25/09/2012 The One Show

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

We are joined by one of the biggest girl bands this kouptsry has

produced. Thai massive the world over and even charmed old blue eyes

thims. We're all in the mood for the Nolans! Welcome to The One Show.

You have all arrived safe, but you're worried about getting home.

Suspect it terrible about the floods? Shocking and some it is the

second time in a little time if you know what I mean. If you haven't

been through it yourself, I can't imagine. We're going back up north

after the show. We're worried about the trains. The trains have been

affected. But we will check. can sleep on the sofa! If you have

been affected by the floods, please e-mail us some pictures and we will

show the rest of Britain how bad it has been. Now 75,000 people in the

UK have been given flood warnings by the Environment Agency. Louise

Minchin is in St Helens. It It has been a difficult day through large

parts of the UK. I want to show you pictures from the worst affected

areas. From the north-east in Durham where the River Wear burst

its banks. The River Tees there rose ten foot above its normal Lels.

And in Morpeth, homes there evacuated, 37 residents rescued by

the fire service, because of flooding on the River Wansbeck and

90 residents from the Dawson Plate centre. The Environment Agency are

concerned about you can see where I am here in St Helens the problem,

this water should be four foot below where it is now. And

residents here had to leave their homes, 12 different households

affected. Some had to be taken from their homes in the middle of the

night by firefighters in dinghies. I have been to see the clear up

opgs and to see where it all began. -- operation. Last night for the

first time in 12 years sh this canal burst its banks. The water

has now receded but it is still raining and they have been busy and

this time they're redy. Richard from the council has been leading

the operation. Last night it just burst its banks. Yes straight down

the road and into the houses. about tonight. There is concern it

could app happen again. We have six flood alerts in the area. We have

contractors standing by with a thousand sandbags. So hopefully we

will be OK. Let's hope so, because families don't fancy being struck

twice. It started to flood, me mum rang around 20 to 4 and said there

is bit on the front and the grid is rising. It was like a lake. So it

came through here? Yes through living room and the kitchen and it

came to there. They say it may happen again tonight. What will you

do? We have moved as much stuff as has not been damaged. The homework

as well? The homework is upstairs. I bet you're delighted about that?

Good luck tonight. Thank you. of luck to Debbie and everyone else.

The Environment Agency were hoping to be here, but because of the

conditions they're too busy. They have given me an jub date, saying

their web-site shows 230 flood warnings in England. The north-east

the most at risk. That includes the River Tees, the river Swale and the

the river Ouse could threaten flooding tonight. They say look at

their web-site and also of course stay in touch with local radio

stations. Here I have been watching that water in the last hour and it

has risen about another four inches sm I think the message for people

here is to heed the warnings and stay safe. You just wish good luck

to people. It is terrible in dur lamb where you are from. My mum

said on the forecast the cloud above dur lamb is six miles deep. -

- Durham. I love Durham as well. There was no warning. That is the

worst place. That is the thing. Despite the best efforts of the

forecasters, extreme weather seems to catch us off guard. We look at

how scientists hope to change this. This summer has been one of the

wettest on record. You would think that few people would want any more

rain to fall. But a group of scientists are hoping for more bad

weather, so they can fly this plane into severe weather systems, hoping

to find out more about their workings. And I get to go up with

them. Right into the eye of the storm! At the front of forecasting

in Britain is the Met Office. The observations are fed into a

computer in Exeter. There we have a model. It is like a computer game

showing what is happening over the globe. As computers get more

powerful, the better the predictions come. The four-day

forecasts day as are accurate as the one-day forecasts were in the

80s. There are a few chunky bits. We want to do better. Particularly

severe events, these developments of heavy rain fall that can have a

dramatic impact. Predicting these more accurately will allow for

better flood warnings and prepare people so lives and money are saved.

An important tool for improving the forecasts is what some have dubbed

the Rain Plane. This is a flying laboratory which allows scientists

to get a better understanding of the weather systems in the skies

above us. It may look normal, but it is full of probes on the outside

and the inside is full of instruments and computers. By

flying this into storms, one thing they will be able to do is compare

what was forecast by the computer against what is really happening.

If there are any differences, they will work out why and use this to

help refine weather models. The skrieptirss -- scientist and I have

been on stand by for the perfect storm. It is atrocious. It is

teeming down. This is what we have been waiting for. So it is action

stations to take off from Cranfield as soon as possible. It takes a

special pilot to carry out the tricky and dangerous manoeuvre u

manoeuvres required. The flying we do can vary from Va'a low level to

high level and whatever threfl scientists require for us. In safe

hands we head to the storm front. It is over Northern Ireland. What

we are interested in doing is finding out what structures there

are, so the temperature structure, the humidity and where the

precipitation is. Because Ian is the lead scientist, he sits on the

flight deck. The pilots take the plane to the weather system and Ian

decides where is the best place to be get the data. We're flying at

11,000 feet, going straight for precipitation band. So we're about

to head into the storm. The crew are excited. I'm slightly nervous.

Because they keep telling me it will be very bumpy. Inside the

storm the scientist collect as much information as they can. From probs

positioned all over the aircraft. And there is no other way of

collecting the data. A series of devices called drop songs are

ejected from the plane. Songs gone. As they go down, sensors beam back

a profile of the atmosphere. After going through storm front several

times, the scientists have collected a lot of data. And that

will help refine the Met Office weather model, making flood

predictions more accurate. It has been a bumpy ride, but I for one am

going to be glads to be back on the ground. -- glad to be back on the

ground. Hopefully after this bad weather, something good will come

from this. You have joined us ladies... At a sad time. You are

talking about your farewell tour. Everyone's gutted. Why have 0 years

have you decided it is time to say goodbye. After our reunion tour, we

had such a good time and we just thought that before we get too old

and wait 15 years to co-a -- do a farewell dour, we would do it. We

feel we owe to it a lot of fans who have been with us all the way

through and while we're still able to do its. We want to say goodbye

properly. With our own hips. how else will you be saying

goodbye? It will be an amazing tour. The last one was great and the

audience loved it. This will be sad, but it will be full of great songs,

a party for everyone. We're hoping in Nottingham in February, where we

opened last time. But last time we did two shows this time there is

only one. But we wanted to open there, because it was great the

last time. And we're finally doing Wembley. We have never done it.

Really? Never played Wembley. can finally say on 8th March that

is. And this time it will be quite sad for us. We're going to show

lots of old photographs and footage. Because it is a farewell tour and

you have a monthage. And we start with a lovely shot of you. Look at

this. Oh! # I only know I'm lonely and that I want you only # I don't

know why I Lo you, but I do! # Weave got -- we've got the Kem

triright, we didn't have to turn on the love light. # Lay that pistol

down boy, pistol-packing pop Palais that pistol down. # I feel like

dancing # So come on and hold me tight # That was brilliant. There

was more oohs and ahs than I have ever heard. Where did you find

that? I look like Lenny The Lion. She looks like her little boy Jake,

who is 206789 she looks like Jake in a frock. He will be so pleased

you said that. It will be sad. You were so popular. You toured with

Frank Sinatra. We did in 1975. And what was brilliant apart from that

we were fans, he was sent tapes of five British groups and he chose us.

And that made it more special. did you hear he had chosen you.

phone call, by the way you have got the tour. Next year is our 50th

anniversary of being in show business. I know Coleen is only 57.

But we were established before you We were singing with mum and dad

since we were tiny. That's the thing, the line-up has changed

quite dramatically, because your brothers were also involved at one

point. What impact did it have when it came down to the four of you?

How did that changed things in the house? My brothers, they had the

opportunity to come with us, we were all going to go as a family to

London. But at the time, they were both engaged and madly in love, so

they decided not to come. That was their choice. My older brother is

very happy and does not regret it, but the younger one perhaps thinks,

we should have gone. But they are happy now, so... Have you heard

about this craze which is sweeping the nation, where you can go online

and we create a picture from the past? No. We did ask due to take a

photograph, didn't we? This was the original, the album cover, from

1980. And this is the Recreation, for 2012. There you go! It's quite

good, actually. Well, the Nolans Farewell Tour starts in Nottingham

in February, and goes right around the country, before finishing in

Liverpool. To help fans through this very difficult time, Phil is

offering his services, and he will be manning the "Nolan crisis

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 96 seconds

His worbgs of art can be found throughout London. Ben special si

ty is painting personal requests for people who approach him while

he is working on the street. This is for a family from Boston and it

was the mother came up and wanted a picture for her daughter. There is

a lovely one there. That is for some school kids. Ben has been

painting chewing gum pictures since 2004 and has completed thousands

upon thousands of them. He records thes he gets in a book. Today, he

is painting one for Lorna from the local library. Do you chew gum

yourself? No, I hate the stuff. has been painting around here for

so long that the local council and police seem to view him as a unique

community artist. Each time you do a different picture, you learn

about a different person's life. I love playing with colours and see

what they do. Different combinations of colours. The

picture's sorted. So all I have to do is, the last part of the process,

which is to laquer the picture and that means ill will -- it will last

longer. Doo you worry you're encouraging people to spit out gum?

No, I'm work with it and changing it and making it more positive N a

way I'm making people think. Everything that people do,

everything that each person does has an effect. So it eabout people

taking responsibility. -- it is about people taking responsibility.

Now Ben has finished the painting, what does Lorna who, requested it,

think. It look perfect. The detail's brilliant. Lovely to have

it celebrated. It is, yes. I will take some pictures. Thank you.

is a shame Ben has so many pieces of gum to choose from. The streets

would be a lot nicer if people just put it in the Ben. Yes. Total

agreement there. Pick it up and put nit bin, never mind paint pg it.

Well you may change your mind, Phil is here. I have a gift from Ben the

artist. Some art work for you. at the detail on it. Blackpool

Tower and a shamrock. I think that is juicy fruit that flavour.

could have warned me. I feel terrible. That would look lovely in

my lounge. That is very clever. saw Ben there, but street art is

not a new concept? No Walter Kershaw painted the side of

buildings in the 70s. There is a picture of it there, beautiful

flowers there and also urinals, anything he could get his hands on.

So brighten his neighbourhood up. There is the urinal. You wouldn't

mind spending a penny there. Brighten your day up. The only

trouble with it, it was usually on the side of slum houses. So they

got knocked down. That was a shame. Now word on Morecambe fish. Yes.

There is a big blue hoarding. Every night someone comes and paints

schools of fish on it. But it is a mystery, because no one knows who

the artist is. Now they will be sitting there waiting. The locals

are asking to find out who it is. But I think it is nice. It is nice

not to know. It brightens the praise -- place up. And Mr Catch-22

is with us. And look what he has done. That is for you girls. A

tribute to the Nolans. Done with spray paint. Oh I love you. I want

that. You look better on your painting. That will be in the

Blackpool tourist information centre. We're in Blackpool as well

at the opera house. There you go. local lad as well from Blackpool.

Are you marryed? I'm the single one. I'm the available one. We will have

to do a few copies. And thank you Phil, nice to see you as always.

Now not everyone got a grow up as part of a big family. We met one

group of abandoned children who had to look elsewhere for their sense

of home. I'm nobody's child # I'm nobody's child. This orphanage was

one of the last institution of its kind in Britain. It started in 1875

when a small cottage in Aberlour in Scotland opened its doors to four

motherless children. By 1928 it had some 500 children. Many of whom

were not actually orphans, but simply poor frurbgs broken homes or

of single parent family. And their time would shape them for the rest

of their lives. This year is the by Sen tenry of the village and it is

holding a reunion for some of the old boys and girls from the

orphanage. One who has travelled furtherest to come is professor

David devine who, lives in can dafplt he lived there -- in can

dafplt he lived there from 18 months to 11. My mother's family

were horrified on the fact that there was a black child in the

community and that they're daughter had produced this black child. Part

of the functioning of the orphanage was to rescue the children from

often mall treatment, take them into a country setting and

basically rebuild the children and prepare them for adulthood. Now,

people say, God this is dick yensian. But the reality is what

life did we as children have before they orphanage? The orphanage is

salvation for us. One of the key elements of the structure was that

each child was allocated a house mother or father. For David, this

was aunty Phyllis. I recognise the back of that head! Hello. Nice to

see you again. Lovely to see you. David talks about you devoting so

much time and you treated each child as your own. I hope I did. I

don't think I ever sort of chose one in particular. Maybe one sticks

out in my mind more than others. We had a story at bedtime. I remember.

And it was going around all the beds and tucking them in and

kissing them good night. She gave us the strength to believe that we

were OK and we were loved and that we were worthy of love. Because

most of us had been dumped, ditched, and we had no one. All we had were

care staff like aunty Phyllis and I adore this woman. You will have me

in tears! Ron was taken into the orphanage at one-year-old and

stayed there until he was 14. Partly because the orphanage kept

boys and girls segregated, he was seven before he realised that other

members of his family were in there with him. My pal said, you see that

girl, there that is your sister. That is how you found out? Yes I

was taken aback. As a child, I never thought much of it. This was

my first introduction of being introduced to my brothers and

sisters. It is only since I left that I got to know them. Our

parents were not abusive or alcoholic, but they couldn't cope

with with the number of children in these small buildings. I enjoyed my

time at Aberlour and somebody was making sure I was getting fed and

if I went to school, there was a struck skhrur in the school. For me,

I was happy and I was perfectly happy. Today Aberlour orphanage,

now the child care trust is Scotland's largest children's

charity. But the orphanage cos closed in 1967. All that remain

today is the clock tower. We come Albaqaa to touch base with

something that was fundamentally important us to. If I hadn't had

that lovely feeling of being wanted and respected and loved, I don't

know where I would be today. You as flame lived next to... We lived

next toted an orphanage. We were touch a -- next to and orphanage.

And we had such a loving family and they were lost, but also saved by

the orphanage. And you're in the process of forestering? I'm laugh

way through, hopefully will be -- I'm half way through and hopefully

will be fostering baby and doing emergency care. You can see what

that second chance means. Yes I never had children of my own, I let

my career get in the way and it is my only regret in life. I thought

when my husband passed away and I found it difficult to be a solo

performer, I can do wit the girls, I thought what can I do, I thought

we had such a great close family that it would be nice to make a

child feel wanted. Well good luck. Now earlier we asked for pictures

if you had floods, we have had a lot of pictures. Yes, this is from

Craig in York. He took this on the river Ouse this morning. Even the

narrow boats are disappearing. is just from yesterday's floods

from Natalie what is interesting is the guy is on the cat and the cat

the guy is on the cat and the cat under his coat. It is a shame for

the animals. This is from sheep wash in Northumberland, which is

obviously a place, living up to its name with this dramatic sheep

rescue. This look like a snow storm. But this is Aberdeen harbour. It is

all the froth from the sea. This is the river in Durham from Hilary

Gibson. Look how deep the car is. know that so well. If you're

affected by the floods, stay in touch with the Environment Agency