10/01/2018 The One Show

Hello and welcome to

The One Show with Matt Baker.

And Michelle Ackerley.

Outside it may be cold and grey

but in our studio this

evening love is in the air.

We have three special couples

who by the end of the show will have

renewed their wedding vows live

on the show.

Get your tissues and confetti ready!

They are very nervous, it will be

marvellous, do not worry.

marvellous, do not worry.

Our best man Dan is here to talk

about a girl's best friends -

diamonds - specifically those

belonging to her majesty the Queen.

And our wedding guests tonight

certainly don't fall

into the category of people that

you just want to invite

to the evening do.

The first puts the ding into wedding

- our very own master of ceremonies.

It's Lorraine Kelly.

And swapping murder for matromony -

from Death in Paradise it's

Ardal O'Hanlon and Josephine Jobert.

It is a special night. It is all in

honour of you, Lorraine. Are you all

feeling the love in the studio? I

wish I had brought my confetti.

You

have only been to one wedding.

Are

you not a fan? I don't have that

many friends I guess. I went to one

and it was a lovely wedding and they

were two good friends of mine. What

I did is I made them a surprise. I

filmed the wedding and gave them a

video as a souvenir.

You will be

inundated with offers now. Lorraine,

recently you have been to 12

weddings in your new programme. But

let's talk about your wedding. What

atmosphere did you have yours?

There

was a lot of Titan, lots of pipers

and whiskey and dancing. We even had

friends of mine who do a

re-enactment of a battle and they

did a Braveheart thing. You know

when the bride and groom go away to

get their pictures taken and it

takes ages. We got people something

to do. They did a re-enactment of a

battle. It is very romantic.

You had

quite an unusual wedding.

Well, we hope everything

goes without a hitch

with our ceremonies tonight,

but if your wedding day didn't go

quite to plan or something went

wrong and you captured the moment

on camera, send us a snap

and we'll show the most

embarrassing ones later!

Now, it's fair to say that it

certainly isn't a marriage made

in heaven when it comes

to the relationship between rail

operators and commuters.

Not only have fares increased,

today the UK's biggest rail

franchise has been officially

named the worst.

The National Audit Office branded

Thameslink, Southern

and Great Northern poor value

for passengers, with 900,000

travellers a day suffering the worst

disruption on the network.

Dom Littlewood spent the first

strike day of 2018 with passengers

on the London to Southampton train

who found themselves on a bus.

There are five train companies

affected by strikes, which is why I

am ditching the train and going on a

coach. Hello, there. This coach is

travelling from London to

Southampton is an alternative to the

train service and is a coach with a

difference because there are

questions that need answering. So to

pass the time of day we are going to

play off the rails, a quiz about the

railways. Last year what percentage

of trains were on time?

95%?

I think

25.

That is low.

90.

87.7.

Well

done. 25, you don't catch a train

very often. Why are you on this

code? I just went to visit my mum in

Yorkshire for Christmas and New Year

and I am on benefits and it is

cheaper than the train. Who controls

the price increases, the government

or the train operators? The

government. The train operators. The

government. Spot on. If they do not

address this now, the prices will

keep on rising. Can I ask why you

are on the coach? We intended to go

by train but there was a problem.

How do you feel about that?

A bit

annoyed because I am not used to my

plans being in disarray.

When was

there a first union dispute about

driver only operation?

I would say

more recently, so 2007.

It was

actually 1981. That surprised me as

well. Personally I love train rides,

this is just fine. If you love train

ride, why are you on the coach? We

are a couple and wherever he goes I

follow. This is tough. In the year

1900, how many tickets were sold by

British rail?

The first one.

It is

1.1 billion.

Good gracious.

Last

year train operators paid more money

to the government than they received

in subsidies? True or false?

True.

Troupe.

Spot on. How much does a

one-month season ticket from London

to Southampton cost? 80,000? £451.

How can you say AT ground? It

probably will be soon! Some of that

was tricky. Normally we are used to

seeing you on TV in the morning. How

are you enjoying this?

It is

unashamed good fun, it is completely

crazy, it is over the top and it

makes you smile in January when it

is a bit miserable outside and you

need to have a laugh. We laughed our

heads of doing it, but we cried as

well. When it comes to the end of

the show there are two weddings and

it is really emotional. I tried so

much.

Amongst all of the fun and

games, at the root of this are real

people and a real love story and

they care about each other so much.

And the audience is very involved

because they are the guests you

would have at your wedding.

How does

it work?

There are two brides and

grooms and they have got their

family and friends and you are up

against one another to win a

fantastic honeymoon and the chance

to get married and to have the

wedding shown. But the runners up

the mini honeymoon and they get

married as well. I have been to 12

weddings and every single one is

different and joyful and I cried at

every single one. What is not to

like about two people who love each

other standing up and telling people

they love that they want to say we

love each other for the rest of our

lives? But it is crazy as well

because there are games.

What is

going on here?

Everybody had a pad

they sat on and bounced up and down

and buy some jiggery-pokery and

electronics they popped a massive

champagne corks and they won a

prize. Did you not do that at your

wedding? Everybody will do it and it

will catch on. It got everybody

warmed up. Some of the girls were

happy to hold on because they were

bouncing.

I noticed that.

They got

so competitive and they went for it.

Did you have a favourite of the 12

weddings?

To be honest I really did

love them all, they were all

amazing. The two boys who got

married was very special. It meant

so much to them. Of course it means

so much to everybody, but for them

to have their friends and family

together and they said they thought

they would never see the day. And

their dogs came down the aisle with

them, beautiful black labradors.

They had bows and flowers on and it

was joyful.

In the news today they

are talking about same-sex marriages

in Australia now which is great.

And

about time as well. But it was great

and that was a very special one. But

every single wedding is special and

there is something so lovely about

these vows.

It chokes me up.

Everyone has their idea about what

their dream wedding would be. What

would yours be? Would you keep it

low key or go all out?

Probably a

simple one, very intimate with my

closest friends and family.

You

would not be jumping up and down

dressed in a wet suit is trying to

make a cake whilst on stage is going

around?

Would it be a Caribbean

wedding?

Probably, on a beach with a

live band or something like that.

Is

it right that you wore a wig in the

second series of Father Ted because

of your wedding?

Yes, it is true.

This is a major revelation. I got

married during the Christmas period.

We shot the video inserts, so all

the locations for the second series

of Father Ted just before Christmas.

Just after Christmas I got married

and I was feeling pretty rough on

the day of my wedding. My best man

had taken me out the night before

and I went to a barber and I got my

hair cut. I went back into the

studio, two weeks after filming, and

we are back in the studio to shoot

the whole series but I had no here,

so they had to make a special week

at very short notice. I was

unrecognisable.

I was feeling rough

and I went and I shaved off all my

hair?!

I remember the look of horror

when I went back into the studio and

we were filming for eight weeks and

it didn't match. It could not have

been more different. They had to

manufacture a wig at very short

notice and it was the budget for the

second series! During the entire

second series it is a wig to match

my own hair.

We are now joined by

somebody who you know very well. She

is part of the programme, registrar

Kate Tremain, who will be helping us

tonight. A lot of people are

renewing their wedding vows. More

and more people are doing this, why

do you think it is a trend?

It is

hard to put your finger on it, but

it is a jolly good excuse for a

party.

It is all about the knees up.

Yes, and you can invite your best

man and your bridesmaids back ten

years on, it is a wonderful record

to have.

Is it a legally binding

ceremony?

No, not in the same way as

signing in the register, but vows

are binding in as much as they are

things that you say to each other

that mean something to you and they

are repeat of the vows that you made

to your wedding is a good

commitment.

As we will see very

shortly, these vows are very

personal and they mean so much.

They

are, absolutely.

It's time to meet our first couple,

Carol and Rohan, who will be

renewing their wedding vows shortly.

Here's your story.

We met in our hometown in Paignton

in Devon whilst out walking and we

just started chatting to each other.

We arranged to go on a date.

We will

have been married ten years in

August. We thought about renewing

our vows on our ten year

anniversary.

To have all our family

and friends with us.

I lost my dad

about ten or 11 weeks ago and he

would have enjoyed it.

So very much

missed.

Louise and Aidan, you met on this

very day 14 years ago and you are

here to celebrate ten years of

marriage together. When you married

you promised to care for each other

and share your lives. Today, you are

going to demonstrate your continuing

love for one another and renew the

vows you made. Louise and Aidan,

please, would you like to join

hands? Tell us your vows and we will

start with you, Louise.

Aidan, I

will love and care for you always,

whatever our life brings, I know we

will always be happy. You will

always be by my side, making me

smile and making me laugh. I will

love you for evermore.

Lovely, aid

and it is your turn.

Louise, you are

my falling star come you fell from

the heaven and stole my heart. You

made me the man I am today and I

thank God I am privileged enough to

be ready. You are my world and I

would have married you every day.

Gosh, thank you. Aidan, Louise made

the love that joins your heart never

fail but grew deeper and stronger

with every passing year. You have

now made a very public pledge to

your continuing commitment to each

other. So very big congratulations.

Thank you.

APPLAUSE

Needed tissue, are you all right? If

you have been watching BBC One over

the past few days you may have seen

this trailer for a documentary

featuring Her Majesty the Queen

sharing memories of her coronation

and explaining the symbolic meaning

of the Crown Jewels?

I have seen one

coronation and been the recipient in

the other.

Dan will be here in a

moment after Ruth reveals the role

the Royal made daily-macro mail

played in bringing the diamonds to

London.

A South African spotted something

what looked like a shard of glass.

He dug out a rough gemstone. It was

the biggest diamond ever found. They

called it after the minor who sold

it to the local Transvaal government

for £150,000, which in today's money

is 16.8 million. It is believed the

miner who found it was paid enough

money to buy a herd of cattle. The

Transvaal government gave the

diamond to King Edward VII as a

birthday present, a goodwill gesture

after the ball war. And that is when

the challengers began. The rough

diamond had to travel over 8000

miles from South Africa to London

without being stolen. Jeffrey has

the details and a replica diamond.

Moving valuable things around

requires all kind of stratagems and

the decoy is the best.

How did they

move it?

They gave the impression

the diamond was to move by the sea

and in the Captain's safe on-board

and all the focus and public

attention was going there, if

anybody knew about it. The diamond

was popped into the registered post

in England.

The ordinary post,

albeit register.

Maybe people were

cheering on their nails anticipating

its arrival.

It gets back to England

in the post, what happened to it

then?

It gets shown to the king and

the job is to convert it into

something more beautiful.

Two years

earlier, the world's second biggest

diamond had been cut, and he was

chosen to cut this one, but he was

based in Amsterdam. One of the decoy

was based on two and naval ship to

Holland well the real one was in a

pocket. Cutting such a precious

gemstone, that was going to require

great skill and accuracy. They have

been cutting gems since 1890 and

they will show us how it is done.

This is a rough diamond.

Perfectly

formed crystal. Stuart Beckley

studies the diamond to see how best

to use it. Using a modern 3-D

scanner, you can check for any

imperfections in the diamond and see

a visual representation of how it

should look when it is finished.

Next, we are shown how the diamond

is gently sawn to the correct size.

Would this have been how the other

diamond was cut?

No, they had to

find the grain of the diamond and

they would hit it very hard.

What if

it broke the wrong way?

Then you are

in trouble.

Without modern

equipment, the diamond cutter's

skill was key in cutting one of the

hardest substances on earth. His

first blow broke his steel blade,

rather than the diamond but his next

attempt was successful. The stone

was then faceted and polished over

nine months. Clive does this with a

spinning diamond encrusted

grindstone.

This is where we are

getting the maximum life out of the

diamond and this is what makes it

sparkle and look pretty. Now you can

see all the lustre.

Gosh. The

diamond was cleaved into nine major

stones and 96 smaller fragments.

This is a replica of the largest

stone which is called The Star Of

Africa. This is the second one, it

is in the front of the Imperial

State Crown, worn by the Queen at

the State Opening of Parliament. And

this was used at her coronation. Two

more stones were brought out and be

replicas here. The Queen wears them

because she inherited them from

Queen Mary and they are called

Granny's chips.

They don't look like

my chips. The diamonds are now kept

in a tower of London, 8000 miles

away from where the original stone

was discovered. I wonder if the

minor who plucked the diamond out of

the rock, had any idea how many

stories and myths would grow up

around it? One thing is certain, the

diamond will be a lot around a lot

longer than of us. Am amazed that

diamond made it to the post but is

not the only one that's gone through

the Royal system?

There is another

diamond but it went through the

American system. The Hope Diamond.

Look at the blue, it is rare. It

will go very nicely with your dress.

Ask if you can borrow it. It was

owned by Louis XVI when he had his

head chopped off in the French

Revolution. It was stolen them

popped in the post the $2 from New

York to Washington. $140 for

insurance and arrived at the

Smithsonian, where it has been ever

since.

And we heard about part of

that other diamond in the Queen's

crime. How many diamonds are in the

collection?

140 objects in the crown

jewels. My favourite story, there

would be a lot more if King John

hadn't lost them in the wash. Just

before his death, he has distantly,

his empire has collapsed, the French

have invaded, he goes across the

watch, the tide comes in and he

loses the Crown Jewels. Medieval,

lots of them lost. My dream is to

find them in the ocean.

I am coming

with you.

There has been a new

collection since then?

Yes, they had

to get new Crown Jewels. Guess how

many gemstones there are in the

Crown Jewels?

Are there for?

Just a

guess.

Go higher than that. 140.

More than that.

A lot more than

that.

Go big. 500. 23,500 gems in

the Crown Jewels. Amazing. In fact,

I have got...

The real thing!

This

is not the real thing. This is the

replica used in the TV show, The

Crown.

There are a few of the

Queen's favourites?

Yes, the one we

have just seen and this is the

Queen's favourite, the Prince's

Ruby. It is a spindle, but it is

like a Ruby, still very precious. It

was given to the Black Prince, one

of the great warriors in British

history by a Spanish king that was

fighting his brother for the Crown

and the Black Prince helped him

defeat is brother. Then it belonged

to the Royal family, Henry V wore

it. Apparently a French axe hit it

and got knocked off. That is the

Queen's favourite part of the Crown

which she wears at the opening of

Parliament.

What is the father?

Just

fur around the edge. All them

precious diamonds and you have asked

me about the fur. This is a saint

Edward Safire. This is allegedly,

1000 years old. It is allegedly

Edward the confessor, the king that

received a sainthood. That is very

old, if it is true, which I am sure

it is. Then we have the Stuart.

Let's turn it around.

That is

massive.

James II took that with him

when he escaped in 1688 when he was

kicked off the throne. His

son-in-law and nephew invaded

England, and he took that as an

insurance policy as he was leaving.

The pearls are hanging down?

Be a

lovely and they apparently belonged

to Queen Elizabeth. She wore them

has England but she wore them in

their hair and on her clothes. We

love history. This is it.

Thank you

so much and there is a special

series of programmes, part of the

Royal collection season on the BBC

starting with the coronation on

Sunday at 8pm on BBC One. This is a

special thing for the Queen to be

involved in?

I have never seen the

Queen speak like that about her

memories so it is a special and

historical record in its own right.

Make sure you leave back round

behind, don't go sneaking it out.

It

will go with anything.

Good luck

with your digging in Norfolk. In

honour of the rain's BBC One

programme, we are renewing vows.

Carol and Rohan are here today

to renew the vows they made to each

We met at a nightclub. And then we

arranged to meet and I stood him up.

We have been married for 30 years in

August.

We said every ten years we

would renew our vows. We went to

Vegas, and we said we couldn't go to

Vegas without meeting Elvis. We tell

each other we love each other every

day, so why not do it in front of

everybody.

Carol and Rohan, as you start

a new phase in your life together,

You celebrate your continued

commitment to each other and

together you have experienced joys

and sorrows. Have shared tears and

laughter and have given each of

comfort and support. Carol and

Rohan, you are very welcome to hold

hands if you like. As you join hands

I will offer you the floor first to

read your vows.

I have stolen my

words from Queen, but I will not

sing them to, I will not even try to

form the tune. You are the best

friend I have ever had. I have been

with you such a long time. You are

my sunshine and I want you to know

that my feelings are true. I really

love you. You are my best friend,

you make me live.

Lovely, thank you

very much. Are you ready.

When we

married 30 years ago I said I would

love you for ever. Nothing has

stopped me from feeling the same

today as I did then and I hope you

feel the same. I will love you

always and still we have a groovy

kind of love and you are still my

best friend.

APPLAUSE

I was just going to say

congratulations on the affirmation

of your love. Well done.

You could have warned the Crown,

Carol. That was magic, thank you

both very much. Very brave.

We have sent somebody new to the UK

to learn about our British cultures

and values.

My name is Hassan and two years ago

I risked my life in an overcrowded

dinghy to flee the war in Syria. I

now call the UK my home but I have

only experienced London and still I

have a lot to learn about this

country's culture. Pantomime, what

is that?

Men dressed up as women...

Its values.

They say traditional

British values of fairness and

justice, but that is not always the

case.

And what life is like the

people here.

What is it like?

Very

depressing, no work. I have taken my

camera on the road and The one Show

have sent me to the seaside in the

middle of winter to a place called

Lowestoft. It is absolutely

freezing. I need to get some

breakfast. Morning. You all right? I

would love a cup of Coffey. And an

egg roll. OK?

This is the most

easterly point of Great Britain.

How

is the fishing industry?

In the old

days, going out for the herring and

you could walk from one side to the

other but now it is down to 12 or 13

fishing boats in the whole fleet.

Have you got brown sauce?

We have

brown sauce.

I had never heard of

brown sauce until I came to this

country. Stunning. I have heard

reports of people like me not being

made welcome in places like this.

Although I am an outsider, people

are happy to chat, even in the

freezing cold. The beach is

beautiful. Are you happy?

Yes, very

happy. Not a lot of the children to

do around here.

When your children

grow up, will you encourage them to

leave?

I will encourage them, but I

like living here.

My parents are in

Syria and my brother is in Iraq and

we miss that time, it is the best

times. Really good to meet you.

Seems like there is a community

centre here. The 60 plus club. It

looks very interesting.

136.

That is

really cute. When I walked in I saw

you guys playing something.

This is

our Christmas raffle today.

We do

not have this where I come from.

We

raise money. Four tickets for £1.

They are quite cheap! I am about to

try this for the first time, so wish

me luck. And that is 32.

No, sorry.

No, sorry. 200.

Hurray. I will leave

with something from Lowestoft.

Lowestoft is not an easy place to

get to. You do not pass through it

on a journey elsewhere. You have got

to want to be here and a lot of the

people I have met really do. Hello.

What restaurant is this? Indian,

great. Indian is quite big.

It is

like an English cuisine now.

Where

are you from?

Bangladesh.

Have you

been here for a while?

For many

years.

Does it feel like home?

I

feel British like everyone else, but

my roots are in Bangladesh and it

feels like a special place.

I can

relate to that because Syria and

Damascus is a special place for me,

but now I am building my life here

and it feels like home. Cheers.

Hello, guys. I am from Syria. Is

that OK? That is great. Some fellow

out-of-towners have asked me to join

them for dinner. Pleased to meet

you. Cheers, guys. The town is on

the edge of Britain at the seaside,

what is so special about them?

They

are normally run down. Nobody goes

to the British seaside for holidays

these days. It is probably cheaper

for a family in Manchester to go to

Spain.

Whether they are visitors

like us who call Lowestoft home, I

have asked pretty much everyone here

about British values and no one

seemed to give me a clear answer.

However, people gave me a warm

welcome and they did not care where

I came from. From my experience

these are what the British values

are.

From Syria to Lowestoft is very much

a journey.

I am looking forward to

seeing more of that.

As a French

national, what would you say is the

strangest thing culturally that you

have experience?

During series six

we came to London to fill a few

episodes and I experienced something

called pork scratchings. It is

horrible. What is it? And the beer,

the Guinness. I don't drink alcohol

and I have a glass of champagne

sometimes.

It is very bitter.

During

the seen my character drinks beer.

And she goes yuck. I was not acting.

You don't drink it? No, not really.

Do you promise to tell the truth? Is

it right that you told somebody in

an interview that you did a musical

with Frank Sinatra to see what would

happen M it is true.

I felt the

interviewer was not paying much

attention to my answers, so I threw

in this.

It was not me.

No, it was

not Lorraine. She asked me what I

was doing and what my last job was

and I said I was in a musical in Las

Vegas with Frank Sinatra, and her

years picked up. She said, oh,

really? And then I said I was in a

camel and he played the years.

Give

us your best poker face.

That

features in the next episode. You

have spent five months out there

filming the new series, how has he

fitted into life in the Caribbean as

a detective?

Pretty good. He knows

it. He is a real actor. I know what

it is like to be the new guy in a

show because I arrived in series

four so we did our best to make him

feel comfortable. I think he did a

great job. It was not easy for you

because in the last series you had

to understand your character.

You

were involved in two episodes?

There

was a little handover in the second

half of last series and we had a

transition period where Chris's

character was leaving, he fell in

love, and then I joined in. I

suppose it was easier this year to

start from scratch in the series we

have just done.

We can see how you

are settling in in tomorrow's

episode.

Some point during the final

hour killer was able to get the

froggy poison onto this card with

anybody seeing. How is that

possible?

They play for 90 minutes,

the debt was shovelled, the cards

pass from player to player, hand to

hand, so how come no one else was

poisoned?

Was it definitely meant

for Bobby alone?

We have to assume.

Why was he the only one who died?

How can our killer know that this

exact card, the ace of spades, would

wind up in Bobby's and?

It has got a

poker storyline been going through

it. You are quite a good poker

player yourself. Did you chat with

the producers?

Not really. It is a

great episode I have to say. A big

international poker tournament comes

to the island and one of the players

died at the table. How did it

happen? I did play poker all right I

was younger. I used to spend a lot

and I got the name, the nickname,

pockets O Hanlon. I used to leave

the table with my pockets full. But

I used to love poker, so I was into

this episode.

I enjoyed the first

episode. I did not get it. I will

not say anything in case anyone has

not seen it. As far as life is

concerned out there and the filming,

how does it fit into your normal

life? Where do you live normally? I

live in Paris. How long do you go

over there for?

It is five months.

It is a long time, do your family

visit?

My family came over to visit

for two months. It is a very long

time, so it is good to have people

there.

It is a great opportunity to

experience a different lifestyle and

it is a great privilege for the

families to be able to join in. We

should during the summer so during

the holidays my teenagers can come

out and my wife and they have a

great time and they get to know the

place. It is a different pace of

life for them and it is all outdoors

and it is great.

Would you ever

fancy a part in this, Lorraine?

It

sounds fantastic. This is you as a

detective. That was hilarious, that

was great fun. Yes, I would love

that. Can you put a word in? But

everybody is clamouring to be on it.

There are so many guest actors.

Jennifer Lawrence next week!

And

Nigel Planer?

Yes, he is in this

episode and he plays one of the

poker players. A genuine hero of

mine. That was the show more than

anything that inspired me to get

into comedy when I was a teenager. I

was glued to it on television. To

meet him was great and to work with

him is doubly brilliant.

We will

talk more about the Caribbean and

hopefully we can go live there

shortly. You were there during the

hurricane season. What was it like

when the weather was like during

filming for you guys?

A few weeks

before the hurricane arrived it was

very hot, more than it normally is.

And it was a bit scary of course,

but the production handled it very

well. We had what sap group and sent

messages to each other to make sure

everybody was OK. We started filming

in the morning and then the police

came on the set and said we had to

stop and go home. That was at your

place? So we came back to our villas

and waited until the next day.

It

was a very long night. It is the

uncertainty. You do not know what

you will face the next morning and

whether you will have water or

electricity. Or whether you will

have food. So you are not quite sure

and you have a long and dark night

of the soul because it puts it into

perspective. We are just making a TV

show, but for people living in the

Caribbean they live there all the

time and it is something they have

to contend with once in a

generation.

Hopefully we are about

to go live to the Caribbean to the

neighbouring island.

Death in Paradise is filmed

on the Caribbean island

of Guadeloupe, which along with much

of the Caribbean, was ravaged

by hurricanes Irma and Maria

towards the end of last year.

In the aftermath, Angellica brought

us a series of films from Dominica.

So we thought we'd revisit

the island to see how

they're getting on in 2018.

We have Emerline Anselm on the line.

She's a local school

teacher on the island.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Tell us first of all how everyone

was affected by hurricane Maria.

Hurricane Maria devastated Dominic

Raab. It left most homes without a

roof. It left the island turned

upside down. It left most schools

without a roof, the police station

destroyed, churches destroyed. There

was no water on the island,

absolutely no connection could be

made with the outside world. There

was no electricity, we were

devastated by hurricane Maria.

How

did you react to that? What did you

do to help out other islanders?

When

I woke up the next morning I was

speechless, I could not believe it

was Dominic Raab. I could not

believe that Maria did this to my

beautiful island. The place looked

so pale, all the greenery was gone.

Then I decided to take to the

streets and I went from village to

village and try to make connection

with relatives and friends near and

far. I went to villagers, I took

names, contacts and numbers and

output messages onto my notepad and

I put it on Facebook so that family

members would know it was OK.

That

was amazing work. How is life now?

Are things turning back to normal?

There is some sense of normality.

Schools have opened. There were 200

passengers who came to the island a

couple of weeks ago. We have

communication back. We have water in

most villages in Dominic Raab. And

also the road network is much

better.

We are here with the actors

who have been filming on the

neighbouring island of yours. They

just said how beautiful the island

was.

We had a week off in the middle

of the summer and myself and my

family visited your island and I

have to say it was the most magical

place I have ever visited in my

life. It is so unspoiled and the

people are so independent and

wonderful and self-sufficient. When

the hurricane hit we were so

devastated. I would like to ask is

it open for tourism again? Are

people welcome and wanted?

People

are welcome. Now they are clearing

the site and the trails and they are

fixing up different areas. You can

calm biplane and boat and visit the

island. Now the green is coming back

and it is still beautiful.

Thank you

so much. Thank you so much for your

time and all the very best with all

the work you are doing and send our

love to everybody out there.

We've been on board all week

with Mike, who's been braving

the elements around our islands.

He's searching for the giants

of the sea - whales.

Tonight his journey takes him

to the Minches, the area

between the outer Hebrides and north

Scotland where he's in for a treat.

I am two weeks into an epic

three-week journey, passing through

some of the richest marine life

areas in British and Irish waters.

Aboard the Celtic Explorer I am with

a world-class team of oceanographers

as they use cutting-edge technology

to assess the abundance and

distribution of life within our

oceans. Along the way, my mission is

to find and film marine life that

would normally be out of reach. We

are watching seven or eight

dolphins.

The main objective of the survey is

to assess the abundance of fish such

as herring, horse mackerel and

others. Assessing all levels of the

marine ecosystem is hugely

important. Starting at the bottom

involves some unique equipment. This

high-speed machine is a remotely

operated device that incorporates a

fine net to catch plankton.

Basically, this high-speed sampler

is towed off the back of the boat.

Really, it is a plankton net inside

a steel torpedo. I am manually

controlling the Sam Powell right

now.

You are fishing for plankton?

That is the main game of the

sampler.

Small things matter?

They

play such a huge part of the marine

system on a global scale.

A vital

step in the food chain, plankton

consists of tiny animals like

crustaceans, fish larvae and

jellyfish. That is see soup.

It is

full of plankton. They are the base

of the marine food chain. They feed

of fish and the fish feed larger

whales, sharks and dolphins.

The

only way to truly appreciate these

ecosystem energy providers is

through the microscope. That is

absolutely beautiful. What is it?

This is called Asego Jewsbury. It is

different from other jellyfish

because of these lines. They move

together in unison to help it move

in the water.

It is only when you

look through the microscope that you

realise they are miniature works of

art?

Absolutely, the diversity and

complex a TUC in these plankton is

overlooked a lot of the time. And if

you take plankton out of the

picture, you have nothing else. You

don't get fish, you don't get any

higher organisms that we love and

hold dear.

Plankton feed quail and

then they feed bailing Wales. Which

is what I hope to see. After a few

days with no sightings, the weather

is looking good for spotting. We've

just come round the butt of Lewis,

so we are in between the outer

Hebrides and North Scotland. An area

brilliant for whales and dolphins

and the conditions are perfect. It's

not long before... There it is. I

saw the snout. Beautiful Axel we

spot Menke Wales. Menke Wales can

grow up to ten metres in length and

weigh in at nine tonnes. Twice as

heavy as an elephant. It is really

close to the boat. Like all filter

feeding whales it has two blowhole

is to maximise the oxygen needed to

support its huge body. Personality,

it is an introverted whale and

incredibly difficult to get on film.

Despite being one of the smallest

filter feeding whales, they can

consume 300 kilograms of food a day.

Finding the Menke Wales is an

incredible experience but I will

have to go deeper if I want to find

the real giants.

Lorraine, you were lost in that.

I

was, I have been lucky to see Menke

Wales and Scotland and I have been

to Antarctica. I would go back

tomorrow.

It is a very special thing

to experience.

It makes you feel

very small, that is a good thing.

Was that part of your wedding

anniversary?

It was, we were married

the 25 years and we went to

Antarctica. We followed Ernie

Shackleton's journey and it was

incredible.

What a cool thing to do

for your anniversary.

Luckily my

husband shares my passions, or that

would not have worked out.

Which

leads is beautifully done for the

couple theme.

Time to meet our third and final

couple Valerie and Mark

who are going to renew their vows.

We met in a single club. We have

been married 20 years.

We had

arranged to renew our vows last year

on our 20th anniversary.

We had an

accident in Dubai. I was off work

for several weeks. Without Valerie's

support, I don't think I would have

got through it. I would like to

thank my son Ian, my boss who has

given us the day off to come here

today. Thank you very much, Ian.

No doubt Ian will be watching. Kate,

it is over to you.

Valerie and Mark are here today

to renew the vows which they made

to each other when they married

20 years ago.

Over those 20 years their marriage

has grown richer, today

they demonstrate their continued

commitment to one another.

Valerie and Mark please join hands

and share your vows.

Valerie, is it OK if we start with

you?

Mark, I love you because you made me

smile, when I almost forgot how to.

I feel everything in life

has led us to this...

Choices, regrets, heartbreak...

We've fought hard to

overcome so many obstacles,

but always together.

A strong marriage doesn't

always have two strong

people at the same time.

As we we know, it's a husband

and wife who take turns being strong

when the other feels weak.

I look back over our life together,

the houses we've had,

the cars we've drove,

the things we own that really

don't matter at all.

What matters more than anything,

is our family, and that I've got

you and you've got me.

Well done. Are you ready, Mark?

Valerie, you have been my friend, a

wonderful wife. Which I cherish so

very much. I will be forever

grateful for the years we have been

together and hopefully, spend many

more years together. Thank you, I

love you.

May your hands be forever

clasped in friendship

and your hearts be joined in love.

May your life continue to be full

of kindness and understanding,

thoughtfulness and joy.

You have renewed your vows,

congratulations to the both of you.

There isn't a dry eye in the house.

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Congratulations. Thank you both very

much indeed.

We have are going somewhere now that

is thanks to our industrial past. At

the height of the mining boom, Wales

was one of the largest coaling

countries in the world.

These black diamonds have

fundamentally change the way people

live around here. There's virtually

nothing left of mining any more in

these valleys but it has left an

indelible mark the landscape.

Dockyards, stately homes, even

entire villages owed their existence

to Cole, ripped from the Earth and

the valleys are littered with what

mining left behind but the most

inescapable reminders are slack

heaps, massive man-made hills, built

from the waste product of mining.

Not so long ago, slack heaps was

seen as nothing more than a dirty

blot on the landscape or a

dangerously menace, at worst. But

today, there are people who actually

like them. Leah is an entomologist

who studies insects on slack heaps.

One of his favourite locations is

this tip in south Wales. Lee, it is

unbelievable looking at this place,

how fast it is.

It is a fantastic

habitat.

You can see fresh water

down there, wetlands and then you

have this almost lunar like expanse

in front of us. We couldn't design

it better?

You couldn't, and we will

never get anything like this again.

It is unique in the way it has been

tipped. Nothing like it anywhere in

the British Isles, so fantastic for

invertebrates, butterflies,

bumblebees, dragonflies.

It brings

it into perspective how much they

did mine here.

Supposed to be 1200.

This is like scaling Everest as

well. Liam has found 50 varieties of

bumblebee as well as other

endangered insects, but the most

exciting news is a millipede,

unknown to science has been

discovered on a nearby tip.

That is

the species known to science,

nowhere else in the world.

He is the

Usain Bolt of the millipede world. I

have never held a species new to

science in my fingers at all. It is

awesome. We are here in the valleys

on a waste product of an industrial

age that did so much damage to the

environment holding a species that

wouldn't be here at all if it wasn't

for the coal tips?

It shows how

special these sites are and we

should be preserving them.

A few

miles away, this is an example of

what can be done with mining's

legacy. It has been turned into a

park for everyone to enjoy and

features a massive pit pony, carved

out of the coal waste by a landscape

artist. How long did it take you to

Bill Butler?

It was done in a

six-month period and the whole

purpose was to create a windbreak

for this arena.

You can almost see

the muscle in this light.

How did

you do it? 60,000 tonnes of coal

shale, two excavators and someone

helping me with the marking out.

You

do have to come on it to see it at

its best. What has the reaction been

from the local people?

Really

positive, people standing on the pit

pony and they said, you know what

this should be called? It should be

called Sultan, a prize-winning pony

from a local pits.

And it has stuck

ever since. There we are, we will

see your creation from the air. It

is awesome. He looks pretty happy,

running free on the side of the

hill.

The sunlight is perfect.

Mining may have been dangerously and

destructive, but it was once

massively important. It is good to

see its legacy in the landscape has

been totally swept away. People are

trying to keep the heritage alive in

a positive way, that looks to the

future.

Earlier we ashes to send in photos

of your photo mishaps.

Laura had the

Fire Brigade turn up when the candy

machine set up a smoke detector.

Cheryl from Ayrshire and her nephew

Logan who had a wardrobe malfunction

as he came down the aisle.

Katie's

sister-in-law crashed into her car

on the wedding day. Husband told as

they were walking up the eye.

We

thank you all couples. We will see

you tomorrow Gordon Ramsay.

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