28/09/2011 The One Show

Hello. Welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. To

introduce tonight's guest I think we need a bit of help. She stood up

to Simon Cowell, fell out with Sharon Osbourne and snogged Louis

Walsh. That last one's a joke by the way. Now she makes frocks,

tells women how to walk in high heels and amazingly how to pack

their own bags. It's Miss Dannii APPLAUSE

Looking absolutely gorgeous. I wonderful introduction from Peter.

When I hear his voice I'm expecting to be behind the screens and then

the big reveal. We have to ask you, X Factor's in full swing. Do you

miss it? It's hard, because it was something that I was so passionate

about and they asked me to come back on the show. By the time we

had all the dates they conflicted with me working in Australia and I

literally would have had to fly back once a week for ten weeks in a

row. With a baby, I can't do that. I'm a mum. You put your priorities

in place. They are getting on doing the show. I hope Louis's missing me.

I do miss seeing what you are wearing every week. That was a

highlight. Have you seen in the news about Rhianna, because she got

into trouble on the X Factor? haven't seen the images. A farmer

in Northern Ireland wasn't happy with what she was doing so he

kicked her out of his field. She removed a few more layers, but what

side of the fence are you on with this? I think it's all about

location, location, location, isn't it? I think if you are going to do

something like that you need to know what the beliefs are that the

farmer has. Indeed. He was a bit shocked driving past in his tractor.

I believe he was quite religious and what she is doing is not right.

Our One Show farmer would have loved it. I know where he's coming

from! We are going to talk to Danni, later. When Larry Lamb was playing

Archie Mitchell in EastEnders he was involved in shady dealings, but

he's about to tell us about a reel- life drama to rival any plot in

Albert Square. London's Knightsbridge, famous for its posh

shops and even posher shoppers. But for six days in 1975 this

restaurant just up the road from har records was the seen of a life

and death standoff between an armed gang, hostages and the police. It

became a national drama. The Spaghetti House siege began on a

Saturday night. The staff had gathered to count the takings and

they were chatting and having a few beers after a long night. It was

about to become the longest night of their lives. Three gunmen forced

their way into the restaurant. is a hold-up. They wanted the

takings, about �70,000 in today's money. For the gang from their on

in it all went terribly wrong. They couldn't find the money. They

pannicked and herded the staff into the basement. Out on the street the

police were on to them. An elite police unit, the special patrol

group, or SPG happened to be nearby and they surrounded the restaurant.

What happened over the next week became the model for handling a

spate of 70's seedges. -- sieges. Susan Bishop was the squad's only

female officer. It was made clear from the very beginning that we

would make -- wait for them to make a decision and an undertaking was

made if they came out, having left their guns behind, that no-one

would be harmed. But the police had a secret weapon. A tiny fine onic -

- fibre optic camera was able to be sent into the room where the

hostages were. This was state-of- the-art new technology? I think it

was one of the first times to be used. Never shown before, this is

the extraordinary police footage of the hostages and gunmen from inside

the basement. They thought they were speaking in whispers in the

room, making plans, discussing what they should do and we could hear

and watch all that going on. gang didn't help their cause by

declaring they were Black Liberation Army revolutionaries and

demanding a plane to Jamaica. The police weren't having any of it.

They are going nowhere. We are not meeting any demands, except those

that are compatible with their own well-being and the well-being of

the hostages. The siege lend news and filled front pages every day.

It was the making of crime reporter Jeff Edwards. It was the one story

dominating the news, because it was unique. The police were on an hour-

to-hour basis looking at the options and trying to figure out

how to end it bloodlessly. Police negotiators kept the gang talking.

When two hostages fell ill they agreed to release them in exchange

for radio, coffee and cigarettes. Handing over the radio was part of

the plan. Now the gang could listen to the hourly news bulletins and

hear again and again the police would not meet their demands. The

tactics broke the gang's morale. That was after six long days. This

is the moment when the six hostages emerged into freedom. They were

followed by two of the gunmen. Wesley Dick and Anthony Gordon

Munroe were immediately arrested. The leader, I think it would be

fair to call him, stayed behind for a short time and then he inflicted

a wound on himself with one of his guns. He was eventually brought out

on a stretcher. He was in custody. Gang leader Franklin Davies

recovered and was jailed for 22 years. Wesley Dick for 18 and

Anthony mup row for 17. -- Munroe for 17. Theyance formed the way the

police would deal with sieges from that point on. -- they transformed

the way the police would deal with sieges from that point on.

police could see they could afford to wait this out. No-one was

injured and the right people were freed. I think the end is the best

end there could have been. That police operation involved 400

officers and it was one of the first times that psychologists were

used. Amazing story there. You are here to talk about your new book,

which advises people on style. One man we think may need your help is

our very own Dom Littlewood. APPLAUSE

LAUGHTER Very nicely done. Sit yourself down.

What is your verdict? Yes t was slow and you took your time and

milked it. I ironed my shirt knowing you were going to judge me.

Not bad? Some wrinkles left. It's endearing. Dom is here to help sort

your problems out. One of which is council tax. It is. One couple have

contacted because -- us because they were convinced they were

paying too much tax on their property, so I went to work. James

and Zena live in Enfield and they are in council tax band E. That

means every year they are paying �300 more than their band D

neighbour, living in what appears to be a very similar house. They

wrote to the valuation office. response was that their details

were correct on the property and that we were in the correct council

tax banding, despite our protests that we were in a different banding

to that of our neighbours. All the bands are based on 90-91 valuations

done in quite a hurry. There was considerable scope for error.

is also a factor. We asked our expert to measure both properties.

Size in itself doesn't effect value as the only determinant, but it's

one thing. I wanted to know if they were roughly similar and they were.

Two properties roughly the same size, but one family paying much

more than the other. What is going on? What is going on, Dom? Well, we

got involved and that's what's going on. We got our own surveyor

to measure and got the couple to go back to the Valuation Office Agency,

the VOA and as a result of us getting involved now they are

banding has gone down to a D. They are better off �300 and they are

back-dating it. A big bonus of about �1,000. What have the office

said?. They say they will be reassigning a number of other

properties in the street, but also stress this: there is no evidence

to suggest significant errors were made when made in the early 1990's,

and that was known as second-gear valuations. Rumour has it that

people drove around in second gear in a car and said band D or E.

if you live in a terrace street and your neighbours are in a different

band, should you get it checked out? It is free to get it checked

out, but some houses are valued differently. Major things like lost

conversion -- loft and basement conversions and big conservatories.

They don't want to put people spending money on their properties,

so if you have done that or about to do it, still do it and if your

banding goes up it won't happen until you sell that property.

Moving on to a different property. Lost property. We have all done it,

but in particularly on aeroplanes. It can get a little messy. It's not

like you can nip back. It gets messy. Look at this. I was

travelling from Seattle to Heathrow Airport and I put my iPad and

headphones in a little drawer by my feet. I woke up at Heathrow Airport

completely forgot about the iPad and headphones. He rang Bagport the

company that deals with lost property at Heathrow Airport.

rang and rang and no response. On the website, I filled in the form

saying what I had lost. Ten days later still nothing had happened.

Nick went back to the website, found two iPads listed as lost that

day. It says if you want to claim one of these fill out more details.

He got another response saying they would be in touch within 48 hours,

but a month later still nothing. was like there was a wall there

which you couldn't get through. No response. You were saying the exact

same thing happened to your boyfriend? Chris last week, he was

flying up to Sydney and came back down to Melbourne and I said can we

look at something on your iPad and he remembered it was on the plane

in the pocket in front of him. He called up and he actually got it

back. That's good. Did the gentleman in the film get it back?

Only after we got involved. As you heard, he was making loads of calls.

We got involved and yes, he was reunited with it. The company have

given us a statement and apologise and point out they have to deal

with in excess of 80,000 lost items a year. By investing more in staff

and lines of communications, since taking over nine months ago, they

reckon they've reduced this by 50%, so big improvement, but we would

like to see 100%. Of course. How much stuff have you lost in your

time travelling because you've gone all over the world? I live out of a

suitcase, so I reckon there is a per centage of flights you are

going to lose your lug anage. -- luggage. You can only sometimes

lose one. I don't understand that. It's frustrating, but mistakes

happen so you have to kind of be chilled about it. The worst thing

you can do is scream at the people. I love the jeopardy at baggage

reclaim. There is nothing more devastating at -- in losing your

suitcase. Dom is keen to hear from other people with consumer issues.

Now, then, Alex, is not the only Jones in the studio with roots in

Wales. Is that right? My mum's a Jones and her parents went out to

Australia as the �10 Poms when she was ten and they relocated to

Queensland out there and lived out there ever since. We may be

related? Possibly. We'll talk more. Anita explains how the families

were able to make a new life for From 1947 more than one million

Britons took advantage of a scheme. It was known as the ten pound Pom

and it was the largest emigration of Welsh national to say Australia

ever. Australian needed a population

after the Second World War. It was planning major industrialisation.

Some ten thousand more people people would have been born in

Wales in the 1970s that had been in the 1930s.

Why did they leave Wales? People in Wales may have felt they wanted to

go because of the hard times after the war, of rationing. They thought

they would have a much better life in Australia and also probably

thought that Australia would be a much sunnier place than being in

Wales reputed to have so much rain as you can see today.

92-year-old Basil Baker remembers the Ten Pound Pom Seem better than

most. Tell me about the family that lived next door. Well, they were a

very nice couple. Very nice indeed. And they had two kids and Julia,

she was the youngest. I think it was because she was getting chest

troubles often, it was suggested that she went to a better climate

and Australia was the place place apparently.

Did they make a success of it? obviously.

Why? She is not in a bad state of health now, I don't think.

Why? Who is she? She gets the best of attention. Well, she is Prime

Minister of Australia, isn't she? Julia Gillard is not the only Welsh

person associated with Ten Pound Poms to reach fame. It was on this

street and in that very building in South Wales that Carol Jones once

lived. Who is Carol Jones. You might not have heard of her, but

you have heard of her two famous daughters!

Dannii and Kylie's family came from a long line of slate quarrymen who

moved around Wales in search of work. A decline in the quarry

industry made the family travel south. Dannii and Kylie's

grandparents stayed in Wales running the local Post Office until

1955 when the family uprooted themselves again. This time along

with their daughter, Carol-an an Jones. They set sail from

Southampton the SS Australia on the 20th April 1955.

This period of the Ten Pound Pom is one of the successful emigrations.

There were real concerns about the conditions they had out there. Some

loved it. Some hated it and that's true of migrants so many places

That's an incredible story, Dannii. Did your mum find it difficult

settling in Australia? She was so young so her recognise

recollections from a small child, she remembers she went from very

cold Wales to Queensland, that's the hottest part of Australia where

lots of people don't wear shoes. They didn't know anything about

like suncream and they were they were out in the burning sun and

they have got Welsh skin. She remembers having a strong Welsh

accent and wanting to fit in with the kids at school. She doesn't

have an accent now. Even if she couldn't, she -- even if she wanted,

she couldn't. My grandmother has a strong accent. She still flies back

to Wales. They come and visit us. We have a big connection.

It was a big day for your mum the day she left. It was Very brave.

This is a copy of the passenger list and there is your mum's name,

fourth down. There you go. Thank you so much.

Pop that down. And a DVD of the show and everything.

We will move on to our book is out tomorrow, of course. Lots of

celebrities have released style books. What do you think makes

yours different to the others then? I guess the big difference is that

I'm working with different stylists all the time. I'm working with

wardrobe departments, I have been on tour, I'm getting bits of

information from different professionals over a period of many,

many years. Gok Wan created his own style. I guess my book is not about

looking like me, but finding your style and it wasn't a natural thing

for me. I wasn't someone who was born with style. I wasn't the

Audrey Hepburn. In the book there is there is tips from when I

thought back, I did get there. It was difficult when you have so

much input with lots of different stylists to find what it is that

you are happy with? Yeah. You sometimes lose sight of who you are

and sometimes you'll meet the right person who will help you create

your signature style and I've had both along the way.

What's the best piece of style advice that you have had? It is

confidence. You have got to feel great about yourself and what

you're wearing and if you feel great about it, you will pull it

off. Gok Wan can wear amazing things that most other guys can't.

He talks about confidence too and it does change you and it does

change everything about the way you walk, talk, present yourself, and

because of that like clothing can change the way you are if you are

going for a job interview or how to be a mum or if you are at school,

running around, if you are a bride, clothing changes everything about

how you feel. So if there are any ladies out

there that are lacking in confidence, but want to be stylists,

are there any tips you can give them? One of the things that I

tried that helped me find my style and it wasn't something I read in

another book, I was told by anybody. I was on the computer looking up

pictures of style icons that I related to that had the body shape

as me. I'm obsessed with pictures of young Elizabeth Taylor, I can

look bit depending on what I wear or I can look pe look petite. Those

shapes will work on. I love Audrey Hepburn, but she was a straight up

and down figure, but clothes that worked on her, won't work on me.

You come from a very stylish family. Mum just found her wedding dress

the other day. I don't know where she found it,

but she should have got that Grace Kelly look about her.

Were you always talking about fashion when you were growing up?

It was my grandma and she would always sew, she had six children

and in order to dress everyone, you made clothes for them. She was

always on the sewing machine and that's how we we learned.

There is rumours that you will be back on TV within the next 12

months. Some say on Britain's Got Talent. Which? There is a lot of

rumours, but there is nothing locked in. From now until Christmas

it is my fashion project and the book. After that we will see what

happens and what fits in with family. That's the big thing.

Dannii, we are about to feature a very stylish fish.

It is colour conscious, but we are not sure if the stripes goes with

its tentacles. You can find one of these lying on

on most beaches in the south of England and it is a clue to a

special event that happens every spring just off our shores. This is

a cuttlebone. It is the internal skeleton of a fascinating creature,

the cuttlefish. Every year the cuttlefish that lived in the

English Channel make a journey into shallow waters where they'll breed.

For the adults that come to our shores, this will be the last

journey they ever make. Cuttlefish only live for two years and after

breeding, the adults die, but they leave behind a new generation ready

to continue the life cycle of this mesmerising animal.

The South Coast of Britain is a Mecca for breeding cuttlefish.

Their arrival in Devon is the highlight of this man's diving

calendar and he shares his passion for them with me.

I've been coming down here for nearly 30 years to film them and

the cuttlefish are one of the animals that you can get up really

close and personal with. You can actually see all the detail in the

skin tones, in the the colour and especially the eye, the beautiful W

eye that is looking at you as well. There is this air of intelligence

in that stare back. It you are looking at it and it is looking at

you. I wonder what is it thinking about me? Is it seeing this sort of

air guzzling monster looking at him or is it not worried at all? I'm

getting excited now thinking about seeing them. It is like old friends

really. Losing Alan's local knowledge --

using Alan's local knowledge of where the cuttlefish might be, I am

hoping to get a close encounter with them.

Fishing pots provide an ideal breeding station for cuttlefish and

they gather around them to mate and to lay their eggs.

Crikey, they're beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. I always think

when you look at cuttlefish they look out of place in our waters.

They look as if they should be in the tropics or the med the

Mediterranean, but you find them here. By approaching them here, we

can get a good view. They have got these quite appealing faces with

the droopy tentacles and they never stop moving. They've got this skirt

stop moving. They've got this skirt which is a fin.

You can really appreciate this mess this mesmeric colour on their back.

Pigment sacks underneath their skin allow for the rainbow of colours,

designs and patterns that cuttlefish can produce to express

emotion. And they are at their most

emotional during the breeding season.

Males will display a powerful pattern of zebra stripes, warning

other males to stay away. Then once they've secured a female,

a more gentle colour pattern and a delicate embrace completes the

mating. The last act, these cuttlefish will

perform. These adults are at the end of

their life cycle, but what they're leaving behind them are these,

cuttlefish eggs. They are known as sea grapes and you can see why they

look like a bunch of grapes. These will hatch and then the baby

cuttlefish will move off to deep waters and in two years time

they'll come back here and breed again.

And when they return, Alan is sure to be back here filming the new

generation of exotic British Dannii, did the stripes go with the

tentacles? I am all for mismatching. We often see cuttlefish bones in

budgie cages? They are a good source of vitamins.

They look incredible. They are exotic looking. They have

got wonderful ripples and a dazzling colour. But they are not

the only exotic creatures off our coastline. We have a fantastic

diversity of marine life. We have our chalk reef, make not as

dazzling, but this was discovered a year ago. It extends for 20 miles

off the coast of Norfolk. It is the biggest chalk reef in Europe. It

has a great diversity of species. A beautiful blue lobster.

The Great Barrier Reef, there is lots of exotic creatures and we

even spotted a little mermaid in there.

It is probably not my best style look. The nail varnish does match

the wetsuit. Yes, a little bit of matching going

You have lots of sharks in Australia.

I like the sharks. We have lots of species of sharks.

The Basking Shark. This This one was fished out.

There was a guy kayaking off the north coast of Devon and he landed

this six foot long shark weighing over 30 kilogrammes, I think it was.

It was returned safely to the water. You are a fan of sharks.

Fishing from a kayak? Yeah. Different species of whales and

dolphins, we have 28 different species. I was filming for The One

Show and we wam with a friend -- swam with a friendly dolphin down