:00:24. > :00:29.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Allwright. And Alex Jones.
:00:29. > :00:32.Tonight's guest is classissima, bellissima, it's the one and only
:00:32. > :00:37.Nigellissima. APPLAUSE
:00:37. > :00:42.Thank you. Welcome. Nice to see you. Nice to be here. I have to tell you
:00:42. > :00:47.this, the last time I saw my other Matt, Matt Baker, he went home with
:00:47. > :00:57.a copy of your new book and he said he would cook a recipe over the
:00:57. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:06.weekend. Today he calls in with a mal di... Checking your cooking
:01:06. > :01:14.times. That's all we're saying. You're making light of his illness.
:01:14. > :01:18.No, love him, he is very well. Get well soon. She's all heart.
:01:18. > :01:22.Nigellissima is the title of your new series and book. It's about
:01:22. > :01:27.your love of all things Italian. If we were going to put you on the
:01:27. > :01:31.punto, the spot... Very good. hope that's right! What would you
:01:31. > :01:36.say is your favourite Italian thing? My favourite Italian thing,
:01:36. > :01:46.apart from food - can I rule out food otherwise the whole programme
:01:46. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:58.is given over to listing that. I would say a sort of 60s little
:01:58. > :02:01.cinquicento in black. I'd take. That That's nigella's. If you have
:02:01. > :02:05.a favourite Italian thing, something you eat or someone you
:02:05. > :02:11.love, send in your photos telling us why and we'll show the best
:02:11. > :02:16.later on. I'd like to see that. ah, part from the obvious risks a
:02:16. > :02:20.career in the army used to be seen as one with long-term prospects.
:02:20. > :02:24.Many soldiers are finding out their country no longer need them.
:02:24. > :02:29.Defence cuts are putting an end to thousands of jobs with claims that
:02:29. > :02:33.the timing of some redundancies is highly suspicious.
:02:33. > :02:41.By the year 2020 the British army will have slashed 20,000 personnel
:02:41. > :02:45.from its ranks. Sergeant Lee Nolan was informed a year ago he was one
:02:45. > :02:48.of the first to be made redundant. His only consolation was that his
:02:48. > :02:53.pension would offer some security. The immediate pension, as it's
:02:53. > :02:58.called in the army s, a regular payment given to soldiers who leave
:02:58. > :03:05.after a given time of service, before their full pension at 60. To
:03:05. > :03:11.qualify, sergeant Nolan needed to have served for 18 years. Lee was
:03:11. > :03:15.told he'd be redundant on August 31, 2012. By that date, he'd have a
:03:15. > :03:20.recordable service of 17 years 362 days. He'd be missing out on a
:03:20. > :03:25.pension by just three days. Moved to protest his position last
:03:25. > :03:31.week Lee sent a package to David Cameron. It contained his hard
:03:31. > :03:37.earned military medals. To me those medals are a reminder of the last
:03:37. > :03:42.12 months in which my life has been turned on its head. And my near 18
:03:42. > :03:46.years loyal and exemplary service to my country has been sullied. I'm
:03:46. > :03:51.not ashamed to say that I was on the brink of suicide at one point.
:03:51. > :03:55.Not only was I made redundant, I'd lost a job that I love, my
:03:55. > :03:59.livelihood. They seem to have just drawn a line and you're either on
:03:59. > :04:03.the right side of that line or the wrong side. To me that doesn't seem
:04:03. > :04:08.fair. How much have you lost? considering that I won't get paid
:04:08. > :04:11.an army pension until my 60th birthday, over the next 18 years,
:04:11. > :04:17.it runs into tens of thousands of pounds. And what difference would
:04:17. > :04:21.that have made to your life? For me, an immediate pension provides a wee
:04:21. > :04:25.bit of financial security for soldiers, as they go on that
:04:25. > :04:30.transition from military life to civilian life. It would have made a
:04:30. > :04:35.vast amount of difference. transition back to civilian life is
:04:35. > :04:39.often not an easy one. Soldiers and their families can experience poor
:04:39. > :04:46.meantal health, family break down and alcohol related problems.
:04:46. > :04:51.Recognising the difficulties, the MoD in their redundancy settlements
:04:52. > :04:56.has lowered the length of service required of Lee's rank by four
:04:56. > :05:00.years. While Lee's distress is understandable what the MoD say is
:05:00. > :05:04.look, we have made concessions to people in his position and we had
:05:04. > :05:08.to draw the line somewhere, but there is another group of soldiers
:05:08. > :05:11.who don't get any concession and stand to lose a lot more. Higher
:05:11. > :05:16.ranking soldiers, the officers are required to complete 16 years of
:05:16. > :05:19.service to gain their immediate pension. Laura Richards' husband is
:05:19. > :05:24.a major due for redundancy next summer. At that point he will be
:05:24. > :05:29.eight months short of that deadline, which means he loses out on an
:05:29. > :05:34.immediate pension, worth �250,000. He's a serving officer, so can't
:05:34. > :05:39.speak to us, but Laura can. I've done four moves in four years. I
:05:39. > :05:44.had my daughter on Boxing Day, in Cyprus, thousands much miles from
:05:44. > :05:47.my family. Those are the sacrifices you make. We had banked on him
:05:47. > :05:53.getting to his immediate pension point. We had no reason to think
:05:53. > :05:57.otherwise. We're both looking for jobs now. We'll probably have to
:05:57. > :06:06.move from our family home. As an officer, what kind of deal is your
:06:06. > :06:11.husband on? He will get a payout, which is about �115,000 when he
:06:11. > :06:16.leaves. Then he'll get nothing till he's 60. At which point he'll get a
:06:16. > :06:22.reduced pension from what he would have got if he was allowed to serve
:06:22. > :06:26.the eight months. A lot would say it's a lot of money. Over the years
:06:26. > :06:29.I've lost pension contributions because I've followed him around.
:06:29. > :06:34.Financial sacrifices have been made. I don't think we're asking for too
:06:34. > :06:38.much. I don't think we're asking for more than they've earned.
:06:38. > :06:43.Laura's joined with other Army families in starting an E petition
:06:43. > :06:46.in the hole that Parliament will review the issue. We asked the MoD
:06:46. > :06:50.to explain their position. They sent this statement: "Proximity to
:06:50. > :06:53.immediate pension point was not a factor in selecting those to be
:06:53. > :06:58.made redundant. We have done all we can to limit the numbers involved
:06:58. > :07:01.and to give those selected a generous redundancy package." It's
:07:01. > :07:05.often said being in the Army is more than just a job, to be made
:07:05. > :07:08.redundant after fighting for Queen and country must be a very
:07:08. > :07:11.difficult issue to cope with. In addition, finding out you're not
:07:11. > :07:15.going to get the pension you were promised when you signed up,
:07:16. > :07:19.perhaps you can understand why these people are very angry. You're
:07:19. > :07:21.talking about long serving members of the armed force that's have
:07:22. > :07:29.given the best part of their work lives in the service of their
:07:29. > :07:32.country. Tony's with us now. No-one should underestimate the sacrifice
:07:32. > :07:36.that our servicemen and women make, but at the same time, there are
:07:36. > :07:40.those who would say they're getting a payout, a solid pension, which is
:07:41. > :07:46.more than many people are getting. Some of the figures there, people
:07:46. > :07:50.will be delighted to get that kind of pension. There are lots of
:07:50. > :07:56.categories of a sergeant, if a sergeant missed out on his pension,
:07:56. > :07:59.he will get a payout of �87,000 and a pensionable salary of �34,980 at
:07:59. > :08:03.60, which sounds like a lot of money. That person would still be
:08:03. > :08:09.missing out on tens of thousands of pounds. What the soldiers are
:08:09. > :08:13.saying is that think about the sacrifices, their part -- partners
:08:13. > :08:16.are following them around the world. And sometimes we ask them to make
:08:16. > :08:20.the ultimate sacrifice. They wanted to get across, it's fair enough
:08:20. > :08:25.drawing a line, but in an office that line is on a piece of paper,
:08:25. > :08:30.but it's going through human beings. I'm sure that no-one thinks it's a
:08:30. > :08:34.great thing to be happening, but the tragedy is to feel so
:08:34. > :08:37.undervalued after making those sacrifices. It's linked to the
:08:37. > :08:42.money and but also the treatment. They're talking about how it's
:08:42. > :08:46.affecting soldiers serving now, they fear that could happen to them.
:08:46. > :08:52.You don't morale undermined in that way. Even those people who were in
:08:52. > :08:57.charge of these decisions don't feel good about. It I don't think
:08:57. > :09:01.anyone can feel good about it. the weekend, some former senior
:09:01. > :09:06.Army personnel like Colonel Tim Collins have spoken out about the
:09:06. > :09:11.redundancies. Rblgts The phrase he used was that the army is in melt
:09:11. > :09:15.down. The plan is to get the numbers down to 82,000 by 2020. The
:09:15. > :09:21.controversy of how many will go in each tranche. Those are the lowest
:09:21. > :09:23.figures since the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most couldn't vaersial
:09:23. > :09:27.aspects is that the regular soldiers will be replaced by
:09:27. > :09:30.members of the Territorial Army. I've been trained this weekend for
:09:30. > :09:34.the One Show in Yorkshire with the TA. We'll show that film at a later
:09:34. > :09:37.date. These guys have worked in supermarkets, banks and phone
:09:37. > :09:41.centres, but they've served on the front line in Afghanistan as well.
:09:41. > :09:49.They've had the training, they say, that equips them and they are
:09:49. > :09:52.capable of doing it. Great stuff. Thank you. Now nigella, if we
:09:52. > :09:58.handed you a bag of flour what would you do with it? What would I
:09:58. > :10:05.do with it? I suppose that's whole meal stone ground, I make -- might
:10:05. > :10:09.make a loaf of bread. I might make apple and cinnamon muffins. They
:10:09. > :10:14.sound nice. Anything else I'm meant to do? No, it's up to you. It's in
:10:14. > :10:19.the a cryptic question. Sadly, the windmills that once produced the
:10:19. > :10:25.flour to feed our country have all by ground to a halt. However in
:10:25. > :10:29.sales -- Yorkshire the sails are once turning again.
:10:29. > :10:33.Standing proud, these windmills were once symbols of a thriving
:10:33. > :10:37.industry. Over the years thousands of them have been left to ruin as
:10:37. > :10:42.modern machines took over. Thanks to the love of the local community
:10:42. > :10:48.and generous grants, this windmill in York is now turning again. What
:10:48. > :10:57.a beautiful sight it is, because until now, for almost 100 years,
:10:57. > :11:01.the mill lay dormant. These sails first turned in October 1770. That
:11:01. > :11:06.wasn't an unusual sight at the time. But now it's only one of two
:11:06. > :11:10.working mills still producing flour in Yorkshire. Steve Potts oversaw
:11:10. > :11:13.the building work on the mill. It's beautiful, but I take it it wasn't
:11:13. > :11:19.in this state when you got it? years ago, it was derelict. It
:11:19. > :11:25.stopped working in 1930. The doors were locked and the wind yods board
:11:25. > :11:29.up. It was left to its own devices. We had to start from scratch. It
:11:29. > :11:33.was a major refurbishment. special is this mill to everybody?
:11:34. > :11:40.It's been here empty for so many years and I think everybody that
:11:40. > :11:45.has been past this mill was a man and a boy, and they have wondered
:11:45. > :11:49.what it's like. It's an important and popular attraction. Bob lives
:11:49. > :11:54.next to the windmill and has been instrumental in saving it. He's now
:11:54. > :11:58.training to become a miller. Bob, where are we in the mill and what
:11:58. > :12:07.happens here? We're on the stone floor. The grain in these hoppers
:12:07. > :12:12.here falls down into a wooden shoe. The shoe is activated by this quant.
:12:12. > :12:17.As it's working it shakes the grain into the eye of the stone. As the
:12:17. > :12:22.stone is turning the grain goes in and is ground into flour. It comes
:12:22. > :12:25.out round the edges as flour. It goes down a hole into a chute and
:12:25. > :12:30.we collect it at the bottom and it's flour. How much can you
:12:30. > :12:35.produce and does it take ages? decent wind about a ton of flour a
:12:35. > :12:41.day. It's whole meal flour, that means a ton of grain goes in, a ton
:12:41. > :12:45.of flour comes out, there's no wastage. I'm told the slow milling
:12:45. > :12:47.process means flour retains its natural protein and tastes a lot
:12:47. > :12:51.better. I've never tried windmill ground flour. The only way to Taste
:12:52. > :12:57.the Difference is to try making bread with this flour. We have the
:12:57. > :13:03.flour from the mill. We're going to make bread. We are indeed. Easy
:13:03. > :13:08.process? Yes with this one because it's called lazy loaf. A nigella
:13:08. > :13:18.recipe. We want 200 grams of muesli. 320 grams of flour. Teaspoon of
:13:18. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:27.salt. That's it. We're putting it That is nice. I know where it's
:13:27. > :13:32.come from, 100 metres that way. Just up there.
:13:32. > :13:38.That looks lovely. That was crying out for a bit of butter. Good old
:13:38. > :13:41.Bob for restoring the mill. You say in your book that when you were
:13:41. > :13:44.working as a 19-year-old in Florence bread was one of the few
:13:44. > :13:48.things that you could afford. I'm more interested in the fact that
:13:48. > :13:53.when you were there, you used to make beds and clean bathrooms is
:13:53. > :13:59.that right? I was a chambermaid. Talk me through the outfit? Matt!
:13:59. > :14:04.This is a family show. I did used - I didn't have an outfit, it wasn't
:14:04. > :14:09.such an upmarket hotel. But I did used to wear my hair in plats and
:14:09. > :14:16.tie it over my head. Dungarees, little ankle boots. It was after
:14:16. > :14:21.all, that time. I went to Italy, I wanted to speak Italian. I became
:14:21. > :14:24.obsessed with being Italian. I went with a school friend and we made a
:14:24. > :14:30.vow that we could absolutely anything except for clean laugh
:14:30. > :14:35.triz so of course, that's what we - - laughers to, so of course, that's
:14:35. > :14:39.what we ended up doing. I used to try on people's scent, maybe a
:14:39. > :14:43.jacket. I never took anything, I just tried them on. Just borrowed.
:14:43. > :14:47.Just tried them on. That's why I know when you stay in hotels that
:14:47. > :14:52.people are trying your clothes on. I'd never even thought about that.
:14:52. > :14:57.Is that right? Yes. As long as it's not undies, it's fine. Your love of
:14:57. > :15:04.Italy is clear. Your book and series is based on it. How Italian
:15:04. > :15:08.are you then? Not remotely Italian. I have no Italian blood, I just
:15:08. > :15:14.have willed myself into looking Italian. But you know, the thing is
:15:14. > :15:17.that I went there as a teenager, so it was like emerging from
:15:17. > :15:25.adolescence which is not everyone's favourite time any way. I had been
:15:25. > :15:28.such a shy child that somehow going toitly, I learned not to be shy. I
:15:28. > :15:38.wasn't Italian, I had that freedom and that was great. One thing they
:15:38. > :15:43.do love in Italy is gelato. You I love the colour of this, as well
:15:43. > :15:49.as the taste. It is delicious. Very sweet at this
:15:49. > :15:55.stage. That is for a reason. When you freeze any food, it numbs
:15:55. > :16:00.the flavour a bit. So you eat ice cream so cold, you want the
:16:00. > :16:05.flavours slightly more emphatic at this stage. Emphatic, they most
:16:05. > :16:11.certainly are! It looks heavyly. At the end of that episode, you serve
:16:11. > :16:17.it in a brioche, like an ice cream burger? Funny enough, I had been in
:16:17. > :16:23.LA, I saw on the menu it was like an Italian hamburger. It was ice
:16:23. > :16:33.cream and a brioche. Someone has done mean sandwiches, who has eaten
:16:33. > :16:37.the ice cream ?! You need more ice cream per bun. It is hardly any
:16:37. > :16:42.work at all. Great ingredients, but it works. I don't complain.
:16:42. > :16:46.Now, you thought you would be in trouble with the foodie purists
:16:46. > :16:51.with this, you are? They are not all saying positive things? I don't
:16:51. > :16:55.know, I have made it a habit not to read things positive or negative,
:16:55. > :16:59.but I would be surprised if negative things were not said.
:16:59. > :17:03.But the great thing about the book, even though you don't make it all
:17:03. > :17:11.from scratch it is practical and good for families that are busy?
:17:11. > :17:15.Quite. You can make things quickly. I always say if something is awe
:17:15. > :17:18.then tickally Italian or not. As long as you don't make false
:17:18. > :17:23.claims, that is fine. I think that cooking is like
:17:23. > :17:28.language it evolves. And we have this still, we think it
:17:28. > :17:33.is of your house of your cookery books. We just need to know, are
:17:34. > :17:36.they all cookery books and how many do you have? Yes. I have just under
:17:37. > :17:43.5,000. I know.
:17:43. > :17:48.Wow! I am an obsessive food person and an obsessive online shopper.
:17:48. > :17:52.The combination is bad. Nigellissima is on BBC Two at
:17:52. > :17:57.8.30pm. It is 50 years this week since The
:17:57. > :18:03.Beatles' first record was released. As Carrie discovers, the debut
:18:04. > :18:08.single did not exactly set the world alight.
:18:08. > :18:12.# Love, love me do # You know I love you. # Today,
:18:12. > :18:17.they are still the most famous pop band of all time. Every year
:18:17. > :18:23.hundreds of thousands flock to Liverpool to pay their respects.
:18:23. > :18:28.# Love me do. # But all of this may never have existed.
:18:28. > :18:32.The first single, and most don't get a second chance, but when the
:18:32. > :18:36.The Beatles released Love Me Do it was not that popular. It did not
:18:36. > :18:44.make them rich or famous. In fact it reached number 17 in the charts.
:18:44. > :18:50.It was Please, Please me, released the following year that shot to
:18:50. > :18:54.number one. In retrospect, Love Me Do has been seen as The Beatles'
:18:54. > :19:00.false start. At the time the record shops did not stock up on companies
:19:00. > :19:04.and even the band were not that worried about the success or lack
:19:04. > :19:09.of it. When the first single Love Me Do
:19:09. > :19:16.came out out, were you thinking that they are going to be huge?
:19:16. > :19:20.Really? Really! I can't belief -- believe that! I know it is
:19:20. > :19:25.ridiculous. We thought they had a lucky break. That the record was OK,
:19:25. > :19:34.but that was it. Love Me Do was the single that was
:19:34. > :19:43.out, and you were dating, you were dating a The Beatles, but was it
:19:43. > :19:48.about you? I don't think so. He said he could not write a song
:19:48. > :19:55.about me as nothing rhymes with Iris. Love Me Do marked the
:19:55. > :20:02.beginning and the end of Drummer Pete Best, working with the band.
:20:02. > :20:08.He joined in the 1960s. He was working with The Beatles and
:20:08. > :20:14.slogging two years before getting a single, a chance to record a studio
:20:14. > :20:19.in Abbey Road in London. There were four singles in mind.
:20:19. > :20:25.I played them. Love Me Do was one of them. There was a base to give
:20:25. > :20:31.the sound guys. The P and R men and George Martin what were our
:20:31. > :20:33.portfolio. Little did I know that I would not be going back to the next
:20:33. > :20:39.recording session. George Martin booked a second
:20:40. > :20:44.musician to play the drums on Love Me Do. Best was edged from the band.
:20:44. > :20:47.There was confusion. They were saying that the guys
:20:47. > :20:53.could not handle my sound it was a powerful sound.
:20:53. > :20:59.How do you feel about that? At that time, very angry. Two years I had
:20:59. > :21:05.been with them. We had performed. Developed a sound. Given them a
:21:05. > :21:09.drum sound that was unique. It was nicknamed the Atom Beat. A lot of
:21:09. > :21:16.drummers copied it even Ringo, even though he denies it, that is
:21:16. > :21:25.between him and me. Meanwhile, Roing -- Ringo Star was
:21:25. > :21:31.waiting in the wings. Fronted by Iris brother, Rory.
:21:31. > :21:38.Sadly for Pete Best. That was the real straj diof the whole thing, he
:21:38. > :21:47.was playing in another band. He was given more to play for The Beatles.
:21:47. > :21:52.How does it feel not to be in the band now? A little bit of sadness
:21:52. > :21:56.as it is not all your versions, but some pride.
:21:56. > :22:02.# Love, love me do # You know I love you
:22:02. > :22:07.# I'll always be true # So please, love me do. # Love Me
:22:07. > :22:11.Do may not have been their best song, but what it did do was
:22:11. > :22:17.showcase the energy, the charm and the brand new take on what pop
:22:17. > :22:25.music should sound like that influenced musicians for decades.
:22:25. > :22:29.As John Lennon said, this song gave them somewhere to go.
:22:29. > :22:32.Great stuff. Well, Nigella. 20 years ago, you
:22:32. > :22:38.had a completely different career, reviewing restaurants. You were on
:22:38. > :22:46.the other side of fence? I didn't have a career reviewing restaurants.
:22:46. > :22:50.20 years ago I was a book reviewer. I was I think the deputy literary
:22:50. > :22:56.editor of the Sunday Times. Before that? I moon lighted with
:22:56. > :23:02.the restaurant reviews. I did have a.proper job.
:23:02. > :23:08.Well here we go." Provincial England is a culinary disaster zone.
:23:08. > :23:11.Wales is far worse if you are English, that is some comfort."!
:23:11. > :23:18.years ago that I may well have been true.
:23:18. > :23:23..Have You been back? I love Wales. My late sister lived in Wales. So I
:23:23. > :23:29.must have been teasing her, but no, I mean the thing thais like in
:23:29. > :23:35.Wales are things that not many Welsh people would want me to say.
:23:35. > :23:41.Here is another one, "I had a large glass of Grappa di Brunello, the
:23:41. > :23:47.restaurant described it as rich apricot and cream cheese-scented,
:23:47. > :23:54.but I would have added paint stripper to that list.".
:23:54. > :24:00.Well, Cantina has been living with that slur for over 20 years,
:24:00. > :24:06.tonight, the manager is here to put it right! He was not around to
:24:06. > :24:11.years ago! Feast your eyes, that is why he looks so good.
:24:11. > :24:16.It is a lovely grappa. It is nice and tasty.
:24:16. > :24:21.It is delicious. Thank you. See, my tastes have matured now.
:24:21. > :24:26.We put it right. Why haven't you given me Welsh food
:24:26. > :24:33.to eat while you are about it. I have some in my dressing room.
:24:33. > :24:37.What have you got? A sandwich! Now, Nigella may say you can tell about
:24:37. > :24:40.a person because of what they eat, but according to Mike Dilger, the
:24:40. > :24:44.feeding habits of birds can say a lot about them too.
:24:44. > :24:51.The islands of northern Scotland are some of the UK's wildest places.
:24:51. > :24:57.They are also home to some of Britain's fiestest seabirds. Skua.
:24:57. > :25:01.Skuas are the hooligans of the bird world. Not only are they ferocious
:25:01. > :25:07.hunters, but they think nothing of dive-bombing humans who get close
:25:07. > :25:11.to them. Getting close is what I'm about to do. Skuas are migrants.
:25:11. > :25:16.Flying north from Spain and Africa each summer. When they get to
:25:17. > :25:21.Scotland they are known as bonss. Meaning dumpy. They use the frame
:25:21. > :25:26.to great advantage. They cruise around looking for the
:25:26. > :25:31.next victim... They are incredibly distinctive. Yes, the white wing
:25:31. > :25:35.flashes. The largest bird that we have on the island as well.
:25:35. > :25:42.They have big bellies. They are powerful birds. Using that power,
:25:42. > :25:48.they steal happily from other birds. They hit into the other birds. They
:25:48. > :25:51.chase them and when the birds are stressed they regurgitate what they
:25:52. > :25:57.have in them, so the skua is then off with it. They are like the
:25:57. > :26:01.pirates of the sea world. Skuas prey on birds too.
:26:01. > :26:07.There is evidence strewn all over the territory.
:26:07. > :26:12.They cough of anything that cannot be digested. With this one there is
:26:12. > :26:20.no need to pick through it is obvious what they have eaten.
:26:20. > :26:25.Are you telling me that a skua has eaten a puffin whole? Yes.
:26:25. > :26:32.And this one here it probably droned a bird out of sea.
:26:32. > :26:37.A massive 60% of the skua come here to breed. Here they want to keep
:26:37. > :26:43.tabs on the population. That means ringing the chicks. Laura and her
:26:43. > :26:47.team run this gunt the every week. As soon as we step out, they are
:26:47. > :26:52.swirling over our heads. Another problem is that the nests are hid
:26:52. > :26:59.no-one the grass it is easy to step on them. You have to watch your
:26:59. > :27:04.feet, not the skies. That was close. The nests are really hard to find.
:27:04. > :27:10.This relittle depressions in the ground, little scrapes. If I crawl
:27:10. > :27:14.here, we have found one of the chicks right there. A little ball
:27:14. > :27:17.of fluff. This is too young to be ringed so time to Lee it and the
:27:17. > :27:22.parents in peace. -- leave it.
:27:22. > :27:26.By ringing the chicks they are discovering how important the
:27:26. > :27:28.population is to skua success and how far they are spreading and
:27:28. > :27:33.migrating. The first sighting which was
:27:33. > :27:38.brilliant, it was in the West of Ireland.
:27:38. > :27:43.We have had fishermen and birders reporting it from as far south-west
:27:43. > :27:48.as Morocco. That is fantastic. As we set off again, the rain sets
:27:48. > :27:52.in. We can't lift anymore birds off the nests. Shame. I can't say I am
:27:53. > :27:58.sorry to miss more dive-bombing. On the way back we spot something I
:27:58. > :28:02.have never seen before. Skuas that happily attack each other having a
:28:02. > :28:08.group bath. The researchers called this the club sight. They are
:28:08. > :28:11.really enjoying themselves. Making a good splash? Yep. They are really
:28:11. > :28:16.social here at the club sight, which is a difference to when they
:28:16. > :28:20.are on their territory. Over here, the best of friends,
:28:20. > :28:24.over there, the worst of enemies it is astonishing. Completely
:28:24. > :28:29.switching while away from the breeding ground.
:28:29. > :28:34.This year, the chix' success rate is high. They may not be the most
:28:34. > :28:36.lovable of birds, but this Scottish stronghold is playing a big part in
:28:36. > :28:42.their survival. Thank you very much.
:28:42. > :28:49.Earlier on we asked for photos of your favourite Italian things, just
:28:49. > :28:53.for Nigella. What is that there? This is the beautiful town of Rio
:28:54. > :28:58.Majore. That looks gorgeous.
:28:58. > :29:05.Matt? This is Milly the dog from Katherine Evans.
:29:06. > :29:13.This is an Italian water dog. You have a new puppy? Yes.
:29:13. > :29:17.This is from Kit and Kane. Delicious steak and chips inspired
:29:18. > :29:23.by the first episode of Nigella. That is lovely.