino dung. This allowed her to calculate when females were | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
coming into season. We are not going to collect blood from them all | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
coming into season. We are not going the time. What we can do is look at | :11:55. | :12:06. | |
hormones in the poop. We are trying to track her cycles. We are looking | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
for these nice waves. We can actually start making predictions. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
If we know how long the cycle is for her, and it is usually about a | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
month, we can predict it softly when she is going to be in season. -- | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
exactly. When the wave comes down, she can be introduced to the mail. | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
To ensure a good genetic mix, the rhinos are exchanged between zoos | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
around the world. It useful to know when they can breed, but if they do | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
around the world. It useful to know is down to the animals. Starting to | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
feel a bit braver. She is mostly dominant. He feels a bit henpecked. | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
It's really important, because he has a great love line? There is none | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
of his bloodline in Britain or Europe, he came from Japan. | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
Hopefully this will be a success story, adding to the grand total of | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
five black rhinos born here story, adding to the grand total of | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
last four years. Chester is also story, adding to the grand total of | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
helping other zoos across Europe to achieve similar success. In the | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
short term, the hope is that this innovative project at Chester zoo | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
will ensure that the captive black rhino population in York will be | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
maintained, as genetically diverse as possible. In the long term, would | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
it not be a wonderful thought to have the great, great grandchildren | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
released onto the African plains, where they definitely belong? | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
What an incredible story. It makes you wonder where that is going to | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
lead. In honour of Ray Mears, we have a baby meerkat to meet him. | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
Have a little tickle. This is Lila, and she was abandoned by her mother | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
at Chester. It has experienced its very own baby-boomer. How many | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
compared to last year? 16, about twice as many as last year. With | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Lila being abandoned, is it hard twice as many as last year. With | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
reintroduce her? It can be. They can be quite vicious. It is a | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
matriarchal society. It did work. We monitored closely and it doesn't | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
always work. But she is back in her original group. An incredible noise | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
that she makes. The film is really important, the black rhino is so | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
threatened. Hundreds of them were killed last year. Within ten years, | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
we could lose the black rhino killed last year. Within ten years, | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
altogether. So the thought killed last year. Within ten years, | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
might be able to crack the breeding could really help. They are such | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
wonderful animals. It is like watching a dinosaur. Recently we saw | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
you getting up close and personal with a different creature. Have a | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
look at this. I push you and close the gate? Throw it down in front of | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
him. Just in front of his nose. the gate? Throw it down in front of | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
That's it. Wow, look at the size of that. He starts to twitch.We know | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
what you're up to. You can see of something like that got you, what | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
chance would you have? Non-, if he takes you into the water it is all | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
over, isn't it? We've been well and truly. You would be a goner if you | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
dragged into the water but you think you could take it on dry land? If he | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
gets hold of you, it is all over. That is the only cage with a large | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
crocodile who was prepared to open That is the only cage with a large | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
the gate, there were other big crocodiles where he would not open | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
the gates and a few days later we had a researcher walking across the | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
the gates and a few days later we gangway across the top and as she | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
went across, he was six foot out of the water, bang. Oh, I jumped!It | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
was something else, the power of those animals is unbelievable. Was | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
she all right? Eric the crocodile. We know a lot about you as a | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
survival expert, we don't know anything about you in terms of your | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
personal life but September come you are releasing a candid | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
personal life but September come you and you write about lots of stuff, | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
your career and about lots of sad times in your life as well. You are | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
not afraid to wear your heart on your sleeve, you write in a | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
matter-of-fact style, don't you? I guess so, yes. I am 50 next year so | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
it is a good time to do a biography. You have often been telling people | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
about standing there but you have never felt like you were the centre | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
of attention, so why is now the right time for you? 50 is a | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
of attention, so why is now the time, the hard drive is getting a | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
bit slow so you need to unload stuff to make more space. It is about | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
right up, a good time. I don't really want to be the story. Is it | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
hard to write about things like losing your dad and losing your | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
first wife and sharing that with people, when you have been such a | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
private man until now? It was immensely stressful, knowing what to | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
leave out and so on. It was a very difficult thing to do and I would | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
not want to do it again. Was quite cathartic for you? Not really. When | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
you look over your life, I live in the present, so for me to look | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
back, it is almost like it is somebody else's life, it is a very | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
strange thing. It is interesting, you were open, you had a lot of | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
anger and you did not want to take that into the woods and the outdoors | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
because that was so beautiful so you went to the gym and got a lot of | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
your tension out. That really hot. You have to do something. In | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
your tension out. That really hot. survival skills we try to develop | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
coping mechanisms and when you are dealing with such a trauma and a | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
radical change in your life, you need to do something. Doing nothing | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
isn't really a successful strategy. You need to find something to get | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
you passed it and that really helps. The book starts in your childhood. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
We have some pictures that prove that you were a daredevil right from | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
the off. This is a beautiful picture of you and your dad, is it? Where | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
were you here? Biggin Hill, Biggin Hill air show, that is a Spitfire. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
You get more daring, he would wear shorts and socks like that? ! I was | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
about three. The stabilisers were not on for a week, that is for sure. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
There have been lots of extraordinary events in your life | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
but your involvement in attempts to track down Raoul Moat and help with | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
the police force in Northumberland. That was entertaining. How did that | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
come about? One of the skills I have is tracking. People think when you | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
are on television you are just a TV presenter but that is not my main | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
work. My main work is teaching the skills I showcase in television. I | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
had the skill, there was the need and I was asked to help, so I did. | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
How scared did you feel? Being part of that operation, where he was | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
literally metres away in the end, wasn't he? It was a scary situation | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
but I was not scared of him. I was more scared of messing up. At that | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
moment, the whole thing was a tragedy, Alex. Everybody, for him, | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
his victims, the community, but at the time it happened you become the | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
point of the spear and what you the time it happened you become the | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
concerned about is not making a mistake because everybody is | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
depending upon you at that moment. You compile all of these stories | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
because you are out on stage and going on tour across the country, on | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
stage in An Evening With Ray Mears and it starts next month, when his | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
stage in An Evening With Ray Mears autobiography is out as well, a | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
great read. You may be wondering why this thing is hanging behind as on | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
The One Show. That, would you believe it, is a hanging basket. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Christine Walkden has been out celebrating Britain's best hanging | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
baskets. Is it better than that one? Britain is basking in the best | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
summer for years and the nation's flowers are enjoying it as much as | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
the rest of us. Some of the best blooms are hanging up at head height | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
so that everybody in the street can enjoy them. Hanging baskets took off | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
in the mid-1800s, when new lightweight steel meant they could | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
be made cheaply enough for widespread use, originally hanging | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
be made cheaply enough for inside the home. These days, | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
rustproof versions are more often found outside and they are a great | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
way to create an instrument -- an instant, adaptable garden. I am in | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Oxfordshire on the trail of spectacular examples. Just look at | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
these. Isn't this fantastic? With Ulysses, Petunias, Lobelia, | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
traditional hanging basket plants. The person who listed here does not | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
have a lot of garden but look at the colour. No garden? You don't need | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
it. This is how to pull it off. I have to try to grab a word of this | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
-- I have to grab a word with the owner of this vertical garden. These | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
are beautiful baskets. You haven't got much garden but look at the | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
colour. It proves you can do a lot with a little. You can clean it in a | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
day, then what do you do all day? You gravitated towards making a | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
vertical garden. How long does it take you to water this? About an | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
hour and a half every evening, I water by hand and Deadhead each day. | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
It doesn't matter how many times you go round, you find another one. We | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
have lots of people who take pictures. As long as they don't | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
pinch them, I don't mind. It shows pictures. As long as they don't | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
that without a garden you can pictures. As long as they don't | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
produce a marvellous display. For that real riot of colour, feed | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
often, Deadhead regularly and make sure you choose the right number of | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
plants. To get the most out of a traditional basket use small, | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
colourful flowers and you will want at least one planned for East -- fit | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
each inch of your basket's diameter. Look at these fantastic baskets, | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
really inviting you in. I will have a drink and see how | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
really inviting you in. I will have them. So what is it about pubs and | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
hanging baskets? They go together. They do. It makes the beer garden | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
feel more inviting. It is like an oasis in the middle of the town. Are | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
you a natural Gardener? No, I am oasis in the middle of the town. Are | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
pies and points man, I am afraid. We have a watering system that is on a | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
timer, morning and night. It is a central pipe with tubes that has | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
pipes which drip into the basket. central pipe with tubes that has | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
You are doing a splendid job. Hanging baskets don't have to be | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
just about flowers. They can be herbs, they can be cracked eye, | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
fruit, tomatoes, you name it, you can put them in. The key thing is to | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
keep them well watered. Now, these can put them in. The key thing is to | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
are nice. Very imaginatively displayed. Just a simple colour | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
scheme, but I love the fact they are dangling off rollers. Naidu has | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
clearances for a living and over the years I have picked up these rollers | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
-- I do has clearances for a living. I like the feature, the | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
character of them. It is a great way to display a hanging basket other | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
than on the side of the doorway. I have been doing it for the last four | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
years since I joined the gardening competition. Who are you up against? | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
My mum. Seriously?There is a lot of competition. Who are you up against? | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
banter going on between me and my mum. I have the confidence of | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
winning this year. We had better go mum. I have the confidence of | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
and look and see who the competition really is. Luckily enough, his mum | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
and look and see who the competition is just around the corner. Hi, I | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
believe David will reckons he has won the competition. No way, it is | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
mine. What about that then? It is good, but mine is better. We need an | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
independent judge, there could be a family scrap. There could well be. | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
Summer containers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and when they | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
are a poor wall having height and variety, they don't half light up | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
the street. Thank you, Christine, always full of | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
colour. In Plymouth are very different type of display has been | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
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 | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
but right now I am far from relaxed, probably to do with the fact I am | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
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 | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
judged. Eight months of planning and We want to be the champions in | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
judged. Eight months of planning and United Kingdom. The panel of six | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
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 | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
rivals away? We try to pull something out of the bag that the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
audience are not expecting. Our secret weapon is the union to back | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
which is 12 metres by five metres. -- the union Jack. It will cost 30 | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
back -- it will cost 30,000 or £40,000. Trust me, this is a sure | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
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. | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
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 | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
everything off tonight, it is the button and the computer runs itself. | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
I am on the computer screen, this is a graphic? Yellow bobbin hopefully | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
I am on the computer screen, this is it should run as it should on there. | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
There is always a danger this could it should run as it should on there. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
go wrong. They could light each other by accident, trying to control | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
and predictability. The worst thing would be to switch the panel on and | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
there would be no power to fire the show. The time for talking is over. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Let's see some fireworks. Mesmerised through that, weren't | :27:31. | :28:55. | |
you? Mesmerising, good for the spirit. Great if you are celebrating | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
a level results. Thank you for everybody who has e-mailed in. | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
Congratulations to Danny Campbell from Denbigh high school, got two As | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
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 | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
and Gary Lineker and a special Commonwealth Games exclusive. See | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
you then. Goodbye. | :29:29. | :29:30. |