:00:21. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.
:00:23. > :00:29.Tonight the multi-millionaire business woman who has been blowing
:00:29. > :00:34.hot and cold in the Dragons' Den. You are talking potential investors
:00:34. > :00:44.into your business. It was your job to come on here and make us aware.
:00:44. > :00:52.You would make my for tickets, mate. I'm not a news, I'm angry, I am out.
:00:52. > :00:57.It is Hilary Devey. You said that you were not amused, but you were
:00:57. > :01:04.laughing at yourself. What you see is what you get and he really did
:01:04. > :01:08.make me itch, my foot in it. What does that mean? It is used very
:01:08. > :01:15.commonly in my business. When they have not got the right answer at
:01:15. > :01:21.the right time. Which Dragon make sure foot ditch? It is before the
:01:21. > :01:28.watershed. We are going to be hearing a lot more about dragons
:01:28. > :01:33.then later on. We will be giving Hillary the chance to tell us which
:01:33. > :01:39.of these three brave Cup performers she would put her money on. It is
:01:39. > :01:43.brilliant. The question is, are you in? First, new research has found
:01:43. > :01:47.you are more likely to pick up your partner's bad habits than the good
:01:47. > :01:53.ones. It is bad news if you have hooked up with a nose at picking
:01:53. > :01:57.couch potato. We sent our very own Mr Perfect to find out if this is
:01:57. > :02:01.true with holidaymakers in south end.
:02:01. > :02:05.Kiss-me-quick and squeeze Me slowly. Apparently that is how it starts
:02:05. > :02:11.for a lot of us, but apparently it goes downhill from there because we
:02:11. > :02:18.pick up each other's bad habits. We are more to blame than the ladies.
:02:18. > :02:25.Never. What bad habits have you picked up? And not being as tidy.
:02:25. > :02:31.Leaving clothes on the floor. the eating in bed. When I first met
:02:31. > :02:36.you I was slim. Puts my cigarettes out in eight cup of tea. Have you
:02:36. > :02:43.got a couple of hours? He keeps passing wind and you are doing the
:02:43. > :02:50.same thing now? Have you picked up any bad habits? Never, squeaky
:02:50. > :02:56.clean. She picks her nose and eats it. He says really arrogant things
:02:56. > :03:03.and I repeat the things he says. think you did the toilet in the
:03:03. > :03:08.shed. What were you like before? Really nice and really quiet.
:03:08. > :03:15.boyfriend ever picked up a big habits -- bad habits from you?
:03:15. > :03:22.might pick me up. You have become messier because of her. A lot
:03:22. > :03:27.messier, but I still love her. us a little kiss.
:03:27. > :03:33.Extraordinary. I would not believe it for a minute, but have you
:03:33. > :03:38.picked up any bad habits from your husband? I would hope not, because
:03:38. > :03:42.I have recently remarried, but he moans incessantly from the moment
:03:42. > :03:47.he gets up to the money goes to sleep. I really hope he does not
:03:47. > :03:55.catch that. Her as he started asking random strangers about their
:03:55. > :04:02.cashflows? He is continuously asking me about my cashflow. Good
:04:02. > :04:07.news, it is Canal week and it is day three. We have had an e-mail.
:04:07. > :04:13.Can we have a mention for the tunnel on the Huddersfield narrow
:04:13. > :04:17.Canal, Britain's longest, narrowest and deepest canal tunnel and it is
:04:18. > :04:23.200 years old this year will stop that is from the visitors' centre
:04:23. > :04:31.manager. We have been finding out about the men who build them, the
:04:31. > :04:38.navvies. The Pontcysyllte Acqueduct. The
:04:38. > :04:42.locks. The great cut of the Caledonian, all monumental feats of
:04:42. > :04:49.canal engineering, but there are no monuments to the men who put them
:04:49. > :04:53.up. The untold story of Britain's canals is of the might and the
:04:54. > :04:59.muscle of those who built them well before the age of machinery and
:04:59. > :05:04.armed only with a pick axe and a shovel. They dug through mountains
:05:04. > :05:08.and forests and valleys. Wherever they went they were shunned by
:05:08. > :05:13.locals and treated badly by their big money bosses. History has not
:05:13. > :05:18.been much kinder to them either. There are a few chronicles of the
:05:18. > :05:23.navvies who changed Britain's landscape. Decades before laying
:05:23. > :05:28.the railways, they were carving canals throughout the land, like
:05:28. > :05:34.Devon's Grand Western, built in the early 1800s. From what little we
:05:34. > :05:38.know about them, their lives were tough. When you look around, there
:05:38. > :05:43.are not bed-and-breakfasts or 300 blokes. They had to make do with
:05:43. > :05:47.what they could find. They would have a shanty town until the job
:05:47. > :05:53.was finished. They would have stayed on the banks of the canal?
:05:53. > :05:59.Yes, it was very rough and ready. The workforce was tough. It had to
:05:59. > :06:07.be, it was dangerous. A good navvy could dig and shed 12 cubic yards
:06:07. > :06:15.in a day. To give you an idea of what that is like... OK? That is a
:06:15. > :06:21.massive 13 tons of blood, sweat and tears. And all in one day. With a
:06:21. > :06:26.work ethic like that, then Maddy was much sought after. By 1795,
:06:26. > :06:29.Parliament had green lit the building of 60 canals in Britain.
:06:29. > :06:35.The labour supply could not keep up with demand, so the answer came
:06:35. > :06:41.from overseas. It is a myth they were all Irish, but some were. You
:06:41. > :06:45.could get a ticket from Ireland to Britain for 12.5 pence and you
:06:45. > :06:50.could earn that in a couple of days easily, so it was worth coming over.
:06:50. > :06:54.Local people could not compete with them. These men had so much brawn
:06:54. > :06:59.and strength that they had become a mighty force on their own. They
:06:59. > :07:04.began young and soon they learned to live hard as well. Now these
:07:04. > :07:08.were paid in tokens, so the pubs sprang up where they could spend
:07:08. > :07:14.their currency and it was their bruising that made it into the
:07:14. > :07:20.history books. The Taunton courier dubbed them, savage, ungovernable
:07:21. > :07:26.bandits. Another writer said they were the terror of the countryside.
:07:26. > :07:32.When the navvies could not find people to exchange their tokens
:07:32. > :07:39.with, as often happened, all hell broke loose as it did here near
:07:39. > :07:46.Exeter in April 1811. A mob of 300 cash-strapped navvies who had been
:07:46. > :07:56.digging out the Grand Western Canal descended on the village. They
:07:56. > :08:00.headed for the local boozer. It was fair day. The globe in was one of
:08:00. > :08:04.the many pubs where they would have been drinking. They started about
:08:04. > :08:09.three in the afternoon, throwing stones and breaking windows.
:08:09. > :08:13.Eventually they came across a person in the street they recognise.
:08:13. > :08:19.The account in the local paper read, the rioters followed him to the
:08:19. > :08:23.house. They broke the windows. He considered it necessary to
:08:23. > :08:33.discharge a loaded pistol at his assailants and one man fell dead on
:08:33. > :08:37.the spot. That now beat was buried somewhere here in their village
:08:37. > :08:42.cemetery. His chances of justice were pretty unlikely. The coroner
:08:42. > :08:47.ruled his death was a justifiable homicide. And one final insult,
:08:47. > :08:52.there was no money for a headstone, so no one knows where he was buried.
:08:52. > :08:57.I suppose in that way he remains anonymous like so many of his
:08:57. > :09:03.compatriots. The navvies came and went through Victorian Britain,
:09:03. > :09:08.avoided and unknown. But in almost every county they have left their
:09:08. > :09:13.mark on our land. Incredible. Tomorrow we will be finding out
:09:13. > :09:18.about how canals were the main mode of transport for delivering eyes
:09:18. > :09:22.and ice-cream in that 18 50s. made a fortune in the haulage
:09:22. > :09:32.industry working with lorry drivers up and down the country. What would
:09:32. > :09:34.
:09:34. > :09:42.they say about you? Well... It is 7 o'clock. I would like to think they
:09:42. > :09:46.would say quite nice things. I think particularly in my original
:09:46. > :09:50.family business, without doubt they know how hard I worked to get the
:09:50. > :09:57.business to where it is today. I think they know I am very firm, but
:09:57. > :10:03.I am equal -- equally very fair. I would like to think they say nice
:10:03. > :10:08.things, but I can talk their language if they need wheatear.
:10:08. > :10:12.Always be a lady and not have to do so. You said you worked hard to get
:10:12. > :10:17.the business started. You were not born with a silver spoon.
:10:17. > :10:21.Absolutely and I have had some hard times. Even when I started the
:10:21. > :10:28.business I used to measure the amount of food I bought into how
:10:28. > :10:33.many pallets I could move that night. How did it all start? It was
:10:33. > :10:37.a concept, not a particularly new one. It had been done already in
:10:37. > :10:43.the parcel industry, but it had never been done in haulage. The
:10:43. > :10:47.concept was there were loads of lorries going about the country
:10:47. > :10:55.empty. I started thinking about the environmental consequences and the
:10:55. > :10:59.cost consequences of that. Haulage is based on wheels. I thought how
:10:59. > :11:05.can I utilise 100% of that space so we can reduce the amount of lorries
:11:05. > :11:09.on the road and reduce the Co2 emissions, and also give hauliers a
:11:09. > :11:13.greater margin. They are the hardest working industry
:11:13. > :11:18.undoubtedly in this country and work on some of the lowest margins.
:11:18. > :11:23.They are the most heavily penalised. You ended up selling your house and
:11:23. > :11:29.your car. Yes, absolutely. I started from a Second World War
:11:29. > :11:38.aircraft hangar that was overrun with rats with two chemical toilets,
:11:38. > :11:45.that I shared with 40 lorry drivers, so I learnt excellent control. The
:11:45. > :11:54.computers constantly failed and I literally had no money. We used to
:11:54. > :11:59.buy ink and inject the cartridges to save money. Nothing is for
:11:59. > :12:02.nothing. Event away from the business, it is fair to say you
:12:02. > :12:08.have had your ups and downs. Even the birth of your son was
:12:08. > :12:11.distressing. The birth was delightful end that I adore and
:12:11. > :12:16.worship the ground he walks on. But the subsequent break-up with his
:12:16. > :12:20.father was incredibly distressing. It was perhaps when he was 20
:12:21. > :12:26.months old I found out he was already married with five children,
:12:26. > :12:31.one of which was only a few months younger than my own son. It was
:12:31. > :12:35.quite heartbreaking at the time. Does that make you Taffia? Yes, I
:12:35. > :12:40.think it gave me the resolve to carry on, because I then had two
:12:40. > :12:45.choices. I focused on a career and earning money to give him the
:12:45. > :12:50.lifestyle I wanted to give him. Or I joined the rest of civilisation
:12:51. > :12:55.and did what everybody else did. And it is not easy. It is not easy.
:12:55. > :13:00.We are delighted to have you on Dragons' Den. Let's have a look at
:13:00. > :13:09.next week's episode. I think you are fabulous, but I can go to parts
:13:09. > :13:14.of the world and by that for 300 euros. A garden in Morocco will
:13:14. > :13:18.have a chair of some distinction like that. If you are saying it is
:13:18. > :13:24.costing you �800 to make them here, you would not be paying it out of
:13:24. > :13:29.that in Morocco. It is about making things in the UK it. We do not
:13:29. > :13:36.outsource everything. But business is also about making money and
:13:36. > :13:42.profitability. You are absolutely right. The bottom line. One of the
:13:42. > :13:47.things you have brought to the den is a sense of style. Was that a
:13:47. > :13:53.conscious decision, or do you always dress like that? I always
:13:53. > :13:57.dress like that. Even when you are not at work. If you see me on a
:13:57. > :14:02.Saturday shopping in Oxford Street, you would see me in a pair of
:14:02. > :14:07.leggings and a baggy sweater. bigger the shoulder pad the more
:14:07. > :14:12.the power? No, I do not think so. I'd just like shoulder pads. It is
:14:12. > :14:19.my style. Britain has taken you to their hearts. You have made an
:14:19. > :14:22.incredible impact. I hope what they see is what they get. I am very
:14:23. > :14:29.much on their side, I love my country and what we are trying to
:14:29. > :14:33.achieve. Dragons' Den is on on Sunday night at 8pm on BBC Two.
:14:33. > :14:39.Christine Walkden, our gardening correspondent, loves the perks of
:14:39. > :14:43.her job. She gets to snoop around the gardens of the rich and famous.
:14:43. > :14:48.Tonight it is the turn of Radio 2 DJ Jo Wiley.
:14:48. > :14:54.The owner of this garden is used to a bit of March, whether it is in
:14:54. > :15:00.Glastonbury, or getting stuck into her own potato patch, Jo Wylie is
:15:00. > :15:05.not frightened of getting her hands dirty. I got a potato. Alongside
:15:05. > :15:11.her lifelong love of rock music, she has developed a real passion
:15:11. > :15:14.for gardening. Where did you love of gardening come from? My grandad
:15:14. > :15:19.was into gardening and I remember him pottering around all the time
:15:19. > :15:29.and he had a lovely green house and an abundance of tomatoes. My mum
:15:29. > :15:32.
:15:32. > :15:37.has always done gardening as well This is a family garden so it's
:15:37. > :15:40.also got to be a playground because Jo and her husband Steve have four
:15:40. > :15:44.children. This garden is just massive and expansive and wide and
:15:44. > :15:49.has a real sense of freedom. It just suits the way we live and the
:15:49. > :15:52.way we like to be so we can all run wild. It's like a blank canvas as
:15:52. > :15:55.well. There's a lot that needs doing to it and that's where I have
:15:55. > :15:59.been floundering. What do you want to achieve with this garden? I want
:15:59. > :16:02.a beautiful border. I am obsessed with going to country houses and I
:16:02. > :16:05.have been taking photographs of their gardens and keep trying to
:16:05. > :16:08.replicate those. Something that you might want to consider is making
:16:08. > :16:13.that border wider because narrow borders are always very difficult
:16:13. > :16:17.to get a balance. If you took it out probably another foot or even
:16:17. > :16:26.two feet you would be able to do so much more with it. OK. Although
:16:26. > :16:31.it's a lot of work. It's more work! You don't buy a picture, you grow a
:16:31. > :16:36.picture. It's a garden in the making is what I have here. This is
:16:36. > :16:41.the pond. Yeah. It was supposed to be like a flowing river and some
:16:41. > :16:51.beautiful water feature but it's a bit of a puddle really. It's
:16:51. > :16:58.stagnant. It's a nice size and it could look very beautiful but it's
:16:58. > :17:02.a big project. One day. This is nice. It's lovely, isn't it.
:17:02. > :17:06.I am quite proud of this. My daughter is two and a half and I
:17:06. > :17:10.think every single day we come out here, she wakes me in the morning
:17:11. > :17:16.and says can we go to the vegetable garden, mummy. The tomatoes are
:17:16. > :17:20.coming on a treat. When do I know if the carrots are ready? Scratch
:17:20. > :17:26.around the top you will find they have a shoulder and these haven't
:17:26. > :17:31.so they're not ready. You want to thin them as well. If you leave
:17:31. > :17:41.them like that... I can go to the village show with that that! These
:17:41. > :17:51.are really sweet at this stage. they all right? Yeah, go on.
:17:51. > :17:54.
:17:54. > :18:02.it's all right. Course it is, very I am never happier than when I am
:18:02. > :18:07.in the garden. My husband says I look like I am in a bad mood, no,
:18:07. > :18:11.this is me being happy. I live a frantic life surrounded by music
:18:11. > :18:15.and manic and when I come to the garden it's me on my own. I don't
:18:15. > :18:19.listen to music, I like escaping being with my thoughts and the
:18:19. > :18:26.flowers and the earth and it kind of helps me cling on to my sanity.
:18:26. > :18:31.Barely, but I do. I think it's working.
:18:31. > :18:37.Two extra foot on your borders. We have another Lancashire lass here,
:18:37. > :18:44.Christine is here. Now autumn is approaching. Absolutely, it's the
:18:44. > :18:54.time to keep gardening, harvest your herbs. If you want anything in
:18:54. > :18:57.
:18:57. > :19:05.flower for Christmas now is the time to get the bulbs in, radishes,
:19:05. > :19:09.Leticia lettuces. Keep harvesting. They'll be better plants next year.
:19:09. > :19:14.You have a big garden in Staffordshire. That's good advice.
:19:14. > :19:24.Yeah, she's brilliant, Christine. She will keep you right. Let's look
:19:24. > :19:28.
:19:28. > :19:31.at your garden in Morocco. You are welcome. Anyway, just very quickly
:19:31. > :19:39.I have something you might be interested in. This is an invention,
:19:39. > :19:43.it's called The Baker Hose. The idea is here, it doesn't get stuck
:19:43. > :19:51.around walls because this is tapered. Give me a shake when he is
:19:51. > :19:55.finished. What do we think? Are we in or out? Philip, where are you?
:19:55. > :19:58.will have a word with Peter Jones. You have done an interesting thing
:19:58. > :20:03.with a pallet. It's amazing what you can do. Look at this, this is
:20:03. > :20:10.what you can do with a pallet. Make a pallet guard and, Hillary. All
:20:10. > :20:16.you need is some plants and a pallet, landscape fabric, compost,
:20:16. > :20:21.line the back of the pallet, fill it with compost. Staple it well.
:20:21. > :20:28.Firm the compost in. Plant as many plants as possible. Make sure the
:20:28. > :20:34.top is really ran down. Leave it on the ground for a fortnight for
:20:34. > :20:44.plants to root into. Stand it up and the flowers will grow cover.
:20:44. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:50.That is unbelievable. There's something for the garden in Morocco.
:20:50. > :21:00.There is more information on our website. Thank you, Christine.
:21:00. > :21:06.
:21:06. > :21:12.one of the last bastions of social life is in decline, the good old
:21:12. > :21:15.working men's club. Three club acts will be performing. We asked
:21:15. > :21:25.Russell Watson to find out how they're adapting to life in the
:21:25. > :21:28.21st century. The Blackpool Philharmonic club,
:21:28. > :21:35.it's been 15 years since I performed here and what immediately
:21:35. > :21:42.strikes me is it hasn't changed a bit. The working men's clubs and
:21:42. > :21:47.institutes union was formed in 1862 by reverend Henry Solly, the clubs
:21:47. > :21:52.were set up as an alternative to pubs, focusing on wholesome sports
:21:52. > :21:56.and games. Within a decade drinking joined these activities and the
:21:56. > :22:03.mould was cast for clubs for the next 150 years. Clubs grew from
:22:03. > :22:11.strength to strength after the war and up until the middle of the
:22:11. > :22:17.1970s where there were over 4,000 clubs that we know about. Follow me.
:22:17. > :22:24.This was - I suppose what you could describe as a bijou dressing room.
:22:24. > :22:29.Your fan heater for the cold months in Blackpool. Of course, every
:22:29. > :22:39.singer's very own personal ashtray. Since the heydey the number of
:22:39. > :22:39.
:22:39. > :22:44.clubs has nosedived to just over 2000 and attendance is dwindling.
:22:44. > :22:47.32 clubs in Blackpool, there are now 15, which to me is a disaster.
:22:47. > :22:51.It's not just Blackpool. It's everywhere in the country. If the
:22:51. > :22:55.club world dies out what do you think you will lose as a society?
:22:55. > :22:58.social gathering place. You come to a club, you sit in a concert room,
:22:58. > :23:05.you don't know the person next to you but in five minutes you are
:23:05. > :23:09.talking to them because everybody is so friendly. In 1972 there were
:23:09. > :23:13.probably around six million people going to clubs on a regular basis,
:23:13. > :23:16.I mean for some men every night and twice at the weekends. Already
:23:16. > :23:25.there were signs they were unpopular with a younger generation
:23:26. > :23:29.and they weren't taking place. It's not all doom and gloom, you
:23:29. > :23:35.know. This is one of the clubs I played at as well. This is thriving
:23:35. > :23:42.at the moment and we are going to find out why.
:23:42. > :23:46.The Bloomfield Club is a mile from the Philharmonic yet it has a
:23:46. > :23:49.three-year waiting list. They've gone back to the roots of the clubs
:23:49. > :23:53.using games, social activities and entertainment to attract the
:23:53. > :23:58.working men and more importantly, their wives. Originally women were
:23:58. > :24:04.only allowed into the clubs on special occasions, for concerts and
:24:04. > :24:09.at weekends, but it was with the arrivals of the Sex Equality Act
:24:09. > :24:13.that by law they had to be allowed to become full members. Nice to see
:24:13. > :24:19.you again. I believe you have something interesting to show me.
:24:19. > :24:26.This is the book of all the artists that appeared in 1997 and as you
:24:26. > :24:30.can see, there you are. Russ Watson. That was a bargain price, pal! What
:24:30. > :24:36.do I attribute to the success of this club? I think the bar prices
:24:37. > :24:41.are right. The entertainment we put on is first-class. We have to put
:24:41. > :24:47.on something which will attract the younger element. It just seems to
:24:47. > :24:51.be that the social clubs aren't their scene, but again to join the
:24:51. > :24:58.local football team with football teams within the club, we have
:24:58. > :25:02.snooker teams, bowls teams, the funds are there for them. With so
:25:02. > :25:07.many clubs struggling they've certainly got their work cut out to
:25:07. > :25:11.ensure the tradition of the working men's clubs continues. To survive
:25:12. > :25:18.they're going to have to move with the times.
:25:18. > :25:23.It's been a real trip down memory lain for me. This is where I served
:25:23. > :25:29.my apprenticeship as an entertainer and it put me in great stead for my
:25:29. > :25:32.career. Is this the end of the working men's club era? I hope not,
:25:32. > :25:37.because it's a great British tradition and hopefully long may it
:25:37. > :25:41.continue. Thank you very much indeed. And
:25:41. > :25:45.thank you all, quieten down, please. Thank you very much. Hi there. Now
:25:45. > :25:48.tonight we thought it would be right to celebrate some of the acts
:25:48. > :25:52.still performing in the clubs circuit. Could there be another
:25:52. > :25:55.star in the making? Hillary, we know you are not somebody who
:25:55. > :25:59.minces your words, so for fun we would like to know which of the
:26:00. > :26:04.three acts you would invest in. Are you comfortable in your dragon's
:26:04. > :26:11.chair? Yes, I would like to take it with me. It's a present from us.
:26:11. > :26:21.First, a comedy impressionist from Derby. Tonight he is Freddie
:26:21. > :26:57.
:26:57. > :27:02.# You thanks, Rick. Next a familiar face on the comedy
:27:02. > :27:05.circuit on the northeast, give it up for Sue Sweeney. There's no
:27:05. > :27:11.money about, is there? I have just been on the market, you will never
:27:11. > :27:17.guess what I saw. Fake Primark jumpers. I didn't know what to wear
:27:17. > :27:21.tonight, nothing fits. My kids said why don't you wear the magic
:27:21. > :27:29.knickers, you can lose 10lb in weight, I said get us two pair.
:27:29. > :27:32.Have you seen the magic knickers, they're this big. It took
:27:32. > :27:37.neighbours and all next door to pull them up on us and you can
:27:37. > :27:42.never get the Guset where it should be. It's a nightmare.
:27:42. > :27:48.Wonderful stuff. Marvellous. Finally, a Swansea
:27:48. > :27:58.tphraeufrt, she's -- favourite. She sings everything from Dame Vera
:27:58. > :28:11.
:28:11. > :28:21.Lynn to Lady Gaga, take it away # Let me get right to the point
:28:21. > :28:36.
:28:36. > :28:42.# Hey big spender What about that. All right, ladies
:28:42. > :28:52.and gentlemen. Well, Big Spender very apt for Hillary. If you had to
:28:52. > :28:53.
:28:53. > :28:56.invest which would it be? It's my era, it's Freddy. What about that?