01/06/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones And Matt Baker.

As you've just seen, the daredevil bike riders

Later we'll see them flip, spin and jump 30 feet in the air -

Right outside the stewed yoi. -- studio.

These boys are world-class in their sport of freestyle

motocross, which is something they have in common

He was England's Euro 96 goal scoring machine -

COMMENTATOR:. It's Shearer. Shearer! Excellent.

Please welcome, Alan Shearer. APPLAUSE.

Your face while you were watching that. You picked a corker of a night

to come here tonight. The stunts we will see outside later are something

else, aren't they? Yes. Are you a fan of motorbikes? Have you been on

a motorbike? I'm scared. Too fast for me. Too quick. My mum and dad

would never let me on them, I'm afraid. No. As a young lad I cannot

believe that you've never been on a motorbike? I know. No chance. Too

quick. Learnt some lessons tonight. Unbelievable. You might fancy it

after tonight. Now, how can it be fair that

a couple will shortly be taking part in an inquest into their son's death

without the free legal Particularly when some of those

they hold responsible for it can use lawyers,

paid for by the taxpayer. Two years ago the Thames flooded

dozens of homes at Chertsey in Surrey. In most cases the damning

was limited to property and possession, but not in this house.

-- damage. It was a beautiful, beautiful home. Nicole Gbangbola and

her family were at home when their basement flooded. What happened that

night haunts her. Every time it rains that deep sense of fear is

there. That night she found her seven-year-old son, Zane, collapsed

overcome by fumes. Paramedics found her husband unconscious. They were

taken to hospital, Kye Gbangbola was left paralysed, but before dawn Zane

died. When he died we pray sod hard we wouldn't survive. It would have

been kind if we hadn't, but it did. We have to make sure it doesn't

happen to any other family. Nobody deserves to save their child in a

special toxic body bag. The post-mortem into Zane's death was

inconclusive. Public Health England said its specialist teams had found

hydrogen cyanide in the home. But tests said carbon monoxide was

probably responsible for his death. For a year no-one could return to

the house. When the couple bought it 12 years ago, legal searches flagged

up no issues with the surrounding line. Five years on this cottage was

built next door, meaning fresh searches. What we didn't know, until

the report in 2011, was that this field was a landfill site from 1936.

It's well-known that landfill sites can produce toxic gases as bacteria

break down organic waste. Hospital blood tests revealed hydrogen

cyanide present in the whole family. They believe this lethal gas was

carried in their home from the old landfill site by the floodwater.

25,000 parts per mill hydrogen cyanide was detected by the special

incident crews. That was in our home. How much carbon monoxide was

found in your home? Nil across four sweeps. Nil. The Environment Agency,

local council and police wouldn't comment on the issue of carbon

monoxide. However the council did tell us there was no evidence to

link Zane's death and landfill. Tests showed it to be clean river

water. How Zane came to die and his father was paralysed is now going to

a legal battle. His parents say the fight is taking place on unequal

terms. You can see the boxes. They represent the bundle of evidence we

are expected to use in Zane's inquest. There are huge amounts of

it. 25 files. We have been refused legal aid. We, as defenceless

parents, are expected to go against QCs, mostly funded out of the

public's expense, whilst we are unfunded and unrepresented. This is

a disgrace. Why was it that you weren't given legal aid? We were not

given legal aid on the grounds of it is not of significant wider public

interest. The coroner wrote to the Legal Aid Agency and said that,

absolutely, it is of wider public interest. At the inquest that will

determine how their son died the couple will have to argue their case

themselves. And face barristers from organisations including the

Environment Agency, whose legal bills are paid by public funds. In a

bid to get the decision reversed, they are et mooing Shadow Home

Secretary, Andy Burnham, opposite the House of Commons. With them is

Deborah Coles from the charity Inquest. It's mystifying to me how

this family have been denied legal aid. There is it exceptional public

funding available for families to be represented at inquests involving

very complex, difficult issues. Andy Burnham championed the cause of the

Hillsborough families in their battle for a second inquiry. It

cannot be right that public bodies spend public money like water when

ordinary families are left to fend themselves in the court room. I have

said that he and Keir Starmer will write to say the injustice of them

not having legal representation must be immediately corrected. The couple

can only wait and hope for a change of heart before the inquest. Well,

Nick is here with us now. So many people will feel an enormous amount

of sympathy. Most cases as far as inquests are concerned don't qualify

for legal aid? It's important to make that distinction. It's held in

a coroner's court, it's not a trial. The job of the coroner is through

the examination of evidence and questioning of evidence to come to a

conclusion about what caused someone's death. The idea is that

people are understanding of the language that is used in court and

there aren't too many battles in between people as to what or didn't

go wrong. That's what the job of the coroner is. Most families don't have

legal representation. It's only in exceptional circumstances that any

family would be granted legal aid to get that representation and only if

it's in the public interest. You talk about public interest. We heard

about it in the film. How do they define public interest then? The law

states that legal aid will be offered at an inquest if the inquest

is expected to examine dangerous practices, systematic failings, or

other significant risks to life, health and safety. Which the

Gbangbola's believe in Zane's case will be subjects that will get

covered. Added to that, in Zane's inquest, as we heard in the film,

every other interested party will have legal representation. The firm

that hired the Gbangbola's the petrol company. The firm that owns

the landfill site next to their home. The coroner himself has asked

for a barrister to inform him on points of law. What is the situation

with Andy Burnham's involvement? What will happen now? The Shadow

Home Secretary will write to Michael Gove to ask the Legal Aid Agency to

reconsider that decision. The Gbangbola's told us that the Legal

Aid Agency got in touch with them and asked them to reapply for legal

aid. The Legal Aid Agency have confirmed that they are now

considering a second application, but they haven't maded a decision as

yet. They will have to hurry up the inquest starts a week on Monday.

Sounds positive. If they have asked them to reapply. Thanks.

Last week we learnt the amazing fact that chickens can count.

This week Miranda has proof that pigs also belong

in the Premier League of animal intelligence.

Being able to recognise yourself is a trait exclusive to just a handful

of species. It indicates a level of intelligence once thought to belong

only to humans. Today, we know that other animals can also be

self-aware. Scientists tested this by developing a mirror experiment

where they shone a light onto the faces of monkeys. They found the

monkeys didn't respond to the reflection, but touched themselves,

showing they recognised the mirror imagine belonged to them. This same

understanding of self has also been found in dolphins. One species that

is has this aptitude may come as a bit of a surprise - the pig.

Cambridge professor Donald Broom is a leading expert in animal

awareness. He placed a mirror into a room with young pigs and they were

interested in their own reflections. Clearly checking themselves out in

different angles. They could find food by looking in a mirror too.

Proving the world they saw in that will mirror was a reflection. Pigs

have been domesticated for around 8,000 years. Are their wild

counterparts just as intelligent? Is we are conducting a two-part

experiment. We are enlisting the help of Professor Broom. Identifying

what a mirror image has been demonstrated for a few different

kinds of animals. You have to have sophisticated cognitive analysis in

order to do that. Out of all the pigs you tested, did they react in

the same way? Seven out of eight pigs went to the right place and

found the food bowl. That is very impressive. We will repeat your

experiment with wild boar. Do you think we will find the same result?

They are more nervous than domestic pig. They may respond to the

situation in a different way. It will be interesting to try. David

Laye has been breeding wild boar for the past seven years. They are

seriously destructive and very naughty. We recruited these cheeky

chaps to help us. We have placed a mirror so they can familiarise

themselves with their own reflections. For the next part of

the experiment the mirror was put in one corner of the pen and a barrier

set at right angles to it. A bowl of food was placed on one side. If

Professor Broom is right, when the boar are released into the pen they

will head towards the mirror, see the reflection of the food bowl,

turn around on themselves to go and find it. Where the experiment set,

we make a quick exit. Open the gate. With the gate open, the first boar

immediately heads towards the mirror, looks directly into it and

turns, just as we'd hoped. At the last-minute it appears to have

second thoughts and returns to the mirror to check. So we rounded them

up for another attempt. The gate is just about to go back. This time the

first boar take as reassuring glance in the mirror and heads straight to

the food. The second boar follows suit. The third peers at its third

reflection, but is not so quick whited. It was instand townious. If

you know what is in the mirror and see it in the mirror you react

immediately. That is what the first two pigs did. Here is an example

where all three are looking in a mirror before going round the mirror

to scoff from the trough. What could we say about the intelligence of the

wild boar piglets compared to that of infants, say? Developing that

ability that the pigs have, they can work out what is in the mirror,

tends to develop at about two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half

years old in children. It's a high-level of ability, I think. What

is truly fascinating as a zoologist is that the more we learn about

animals the more they surprise us with how intelligent they really

are. Umm... A running theme going here. I mean, I thought the chicks

were dodgy. They had more ground there. Pigs are clever, seriously.

They are. I think I will stick with chickens if we phone a friend in the

animal world. The euros kick off next Friday. You have made a

documentary 20 years on from Euro 96. You speak to your team-mates and

key people important in your life at that time.

in a very Match of the Day way - here's some highlights.

It was a great night. We never won a tournament. It is on tonight at

quarter to 11. It was very revealing for you, even talking to your own

team. I said to Paul Ince, I have got to ask you the question because

you have been criticised for not taking a penalty. He said, I have

never taken a penalty in my life, why would you want me to take one.

Against Germany in the semifinal and there were five perfect penalties

and when we got to the sixth one with Gareth Southgate we started

struggling. I will never criticise anyone who misses a penalty because

it is big pressure and it is tough to get up there and Gareth had the

courage. Did you think it was risky going for the top corner? The other

side was my favourite side, going to the goalkeeper's right. I scored a

penalty against Holland in the group game and against Spain in the

quarterfinals and I put it towards the right and I thought I had to

change it. It is lucky that it wasn't me who did not miss a

penalty. The first thing I did after watching the documentary, I tried to

Google the Terry Venables Hotel because it looked so nice. It was

lovely. You end up loved in 1996, but you started in disgrace. Let's

talk about Hong Kong. Do we have to? You talk about it in the

documentary. Do you think the criticism was justified? We were

given permission to go out that night and have a drink and the

assistant manager, Bryan Robson, was with us and we know he likes a drink

himself. I was one of the lucky ones, I never got pictured in the

dentist 's chair. I saw people with cameras and I sneaked back to the

room. But I was there. I did reveal that in the documentary, but I was

not in the chair. Weather headlines there? Yes, they were fair. We had

to make a point because we were under pressure. After those pictures

we had to do well. On the semifinal, how did the game compared to other

matches in your life? That semifinal and the Holland game when we beat

them 4-1 was the best atmosphere I have ever played in. The atmosphere

on those knights was incredible and the song, Three Lions with David

Skinner and it was great to be involved and it was a great team

spirit. We had come so far. We started the tournament of pretty

slowly when we drew. We really thought, and everybody thought, that

we were going to win it. The squads have been announced. Let's look at

the home nations. Early predictions, Mr Shearer. I am hopeful for

England. We have got to get out of the group. We have to see some

progression. That Wales game should be an easy one. Northern Ireland is

a tough group. It is a tough one for them to get out of the group, but

they will have a party whatever happens.

Live coverage of Euro 2016 begins across the BBC from the 11th June.

Alan Shearer's '96 is on tonight at 10.45pm on BBC One.

If you cannot stay up that late, it is worth the BBC iPlayer.

In a moment we'll see what happened when our three stunt riders went up

For obvious reasons we pre-recorded it.

But first it's time to remember a broadcasting daredevil who took us

My father, Raymond Baxter, was thought of as an action man and he

was on screen and off screen. He did not just say things, he did them as

well. You join me in a hawk. Good gracious collide. The BBC's Raymond

Baxter is among the rally contestants. He joined the BBC in

the 1950s and stayed with them on and off for the next 50 years. The

Farnborough airshow was one of his favourite jobs. He knew what he was

talking about, he had been a Spitfire pilot. I was 19, scared

stiff and fiercely proud. I was eight when my father started to

present Tomorrow's World. It was popular science for everybody. I

think he got the job because he was already known for doing motor racing

and aviation. Or in stainless steel which does not react with the body's

tissues. My Big Brother Graham and I used to watch it became much every

week because Top of the Pops was on afterwards. I was once on the

programme myself, I got to play one of the games of the future. Not

exactly Xbox which you can see by the expression on my face. I was ten

years old when I grandfather died in 2006. Even though he was serious, he

was very funny. It is safer and it is cheaper because it does not work.

This is an unusual looking space rocket. Would you care to explain

why? No. He was always a rebel and he loved to surprise people and he

always put his heart into things. Raymond had a terrific sense of

humour and I found that help. In 1972I had the chance to join him and

the Tomorrow's World team. Because the disc and the bubbles are

magnetic, we have got the equivalent of a tiny tape recorder. I remember

driving in the snow and ice across the Yorkshire Moors and I was

foolish enough to ask him if he was comfortable driving in these

conditions. Quite quietly he said, dear boy, I won my class in the

Monte. Do you remember the body armour? Anyone who saw that would

never forget it. That really worried him, the safety and where the

bullets were going to go. I do not think it showed on camera, but if

anyone looked closely, he was very concerned. It was that sort of

dedication that ensured all of us who work with him that we always had

to give our very best. He used to come back from doing exciting things

like the first hovercraft crossing of the channel and flying in

Concord. He liked new things and he liked to try out new things not just

on TV, but in his own life as well. We had an amphibious vehicle called

the otter which he used to tow around the country, memorably at

Windermere after flooding and storms, and an RAC man came by and

said, it is OK, so, I will get you out of there. The boat was his pride

and joy, she was one of 700 little ships that left from Ramsgate in

1940 to evacuate the troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. 25 years later

he wanted to take her back and did with a lot of other little ships. We

are British and we know what we are doing. And the little ships have

been going back every five years ever since. We often had picnics and

boat trips on the Thames and we used to dangle from up there and he would

tickle our feet. My parents were married for 51 years. She died in

1996 and he was never the same without her. Even so, he was

charmingly, stubbornly, belligerently independent to the

very end. He sings like a lovely man. What a

broadcaster. Earlier today we were treated

to a heartstopping private performance from Nitro Circus -

a group of extreme bike riders We had a few things to ask the only

British member, Jamie Squibb. Good to meet you. Hello. How did a

boy from Devon end up in a circus in America? How did I end up in night

to circus? It has basically evolved over many years of just trying and

trying and constant progression and eventually reaching a standard where

I was invited on board to ride on the Nitro Circus tour. And here I am

ready for my second tour, buzzing. In front of the BBC as a venue, how

does this compare? This is incredible. But it has been a very

testing day. As you can imagine, it is very tight for room, so we have

got the jump 15 feet smaller than usual. This is small compared to

what we will be doing on the tour. We do not want to tempt fate in any

shape or form. Please do not. But how often do these jobs go wrong?

Health and safety, do not get me started on that. It is not healthy

or safe, but we train a lot at home and we are prepared. We all right

our bikes a lot and we are ready to get this done. We wish you all the

very best. We are going to stand back there at a safe distance. Here

go. The guys are almost in possession, so let's have a massive

welcome for Nitro Circus. Goodness me!

APPLAUSE My diaphragm, from excitement.

Goodness me. We have never seen anything like it on the show. That

is what we are aiming for. The train at the end was my favourite bit, is

that what you call it? Yes, we get the bikes in the air at the same

time doing the tricks. What we did there was very tame compared to what

we do on the live tour. That is just three of us. The tour this Friday in

Worcester we will have 12 bikes in the air upside down at the same

time, three wide and four deep. We have got a camera angle from a set

of handlebars so we can get a sense of what it feels like. Huge

congratulations, Jamie. Nitro Circus are on tour all over

the UK throughout the summer. His documentary, Alan Shearer's '96

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