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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. Afrpblgts and Matt

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Baker. We have a busy show tonight. Later John Sergeant will reveal the

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family who built Scotland's Whitehouses. Lucy Siegle tests her

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nerve with the RAF's bomb disposal heroes. First seven hours ago the

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deadline closed for applications to become the next commissioner of the

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Metropolitan Police. The Home Secretary said she was looking for

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a single minded, tough crime fiergt. It's a shame they don't want an

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American. We have the perfect woman, it's Cagney & Lacey's Sharon Gless.

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APPLAUSE How fantastic. There's that music.

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Do you ever tire this afternoon music? I lover that music. It's

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great. We love it as well. I walked into a restaurant last night and

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the piano player started playing it. It was a treat. Sharon, look at

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these pair of cute little female rabbits. Here they are. Sorry I've

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got them here. They're here! They called them Cagney & Lacey. Can you

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guess which is which? It may be a trick question. I think the blonde

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is Cagney. Call me crazy. I think the dark one is Lacey. I think yes,

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Cagney is the cutest. No it's actually, this one is Lacey and

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this is Cagney. Oh, well there we are. Yeah, that's what I said.

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LAUGHTER Any way! Whichever way it is, it

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doesn't really matter. They are up for adoption from the RSPCA. The

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trouble is they're so close that they can't be separated and we need

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your help in finding them a home. Details are on our website. Come on

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Britain, give Cagney & Lacey a home. We thought there must be more

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Cagney & Lacey pets out there. We would like to see them. If you are

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already living with Cagney & Lacey creatures, send us a photo and tell

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us all about them. Now one of the most dangerous jobs in our arms

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forces in Afghanistan is dealing with the threat posed by home-made

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bombs. It's a role most of us associate with the army, but the

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Royal Air Force are experts too. Lucy Siegle spent the day training

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with them. A bomb has failed to detonate on

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landing. We need to take out the fuse to make it safe. This way?

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Yeah, that way. One wrong move could be fatal. It's like something

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out of a Hollywood movie. When lives depend on one person keeping

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their nerve and a steady hand and that person happens to be you, well

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very few of us will experience that for real. Thankfully the closest

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I'll get to it is this training exercise. That seems nice and tight

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now. We'll go back to the vehicle and fire it off. For the men of the

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RAF's 5131 Bomb Disposal Squadron life and death decisions are a

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daily reality. The squadron deals with unexploded World War II bombs

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here in the UK to improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan.

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16 men from the squadron have recently returned home after six

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months on the Afghan front line. The men tackled IEDs in two ways:

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Working in destroy teams, blowing up devices and clearing a safe path

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for ground troops or neutralise teams, disarming bombs and

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recovering evidence, which could help identify who put them there.

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Sergeant Martin Farrimond led a four-man destroy team. They worked

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with a remote controlled robot known as a dragon runner. It's used

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on mat jort of tasks in Afghanistan. It goes down the road to see --

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save a person having to go doub into -- down into a dangerous area.

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The robot places an explosive charge on top of an IED allowing it

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to be detonated from a safe distance. Come on. At least that's

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the theory. If I was doing this for real, we would be in big trouble.

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More by luck than judgment I managed to put the charge down in

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roughly the right place. I just think under pressure, it would be

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really, really tricky and as soon as I started to lock at the screen,

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I completely lost it. Then dropping the thing at the end, you have to

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be in exactly the right position as well. I think it's pretty difficult.

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It's a pressure that you do get used to. First couple of times out,

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it's like, right the pressure's really on here. I need to get this

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done rapid. Obviously, it's a case of more haste, less speed. Now it's

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time to detonate our charge and destroy the IED. Firing now!

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Something like that small charge like that would probably cause

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lower limb loss, one possibly multiple. These are the sort of

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devices that you were come ing across all the time and bigger than

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that. Yes, up to anything that would take on vehicles.

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delicate job of disarming these devices so forensic evidence could

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be recovered from them fell to the neutralise team. The team was led

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by chief technician Dave Lowe. you're aware, there's many IEDs

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over there. To convict one bomber and one bombing chain is worth

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removing hundreds and hundreds of bombs. If you can stop it at source,

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you stop it in the future. That's so important. There's no points

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just stopping the drip from the tap. You need to turn the water off.

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of Dave's vital pieces of kit is this bomb suit. It's made of Kevlar

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and it's designed to with stand the impact of a blast. It is so heavy.

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I can't actually express how uncomfortable this is. I haven't

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even tried walking and they have a little task they want me to do. I'm

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not sure that I'm actually going to be able to do it. I'm going to move

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over here. It's really hard. The object of the exercise is to attach

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this wire it a weapon concealed in here. So if it's booby trapped, it

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can be recovered without anyone touching it. It's very, very hard

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to move. So hard to lift your arms. Now am I going to put it in here?

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Job done. But it's not been a pleasant experience. That was

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appalling. It's like every muscle is straining just to drag yourself

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along and just the thought of that weight and that people work under

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such intense pressure and the heat and being shot at, I mean, it's

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unfathomable how they manage to do it. Over the last five years, 174

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British service personnel, including 13 bomb disposal experts,

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have been killed by IEDs in Afghanistan. Don't you think your

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job is unacceptably rifpbgy. course there's risks with it.

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There's risks with every job out there. But the reward is massive.

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At the end of the day, you're making an area safe, allowing

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people to live a normal life. That's incredibly rewarding to be

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part of that. And to have your teams doing that (. Our thoughts

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are with the family of Daniel Clack from the 1st Battalion The Rifles,

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who became the latest British victim of an IED last Friday.

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We saw Lucy struggling with the training there. Did you have formal

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police training before you played Cagney? I did. I had to go to the

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police academy and learn gun training. I felt very uncomfortable.

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I was playing the tough cop. Tyne had her training, so she came down

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to give me support. Start -- you start with blanks. Then they put in

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real bullets and handed it back to me. Why give you real bullets?

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That's what I said. Here I'm the tough one and Tyne had just met me,

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and I start crying. Please, I just don't want the gun with the real

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bullets. Why do I have to have those? They said, because we need

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you to feel it because there's a kick. I suppose the weight. When a

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real bullet goes off there's a kick to it. If you are going to fake it

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on film, you have to know what that feels like. Let's see new action.

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Chris, you all right? Yeah. It looked realistic to me.

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looking at it saying what happened? Let's not go there. You mention

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Tyne Daly before. You seemed like a great pair, friends. Were you

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friends then, are you still friends now? We're very, very close friends.

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She was very generous and welcoming in the show. I was her third Cagney.

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Her mother had a great expression. She said "Sweat makes a great

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cement." We sweat together for six years against all odds. It was very

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controversial show. We are cemented for life. Lots of 80s television

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shows have been remade. You have Dallas, Charlie's Angels, the A-

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Team. How would you feel about a remake of Cagney & Lacey? I think

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it would be wonderful. I don't know if it would go as a series. I don't

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think you should top it. Not because I was in it. But to try and

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top a classic, but it would make a good film. It was dark then. I

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think it could be, what you could do with those two characters could

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be very dark. You said it was dark, but it inspired a lot of women to

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join the police force. Yes, it did. I used to get letters all the time.

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Young girls telling me, I'm joining the force because of you. Are you

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crazy? Alex was saying she used to play it. I always wanted to be

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Cagney. We deal with lots of big questions here on The One Show, but

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one we have never answered before is where do passenger aeroplanes go

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when they're not needed any more. I've always wondered that. Such a

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good question and Marty Jopson has the answer.

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With nearly two million commercial flights entering or exiting the UK

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each year, few of us stop to think what happens to those planes at the

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end of their lives. And even fewer of us would picture the rolling

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Cotswold countryside as their final destination. But when an aircraft

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needs to be retired from service and scrapped, it may well fly to

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this airfield in kendal where the remaining value will be stripped

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from it. This is a budget airline boneyard.

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Former planes of the air lying forlornly beneath the heavy British

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summer sky. But they're not going to waste. There's a huge amount of

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cash sitting here on the Tarmac that ultimately can be extracted to

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keep passenger air fares down. Having scrapped some 350 planes

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over the last 15 years, Mark Gregory runs the 25-strong company.

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We've got 12 aircraft in at the moment through various states of

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repair or dismantle, I should say. The time zones for dismantle depend

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on the type of plane. A 737, up to eight weeks. It's not just a

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wrecking ball job. It takes time. What are you doing? It's very

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methodical. First the engines are removed. They're the high value

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part of the aircraft. Anything from $500,000 to �4 million -- $4

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million per engine. Then avionics, air conditioning, landing gear etc.

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A typical plane has up to 2,000 salvagable parts. Each has a

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complete caid toll grave service history, all of it is carried

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through the cataloguing of every component in all these packing

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crates. With all this nitty gritty detail, it's easy to forget the

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amazing machine that this lot comes from. So here's my guide to the

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most iconic plane of the skies, the 747, or jumbo jet.

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The 747 contains six million parts. 171 miles of wiring, but only five

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miles of tubing. The wings weigh a massive 21 tons each. They're so

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big if you put them together you could park 45 medium sized cars on

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them. The aircraft sits on 18 of these monster wheels. The interior

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is so cavernous you could fit 25 African elephants in here. The

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flight deck has 365 buttons, switches and dials and overall, the

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entire fleet of 747s has flown an astonishing 48 billion miles. All

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the while transporting 3.5 billion passengers. That's equivalent to

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half the world's population. No wonder she's looking a bit tired.

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With all the parts laid out like this, it's more like a giant air

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fix kit, but we're not here for the making. We're here for the breaking.

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With just the frame left, it doesn't take long for the team to

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reduce this 737 to 25 tons of scrap aluminium. With just a teepbsy bit

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of help from yours truly. How was that? That was fab. Don't

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you feel guilty munching up these planes? They have got so much

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history in them. It's quite sad, but at the end of the day,

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everything's got a life on it. Everything comes to an end. And it

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ends up here. And with recycling only taking 5% of the energy used

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to manufacture aluminium from raw site, this plane lives on as an

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increasingly valuable resource, which one day will be used to make

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engine blocks or ladders or cars. One aeroplane contains enough

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aluminium to make 16,934,234 of these. So the next can you're

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drinking from may be a tiny part of a jumbo jet.

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Great film. Not bad that One cola. Sounds like what happens to old

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actresss in Hollywood. Your Cagneys and Lacey s are coming in thick and

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fast. That's from Gemma. Keep them coming. You've flown over to the UK

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to play a character who doesn't want to end up on the scrap heap. A

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Round-Heeled Womam is out from October. It's a true story, isn't

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it about one woman's unusual quest for a more fulfilling love life.

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That's true. It's a book I optioned ten years ago. A woman really did

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this in Berkeley California, a teacher. She took an ad out in the

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New York Review of Books because she wanted to attract an

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intellectual like herself. The ad said "Before I turn 67, next March,

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I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you need to

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talk first trollope works for me." She didn't think nb would respond.

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She took a sabatical a year later, to write about the 63 men who

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answered. She did well. Yeah some of it is heart breaking. I went to

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watch her lecture. I obtained the option, but I never met her. I flew

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to New York to listen to her lecture. Someone raised her hand

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and said "Why did you humiliate yourself like this? "And she looked

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right at her, she said "I had not been touched in 30 years and I

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wasn't going to die until I felt that again." It's a really cool

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play. It is a subject that has a lot of taboos around it still. How

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do audiences react to it? audiences in America, we've tried

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it out twice, have been very, they end up being very touched by it.

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The people come and talk to me. Sometimes they're crying, saying

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you've changed my life. I'm not afraid any more. I'm going to take

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a chance. I say I didn't change your life, Jane did. I've told that

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to Jane, the real woman. I said these people want to do what you

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did. She said "I don't know if I could recommend that." But she was

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very brave. It's the story of a woman's courage. Lots of woman can

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empathise with the character. But you've finished auditioning today

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for the other parts. Yes. You're going to have to maybe kiss or be

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intimate with these men. All they did was read with me. They only

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read their side. I haven't really informed them about the scene. Then

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the chariot race started, I haven't informed them about some of the

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scenes. It sounds superb. We've got another Cagney & Lacey. Five-year-

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old labs. Thank you very much. Recently a vicious war of words

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broke out between two Scottish towns. It's nothing to do with

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politics, religion or money. It's far more important than all of that.

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It's a battle over which location inspired author JM Barrie's famous

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tale of flying boys and fairies. Why the sudden who haw about the

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boy who never grew up you might be thinking? Last week residents in

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Dumfries unveiled this statue, boldly claiming this is the

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birthplace of Peter Pan. But 150 miles north, in the town of Kerry

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mule, say hold on, we thought the birthplace of Peter Pan was right

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here. Are the Dumfriesians in fantasy

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land. I would say never, Neverland perhaps. They have a part to play

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in Barry's life. Dumfries birthplace of Peter Pan, that's

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quite a bold statement to make. is quite a bold claim. JM Barrie

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lived and was educated in Dumfries. He went to Dumfries academy.

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Adjacent to the academy was a house. He played pirates in the garden.

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That was described by him as an enchanted land. He only revealed

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the secret of the Genesis of Peter Pan when he came to Dumfries in

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1924. Perhaps the most important secret was the Genesis of Peter Pan

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was in that enchanted land. So JM Barrie made this claim himself.

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did. Why do you care? Unlike Peter Pan, we should all grow up and both

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towns should embrace the opportunities available to both of

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us for tourism. Will the locals of kerriemuir do what Peter Pan failed

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to do and grow up. Or will they snap back at the heels of Dumfries

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like the crocodile at the feet of Captain Hook. They say JM Barrie

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himself said the idea for Peter Pan came from his time of living in

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their town. He did say that. But he also said the Genesis for Peter Pan

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started off when he was a young boy playing in his mother's wash house

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behind where he was born. This is where the idea first started.

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Dumfries may well have continued the movement. After he became

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successful, he returned to the town and of course, instead of being

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laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, he decided, when he died, that he

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would come back here, where he was born. Tell me about the statue, you

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designed it, didn't you? I drew something very quickly on a piece

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of paper. I put it into planning in December last year. And this is the

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result. You've got the stamp of approval of Joanna Lumle ye.

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was. She realised the truth about Peter Pan. How does it compare to

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your statue? I think our statue has got a wee bit more taste. It's like

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JM Barrie, like Peter Pan, it's small in stature, but it actually

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gives off quite a lot. So with both towns using Peter Pan

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as a draw for tourism, maybe the National Trust has the answer. John,

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in your professional opinion, who has this claim to Peter Pan? It has

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to be ultimately Kerriemuir because of his birthplace. Both claim --

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towns claim to fame is that they are both Scottish and I can assure

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you that Peter Pan was Scottish. You're a big fan of Peter Pan the

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musical. I love it. I know all the songs. Anita is here, because the

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origins of other figure is in dispute. Yes if I said to you Robin

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Hood, you'd all say Nottingham and Sherwood Forest. I can now proudly

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reveal that Yorkshire, yes my own county, is already laying claim,

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ballads dating to 1500 says he lives in the forest of barns Dale

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and lived in Loxley. Yorkshire feel Nottingham have taken their hero

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for themselves. They have a big sign and the visitor centres. It

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even got to Parliament. All Yorkshire want is to be able to

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claim the hero that was born in their county. That's all. We have

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got time for one more. We have news on King Arthur. I have! Everybody

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lays claim to King Arthur. You have Cornwall, Glastonbury Abbey,

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Glastonbury Abbey and you're not going to believe this, castle field

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in Cardiff also claim that he's from there and now the French are

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involved. It's gone international. The French say they believe King

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Arthur was a Welshman and that he would have hated the English. What

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it's got to do with the French I don't know. Croatia have muscled in.

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They say King Arthur's final resting place is in a village. --

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village there. And the mayor has challenged the Brits to a dual.

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say Durham. Any way. Definitely not. Moving on from castles and forests

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to light houses. As John Sergeant explains, it was one remarkable

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family business that has kept the light shining in the dark for the

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last 200 years. The rugged Scottish coastline has

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inspired countless tales of high drama. Many dreamt up by the author

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of Treasure Island. Members of Stephenson's family, including his

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father, did more than dream of this coastline. They transformed it,

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building more than 200 lighthouses. When I smell salt water, he wrote,

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I know that I'm not far from one of the works of my ancestors. When the

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lights come out at sun down ah, long the shores of Scotland, I'm

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proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my

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father. They were an extraordinary,

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ingenious family. No matter how inaccess ibl a site was, if a light

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house was needed, they built it. I'm on my way to see one of the

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earliest light houses. With me is Dr Robert Prescott from St Andrews

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university. How many wrecks do we know there were around the Scottish

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coast? Around the coast, it would be many thousands. Light houses

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were brought in, was that to save life or to save cargo? I think it's

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always a question of lives and property. It's the two things

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together really. A crew of 30 maybe would have hundreds of pounds of

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cargo on board. Light house building really took off in 1808,

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when Stevenson's grandfather became engineer and chief executive of the

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Northern Lighthouse Board. The aisle of May light house is one of

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his earliest and it's a master piece. He had space here. Most

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towers are built on skimpy pieces of rock, covered by the high tide.

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Here he had the room and space to spread himself. I don't think

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there's another light house like this anywhere many Britain really.

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Not quite so grapbld. It's like a country house really. How much of a

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pioneer was Robert Stevenson. was a considerable pioneer. No-one

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prior to him would have dreamed of trying to put a light tower on the

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Bell Rock, a rock that is submerged most of the time and just appeared

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for an hour or two at low tide and is in the fiercest and most exposed

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locations. The abt to build a tower strong enough to kopt with those

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situations, he perfected it. Robert Stevenson retired in 1842. There

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were three more generations of Stevensons working in the Scottish

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light house industry. It wasn't until 1938 that the last Stevenson

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finally retired as chief engineer. It's an maizing -- an amazing

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record. Wherever you go round the Scottish coast, you're not far from

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a Stevenson light house. Bob McIntosh has visited most of them.

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They built 200 light houses around the coast of Scotland. 100 like

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this here and 100 smaller lights, something which the mariners around

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the coast of Scotland have been very grateful for. These light

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houses have stood the test of time. Most are still in use. But they

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have modern technology. When was this built? This was built in 1870.

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No lift. We have to go all the way on the stairs. Yes there's 170

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steps right to the top. 170 - oh. The Stevenson light houses are

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impressive structures. They've endured storms, fierce winds and

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heavy seas. Remarkably they're all still standing. It's a real tribute

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to the men who built them. Here we are at the top of the light house,

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and this is the light, isn't it? Yeah, this is the modern technology

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with the headlight type lenss. There are three levels which gives

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us the equivalent of three flashes. We've used the original strakure

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with modification inside and the modern technology gives us a

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brighter light. Otherwise the structure of the light house is

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exactly the same as it was at the end of the 19th century. Exactly.

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The light house Stevensons were remarkable men. Their ideas spread

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worldwide and they became legendary figures. These aren't just

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marveelzf the Victorian age, here in the 21st century they still

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stand looking magnificent and proud and long may they do. So

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I couldn't agree more. Earlier on we asked to you send in your photos

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of pets called Cagney & Lacey. Inspired by these two who are from

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Inspired by these two who are from the RSPCA. They kneed a home. We

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asked you to log onto the website. right! This is from the Gibbs

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family. 14-year-old Lacey, missing a Cagney. Thank you for coming in.

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