:00:21. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to The One Show with alenges Jones and Matt Baker.
:00:27. > :00:32.We are joined by one of the biggest girl bands this kouptsry has
:00:32. > :00:42.produced. Thai massive the world over and even charmed old blue eyes
:00:42. > :00:45.
:00:45. > :00:49.thims. We're all in the mood for the Nolans! Welcome to The One Show.
:00:49. > :00:54.You have all arrived safe, but you're worried about getting home.
:00:54. > :00:59.Suspect it terrible about the floods? Shocking and some it is the
:00:59. > :01:04.second time in a little time if you know what I mean. If you haven't
:01:04. > :01:10.been through it yourself, I can't imagine. We're going back up north
:01:10. > :01:18.after the show. We're worried about the trains. The trains have been
:01:18. > :01:23.affected. But we will check. can sleep on the sofa! If you have
:01:23. > :01:29.been affected by the floods, please e-mail us some pictures and we will
:01:29. > :01:33.show the rest of Britain how bad it has been. Now 75,000 people in the
:01:33. > :01:42.UK have been given flood warnings by the Environment Agency. Louise
:01:43. > :01:49.Minchin is in St Helens. It It has been a difficult day through large
:01:49. > :01:55.parts of the UK. I want to show you pictures from the worst affected
:01:55. > :02:05.areas. From the north-east in Durham where the River Wear burst
:02:05. > :02:08.
:02:08. > :02:15.its banks. The River Tees there rose ten foot above its normal Lels.
:02:15. > :02:22.And in Morpeth, homes there evacuated, 37 residents rescued by
:02:22. > :02:28.the fire service, because of flooding on the River Wansbeck and
:02:28. > :02:34.90 residents from the Dawson Plate centre. The Environment Agency are
:02:34. > :02:38.concerned about you can see where I am here in St Helens the problem,
:02:38. > :02:43.this water should be four foot below where it is now. And
:02:43. > :02:46.residents here had to leave their homes, 12 different households
:02:47. > :02:50.affected. Some had to be taken from their homes in the middle of the
:02:50. > :02:56.night by firefighters in dinghies. I have been to see the clear up
:02:56. > :03:05.opgs and to see where it all began. -- operation. Last night for the
:03:05. > :03:11.first time in 12 years sh this canal burst its banks. The water
:03:11. > :03:18.has now receded but it is still raining and they have been busy and
:03:18. > :03:21.this time they're redy. Richard from the council has been leading
:03:21. > :03:27.the operation. Last night it just burst its banks. Yes straight down
:03:27. > :03:31.the road and into the houses. about tonight. There is concern it
:03:32. > :03:35.could app happen again. We have six flood alerts in the area. We have
:03:35. > :03:41.contractors standing by with a thousand sandbags. So hopefully we
:03:42. > :03:50.will be OK. Let's hope so, because families don't fancy being struck
:03:50. > :03:56.twice. It started to flood, me mum rang around 20 to 4 and said there
:03:56. > :04:00.is bit on the front and the grid is rising. It was like a lake. So it
:04:00. > :04:05.came through here? Yes through living room and the kitchen and it
:04:05. > :04:13.came to there. They say it may happen again tonight. What will you
:04:13. > :04:20.do? We have moved as much stuff as has not been damaged. The homework
:04:20. > :04:27.as well? The homework is upstairs. I bet you're delighted about that?
:04:27. > :04:30.Good luck tonight. Thank you. of luck to Debbie and everyone else.
:04:30. > :04:36.The Environment Agency were hoping to be here, but because of the
:04:36. > :04:40.conditions they're too busy. They have given me an jub date, saying
:04:40. > :04:48.their web-site shows 230 flood warnings in England. The north-east
:04:48. > :04:55.the most at risk. That includes the River Tees, the river Swale and the
:04:55. > :04:59.the river Ouse could threaten flooding tonight. They say look at
:04:59. > :05:04.their web-site and also of course stay in touch with local radio
:05:04. > :05:12.stations. Here I have been watching that water in the last hour and it
:05:12. > :05:17.has risen about another four inches sm I think the message for people
:05:18. > :05:22.here is to heed the warnings and stay safe. You just wish good luck
:05:22. > :05:29.to people. It is terrible in dur lamb where you are from. My mum
:05:29. > :05:34.said on the forecast the cloud above dur lamb is six miles deep. -
:05:34. > :05:40.- Durham. I love Durham as well. There was no warning. That is the
:05:40. > :05:45.worst place. That is the thing. Despite the best efforts of the
:05:46. > :05:49.forecasters, extreme weather seems to catch us off guard. We look at
:05:49. > :05:53.how scientists hope to change this. This summer has been one of the
:05:53. > :05:57.wettest on record. You would think that few people would want any more
:05:57. > :06:02.rain to fall. But a group of scientists are hoping for more bad
:06:02. > :06:07.weather, so they can fly this plane into severe weather systems, hoping
:06:07. > :06:13.to find out more about their workings. And I get to go up with
:06:13. > :06:23.them. Right into the eye of the storm! At the front of forecasting
:06:23. > :06:30.in Britain is the Met Office. The observations are fed into a
:06:30. > :06:36.computer in Exeter. There we have a model. It is like a computer game
:06:36. > :06:41.showing what is happening over the globe. As computers get more
:06:41. > :06:46.powerful, the better the predictions come. The four-day
:06:46. > :06:52.forecasts day as are accurate as the one-day forecasts were in the
:06:52. > :06:59.80s. There are a few chunky bits. We want to do better. Particularly
:06:59. > :07:03.severe events, these developments of heavy rain fall that can have a
:07:03. > :07:10.dramatic impact. Predicting these more accurately will allow for
:07:10. > :07:14.better flood warnings and prepare people so lives and money are saved.
:07:14. > :07:20.An important tool for improving the forecasts is what some have dubbed
:07:20. > :07:23.the Rain Plane. This is a flying laboratory which allows scientists
:07:23. > :07:29.to get a better understanding of the weather systems in the skies
:07:29. > :07:34.above us. It may look normal, but it is full of probes on the outside
:07:34. > :07:38.and the inside is full of instruments and computers. By
:07:38. > :07:43.flying this into storms, one thing they will be able to do is compare
:07:43. > :07:48.what was forecast by the computer against what is really happening.
:07:48. > :07:58.If there are any differences, they will work out why and use this to
:07:58. > :08:02.help refine weather models. The skrieptirss -- scientist and I have
:08:02. > :08:06.been on stand by for the perfect storm. It is atrocious. It is
:08:06. > :08:14.teeming down. This is what we have been waiting for. So it is action
:08:14. > :08:20.stations to take off from Cranfield as soon as possible. It takes a
:08:20. > :08:26.special pilot to carry out the tricky and dangerous manoeuvre u
:08:26. > :08:33.manoeuvres required. The flying we do can vary from Va'a low level to
:08:33. > :08:40.high level and whatever threfl scientists require for us. In safe
:08:40. > :08:45.hands we head to the storm front. It is over Northern Ireland. What
:08:45. > :08:51.we are interested in doing is finding out what structures there
:08:51. > :08:55.are, so the temperature structure, the humidity and where the
:08:55. > :09:00.precipitation is. Because Ian is the lead scientist, he sits on the
:09:00. > :09:10.flight deck. The pilots take the plane to the weather system and Ian
:09:10. > :09:16.decides where is the best place to be get the data. We're flying at
:09:16. > :09:20.11,000 feet, going straight for precipitation band. So we're about
:09:21. > :09:30.to head into the storm. The crew are excited. I'm slightly nervous.
:09:31. > :09:33.
:09:33. > :09:37.Because they keep telling me it will be very bumpy. Inside the
:09:37. > :09:43.storm the scientist collect as much information as they can. From probs
:09:43. > :09:50.positioned all over the aircraft. And there is no other way of
:09:50. > :09:59.collecting the data. A series of devices called drop songs are
:09:59. > :10:09.ejected from the plane. Songs gone. As they go down, sensors beam back
:10:09. > :10:11.
:10:11. > :10:17.a profile of the atmosphere. After going through storm front several
:10:17. > :10:22.times, the scientists have collected a lot of data. And that
:10:22. > :10:27.will help refine the Met Office weather model, making flood
:10:27. > :10:32.predictions more accurate. It has been a bumpy ride, but I for one am
:10:32. > :10:37.going to be glads to be back on the ground. -- glad to be back on the
:10:37. > :10:45.ground. Hopefully after this bad weather, something good will come
:10:45. > :10:55.from this. You have joined us ladies... At a sad time. You are
:10:55. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :11:03.talking about your farewell tour. Everyone's gutted. Why have 0 years
:11:03. > :11:08.have you decided it is time to say goodbye. After our reunion tour, we
:11:09. > :11:14.had such a good time and we just thought that before we get too old
:11:14. > :11:18.and wait 15 years to co-a -- do a farewell dour, we would do it. We
:11:18. > :11:26.feel we owe to it a lot of fans who have been with us all the way
:11:26. > :11:32.through and while we're still able to do its. We want to say goodbye
:11:32. > :11:36.properly. With our own hips. how else will you be saying
:11:36. > :11:42.goodbye? It will be an amazing tour. The last one was great and the
:11:42. > :11:45.audience loved it. This will be sad, but it will be full of great songs,
:11:45. > :11:52.a party for everyone. We're hoping in Nottingham in February, where we
:11:52. > :11:57.opened last time. But last time we did two shows this time there is
:11:57. > :12:02.only one. But we wanted to open there, because it was great the
:12:02. > :12:08.last time. And we're finally doing Wembley. We have never done it.
:12:08. > :12:15.Really? Never played Wembley. can finally say on 8th March that
:12:15. > :12:23.is. And this time it will be quite sad for us. We're going to show
:12:23. > :12:32.lots of old photographs and footage. Because it is a farewell tour and
:12:32. > :12:42.you have a monthage. And we start with a lovely shot of you. Look at
:12:42. > :12:42.
:12:42. > :12:52.this. Oh! # I only know I'm lonely and that I want you only # I don't
:12:52. > :12:53.
:12:53. > :13:02.know why I Lo you, but I do! # Weave got -- we've got the Kem
:13:02. > :13:11.triright, we didn't have to turn on the love light. # Lay that pistol
:13:11. > :13:19.down boy, pistol-packing pop Palais that pistol down. # I feel like
:13:19. > :13:27.dancing # So come on and hold me tight # That was brilliant. There
:13:27. > :13:32.was more oohs and ahs than I have ever heard. Where did you find
:13:32. > :13:37.that? I look like Lenny The Lion. She looks like her little boy Jake,
:13:38. > :13:44.who is 206789 she looks like Jake in a frock. He will be so pleased
:13:44. > :13:51.you said that. It will be sad. You were so popular. You toured with
:13:51. > :13:57.Frank Sinatra. We did in 1975. And what was brilliant apart from that
:13:57. > :14:02.we were fans, he was sent tapes of five British groups and he chose us.
:14:02. > :14:09.And that made it more special. did you hear he had chosen you.
:14:09. > :14:14.phone call, by the way you have got the tour. Next year is our 50th
:14:14. > :14:24.anniversary of being in show business. I know Coleen is only 57.
:14:24. > :14:27.
:14:27. > :14:31.But we were established before you We were singing with mum and dad
:14:31. > :14:35.since we were tiny. That's the thing, the line-up has changed
:14:35. > :14:39.quite dramatically, because your brothers were also involved at one
:14:39. > :14:44.point. What impact did it have when it came down to the four of you?
:14:44. > :14:48.How did that changed things in the house? My brothers, they had the
:14:48. > :14:53.opportunity to come with us, we were all going to go as a family to
:14:53. > :14:58.London. But at the time, they were both engaged and madly in love, so
:14:58. > :15:02.they decided not to come. That was their choice. My older brother is
:15:02. > :15:09.very happy and does not regret it, but the younger one perhaps thinks,
:15:09. > :15:13.we should have gone. But they are happy now, so... Have you heard
:15:13. > :15:19.about this craze which is sweeping the nation, where you can go online
:15:19. > :15:25.and we create a picture from the past? No. We did ask due to take a
:15:25. > :15:35.photograph, didn't we? This was the original, the album cover, from
:15:35. > :15:36.
:15:36. > :15:43.1980. And this is the Recreation, for 2012. There you go! It's quite
:15:43. > :15:47.good, actually. Well, the Nolans Farewell Tour starts in Nottingham
:15:47. > :15:55.in February, and goes right around the country, before finishing in
:15:55. > :15:58.Liverpool. To help fans through this very difficult time, Phil is
:15:58. > :16:08.offering his services, and he will be manning the "Nolan crisis
:16:08. > :16:08.
:16:08. > :17:44.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 96 seconds
:17:44. > :17:47.His worbgs of art can be found throughout London. Ben special si
:17:47. > :17:55.ty is painting personal requests for people who approach him while
:17:55. > :18:01.he is working on the street. This is for a family from Boston and it
:18:01. > :18:06.was the mother came up and wanted a picture for her daughter. There is
:18:06. > :18:12.a lovely one there. That is for some school kids. Ben has been
:18:12. > :18:17.painting chewing gum pictures since 2004 and has completed thousands
:18:17. > :18:25.upon thousands of them. He records thes he gets in a book. Today, he
:18:25. > :18:30.is painting one for Lorna from the local library. Do you chew gum
:18:30. > :18:35.yourself? No, I hate the stuff. has been painting around here for
:18:35. > :18:41.so long that the local council and police seem to view him as a unique
:18:41. > :18:46.community artist. Each time you do a different picture, you learn
:18:46. > :18:51.about a different person's life. I love playing with colours and see
:18:51. > :18:57.what they do. Different combinations of colours. The
:18:57. > :19:04.picture's sorted. So all I have to do is, the last part of the process,
:19:04. > :19:08.which is to laquer the picture and that means ill will -- it will last
:19:08. > :19:13.longer. Doo you worry you're encouraging people to spit out gum?
:19:13. > :19:17.No, I'm work with it and changing it and making it more positive N a
:19:17. > :19:22.way I'm making people think. Everything that people do,
:19:22. > :19:27.everything that each person does has an effect. So it eabout people
:19:27. > :19:32.taking responsibility. -- it is about people taking responsibility.
:19:32. > :19:38.Now Ben has finished the painting, what does Lorna who, requested it,
:19:38. > :19:45.think. It look perfect. The detail's brilliant. Lovely to have
:19:45. > :19:50.it celebrated. It is, yes. I will take some pictures. Thank you.
:19:50. > :19:58.is a shame Ben has so many pieces of gum to choose from. The streets
:19:58. > :20:03.would be a lot nicer if people just put it in the Ben. Yes. Total
:20:03. > :20:09.agreement there. Pick it up and put nit bin, never mind paint pg it.
:20:09. > :20:15.Well you may change your mind, Phil is here. I have a gift from Ben the
:20:15. > :20:20.artist. Some art work for you. at the detail on it. Blackpool
:20:20. > :20:26.Tower and a shamrock. I think that is juicy fruit that flavour.
:20:26. > :20:35.could have warned me. I feel terrible. That would look lovely in
:20:36. > :20:40.my lounge. That is very clever. saw Ben there, but street art is
:20:40. > :20:44.not a new concept? No Walter Kershaw painted the side of
:20:44. > :20:51.buildings in the 70s. There is a picture of it there, beautiful
:20:51. > :20:56.flowers there and also urinals, anything he could get his hands on.
:20:56. > :21:00.So brighten his neighbourhood up. There is the urinal. You wouldn't
:21:00. > :21:05.mind spending a penny there. Brighten your day up. The only
:21:05. > :21:14.trouble with it, it was usually on the side of slum houses. So they
:21:14. > :21:19.got knocked down. That was a shame. Now word on Morecambe fish. Yes.
:21:19. > :21:24.There is a big blue hoarding. Every night someone comes and paints
:21:24. > :21:28.schools of fish on it. But it is a mystery, because no one knows who
:21:28. > :21:33.the artist is. Now they will be sitting there waiting. The locals
:21:34. > :21:42.are asking to find out who it is. But I think it is nice. It is nice
:21:42. > :21:47.not to know. It brightens the praise -- place up. And Mr Catch-22
:21:47. > :21:54.is with us. And look what he has done. That is for you girls. A
:21:54. > :21:59.tribute to the Nolans. Done with spray paint. Oh I love you. I want
:21:59. > :22:03.that. You look better on your painting. That will be in the
:22:03. > :22:11.Blackpool tourist information centre. We're in Blackpool as well
:22:11. > :22:18.at the opera house. There you go. local lad as well from Blackpool.
:22:18. > :22:24.Are you marryed? I'm the single one. I'm the available one. We will have
:22:24. > :22:31.to do a few copies. And thank you Phil, nice to see you as always.
:22:31. > :22:37.Now not everyone got a grow up as part of a big family. We met one
:22:37. > :22:43.group of abandoned children who had to look elsewhere for their sense
:22:43. > :22:50.of home. I'm nobody's child # I'm nobody's child. This orphanage was
:22:50. > :22:57.one of the last institution of its kind in Britain. It started in 1875
:22:57. > :23:02.when a small cottage in Aberlour in Scotland opened its doors to four
:23:02. > :23:09.motherless children. By 1928 it had some 500 children. Many of whom
:23:09. > :23:16.were not actually orphans, but simply poor frurbgs broken homes or
:23:16. > :23:23.of single parent family. And their time would shape them for the rest
:23:23. > :23:28.of their lives. This year is the by Sen tenry of the village and it is
:23:28. > :23:33.holding a reunion for some of the old boys and girls from the
:23:33. > :23:39.orphanage. One who has travelled furtherest to come is professor
:23:39. > :23:44.David devine who, lives in can dafplt he lived there -- in can
:23:44. > :23:47.dafplt he lived there from 18 months to 11. My mother's family
:23:48. > :23:52.were horrified on the fact that there was a black child in the
:23:52. > :23:58.community and that they're daughter had produced this black child. Part
:23:58. > :24:04.of the functioning of the orphanage was to rescue the children from
:24:04. > :24:09.often mall treatment, take them into a country setting and
:24:10. > :24:16.basically rebuild the children and prepare them for adulthood. Now,
:24:16. > :24:22.people say, God this is dick yensian. But the reality is what
:24:22. > :24:26.life did we as children have before they orphanage? The orphanage is
:24:26. > :24:31.salvation for us. One of the key elements of the structure was that
:24:31. > :24:38.each child was allocated a house mother or father. For David, this
:24:38. > :24:46.was aunty Phyllis. I recognise the back of that head! Hello. Nice to
:24:46. > :24:50.see you again. Lovely to see you. David talks about you devoting so
:24:50. > :24:56.much time and you treated each child as your own. I hope I did. I
:24:56. > :25:01.don't think I ever sort of chose one in particular. Maybe one sticks
:25:01. > :25:04.out in my mind more than others. We had a story at bedtime. I remember.
:25:04. > :25:09.And it was going around all the beds and tucking them in and
:25:09. > :25:14.kissing them good night. She gave us the strength to believe that we
:25:14. > :25:21.were OK and we were loved and that we were worthy of love. Because
:25:21. > :25:27.most of us had been dumped, ditched, and we had no one. All we had were
:25:27. > :25:33.care staff like aunty Phyllis and I adore this woman. You will have me
:25:33. > :25:38.in tears! Ron was taken into the orphanage at one-year-old and
:25:38. > :25:42.stayed there until he was 14. Partly because the orphanage kept
:25:42. > :25:47.boys and girls segregated, he was seven before he realised that other
:25:47. > :25:52.members of his family were in there with him. My pal said, you see that
:25:52. > :25:57.girl, there that is your sister. That is how you found out? Yes I
:25:57. > :26:01.was taken aback. As a child, I never thought much of it. This was
:26:01. > :26:05.my first introduction of being introduced to my brothers and
:26:05. > :26:08.sisters. It is only since I left that I got to know them. Our
:26:08. > :26:14.parents were not abusive or alcoholic, but they couldn't cope
:26:14. > :26:18.with with the number of children in these small buildings. I enjoyed my
:26:18. > :26:23.time at Aberlour and somebody was making sure I was getting fed and
:26:23. > :26:30.if I went to school, there was a struck skhrur in the school. For me,
:26:30. > :26:34.I was happy and I was perfectly happy. Today Aberlour orphanage,
:26:34. > :26:39.now the child care trust is Scotland's largest children's
:26:39. > :26:45.charity. But the orphanage cos closed in 1967. All that remain
:26:45. > :26:48.today is the clock tower. We come Albaqaa to touch base with
:26:48. > :26:53.something that was fundamentally important us to. If I hadn't had
:26:53. > :27:03.that lovely feeling of being wanted and respected and loved, I don't
:27:03. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:17.know where I would be today. You as flame lived next to... We lived
:27:17. > :27:23.next toted an orphanage. We were touch a -- next to and orphanage.
:27:23. > :27:30.And we had such a loving family and they were lost, but also saved by
:27:30. > :27:34.the orphanage. And you're in the process of forestering? I'm laugh
:27:34. > :27:39.way through, hopefully will be -- I'm half way through and hopefully
:27:39. > :27:45.will be fostering baby and doing emergency care. You can see what
:27:45. > :27:50.that second chance means. Yes I never had children of my own, I let
:27:50. > :27:54.my career get in the way and it is my only regret in life. I thought
:27:54. > :28:00.when my husband passed away and I found it difficult to be a solo
:28:00. > :28:05.performer, I can do wit the girls, I thought what can I do, I thought
:28:05. > :28:11.we had such a great close family that it would be nice to make a
:28:11. > :28:17.child feel wanted. Well good luck. Now earlier we asked for pictures
:28:17. > :28:25.if you had floods, we have had a lot of pictures. Yes, this is from
:28:25. > :28:30.Craig in York. He took this on the river Ouse this morning. Even the
:28:30. > :28:37.narrow boats are disappearing. is just from yesterday's floods
:28:37. > :28:41.from Natalie what is interesting is the guy is on the cat and the cat
:28:41. > :28:47.the guy is on the cat and the cat under his coat. It is a shame for
:28:47. > :28:52.the animals. This is from sheep wash in Northumberland, which is
:28:52. > :29:02.obviously a place, living up to its name with this dramatic sheep
:29:02. > :29:07.rescue. This look like a snow storm. But this is Aberdeen harbour. It is
:29:07. > :29:11.all the froth from the sea. This is the river in Durham from Hilary
:29:11. > :29:15.Gibson. Look how deep the car is. know that so well. If you're
:29:16. > :29:20.affected by the floods, stay in touch with the Environment Agency