:00:20. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And Angela Scanlon.
:00:26. > :00:30.Tonight and offer you cannot refuse, a guest who has cornered the market
:00:31. > :00:41.in investigating the Mafia, and boy, is this an encounter he wishes he
:00:42. > :00:48.had had! My friend, what can I do feel? I wonder if I could begin by
:00:49. > :00:52.asking you this, which crime family are you associated with? And never
:00:53. > :00:58.discuss the family business. Do you think you are lucky to still be
:00:59. > :01:03.alive? What have I ever done to make you take me so disrespectfully? You
:01:04. > :01:11.don't offer friendship. You don't even think to call me Godfather.
:01:12. > :01:17.Please welcome Sir Trevor McDonald! APPLAUSE
:01:18. > :01:24.Good to see you Sir Trevor. Do you like what we did there? Thank you
:01:25. > :01:29.for the Marlon Brando bit! You are welcome. You have given up reading
:01:30. > :01:34.the news now but with everything happening at the moment does part of
:01:35. > :01:39.you wish... I am not always up at that hour any more! I thought I
:01:40. > :01:43.would miss it much, much, much more but I did it for a very long time
:01:44. > :01:49.and then something happened, I was asked to come back and do a bit that
:01:50. > :01:54.I was not sure about but I did and now No. I want my second loss of
:01:55. > :02:02.wine! What if you got a chance to sit down with the Donald rather than
:02:03. > :02:07.the Don? I don't have an interest in it now but if I was doing the news
:02:08. > :02:12.when he was president, every journalist would want to do it. But
:02:13. > :02:17.it is not an encounter I think much about these days. Stick with what
:02:18. > :02:24.you know. I've got bad image in my mind now, it is so perfect. I will
:02:25. > :02:27.stick to Marlon Brando! Trevor will announce some breaking stories at
:02:28. > :02:32.the end of the show so we need headlines from you. Your personal
:02:33. > :02:37.breaking news stories. It has to be big and we need to know who you want
:02:38. > :02:42.to break the news too. Maybe you have finished roof felting the shed
:02:43. > :02:47.or finished that scarf! Said us a picture and we will put them in
:02:48. > :02:51.Trevor's bulletin later. The shortage of green stuff in the shops
:02:52. > :02:57.is good news if you are a salad dodger like me or bad news if you
:02:58. > :03:02.are a health nut. With warnings that the shortage might last several more
:03:03. > :03:07.weeks we put Dan on a budget flight to Spain. With lettuce prices
:03:08. > :03:12.leaping and courgette stocks cut I want to know what's going on. To get
:03:13. > :03:16.to the root of the problem I'm going directly to the source. And that
:03:17. > :03:21.means a trip to Spain. As we have seen on the news our produce problem
:03:22. > :03:31.comes down to Europe's unusually wet, windy wild winter. So this is
:03:32. > :03:35.not quite what I was expecting. It is warm, dry, so I think I need to
:03:36. > :03:38.be to some of the locals to find out what's been happening. After
:03:39. > :03:44.terrible weather kit Italy and Greece in December, this region
:03:45. > :03:49.became one of the sole remaining sources of Europe's leafy greens.
:03:50. > :03:55.But fender floods arrived here as well. One month later, this market
:03:56. > :04:00.does not seem to be too badly. My Spanish force a bit flat with
:04:01. > :04:05.stallholders but fortunately I found a couple of expats to fill me in on
:04:06. > :04:09.what's been going on. There's plenty of local produce coming into the
:04:10. > :04:13.market is now but it is the large operators like Tesco, Sainsbury's,
:04:14. > :04:16.Morrisons, Waitrose, some of them owned the fields around this area
:04:17. > :04:21.and we provide from those feels aided percent of the food that is
:04:22. > :04:26.going to England in the winter, last winter they had three days of
:04:27. > :04:30.nonstop torrential rain, thunder and lightning, 70 years since they'd had
:04:31. > :04:36.anything like it. It was striking lightning pretty awful and the water
:04:37. > :04:42.was up to hear! Helicopters were parked on the beaches. Meijer we
:04:43. > :04:45.were one foot in the water throughout the house and we got
:04:46. > :04:48.struck by lightning because they've got underground car parking and two
:04:49. > :04:54.people lost their lives. The whole of the area was under water. It's
:04:55. > :04:58.starting to become clear, this is not just about paying a bit more for
:04:59. > :05:02.your weekly greens in the shop, what's happened here and across a
:05:03. > :05:07.large part of Europe has been devastating. I have been told this
:05:08. > :05:10.entire area should be dry but it's covered in thick sticky mud from the
:05:11. > :05:16.flood. You can see how far we are from the beach. The devastation is
:05:17. > :05:20.not restricted to the coast. I've heard about a farm in land that
:05:21. > :05:24.would normally export these lettuces straight to the UK. The weather has
:05:25. > :05:32.been so bad here that it has torn up the road. There are 1 million pieces
:05:33. > :05:36.here on the farm, all the crop we can see has been destroyed. The
:05:37. > :05:42.problem is that the water is still inside the soil. If we have this
:05:43. > :05:46.situation we can't work the soil because the tractor will stop. By
:05:47. > :05:52.putting a tractor through treacle, it's not going to work. Because this
:05:53. > :05:58.takes a lot of work. And it's nothing. How bad is it for business?
:05:59. > :06:03.50% after production in this area has been destroyed... McCarthy
:06:04. > :06:09.production. It is impossible to sell and eat these. It's too damp. And
:06:10. > :06:14.prices have been affected here as well, lettuce is now costing more
:06:15. > :06:18.than ?1 in supermarkets. In some areas, the land has been dry so
:06:19. > :06:23.production can now pick up but with crops lost so much through Europe
:06:24. > :06:32.demand for those vegetables will be very high. The only area in Europe
:06:33. > :06:39.where we can supply these lettuces. Could it happen again this year? We
:06:40. > :06:45.don't know. I hope not, but it could happen. We are still in the winter.
:06:46. > :06:53.How long before it gets back to normal? Normal situation, in March.
:06:54. > :06:58.It's OK, you know. This is an eye-opener. Whole fields full of
:06:59. > :07:03.these. Our prices may have gone up in the shops but livelihoods been
:07:04. > :07:06.devastated here. That's the thing that, wherever you are in the world,
:07:07. > :07:13.if you are a farmer with produce like that what can you do? You are
:07:14. > :07:17.at the mercy of the weather. Absolutely. Greengrocer Chris Bavin
:07:18. > :07:20.has spent the week unpicking the truth behind the headlines on Food:
:07:21. > :07:25.Truth or Scare. Chris, we are hearing a lot about this crisis, the
:07:26. > :07:30.lettuce crisis, the courgettes crisis, although you think this
:07:31. > :07:34.rationing is a good thing. I don't think it is rationing literally, I
:07:35. > :07:37.don't think supermarkets are trying to reduce the amount of letters that
:07:38. > :07:41.the public are buying, I think they are trying to filter out the
:07:42. > :07:46.businesses that are now going in and buying large amounts of iceberg
:07:47. > :07:59.lettuce in this case. Because when you see incredibly high wholesale
:08:00. > :08:02.prices, if you are a cafe owner or a restaurant it's cheaper to go to the
:08:03. > :08:05.retailer and buy it but they not buying two or three, they are buying
:08:06. > :08:08.in bulk. So they are trying to restrict that. So they don't feel
:08:09. > :08:12.that we are going to overdose on ice pick lettuce! You don't need to buy
:08:13. > :08:16.more than three of those, never have. I think we should make the
:08:17. > :08:21.distinction, it is a big problem for the growers but for the consumer is
:08:22. > :08:26.not necessarily a huge issue. And certain products make the most of
:08:27. > :08:29.this situation with the lettuce. Perhaps we have been forced to be
:08:30. > :08:35.more adventurous, sales of watercress have risen by 50% in some
:08:36. > :08:39.cases. What this tells us is to lessen our reliance on one single
:08:40. > :08:45.product and perhaps be more adventurous and try different
:08:46. > :08:49.things. Mix it up. Tomatoes are in the news, ketchup, are you a fridge
:08:50. > :08:54.man or a cupboard man? Traditionally I would have had them in the
:08:55. > :08:57.cupboard! Serious, isn't it! Traditionally I would have had them
:08:58. > :09:05.in the cupboard and once they were open, put them in the fridge. Sir
:09:06. > :09:09.Trevor, are you a ketchup man? No. Occasionally in New York if you have
:09:10. > :09:19.a hot dog on the street then they don't ask many questions and if you
:09:20. > :09:23.have hot dog they just put it on. Just wanted to confirm that you have
:09:24. > :09:29.none in the cupboard or in the fridge. I wait until I get to New
:09:30. > :09:36.York! Very upmarket, the hot dog and a glass of wine. Living the dream.
:09:37. > :09:39.Thank you, Chris, good luck with Food: Truth or Scare, honoured
:09:40. > :09:43.tomorrow morning at quarter past nine. Four weeks we have been
:09:44. > :09:45.hearing about funding for the health service, now that claims that
:09:46. > :09:50.schools might face a similar problem. Kevin joins headteachers
:09:51. > :09:56.taking their argument for more money to the very top. It is 530 on a
:09:57. > :10:01.soaking wet morning in Horsham, West Sussex. And I am first to get on
:10:02. > :10:06.board this school coach trip with a difference. Right, we are on our
:10:07. > :10:10.wait to meet headteachers from West Sussex who believe we are in a
:10:11. > :10:13.national crisis and they think the coach trip to Westminster is going
:10:14. > :10:20.to be a make or Drake for their schools. -- make or break. Schools
:10:21. > :10:24.in West Sussex are currently among those receiving the least amount of
:10:25. > :10:35.funding from the government. Right here we are. The heads are going to
:10:36. > :10:37.ask Minister for schools standards Nick Gibb for an emergency cash
:10:38. > :10:40.injection of ?20 million which they say is needed to avoid a drop in
:10:41. > :10:46.standards. One of the heads is Jules White of Tonbridge house School. He
:10:47. > :10:51.says that here, as in many schools funding is not keeping pace with
:10:52. > :10:59.rising pupil numbers. In the last five years we've risen from 150
:11:00. > :11:01.pupils to 430. The money they want represents an extra ?200 per pupil
:11:02. > :11:07.and would mean he could avoid further reductions in the number of
:11:08. > :11:10.teachers. Most of all we would make sure we avoided the nightmare
:11:11. > :11:15.scenario of a four-day week, the last thing any school would want.
:11:16. > :11:20.Attention, everyone, and a half of all pupils in the UK it gives me
:11:21. > :11:25.great pleasure to say, headteachers, sit up straight and keep the noise
:11:26. > :11:31.down! Michael Ferry runs Saint Wilfrid 's Catholic School in
:11:32. > :11:36.Crawley. A big day is this? Massive. The ?200 we are asking for would
:11:37. > :11:40.mean we could fulfil the potential of our students. Last March the
:11:41. > :11:44.government announced the new funding formula from which West Sussex will
:11:45. > :11:49.benefit but the headteachers say it won't come close to covering rising
:11:50. > :11:53.costs like national insurance and pensions, and school governors in
:11:54. > :11:57.West Sussex like Cliff Purvis are threatening to strike in support of
:11:58. > :12:04.them. The new funding formula will come into place in 2018. But until
:12:05. > :12:07.then we have this huge gap. And it is the children who are at the
:12:08. > :12:12.schools now that deserve the best that we can give them. Look at those
:12:13. > :12:18.different artists, how would you take those different things and come
:12:19. > :12:21.up with different ideas? In this school there's only one art teacher
:12:22. > :12:27.of the entire school so supply teachers have to fill the gaps, it's
:12:28. > :12:33.a worry for keen artists like Ryanair, 13. Having an art teacher
:12:34. > :12:36.more experienced than a supply teacher, if they are given the class
:12:37. > :12:42.to teach they give you something used to help you work with. Don't
:12:43. > :12:44.worry, I won't start singing. Although I might still! Every
:12:45. > :12:51.headteacher on the coach has concerns. We have already got down
:12:52. > :12:57.to a base level of funding. I can only provide at the moment a
:12:58. > :12:59.skeleton service. If the schools minister goes around individually
:13:00. > :13:05.and says, in ten seconds, why should I give you the money, what is your
:13:06. > :13:10.answer? Children, they are our future. We are down to the bare
:13:11. > :13:16.bones, with ten efficiencies. It isn't just West Sussex, in London,
:13:17. > :13:25.in Kingston, headteachers say they are struggling to keep staff, as
:13:26. > :13:28.things stand in Cheshire East they might face a four day week and in
:13:29. > :13:30.Devon some teachers are looking at bigger classes and fewer subjects.
:13:31. > :13:33.This West Park primary teacher has already seen on a minister with more
:13:34. > :13:37.success in touch with no success, this time she is determined. Is an
:13:38. > :13:42.odd environment, very deferential and feels a bit like the Ministry
:13:43. > :13:47.for magic way you must say, with respect, Minister, every time you
:13:48. > :13:52.speak. If you don't do they send you out of the room? I don't know, we
:13:53. > :13:56.all said it, we will say at this time. They are given hope because
:13:57. > :14:00.the National Audit Office said the government should intervene quickly,
:14:01. > :14:03.should problems arise. At first it looked promising, the meeting was
:14:04. > :14:25.booked to be one hour, they were in for an
:14:26. > :14:29.hour and a half. Funnily they emerged. Jules, how did it go? We
:14:30. > :14:31.are not smiling. We asked the Minister six times and his implicit,
:14:32. > :14:34.the budget has been set, which eventually we have to take as a No.
:14:35. > :14:38.We asked the Minister, Nick Gibb, if we could talk to him but he did not
:14:39. > :14:40.want to meet us. In a statement, his department said that school funding
:14:41. > :14:42.was at a record level of over ?40 billion this year. So those
:14:43. > :14:45.headteachers have faced the school minister, had their say, obviously
:14:46. > :14:48.it did not work at the way they wanted at judging by what I've heard
:14:49. > :14:52.on the coach and what they've said after the meeting
:14:53. > :14:57.We have heard that the headteachers have been called back to the
:14:58. > :15:01.Department for Education for a follow-up meeting, so we will keep
:15:02. > :15:10.you updated. I can't guarantee Kevin will take them on the bus though!
:15:11. > :15:14.Sir Trevor, we have got Mafia Women, your upcoming series, and you are
:15:15. > :15:18.back in the States meeting the wives and daughters. Paint a picture of
:15:19. > :15:24.growing up in a mafia household. Some of the people who grew up, some
:15:25. > :15:27.of the daughters and sons, were obviously traumatised. The others,
:15:28. > :15:32.rather strangely, difficult for us to understand or totally comprehend,
:15:33. > :15:39.regarded it as part of a current of normal life. I think one of the
:15:40. > :15:43.reasons for this is because, however steeped people were in the mafia as
:15:44. > :15:48.a kind of criminal organisation, there was always a very strong
:15:49. > :15:52.family element. One woman, whose father was called the Grim Reaper
:15:53. > :15:56.because he killed so many people, even the FBI were not sure how may
:15:57. > :16:03.people he actually killed, and she said to me, he always home at 530 PM
:16:04. > :16:07.for dinner. So you go out in the day killing people or you might go out
:16:08. > :16:12.at night, but you are for dinner. How nice! A lot of these women had
:16:13. > :16:18.never been filmed all told their story before, so how did you get
:16:19. > :16:22.them to open up? It isn't all my work, but my colleagues took a long
:16:23. > :16:26.time. I think it took about two years to convince some of them.
:16:27. > :16:30.There was another interesting aspect to this, which is that we did a
:16:31. > :16:34.mafia series on the mend, concentrating just on the mend, and
:16:35. > :16:40.I think some of these women felt that they wanted to be heard. Mafia
:16:41. > :16:45.people are not by nature very kind of silent or coy about what they've
:16:46. > :16:48.done. I think the reason for that is, although we see them as
:16:49. > :16:52.essentially a criminal enterprise, they regard it as something about
:16:53. > :17:01.which they are very proud. They talk about the fact that it dates back to
:17:02. > :17:04.Sicilian families over 100 years ago, and they talk about the fact
:17:05. > :17:12.that they live rather well. They all have big mansions in the boroughs,
:17:13. > :17:16.Staten Island. One guy said to me, I walk into restaurants and I don't
:17:17. > :17:20.have to look to see how much the bottle of champagne costs. They like
:17:21. > :17:26.living well. I think that applies to some of the families. One woman said
:17:27. > :17:33.to me, I said, when you go shopping, how much money do you get? And she
:17:34. > :17:37.showed me... That lifestyle comes at a cost. Let's have a look at the
:17:38. > :17:44.first episode. What was the moment like when you discovered who Anthony
:17:45. > :17:53.was? I was shocked. When I typed in, once the image pulled up and I said
:17:54. > :17:56.mafia, I typed in his name and "mafia", and it was just like
:17:57. > :18:02.article after article, and I was reading through it and I went down
:18:03. > :18:08.to the house, I knocked on his door and I just said, you know, can I
:18:09. > :18:14.talk to you? Well, what is extraordinary is they explain to you
:18:15. > :18:19.that the men take this blood oath which puts the mafia ahead of their
:18:20. > :18:23.family. The mind boggles as to why you would want to enter into that
:18:24. > :18:28.situation. I know, but it's what they do. And the mafia takes
:18:29. > :18:35.precedence over wives and family. So the wise and family follow on. What
:18:36. > :18:38.I found odd, especially in the first programme when you meet the
:18:39. > :18:42.daughters, is that the father was saying, I don't want my daughter to
:18:43. > :18:45.have anything to do with this, so they are pushing part of their
:18:46. > :18:52.family away but welcoming other women into it. It seems quite
:18:53. > :18:56.hypocritical. To them, it isn't hypocritical. They think, this is
:18:57. > :18:59.the way this fraternity works, this is how we operate, and the operation
:19:00. > :19:04.is key and everything else is subsidiary. Part of interest for in
:19:05. > :19:11.doing this is that you only people away sort of layer by layer what
:19:12. > :19:16.these people are really like and what motivates them. -- you peel
:19:17. > :19:19.away the layers that it isn't easy. If you get them to talk, hopefully
:19:20. > :19:27.you get them to explain how they feel about things. I can't wait for
:19:28. > :19:33.the second one. Mafia Women with Trevor McDonald starts next Thursday
:19:34. > :19:36.at 9pm on ITV. This week we discovered that, if you want to
:19:37. > :19:40.complain about being overlooked for a knighthood, it's probably best not
:19:41. > :19:46.to write an e-mail to your publicist. But could there be a way
:19:47. > :19:52.to avoid disappointment? His Iwan Thomas OBE. Spot the odd one out,
:19:53. > :19:55.Dame Judi Dench, Sir Trevor McDonald, me and so Rod Stewart.
:19:56. > :20:02.They have all been knighted except me. I've just got a MBE, but I
:20:03. > :20:07.wouldn't mind a knighthood. Sir Iwan . Yeah, got a nice wrinkled I'm
:20:08. > :20:11.meeting a man who claims that his company improves the odds of getting
:20:12. > :20:17.to kneel before the Queen. What does one have to do to get a knighthood?
:20:18. > :20:22.You have to be in it to win it. People can't nominate themselves. If
:20:23. > :20:27.you know somebody who is worthy of a honour, you have to put them
:20:28. > :20:31.forward. How can your company help somebody like me? We will save the
:20:32. > :20:39.nominator time, effort and deprivation. We typically spend 100
:20:40. > :20:44.to 150 hours on a nomination. If I came to you with ?10,000 and said,
:20:45. > :20:50.work some magic, what happens if I didn't get a good result? I get a
:20:51. > :20:55.refund? We would only take somebody on if we felt they had a well above
:20:56. > :21:01.average chance. What if somebody is really deserving but they don't have
:21:02. > :21:04.2p to rub together? They can get friends and family to nominate them.
:21:05. > :21:09.It's free to do it. All you have to do is go to the government website,
:21:10. > :21:16.download the forms and take care of the process yourself. You didn't
:21:17. > :21:22.happen to slay a dragon or rescue a damsel in distress to become what
:21:23. > :21:29.began in childhood, and arduous training regime of swordsmanship and
:21:30. > :21:33.chivalry until 18, when a religious ceremony turned you into a knight.
:21:34. > :21:41.It's a knighthood really worth it these days? Do the public still sit
:21:42. > :21:45.up and notice? I think it's a big deal. If somebody has gone out of
:21:46. > :21:47.their way to do loads of good things for the community, they should be
:21:48. > :21:57.respected for that and people should know. If somebody is recognised with
:21:58. > :22:04.a MBE, OBE or knighthood, is it a good thing? It inspires kids. Are
:22:05. > :22:08.they worth the fuss? Probably not. Possibly a bit outdated. I think a
:22:09. > :22:12.lot of people do a lot of good work and don't get rewarded for the
:22:13. > :22:16.people who get a phenomenal income and get a lot of exposure, be
:22:17. > :22:21.grateful for what you have got. Don't whinge about. But my
:22:22. > :22:24.nomination does get past the first hurdle, and how do I get selected by
:22:25. > :22:32.committee and then the Prime Minister? Myles Pryce was a spin
:22:33. > :22:34.doctor for Tony Blair and dealt with the Prime Minister's selection of
:22:35. > :22:40.potential knights. When a nomination lands on the table, is it a done
:22:41. > :22:43.deal? No, you have to be checked out. There are committees looking at
:22:44. > :22:48.your background and there can be barriers in your way. It's not
:22:49. > :22:51.automatic. If you get that far, you are a long way down the road. Do you
:22:52. > :22:58.ever look at it and think, that would be good PR for us if that
:22:59. > :23:03.individual was mated? It depends who they are. It is what looks good for
:23:04. > :23:07.the country though. -- is that individual was knighted. How can I
:23:08. > :23:14.get promotion? Keep your nose clean and you never know. To be honest, I
:23:15. > :23:21.think a knighthood is years from me. But in the meantime, I'm going to
:23:22. > :23:27.practice. James, take me home! Be happy with a MBE! Sir Trevor, is
:23:28. > :23:31.it right that you thought your knighthood letter was a mistake?
:23:32. > :23:36.First of all, it had been sent somewhere else and it never reached
:23:37. > :23:39.me. I had a call saying I hadn't responded and I said, what letter? I
:23:40. > :23:46.gradually got out of the person from Downing Street that it was about a
:23:47. > :23:50.honour. I said, what honour? They said it was a knighthood and I was
:23:51. > :23:55.suddenly interested. But it went the wrong place and I almost never got
:23:56. > :24:01.it. I never believed... I kept it in my pocket for several days before
:24:02. > :24:04.saying anything to anybody. I was quite sure another one would come
:24:05. > :24:10.saying, we've made a terrible mistake and send this to the wrong
:24:11. > :24:14.person. I was pleased but shocked. Brilliant! I have learned a tonne of
:24:15. > :24:21.things from being on this show, not least that Sir Trevor may not have
:24:22. > :24:27.been a sir at all. On top of that, an American present died because he
:24:28. > :24:30.got a cold, basically, before he went into office at the inauguration
:24:31. > :24:39.and he didn't wear a coat. And there are a lot of different breeds of
:24:40. > :24:44.mice. There are. I like the sound of mouses. I bet I can name one that
:24:45. > :24:53.you don't know. We are going to name mice? Dormouse, African pygmy mouse,
:24:54. > :24:59.harvest mouse, Mickey Mouse. Meet the sea mouse, Matt. You didn't know
:25:00. > :25:05.about him. Chocolate mouse? Deep in the coastal inlets of western
:25:06. > :25:09.Scotland live some weird and wonderful animals. Seven armed
:25:10. > :25:15.starfish, and enemies and brittle stars in their thousands but, in
:25:16. > :25:21.amongst these waving arms is perhaps the most strange creature, a bizarre
:25:22. > :25:24.marine worm known as a sea mouse. Under light, it becomes oddly
:25:25. > :25:30.iridescent. Believe it or not, the secret behind this fascinating
:25:31. > :25:33.creature could soon affect us all. They are usually incredibly
:25:34. > :25:38.difficult to see because they spend most of their time buried in the
:25:39. > :25:44.mud, deep on the sea bed. So, to get a closer look at the sea mouse's
:25:45. > :25:49.incredible iridescent colours, scientists have caught some for us
:25:50. > :25:54.and, with my torch, I can show you their most remarkable feature. Can
:25:55. > :26:02.you see that iridescent is? The are so beautiful. When white light
:26:03. > :26:07.shines on a sea mouse's pairs, they reflect a rainbow of colours. It is
:26:08. > :26:13.something intriguing scientists, such as Oxford University's doctor
:26:14. > :26:17.Andrew Parker. This is one of those individual hairs. As the structure
:26:18. > :26:22.is curved, you get different angles presenting itself to the light so
:26:23. > :26:26.you get different colours from both angles. Rather than a pigment, like
:26:27. > :26:32.you would get in your clothes, this is totally transparent material. But
:26:33. > :26:37.what is the use of such vibrant colours to a worm living on the sea
:26:38. > :26:43.bed? Well, it is thought the iridescent material could be to
:26:44. > :26:47.frighten off predators by drawing attention to their shop spines. And
:26:48. > :26:55.the principle behind it could revolutionise the Internet, because
:26:56. > :27:01.it can transmit light 50% faster than that used today for superfast
:27:02. > :27:05.communication. The secret lies in its microscopic structure. Magnified
:27:06. > :27:08.thousands of times, this image reveals layers of hexagonal cells
:27:09. > :27:13.called photonic crystals. After decades of research, the
:27:14. > :27:17.telecommunications industry was catching up with nature to create
:27:18. > :27:24.its own version. A pity we didn't discover this first or we could have
:27:25. > :27:29.saved a lot of time in physics labs. Since this extraordinary discovery
:27:30. > :27:35.in sea mice, it's also been seen in other animals, peacocks, magpies and
:27:36. > :27:42.butterflies, all of which display the same quality. In years to come,
:27:43. > :27:45.don't be surprised to see the remarkable light reflecting
:27:46. > :27:50.properties of the sea mice appearing in a variety of products from
:27:51. > :27:58.high-tech clothing to iridescent pink. If you are going sea mouse
:27:59. > :28:03.spotting, take a torch. It's important. We asked for your
:28:04. > :28:12.breaking news story, so Trevor could announce it. Here goes. A trip down
:28:13. > :28:17.memory lane. You guys are just testing what I can still read this
:28:18. > :28:24.one is, Stuart assembles summerhouse all by himself. And this one,
:28:25. > :28:32.Michelle makes a rug out of husband's old T-shirts. And
:28:33. > :28:45.finally... And finally, Samantha and Mark from Haydock are expecting.
:28:46. > :28:52.Great news. Lovely news. That reminds me... I am so relieved. And,
:28:53. > :28:58.Alex and family, we send our love to you. Thank you to Sir Trevor
:28:59. > :29:03.McDonald. You can now go home and get your glass of wine and your
:29:04. > :29:09.hotdog. Mafia Women starts next Thursday at 9pm on ITV. I will be
:29:10. > :29:15.back tomorrow with Richard Osman as we chat to sell reports -- national
:29:16. > :29:18.project to Sara Cox, and there was music from Elbow. Good night.