:00:22. > :00:25.with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. Tonight we've a pair
:00:25. > :00:32.of fiery female Dragons. It's the new 'Designer Dragon, Kelly Hoppen,
:00:32. > :00:35.and the Green Goddess Dragon, Deborah Meaden.
:00:35. > :00:38.APPLAUSE Welcome the green green. I like
:00:38. > :00:42.that. It's lovely to have you both here.
:00:42. > :00:46.Congratulations in your new role. Thank you. We know it must be very
:00:46. > :00:51.nerve-racking for the entrepreneurs when they go into the Den for the
:00:51. > :00:55.first time but how was your experience? I have to say all the
:00:55. > :00:59.old dragons babe Dee sat me very well. The first hour was a bit
:00:59. > :01:04.daunting because it's a new show but to be honest the minute you're
:01:04. > :01:08.sitting in there you forget you have five cameras in there and you get
:01:08. > :01:11.engresed with these entrepreneurs coming in and telling their stories
:01:11. > :01:16.and trying to sell what they're doing. At the same time you're
:01:16. > :01:19.trying to fight off people like Deborah... Didn't need a lot of baby
:01:19. > :01:22.sitting in fairness. When you have to say the words "I am out", how
:01:22. > :01:25.about that moment? That actually probably was the scariest because
:01:25. > :01:29.you want to be in. The other thing is, when you see something you like
:01:29. > :01:34.and you're not tucking yet, and everyone else is talking, and you're
:01:34. > :01:37.trying not to show you're that enthusiastic, and one of the things
:01:37. > :01:42.I remember today is there is often that silence when nobody wants to be
:01:42. > :01:45.the first person to say, "I'll make you an offer". And that makes for
:01:45. > :01:49.amazing tension in the Den as well. I suppose you have to have quite a
:01:49. > :01:54.poker face, don't you, to stop the others from realising you're
:01:54. > :02:00.desperate? You do. That's the thing people don't think about. They think
:02:00. > :02:05.about the relationship between the entrepreneur and the dragon, but you
:02:05. > :02:09.have to be tuned in this way too. Eyes in the back of your head
:02:09. > :02:14.literally. We're now moving on to another businesswoman. This is a
:02:14. > :02:17.woman who is struggling to keep her business afloat. It's Melanie Wood.
:02:17. > :02:19.She's the Managing Director of Pleasure Island Theme Park in
:02:19. > :02:23.Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. In April Declan Curry witnessed just
:02:23. > :02:26.323 visitors come through the gates on the first day of the season . He
:02:26. > :02:33.has been back to see in the sunshine has brought out the punters and a
:02:33. > :02:36.return to profit. On my first visit to the Pleasure
:02:36. > :02:42.Island Theme Park in Cleethorpes, owner Melanie Wood was struggling to
:02:42. > :02:45.keep the park going. We've managed to survive one bad year. I wouldn't
:02:46. > :02:49.like to make any predictions at this point, but to survive two years like
:02:49. > :02:52.that would be very, very difficult. It's been four months since I was
:02:52. > :03:01.last here, and with the crucial school holidays now in full swing,
:03:01. > :03:05.I'm back to see in the park can be Hello. Good morning.How lovely to
:03:05. > :03:10.see you again. Thanks for coming.We have had this lovely heatwave.
:03:10. > :03:14.Surely, that has been of some help to you. The weather was lovely,
:03:14. > :03:20.certainly for the two middle weeks of July. Unfortunately, that's not
:03:20. > :03:24.when certainly the English schools were off. And since school holidays
:03:24. > :03:27.have begun, the mixed weather has so far failed to draw the crowds. What
:03:27. > :03:35.are your finances like? Are you even covering the costs of just keeping
:03:35. > :03:40.the park open? We are, you know, I've got �120,000 down. That's a
:03:40. > :03:45.fairly big sum. It is. It means the summer holidays are now critical to
:03:45. > :03:49.you. Absolutely. 60% of my business happens during the summer holidays,
:03:49. > :03:55.so really, it's now or never. The park has been in her family for 20
:03:55. > :03:59.years. In its heyday, 35,000 people visited every week, but that's
:03:59. > :04:03.plummeted to just 10,000 in recent times, and she's not the only one
:04:03. > :04:07.who is worried. The town's other tourist attractions depend on the
:04:07. > :04:12.park to bring in paying customers. It's the major attraction here, and
:04:12. > :04:17.we all rely on it. The pleasure park is really important to Cleethorpes,
:04:17. > :04:19.provides a huge amount of inward investment to the resort. Pleasure
:04:19. > :04:25.Island Theme Park is doing well, I think the whole resort is doing
:04:25. > :04:29.well. Without them, we'd lose a lot of customers, to be honest with you.
:04:29. > :04:33.So far, Melanie struggled to get financial help from the banks, and
:04:33. > :04:37.she's been forced to prop up the business with her personal savings.
:04:37. > :04:40.I get really cross really because there's all this support -
:04:40. > :04:44.financial, you know, funds, grants, whatever, for businesses that are
:04:44. > :04:47.new and setting up, very little help and support for established
:04:47. > :04:50.businesses. You can't keep this going forever. At some point, you're
:04:50. > :04:54.going to run out of money. Absolutely, and it comes to the
:04:54. > :04:58.point where, you know, enough is enough.
:04:58. > :05:01.With almost �1 million of savingses tied up in the park, the whole
:05:01. > :05:05.family is feeling the pressure. It's not just about me. It's about the
:05:05. > :05:08.children and, you know, the fact that my dad started this. It's a
:05:08. > :05:13.family thing, very much a family thing. You hear your mum talk about
:05:13. > :05:17.the park. Do you worry about it? do. I ask her. I e-mail her if
:05:17. > :05:21.there's any school bookings in each day and shoo how she's doing.
:05:21. > :05:27.you've got this kind of commitment - this kind of emotional and financial
:05:27. > :05:32.attachment to anything, you can't just cut off, so it's 52 weeks a
:05:32. > :05:37.year. Melanie's not giving up yet. She hopes a new 4D cinema attraction
:05:37. > :05:42.could save the day, but it won't come cheap. The 4th Dimension is the
:05:42. > :05:47.motion, the sensory stimulation. You have all sorts going on in the
:05:47. > :05:51.films. It can be steam, heat. The beauty of this is the second year
:05:51. > :05:56.you can have a new film, so in effect you have a new attraction.
:05:56. > :06:00.How much would this set her back? She's looking at around �150,000.
:06:00. > :06:04.That's a lot of money, particularly when things aren't great at the
:06:04. > :06:08.moment. It's all about keeping our customers interested, keeping our
:06:08. > :06:12.customers coming back. While things aren't so good, you still have to
:06:12. > :06:16.consider this. But before any more money is spent,
:06:16. > :06:22.a tough decision will have to be made about the future. There has to
:06:22. > :06:27.be an end to it. You can't keep throwing good money after bad, but
:06:27. > :06:31.the emotional attachment to the park has probably made us invest more
:06:31. > :06:35.than anybody else would have done. How close are you to giving serious
:06:35. > :06:38.thought to closure? It's not really something that I'm going to think
:06:38. > :06:41.about until I have to, you know? We've got four, five weeks in front
:06:41. > :06:46.of us whereby everything could change, and that's what we have to
:06:46. > :06:50.hope and pray for, and that's what we're working towards. I'll be back
:06:50. > :06:53.at Pleasure Island later in the year to see how the crucial summer season
:06:53. > :06:58.went and to find out whether the park has a future.
:06:58. > :07:01.You can't help really sympathising with Melanie, can you? But in your
:07:01. > :07:04.heart of hearts, what do you think? Is she throwing good money after
:07:04. > :07:07.bad? I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens this
:07:07. > :07:09.season because honestly the weather has been lovely. It has.The
:07:10. > :07:16.domestic market has recovered. They should have had a good year. I
:07:16. > :07:20.worry. I was hearing about spending �150,000, was it, on a 4D cinema? If
:07:20. > :07:23.you're going to spend that money, it has to be on something that is so
:07:23. > :07:28.different people will think, that's amazing. We need to go and see it. I
:07:28. > :07:32.am worried that a 4D cinema isn't going to do that. What would you
:07:32. > :07:35.spend that money on? Now you have put me on the spot! I honestly don't
:07:35. > :07:39.know because I shouldn't know. It should be something so new and
:07:39. > :07:42.different. You have put me on the spot, but it should be so new, I'd
:07:43. > :07:46.be out there right now looking at what's going on in the rest of the
:07:46. > :07:50.world and thinking nobody else has got that in the UK. You have some
:07:50. > :07:54.different ways how she should spend some money. It all looked a bit old.
:07:54. > :07:58.I would spend the money making it look a bit newer. People want
:07:58. > :08:03.newness, but it's a family business. My heart goes out to her. It can be
:08:03. > :08:06.a burden. That's what was heart wrenching, watching it. That's what
:08:06. > :08:10.she's thinking about all the time. She's not stepping outside the box.
:08:10. > :08:14.She's just going, family business, family business. It's not stepping
:08:14. > :08:16.outside the box, and as she says, going and seeing what is out there.
:08:16. > :08:21.You can't throw more money into something that is not working.
:08:21. > :08:25.That's a disaster. You have to plan it. Debra, you started out in the
:08:25. > :08:29.leisure industry. Absolutely.Would you perhaps go up there and have a
:08:29. > :08:33.word with Melanie? This is a world trend story through the leisure
:08:33. > :08:37.industry because actually, the leisure pound is a totally
:08:37. > :08:41.discretionary pound, so the leisure industry is finding the next thing.
:08:41. > :08:45.I would be fascinated to go and see her. I'd like to think maybe I could
:08:45. > :08:49.offer some insight or help. I would love to. Super. Great.I am sure she
:08:49. > :08:53.would appreciate that. I am sure she would. Great. As Declan said, we'll
:08:53. > :08:57.go back and see what happens. Hopefully, your in input might have
:08:57. > :08:59.had a bit of difference. countdown to the Commonwealth Games
:08:59. > :09:02.begins a week tomorrow with the arrival in Glasgow of the Baton ,
:09:02. > :09:06.the equivalent, really, of the Olympic Torch, and it will all be
:09:06. > :09:09.live here on the One Show. Tickets for the games go on sale the
:09:09. > :09:18.following Monday, so it's no wonder the city has been sprucing itself
:09:18. > :09:23.High above the hustle and bustle of Glasgow Central Station -
:09:23. > :09:26.unbeknownst to the travellers down below, a dedicated team is hard at
:09:26. > :09:30.work down below, cleaning the windows.
:09:30. > :09:34.Built in 189, Glasgow Central Station will be one of the main
:09:34. > :09:40.thorough fares for the Commonwealth Games in 2014, so the pressure is on
:09:40. > :09:44.to make the station shine for a worldwide audience. At over 48,000
:09:44. > :09:49.panes, it's actually the largest continuous glass roof in the world,
:09:49. > :09:54.and it's all been meticulously cleaned by hand over a 15-week
:09:54. > :10:00.programme. Give me your hand.I'm spending the day with experienced
:10:01. > :10:04.cleaners John, Joe, Robert and Joe's son, Joe jr. The cleaning is coming
:10:04. > :10:08.to an end, but some of the toughest parts have been left for me to
:10:08. > :10:14.tackle. Look at the state of these windows. There's some stubborn
:10:14. > :10:18.stains on this I tell you. How often does it need doing, this? Every time
:10:18. > :10:21.for the Commonwealth Games! Joe and John will be hoping the thousands of
:10:21. > :10:26.athletes that are coming to the games next year will look up and
:10:26. > :10:31.notice their hard work, especially if star attraction Usain Bolt makes
:10:31. > :10:41.an appearance. Do you think he might look up at the roof and say, wow.
:10:41. > :10:48.
:10:48. > :10:54.day, then? How many windows?How many windows? More than you.I went
:10:54. > :10:59.off to chat to Joe Jr, who is especially motivated to do the
:10:59. > :11:03.windows, as he's going for gold, representing the games in boxing.
:11:03. > :11:08.What's it like working with your dad? It's great. He's not just my
:11:08. > :11:12.dad. He's also my boxing trainer. You're going to be competing at the
:11:12. > :11:17.Commonwealth Games? Yeah. We'll be training as hard as we can, cutting
:11:17. > :11:22.no corners. We should win the gold medal.
:11:22. > :11:32.I have been promoted. I'm going to do some squirting. Hold the lines.
:11:32. > :11:37.
:11:37. > :11:41.Pull the trigger. Keep the gun low. Tell you what, though, it's a
:11:41. > :11:46.cracking view from up here. It is. That's one of the perks of the job.
:11:46. > :11:51.You can actually see my horse from here. Right there. So 48,000 panes
:11:51. > :11:56.of glass - it must get boring. How do you keep your mind from going
:11:56. > :12:00.completely crazy? You have a bamter with the guys. They like to have a
:12:00. > :12:04.laugh up here. I think if you didn't have a laugh, you would go crazy.
:12:05. > :12:09.With the end in sight, the Bos boss of the cleaning company turns up to
:12:09. > :12:13.check on our progress. It's a good job we're not slacking. What you
:12:13. > :12:17.need to do is soak your hand - for the sweat!
:12:17. > :12:21.LAUGHTER What a job you're doing! It's like
:12:21. > :12:26.big grown house now. I think the people that grow tomatoes ought to
:12:26. > :12:28.come see this place. They will. Don't let him give you the
:12:28. > :12:33.brush-off, OK? LAUGHTER
:12:33. > :12:40.Doing this kind of job, you will get job satisfaction because you will
:12:40. > :12:44.see an end product. Yeah.Guys, that's a wrap. Hey! Fantastic. Hang
:12:44. > :12:54.on. My train's due. I'm going to have to shoot off. Thanks, big man.
:12:54. > :12:56.
:12:56. > :13:04.Thanks, Joe. See you later. Ta-ra. If it all goes wrong, I can go and
:13:04. > :13:09.clean the roof of Glasgow Central Station. In outfit.Show me the
:13:09. > :13:14.squeegee. We know you as an interior designer with some of the most
:13:14. > :13:20.flamboyant clients in the world - Elton John, the Beckhamses, but how
:13:20. > :13:24.did it all start for you from a business point of view? I was very
:13:24. > :13:30.young, 16-and-a-half, and my father had a friend who had a kitchen that
:13:30. > :13:34.needed doing. You fitted a kitchen? No, as a designer! Very good.
:13:34. > :13:39.LAUGHTER And it was a total disaster, and it
:13:39. > :13:46.was ghastly, then I had a good friend who happened to be having an
:13:46. > :13:52.awe affair with a racing driver who was really famous, and I got the
:13:52. > :13:57.job! Wow. It was a big job, and basically, he had seen my house that
:13:57. > :14:00.I had done when I was 17. That's how the business started. I was
:14:00. > :14:05.fearless. I think when you're young and passionate about what you do,
:14:05. > :14:09.you don't worry about things. You just go in. You're a doer. I like to
:14:09. > :14:13.do things and do them well, and I still love it. Have you ever had
:14:13. > :14:17.your own personal Dragons Den' moment, where you have had to
:14:17. > :14:21.convince somebody to believe in you? We laugh because I say, every day, I
:14:21. > :14:25.get people to believe in me! But yes, in a sense, I pitch every time
:14:25. > :14:30.I go and present a job because you come to me and say, "I want you to
:14:30. > :14:34.build my house." It's not like going to a hairdresser and saying, "Do my
:14:34. > :14:39.hair" because after an hour, your hair is done and you go, well done.
:14:39. > :14:44.Fantastic. Sometimes people have to wait. Until they see my pitch - I
:14:44. > :14:47.have to sell it, then they have to wait a year or two until they see
:14:47. > :14:53.it, so I have to continually make them believe I know what I am doing.
:14:53. > :15:00.I have many image that you would have to pitch to the other Dragons
:15:00. > :15:04.to get a job as a Dragon... I so wish that's what happened. Sunday
:15:04. > :15:09.two came in and you're at loggerheads with them. Let's have a
:15:09. > :15:13.look. You kind of walked in here unexcited about a product I actually
:15:13. > :15:17.like, although it's so out of my sphere of what I do as a living, but
:15:17. > :15:23.I don't think you're going to sell enough. I'm quite impressed with the
:15:23. > :15:27.pluck of you telling somebody who does cut logs big time and has done
:15:27. > :15:32.for 50-odd year... You always have to look at a person at the end of
:15:32. > :15:34.the day and think, how would we work together? And we wouldn't. We would
:15:34. > :15:37.kill each other. LAUGHTER
:15:37. > :15:37.APPLAUSE there
:15:37. > :15:37.there it
:15:37. > :15:38.there it is.
:15:38. > :15:43.there it is. OK.
:15:43. > :15:49.there it is. OK. Don't go and clean the roof of Glasgow Central Station.
:15:49. > :15:53.Join him. So many options! I tell you, there is a slight change, isn't
:15:53. > :15:57.there, this series, because you have ramped up the tension for the way
:15:57. > :16:01.everybody enters the Den? We have. It's interesting this year, they
:16:01. > :16:05.arrive in a lift. I wasn't sure that would work but actually, I think
:16:05. > :16:09.it's kind of more tense. You can see from these pictures, there's cameras
:16:09. > :16:13.in the lift, then, to get their reactions. My word, yeah. You get
:16:13. > :16:17.the before and the after as well, when they think - when the doors
:16:17. > :16:20.have closed, they think nobody is watching them. It's more tense
:16:20. > :16:23.because when they walk up the stairs, you're doing something. You
:16:23. > :16:28.are moving into the room. They're kind of standing there and the doors
:16:28. > :16:31.open and you see them all go, gulp. There is a kind of moment where they
:16:31. > :16:36.think- At least they're not out of breath coming up the stairs. That's
:16:36. > :16:40.true. It's a nice design feature. think it's more the fact they're
:16:40. > :16:45.captured when they leave. They can't get out. They're waiting - the
:16:45. > :16:48.producers are waiting for that moment. Run! We can't. If you do
:16:48. > :16:53.have a successful business, nothing says you've made it more than
:16:53. > :16:58.turning up on your yacht for Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight. Michael
:16:58. > :17:03.Douglas has set sale for the island to see if he can cut it on the ocean
:17:03. > :17:05.waves. Cowes, this place calls itself the home of world yachting,
:17:05. > :17:10.and right now I can't argue with that.
:17:10. > :17:15.# I wish that we could sail # There are a thousand boats here, and
:17:15. > :17:19.more than 8,000 sailors competing in 35 events, and unless they're all
:17:19. > :17:22.really into the wind-swept look, then they're going to be happy to
:17:22. > :17:28.see me. I am here cutting hair. Should we
:17:28. > :17:31.cut aur all your hair off? You're all right. See you, then, you big
:17:31. > :17:36.scaredy cat. This is Dee. She's a round-the
:17:36. > :17:41.-world sailor, would you believe? Have you done that on your own or?
:17:41. > :17:46.have done it on my own and with my crew. It's a little bit loan lip
:17:46. > :17:49.when you're on your own. What are you more scared of, sharks or
:17:49. > :17:53.capsizing? It's illness or injury because you have to be your own
:17:53. > :18:02.doctor. I have a doctor on call and I send a photo saying, "Is this
:18:02. > :18:05.normal?" And he advises me. My big fear is a sore throat. When you're
:18:05. > :18:09.offshore, there is less bugs, so you're in the best place. It's when
:18:09. > :18:15.you come back and start meeting everybody and interacting, you get
:18:15. > :18:19.ill again. Go on. You might as well take a look. Wow.You like it?
:18:19. > :18:21.Don't I look glamorous? It's like a wind machine just following you
:18:21. > :18:24.around. # Rock the boat
:18:24. > :18:28.# Don't rock the boat, baby # These guys aren't the only ones who
:18:28. > :18:33.have to take to the water today. There are so many people blocking
:18:33. > :18:38.the shoreline here that the best way for me to get around Cowes is by
:18:38. > :18:43.boat. Somebody said to me, sail a boat through that lot, I'd be
:18:43. > :18:47.terrified. Look at the state of it all. I much prefer the boat in Miami
:18:47. > :18:52.Vice. Remember that one? So this is the lovely Alex, and she has been
:18:52. > :18:59.coming here for 18 years, and do you sail at all? My dad actually keeps a
:18:59. > :19:05.boat in East Cowes. It's a 36-foot boat, so quite big. Just a 36-foot!
:19:05. > :19:10.What have you been doing today? went for a in the swimming pool. The
:19:10. > :19:16.sea is quite cold. Get yourself in there, no? I just don't like salty
:19:16. > :19:23.water. Oh, my gosh. That's so much! Don't worry about that. Don't worry
:19:23. > :19:28.about that. How often does that happen? I think every time a boat
:19:28. > :19:38.finishes. He gets shot - he's finished. Kill him! Take a look.
:19:38. > :19:39.
:19:39. > :19:43.It's nice. I really, really like it. # Somewhere beyond the sea #
:19:43. > :19:53.I think she looked better after I did Dee's hair. Don't you think? Who
:19:53. > :19:55.
:19:55. > :20:00.is winning at the moment? We will one of the organisers here who works
:20:00. > :20:05.on this all year around. So - other sailing regular at that is there?
:20:05. > :20:09.Henley? That's a rowing regular at that. What's the difference? They're
:20:09. > :20:14.all boats. Crikey. Do you sail? you know, I actually don't. I know I
:20:14. > :20:20.am probably in the wrong job, but I get incredibly seasick. I have been
:20:20. > :20:24.sailing once in Ibiza, as you can imagine. We took a catamaran out and
:20:24. > :20:26.crashed it straight into the side of a 50-foot yacht. You and me going
:20:26. > :20:31.out together... You would be crashing it. I would be being sick.
:20:31. > :20:35.Who is winning at the moment? sounds like a straight-forward
:20:35. > :20:39.question. It is. It requires a very normal answer. But we have 34
:20:39. > :20:44.classeses of boats. So there's 34 people in first place. Exactly. At
:20:44. > :20:49.the end of the event, there is one overall winner. Take a look.I love
:20:49. > :20:54.it! Yeah. Thank you very much. Come out a winner - on a slightly
:20:54. > :20:58.wobbly floor. And the tragic thing is, it's time to leave, and they say
:20:58. > :21:03.this place doesn't really kick off until after sunset. They also say
:21:03. > :21:06.you would be a fool to leave early. See you!
:21:06. > :21:09.LAUGHTER Looks brilliant out there. Tell you
:21:09. > :21:13.what, in those conditions, remarkable haircuts. Thank you very
:21:13. > :21:18.much because it is tough, really tough. And Cowes Week is on at the
:21:18. > :21:22.moment. When is the final? The final race is Saturday, but they have a
:21:23. > :21:27.mass massive party on Friday. There's Red Arrows and all sorts.
:21:28. > :21:32.a hairdresser, Michael, you know if somebody finds a brilliant product
:21:32. > :21:37.for the hair market, there is a heap of cash to be made, case in point on
:21:37. > :21:45.the table. This little monkey was pitched on Dragons Den six years
:21:45. > :21:53.ago. I remember this! Take a look. Tangle 'S theers - uniquely designed
:21:53. > :21:58.teeth will gently , effortless effortlessly glide through the hair
:21:58. > :22:08.virtually eliminating hair damage and breakage that is the cause
:22:08. > :22:13.
:22:13. > :22:16.associated with conventional tools this stage? I was calling security,
:22:16. > :22:21.actually, at that time because he was - I don't know what he was doing
:22:21. > :22:27.to the dummy! But actually, I will openly moit that's one that got away
:22:27. > :22:32.from me. I think I was slightly hung up on the fact he accused me of
:22:32. > :22:37.having dyed hair. That's not a good idea. Did he?Even if it is dyed,
:22:37. > :22:41.never say it on national TV. I think he's gone on to be a huge success.
:22:41. > :22:46.Michael will deliver the stats. of these is sold every eight seconds
:22:46. > :22:51.around the world, pretty impressive, and the forecast for turnover is �12
:22:51. > :22:53.million this year. Wow. That's phenomenal. Do you think, I
:22:53. > :22:58.genuinely don't mind being wrong when you hear stories like that.
:22:58. > :23:03.That's a good wrong, isn't it? say, your hair looks much better now
:23:03. > :23:07.than it did then. Thank you. endorsement. Talking of ways of
:23:07. > :23:12.cutting hair, you've got a wonderful little demonstration set up over
:23:12. > :23:17.here. I have. Let me make my way over here. This is a mixture of a
:23:17. > :23:20.vacuum cleaner and a haircutting device. So you have a vacuum cleaner
:23:20. > :23:26.here. There are blades in here. I did see the once on Wayne's World,
:23:26. > :23:31.and it was called the Suck and Cut, goes in there and it starts to cut
:23:31. > :23:35.the hair. Wow. It looks good so far. Debra, obviously, you missed this
:23:35. > :23:41.one. Are you going to be in with that? Am I going to be in with that
:23:41. > :23:45.one? It cuts and Hoovers the hair - sounds like a good idea. Kelly?
:23:45. > :23:53.Absolutely not, terrifying, no. results are pretty shocking.
:23:53. > :23:55.Remarkably efficient. Let's go back to Michael and El-Davo. It's so
:23:55. > :24:00.efficient! LAUGHTER
:24:00. > :24:06.very good. You're looking smart, man. Thanks, Michael and thanks,
:24:06. > :24:10.El-Davo. Joking aside, two million of those have been sold. Terrifying
:24:10. > :24:14.machine! It's quite an experience, having your hair cut. Deborah loves
:24:14. > :24:23.them, and Kelly hates them. Tonight Mike Dilger discovers why the common
:24:23. > :24:31.dormouse isn't quite as common as Nocturnal, charming and rare, this
:24:31. > :24:37.is the common dormouse. A deceptive name, as they're anything but
:24:38. > :24:43.common. The neglect of woodlands and the destruction of hedge rows has
:24:43. > :24:53.meant these beautiful creatures are now decidedly scarce, and in some
:24:53. > :24:57.
:24:57. > :25:07.regions almost extinct. Cost cop cops create a unique environment for
:25:07. > :25:14.the dormouse. As the cops declined, the dormouse died out. But a project
:25:14. > :25:19.plans to reverse this decline. I have come to a secret location in
:25:19. > :25:24.central England where we're going to follow the reintroduction of 34
:25:24. > :25:29.dormouse as they take their first tentative steps into the wild.
:25:29. > :25:35.The whereabouts is kept under wraps so they can settle in undisturbed by
:25:35. > :25:38.humans. Deep in this woodland, Ian White, the director of the release,
:25:38. > :25:43.gives me the opportunity to see this animal up close.
:25:43. > :25:50.There is no mistaking a dormouse, is there? There isn't. They're only a
:25:50. > :25:55.small mammal with a nice furry tail and a nice furry coat, those big,
:25:55. > :26:02.black eyes that help them see at night well and these with his s
:26:02. > :26:08.Kerrs. What's your plan for a reintroduction? A coped woodland is
:26:08. > :26:13.important. It gives them a diversity of food plants for them. What's the
:26:13. > :26:18.key? Honeysuckle, nuts, blackberries, which are important
:26:18. > :26:22.because it's got a long flowering and fruiting season and also oak
:26:22. > :26:30.because it has a lot of insects which they can feed on. They get
:26:30. > :26:34.their name from "to sleep" in lattin. Known for long periods of
:26:34. > :26:44.hibernation, they have been known sleep for six months or longer if
:26:44. > :26:44.
:26:44. > :26:50.it's cool. The hazel dormouse is a name given by cops workers who have
:26:50. > :26:52.been known disturb the dormouse. They have travelled from breeding
:26:52. > :26:57.programmes across the UK for today's release.
:26:57. > :27:01.We're surrounded by door mice. These aren't going to be turned out into
:27:01. > :27:07.the big wide world today on their own, are they? They're not. We put
:27:07. > :27:12.some cages out a couple of weeks ago. We'll put a male and a female
:27:12. > :27:17.in each cage. They'll be fed and watered. Then the cages will be
:27:17. > :27:26.opened. They'll be free to go. cage is monitored with an electronic
:27:26. > :27:31.chip. Together with stud book, this ensures the pair pairs are not
:27:31. > :27:36.related and healthy. The door mice have all importantly
:27:36. > :27:41.been health checked, and if the pairs are compatible, we might have
:27:41. > :27:44.babies in the summer. The cage ensures the residents are
:27:44. > :27:49.acclimatised in their new home, but given the disturbance of their
:27:49. > :27:56.journey, it might be hours before they leave their nest boxes. This is
:27:56. > :28:01.male? This is the female.Time to release them into their pen.
:28:01. > :28:05.those two in will. It's as easy as that. What is your measure as to the
:28:05. > :28:09.success of the project? We come back and check the boxes in September.
:28:09. > :28:14.Hopefully, before then we'll have lots of door mice and young door
:28:14. > :28:18.mice as well who have started to live in this wood. But will we see
:28:18. > :28:24.the elusive little mammals before we leave? We have installed cameras
:28:24. > :28:31.into their cages to capture the first moment they leave their boxes.
:28:31. > :28:39.By dusk it's pouring with rain, but luckily for us, it doesn't deter our
:28:39. > :28:46.first intrepid adventurer. We come back to take a closer look.
:28:46. > :28:53.18 cages have now been placed in the woodland, each with a dormouse
:28:53. > :28:58.copsland side. Let's hope this ensures this shy, adorable character
:28:58. > :29:02.returns to our woodlands for good. Everybody was saying - this, apart
:29:02. > :29:07.from Kelly, who was hiding behind her hair. That's all we have time
:29:07. > :29:08.for. Thanks to our guests. Dragons Den returns Sunday night on BBC Two