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Hello, welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker... And Alex Jones. On | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
tonight's show, we find out how these two X German refugees helped | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
turn the tide of Second World War by working for Britain. And a man | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
for All seasons, even if they didn't come in the right order last | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
year, it is Monty Don. Nice to see you, welcome back. Always good to | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
see you. Always good to think we are going to have a nice relaxed | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
programme. And you know for the next 12 months it is going to rain, | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
that always happens when I come on. Back in March, we asked you to come | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
up with some plants that would be great for drought conditions. And | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
the weather through all sorts at us. We do apologise for people who went | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
out there and planted time and all sorts of things. We said there | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
would be a drought and the floods came. How is it going? We had snow, | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
lots of flooding. It has been so, so wet. When I left yesterday, | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
there were floods. Did you have that freak thing over the weekend | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
when there was snow and then it just disappeared? We had eight | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
inches of snow, it poured with rain all night and by Saturday lunchtime | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
all of it was gone and the water was rising. It was about 15 degrees | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
warmer. Walking around the garden and picking up bits and pieces? | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
About that deep in mud. It is a muddy garden, just walking. You | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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throw a ball for a dog, and there If your garden is struggling and he | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
would like to know how to fix it, send your questions and a picture | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
of yourself and we will have a wet garden clinic with Monty Don later. | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Happy with that? AO, yes. As if we hadn't had enough water after the | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
recent snow, then comes the big thaw. Then there will be lots of | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
water in the form of flooding. Authorities in Shropshire have been | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
hard at work fighting the flood water, erecting emergency flood | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
defences. Iwan Thomas has been with This area was the birthplace of the | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Industrial Revolution. In The A- Team century, barges would | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
transport limestone and coal along the Severn river. It is now a World | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Heritage Site. Protecting it is in everybody's interest. The last four | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
months have seen heavy rain and flood across the country. Saturated | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
ground has meant that Ironbridge in Shropshire is in the firing line. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
It is 9:30pm. Although it is dark, I can clearly see that the water | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
has risen loads. I would say it is two or three feet. And the pace of | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
the water is pretty frightening. If there is any doubt this place needs | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
flood defences, here is the proof. This picture is from about 50 years | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
ago. The water level is right up to the windows. It is now 11 o'clock | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
at night. The guys have just turned up. This is stage one of getting | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
flood defences up and ready. Originally, this barrier was built | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
using pallets. Since 2004, this flat-pack version, built by | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
engineers, is quickly erected in times of emergency. Chris is one of | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the Environment Agency officers deployed for flood management. Any | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
talk me through the process of how it is assembled? This chain is | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
purely for weight that is going to be on top of tall Paul then, that | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
is going to go on this barrier defence. -- tarpaulin. It's quite | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
high, how high do you think it will reach? It has been pretty high. In | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
2007, we were somewhere near the top. This is the best mechanism you | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
have got? The whole scheme is designed so we can get into places | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
where you do not have to have something permanent. If you're | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
doing a permanent structure, you would have a permanent wall and he | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
would put flood gates on it. That really expensive. I've been here | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
since 8 o'clock. How much longer do they take? They are going quickly, | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
but they are earning their wages? They certainly are, they are going | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
to be here until about four or five in the morning. Slightly different | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
from last night. It is done, the boys have done their work. The | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
waterproof is on top. They've done a good job, exactly what you're | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
saying. Now we have the waterproof layer on, the pressure of the water | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
is keeping it down on the barrier. To some people it doesn't look | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
overly dramatic, believe me, it would be a whole road full of water | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
in the property's. As I am standing here, it does not look that | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
dramatic, not very deep. But it would spread right across the road? | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
It is also full of sediment, that get into properties and causes a | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
lot of damage. The boys are in bed, it is mid-morning and they have | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
worked all through the night. I think they deserve their sleep. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
They've done a really good job. I'll thoughts are with you if you | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
are experiencing flooding or you are about to be hit by them. We | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
were just talking about your new series. It is all about French | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
gardens. You are a big lover of France. It has taken a long time | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
for you to look at them in detail. You've been around the world, two | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Italian gardens, but not French ones? I've got a relationship with | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
France, I have been going for a long time. I first went when I was | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
14. I used a bus to get from London. I was trying to go to Greece. I was | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
busking, I didn't get any money. I was astounded by the light. I | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
really don't do well in the dark. The plants, the colours, the | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
markets, just intoxicating. I went back and I spent six months there | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
without any grand plan. But I haven't got my television act | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
together to actually go, look, look at these amazing gardens. Fantastic | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
gardens. In the first episode you introduce us to the fantastic work | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
of Ade Gardner who designed a massive garden, I think we have it | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
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He broke the mould, the effortless way that the garden opens out to do | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
it visitor. Carefully judge changes in level meant that Ali's, pools, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
cascades and the canal gradually reveal themselves as you walk | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
through. Mind you, he had a limitless fortune and an army of | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
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18,000 men to car of this out of King Louis XIV's chief minister | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
threw a party to celebrate making the garden. One of them was the Sun | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
King, 21 years old. He showed his king nets, and the king was so | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
furious he had spent all of his money. He threw him into prison for | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
the rest of his life, confiscated everybody that worked there, he dug | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
up all of the plants and said he wants a better garden than that. | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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Is that how it works on Gardeners' World? Yes, rip them out! He was an | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
incredible character. He has this beautiful book that was translated | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
into many languages? One of the great geniuses. He changed the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
world. He opened it out, and everything had been introverted | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
before them. The whole of France, it still remains, that book went on | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
to be a bestseller. A gardening book prototype. People would say, I | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
want that, open it up. It was published after his death, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
extraordinary. The thing you notice is that the French have a very | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
specific way of gardening. Everything is very regimented. | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
Controlled. Is there anything that we can learn from the French? | :08:39. | :08:49. | |
Partly it was this idea of ordering nature, control, symmetry. They | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
still love that. Also, dela ideas. They love concepts. They will make | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
a garden that symbolises the retreat of the Sun from the Moon, | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
rising up. They love that. There is a garden in Normandy, then our | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
gardens in the South, it sort of melds into the landscape. You get | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
this combination of order, rhythm, balance and control, with quite | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
loose planting. That is lovely, really beautiful. As well as design, | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
you look at fruit and veg, artistry? It's all there, anyway, | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
it starts on Friday at 9pm on BBC Two. It is on a little bit later in | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Wales. If Britain was up against France in | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
a gardening head to head, what could we possibly put against the | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
Champs-Elysees? I think we should let Christine Walkden onto that one. | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
For centuries, we have wrestled to control nature, sculpting the | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
landscape around us into a more formal sculpture. These magnificent | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
green, maids are an example of that. Living architecture, nearly 200 | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
years old. They are part of a once grand horticultural craze that | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
first took hold of Britain in the 17th century. Each has a story to | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
tell. Like Kingston Avenue in Dorset, planted in 1835 as an | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
extravagant gift from the Duke to his mother. Possibly one of the | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
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most impressive avenues is here in This double lined avenue is the | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
longest in Europe and it contains 1296 trees. It stretches for very | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
nearly two miles. Laid out in 1838 by the 4th Duke of Newcastle, it | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
took three years to plant them all. Visitors to the estate from | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
neighbouring landowners to loyalty will have travelled along the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Avenue, marvelling at the living buttresses of the great green roof | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
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They must have been very impressed, going along in a horse-drawn | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
carriage it feels like it stretches on forever. A huge statement like | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
this needs constant maintenance, otherwise chaotic nature will start | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
taking hold. For landscape managers like Gareth Jones, it is a constant | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
battle keeping the avenue in trim. But in the 1960s, this and other | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
tree avenues were very nearly lost when they came under attack from | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
the particularly ferocious winter moth. The female is flightless. She | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
has to climb up the tree to lay her eggs for the caterpillars to hatch. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
There was an epidemic of them and virtually every leaf was eaten. | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
advance was halted by some clever natural thinking. A black grease | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
Band was put around all of the trees to try to prevent further | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
outbreak. We have not had one since then. The park is well maintained, | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
but historically we have lost many tree avenues across Britain duty | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
bad storms and disease. To try and halt the decline, arboriculturists | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
are aiming to survey every Trai in Britain. We are trying to get an | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
overview of the populations, the ages, the species, what condition | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
they are in. It would give us an idea of when we are going to have | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
to start replacing them and how they have got to be managed. We | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
will keep alive the stories about the people that planted these huge | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
avenues hundreds of years ago. We may have enough information to put | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
forward a proposal to list avenues so that they are protected, like | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
listed buildings. Rooted in history, tree avenues were once the physical | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
expression of a wealthy landowner's vanity. They were intended to | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
impress everybody that came to visit. As a gardener, I hope we | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
never lose these trees. I hope they can be saved for the nation, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
because, if we do lose them, the stories of their creation would be | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
You would be slightly envious of her doing that film? | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
interesting thing is that is what French gardens are all about, | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
avenues. It's a very French thing to talk about the concept of the | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
avenue. But they make this link, ordering nature in two minds, but | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
including it. They make that connection between the garden and | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
the wild, you know, this unruly, wild boars. You can do it in a | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
garden. And lime trees are good? Very good, bees like them as well. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Before we meet the two men who helped to change the course of the | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Second World War, Larry Lamb has been to find out how British | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
prisoners of war in the Far East kept themselves sane through years | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
of captivity. This gate is a particularly | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
touching memorial to the fallen of World War II. It was constructed in | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
1942 by the inmates of a prisoner- of-war camp in Singapore to stand | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
at the entrance to the camps cemetery. It was billed as a | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
tribute to their comrades, who had died in this notorious Japanese | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
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$:/STARTFEED. It was restored and brought to Britain as a tribute. | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
They crafted this while undergoing terrible hardships. It's one of a | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
list of remarkable list that the men undertook. Midge's father has | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
written a book about her father's experience. It was about the battle | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
against bore Dom, because you don't know how long you'll be there, so | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
anything that lifts your spirits, performing or even taking exams or | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
studying languages. Think that takes you out of your jail. What | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
sort of things would prisoners have involved themselves in? People | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
might have been university lecturers at home, so naturally | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
they would want to teach the POWs and that happened in the Far East | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
and Europe. You might have read Jane Austen or Shakespeare. The Red | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Cross would send the papers and the POWs would sit the exams under the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
strict conditions and they prided themselves on the fact they were | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
like the men and women back home. One man who took advantage of this | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
was Cambridge graduate John Vickers. Novelist, Sally, is his daughter. | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
He was captured on May 27th 1940 and spent the whole of the war in | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
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the camps. He learnt Serbo-kroat and modern Greek and Russian from a | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
Pole. He also taught history to the whole of the camp. Red Cross | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
appeals supplied libraries with books. John used them to study for | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
a teaching qualification and to read for pleasure. He kept one book | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
as a war-time memento. He took Moby Dick. I've kept it. You see it in | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
the front. I think it was from the -- this is the only time my father | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
stole anything in his life. prisoners in the Far East, they | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
faced even greater hardships. Conditions in the camps were | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
appalling and brutality was the order of the day. Physical escape | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
was virtually impossible, which made mental escape even more | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
important. John Lowe was a prisoner of the Japanese, confineed in huts | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
like this replica at the national arboretum. He was a keen amateur | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
musician who managed to hone his skills. In this camp somehow there | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
was a small accordian and when somebody died I played Abide Me | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
With Me. -- Abide With Me. Someone told him I played by ear and he | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
said he would teach me classical music and from then on we sat down | :17:56. | :18:05. | |
and he would sing the notes until I had it and I could play it. | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
love of performing kept John going and it's never left him, but he has | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
particular memories of a play he produced in his camp on Taiwan. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
the middle of the play there are one or two simple love scenesened I | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
wondered they would be messed up, but there was not a sound. Not a | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
single sound throughout the play. Many years later, I produced many | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
plays, but I think that one was the best thing I ever did. It's an | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
honour to meet men like John. Their spirit pulled them through in the | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
camps they experienced the worst of man's inhumanity to man, but they | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
responded by turning it into something positive. They are an | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
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inspiration to us all. # Abide With Me... # | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
We are joined by historian Helen Fry and two ex-German refugees who | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
worked for the British during World War II. Eric Mark and Fritz Lustig, | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
nice to see you. Helen, differently to what we heard with Larry, some | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
high-ranking German prisoners were treated extremely well, weren't | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
they, in the UK camps and there was a specific reason behind that? | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
there were. These are the last two surviving listeners that basically | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
secretly bugged the conversation of the Nazi prisoners during the war- | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
time and through that they gained information on some of Hitler's | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
closely-guarded secrets. The cells were like the radio version of Big | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
Brother, so Fritz, what were you listening to? What kind of | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
information? We were briefed concerning each cell. We would | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
listen to them. There were two prisoners in each cell. We were | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
listening to probably two to three cells at a time. We were bugging | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
from one cell to the other and we were told what information was | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
expected from each prisoner. This was mainly what we were asked to | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
look out for, or to listen for, was military information, either from - | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
it was a navy prisoner, naval information and if they were Air | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
Force, it was air information and until the invasion of the continent, | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
D-Day in 1944, they were mainly naval and Air Force prisoners. | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
After D-Day there was a great influx of army prisoners as well. | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
We were told what to listen out for, but not only military information | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
was expected to be recorded by us, but also political information. For | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
instance, if a prisoner had been home on home leave, what conditions | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
were like in the home town, what the mood was and so on. That would | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
be used by political propaganda. Eric, during your time as listeners, | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
what key pieces of intelligence then did you find out? Well, I will | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
only quote one, because it happened to be one which was very important. | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
At the time, when the Germans were beginning to launch the V1 and the | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
V2 rockets, we needed to find out where were they coming from, what | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
were the technical aspects of each of the delivery vehicles, what | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
could you expect on the ground and where were they coming from exactly. | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
If we knew that, if we found that out through the conversations, then | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
the RAF could use it in order to bomb those places. I should just | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
add that when I went to Holland after the war I found that we were | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
in the place which had been successfully bombed by the RAF and | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
we have actually been in a flat on the outside. What did it feel like | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
for you, because obviously you had left Germany a long time ago, but | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
what was it like spying on what were your foe? I was lucky enough | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
as a young boy to be sent by my parents to the UK at a time when | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
the Nazi element in Germany was becoming stronger and when I was | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
subjected to an attack in the school. The director of the school | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
summoned my father and said this boy has to go. He said he had been | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
attacked, he said, "Yes, but I can't guarantee his safety in | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
future." I had to leave that school and my parent sent me to the UK. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
It's a longer story, but I arrived as a 12-year-old boy without my | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
parents. I managed to get my brother over a few years later, but | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
I never managed to get my parents out. So many stories. We could talk | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
to you lads all night long, but unfortunately we haven't got time | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
thank you so much to all of you for sharing your stories. There's a lot | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
more about the secret listeners in Helen's book. Now, across the | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
country, councils are trying to bring dog owners to heal with tough | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
new measures. However, well-behaved owners are fed up with what they | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
say is unfair treatment. Glory Hunniford takes one councillor to | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
meet a pack of them. Even on a cold day, there are few | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
finer pleasures in life than the freedom of walking a dog along a | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
wind-swept coast. We are a nation of dog lovers and I'm happy to say | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
I have two myself, very like Jenny here, but lately many councils have | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
introduced stricter dog controls. Sometimes for very, very good | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
reasons. But then dog owners are claiming that because of their | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
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rights, they are being well and truly muzzled. Dog lovers in the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
North Down area of Northern Ireland are up in arms. Under proposed | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
plans, dog walkers on parts of this beach will be banned for nine hours | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
a day during the summer months, from letting their dogs run free | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
like this. Elsewhere on the coastal path, they'll be forced to be on a | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
lead all year round and in some public places one person won't be | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
able to walk more than two dogs. have four dogs and I would not be | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
allowed to walk the four of them together. I would need to take them | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
out separately. Another big issue for me is the coastal path. The | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
four dogs would need to be on a lead, which isn't very acceptable. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
You are used to letting them loose? Absolutely. They run free and | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
socialise. This is the way I've been letting off the steam. We | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
think it's better for the council to educate rather than legislate | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
and work with responsible dog owners. Professional dog walker | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
David agrees that the council's plans are barking mad. I feel | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
strongly that the rules which are posed are very over the top. It's | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
so important for dogs' health to get off the lead and get a proper | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
run and exercise. That really is affecting a great many dog lovers | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
along here, because it's a popular coastal path. Responsible dog | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
walkers like David play by the rules, but sadly, others don't. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Persistent fouling and nuisance dogs are a constant problem for all | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
local authorities. Elsewhere in the UK, many councils have already | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
introduced similar controls, but this has created a patchwork of | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
complicated laws that can baffle dog owners. The rules vary from | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
council to council and beach to beach and in fact some beaches have | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
banned dogs from being on them altogether. The dogs' trust | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
believes that banning isn't the answer and could affect owners' | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
legal duties to properly exercise their dogs. Within the animal | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
welfare legislation people have to get their dogs out to exercise. | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
It's part of the legislation. That would worry me. One of the | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
restrictions is that an owner can't take out more than two dogs. How do | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
you react to that? Some councils will say you are able to walk four | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
dogs and others will say only two on a lead. It's totally confusing. | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
Nearly 1700 residents have petitioned the coucil here | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
demanding a rethink, but councils do have the difficult task of | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
trying to balance their competing demands of residents who all want | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
to enjoy the shared spaces. Peter Martin who worked on the new | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
proposals has bravely agreed to meet me with some of the | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
campaigners and their dogs. Before the consultation we can -- had | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
evidence that there had been fouling on the paths. It was the | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
irresponsible owners. The main part of what Peter is saying, there are | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
a minority, but I don't think introducing the orders is going to | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
solve that problem. Why not? It's us who will be penalised. You are | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
over the top says, Heather. -- top, says Heather. We don't want the | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
dogs on beaches period, some people say. The people here are | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
responsible and I'm making a case for dogs. We have people who want | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
them banned completely and we're in the middle of it. The council will | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
make a final decision in the next month. Until then, dog walkers here | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
are determined to make the most of their spaces while they can. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
Thank you. I'm sure that lots of people's gardens looks like the | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
beach, because we asked for questions about wet gardens. This | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
is from Roy. He said the garden is currently mud. How does he restore | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
it back to lawn? He's 66 today. I'm preassuming that isn't a mud pie. | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
If it's any consolation Longmeadow is a mud heap too. It's the same | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
for all of us. Two things, one, it's only January, so give it a | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
chance. We have another couple of months for things to recover and we | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
could have a lot more snow yet. Two, get the drainage going, so as soon | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
as it's dry enough, but not until, fork it, get the drainage up and | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
that will get air in and the grass will start to grow. Grass grows | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
above six degrees, so when it warms up it will grow and it's amazing | :28:33. | :28:41. | |
how it recovers. 30 seconds. Susan from Stoke, how do you prepare the | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
raised vadges for string sewing -- vegetables for string sewing? | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
you put a layer of organic material over the soil in raised beds. Don't | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
be in a hurry, it's fine. You don't need to sew until April. Calm down | :28:56. | :29:04. | |
I would say. One word, when should I prune my roses? Now. That's it. | :29:04. | :29:08. |