:00:24. > :00:30.Thank you so much for your e-mails on how to improve the NHS. We got
:00:30. > :00:34.loads of them. They are not going in the recycling bin, we will be
:00:34. > :00:40.delivering them to the medical director of the NHS in England.
:00:40. > :00:47.Let's hope he reads them all. Matthew Baker, how would you
:00:47. > :00:57.describe your style? My style? I let the clothes do the talking. Cardigan
:00:57. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:05.casual? Possibly. With a rule pant. Tonight guest is a singer and a
:01:05. > :01:15.style icon. She never wanted to be a pop star but now counts Annie Lennox
:01:15. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:25.and Prince is among her fans. Here's a clue. This is a better one.
:01:25. > :01:32.It was New York, New York. She took his heart away.
:01:32. > :01:38.And I'm picking up the pieces. We are just the same, we all get
:01:38. > :01:48.desperate sometimes. Feeling black and blue!
:01:48. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:57.Welcome to the sofa, Paloma Faith. Hallo! It is lovely to have you.
:01:57. > :02:05.Would you go with Cardigan casual? Yes, it is very inoffensive and
:02:05. > :02:10.understated. Neutral. That is what we aim for. A bit like in that clip,
:02:10. > :02:15.the last bit was me as a man. I played all the characters in that
:02:15. > :02:21.video. I think we are wearing similar outfits. Me as a man wears
:02:21. > :02:31.what you wear. That is praise indeed! It is like I am looking in
:02:31. > :02:37.the mirror! That is perfect! Brilliant! I was amazed that you did
:02:37. > :02:43.your own hair. I do my own hair and make up because my record company
:02:43. > :02:48.have pulled the budget! You have done a brilliant job. You must have
:02:49. > :02:52.lots of mirrors around you. To see what is going on around the back.
:02:52. > :02:57.do not know what is going on around the back!
:02:57. > :03:03.Now it is time to celebrate the place that has seen countless first
:03:03. > :03:13.dates, goodbyes and emotional reunions. The clock at Glasgow
:03:13. > :03:17.Central Station has been a meeting point for generations.
:03:17. > :03:25.Whenever somebody says Central Station, I automatically think, my
:03:25. > :03:34.goodness, the clock. It is historic iconic. Every time I walk past it, I
:03:34. > :03:38.always get and butterflies. I knew Mark since I was 16, he was my best
:03:38. > :03:43.friend. I said goodbye to him one night under the clock and I just
:03:43. > :03:49.went, I am so in love with this guy, I cannot deny it any more. The
:03:49. > :03:57.clock made time stand still and made me realise that I would absolutely
:03:57. > :04:03.infatuated with the boy! I saw him walk down from the train and my
:04:03. > :04:08.heart stopped beating. It was such a magical moment. It sounds really
:04:08. > :04:12.cheesy but the whole world stopped. I think that clock has powers.
:04:12. > :04:16.does bring back a lot of happy memories. Our relationship was
:04:16. > :04:22.mainly a happy one and we had a lot of our happiest moments under this
:04:22. > :04:28.clock. Unfortunately it did not work out but we are still really good
:04:28. > :04:33.friends. When you think of Central Station, the clock is central to
:04:33. > :04:40.that. I remember what I was doing there, how I felt, the thoughts
:04:40. > :04:44.going through my mind. My son was being deployed to Iraq, in the Armed
:04:44. > :04:50.Forces. We were at Central Station to say goodbye. I was feeling
:04:50. > :04:55.nervous. I was bawling my eyes out, what mother wouldn't leaving their
:04:55. > :05:01.son going into a conflict situation? I remember the tears, I remember
:05:01. > :05:07.getting a lot of cuddles. They came a point where I had to say, I need
:05:07. > :05:12.to go, ma'am. I need to go. When you see your only child walking away
:05:12. > :05:15.from you, with no guarantees you will ever see them again, I would
:05:15. > :05:20.defy any mother to hold it together! You want that clock to
:05:21. > :05:24.stand still. You don't want the hand to move because every time that hand
:05:24. > :05:33.moves, it is bringing you closer to the point where you have to let them
:05:33. > :05:39.go. A few years ago, I used to work in a retail unit further up in the
:05:39. > :05:44.station. I had been working in the station for 19 years.
:05:44. > :05:51.He was doing security checks and delivery days he would come and
:05:51. > :05:54.knock on the back door. I think I was becoming a pain in the backside!
:05:54. > :06:01.Eventually I had the courage to ask Margaret out. Thankfully she said
:06:01. > :06:07.yes. The first date, we met under the clock. I could see him standing
:06:07. > :06:13.here. He looked so nervous. As soon as we got under the clock, that was
:06:13. > :06:18.eight. It was like we had done it before. We had a wee cuddle, kiss on
:06:18. > :06:24.the cheek. We have never looked back. We have been married for 15
:06:24. > :06:28.years and we have two children. The clock symbolises a lot, it means a
:06:29. > :06:36.lot to us. It is part of our relationship. It all started under
:06:36. > :06:41.the clock. I think that is my favourite film.
:06:41. > :06:49.That first goal was infatuated with him and he was having none of it!
:06:49. > :06:56.was speaking in past tense! I was like, no! But he is back, you never
:06:56. > :07:00.know. I like what the man said, you just want the clock to stand still.
:07:00. > :07:04.This is your first time on the One Show. Obviously lots of people will
:07:04. > :07:11.know your music and will have seen you in things like St Trinian's but
:07:11. > :07:14.we want to know what makes you tick. We want to do a quickfire thing.
:07:14. > :07:22.You are half English and half Spanish. Good evening or buenos
:07:22. > :07:32.tardes? Probably good evening.A bit of Italian as well? I speak Italian
:07:32. > :07:36.
:07:36. > :07:45.but I am not Italian. Parlo italiano. Born performer or late
:07:45. > :07:50.Bloomer? Born performer. I started at four in dance classes. That
:07:51. > :08:00.answers the next question. What came first, singing or acting? Dance!
:08:01. > :08:02.
:08:02. > :08:07.That went well! Billie Holiday or the idle? Billie Holiday. -- Billie
:08:08. > :08:12.Holiday. I was a jazz singer before I was in pop, she is so
:08:12. > :08:19.inspirational, and I have been known to sing a lot of her songs. We have
:08:19. > :08:24.a big shot of a tattoo of one of your fans. I am so flattered. I am
:08:24. > :08:31.also so flattered at how amazing the artwork is, it is incredible. Who
:08:31. > :08:37.would have thought? I thought it was a picture of you. Brilliant. Basics
:08:37. > :08:47.covered. You are going on tour for the summer including your first time
:08:47. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:53.at the O2. I am really scared that I will have a 20,000 person get less!
:08:53. > :08:57.Honestly, people will come. How will you prepare? I am really excited for
:08:57. > :09:02.the show. Tickets are still available. I hope you will come. I
:09:02. > :09:09.am bringing two worlds together, my pop stuff with my orchestral stuff,
:09:09. > :09:14.so I have got orchestra that I work with along with my band, so it is a
:09:14. > :09:19.huge version of what I normally do. I have never done that before. I
:09:19. > :09:23.have got a lot of special guests performing, people in the music
:09:23. > :09:28.industry that I won't name because it is a surprise, but they are
:09:28. > :09:33.coming to perform duets with me which I am sure my fans will love.
:09:33. > :09:39.And you are going to be performing in some forest 's? Yeah. I am really
:09:40. > :09:45.excited about that. Quite a lot of tickets have sold for that. Have you
:09:45. > :09:50.ever performed anywhere like that? No, I have done festivals obviously
:09:50. > :09:54.but this is like a forest opened up for a show, which is beautiful and
:09:54. > :10:00.magical. It lends itself to my fairytale imagination. We will cross
:10:00. > :10:04.fingers for the weather! How will your costumes cope with the
:10:04. > :10:10.undergrowth? We thought we would come up with some options for you.
:10:10. > :10:18.We have this beautiful dress. it. I feel like I need to have a
:10:18. > :10:24.pedicure because do letters will not work in the forest. -- stilettos.
:10:24. > :10:31.Perfect! If you get hungry, you can snap on them. Are you quite punctual
:10:31. > :10:35.as an artist? Some stars turn up late. You will be at the O2 on
:10:35. > :10:43.time? If I am not on stage on time, it is usually one of my backing
:10:43. > :10:50.singers. They are dreadful! Fair enough. Paloma's tool starts in
:10:50. > :10:58.Newcastle on Monday. Can you do your Tommy Cooper impression? Yes, just
:10:58. > :11:02.like that. It wasn't the best. It was all right! First it is my
:11:02. > :11:09.cardigan, now it is my Tommy Cooper! A lot of dads are probably doing the
:11:09. > :11:17.same thing! Tommy spent his career pretending to be terrible but we
:11:17. > :11:21.have been finding out where he got his magic from.
:11:21. > :11:27.In this house at Ford's Road Exeter lived a young boy who would grow
:11:27. > :11:35.quite literally into a comedy giant. Just like that. Although the six
:11:35. > :11:39.foot for bumbling magician had arrived at stardom, he was a far cry
:11:39. > :11:48.from his famous catchphrase. Millions were bound by his Saturday
:11:48. > :11:53.night spell but Tommy's start in life was far from funny. Born two
:11:53. > :11:57.months premature in Cathy Lee in 1921, his father worked in the pits
:11:57. > :12:04.before the great War left him disabled. Mining ran in the Cooper
:12:04. > :12:11.blood so did entertaining. father was a comedian, he was
:12:11. > :12:17.talking all the time. Uncle Jim had the gift as well. He used to put
:12:17. > :12:24.some eggs on a glass and they would land on top of the water, hopefully
:12:24. > :12:29.not broke, which they never did. trick Tommy would later perfect.
:12:29. > :12:34.suppose he did it when he went to Tommy's house. Tommy grew up with it
:12:34. > :12:42.like I did, and with his father. With Tommy Stickley, the family
:12:42. > :12:48.decided to leave the town -- Tommy being sickly. They left Wales and
:12:48. > :12:53.moved to Exeter. When he was eight, his auntie gave him a magic set and
:12:53. > :12:59.Tommy became a loner, disappearing for hours into his box of tricks.
:12:59. > :13:02.But Tommy also experience the thrill of having an audience. I know once
:13:02. > :13:06.his mother took him to an iron mongers shop and people were
:13:06. > :13:11.laughing outside and appearing in the window and when she went to see
:13:11. > :13:21.what it was all about, there was young Tommy sitting on a toilet
:13:21. > :13:21.
:13:21. > :13:26.seat, so she yelled at him, get off at -- get off that, and he said, I
:13:26. > :13:30.haven't finished! She held everything together. As the
:13:30. > :13:38.depression loomed over 1930s Britain, Tommy 's family fell on
:13:38. > :13:42.hard times. His father's love of gambling lost them the family home.
:13:42. > :13:48.Despite this Tommy never abandoned his magic. In his first job in a
:13:48. > :13:52.boat yard, he would try out tricks on his workmates. Tommy suffered
:13:52. > :13:57.from stage fright so badly that he often botched his first performances
:13:57. > :14:02.but despite his failures, the audience laughed. It wasn't the
:14:02. > :14:07.costs of amazement he was looking for but he realised he had found a
:14:07. > :14:10.magic formula. He would pick up his trademark fares while on wartime
:14:10. > :14:15.duty in Egypt's. In peacetime, he joined the ranks of ex-service
:14:15. > :14:23.entertainers like Tony Hancock. Another comic admired the brain
:14:23. > :14:27.behind the humbling magician. looked chaotic but his control, he
:14:27. > :14:31.was very disciplined. I walked past his crops table one afternoon before
:14:31. > :14:41.we did a show and there was just a piece of paper on there with notes
:14:41. > :14:42.
:14:42. > :14:47.on there, article, left, upstage, he was organised. The laughing, they
:14:48. > :14:52.were laughing and he was not even on the stage, I do not know how you do
:14:53. > :14:59.that. Soon, Tommy landed a full-time career and his agent landed him his
:14:59. > :15:03.own show on TV. By the 1970s, he topped the bill at the London
:15:03. > :15:10.Palladium and was the highest-paid comedian in Britain but the magic of
:15:10. > :15:15.fame and fortune would start to wear off. Tommy did have self-doubt at.
:15:15. > :15:21.That, bless his heart, led to him having three or four before he went
:15:21. > :15:29.on, altering himself, not going on cold. The brink, with the pressure
:15:29. > :15:33.of playing top of the bill, took its toll -- the drink. The curtain
:15:33. > :15:39.closed on Tommy Cooper when he suffered a fatal heart attack live
:15:39. > :15:44.on TV. They say if you are famous you will be famous for ever if you
:15:44. > :15:54.die onstage and it seems like it worked. Tommy Cooper, the manic
:15:54. > :16:00.magician who took his final bow at 63. What an entertainer. You were
:16:00. > :16:06.just saying you were magician's assistant. How did that start?
:16:06. > :16:14.in a ghost train, as a ghost. And I met loads of magicians and
:16:14. > :16:20.illusionists on that. We have some old footage. That is from a ghost
:16:20. > :16:24.train which is now in Blackpool. There you are. If it does not work
:16:24. > :16:29.out, you can go back to stuff like that. Anyway, the battle for
:16:29. > :16:33.Scottish independence hotted up this week with Scotland's first Minister
:16:33. > :16:36.Alex Salmond insisting the country can afford to do it alone. But Dan
:16:36. > :16:42.Snow has the story of how England and Scotland came together in the
:16:42. > :16:49.first place. British history is littered with famous battles between
:16:49. > :16:54.the English and the Scots. But on the night in September 1513, a less
:16:54. > :16:57.well-known battle took place in this field in Northumberland. After three
:16:57. > :17:05.hours of fighting, 10,000 Scots had been slaughtered and their king lay
:17:05. > :17:10.dead. It was the Battle of Flodden. The death of the Scottish king,
:17:10. > :17:14.James the fourth, changed British history. Defeat at Flodden was an
:17:14. > :17:18.absolute catastrophe for the Scottish monarchy and mobility. They
:17:18. > :17:23.took generations to recover. It was also an important milestone on the
:17:23. > :17:28.road to the unification of the crowns of England and Scotland. Ford
:17:28. > :17:31.Castle here in Northumberland is at the heart of the story. In the
:17:31. > :17:36.summer of 1513, James the fourth invaded England and reached Ford
:17:36. > :17:40.Castle in Northumberland. Why did he marches army down here and invade?
:17:40. > :17:44.France and Scotland had an agreement dating back many centuries that
:17:44. > :17:49.should the one be attacked by England, the other would come to the
:17:49. > :17:57.defence. Henry did a was in France with a military expedition to gain
:17:57. > :18:04.political kudos. -- Henry VIII. James was asked to take one yard of
:18:04. > :18:11.English land. He did, opening up a front. Ford Castle was owned at the
:18:11. > :18:14.time by Lady Heron. This is the current owner. When he turned up at
:18:14. > :18:20.the castle gates, he was made welcome, as was the tradition of the
:18:20. > :18:24.day. It did not matter whether he was an invader or resident monarch.
:18:24. > :18:28.While his men made camp on a nearby hill, James, a notorious ladies man,
:18:28. > :18:34.lingered for five days. While his guys are on top of the hill in the
:18:34. > :18:38.rain, years holding court in this room? He would have used this as his
:18:38. > :18:43.office, living room. This room has not been changed very much so he
:18:43. > :18:48.would recognise it today. Some people think he had a wild fling
:18:48. > :18:51.with the lady and that was why he was not out there. It is said she
:18:51. > :18:57.was a particular beauty and she entertained him lavishly and
:18:57. > :19:01.properly. He finally tore himself away to do battle, arranged by
:19:01. > :19:05.heralds, messengers on horseback, who would communicate with the
:19:05. > :19:10.opposing side. The Earl of Surrey had gathered being rich forces, sent
:19:10. > :19:14.by Henry VIII to repel the invaders. James and his Scottish army were
:19:14. > :19:19.expecting the English to come from the south, but Surrey outmanoeuvred
:19:19. > :19:22.him and approached from the Scottish border, to the north. The Scots must
:19:22. > :19:28.have been surprised to see the English army approaching from
:19:28. > :19:33.Scotland. Absolutely. It was a filthy day, with rain blasting in on
:19:33. > :19:37.the teeth of a gale. The armies did not see each other until they were
:19:37. > :19:44.caught of a mile apart. The Scots came off worse in the initial
:19:44. > :19:49.exchange of artillery. This one is designed to knock down castle walls,
:19:49. > :19:55.not to shoot at groups of men in a field. The English army had these
:19:55. > :20:02.little cannonballs. This one is skimming along and taking out whole
:20:02. > :20:05.groups of people. It could travel through soldiers. James made a
:20:05. > :20:09.terrible error, sending his foot soldiers down the hill to engage the
:20:09. > :20:14.English. The Scottish footsoldiers advanced with their pikes facing
:20:14. > :20:17.towards the English. The beauty of this was that the body of men could
:20:17. > :20:23.march in tight formation and present an unbroken wall of steel towards
:20:23. > :20:28.the enemy. Unfortunately for the Scottish, it had been raining for
:20:28. > :20:34.days and this hillside was a morass. By the time they got to this very
:20:34. > :20:38.muddy bottom, the big Scottish force was in disarray, no longer a
:20:38. > :20:43.well-organised hedgehog of steel. And the pike was no match for the
:20:43. > :20:47.English will work. It was a massacre. James died alongside his
:20:47. > :20:52.men in the bloodbath that followed. After the battle, the course of
:20:52. > :20:58.British history began to change. Elizabeth first died childless.
:20:58. > :21:03.James' grandson, James the sixth, became the obvious candidate for the
:21:03. > :21:09.English crown, James the first of England. He unified the monarchy of
:21:09. > :21:13.the two nations. Scotland was now ruled from London. And Dan Snow is
:21:13. > :21:20.here now. We have been talking fashion, so we asked you to delve
:21:20. > :21:28.into the chewed wardrobe and, some gems, like this helmet. This is an
:21:28. > :21:33.unbelievable helmet. It is early Tudor. It is an absolute beauty,
:21:33. > :21:37.like a sports car of its age. This one was made in Britain but other
:21:37. > :21:41.aristocrats would send off to northern Italy to get them made.
:21:41. > :21:48.Look at what Paloma is wearing, this gauntlet, this glove to protect your
:21:48. > :21:57.fingers. It is slightly big for me. It is quite heavy. It was designed
:21:57. > :22:03.to be used. Easy! Watch out. These were worn on the battlefield to
:22:03. > :22:13.scare the enemy but also to impress people. RU feeling threatened?
:22:13. > :22:14.
:22:14. > :22:22.think it suits you. We were looking at pictures and comparing them.
:22:22. > :22:26.think you often where Tudor staff. That is in the finest Tudor style.
:22:26. > :22:30.You have the circular frame around your waist, which they became famous
:22:30. > :22:37.for. What you have avoided, which is clever, is the big rough around the
:22:37. > :22:41.neck. They were apparently quite uncomfortable. And it makes you look
:22:41. > :22:50.like you have no neck. There is a new season starting to might on BBC
:22:51. > :22:56.Two. Why are we fascinated with this period? The Tudors come from Wales,
:22:56. > :23:02.so the Welsh people love the English Tudors. It has everything. It has
:23:02. > :23:05.fashion, drama, intrigue, passion, love. People's emotions, genuine
:23:05. > :23:11.human emotions, swinging affairs of state deciding the outcome of wars
:23:11. > :23:16.and having an impact on the modern world. Thank you. Very nice to see
:23:16. > :23:19.you. You can put the glove down. The recession has affected the country
:23:19. > :23:23.in many ways. Animal charities say that tough times have resulted in a
:23:23. > :23:28.rise in the number of pets being abandoned. We have been spending
:23:28. > :23:33.time at one of Britain's busiest pet hospitals, where they offer help to
:23:34. > :23:36.owners struggling to pay the bills. Owning a pet is increasingly
:23:36. > :23:42.expensive business but here in Stoke-on-Trent, home to one of the
:23:42. > :23:45.country's busiest pet hospitals, help is at hand. The People's
:23:45. > :23:52.dispensary for sick animals provides free pet care for those on low
:23:52. > :24:01.income, or no income. At nine a.m. , a poorly wrapped has come in with
:24:01. > :24:05.his owners. We have been putting in the drops. Wayne and his daughter
:24:05. > :24:08.are worried that the eyedrops are not working. Theo the rat had
:24:08. > :24:14.previously come in with a swelling under his right eye, causing an
:24:14. > :24:23.ulcer in the eyeball itself. think, unfortunately, that I has
:24:23. > :24:27.ruptured. Polly and CEO are best friends and have fun together.
:24:27. > :24:33.can walk up the stairs and down the stairs, and he can jump off high
:24:33. > :24:39.things. He has done that a lot. Probably we need to book him in to
:24:39. > :24:43.have the high removed. That will need general anaesthetic. There is
:24:43. > :24:49.considerable risk to doing that. Are you happy for me to book him in?
:24:50. > :24:58.What do you want to do? She makes the tough decision to hand over her
:24:58. > :25:04.friend for what could a risky surgery. Yes.In reality, an
:25:04. > :25:07.operation is the only option so the risk is one worth taking. An
:25:07. > :25:11.increasingly common case coming through the doors is that of pet of
:25:11. > :25:17.the city. Nearly one in three cats and dogs in the UK are now
:25:17. > :25:26.considered obese. And for Carl and his rock Wyler who has come in with
:25:26. > :25:32.an upset tummy, the diagnosis might be hard to hear. -- Rottweilers. She
:25:32. > :25:36.is seriously overweight and her other health issues stem from this.
:25:36. > :25:42.I struggle, same as everybody else, but I would rather feed my dog than
:25:42. > :25:47.myself, and that is it at the end of the day. Pets come first. We want to
:25:47. > :25:51.book you in for a weight clinic. bond between a pet and its owner is
:25:51. > :25:55.a deep one. In this case, the strength of the relationship is born
:25:55. > :26:02.out of adversity. Ten years ago, he was in a serious motorcycle
:26:02. > :26:06.accident. I lost my leg in a bike crash. I have to keep taking it off
:26:06. > :26:16.and on. If it was not for her, I would not be doing that. When I was
:26:16. > :26:39.
:26:39. > :26:49.married, she was there for me. It is something we have to discuss with
:26:49. > :26:55.the owner beforehand. At a private practice, this procedure would cost
:26:55. > :27:04.over �350. That is the money when you consider that the dog cost just
:27:04. > :27:07.�4 from a pet shop. Surgery has gone well, and he is now in recovery.
:27:07. > :27:16.Everybody has a connection with their pet, and I think the bond is
:27:16. > :27:21.big. Especially with a small child. Wayne returns to collect Theo after
:27:21. > :27:27.surgery. It went well. You need to keep an eye on him for signs of
:27:27. > :27:33.swelling. If you see any bleeding from the wound. Theo is still not
:27:33. > :27:37.out of the woods completely but he is free to go home to Holly.
:27:37. > :27:44.that I could do was think whether he would be OK and how he was getting
:27:44. > :27:53.along with it. I would be guard to see him when I got home. And really,
:27:53. > :27:57.I was going to snuggle him to death. Money is tight. They are not dear
:27:57. > :28:04.pets at all. Very playful. It brings everyone closer. You can have a good
:28:04. > :28:08.time with him. I was really glad that he was home. What a lovely note
:28:08. > :28:14.to finish on. Thank you for coming on. Tickets for your gig at the O2