19/07/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker... And Alex Jones.

Tonight, the ultimate multi-tasker That is the true competitor!

Tonight, we are joined by Daley Thompson. Yes! Brilliant! Thank you

for coming in. We will start with the burning question. Have you had

the phone call? Will you be lighting the flame at the opening

ceremony of the Olympic Games? have not had the phone call and I

hope no one else has. On the whole, this wonderful lady in Derby is

holding the torch. She had a tattoo to commemorate the occasion. It was

not quite as successful. He was Irish, clearly! I have no tattoos.

Do you have any? I do not have any. That is not what I heard! The floor

manager was mentioning it. We will be talking more about the Olympics

later with Daley Thompson. With all the horror stories we hear about

their ECGs scams fraudsters used to get add cash, you would think we

would be pretty sad day when it comes to -- savvy when it comes to

PIN numbers. Banking and credit card scams cost us �341 million

last year. Criminals are always trying to find ways of getting

their hands on our money. There is a brand new scam about which starts

with a phone call, allegedly from your bank. What follows is an

elaborate and sophisticated con. The victim hands bank cards and

details straight to the criminal. One victim is vulgar. She got a

call claiming to be from her credit card company. We have to advise you

there has been an attempt to take �500 from your account, which we

think is suspicious. I said, that is definitely a fraud. She was

hooked. Then came lie after lie. She heard that two of her credit

cards had been stolen. They gave a number to ring. Have you she was

talking to them again, giving them a valuable bit of information. --

she was. You gave your PIN number across on the phone. Yes, I did.

The cards were not dead. The fraudsters took the audacious step

of physically removing the cards. Banks normally tell you to cut up

cards. Based burn a very convincing but different story. -- they spun

her. They have said, you can tell a lot from the card. It would be

useful for our security people to have a look at your card. I was

100% believing them. I did not doubt it. This CCTV shows the

career arrived 10 minutes later to collect the cards. The police do

not know if this was legitimate orach she came face to face with a

gang member. With the cards in their possession, they headed to

the West failed shopping centre and began a �17,000 shopping spree. No

one has been arrested for this crime. She is certainly not the

only one to have been fooled by the scam. Three-quarters of a million

pounds was stolen using this column. These are caught on camera spending

�1,400 on designer handbags and accessories. We have CCTV footage

of the suspects using the cards. That will be circulated. Hopefully

someone will know that person and bonus up and tell us who it is.

criminal start with key information - maybe a name or phone number.

Where do they get that from? There are a number of sources. They are

referred to by criminals as a sucker list. Detective

Superintendent Paul Barnett heads up the team on the trail for

financial fraudsters. They can get details from a number of sources.

They can be used weeks, months later. People can feel a bit

frightened. The solution is, do not allow the phone call to continue.

It will not be your bank. I always felt perfectly safe in my home. I

had shredders and the safe and as many locks on one door. In your own

home, all this money has gone. Criminals will always come up with

devious ways to try to get access to your bank accounts. There really

is the way to beat them. A bank will never send someone round to

your house to pick up cards. A credit card provider or bank will

never ask for your PIN number. If someone calls asking for it, hang

up on them. She got her money back. Are all victims as successful?

got �17,000 back, which is great. If you are genuinely a victim of

fraud, the bank or credit card provider have to give you your

money back. If they can argue you have been negligent, they may well

not. It goes on a case-by-case basis. If you are unsuccessful you

can appeal by going to be financial Ombudsman, which is free. If you

have no joy, you can take it to the courts. What has been done about

this? There are specialist teams to identify the criminal networks. It

is UK-wide problem. There have been arrests. There have been 10

convictions lately. Even though I'll Go is so security-conscious,

you can see how she fell for it. -- Olga. There is a pop up on the

computer which says your security has been compromised, so you have

to download this piece of software and it is all your details. People

will post accommodation online for the Olympics. There is no such the

Trust. Try to read reviews and check it exists. -- address. If it

sounds too good to be true, it probably is. You give lots of

advice on how we can protect ourselves. These ladies have taken

it to a whole new level. There they are. We do not know who that is. If

that is you, e-mail us. If you do want to trigger of memories, there

is nothing like going back to a first school. That is why the

regularly send famous people back to where they were brought up.

Tonight it is the turn of Richard Madeley. My name is Richard Madeley

and this is my street, Rush Green, Romford, Essex. It is where I was

born and where I spent the first 13 years of my life. I thought we were

really lucky because we had a bus stop right outside the front door.

I would go by train to the East End of London. I would get straight of

the birth and walked in through the front door. I hated it. -- straight

off the bus. Oh, wow! It is much smaller than I remember. Bedroom...

Oh, wow! On the road, I felt 10. In my own bedroom, I feel about three.

I feel tiny. I do remember I used to build little faults with pillows.

All the pillows from the bedroom and built a fort. Where my sister

tried to come upstairs, I would keep her back. -- wane. I was about

three, four. This was the room I was never allowed to enter a - my

sister's bedroom. In-your-face, lose! My mother was terrific. She

was an archetypal 1960s mum. She was always in high heels and was

making herself pretty for dad when he came home from work. My dad

would wear a suit whatever he was doing. He would wear a suit for

work and when he came home he would change into a more comfortable suit

and when he would dip the gardening he had a garden seat. He did not

experience much love. -- suit. He did not have a muddle about have to

be a father. Everything he knew about that came from my mum. -- a

model. I was born about 1:00pm on a sunny, Sunday afternoon. Wow! They

used to be the beautiful laburnum tree that my mother loved. She used

to say it only blossomed the week of my birthday. It was true.

Something else that has long gone is our garden shed. There was an

interlude in my child had come up between the age of nine and 10,

when my father decided corporal punishment was the way forward. He

took to using a stick to chastise me when I did something which

annoyed him or irritated him. The first time it happened, we were in

the back room. He told me to wait while he went and got something. He

got a big bamboo pole out. The reason the show it is prominent is

its great on the ground when the door opened. -- the shed. I can

still hear that the noise. It was the cue for me to feel fear. It was

not unusual for children to be hit in the 60s. It was accepted. He hit

me too hard. There is no doubt about that. It is a revolt that

that happened. The period running up to it and after it were fine.

When it stopped because my mother got to realise what was going on,

he took me to one side and made a really humble apology and I forgave

him. I discovered that forgiveness is the glue that keeps families

together. We all make mistakes. If you can forgive, you can move on.

To this very day, I love him very Thank you to Richard for making

that film. We will talk about your sporting career later on, but did

you always want to be an athlete? When I was young I wanted to be a

footballer. I went down to my local club. I was 13 or 14 and had a

great time down there and stayed. That was from the year dot? Yes, I

was always wanting to be good at something and it was bought.

rider children showing any potential? The 19 year-old is and

the ten-year-old, they both like rugby. What do they think when they

see you Olympic medals first Denmark I gave them away to my

training partners about 25 years ago. My youngest have never seen

them. I said I would get them back. Do you wish you still had them?

I can go back and get them. When you look back at the Olympics, are

you still pleased you took part in the decathlon or do you think you

might have been better or had a longer career in a different

discipline? I think it would have been easier to be a 100 metre

runner, but I would not have been able to be the best. For me I did

not care what it was, I would have been happy to be the best batsman

in the world, but the decathlon it was what I was best at. We have got

a treat for you. I will be the judge of that. You spent you're

early years up until the age of seven in west London and some of

the locals have fond memories of your achievements. The he was

always running. He never walked. Whether he was going up the street,

and no-one was chasing him, he was a born athlete. I went to nursery

with them at the corner there. I was a much slimmer girl. You just

have to mention his name around this area, and everyone gets

excited about it. He is probably one of the best athletes ever. Not

just in this country, but in the world. In our area we have got some

flats named after him because he is a hero. I lived in Daley Thompson

house over 20 years. Everybody would say he is one of our own and

he is a true Olympic champion. world records, two Olympic gold

medals. He was a role model for us because he was young and good-

looking -- looking and went to different countries and was one of

the first superstars as far as I was concerned. I loved Daley

Thompson, he was a bit more gritty than Sebastian Coe. A remember his

smile. There is nothing he did not win. If it was there to be one, he

would win it. 100 metres sprint. Long jump. Shot putt. High jump.

400 metres. 110 metre hurdles. Discuss. Pole-vault. Javelin.

metres. Daley Thompson was for real. What do you make of that first

Denmark where did you find those crazy people with long memories?

cannot believe people think about me like that. It is a bit

embarrassing. You said you had goose bumps throughout that. Yes.

You still hold the British record for the decathlon. Let's remind

ourselves of the heights and distances you covered. We are going

to use the stage set. 2.11 is the height of this plasmid. That is the

high jump. This is the long term. Can you go to 8.11. Look at that.

That is remarkable. Shall we remind ourselves how high you could pole

vault? Look into reception. That high. What about that? Plus, of

course, seven more events, and this is how you left the opposition.

This is the finish line for the 1500 metres in Athens. Remarkable.

Your rivalry with Jurgen Hingsen was legendary in the 1980s. We have

got a brilliant picture of you too. What were you saying to him? I was

mentioning that he has got plenty of room. He is working at the

Olympic Games for a German station and we had a few meals and we are

good friends now. Obviously, it was difficult to be mates when we were

both after the same thing when I was younger. Was it quite tense?

was not violent or anything, but it was very intense because of world

records and major championships being very important. Daniel Awde

is doing the decathlon. Have you had a word with him? No, but he is

being trained by my old training partner and he is an unbelievable

coach. If he can get into the top 10, he will be doing very well for

himself. Does he have one of the medals? Yes, he does. And Jessica

Ennis is the female equivalent. is brilliant, she has been world

champion, but she has had a couple of defeats. But I think that is a

good thing in that now she knows what she is up against and it is

not going to be easy. She has come out and already done a personal

best, show -- so she is in with a good chance. Tonight you are

kicking off a light show around the London Eye and it is going to

depict what people think about the Olympics, reflecting people's

tweeting. It is all to do with the energy of the nation comet EDF

Electric. They have been to the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology and have come up with some algorithms that can read

tweets and they can get a positive and the negative. So when they send

a tweet over the course of the Olympic Games, they will be able to

see how positive it is. In the last couple of months it has been 62%

positive. At the moment it has peaked at about 73% about a month

ago when Bobby Charlton was carrying the Olympic flame. I am

hoping for the first time we will be able to see what the emotion is

of the nation around the country. And they can also do it region at

specific. The region that has not been tweeting about the Olympics

has been Wales. So, sorted out. Don't you go on about Wales. Now it

is time to go back to the Ashby Canal in Leicestershire for a day

four of summer holiday watch. Ashby Canal runs for 22 miles in

Leicestershire and close to the top eight crosses a river. For aquatic

mammals river and canal junctions offer them twice the amount of

space to forage in and this is the perfect spot to look for a rather

elusive resident. Otters are nocturnal and very shy, but under

the bridge there are some great signs they are around. Those are

some of the best prints I have seen in my life. What do you reckon that

might be? It is poo. And if we take a closer look it can tell as even

more about the otter who lives here. Do we know what they eat for

breakfast, lunch and dinner? they eat baby more hens? We will

find out. As we are not sure what is in it, we are using very long

tweezers. What do you think? That looks like part of a stage. You are

really good. That is a fish scale. Is that a worm? No, it is an animal

called a crayfish. It looks like a short lobster. What has it had?

Fish and crayfish. Good detective work, you can learn a lot from Pru.

It you like watching water birds, then canals in the summer have to

be the ticket. I have just found a nest with the most adorable chicks.

I will have to show the family. Yes, it is a moorhen nest. Can you see

that chicks? Just about, a little head popping out. What can you see?

I can see them up with the baby. is the most amazing nest made out

up a pile of brambles. That his daddy and he is collecting the

worms and he is coming over and feeding the chicks. From the moment

they hatch, more handshakes are able to plop into the water. They

are straight into the water. Moorhen chicks. What do they look

like? They look like balls of fluff. There he is back into the field to

get some more food. Nature is just amazing. These get my vote as the

best parents on the canal. Long stretches of water and the

tunnels make canal's the perfect habitat for one particular animal.

I am sticking them out with grandad, Pete. Have you ever seen bats

before? Yes, they are usually quite high as you look up. We are going

to look for a true water bats and we should see them if we are really

lucky, flying over the water, catching insects. They loved these

tunnels that the canals are so famous for. Hey, look at that. I

have brought some toys to help us. A bat detector which will allow us

to hear them and some night-vision cameras so we can see them in the

dark. There is one. They are flying right in the middle, straight down

the barrel. That is great. They hunt Melo over the water in search

of insects and was sometimes scoop up prey from the surface with their

feet. With the bat detector you can hear them before you see them. Over

the course of the week, we are realising what a great place they

are by the backs. It is something we never thought was there, but we

should look in different places in the future for a wildlife. You are

never go through a tunnel again without thinking about looking for

a bat. Daley Thompson is a happy man,

because he has been wanting to see the canal thumb. You were glued to

that. I loved the wildlife, but once when I was a kid I went on a

canal holiday, I was only about six or seven, and we went from London

to Birmingham. It was a week and it was fantastic. I can imagine you

punting along with a Pol Pot! the back of the Olympics is the

Paralympics, which will be covered by BBC five live and Channel 4 and

they have put a striking trail together, describing the

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paralympians as super humans. Watch Very good. Has that whet your

appetite? I actually sold this this morning and I was watching re-runs