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$:/STARTFEED. Hello and welcome to the one one -- the One Show with | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Matthew Baker and Alex Jones. Angela Rippon is with us as Rip Off | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Britain becomes part of the show. We'll also meet Spandau Ballet's | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Gary and Martin Kemp. They are back in the world of gangsters. There | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
they are. What do you think they're looking at? Savage! And, we've got | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
another guest. A man who used to be save sath, but is one of the | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
country's most -- savage, but is one of the country's best-loved | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
entertainers. Hiya. I always seem to do ten jobs in the day and on a | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
motorbike like a maniac. 15 minutes ago I got off the bike and flung in. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Covered me cuts off the puppies. How is everything back home on the | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
farm? You must love spring that is finally here? It's being like | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
trapped in a film, grey and drizzle. Every morning I've looked out and | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
thought there would be a tap dripping all in monochrome, shot in | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
a different angle. The difference in people. Your pigs are loving the | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
sun? They have a mud bath and they lie in it and I put suntan oil on | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
them in case they burn. They smell lovely. Paul is hosting the British | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Animal Honours, which recognises the achievements of extraordinary | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
animals and the people who work with them. We will found out -- | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
find out more later. And we'll reward the animal dishonours. One | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
of these dogs had managed to eat 109 stones at a single sitting. Can | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
we guess which one? It depends how big the stones are. We want you to | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
name and shame your pets tonight. Apparently, this is one of the | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
latest internet crazes. It's called. You're not keen? It's called pet | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
shaming. Have you heard of this? Look at this. I've heard of this, | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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yeah. It's sort of Tom and Jerry relationship. It's like shaming | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
your own children. Martin and Gary have got some more. What have you | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
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There we go. Anyway, tonight, we want your pet confessions. The idea | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
is take a little photograph and write a note and send it. Yesterday, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
in a moving film, Ruth uncovered the stories of children who were | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
treated for TB in the Craig-y-nos in the Brecon Beacons. Now it's | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
time for them to go back over half a century later. Today, Craig-y-nos | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
is a castle in the Welsh Brecon Beacons, but it was once a TB San | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
forium. -- San forium. Hundreds of children and teenagers were treated | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
here and today some of them have returned. We have invited them to | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
share memories and discuss a time when the medical establishment was | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
going to quite extreme measures to fight a truly terrible disease. | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
With no cure for TB at the time, centuries' old treatments like | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
exposure to cold, fresh air were the only option. At Craig-y-nos | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
many children were made to live outdoors on the balcony, sometimes | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
for years on end.? This is where they were? Right up the top there. | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
The one there. The boys there. girls there. I was told to come for | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
a fortnight and I was here for 17 months. Out in the rain and snow | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
and the wind. My mother came up one winter's day and made me put a vest | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
on and my sister came -- the Sister came out and give her a row and I | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
had to take it off. Exposure to the cold wasn't the only treatment. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Immobilisation was also common and to ensure children didn't move they | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
were placed in plaster beds. There are casts of their bodies that kept | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
them still on their backs for years. This is the cast or plait ter bed | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
that many speak of. It was -- plaster bed that many speak of. It | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
was molded to the body and this is what the children lay in. Not just | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
for five minutes or ten minutes, but all day, every day for a year | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
at a time. This one was made for a three-year-old. Not all of Craig-y- | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
nos is open to the hotel's guests. Some floors have been preserved | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
almost exactly as they were in the older days. This is real on here? | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
Three there. I was here. Right next to the window? Yes. The doctor used | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
to come out of the list and just stand there and say, "Lie down?". | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Separation from parents and siblings was often the most | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
difficult part of being here. With parent only able to visit once a | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
month. Many of the children felt cut off. I missed the place I grew | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
up in by the sea and I missed the sea. I missed my dog. When I told | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
my mother this, she told me to look out of the window there. Standing | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
by the fountain was my uncle holding the dog and I suddenly | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
recognised him and later on she opened her bag and took a bottle | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
out and said, "Smell that." She brought me seawater. She couldn't | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
do anything else really. That was the way she tried to help me. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
children weren't neglected here. Nurses like Glenys Jones became | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
their surrogate family. Today, she has returned with them. What was it | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
like nursing the children? There was plenty of fun. It was hard, | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
mind, especially during visiting. They only visited once a month and | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
then they didn't know the relatives or their parent at all. How cold | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
was it for the nurses? Bitterly cold, but you weren't allowed to | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
wear a cardigan in the ward, only outside. Isolation from families | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
and the sometimes incredibly harsh treatments were difficult, but for | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
many TB survivors, going home after years here was the biggest | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
challenge of all. My friends had moved on and I hadn't. I was still | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
seven going home after three years. I was seven coming in and seven | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
going home. My friends didn't want to play with my dolls. My mother | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
was more concerned about how the parents would take to me going back | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
and playing with their children. She said to me, quopbl don't tell | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
anybody you've had TB -- "Don't tell anybody you've had TB. Say it | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
was a bad chest complaint." I tell people now I had TB, because I'm | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
quite proud of it now. It's my scars and my medals. The story of | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
tuberculosis is one of history's more harrowing -- harrowing tales, | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
but the children of Craig-y-nos are some of the bravest and inspiring | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
people I have ever met. Pamela from the film is here as well as Anne | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Shaw, who as well as being a resident, that's collated the | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
memories of the children of Craig- y-nos. We didn't see you in the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
film, but what was the idea of getting all of the people together | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
to right about this in the book and how did you do it? Well, I returned | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
to Wales for a holiday in 2006 and I thought what's happened to Craig- | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
y-nos? What has happened to all the children I was with? I put a blog | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
up and I called it The Lost Children of Craig-y-nos. I put it | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
in the newspaper and everything was whoosh. The children were alive and | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
they wanted their stories told. It's been incredible for last two | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
days to follow both your journeys. Pamela we saw you last night when | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
you turned up at the incredibly imposing building and what it must | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
have felt like a child. What was it like to go back as a child? I only | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
had to go around the corner in the car and I said to my husband, I | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
don't like this. I didn't want to go there. Was it odd for you to go | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
back and to see where you were? didn't want to go there. I only | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
went because Anne has written the book and I went up there to see the | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
presentation of it. We had a reunion. That's the only reason, | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
but every time I go there I get the same feeling and I've been there a | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
few times since then. We are not surprised. We saw in the film you | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
were put in a full-body cast. and plaster of Paris from my head | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
to my feet and they let it dry and turned it over and put cotton wool | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
on and gauze to keep it in and laid me down and strapped me down for | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
two-and-a-half years. What effect did that have when you look back at | :10:03. | :10:12. | |
that? Has it made you stronger? I don't mind, but when I was | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
younger I wondered why did this happen to me, but it was the wrong | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
treatment I had. I should have been having physiotherapy, so they say. | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
When I came out of hospital my mother went to a doctor and he said | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
I shouldn't have gone to Craig-y- nos. It's all I knew as a child. | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
One of the other horrific treatments was to be put outside | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
and Anne you were one of those children? How long? Four years. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Some of the time was out on the balcony. Actually, people were | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
horrified of that life, but it was OK. It was better than being inside. | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
You made ice lollies out there? I remember, because I kept a diary, | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the temperature was minus seven and then they decided to bring us in. | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
That as kind of them, wasn't it? Yeah. My mum was an orderly in a TB | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
hospital and I remember the horror stories. She said the beds would be | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
incased in ice with bats hanging off the beds and the children blue, | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
literally unable to speak with the cold. How did she comb with that? | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
She couldn't do anything, because you were ruled by the ward sister | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
and the matron and that was the treatment. As an orderly you were | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
the lowest on the wrung, so you had to do what you were told. She | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
didn't approve and didn't think it did the children any good and it | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
didn't of course. I worked in a kids' home that was a former TB | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
hospital and they did the same, all the children were put out on | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
balconies, in all sorts of weather. It's child abuse really. It wasn't | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
willing child abuse, but when you look at it now, it was. Two years | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
in I plaster case Two-and-a-half years and then six months in the | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
plaster of Paris. Nobody sat with you or read to you or lessons. | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
one to talk to. I was younger than most, so they never bothered with | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
me. It's been harrowing to watch the film. Thank you so much for | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
letting us share the story and good luck with with the book and thank | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
you for telling the story. I had a rat in bed with me. I have to tell | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
you this. She was my pet. I was screaming. I was tied down and I | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
felt something across my feet. I woke up and all of a sudden it run | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
up and it passed my face, the fur and the tail. I just was screaming. | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
You've been through the mill. It's all in the book. There was a nurse | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
who calmed me down and brain-washed me, because I've never been afraid | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
of rats since. She said, "It's Joey. Our pet." She said he wanted to | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
come and see me. I don't know how this will fit into your next story, | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
because we are going on to the world of health and safety. There | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
are pros and cons. But there is a bright-yellow playing on our | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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streets. Arthur Smith is getting into a tiz about hi viz. Day-glo | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
jackets. That ghastly colour is everywhere. It's like some deity | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
has flicked bright-yellow paint on the world. Of course, high viz | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
clothing can be genuinely life- saving. It was orange when railway | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
workers started wearing it in Scotland in 1964. The train drivers | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
said they could spot them from a greater distance. Orange because it | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
shows up against the yellow signals. Elsewhere, it's mainly yellow. | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Emergency services and motorway maintenance teams, cyclists, you | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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It is now part of the bureaucracy, you have to do it? Yes, since 1974. | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
There are interesting statistics. Since 2000-2010, their characters | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
and injuries declined by about 20% and we think it is down to high- | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
visibility garments -- the amount of injuries. The man with a bright | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
idea was Bob, a young American, who in the 1930s was partly blinded in | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
an industrial accident. To try and see more clearly, he started | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
experimenting with fluorescent minerals. By mixing them with wood | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
varnish, he and his brother created the world's first fluorescent paint. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
It differs from ordinary paint in how it is affected by light waves. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
The energy that the Paint absorbs from short-wave light, like all | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
divided, is converted to visible light by the chemicals in the paint | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
-- like Portrush violence. The clothing appears to glow because of | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
the ultraviolet sun rays absorbed by the fluorescence. But has high- | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
vis now become so common that danger stops meaning danger and | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
high-visibility becomes invisibility? Looking like order | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
varied work then, these three robbers walked through a department | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
store in Manchester and rat half-a- million pounds worth of designer | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
watches that Rab. That was last September and no one has been | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
arrested. Now the police might take up the flash. They are considering | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
all their offices in hive his jackets all the time, concealing | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
their navy blue uniform -- and that are considering putting all their | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
officers in high-vis. A psychologist discovered -- studies | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
this and says what inspires confidence is the sight of the | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
police and navy blue. They are a three main colours, and blue and | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
yellow or two of them. Blue is the colour that at divides the mind, it | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
helps you to think clearly and it communicates that you know what | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
you're doing -- activates. Yellow is the colour of emotions and | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
focuses on the ego and self- confidence and equally on the | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
negative side, it can be a bit scary. I don't know about colour | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
psychology. I tell you what, though, wearing one of these gives me the | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
cheapest route to authority. Let's try it out. | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
Can you walk in the gutter, please? Can you go this way around, please? | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Excuse me, pigeon. Can you get off the pavement, | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
please? Excuse me, could you go this side of the sign? Thank you. | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Could you sit there, please, rather than there. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
See, it works. I should say, if you are thinking of joining the high- | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
vis Club, it does come with responsibilities. You do need to | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
read it is European safety directives. Inside, it tells you | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
how yellow and have to wash it. Because you don't want someone in a | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
yellow jacket knocking on your door, do you? | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
The authority that high-vis de Schoof. Paul, you're not a fan, are | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
you? A not at all, I am always thinking they are a lot of builders | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
around. IC the practicality of it, especially if you are a cyclist | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
that night -- I can say. But surely they could make them fashionable. | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
Imagine the in one of them. You are hosting the British Animal Honours | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
tomorrow night. It is going to be a star-studded affair in the animal | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
world. Humans as well, get on it, for the work they have done for | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
conservation. It was really... It was good for the soul, it really | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
was, to be there, and see all of these marvellous animals and the | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
effect they have had on people. Tell us about Allen And her Haatchi. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
They are a lovely couple. -- Allen. He is a little cracker, I fell for | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
him immediately. Owen has got a dog called Haatchi, who has got three | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
legs, because he had an accident on a railway line, the train ran over | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
him and he had to have his leg amputated, so the two of them | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
together, this dog is huge, and you have little Owen in his wheelchair, | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
and they adored each other. Let's meet them and see what a difference | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Haatchi has made to Owen's life. The confidence in Alyn has grown | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
considerably since Haatchi came into his life. Haatchi is a great | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
doctor me. And he likes me. -- a great bulk to me. It has made him | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
feel he is not that different to everyone else and he has the right | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
to a great life too. He is awesome. That brings a tear to the eye. Alex | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
has gone already. Watch the programme, you will be in pieces! | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
He is such a brave little lad and this relationship between the pair | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
of them. Because he lacks in self- confidence, doesn't he? Completely, | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
and he thinks everyone was staring at him but when he got the dog, | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
people said that the dog and he didn't feel like the centre of | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
attention. Haatchi is so laid-back and it is a great relationship. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
of the stories of the nominees are incredible. How do you pick a | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
winner? There were so many, there was a homeless guy with his cat, | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
that transformed his life. A we had that on here. The cat high-five me | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
when I went in. The rail sunshine award for the Yorkie the pony. -- | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
the rate of sunshine of war. does so much for the disabled, it | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
is like he has a 6th sense. He was different with me, he was more | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
delicate with somebody in a wheelchair. It was incredible, | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
these animals, the stuff they do. Alexander I have already been | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
introduced to your key, one person who loved him was Michael. -- Alex | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
and I. Michael will go in and see him and sit him -- with him and | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
tell him his problems. And Yorkie the pony will just listen. Michael | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
will arrive, get on the cart and they would go around the village. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Michael lived for Yorkie the pony. He took away Michael's disabilities. | :21:24. | :21:33. | |
It was lovely to see. It is such a sad story, because Yorkie the pony | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
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was even at Michael's euro. Outside the church. -- Michael's funeral. | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
It shows you, there is more to animals. It is the sense of wanting | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
to be with you and help you. One of my dogs are supposed to be being | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
spayed, and he starts vomiting, and as soon as I say he is too sick to | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
go he makes a miraculous recovery. He is more vain than Simon Cowell, | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
always looking at himself. He is a cracker. It did mention at the | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
start, it is not just the animals that get the awards. There is a | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
wonderful couple. On the Isle of Skye, they have done remarkable | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
work, they adopt orphaned otters. As soon as I had that, I thought I | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
would go up there. It was a long time since I had been there, they | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
do remarkable work. This is grace and Paul Yoxon, you are going to go | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
and see them? I love it up there. You are becoming the Goto man for | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
animals. I am, I am sort of Dr Dolittle. The thing is, I do get on | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
with animals, I have a special relationship with them. They just | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
do things that I want them to do. I say to sit down and behave yourself | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
and they do. I don't know if it is here... Tell us about these | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
puppies? I am like Edwards is a Hants, thank God for your make-up | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
department. I have these puppets and I get on the floor and play | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
with them and I get covered in saliva and dog hairs that puppies. | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
I look like I am having an attack. And we have to say congratulations, | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
up for the love of dogs is our -- for the love of dogs is nominated | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
for a bad after. It is up against the Olympics and the Great British | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Bake Off. Fingers crossed, I hope they get sick of Battersea Dogs | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
Home's sake. You are in great company. -- I hope they get it. | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
British Animal Honours are awarded to animals to help people and | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
people who help animals, but what about those pets to cause nothing | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
but trouble? We thought we would honour them as well with alarm and | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
British animal dishonours. So it is ever to Alex Riley. The first award | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
is called the Indiana Bones award for getting into deep trouble. And | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
the winner is... It is Louloudis Jack Russell and | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
Hannah Gina from Buckinghamshire. -- Lulu. What happened? We were out | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
for a regular walker and Louloudis appeared than a rabbit hole. -- | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
Lulu it disappeared. By Monday, I took things into my and hands and | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
organised take eating mission. were so desperate, you dug up a | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
whole road. I was going to move the earth to get Taback, literally. | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
did you get around? We located her under a lot of obsolete pipes, we | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
could hear her crying on the Monday night and the urban rescue came out | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
on Monday night and said because we had located her, they would come | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
back in the morning and they came back, and I was holding her by 3 | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
o'clock, alive and well. Would you like to thank anybody? The at and | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
rescue at Aylesbury, thank you. -- urban rescue. Here is your reward. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
Thank you. My son saw that on the news and he ran through and said, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
you will never believe it, five days down a drain! It is amazing | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
how resilient they are. We will have more of those later. No. More | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
-- number back more categories. We will also be talking to Spandau | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Ballet's Gary and Martin Kemp. we wondered what life was like for | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
the boys before they became pop gods. | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
We are going back to the streets where we grew up. It was a very | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
open house, but we invented sections. We had two bedrooms, a | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
living room, a tiny kitchen and we all shared one outside toilet in | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
:26:19. | :26:20. | ||
the yard. Mum had you two years earlier in St Barts and had me at | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
home, I wind blew and they had to rush me to hospital. I got my first | :26:26. | :26:36. | |
:26:36. | :26:38. | ||
guitar when I was 11 and wrote all of my first songs in that bedroom. | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
This is our school, for me, it was all about playing football, your | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
first kiss, burning wood with a magnifying glass. I remember | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
smashing one of the windows with a football. I ran straight out of the | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
school, crying all the way home, thinking my life was over. I can | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
remember modern being a dinner lady and the smell of the cooking -- our | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
mum. Lovely memories. They used to be a see-saw. It was | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
where we played football. A I had my worst memory as a child here. I | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
remember coming home from school and I had a terrible stomach and I | :27:20. | :27:28. | |
put myself, and I spent about an hour in the toilet crying, waiting | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
:27:38. | :27:40. | ||
for someone to come and get me. I have never said that before. They | :27:40. | :27:47. | |
used to be at Bakers. This was the greengrocer's we used to work in on | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
Saturdays and in the evenings and at the school holidays. It was one | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
of those greengrocer's that had a beautiful display of fruit on the | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
front, it was really old school. I brought the first courgettes in to | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
our house. I took it home and we put it on the table and sat around | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
staring at it and nobody knew what to do. One of my earliest memories | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
of Gary is taking his guitar into school and playing it in assembly. | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
I was about 11. I remember growing up and being proud of him, it was | :28:20. | :28:30. | |
:28:30. | :28:30. | ||
never jealousy or read rivalry, it was always looking up to him. | :28:30. | :28:39. | |
Gary? Let's get something to eat. This is just beautiful, it is | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
exactly how it was. I remember sitting in exactly this stall, mind | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
and would be chomping away on jellied eels, and I would sit here | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
and my mother would City, and we would have pie and mash and liquor. | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
That would sit here. This was a special treat for us. It was the | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
first restaurant I ever came to. was the only restaurant. I don't | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
remember coming here with that. he was working overtime on | :29:08. | :29:18. | |
:29:18. | :29:20. | ||
Saturdays. He was a printer and he worked in the Angel in Islington. I | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
remember, when he put on the brown coat, he became a different person. | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
He got me my first job, in the print, after school. I was there | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
for a year. One afternoon I said I wanted to leave and join the band, | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
so I made my dad write him -- write a letter to get the out of the | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
apprenticeship, and it said I had to leave the job because I wanted | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
to become a pop star. What I realise from being in this | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
area is our life was in such a small space. It so much grew out of | :29:53. | :30:03. | |
:30:03. | :30:13. | ||
that. All day and this one street. $:/STARTFEED. From a trip down | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
memory lane, please welcome Gary and Martin Kemp. | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
APPLAUSE Nice to see you both. This is | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
really strange, because you Paul and Martin have been on holiday | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
together.? We have. We were on a plane with Shirley and I could hear | :30:31. | :30:39. | |
Paul's voice from behind. We spent about a week just going around | :30:39. | :30:47. | |
because you were doing the travel show. Shall I sit over there? | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
was a lovely three or four minutes. You were still chatting away there. | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
Amazing trip. Absolutely, yeah. It hasn't changed as much as I thought | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
it should have done to be honest. It was exactly the same as I | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
remember it. Yeah. The pie and mash was childhood on a plate. It was so | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
nostalgic. It stayed with me for quite a while after! Brilliant. | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
There was a certain lady in the shop who wouldn't confess to | :31:17. | :31:27. | |
something? Yeah, she said, "We went to the same school." She said I was | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
the first boy she ever kissed. It's a shame she wouldn't be filmed. | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
She's ashamed of it. We'll stay in the past and talk about Spandau | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
Ballet and how Martin ended up in the band. How I got into the band? | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
It was a funny one, because I remember going out carrying the | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
equipment for the band and I remember packing it into a car. | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
Look at him. How could he ever be a roady? My mum is shouting out of | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
the window, "You better put him in the band as well." I think it came | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
from that. Was he a good musician? No, he couldn't play, but the guy | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
who managed us we need to get a really good-looking bloke in the | :32:13. | :32:21. | |
band. We said we didn't know anybody. He said your brother, he's | :32:21. | :32:30. | |
surrounded by girls with the blue eyes. I taught him the base. | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
bass. I had three weeks. You know it's your ticket. That was the | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
fourth job we had done together. Paper round together and we had | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
already been on TV and the green grocers so we carried on. Just as | :32:43. | :32:51. | |
well you get on then. It's the 30th anniversary of True, which was... | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
That was a turning point in the band, peapbt it? It was our first | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
record to go to number one and changed our lives. There's a line | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
in it, I bought a ticket to the world and that song was. It went | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
more pop than the new romantics. was more soulful. Being soul boys | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
was kind of our history. We had grown up with a lot of soul music | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
and that's the way - it was an experiment for us, but worked. | :33:18. | :33:26. | |
were you a fan, because you were more Northern Soul? It was all - we | :33:26. | :33:33. | |
had the Wig and Casino. They didn't sell booze. I would be accused of | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
all sorts. You are going to dance and take a change of clothes. | :33:38. | :33:44. | |
your bowling bag. You think you're looking tough to go to Wigan and go | :33:44. | :33:51. | |
to a cafe in the morning to eat. It was great music. Yeah. Camaraderie. | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
Did you pre-empt the whole Gold thing for the Olympics? You must | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
have been thinking? It was a 30- year plan. We saw it coming and it | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
was something - we were both really proud of it. Gary must have been, | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
he wrote the song, but me too. It's my band's song. I was completely | :34:10. | :34:16. | |
proud. We were a little peeved we didn't get on the final show. I'll | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
get over it. When Helen Glover and Helen Standing got the first gold | :34:22. | :34:29. | |
it was on my watch and I was the first one to play it,... Absolute | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
Radio played it for every medal. 29 times. Even I was embarrassed about | :34:35. | :34:45. | |
:34:45. | :34:46. | ||
that! You last toured as a band in 2010, was it? Yeah. It was an | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
amazing tour. It was the biggest we ever did. We had a rough history | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
with each other, so it was great to get back in the sense of home that | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
we get from the band. Put it to one side and move on. It was the nicest | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
year I've ever spent. A year spent full of belly laughing, which you | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
don't get to do that much. We all grin and smile a lot, but none of | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
us really belly laugh a lot and it's so good for you and to get | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
back with my mates again after all that time, all that an no, sirity | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
gone. Fantastic. You are working together again, which we'll talk | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
about in a little while. It's all about the gangs of Britain. Earlier, | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
we asked you at home to share your pet pictures. And shame your pets. | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
We have some brilliant ones here. Paul, do you want to do that? | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
got Martin's cat Smudge eats spiders and leaves bits around the | :35:39. | :35:45. | |
house. It's not his cat. Is one is lilly the greyhound. She won't go | :35:45. | :35:52. | |
in the garden if the chickens are out. Bless her. This is Amy's | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
greedy dog from South Wales, who has eaten a slab of butter. That | :35:55. | :36:00. | |
can't be good for them. My dogs have ate a slab of butter. It's not | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
the going in, it's the coming out. Labradors eat anything. We've got | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
one over there. Here is Mike on why some of our swans aren't as | :36:09. | :36:17. | |
protected as you might think. Between six and seven thousand | :36:17. | :36:27. | |
:36:27. | :36:28. | ||
Bewick Swans make the 2,500,000 mile -- 2,500-mile journey to the | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
UK. There can be bad weather and obstacles like windfarms, but they | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
also face the danger of being shot. It's against the law to shoot swans | :36:38. | :36:48. | |
:36:48. | :36:48. | ||
in the UK and the rest of Europe. But, here at Slimbridge they've got | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
evidence to prove it still happens. Julia heads the research team. This | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
is an x-ray of a Bewick Swans and there are pale blobs and that's | :36:59. | :37:06. | |
actually showing shotgun pellets, so this swan has been shot at. | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
can see it clearly there. One, two, three, four. Possibly five. Some | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
swans do survive shooting and so carry shotgun pellets in their | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
bodies for many years. Researchers suspect the shooters are either | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
unaware of the problem, or just flouting the law. There may be some | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
people who simply don't know that the swans are protected and they | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
are not allowed to shoot them. There could be others that perhaps | :37:32. | :37:38. | |
shoot swans mistaking them for other legally shot wild foul or it | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
could be purposeful and illegal shooting. Are birds being shot in | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
the UK? We have found them, but we have found them being shot in other | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
countries. What we don't know at the moment is what extent the | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
shootings are happening in each country. To try to understand the | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
scale of the problem, researchers back in the 70s decided to start x- | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
raying the swans that arrived here. This has continued every year since | :38:00. | :38:08. | |
then. But to do it, it involves luring the wild swans into a netted | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
tunnel and once they think they've trapped enough, an army of | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
volunteers round them up with nets and cages. Look at this. I've got | :38:16. | :38:23. | |
an adult. Time to get it in a pen. Today, they've caught some familiar | :38:23. | :38:33. | |
faces. Two females called Gulvis and Pom. She was first caught and | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
ringed here in 2009. We x-rayed it all those years ago and she had no | :38:39. | :38:46. | |
shot in her body tissue at all. will be x-rayed again, but for | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
Gulvis, this will be the first time. They will only be x-rayed on a | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
couple of occasions so it won't harm them. Martin Brown has been x- | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
raying the swans for the last 40 years and back in the 80s nearly | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
half the birds he saw had pellets embedded. Today, there's good and | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
bad news. I have got pom and it looks like she is clear. There is | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
nothing in that one at all. That is a second or even third time that | :39:12. | :39:18. | |
we've x-rayed that bird. That's a good news. The bad news is in your | :39:18. | :39:27. | |
hand. Yep. This is Gulvis has a pellet in it. It is just one shot | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
in there. This is the tip of the iceberg really, because there are | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
lots of birds that don't come back and just don't recover from being | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
shot. They are either killed or injured so badly they don't | :39:39. | :39:46. | |
continue with their migration. the x-ray data in hand, the trust | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
are working hard to stop the shooting along the migration route. | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
Recent we established a project with other conservation | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
organisations and crucially hunting organisations as well throughout | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
Europe and Russia. It is very important that we get everyone on | :40:01. | :40:07. | |
board with this, because hunters, farmers, environmentalists, we tend | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
to have the same aim and that is sustainable numbers of bird. | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
Hopefully that message seems to be getting through. Thanks to the x- | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
raying of live swans, the numbers found to be shot has dropped from a | :40:20. | :40:30. | |
high of around 40% to around 23% today. Once x-rayed, the swans are | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
released. They will eventually return back to their Arctic | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
breeding grounds in Russia. Thanks to the work from Julia and her | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
colleagues, hopefully the people all along the fly-way will be a lot | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
smarter as to the problems of illegal shooting. Time to release | :40:45. | :40:55. | |
:40:55. | :40:59. | ||
You see, you never know the work that goes on. As we touched on | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
earlier, you are back working together. This time, you are | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
investigating the criminal gangs of Britain historic gangs and present. | :41:07. | :41:15. | |
How does it work. I do all the 19th century and early 20th century | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
gangs. Each episode is a different city. We went to Glasgow and | :41:19. | :41:24. | |
Liverpool and Manchester and London and Birmingham. Martin does all the | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
more recent ones. It's kind of comparing and contrasting between | :41:28. | :41:34. | |
then and now. We cut back and forwards to social historians and | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
victims and trying to explore what makes kids join gangs and some of | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
the sort of more famous stories that surround them in each place. | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
You then pick up through the modern side. Would you say... Gary took | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
the safe side! You are doing the risky bit? I prefer talking about | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
people who are already dead. On a serious note, did you feel safe? | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
It's one of those things that the more dangerous it is the more you | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
want to do it, because they are the stories that are most interesting | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
for you. For me, it wasn't really - I never felt in danger when I was | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
doing the show. I felt sorry for some of the guys we spoke to, | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
because they were the guys who had to stay behind and they told their | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
stories and they were opening up because they wanted to. Because | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
they wanted to change the problem of gangland violence. They were | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
saying their bit. They were the ones who were staying behind. They | :42:29. | :42:35. | |
had to be braver than I did. I was reporting it. As you say, the | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
stories are started by Gary. You start off in Glasgow speaking to an | :42:40. | :42:47. | |
historian about the Billy Boys of Bridgeton. Billy, who formed them, | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
according to the story, was beaten by a gang of Catholics in his late | :42:51. | :42:59. | |
teens and they decided that he would form his own gangs to | :42:59. | :43:05. | |
basically anything they could do ehe could do bloodier. Here are the | :43:05. | :43:10. | |
Billy Boys. Dressed in their marching regalia. Right here in the | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
centre, with the big bass drum, that's their leader, Billy | :43:14. | :43:22. | |
Fullerton himself. It seemed to permanently rain. Always raining in | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
Glasgow. My umbrella became a character. It's really important | :43:25. | :43:33. | |
not to glamourise the gangs. Absolutely. Gangs are glamorous | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
though, that's why kinds join them. We were in a gang, but our weapons | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
were git tarz. It's when it turns to violence. You can't glamourise | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
that. It doesn't appear like that. It's about kids belonging to | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
somebody and what you realise they don't feel that they've got that at | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
home, so they're finding another family on the street. We are very | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
aware of not glamourising the gangs. We try to give a rounded argument | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
as to why the gangs are there and what they're doing and how they're | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
making their money and we are very aware of that problem. | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
Interestingly, the Glasgow Police recently came up with a great idea | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
of trying to tackle gang culture and you cover that. That's Martin's | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
area. It's tackled, but in small groups. You have groups like | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
mothers against violence and fathers against gangs and it's all | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
small groups dotted around and people affected by gangs. Do they | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
get everyone together? It's not a Government-run thing to solve it. | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
It's small groups who are solving the problem and actually now I | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
think the last two years have been the best two years they've had, | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
less violence, so they're doing something that is right. A move in | :44:51. | :44:57. | |
the right direction. The programme starts on Sunday on the crime | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
investigation network on Sky 553 and Virgin 237. Yours, Paul, on | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
Gypsy Rose Lee, it couldn't have been further from the boys'? I two | :45:07. | :45:17. | |
:45:17. | :45:24. | ||
weeks with strippers of all, shapes You are not going to show me | :45:24. | :45:32. | |
bumping and grinding it? We are not saying anything. We are going to go | :45:32. | :45:41. | |
the other way, bump the Orange, bumper the apple. Grind. I wish I | :45:41. | :45:51. | |
:45:51. | :45:51. | ||
had been like this years ago. Brilliant. It was like the Rocky | :45:51. | :45:57. | |
Horror Show. It is time for another British animal dishonour, Alex, | :45:57. | :46:03. | |
what is the next award? The Stomach of Steel award, for heroic die | :46:03. | :46:10. | |
Chesham. Let's have a look who the winner is. -- heroic die Chesham. | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
It is born in the brown Labrador and his owner Kim from Chessington. | :46:13. | :46:23. | |
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-- Barney. What did... Down, boy. You took him to the vets and what | :46:24. | :46:31. | |
did they find? They found 109 stones in his tummy. From the beach. | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
And this is an X-ray from the pebbles. And you have brought along | :46:35. | :46:43. | |
the pebbles that she found in his stomach. Here they are. That was | :46:43. | :46:49. | |
saying that dog's insides. So how did they get that out? He had an | :46:49. | :46:56. | |
emergency operation. And how his Barney now, apart from Bury lad? | :46:56. | :47:06. | |
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is very good. -- Howard is? think he is a very worthy winner. | :47:06. | :47:16. | |
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Congratulations, Barney. Well done. Good boy. Does he buy it? He has | :47:18. | :47:28. | |
got the award and he has eaten it. One more ward still to come. | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
Elephant and Blue Peter springs to mind. We mentioned that the start | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
of the show that Angela Rippon is here, because today we start | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
something special. Rip Off Britain is joining forces with The One Show. | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
Every Wednesday for the next couple of months, Angela and her Rip Off | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
Britain colleagues will investigate consumer issues around the UK. | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
first report is about unhappy neighbours who told her they did | :47:51. | :47:58. | |
When most of the residents chose to live in this type of housing, the | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
attraction was having a full-time warden. What they did not bargain | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
on was having the security and assistance that those orders | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
provided being taken away from them. It seems that the residents who | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
live in the sheltered accommodation in Barnet in north London have a | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
bit of a battle on their hands. They may be elderly and some of | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
them may be quite frail, but when it comes to receiving service here | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
in this sheltered accommodation, they think they are being ripped | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
off. When 70 sexual Elizabeth James moved into this sheltered housing, | :48:30. | :48:37. | |
there was a live-in warden -- 76- year-old. Last year, the service | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
was reduced. If somebody is here in a regular basis, they know all of | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
the tenants and they know what their problems are and what to do. | :48:45. | :48:51. | |
A Ward and helps to bring a sense of community. And also responsible | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
for doing certain practical things. Yes, like changing lightbulbs and | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
things. We have now been told we have to be responsible for our on | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
small repairs, things like cleaning the shower head, which read it, I | :49:04. | :49:09. | |
cannot do. I think it is disgraceful and we are not getting | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
value for money. The whole point of the place was to provide a caring | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
atmosphere for elderly people. their full-time warden, Elizabeth | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
and her neighbours feel more vulnerable. One night in February, | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
the residents left without power and heating overnight. When we had | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
the power cut, nobody came at all to check. To see if everybody was | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
all right, bearing in mind that they are rolled and some are | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
partially sighted. Do you find that when you go round the building to | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
talk to your neighbours, that is what the warden should be doing? | :49:43. | :49:50. | |
Yes. Residents like Elizabeth say that that dependable, on-site | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
support is that so that the invaluable, so that is why so many | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
of the residents of really angry that their full-time warden has | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
been taken away. Like many other local authorities facing tough | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
spending decisions, Barnet council have replaced residential wardens | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
with what is known as floating support, which means that each | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
housing officer will be shared across a number of sites, visiting | :50:11. | :50:17. | |
for approximately three-four hours a day Monday to Friday. Fewer hours | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
mean that the residents feel more all the rubble. The present wardens | :50:22. | :50:32. | |
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I had a social order and I think she suggested I came here because | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
it was sheltered accommodation and somebody was on call all the time, | :50:39. | :50:46. | |
but there isn't. Does it make you feel unsafe? I do not feel safe. | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
They think we are silly old me Fein makers and they don't always | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
consider what their actions are going to have on us mentally. They | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
don't treat us as a grown-up people. We are like children. A absolutely. | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
Residents used to pay nearly 31p per week for it wouldn't be on site | :51:05. | :51:13. | |
every weekday. -- fetid �1. They now pay �19.50 for a warden who is | :51:13. | :51:15. | |
contracted to come afield hours every day. But they are adamant | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
that it is too much for a warden they barely see. The fear you get | :51:20. | :51:25. | |
value for money? Not now. It was until about three years ago, until | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
this terrible cuts a cad. They should be here from nine until five, | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
that was what I was told when I moved in. If we are paying over �19 | :51:35. | :51:41. | |
a week and you multiply that by 24, 400 and something a week, I'm quite | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
sure that somebody would be more than happy to come and work here | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
full time for that money. Barnet council say there is adequate cover | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
when a warden is not on site, because the residents and call a 24 | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
hour emergency line. So if you had known that this piece | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
of red cord was going to be part of your so-called sheltered | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
accommodation Service, of which should have come here? Certainly | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
not. I thought there was going to be a physical presence 24 hours, | :52:10. | :52:17. | |
and I feel really lets down and ripped off. -- let down. Angela has | :52:17. | :52:21. | |
joined us now, what have Barnet council said? They say they did | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
consult for the residents before they made the changes. The | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
residents said they were told, but it is in the small print of their | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
terms and conditions that they can change. That is why we always say | :52:33. | :52:37. | |
on Rip Off Britain, read the small print. They go on to say that an | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
increasing number of people are choosing to stay in their own homes | :52:41. | :52:43. | |
rather than go into sheltered accommodation, so they have | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
adjusted the way they support their residents, so they can target | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
support based on the individual needs, irrespective of where people | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
are living. They do point out that when sheltered housing officers are | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
not on site, the residents do have that red cord which gives them 24 | :52:58. | :53:03. | |
hours response. But it is not immediate. You have this incredible | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
way of getting results, and we are going to be doing this for a few | :53:06. | :53:12. | |
weeks. What Allsopp people getting in contact about? -- what else. We | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
have had a lot from people who say they are paying more for services | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
they are getting on mind, government services, like renewing | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
their passport, getting the European health insurance card, and | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
also for Transport for London when they want to pay the congestion | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
charge. Let me give you an idea, take a look at these websites. If | :53:33. | :53:37. | |
you are somebody coming into London and she wanted the congestion | :53:37. | :53:43. | |
charge, you will find that one of these sides, something like this | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
will come up first in the search engines, so you will assume it is | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
the right one. They will say you will pay the congestion charge, but | :53:52. | :53:55. | |
they also charges something like six fans for a service charge, | :53:55. | :54:00. | |
which they say is for extras, like a 24 hour telephone service that | :54:00. | :54:10. | |
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six pound. -- �6. Take a look at the official Transport for London | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
site, because you will find on the traditional one, the official one, | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
you just pay the charge for coming into London, the congestion charge. | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
The thing is, the unofficial websites are not doing anything | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
illegal, they are entirely allowed to do that but they do have to say | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
they are not the official website, by law they have to say that. And | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
officially, it is �10 and if you don't want those extra services, | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
that is all you have to pay, so what would you pay the extra if you | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
don't need to? And the same applies if you are applying for the | :54:47. | :54:49. | |
European health insurance card, which is invaluable if you are | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
travelling in a European country, because she gets all of the free | :54:52. | :54:58. | |
services that people in that country get if you are taking L -- | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
because you debt. Again, they are not doing anything illegal, but you | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
can get a service charge of 35 quid. On the official government side, | :55:07. | :55:12. | |
you get exactly the same thing for free. Why would you pay the extra | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
if you don't need the extra services? So our advice is that if | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
you want to get these services without any additional sort of add- | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
on goodies, if you like, go to the official government side, and the | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
best way to find those is to go to the rip-off Britain official | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
website or The One Show website, and we will give you a link to the | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
official government websites, where you can get these services. Did | :55:38. | :55:43. | |
they extra if you don't need to. is easily than if it Tight Fit into | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
a search engine and it comes up fast, and if you Dan Snow London, | :55:46. | :55:54. | |
16 could -- it is easily done in Kikaya it into a search engine and | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
if you don't know London, 16 quid seems right. There is just time for | :55:58. | :56:05. | |
one more British Animal Dishonour Awards, so over to Alex Riley. | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
you. The final award is called the Curiosity Caught the Collie Award | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
and the winner is... It is just the quali and his owner | :56:14. | :56:22. | |
Sharon from Nottingham. -- just that. He got himself into a little | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
bit of a pickle. What was his head stuck in? It was stuck in an air | :56:28. | :56:33. | |
vent. I think they used to be a condensed washer there from the | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
previous people. -- there. What did you do when you found him? I tried | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
to get him out, because I thought he would get said, I tried shampoo | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
and water but it did not work -- it would get at. Then I phoned the | :56:48. | :56:54. | |
RSPCA. They got the fire brigade to come out. Finally, how was he | :56:54. | :57:00. | |
extricated from the wall? They had to remove the window frame from the | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
bottom, then the window and a couple of layers of bricks. | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
they're basically dismantled half of the house to get the dog out. I | :57:07. | :57:14. | |
picture were pleased, though. -- I bet you were. Have you brought | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
the whole? No. You can take this and put it in there. | :57:20. | :57:30. | |
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Congratulations! The Sucha mean temper, he has got! | :57:30. | :57:34. | |
Congratulations. Thanks to wallop the dishonourable pets and you at | :57:34. | :57:39. | |
home have sent in pictures of your pets. -- thanks to all of them. | :57:39. | :57:47. | |
Paul has won. This is from Robert and Fiona in Taunton. This is | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
similar to the last one, this is Murphy. He ate through a door in | :57:51. | :57:59. | |
Cambridge twice. On a similar theme, been's pet rabbit keep seeking | :57:59. | :58:08. | |
telephone wires. -- Keep Fareham eating. This is a parrot. Are you a | :58:08. | :58:17. | |
fan of parrots? I'd do, and I like owls. I have got four. I'm going to | :58:17. | :58:27. | |
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be found on a documentary on a sofa covered in Alves. -- owls. I think | :58:32. | :58:35. | |
we should leave it there. The British Animal Honours on ITV | :58:35. | :58:41. | |
tomorrow at 8pm. Gary and Martin, Gangs of Britain is on the Crime | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
and Investigation Network this Sunday. Tomorrow, we have the | :58:44. | :58:50. |