:00:26. > :00:30.The One Show. Hello, welcome to The One Show. Coming up tonight, your
:00:30. > :00:35.chance to relive a bit of magic from the Olympic Closing Ceremony,
:00:35. > :00:39.live here in the studio. Yes, we gatecrash double gold medal-winner
:00:39. > :00:43.Laura Trott's homecoming street party. We are joined by the man who
:00:43. > :00:47.can jump the equivalent of two lanes of traffic, which you need to
:00:47. > :00:55.be able to do in London, the width of a tennis court or five Alex
:00:56. > :01:01.Jones laid lengthways. COMMENTATOR: There he goes. I can't believe it.
:01:01. > :01:09.Please welcome a man with a spring in his step, gold medal long jumper,
:01:10. > :01:15.Greg Rutherford. Good evening, Greg. How are you? He is very happy.
:01:15. > :01:21.is a handsome brute. They told me, he looks a bit like Chris. You
:01:21. > :01:27.don't. You can look a bit more like Chris, they go. I can't see. I was
:01:27. > :01:30.blind for a minute. We have some breaking news, do we? Breaking news
:01:30. > :01:34.regarding break leading athletics. Go. It has been blown out of
:01:34. > :01:39.proportion. All I am going to do was run a couple of hundred metres.
:01:39. > :01:44.I am not quitting athletics or the long jump. I am going to run. I
:01:44. > :01:51.like the idea of breaking into the relay team. The whole story is that
:01:51. > :01:57.you are going to attempt to be part of the 2016100 metres relay team?
:01:57. > :02:02.Yes. Possibly doing a European, a Commonwealth Games, but I like the
:02:02. > :02:10.idea of both. I started as a sprinter. I thought, do a bit more.
:02:10. > :02:17.Do you know the rules of the lake? -- relay. There is a lot of
:02:17. > :02:21.pressure on the guise' shoulders. Relay was built up. We were quick?
:02:21. > :02:26.It was cutting. I shared an apartment with all four of the guys.
:02:26. > :02:33.We share a room. They were really confident, feeling good. It just
:02:33. > :02:38.did not go well. I was gutted for them. They need you. I don't know.
:02:38. > :02:43.The one of them will not be saying that! We don't need him! Let's move
:02:43. > :02:46.on to roundabouts. Is it true that Milton Keynes are going to name
:02:46. > :02:51.around about after you? This is what I am hearing. I don't know yet
:02:51. > :02:55.but rumour has it. We have some pictures of roundabouts in Milton
:02:55. > :03:00.Keynes. We thought we would ask you to spot the roundabout and tell us
:03:00. > :03:07.which part of Milton Keynes it is in. Geri it's a fire has been used
:03:07. > :03:12.a lot over the last fortnight's. -- Chariots of Fire. Where is this
:03:12. > :03:17.first Milton Keynes round about, please come a break? That looks
:03:17. > :03:25.close to the Open University, but I might be wrong. It might be Kents
:03:25. > :03:30.Hill. That is right! Let's move on to round about number two. Where is
:03:30. > :03:39.this one? Milton Keynes again, of course. It looks like the opening
:03:39. > :03:45.ceremony. That is close to the centre of Milton Keynes. It is
:03:45. > :03:53.heading towards Campbell Park? North's accent. North Saxon Street.
:03:53. > :03:57.I know it has an area. I don't study roundabouts! If you get the
:03:57. > :04:04.third, you were on the podium. at the third one, it is quite
:04:04. > :04:11.difficult. It looks like the other one. It does. It is sunnier. Named
:04:11. > :04:16.after a famous cartoon family. this the Simpsons? The Simpson
:04:16. > :04:22.roundabout! Derry good. We should do that all night! Which one would
:04:22. > :04:27.you prefer? Which would I prefer? You don't have to answer. I don't
:04:27. > :04:31.have a favourite. We will have more searching questions. A week on, the
:04:31. > :04:34.whole country continues to be impressed by the dedication and
:04:34. > :04:40.determination shown by it all of the team G medallists at the
:04:40. > :04:45.Olympics. Alex Riley has been dying to put together his special tribute.
:04:45. > :04:48.Yesterday, we offered him the chance and he came up with this.
:04:48. > :04:54.The great golden postbox marathon and it is brilliant.
:04:54. > :04:57.It is just before seven am and I am about to played tribute to the
:04:57. > :05:01.heroics of Team GB with a road trip of Olympic proportions. I am
:05:01. > :05:07.sending each of my favourite gold medal winners my personal grudge
:05:07. > :05:12.relations, not from my local post Broxtowe. -- congratulations. But
:05:12. > :05:17.from that golden postbox in the medallists' home towns. This is
:05:17. > :05:21.going to be epic! Where better to begin than Chawleigh, in Lancashire.
:05:21. > :05:28.Home to the most famous pair of sideburns in Britain, Bradley
:05:28. > :05:32.Wiggins. What an inspiration. Just days after becoming the first Brit
:05:32. > :05:39.to win the Tour de France, you go and show as epic endurance. You are
:05:39. > :05:47.a hero! COMMENTATOR: Bradley Wiggins is the Olympic champion.
:05:47. > :05:55.Thanks for making sideburns socially acceptable once again.
:05:55. > :05:59.Next stop, Edinburgh. Home Sir Chris Hoy. Sir Chris Hoy, the way
:05:59. > :06:03.you smashed the opposition to win your 6th gold medal, it was
:06:03. > :06:11.inspirational. And the sight of you crying on the podium made me sob
:06:11. > :06:15.like a baby at home. Best wishes, Alex Riley. Next stop, Teesside,
:06:15. > :06:20.home of Katherine Copeland, one of the winners of the women's
:06:20. > :06:24.lightweight double sculls., Tade they are the Olympic champions.
:06:24. > :06:30.is not just me who has an Olympic finger. The whole country does not
:06:30. > :06:35.want to let go of that fantastic feeling. It is a monument. To have
:06:35. > :06:40.somebody. We are part of it now, aren't we? It is our bit and we
:06:40. > :06:50.have the photographs to prove it. Katherine Copeland. You are going
:06:50. > :06:53.
:06:53. > :06:58.to be on a stamp tomorrow. Yes, you one out on a stamp! Next stop,
:06:58. > :07:04.Sheffield, home to Jessica Ennis. COMMENTATOR: Here goes Jessica.
:07:04. > :07:07.Dearest Jessica, what can I say? You made me very, very proud.
:07:07. > :07:13.now it -- nice to know that somebody from Sheffield can do that.
:07:13. > :07:17.Look at that picture. That is what it means to Sheffield. Perfect.
:07:17. > :07:23.Everyone wants their picture taken next to this postbox. It will be a
:07:23. > :07:33.landmark for years to come. Jessica! Congratulations and best
:07:33. > :07:33.
:07:34. > :07:40.wishes from Alex Riley. Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss. I am tired and a little
:07:40. > :07:46.bit emotional, but I am about to reach my final destination. It has
:07:46. > :07:53.been a very long day, one BoKlok in the morning. I am exhausted. Here
:07:54. > :07:57.is the final postbox on my journey, for Mo Farah in west London. It is
:07:57. > :08:04.a double gold medallist and a double postbox. COMMENTATOR: Mo
:08:04. > :08:08.Farah, it is cold! Dear Mo Farah, you produced two of the most golden
:08:08. > :08:14.moment. Thank you for such special memories. All the best, Alex Riley.
:08:15. > :08:20.I think it is safe to say I have missed the last post.
:08:20. > :08:26.A good effort. A good effort. hours, north to south, well done.
:08:26. > :08:30.You have not won, but two postboxes painted gold in your honour. I am
:08:30. > :08:33.not sure how it happened. There were two next to each other and
:08:33. > :08:38.they thought they would do two. would be a bit tight to leave one
:08:38. > :08:43.red. They might become joint, Siamese postboxes. Aren't they
:08:43. > :08:48.joined up? I think there is a gap in the middle. I drove past them
:08:48. > :08:52.the other day, quickly. quickly? Not speeding. Just to see
:08:52. > :08:56.where they were because I was not sure. Shall we talk about his kit?
:08:56. > :09:02.We were talking about it in the film, asking how many T-shirts you
:09:02. > :09:09.have. This is the official RGB kit in the Games. How many T-shirts?
:09:09. > :09:14.Around about ten or 12 or so. Team GB, so you knew who was there and
:09:14. > :09:18.part of the team, you had either a blue date or a white day, so you
:09:18. > :09:23.had to alternate between those two. You have told us you can't way
:09:23. > :09:28.yours again? No, due to sponsorship reasons. Mind gets put in a back
:09:28. > :09:34.and into storage. Guess who has put in a bid? We had a bit of
:09:34. > :09:38.negotiation. Early stages. He is thinking about it. The other kit,
:09:38. > :09:43.your sponsor's kit, you will see it soon because you are competing
:09:43. > :09:47.soon? I am in Birmingham next weekend at the diamond lead. We
:09:47. > :09:52.have two Diamond Leagues left. We have Crystal Palace, just before
:09:52. > :09:55.the Olympics, which people watched. I could not jump them. But I will
:09:56. > :10:01.jump in Birmingham. Haven't you celebrated yet? You haven't had a
:10:01. > :10:05.party? Not really. One night I met up with a few people and we went
:10:05. > :10:10.out for a little while, but I nipped out for half an hour --
:10:10. > :10:14.half-an-hour here and there. are in the middle of Peking. Yes,
:10:14. > :10:18.the way the Olympics fell, it was right in the middle of the season.
:10:18. > :10:22.Normally it is the end of August or September. This time it was the end
:10:22. > :10:27.of July and the start of August. You are in Birmingham next weekend,
:10:27. > :10:32.it is sold out. Mo Farah is there. The good weather forecast. A 17,000
:10:32. > :10:35.seater stadium and I hear it is sold out. There will be plenty of
:10:36. > :10:41.British athletes there from the Olympics. Let's hope it goes as
:10:41. > :10:48.well as Super Saturday. It could be Super Sunday. You have never seen
:10:48. > :10:58.this clip slowed down to Chariots of Fire. Here we go. Here we go,
:10:58. > :11:14.
:11:14. > :11:21.Look at this. There he goes, the That is quite useful, for technique,
:11:21. > :11:26.it is quite useful. We can make a copy of it for you. I would like it.
:11:26. > :11:30.How is it humanly possible to jump that far? To be honest, I have no
:11:30. > :11:35.idea! I just found out one day I could jump and went with it.
:11:35. > :11:39.Excellent. Shall we give you, I know they are rushing us, but we
:11:39. > :11:46.have a treat for you. Here is some of the cakes that he baked,
:11:46. > :11:49.honestly. Say you go. What are these? The cake and the cup cakes
:11:49. > :11:58.are the same. It is different coloured mixtures put together,
:11:58. > :12:05.turned into party cakes. Your bait those cakes? Yes. We have got you,
:12:05. > :12:13.it is handy, we have to ginger men. This is great. Shall we have great
:12:13. > :12:23.running and jumping? Can we play the Chariots of Fire music? It is a
:12:23. > :12:25.
:12:25. > :12:29.bit rigid. Go on. It is a good job I did not land like that. I could
:12:29. > :12:36.have heard myself up. When the neighbours of Laura Trott wanted to
:12:36. > :12:40.hold a street party to welcome her back home, to Cheshunt, in hot
:12:40. > :12:44.picture, they did not expect they would have to enact a law dating
:12:44. > :12:47.from 1847 to make it happen. Yes, Lucy is there. It has been a
:12:47. > :12:52.struggle to get this party off the ground?
:12:52. > :12:56.Yes, it has, because you have to apply for a licence and that means
:12:56. > :13:01.you have to wait weeks at heart Thatcher originally said no, then
:13:01. > :13:06.the local council managed to find the Victorian law and anyway, here
:13:06. > :13:11.we are. It has been invoked. The neighbours are so keen to give
:13:11. > :13:16.Laura are really good celebratory night tonight. He we are, it is
:13:16. > :13:20.very exciting. Come over and let's speak to Laura and find out how she
:13:20. > :13:25.is feeling. I am enjoying themselves? Hello, everybody. It is
:13:25. > :13:30.so exciting. Maura, this is for you. How do you feel? It is amazing, I
:13:30. > :13:35.am so glad people came out. look embarrassed. It is all your
:13:35. > :13:39.friends and family and neighbours. I can't believe it, I actually card.
:13:39. > :13:43.Double gold medallist, will you get used to that phrase? Probably not.
:13:43. > :13:49.It is thanks to all these people here that I have these two now.
:13:49. > :13:54.Exactly, you are sharing with them. Lovely. I can't help but notice
:13:54. > :13:58.that Jason Kenny is next to you. Really, this is a four gold medal
:13:58. > :14:06.scenario. This is a world first, surely. Amazing. How are you
:14:06. > :14:11.feeling tonight? Also looking faintly embarrassed because you are
:14:11. > :14:16.dating but it is a bit cringe worthy of me to bring that up. Four
:14:16. > :14:21.gold medals, amazing. A quick word with your dad, one of the proudest
:14:21. > :14:26.fathers in the UK. How you feeling? Pretty good. I am glad it is going
:14:26. > :14:32.off now. He where a master of understatement. Fantastic. We have
:14:32. > :14:37.a surprise for you, Laura Trott. We have John and George, your teachers
:14:38. > :14:43.from school. One more thing, Julian, Julian from the Post Office,
:14:43. > :14:49.quickly hand them over. We have got your official stamps. Quickly,
:14:49. > :14:53.let's see them. Oh, look at that! Let's get this party started.
:14:53. > :14:58.Congratulations to you. Congratulations, Laura, what an
:14:58. > :15:02.honour. What tonight they are going to have. You have that to come in -
:15:02. > :15:08.- when you finish in Birmingham. hope so. You have another
:15:08. > :15:11.competition after then? I have another three. Ade is here now. It
:15:11. > :15:15.is 12 days to go until the Paralympics and with over two
:15:15. > :15:19.million tickets sold, they will be great. Take us through a preview.
:15:19. > :15:23.They will be awesome. Everybody was uplifted by the Olympics but they
:15:23. > :15:31.are going to be totally blown away by the Paralympics. In Beijing, the
:15:31. > :15:36.Team GB won 102 medals and 42 gold medals. 4,200 of the greatest
:15:36. > :15:42.athletes are coming to Stratford. They are hoping to be second on the
:15:42. > :15:46.table, are they? To beat Team GB? Do you think that is possible? Who
:15:46. > :15:51.are the best hopes? It is definitely possible to get second
:15:51. > :15:56.again. I am going to look out for the basketball team. They are close
:15:56. > :16:01.to my heart. Of course you are. have got to the finals and semi-
:16:01. > :16:05.finals, but we are yet to win gold and I watched Greg winning his gold
:16:05. > :16:09.and I saw the crowd getting behind him. If our crowd can get behind
:16:09. > :16:12.the basketball team in London, I am sure they will do us proud. What
:16:12. > :16:18.about some of the more obscure events that will take place? There
:16:18. > :16:22.is a sport you may not have heard of called boccia. Boccia is for
:16:22. > :16:28.athletes with cerebral palsy and locomotive impairments. Impairments
:16:28. > :16:33.to the movements of their arms and legs. It is similar to Bulls. They
:16:33. > :16:38.have to throw it. They had six balls each and they try to get it
:16:38. > :16:44.as close to the jack as possible. Boris Johnson is a massive fan. But
:16:44. > :16:47.there is also hand cycling. It is one of the fastest growing sports
:16:47. > :16:54.in Paralympics. You see the Paralympic champion, Rachel Morris,
:16:54. > :16:58.there. You cycle with your hands, you get up to 27 years. You can get
:16:58. > :17:03.40 miles an hour in those things. A great story about hand cycling,
:17:03. > :17:07.Alex Ramadi, the former F1 driver lost his legs in a car accident in
:17:08. > :17:17.Germany and now he is going to be competing in the Paralympics for
:17:18. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:27.Italy in hand cycling -- Alex Will there be more tickets are
:17:27. > :17:30.released? Hopefully as time goes on, but get on the 2012 website. I
:17:30. > :17:35.would say go on late at night when there are less people on the
:17:35. > :17:40.website. 400,000 tickets are not available yet, they will be drip-
:17:40. > :17:46.fed out. That's right. For the athletics, swimming, basketball.
:17:46. > :17:51.And get to the park, because it is beautiful. Hopefully Greg and the
:17:51. > :17:59.Olympians have left it in one piece. I think the TVs were still there,
:17:59. > :18:03.when I left! I was just saying keep it tidy, you have taken the TVs!
:18:03. > :18:06.Have a fantastic Paralympics. Yesterday the world was told that
:18:06. > :18:11.one of the most famous ships in history, the SS Terra Nova, had
:18:11. > :18:15.been discovered off the coast of green land. The ship that set sail
:18:15. > :18:20.from Cardiff to Antarctica at carrying Captain Scott had been
:18:20. > :18:26.lost since 1943. Arthur Smith has been back to Cardiff to join in a
:18:26. > :18:32.celebration making the start of Captain Scott's famous expedition.
:18:32. > :18:36.Captain Robert Falcon Scott, a true pitch -- British hero whose face --
:18:36. > :18:40.perseverance in the face of adversity was given a special place
:18:40. > :18:44.in our history. It is now over 100 years since his final tragic
:18:44. > :18:50.expedition to Antarctica. In Cardiff they have a particular
:18:50. > :18:53.reason to remember his spirit of adventure. Scott set sail from the
:18:53. > :18:58.city in 1910, hoping to be the first to reach the South Pole.
:18:58. > :19:03.Cardiff was chosen as the departure point because its businessmen had
:19:04. > :19:09.contributed much to the expedition. It is also where a special product
:19:09. > :19:12.called Crown patent fuel was made. It was a great feel for ships
:19:12. > :19:16.because it could be easily stacked, it did not take up as much space as
:19:16. > :19:22.loose cold. It was great for burning in cold climates because it
:19:22. > :19:28.did not take in water. And it was the fuel of choice for the
:19:28. > :19:34.Antarctic expeditions. The ship picked up 300 tonnes of the fuel in
:19:34. > :19:38.the port, a massive amount. Now the expedition was ready to go. Before
:19:38. > :19:44.they set off on their epic voyage, Scott and his officers were treated
:19:44. > :19:48.to a farewell dinner in this hotel. It was a grand banquet, laid on by
:19:48. > :19:52.the local businessman who supported it. Every year, the banquet is
:19:52. > :19:56.restaged by the Captain Scott Society. I am going to join them as
:19:56. > :20:02.they celebrate the expedition's links to Cardiff and the courage of
:20:02. > :20:11.their hero. Chef Spiro Borg has the task of preparing this feast. This
:20:11. > :20:15.is a formidable menu, there are 11 dishes. It is slightly condensed
:20:15. > :20:21.nowadays and we mix a couple of the courses together. It wouldn't score
:20:21. > :20:25.any points if you were on a diet or if you're a vegetarian. Know. In
:20:25. > :20:30.its entirety you are probably getting 6,000 calories. About three
:20:30. > :20:37.times your daily allowance with any one meal. Full of butter, cream,
:20:37. > :20:45.eggs. News of ham in aspic. It is a traditional dish were for want of a
:20:45. > :20:50.better word, it would be like a pate, made out of a clear stock.
:20:50. > :20:54.Aspic is the jelly that holds the dish together. Spiro Borg makes by
:20:54. > :20:59.mixing the ham, vegetables, gelatine and stock. Wanstead
:20:59. > :21:03.together, it is left to set. Also on the menu is beef fillet turnover,
:21:03. > :21:09.named after the ship, and a huge dessert called south pole ice
:21:09. > :21:13.pudding. The finishing touches are added to the dining room, the
:21:13. > :21:21.guests arrive and the quartet play some of the music that Scott would
:21:21. > :21:29.have heard in 1910. Here is Spiro Borg's news of ham in aspic. It has
:21:29. > :21:32.said very well. It is very good. Meaty. Walls the food on the
:21:32. > :21:36.expedition was not as extravagant as this, for much of the time the
:21:36. > :21:41.men ate well. The problems arose once they left base camp to get to
:21:41. > :21:45.the south pole. Society member Julian Salisbury explains more.
:21:45. > :21:50.main problem was that the diet he planned was totally deficient in
:21:50. > :21:55.all respects. They were eating something like 4,500 calories a day.
:21:55. > :22:00.With that hard work at altitude, in the cold, dragging sledges, they
:22:00. > :22:09.needed maybe 8,000 calories a day. The meal draws to a close with the
:22:09. > :22:15.south pole eyes pudding. Very Two days after the meal, the
:22:15. > :22:19.expedition set sail from this dock here. It would take Scott 19
:22:19. > :22:23.gruelling months to get to the south pole. But he was beaten to it
:22:23. > :22:28.by a Norwegian team who got there a month earlier. Disappointed and
:22:28. > :22:33.dejected, Scott and the team returned to base, fighting off
:22:34. > :22:38.frostbite, exhaustion and hunger. Some died on the way, but Scott and
:22:38. > :22:42.the survivors carried on into the huge storm -- until a huge storm
:22:42. > :22:45.stopped their progress. They died malnourished, just 11 miles from a
:22:45. > :22:50.store food that might have saved their lives.
:22:50. > :22:54.There is more information about Scott's ship, the SS Terra Nova,
:22:54. > :22:58.one our website. They say that a heatwave is on the
:22:58. > :23:05.cards for this weekend and next weekend, for Greg and his athletics
:23:05. > :23:15.in Birmingham. We haven't seen his medal. Can you get it out? There
:23:15. > :23:19.you go. A little rippled for the medal. Back to the heat, this hot
:23:19. > :23:24.weather is particularly good news he if you are an aphid scientist.
:23:24. > :23:30.Surely you knew that. We don't associate Britain with
:23:30. > :23:36.plagues, but in living memory, we have been under attack from massive
:23:36. > :23:42.swarms of marauding insects. 1979, the opening of a oil rig and the
:23:42. > :23:47.emergency services had to step in. But this wasn't a one-off. In 2011,
:23:47. > :23:54.even Wimbledon was besieged. And what is this monster? It is one of
:23:54. > :23:59.these. The common garden green fire, or a food. Seemingly they are not
:23:59. > :24:04.that frightening a prospect, but each one is a prodigious breeder,
:24:04. > :24:09.giving young to -- birth to Young's already pregnant with another
:24:09. > :24:13.generation inside them. -- to young who are already pregnant. Over the
:24:13. > :24:20.course of one year this could result in enough ravenous box to
:24:20. > :24:24.cover the Earth 150 kilometres deep. -- ravenous bugs. Now you have
:24:24. > :24:29.cause for concern. Traditionally the people you think of as most
:24:30. > :24:34.fearing the aphid would be Rose gardeners. Just imagine being
:24:34. > :24:39.responsible for 14,000 plants. Andy Godley is the head Gardener at the
:24:39. > :24:42.Royal Rose Society. Imagine you are not a great fan of aphids, are you?
:24:42. > :24:48.One day you can have one, the next day you have two or three, within a
:24:48. > :24:53.week you can have a biblical population. What do they do to the
:24:53. > :24:59.rose bush? They suck all the sap, they caused the buds to be deformed,
:24:59. > :25:03.they can be bad news for roses. not just roses. In a normal year,
:25:03. > :25:09.most gardeners would be troubled by aphids, but in a plague year,
:25:09. > :25:14.everyone has serious cause for concern. It is not just the fact
:25:14. > :25:19.that a fits suck sap that harms crop, is it? The -- that aphids
:25:19. > :25:22.sucks up. Worse than that they are extremely efficient at pumping
:25:22. > :25:26.viruses into plants that can be devastating. Potentially how much
:25:26. > :25:35.could you lose through a food borne viruses? The worst-case scenario
:25:35. > :25:39.you could lose 60%. Dr Richard Harrington has calculated that a
:25:39. > :25:45.bad aphid year could cost agriculture up to one-hundredth
:25:45. > :25:52.million pounds. Luckily, Richard and his team are on constant watch
:25:52. > :25:56.for a fit invasion and employ an early warning system of 12-metre of
:25:56. > :26:03.vacuum tracks that are whirring away across the country, to protect
:26:03. > :26:07.crops against this airborne threat. From Inverness to Exeter, this is
:26:07. > :26:12.Britain's last line of defence from airborne invasion. It is basically
:26:12. > :26:18.an upside-down vacuum? That is exactly what it is. All of the
:26:18. > :26:22.insects are sucked down that tube and end up in this? They do. There
:26:22. > :26:28.is all sorts of stuff in there, midges, flies, Beatles, spiders,
:26:28. > :26:36.and of course, aphids. Somebody has the job of finding out exactly what
:26:36. > :26:41.is in there. Rather you than me. The of the 600 native aphid species
:26:41. > :26:45.in Britain, only around 30 have the potential to carry potential
:26:45. > :26:49.dangerous cross viruses. It is these that Richard and his team are
:26:49. > :26:53.counting and recording every day. What is the practical value of
:26:53. > :26:57.this? By giving farmers warnings as to where and when they are likely
:26:57. > :27:02.to be a problem, they are only needing to spray if there is likely
:27:02. > :27:08.to be a problem in their particular area. Richard and his team's
:27:08. > :27:16.research also 0.2 when we might next expect an aphid plague. Like
:27:16. > :27:22.in 1979 and 2011. Both those years were preceded by a cold winter. And
:27:22. > :27:25.followed by a dry summer. There we have it. The aphid is a prodigious
:27:25. > :27:35.breeder reviled by gardeners and likely to invade whenever next we
:27:35. > :27:35.
:27:35. > :27:39.have a long, hot summer. Unlike this year's exceptionally wet one.
:27:39. > :27:42.And thankfully, continually monitored by a team of scientists
:27:42. > :27:46.and their early warning system, keeping the nation safe from
:27:46. > :27:53.invasion. Good work! On behalf of gardeners
:27:53. > :27:57.and farmers, thank you to the Rothamsted scientists. Thank you to
:27:57. > :28:00.Greg, our Olympic hero. What are your plans for the next four or
:28:00. > :28:04.five years? World championships next year in Russia, the
:28:04. > :28:08.Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. China and another World
:28:08. > :28:15.Championships. Another Olympics, might as well. Them back into