23/05/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show. Joy and in us tonight is a woman

who was cashing up a bar aged 11. She was doing the rounds in an ice-

cream van aged 15. Then she worked in a vet's before signing up for

the RAF. Now she has brought straight-talking and power dressing

to the Dragons Den. Please welcome Hilary Devey!

You are looking incredible, it has to be said, absolutely gorgeous.

Now obviously, we understand you want to go into politics as well.

always have. It has always been on my agenda of things I want to

achieve. A if Mr Cameron came knocking now, how would you fix the

economy? First of all I would incentivises small and medium

enterprises. I would also incentivises entrepreneurs. We know

he watches. On a lighter note, we are also going to celebrate your

other passion which is fashion. We want to know if you have got a

power dresser like Hilary in your household. We would like to see

your photos and we will show some of the most powerful shoulder pads

and all but later on. Send it to the usual address. For those with a

broad band, I am sure the sound will be a blast from the past:

INTERNET DIAL UP TONE for a group of residents in rural Lancashire it

is something they seem to be stuck with. They decided to do something

about it. A strange hole has been appearing

across the Lancashire countryside. Well, the Earth has been dug up but

it does not look like your average workman's sight. There are no

orange cones or warning signs. Is it molls or badgers? No. This

rather small hole near Lancaster in north-west England is for broadband

cables. Rural communities are often left behind when it comes to the

internet and this hole is the first step at getting this one up to

speed. But remarkably, it is not being installed by any of the major

internet companies. The villagers, fed up with waiting, have decided

to get themselves connected. By installing the cable themselves,

the residents are not reliant on a major infrastructure supplier such

as BT or Fujitsu. Andrew is a farm here. He has invested his shares to

help fund the venture, as well as promising time to help dig the

trench. All our information comes through computer, as staff from the

vet's. It can take so long, you can go and have a cup of tea and it is

still not done. It is painful. For us, for a business point of view,

we need to do this. What has your contribution been? We have invested

1,500 pounds money wise and then because they are coming across our

land, we have put the time in and we did it ourselves so we'd do the

work. BT has promised a role that high-speed broadband did two-thirds

of the UK by 2014 and is one of the company's working with councils and

public bodies to try and reach as much of the rest as possible but

there are still some areas which will not be covered. Brendan Dick

from BT says they will not be laying cables here because it is

too expensive. If you look at the geography, you can see it is a big

challenge due to the sparse population. There is a farm there,

farm that one beyond that so basically, there are too many

farms? It is not that, there are not enough people. The farms are a

factor because one has to dig up large tracts of land to get to the

premises. How much are we talking about was that it could be tens of

thousands of pounds per premise. You are such a huge company, how

come the company cannot eat up the costs? Economics just kick in. We

are not a charity. I have to admire what they are trying to do. The key

challenges not just building it, the challenge is how defined year -

- money year-on-year to sustain it? The local project hopes to connect

1,500 properties to this neck-and- neck. The first phase should be

finished by the end of the year. By selling 2 million shares at a pound

each to local farmers, the project helps to raise the money needed for

the state-of-the-art fibre-optic lines which connect to the World

Wide Web. Chris, if BT, a multi- million-pound company cannot afford

to do this, how one earth are you doing it? We can do it with the

power of the farmers. The farmers are helping us to get to the land

and did it in. They are really desperate for a connection and they

know this is the only way they will get it. How much is it costing you?

The whole of phase one is costing 1.6 8 million. How are you raising

the money? We are doing it by raising shares from the community

themselves. We have raised �300,000. If the initial dig is a success,

the head to roll it out to up to 15,000 properties. There is another

boon to the community pulling together. It looks low-tech but it

is high speed. How fast Dobby talking? The fastest in the world.

It is 500 times the government target. It is fast enough for high-

definition television and 3D television. Anything you can

envisage wanting to do for business or a residential setting, that can

deliver it. Despite being out in the sticks, the folk will be

cruising the Internet superhighway. It just goes to show you, when a

community comes together, you get power to the people.

It is amazing when you get farmers and tractors on your side. Hilary,

that must bring a smile to your face? Fabulous. How much did they

put in together? Is little bombs, I'm not sure. The AA said it was

through shares. -- bombs. I am going to take the concept to

Marrakesh. What put it in yourself? I thinks there. You have lots of

hugs all over the world. You're famous for not having a holiday.

never have a holiday. If you were here to talk about your new book,

Bold As Brass. It is incredibly honest. You said you hated writing

it. Yes, it was not a therapeutic. Why did you do it? Because I was

asked! I love that, a bit of honesty. What was traumatic about

it? I always thought I had had a very normal childhood and when I

actually started to read it I thought, crikey, I am not normal,

it was not a normal childhood. When I started to read about what I went

through with my son that made me cry and the relationships that I

have had and why did I go wrong in them etc. Has it been a bit of

therapy in that way, what have you learnt? I had just learned that no

matter what life throws at you, you have got to keep fighting, tomorrow

is Another day. One door closes, another one opens and you have to

keep on fighting. Would you write another one? Let's say the first

one is an unfinished work of art. Which was the hardest stage looking

back? I think possibly the hardest thing to write about was my time

with my son's father. Because growing up, you have got to

understand, I did not know any differently. I was quite happy as a

child. I did not deceive myself hard done by because there was

always lots of laughter and love and cuddles. I was not hard done by

at all. I was pleased I had to work because I was helping my parents.

You do talk a lot about your parents in the book. Your dad's

opinion helped to form you as a person? Yes, for every pore of --

problem he had a solution. His philosophy in life is now my ethos.

Which is? One door closes, another door opens. Tomorrow is always

another day. And indeed, the door of the Women's RAF opened up for

you. Why did you decide to join the forces? Because I wanted to travel.

I thought it was a good way to see the world. It was a good way to

finish off my education because of working, I never actually got round

to finishing my education so joining the forces gave me the

opportunity to finish my education. But unfortunately, half way through

I actually did my time, I did my three years in the forces and then

you had to sign on for seven, my father developed stomach cancer.

The distance and the phone calls was too heartbreaking for me. Then

they put a moratorium in the Armed Forces on female members travelling.

It is quite difficult to get out of the forces? It was incredibly

difficult to be released because I was incredibly good. I was

absolutely excellent. It took me weeks and weeks of interviews for

them to release me. Finally they did and it was purely because I

could not function thinking of my father dying and I was not there to

support him. You have succeeded at most things but we were quite

shocked to learn how many times you have been sacked. I was only 16 and

15 and 12, come on! I feel for you. I have, too. You have to tell them

about the Pepper factory. Chopping peppers, I was not that good and

handing out leaflets I binned them. I was only 12, give me a break, I

was not even of employable age. It was on Bolton market stall. I loved

him, he was called Alf. He loved me, I was his little girl but in the

end, I think it was either me or him going bankrupt because every

time I picked up a tray of China I dropped it. The book is loaded with

the brilliance stories. Bold As Brass is out in bookshops tomorrow.

Now, if you live on the coast near Grimsby and lookout to see, you

might be able to catch a glimpse of this. That big hunk of metal is

travelling all the way up the east coast of Britain. Down snow has

been to Portsmouth to find out what it is. And where it is going.

Aircraft-carrier as are the pride of any modern fighting fleet and

our royal Navy is no exception. The names of the recent carriers, Ark

Royal, invincible and illustrious of the id into British military law.

Here in the last Portsmouth Naval Base, something altogether more

magnificent is being constructed. 65,000 tonnes, 280 metres long, 56

metres from Kiel to mast tip, in scale and then, HMS Queen Elizabeth

represents a new breed of career. It will act as home and a runway

for up to 36 state-of-the-art joint strike fighter jets. It will be

able to operate all round the world. This section here is only one 10th

of it. Individual sections of the Queen Elizabeth are being built at

five separate UK shipyards. They will all be towed to a 6th in

Rosyth in Scotland to be assembled, just like this mighty piece from

Portsmouth Docks. It will be arriving in Rosyth. To do that, we

will go from Portsmouth, take a left, then take another left up to

Rosyth. So as long as she keeps turning left to she will get to

Rosyth? Why are they all being built separately? There is no one-

yard around the country capable of managing something of this scale so

it was split-up around various yards around the country.

Shipbuilding has been such a big part of Portsmouth life for so long

that sometimes several generations of the same family have all worked

here building the ships which let Britain prosper. Paul Jerram is one

of 3,000 Portsmouth locals who has dedicated the last 28 months to

building this section. How long have you worked here? I have worked

in the dockyard since 1976. your dad? My dad started during the

war. My grandfather used to work before my dad started out and now I

have got a son who works for this company. It is a mixture of skills,

there will be some things your grandad would recognise and Ben

space-age stills -- skills today? When I started we did not use a

laser and now we have a computer system we use. Despite the new

technology, traditional skills are still important? Yes, you still

have to measure from the bulkheads. We still use dividers and callipers

and you have to learn all those original skills which go back to

Year at are the new generation - the young blood. -- you are the new

generation. I can tell my grandchildren that I worked on that

ship and stuff like that. It is really good. It will be completed

in 2016. It will be returned back to Portsmouth and the keys handed

to the great full Royal Navy. That is a transporters dream. -- great

fall. I could handle it! We did not doubt that for a second. When is it

supposed to get to Rosyth? I hope it is on-course. The good people of

Grimsby can let me know. The exciting bit happens then. They

would take out a piece they have already got an slot in our pit from

Portsmouth. It is the biggest ship ever made for the boil Navy. It

will fit together perfectly. -- Royal Navy. Are you sure it will

work? Do not worry about that. They have technology you would not

believe. A laser creates down to an atomic level. It will go together

nice and blush. When will it be completed? They are hoping they can

give it to the Navy in about 2017 to stop working on it. Has there

been a U-turn on the plains? There was originally a plan to use the

old method of a short take-off and then landing vertically. Then they

want it to be, you land like an airstrip and stop the planes with

these wires. They have moved back to beat Vertical landing. That is

�1 billion cheaper than the other way. It looks so much more gentle.

You do not need to train the crew up. The planes are slightly less

good. That is the important thing. We will be OK. I thoroughly enjoyed

your commentary on the fly-past at Buckingham Palace. It is 65 days to

go to the Olympics. Well done to everyone who got tickets today.

They Misrata a new threat that has arisen and it only strikes at night.

The authorities are taking it very seriously. -- there is a new threat.

In the past six weeks, this sniffer dog has been part of the team which

has checked 10,000 hotel rooms. Today he is conducting another

inspection on a London hotel - the identity of which we have agreed to

keep secret. He is on the hunt for bedbugs. He starts off touching

furniture in the beds and the room structure. You have to work him

around the room and he will find pockets of sent to indicate where

they are the strongest. He can detect their perks from outside the

room in extreme cases. -- bedbugs. Hotels are checking their rooms

with for the officials and athletes arrive. Bedbugs live of human blood.

They rarely stay in our beds. They favour cracks and crevices where

they can hide. They are the same size as an ant and they hitch a

lift on clothes and belongings. Only takes a few months for a small

number of bugs to multiply into thousands. The Sydney Olympics had

a big problem with bedbugs in 2000 but it was thought they were

already there in large numbers before the visitors arrived. There

was also a big outbreak in New York in 2010. They even found their way

into the Empire State Building. In hotels around London, but battle is

on, to make sure that visitors to the Olympics do not share their

beds with unwanted visitors. These sisters know what such -- a problem

it can be. We wake up in the morning. Joy was asleep but she was

scratching. I had a lot of spots down my left arm. We went out

shopping and started to get itchy spots. When we went to the theatre

in the evening, it was extremely itchy. I had 86 bytes. 30 art were

down my left arm. That was really sore and very irritating. -- about

30 went down my left arm. I had 54. These photos show how bad the bikes

were. For most, they are bitchy and uncomfortable. Experts are split on

whether the huge influx of visitors for the Olympics will further

spread our existing bedbugs. David came bins it will. We already have

a significant problem. It is not just London. -- David thinks it

will. Incidents have been a big increase. What is your fear?

have a problem already. We can add more to the problem with tourists

and people visiting the city and we will end up with a huge legacy of

bedbugs. Which hotels have bedbugs? We have been in and investigated

problems in hostels, bed-and- breakfasts and luxury five-star

hotels. Bedbugs do not care where they end up as long as there is a

regular source of people for them to feed from. At their hotel his

inspection is complete. Where they are found in small numbers they can

be dealt with professionally in a few hours using pesticides or heat

treatments. Most hotels are engaged in regular monitoring and screening

activities. Most have had all the housekeeping and maintenance staff

properly trained. We still need to be on our card. If you are staying

in a hotel in the UK or abroad, there are some steps you can take

to make sure the bedbugs do not bite. They can be easy to spot.

Look out for a distinctive black marks on furniture, their white

eggs and discarded skins! If in doubt, asked to stay in another

room. Come and look! Oh, God! It is making receipt achieve. -- me feel

itchy. Your family ran a hotel. You did not had -- have an infestation,

did you? No. No one ever complained. Was it every topic of conversation?

No. Since during stands on his umpiring Korea, Dickie Bird has had

more time to keep an eye on the turf in his own back garden. We

joined him at his home in Barnsley. The owner of this garden has

inspected grass around the world, from Manchester to Mumbai. Millions

of people have been agog to hear his verdict. I am talking about a

cricketing legend, the former international umpire, Dickie Bird.

With a gesture worthy of the great Shakespearean actor, not only

signals noble but holds it for half a minute. This is his favourite

ground with a view over his home town. I was born and bred in

Barnsley. My father worked in the town. He was a coalminer. I have

been all over the world in my profession as an umpire. It was

always nice to come back to Barnsley. Put the key in the door.

I think it is one of the best use around Barnsley. It is a better

view than my side! We cross into your country, Lancashire.

Absolutely! It means a lot to me - this garden. You have the plum

trees, apple trees. The plums are really picked Victorians. I used to

have strawberries just to the left. The blackbirds kept beating them.

They went for a burton. What is the story of the Cat in the -- the hat

in the tree? Someone gave it to me. I thought, maybe a bird would come

and nest there. Nobody has. As a boy, he played cricket for Barnsley

with Michael Parkinson. Dickie Bird went on to play for Yorkshire.

have the rose there. I got that in 1959 win Yorkshire won the

Championship. Each member of the Yorkshire team got the white rose.

When the right -- the white roses come out, they are beautiful.

nearly as good as the red ones, of course! The rose has not been his

only gift over the years. The house is stuffed full of medals, presence

and awards galore. I have kept everything. I have all my medals

and trophies. Photographs of the royalty went and met the Queen 29

times, at Test matches and other functions, going to Buckingham

Palace and things like that. I have got my own little presentation for

his garden. I was going to bring you a cricket bat willow. But I did

not think it was suitable. I thought she might like this. That

is marvellous! It is summer saw bay. It will grow to foot high and has

beautiful pale blue flowers. I think that in there, I think it

will look quite nice. A bit of sunshine as you walk round.

Lancashire sunshine! Have a look over the Pennines to see if the

sound is coming out. -- the Sun. You spent your entire life as an

umpire. Do you have any regrets? The one regret I have had is I have

had no children. I never married because I was never at home. If I

had a son or a girl, a couple of lads, who played cricket, it would

have given me a lot of pleasure. I would have felt, you know, I would

have felt so chuffed but it never happened. That is the one regret in

life. It is not bad. I have had a great life. Some wonderful moments

I will always treasure. Congratulations go to him for

picking up and Oadby E last week. All his garden needs is Alex Jones

daffodils. -- OBE. Do you have stylists? No, I star myself. Which

you ever bring out a range? I would love to. How many outfits do you

have? Too numerous to mention. at George! He is nine months old.

He is power-dressing in Nottingham. This is Dave at his friends may

wedding. He is from Exeter. -- his friend's wedding. He has his own

Olympic Torch. Look at Amanda dot! She is power-dressing with attitude.

Good luck with your new series of Dragons' Den which you are still

filming. Before we go, time to mention Eugene Polley, the man who

mentioned the remote control. Unfortunately he died on Sunday. He