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Hello, and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
Hold onto your hats - it's going to be a fast | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
We'll be meeting two men with a reputation for speed. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
This is one of our guests jumping out of a plane at 35,000 feet to try | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
and break a world speed record - we'll find out how he did later. | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
Our other guest is more used to breaking records | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Good lad, nice to see you, mate. Come on in. I thought you were going | :00:50. | :01:24. | |
to do the whole 147 thing there. We have not got time at! You did it in | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
just over five minutes 20 years ago. It is crazy. I have made better | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
ones. My last one was better because everything was perfect. I had | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
control of the white ball but that one was all over the show. I rescued | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
a lot of shots but I got lucky there. Well, it is a record which | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
still stands. Definitely. John McEnroe has come under fire today | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
for his comments about Serena Williams. Your cousin Maria Catalano | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
is number one in female snooker. Number three. Number one sounds | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
better. Why did you correct it? Aye because she is higher than me. She | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
has beaten me a few times. She is a fantastic player. Male and female | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
tournaments, they're not segregated, are they? We played together. You do | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
not often see that. Ladies do not normally qualify. There was not a | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
lot of money in female snooker. A lot of the good snooker players go | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
to America because they can make ?300,000 a year just playing pool. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
It is a bigger market out there. Hopefully we will see some of your | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
pool later on. If we get time! Tonight, you're not sitting there as | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
a snooker player but as a novelist. We will talk all about your book | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Framed later on. Now, many of us have had some rain today, much | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
needed in many places, but surely we will see the sun again this summer? | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Hopefully. We talked about the dangers of too much exposure to the | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
son a few weeks ago but now Tricia has been to meet some builders to | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
hammer the message home. A sizzling SOT, -- -- hot summer's | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
day in Bristol. These workers are topping up their plans. People say | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
where have you been and we say Cardiff. Get as low a factor on as | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
you can or maybe baby oil, it gets you a good town buried quickly. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Despite looking fit and healthy, men like these could be putting their | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
lives in danger every single day. The British Journal of Cancer says | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
five outdoor workers are week develop a melanoma, the most deadly | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
form of skin cancer. So to test how seriously these trades men take | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
their skincare, we are setting up a One Show clinic right here on site. | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
Doctor Adam Bray is NHS dermatologist who diagnoses and | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
surgically removed skin cancer is on a daily basis. Skin cancers are an | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
increasing problem. They have gone up a huge amount in the last few | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
decades and the other most common kind of human cancer that we have. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Today, he's holding consultations with three of the ruthless on-site, | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Matt, John and Ben. They have been outside all morning but how well did | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
they apply their suncream? The UV camera will reveal all. Basically | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
the dark patches where the ultraviolet has been absorbed by the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
suncream. Both John and Matt have missed the area around the nose and | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
eyes. I think a lot of people miss those areas. I treat a lot of skin | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
cancers in the surgery and I do a lot of surgery around the nose, the | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
lips and the eyes. As for Ben? Did you put any sunscreen on today? No, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
I didn't. On a sunny day like today it is easy to get burned. That is | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
damaging your skin and putting you at risk of skin cancer. Soon the | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
routers will be taking their kit off to see if they are at risk of | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
developing cancer. Meanwhile, failing to look after his skin | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
properly is something Ron Bender regrets. He has spent most of his | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
working life outdoors as a painter and decorator. I was blase about it, | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
not considering the consequences. One day his friends spotted an | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
irregular looking mole on the side of his neck. Me being male full-time | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
would ignore it and it would go away and it would be fine. Eventually, I | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
went to the doctor and he said I am not happy with that. Two weeks | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
later, I get a call, it is a malignant melanoma. It was a | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
cancerous mole. It was a huge shock. As a parent, you don't want to get | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
that news. Ron had the mould removed and four years later he is still in | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
the clear but he will never make the same mistake again. I use a very big | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
hat. I use 50 plus cream I can get from the doctors. I am absolutely | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
paranoid not to cause any more damage or to have a recurrence. The | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
best way to prevent skin cancer from spreading is an early diagnosis and | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
back here are the building site our dermatologist Doctor Bray is ready | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
to give our trades men a full body examination. Do you check your skin | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
now? I can't say I do. Never. It is important to do that. Luckily | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
though, Doctor Bray is reasonably happy with John, and Ben. If we spin | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
round, you have one or two other little moles which are tiny and we | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
are not concerned about that. He has more concerned with Matt. We have a | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
few risk factors. You have quite a few moles which is a risk factor, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
you have fair skin which tends to burn and the ones we are focusing on | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
are these more jagged and dark ones. You have one with a darker colour at | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
one side than the other. That is one I would be watching very carefully, | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
and if there was any change to that, I would suggest you see a GP and | :07:48. | :08:04. | |
that was removed. Unless I had seen that Doctor I would never have | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
checked my moles, so that is something I will look out for for | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
the rest of my life now. Matt knows to see his GP if he has any concerns | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
but what is Doctor Bray's advice? It is important for the lads to know | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
they are not having a tanning competition, they should keep their | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
shirts on, and when they are on their break they should seek the | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
shade and cover-up and not expose themselves to much. Before your | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
consultation you told me you would slap on the baby oil. Will you do | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
that from now on? No, cover up as much as I can. Even though it is hot | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
it is not worth taking the risk. That sums it up. Doctor Sarah Jarvis | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
is here now. Music to my ears. Everyone will be checking. What are | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
we looking for. It is ABCD evil is the a is a symmetry. Borders, do | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
they look blurred or jagged? Colour, are they different colours. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Diameter, they should not be bigger than a pencil tip and elevation, is | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
it listed? Any of those you should go and see your doctor. If it | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
changes over a month, definitely get it checked out. And small children, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
definitely keep them out of the sun. A shocking statistic you were | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
telling me about earlier on. Terrifying. The Met Office has come | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
up with new research, it turns out one in 14 parents have never put | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
sunscreen on their kids. I cannot believe it is that high! It gets | :09:34. | :09:42. | |
worse. 18 parents have allowed their children under 11, they have | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
actively encouraged them to get a tan and one in ten parents for | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
children under eight. Burning as a child is the single biggest risk for | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
skin cancer. One, are you a sun worshipper? No, I run away from the | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
sun. You were saying he has a bit of Sicilian in him, he tans easily, | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
like you out on the farm. You will never see a brown neck than this! I | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
am not proud of it, I am not proud of it, Sarah! Thank you. Let's have | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
a look at this picture. It was taken 50 years ago today. It shows the On | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
The Buses star Reg Varney using the first cash machine at a branch of | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
Barclays in London. Gyles has been looking at a cash | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
machine caper which saw the robbers getting away with far less than the | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
average. What does it take to pull off the | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
perfect heist? Preparation? Dial? Audacity? Whatever it may be, rarely | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
has the criminal underworld scene plan as as this. In 2007, the first | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
of a series of tunnels was dug beneath Manchester. In each case, | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
the target was an ATM machine. The media concluded this was the work of | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
one team and dubbed them the mole in the Wall gang. The perfect heist, | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
they were not. Valid field shopping precinct, South Manchester. A 40 | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
foot tunnel is discovered heading straight towards a video store cash | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
machine. But it was 15 feet short so the gang disappeared empty-handed. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Five years later a new tunnel was dug, heading for the very same cash | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
machine. Taking an estimated six months to date, the 100 foot tunnel | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
beneath a busy car park, this time saw the gang hitting their mark. | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
They hoped to pocket tens of thousands of pounds. But were left | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
red-faced. It was the Christmas shopping season and the cash machine | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
only held ?6,000. Not such a merry Christmas for our gang. Who might | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
the mole in the Wall gang be? Whoever they were, they were doing | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
something very dangerous. Something could have gone terribly wrong. The | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
tunnel could have filled with gas if they broke a gas main. The ground | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
could have been very weak, they could have flooded the tunnel by | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
hitting a water main, maybe they were at risk. How did they know | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
where they were going? Laser guidance in my opinion. It is very | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
easy when you are underground and you have no service reference points | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
to get disorientated, you could very easily be diverted heading in the | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
wrong direction. You could come up in the car park rather than under | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
the ATM! They would have had accurate measurements along the | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
length of the tunnel to know how far they had gone, and accurately locate | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
the point at which they would go to the surface. So these guys knew what | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
they were doing. I think so. Little more than a month later in February | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
2013, a shorter tunnel was dug, targeting the cash machine at a | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
convenience store less than two miles away. This time, after | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
triggering the store's alarm system, the gang again left with nothing. | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
Could this have been a rush job by the same crew? And if it was, why | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
was nobody getting caught? Doctor Mike Salinas is a criminal professor | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
at Manchester University who specialises in the study of | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
organised crime. One of the reasons why they were not caught is because | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
of the mundane element of the crime. They are digging, not kicking down | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
doors with shotguns. So this is crime committed in broad daylight? | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
The likelihood of being caught is slim. How many people look workmen | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
digging holes or people sitting broadband? It does not look | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
suspicious. This is far less risky and something they could do over a | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
period of time with limited exposure. That is why this crime in | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
particular might appeal to some individuals. That sometimes | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
persistence pays off. In March 2014 and April 20 15, two cash machines | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
were robbed again using tunnelling. This time, payday. The score, the | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
combined total of ?136,000. But was it really worth it? A total haul of | :14:31. | :14:42. | |
?142,000 over eight years, divided between an estimated five members of | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
the gang. That is ?3550 a year each. They would have made more money on | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
the minimum wage. So, mole in the wall gang, if you are out there | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
borrowing under Manchester right now, stop. Crime really doesn't pay. | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
It looks like we cannot avoid moles tonight! There an old in every | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
story! That was Gyles' crime story and you have your own crime story at | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
the minute. I had written two autobiographies | :15:12. | :15:25. | |
before and I liked the process so much my agent said to me, we know | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
you are into books and writing. How do you feel about putting a novel | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
together? I was not quite sure that would work out. I grew up and would | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
spend a lot of time in Soho with mum and dad. Going through what they | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
went through, it has been a crazy little life really. You start to put | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
it together and play around with the plots. It came like a hobby. I got | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
into it and I enjoy it. It is something I do anyway. I do a lot of | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
travelling. I spend a lot of time in hotel rooms, flying around. It is | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
nice when you can make the most of that time will stop you say you were | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
playing around with it. Did you have a fixed idea of the plot? Did the | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
whole plot evolves as he started putting it down? I started to write | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
stuff down. I had someone helping me put it together. I wanted to leave | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
it open if people liked it. Frankie is still around. Wherever Frankie | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
is, that always seems to be a bit of trouble, especially when his younger | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
brother is around. I had fun writing it down. It is something you go | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
through to get feedback and make it better. You mentioned Frankie, the | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
main character. It is fair to say there are similarities between | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
yourself and Frankie. You have been quite open about your past, which | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
have sometimes been quite dark at times. Tell us about Frankie... | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
Frankie is a character where he is putting his career on the line. His | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
father was in trouble, his brother gets in trouble. He never quite gets | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
himself going out of loyalty towards his family. That is kind of how I | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
felt. That loyalty was there, just as a close relationship. The | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
relationship between me and my dad in the book is similar to the | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
relationship in real life. A lot of stuff that goes on in the book is | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
what happens in my life. What was your relationship like with your dad | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
when he went to prison? You work in your teens. He was like my hero. I | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
was devastated. I knew I was going to be 20 before he come home. He was | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
still my best friend. I love him to bits. He makes me laugh like no one | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
else. He is like my best mate. What was it like for you when he came | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
out? Strange. Only having a visit for two hours every month or so. It | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
was harder for him than it was funny. Obviously, being in that | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
environment for so long, just coming out into the outside world. It was | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
so fast. He great now. It is nice. Of course it had an impact on you | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
and you have been very open about mental health issues. You said you | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
deal with it by running. You just tell him you have an injury that | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
means you can't burn. What will you do in terms of dealing with it now? | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
There are loads of things you can do. The writing is good. I go to the | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
gym a lot. I'm into cooking. As you get older you start to think, | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
potting balls is not the most important thing in life. It is the | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
easy thing to do. You get one life. If I get the opportunity, why not? | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
Ten years ago I would run a mile. I think, another world title, will it | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
make a difference? I am not going to break my back. I would rather have | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
fun with stuff. In the book industry they are the nicest people in the | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
world. It is not a dog eat dog world. It is family orientated. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
Being surrounded by good people. And Sea get older you want to be | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
selective about who you spend your time with. When you think back to | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
being 16, 17, he would never be thinking about the fact you were a | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
novelist? No way. That was three or four years ago, crazy. It is out now | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
in paperback. It's hard to find something positive | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
to say about a financial scandal but we think we might have found | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
a silver lining to one of the most notorious | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
ones of recent years. Here's Iwan on how it led | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
to the salvaging of a long lost Over 200 years ago, three miles off | :20:13. | :20:24. | |
the coast of Portsmouth, HMS invincible guy, dead from the | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Frenchman ran aground and sank. The treasure remained here in the Solent | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
ever since. This team has been able to unearth some incredible artefacts | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
thanks to a ?2 million grant from money from banks caught up in the | :20:45. | :20:56. | |
Libor scandal. The invincible was a very special ship. It was originally | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
captured by the British. She went on to influence the design of British | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
warships. The ship was such an amazing design. You have 500, 600 | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
men on board. You have to feed them and clothes. All the rigging. It is | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
like a floating community. The Invincible is not a new discovery. | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
We don't have another 20 or 30 years. We have limited periods to | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
rescue this material. Behind me a team of divers are sandbagging here. | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
Hopefully they want to discover more gems. Here is something that was | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
used to ram down the charge and the cannonball. How much work is | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
involved? Absolutely nothing. We think this was used with the guns. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
It would take eight men to move them. They would use block and | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
tackle. This is a broom for. You can see which part was buried and which | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
part was exposed. Wood which has been under water has come out so | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
preserved. The sand and mud creates this anaerobic environment. It is | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
seeing it in time. These divers are responsible for bringing up the | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
artefacts. You love this job, don't you? It is different and | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
interesting. You need to be careful and delicate. Very rewarding. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
Normally this is quite thick clay. The police something appears like a | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
button. Is it a modern button? No, it is from a wreck. Here you can see | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
one of the buttons from the U. On the other side it has the maker 's | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
name, named in Covent Garden in London. We know where it is made | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
from Jessica Berry is heading up this amazing programme. We got the | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
funding last autumn from money taken from the banking scandal. It is good | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
that something so corrupt has gone into our heritage will stop once we | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
have preserved it and recorded it, it will be brought back here for the | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
world to see. I have a very special object here. A wine bottle, still | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
with the cork in it. There still will be fluid in there. It would | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
taste very nice. Absolutely priceless. I would not put a price | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
on it. I have seen some awesome artefacts. I think it is brilliant | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
way they have been using the funds to preserve this country's maritime | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
history. Back in March we strung this man up | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
from our studio lighting rig to talk to him as he set off to break | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
a wingsuit world record. Fraser joins us now. We can | :24:00. | :24:09. | |
officially say you are the fastest man in the world. That is subject to | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
confirmation from the Guinness book of records. We have some footage. | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
Talk us through how it went. You can see us getting out of an aircraft | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
with a large nylon dress on. After I secured and got back into flight, I | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
went into my angled attack for the speed record. I attached 249 miles | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
an hour. We could not get as high as we wanted. We had extreme heat. The | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
extreme heat limited just to 35,500 feet. -46 degrees, pretty | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
challenging. All went well. I did not have an aircraft to get in my | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
way, that is good. Below 18,000 feet I had to look out for them. | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Underneath that is visual flights. I had to check that out. They called | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
him The Rocket. Next year we will go back in July and August and probably | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
had to 40 2000. That was great! Thank you for popping to see us. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Mike's been to look at the natural wonders of Caithness - | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
some of which might be lying on a street near you. | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
This is the most northerly point on the British mainland. In Scotland's | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
Caithness County. Caithness may be remote but it's special geology has | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
a far reaching contribution to the world. It is also home to some very | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
rare wildlife. The cracks and crevices in these 300 foot sandstone | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
cliffs provide a safe haven for a very intriguing mix of birds. I am | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
just looking out here and I can see all the usual suspects. There are | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
fulmers krych kittiwakes and puffins. Just further down, | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
impossibly narrow ledges, Gilly Marts and razorbills. I am looking | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
for something more unusual. I have just spotted them, rock doves. They | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
might look just like common pigeons. These rare birds are their wild | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
ancestors. Rock touts were first domesticated over 2000 years ago as | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
homing pigeons and for food. -- rock doubts. Those who escape adapted to | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
urban areas. With a steady supply of food, urban pigeons and our common | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
sight in cities, much like something else that comes from Caithness, that | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
is right beneath your feet. It is this: Caithness stone. You will have | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
walked on this on pavements around the world. What I am walking on now | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
would have been an ancient tropical lake. 400 million years ago, huge | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
geological pressures transformed the lake sediment into one of the | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
densest rocks we know with unique characteristics. It's hard wearing, | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
impervious to water and yet can easily be split into slabs. It is | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
the perfect paving stone. For the last 200 years, Stone was shipped | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
from Caithness around the world. From London to Sydney to Boston. The | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
streets of the New World weren't paved in gold, they were paved in | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
Caithness stone. It is still being produced on an industrial scale. | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
Modern machinery now works the stone into all manner of products, from | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
flagstones to kitchen tops, and even laser cut decorative designs. From | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
the massive to the minute, I am heading back to the coast. There is | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
one last thing I am looking for, found only in northern Scotland. | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
Like pigeons and paving stones, this little gem is inconspicuous. It is | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
this. This is an exceptionally rare plant. This is a British endemic. It | :28:44. | :28:51. | |
was found along a tiny strip of the North Scottish coast in the Orkney | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
Isles. Nowhere else in the world and it is gorgeous. This, for me, is a | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
botanical first. The Scottish primrose. Thank you. | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
We wanted to show you a clip of Ronnie doing some pretty impressive | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
falling in South. Playing virtual pool. Here it comes. -- falling | :29:18. | :29:30. | |
himself. There you go. Every time. That is my favourite clip. | :29:31. | :29:39. | |
We'll be here tomorrow with Eddie Izzard and Olly Murs | :29:40. | :29:41. | |
SI KING: Let me guess, you're seeing a garden, aren't you? | :29:42. | :29:45. |