:00:19. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to the One Show, with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones.
:00:23. > :00:27.Tonight we are joined by a real hard man. He has tackled near Nazi
:00:27. > :00:35.skinheads in California. Confronted policemen in Brazil. Been shot at
:00:35. > :00:39.in Afghanistan. And even stood up to Peggy Mitchell. It is Ross Kemp.
:00:39. > :00:44.Good to see you. Thankfully, you are here, because you have had a
:00:44. > :00:50.nightmare. I capitulated to the London traffic and dumped on the
:00:50. > :00:55.tube and got here. It is good lock out there. I have just got back
:00:55. > :01:00.from Afghanistan, and that was easier than getting here. It is
:01:00. > :01:04.quite hot out there, there but not as hot as Afghanistan. My
:01:04. > :01:08.sympathies to everybody stuck there at the moment. The hottest place in
:01:08. > :01:14.the UK today was Gravesend in Kent, where they recorded a whopping 32
:01:14. > :01:18.degrees. But the thunderclouds have stopped the farm. So if it is
:01:18. > :01:22.raining or hailing way you are, send us a picture of somebody stood
:01:22. > :01:30.outside, braving the elements. Could be yourself, the family, or a
:01:30. > :01:36.pet. This week may see more people go on strike than at any time since
:01:36. > :01:40.the 1920s. Our Economics man, Adam Shaw, has joined us. What is going
:01:40. > :01:44.on on Thursday? A lot of unions are going on strike, principally
:01:44. > :01:49.teachers, but also the civil service union. The big effect will
:01:49. > :01:52.be a secondary effect. If you teach us do not turn up, you cannot turn
:01:52. > :01:58.up to work if you have to look after the kids. So if you run a
:01:58. > :02:02.hospital or whatever, that will close down. That will be the tough
:02:02. > :02:06.thing. The whole country could close down.
:02:06. > :02:11.Now, some people believe public sector workers have it too easy.
:02:11. > :02:19.One of those is except -- ex- Apprentice motor-mouth Katy Hopkins.
:02:19. > :02:23.We asked her to express her opinions. This is strong stuff.
:02:23. > :02:27.According to research by the think tank the Policy Exchange, over
:02:27. > :02:32.their working life, people in the private sector work equivalent of
:02:32. > :02:36.9.2 years extra than those in the public sector. Whilst any claim
:02:36. > :02:42.that this is always disputed, in my opinion, there is more than just a
:02:42. > :02:47.bit of truth in it. And unlike many, I am prepared to say so. These use
:02:47. > :02:51.our mind and not those of the BBC. I have been told to make that clear.
:02:51. > :02:55.I work in the private sector, and whilst I know we might be comparing
:02:55. > :03:00.different roles here, according to the Office of National Statistics,
:03:00. > :03:04.the average level of full-time earnings is 17% higher in the
:03:04. > :03:09.public sector, with the gap growing. Yet the private sector still
:03:09. > :03:12.thrives. The Government say how familiarly in jobs have been
:03:12. > :03:16.created by private business, helping to plug the gap from those
:03:16. > :03:21.being lost in the public sector. It is hoped that this will continue as
:03:21. > :03:24.the cuts begin to bite. But was the private sector are working hard to
:03:24. > :03:32.make this happen, the cosy, protected public sector seemed
:03:32. > :03:38.intent on throwing their dummies out of the pram and going on strike.
:03:38. > :03:41.No ifs, no buts, no public service cuts! You can go in now. It is no
:03:41. > :03:46.secret that public sector workers are a bunch of clock-watching,
:03:46. > :03:51.boring Brians. We all know that frontline staff, teachers, nurses
:03:51. > :03:54.and firefighters, are incredibly hard-working. But for me, the pen
:03:54. > :03:59.pushing public sector workers will never know what it really means to
:03:59. > :04:02.put in the hours. Striking is just another day out of the office. One
:04:02. > :04:07.place this you will not go down well is that the conference of one
:04:07. > :04:11.of the largest public sector unions, Unison. From a private sector
:04:11. > :04:15.perspective, I would say we get in earlier, work harder, work till
:04:15. > :04:20.later. That is how we are dealing with tough times and the recession.
:04:20. > :04:24.We are working longer and harder. The way the public sector is
:04:24. > :04:29.dealing with the recession is a strike. What is your response?
:04:29. > :04:33.have a two-year pay freeze. There has not been a strike over that.
:04:33. > :04:37.There is an attack on terms and conditions of service and no
:04:37. > :04:42.striking over that. But there is an issue now about pensions. Everybody
:04:42. > :04:47.is frightened about their future. They are frightened about working
:04:47. > :04:51.until they are 68. They are frightened about contributing 50%
:04:51. > :04:55.more towards their pension, and at a time when things are so difficult,
:04:55. > :04:59.they may not be able to afford to make that contribution. If they
:04:59. > :05:04.cannot contribute to their pension, they will not have much to retire
:05:04. > :05:08.on. I believe in being driven by the market, being responsible,
:05:08. > :05:12.turning up for work every day no matter what. That is the ethos I
:05:12. > :05:16.teach my children. How do axe explain to my children why their
:05:16. > :05:20.teachers will not be there? How do I explain that a national sulkies
:05:20. > :05:24.the way to change anything at a personal level? It is not a
:05:24. > :05:28.national sulk, it is people standing up for their rights, for
:05:28. > :05:32.what they earn and what they're entitled to. The are fighting to
:05:32. > :05:35.keep their pension entitlement, but do they realise only one in three
:05:35. > :05:40.private sector employees have a company pension? In the public
:05:40. > :05:44.sector, it is nearly 90%. So what do public sector workers themselves
:05:44. > :05:50.think? I have come to Gloucester to find out. Better make sure we are
:05:50. > :05:57.done by four. A selection of middle management public sector workers
:05:57. > :06:01.versus little Miss Hopkins. Bring it on. It is something I have said
:06:01. > :06:06.about the public sector, it has a reputation for having people in it
:06:06. > :06:11.that are a bit dull, a bit aside, that like to push paper around all
:06:11. > :06:19.day and twiddle a few pens, watch the clock and go home. What do you
:06:19. > :06:23.say to that? That perception comes from the regulations and legal
:06:23. > :06:28.restrictions we have on us. There is a lot of creative thinking in
:06:28. > :06:31.local government. We are doing more for less. We have a decision-making
:06:31. > :06:35.process in the public sector which is restricted because of the way we
:06:35. > :06:39.are governed politically. That can be perceived as taking a long time
:06:39. > :06:42.and therefore add to the pen pushing idea. I have trouble
:06:42. > :06:50.getting my staff to take their holidays because they are dedicated
:06:50. > :06:55.to the job. Despite what the public sector themselves at say, I remain
:06:55. > :06:59.unconvinced. Job losses are never easy, but when the pen-pushers from
:06:59. > :07:04.the public sector need to get a proper job, they had better get
:07:04. > :07:07.ready for a lot more hard work. We had an interesting reaction
:07:07. > :07:11.after Katy made a maternity leave from. Looking forward to reading
:07:11. > :07:16.the inbox in the morning. Those people that she called boring must
:07:16. > :07:19.be thrilled. She is not alone in her views and many will be
:07:19. > :07:23.inconvenienced by the strikes, so how good a case to the strikers
:07:23. > :07:27.have? The deal was always that if you went into the public sector,
:07:27. > :07:31.you often did not get paid as much, but there was security. You would
:07:31. > :07:34.have a job for life and you were looked after with a guaranteed
:07:34. > :07:38.pension. That is now under attack, and that is why they are striking.
:07:38. > :07:43.The opposite view is that the rest of the country does not have these
:07:43. > :07:47.guarantees, so why should you? It is natural that those conditions
:07:47. > :07:51.should be under attack, so they are doing what they can, which is
:07:51. > :07:56.striking. It is a confusing situation. It is about where you
:07:57. > :08:02.are at in your career compared to 2015, when the legislation comes in.
:08:02. > :08:07.If you read the headlines, it could be misleading. When these come in
:08:07. > :08:11.in 2015, your pension up to that stage will be guaranteed under the
:08:11. > :08:15.old regime. So if you are nearing the end of your career, it does not
:08:15. > :08:19.affect you. The new regime were only take effect over the last few
:08:19. > :08:24.years. If you are just starting as a nurse, your whole career will be
:08:24. > :08:28.under the new regime. You will work longer, pay more and get less. So
:08:28. > :08:33.you are affected substantially. where is the incentive to become
:08:33. > :08:38.part of the change? The incentive is the money. If you want to work
:08:38. > :08:41.for the police or hospitals, you have no other option. You cannot go
:08:41. > :08:47.to the private sector, because the private sector is not offering
:08:47. > :08:51.those guarantees. But as Ross said, the public sector would offer a
:08:51. > :08:55.draw for a lot of people in the pension. If you were a teacher, you
:08:55. > :09:00.had those benefits. But if you take that away, where is the incentive
:09:00. > :09:03.to go into those careers? Why are they doing this? There was a report
:09:03. > :09:08.that talked about pensions. The good news is that we are living
:09:08. > :09:12.longer. But the downside is that you have to live off your pension
:09:13. > :09:18.for a longer time. You used to retire and die after a few years.
:09:18. > :09:20.The something to look forward to! The good news is that you do not
:09:20. > :09:25.die now. But the pensions are costing a fortune and the
:09:25. > :09:29.Government feels it has to do something. Ross, with a top about
:09:29. > :09:36.your pension later. First, over the weekend a new king
:09:36. > :09:40.did to his throne. Lucy Siegle went to his coronation.
:09:40. > :09:44.The 50,000 Roma gypsies in the UK makes them by far the biggest gypsy
:09:44. > :09:48.group in Britain, but behind the music and smiles lie serious
:09:48. > :09:53.questions about crime and community cohesion. The One Show has been
:09:53. > :10:00.granted special access to spend the day with these Roma gypsies as they
:10:00. > :10:06.elect their first ever did seeking to represent them in the UK. This
:10:06. > :10:10.is Roman Xisco, the power behind the throne and my guide to the
:10:10. > :10:15.image of gypsies not trying hard enough to integrate. Do you have
:10:15. > :10:20.British friends? Of course. I have British friends, Asian friends.
:10:20. > :10:25.Which person has a good heart is my friend. But some who live alongside
:10:25. > :10:30.the Roma have found them less friendly. They do not interact a
:10:30. > :10:34.lot. They keep themselves to themselves. If they want to live in
:10:34. > :10:40.Britain, they should be part of the community. It is not just living in
:10:40. > :10:43.a different country, it is being able to give to your community.
:10:44. > :10:50.experience of the Roma community is the children fighting, drinking,
:10:50. > :10:53.openly drug-taking. I do not want my children to be involved in that.
:10:54. > :10:59.Time to make my way to the election. It is not often I get a limousine
:10:59. > :11:03.ride with a dozen big men in hats. It is cramped. What will the King
:11:03. > :11:07.be expected to do? If we have a king, we can do a lot of things
:11:07. > :11:13.differently. There are five different Roma communities here.
:11:13. > :11:18.But we have the same language. We want to integrate in this country,
:11:18. > :11:24.because we live here. Do you think that will be an easy thing to do?
:11:24. > :11:29.Nothing is easy, but we have to try our best. It is time for the secret
:11:29. > :11:33.behind closed doors vote, protected by a level of security Fort Knox
:11:33. > :11:39.could only dream of. Could the King get the respect of a young Roma
:11:39. > :11:47.community? Of course. Young people respect older people. But do they
:11:47. > :11:51.always? Yeah. But in every community, one black sheep. It is
:11:51. > :11:56.not just the Roma gypsies waiting for the result. So are council
:11:56. > :11:59.representatives and the police. How will what has happened today held
:11:59. > :12:04.at the wider community? An election like this enables us to have key
:12:04. > :12:09.people to get in touch with to address any issues of perceived
:12:09. > :12:18.criminality. So this Gypsy King is good news for the police? Good news
:12:18. > :12:24.for everybody. Suddenly we are allowed in. The candidate from
:12:24. > :12:27.Peter Brett is the Roma King of Britain. But -- the candidate from
:12:27. > :12:32.Peterborough. It is time for the all-important first speech.
:12:32. > :12:38.TRANSLATION: I want to do everything to integrate the people
:12:39. > :12:43.into the British community and I will try to do my best.
:12:43. > :12:48.But as the party starts, it is not words, but actions that matter. Up
:12:48. > :12:55.to 80% of the men here are unemployed. How do you feel when
:12:55. > :13:01.you hear members of your community referred to as benefit scroungers?
:13:01. > :13:08.If we want to have a better life, we have to do something. Not only
:13:08. > :13:13.sit and wait. We know what the country can do for us. What can we
:13:13. > :13:20.do for the country? After the party ends, those are the criteria the
:13:20. > :13:25.new Gypsy King will be judged on. Back in 2008, you had dealings with
:13:25. > :13:29.the darker side of the Roma gypsy communities. Try and on that
:13:29. > :13:33.experience, do you think aching can help? They have always had kings,
:13:33. > :13:38.people who are elected to be the mouthpiece of an organisation. It
:13:38. > :13:43.has a lot to do with where you sit in the community. People can be
:13:43. > :13:47.elected to that position. It is an honourable position. We are quick
:13:47. > :13:52.to categorise people and say that all people from the Roma community
:13:52. > :13:56.are pickpockets or involved in illegal activities. That is not
:13:56. > :14:00.necessarily true. But there are some who were involved in it. There
:14:01. > :14:04.were others who were not. But it is a very organised bunch of people at
:14:04. > :14:09.the top end. They know what they are doing. You have found yourself
:14:09. > :14:15.in all sorts of places, Afghanistan being one. It is five years since
:14:15. > :14:19.he went out there. What changes have you seen? I do not want to
:14:19. > :14:23.give away the end of the documentary, because I have to go
:14:24. > :14:28.back two more times over the next few months. Is it a different place
:14:28. > :14:32.to how it was? Afghanistan is a big place. We have always looked at
:14:32. > :14:36.Helmand Province, which is like looking at the eastern counties of
:14:36. > :14:41.the UK. There are other provinces where there are no British or
:14:41. > :14:45.American troops or ISAF trips. It is too difficult to get in. It is
:14:45. > :14:52.along the border with Pakistan. Some of those places are too
:14:52. > :14:56.dangerous to get in. There have been big changes in terms of our
:14:56. > :15:01.area of operation being condensed in terms of British forces'
:15:01. > :15:07.responsibility. There are now more helicopters available. We have more
:15:07. > :15:12.eyes in the sky of different varieties. I think the people in
:15:12. > :15:17.Helmand have a better relationship and understanding of why it ISAF
:15:17. > :15:23.are there. Now that it has been made clear to them that the combat
:15:23. > :15:28.troops, according to the Prime Minister, will be pulling out, that
:15:28. > :15:37.has changed the attitude of people on the ground. You have written a
:15:37. > :15:41.new novel based around Afghanistan. Yeah, this is a men's book. It is
:15:41. > :15:47.not a portrayal of what is going on. And a new venture for you. You have
:15:47. > :15:52.done documentaries and so on. is my pension! Did you need much
:15:53. > :15:56.help with it? I had some advice. I came up with the idea, and they
:15:56. > :16:02.asked me to do a series of three books based on a character of which
:16:02. > :16:08.I came up with. The first one is set in Afghanistan. The second one
:16:08. > :16:18.will be in Mexico with drug cartels, and the third will only get written
:16:18. > :16:24.
:16:24. > :16:27.We are fortunate to have two are standing tepees with us. Over the
:16:27. > :16:32.next few weeks our doctoring duo will be on call treating the
:16:32. > :16:38.nation's aches and pains. Their first appointment, Glasgow. We're
:16:38. > :16:42.on a mission to make Britain healthier. And we are coming to you.
:16:42. > :16:47.A no appointments, no waiting, we are ready to diagnose your right
:16:47. > :16:52.here, right now. This week we are in Glasgow, one of Scotland's
:16:52. > :16:56.biggest cities, there are bound to be people here who need our help.
:16:56. > :17:01.My first port of call is the airport where I am catching the
:17:01. > :17:06.early risers. Raymond is about to fly to Florida. The holiday of a
:17:06. > :17:12.lifetime. A few hours ago he was experiencing severe nausea and an
:17:12. > :17:16.intense pain in his stomach. I had to lie on the floor. I was really
:17:16. > :17:21.worried. I was asking the wife to phone an ambulance. I have never
:17:22. > :17:26.felt like that. Every time I tried to get comfy, it would not help.
:17:26. > :17:32.am sure he has gallstones. This pain he suffered could have been
:17:32. > :17:38.them getting lodged. When this kind of intense stomach pain is
:17:38. > :17:45.accompanied by nausea and vomiting it is vital to see a doctor. I
:17:45. > :17:49.think you have had colic, wary gallstone get stuck but you cannot
:17:49. > :17:54.get comfortable, you have to keep moving. It is often accompanied by
:17:54. > :18:02.feeling sick, or being sick. There is a chance you have not passed
:18:02. > :18:09.this stone. You could get this pain again. You know what I'm going to
:18:09. > :18:16.say, don't you? I am advising you not to fly. It is a tough decision.
:18:16. > :18:20.I leave him to discuss things with his wife. I have been treating
:18:20. > :18:25.traders at the wholesale fruit and veg market in Glasgow. Need a
:18:25. > :18:28.doctor? This man is only 20. How much do you drink a day? So it's
:18:28. > :18:35.hundred people work here and there are no shortage of patients wanting
:18:35. > :18:40.advice. Are you going to cure me?! Gary has a problem with his scalp.
:18:40. > :18:47.A bald patch on the top. When did you notice this? About six weeks
:18:47. > :18:50.ago it was that size. You have a little sore in the middle. That
:18:50. > :18:56.looks like something called alopecia Arie art of. A complicated
:18:56. > :19:01.name. It means your immune system attacks the hair follicles and it
:19:01. > :19:05.falls out. Hopefully the hair will come back. The bit in the middle
:19:05. > :19:08.could be where you're scratching at, or have been bitten, but the two
:19:08. > :19:14.together rather unusual. If it is not healed other than a couple of
:19:14. > :19:20.weeks you should get your doctor to look. After an event for the
:19:20. > :19:26.morning we head to the shopping street. Open wide. That must have
:19:26. > :19:32.heard. You have had a bleed behind the surface of your eyeball.
:19:32. > :19:38.may need to have an operation. next case today is Lorna, with an
:19:38. > :19:44.unwelcome addition to a body. have a lump on my back. It is
:19:44. > :19:54.concerning and quite big. I have had it for a few years. It does not
:19:54. > :19:55.
:19:55. > :19:58.give me pain but it is hard. have a fatty lump, it is
:19:58. > :20:03.technically a tumour, any growth, but it is totally not cancerous and
:20:03. > :20:06.no consequence whatsoever. However, sometimes they get to the stage
:20:06. > :20:12.they get so big they catch on things, they get sore, if that
:20:12. > :20:16.happens you could get it removed. Is it a simple operation? It is.
:20:16. > :20:21.Removed under local anaesthetic, just a cut in the skin. If you have
:20:21. > :20:27.a lump and are not sure, or worried it could be something more serious,
:20:27. > :20:30.you should always get it checked out with your doctor. Our day is
:20:30. > :20:34.drawing to a close and it has been a busy one, meeting, greeting and
:20:34. > :20:38.treating the people of Glasgow. We caught up with Gary you told us
:20:38. > :20:43.that the sawn his scalp is healing after he got cream from his doctor
:20:43. > :20:47.and his hair has started to grow back. A Raymond decided to go on
:20:47. > :20:51.holiday in the end. He did not want to let down his extended family in
:20:51. > :20:57.Florida. Thankfully his health was fine while he was away and he has
:20:57. > :21:02.not experienced any pain since he got home. Next week we're out and
:21:02. > :21:06.about again, ready with more remedies on the streets. Dr Sarah
:21:06. > :21:11.has joined us. Does it annoy you when people do not listen to your
:21:11. > :21:16.advice, like the man with the gallstone problem? It is irritating
:21:16. > :21:20.when people come back and say I am no better but they did not take the
:21:20. > :21:25.tablets. What really upsets me is that means they are taking up an
:21:25. > :21:30.appointment somebody else is waiting to have. Raymond had a
:21:30. > :21:35.tough choice there. Family holiday, everybody waiting... He was, bless
:21:35. > :21:39.him. Tough, but Glasgow, 99 per cent of people would have been in
:21:39. > :21:43.hospital with that. I was very impressed. I could not tell him it
:21:43. > :21:47.was going to come back so of course he had a hard decision. In the end
:21:47. > :21:52.he made the right one. It's amazing how keen people are to reveal their
:21:52. > :21:57.problems. I was not quite sure how it would go but they were all there.
:21:57. > :22:02.They were fabulous. Thank you! During the surgery, you can't get
:22:02. > :22:06.an appointment, your run the street. I have just spent 10 hours in
:22:06. > :22:10.surgery today! You get a free diagnosis. A couple of medical
:22:10. > :22:16.issues have hit the news, the more mature patients are buying their
:22:16. > :22:20.own over the counter medicines. This was a weird story and a shock
:22:20. > :22:23.for me because I have been a doctor for a long time and not much
:22:23. > :22:26.surprises me but this was a real surprise. These are medicine's we
:22:26. > :22:29.never thought I have as going together. Antihistamines for
:22:29. > :22:34.hayfever, waterworks tablets, anti- depressants, but then together and
:22:34. > :22:38.they seem to boost your chance of dying. Trevor it over the course of
:22:38. > :22:41.a few years, it was a big problem. The problem is we did not know
:22:41. > :22:45.about it and the last thing I want people to do is stop taking the
:22:45. > :22:48.tablets. In the great scheme of things we do not know what has
:22:48. > :22:53.caused this, if it is because people who take these tablets are
:22:53. > :22:59.more sick and likely to die anyway, but do talk to your GP. The other
:22:59. > :23:04.thing is man flu, apparently they might have a case. I read this as
:23:04. > :23:12.well! Our immune system is not as good as yours because you have
:23:12. > :23:18.children. Fair play! We are more vulnerable. It says you get colds
:23:18. > :23:23.more often but it does not excuse... I rest my case! It does not excuse
:23:23. > :23:27.the way you moan about it when you Warren! Time for another film in
:23:27. > :23:32.our series about houses that have been homes to legends. Lord Learie
:23:32. > :23:36.Constantine was an old cricketer who took the crease between 1928
:23:36. > :23:46.and 1939. But it was once he hung up his whites that he really break
:23:46. > :23:53.the boundaries... -- broke. In this house in Meredith Street Lancashire
:23:53. > :24:00.lived a West Indian legend, Leary Constantine. He did not just where
:24:00. > :24:03.whites, he took a few of them on. What are we like to live with here?
:24:03. > :24:10.There is no doubt about it, discrimination exists in this
:24:10. > :24:16.country. After 35 years in white Britain that polite cricketer from
:24:16. > :24:21.Trinidad had become a hardened race campaigner. Those who knew him new
:24:21. > :24:26.a softer side. He was the considered diplomat, when he had to
:24:26. > :24:32.fight discrimination he did it with grace, style, great dignity. He was
:24:32. > :24:39.very warm. But the warm cricketer was cold-shouldered by his mother
:24:39. > :24:43.country when he first arrived in the 1920s. He taught later in his
:24:43. > :24:46.autobiography about miserable journeys and freezing rain from one
:24:46. > :24:49.damn hotel to another. And afternoons in the field where it
:24:49. > :24:57.was impossible to pay attention because all he could think about
:24:58. > :25:02.was overcoats. I see what he means! In England at Lord Learie
:25:02. > :25:08.Constantine and the title Electric heels. The legendary game in 1928
:25:08. > :25:14.he notched up one of the fastest ever Fifties in just 18 minutes.
:25:14. > :25:20.Not only was he a great, fast bowler and a -- and exciting hard-
:25:20. > :25:25.hitting batsman, but an absolutely superb fielder. Soon he was
:25:25. > :25:29.headhunted by a team of Nelson and was earning �25 a week, not much by
:25:29. > :25:33.Freddie Flintoff's standards, though he was one of the highest
:25:33. > :25:37.paid sportsmen in Britain. He was knocked for six by the reaction of
:25:37. > :25:44.the pitch, as the only black man in this northern mill town, the locals
:25:44. > :25:52.were more than curious. At mealtime in his home the local children used
:25:52. > :25:57.to looking at the window. -- look in. Very few people had ever seen a
:25:57. > :26:02.black man. There were little boys in the shop and he would shake
:26:02. > :26:08.hands with them and they would look at their hands and say I do not --
:26:08. > :26:13.I told you it would not rub off! It was not easy for him at first. Then
:26:13. > :26:18.he got upset about it. There were racial insults in the game, often
:26:18. > :26:28.uttered by empires. -- umpires. He was about to pack his bags but then
:26:28. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:37.He really was a showman. He just loved to entertain. He was a light
:26:37. > :26:43.in a time of darkness for the whole area. But the dark times during the
:26:43. > :26:47.Great Depression were to be overshadowed by war. He was drafted
:26:47. > :26:55.in to help the 20,000 West Indians brought into Britain's munitions
:26:55. > :26:59.factories. Then, in 1943, he joined another field of play. Politics.
:26:59. > :27:04.When he was sent packing from London's Imperial Hotel for being
:27:04. > :27:10.black he took them to court. He bowled the judge over with evidence
:27:10. > :27:16.and won the case. This small victory would be seen to be a
:27:17. > :27:22.landmark in the years to come. have had half a million people in
:27:22. > :27:29.this country over the last few years, they find discrimination in
:27:29. > :27:33.respect of housing, education, employment. This prejudice he
:27:33. > :27:37.described in 1964 was finally outlawed just a year later in the
:27:37. > :27:44.race Relations Act. The cricketer Constantine had played a big part
:27:44. > :27:50.in making the Act law. What made him victorious when he was was
:27:50. > :27:56.because of his personality. He was an enormous ambassador, that is how
:27:56. > :28:01.I would sum up his legacy. When he died in 1971 the Grid cricketer had
:28:01. > :28:05.played the field as broadcaster, Barrister, High Commissioner and
:28:05. > :28:11.Britain's first black Lord. In the last few months the local council
:28:11. > :28:20.has put up a plaque to Lord Learie Constantine, an emperor of the
:28:20. > :28:24.North. A legend. Early on we asked you to prove it if the heavens had
:28:24. > :28:31.opened while we were on air. We have had a great response. Taking
:28:31. > :28:36.shelter from thundery showers in Paignton, Devon. Really pretty.
:28:36. > :28:40.This is Chris Thomas, it is his children in the rain. They are in
:28:40. > :28:47.the Vale of Glamorgan. Clare in Manchester decided to have a
:28:47. > :28:51.barbecue, one hour later the heavens opened! Look at this man
:28:51. > :28:58.here. He is desperate for air, either that or we caught a robbery
:28:58. > :29:08.live on air! Ross, we wish you well best for your journey home. Safe