:00:20. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.
:00:23. > :00:28.Tonight our new accent investigator Alistair McGowan continues his
:00:28. > :00:32.journey around Britain, finding out why we sound the way we do. Where
:00:32. > :00:36.are we off to tonight? Let's just say I end up in Frank Skinner's
:00:36. > :00:39.Birmingham and leave it at that. Looking forward to that. We are
:00:39. > :00:43.also off to Swansea to a street with no lights since they were
:00:43. > :00:47.turned off three months ago. Matt Allwright is here later to explain
:00:47. > :00:50.why and how it could happen to you. Also coming up, you are going to
:00:50. > :00:59.love this, this Terrier has an acting challenge for tonight's
:00:59. > :01:03.guests. They are two of the country's best-loved acting talents.
:01:03. > :01:13.One is a Golden Globe winning actress who has starred with these
:01:13. > :01:20.three handsome men - Brad Pitt, Jude Law and Martin Clunes.
:01:20. > :01:26.other is BAFTA winning actor who has starred with these three
:01:26. > :01:28.glamorous women - Gwyneth Paltrow, Keeley Hawes and Brenda Blethyn.
:01:28. > :01:33.Please welcome Brenda Blethyn and Martin Clunes.
:01:33. > :01:37.APPLAUSE Great to see you both.
:01:37. > :01:41.Lovely to have you here. Of course, you two know each other because you
:01:42. > :01:47.starred in Saving Grace together. We did. I forget what you played. I
:01:47. > :01:55.was the doctor and I went on to great things. Hang on now, how did
:01:55. > :02:01.Martin compare to Jude Law and Brad Pitt? Brad who? He made an
:02:01. > :02:06.impression then? Oh, yes, not half. Brad Walsh. It was quite a relaxing
:02:06. > :02:11.scenario for you, because you... Saving Grace? A lot of the time in
:02:11. > :02:17.the back of a car fast asleep, judging by this photo. Did I?
:02:17. > :02:20.asleep on the sofya. Do you remember I had my puppy Mary. It
:02:20. > :02:24.was my introduction to Cornwall really. Beautiful spaniel.
:02:24. > :02:29.character you played in that was called Doc Martin and that was the
:02:29. > :02:33.beginning then. Yes, it wasn't the same character. It was quite a nice
:02:33. > :02:40.man in that film, but yeah, that was the start of all that, yes.
:02:40. > :02:45.Great things. I love that programme. It was fun doing that movie. It was
:02:45. > :02:52.hillarious. Craig, who is now massive, he was fun. He does the
:02:52. > :03:02.late, late show that's on in America after Letterman. And you
:03:02. > :03:07.got him doing a Cockney monkey. It was all like "Here you are ..."
:03:07. > :03:11.It's a Cockney monkey. Those skills could come in later. We're also
:03:11. > :03:17.going to be finding out about your dock Autumnaries with horses and
:03:17. > :03:20.dogs and -- documentaries with horses and dogs and Brenda, yours
:03:21. > :03:24.as well. Yes it's a Disney animation. Now exciting news for
:03:25. > :03:29.our One Show gardeners. We are giving you the chance to zoin a
:03:30. > :03:33.garden that will be built at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower
:03:33. > :03:37.Show. Christine Walkden will be on hand to give advice. We have three
:03:37. > :03:42.viewers giving it a go right now. All the details are coming up for
:03:42. > :03:52.you later on. Now it's time to meet Oscar. He's just six but he has
:03:52. > :04:00.
:04:00. > :04:04.I'm called Oscar and I'm six. whole diving experience started
:04:04. > :04:09.with his older brother who desperately -- desperately wanted
:04:09. > :04:16.to be a power ranger and diving was the way to learn to do twists and
:04:16. > :04:21.turns etc. Oscar started when he was four. On his very first lesson
:04:21. > :04:31.he went onto the 3m springboard and jumped off. I don't think Oscar has
:04:31. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:36.ever been scared of diving or I've been coaching Oscar for over a
:04:36. > :04:40.year now. When I saw him for the first time, he catch my eye. I
:04:40. > :04:47.thought, yeah this kid is quite good. Oscar does three sports. They
:04:47. > :04:51.all interlink with each other. trampolining and gymnastics.
:04:51. > :04:54.takes a lot of work. It takes work in the gym, you do about an hour,
:04:54. > :04:59.an hour-and-a-half. And then in the pool about one hour. About eight to
:04:59. > :05:05.ten hours a week. At the moment Oscar, because of his age, is doing
:05:05. > :05:12.dives from the 1m, 3m and 5m boards. At the moment he's learning the
:05:12. > :05:17.twists as well. And the back twist you're standing back on the board
:05:17. > :05:26.and you twist and on the forward dive, you stand forward and you
:05:26. > :05:30.don't twist. For such an age, it's quite hard to master. Diving Antic
:05:30. > :05:36.extreme sport, physically and mentally, it is demanding. We have
:05:36. > :05:44.Marines based in Plymouth, the 42 Commando and we often see these big,
:05:44. > :05:49.burly, six-foot men refuse to jump off the 10m.
:05:49. > :05:54.It's quite unusual for a six-year- old to go up there and do a jump
:05:54. > :05:58.and so a good jump, Notts just a jump. It's fun and you learn good
:05:58. > :06:08.dives. You hit the water at about 33mph. It hurts if you get it wrong.
:06:08. > :06:18.
:06:18. > :06:23.Can you actually break a bone. It makes us feel incredibly proud
:06:23. > :06:27.when we see Oscar performing, not just as competitions but also just
:06:27. > :06:32.in training. And in the evening, he goes to bed and think what's an
:06:32. > :06:38.amazing day he's had. I feel the need to applaud.
:06:38. > :06:42.APPLAUSE What a lad! You have to have stood
:06:42. > :06:47.up there to look out and know what he's going through. Would you ever
:06:47. > :06:53.do that? No. Martin? Yeah, I've done a lot of it. My brother can
:06:53. > :07:01.dive off the 10m. Dive, not jump? Dived, yeah. He tried to teach me
:07:01. > :07:05.and I did a huge belly flot and I just had the image of it in my head
:07:05. > :07:11.and started laughing under water. He had to pull me out. We better
:07:11. > :07:15.leave that there. Goodness me. You've done it though. I have.
:07:15. > :07:20.Let's watch out for him maybe in the next Olympics would be a bit
:07:20. > :07:24.too close. Any way... When is his autobiography out? When is yours
:07:24. > :07:29.out? Goodness me, you are a busy lad, doing the horses, the dogs.
:07:29. > :07:35.You have a dog documentary on tomorrow night. Yes, I just narrate
:07:35. > :07:44.it. It's really interesting. I learned loads of stuff on it.
:07:44. > :07:47.have a look then. We've trained them so that they'll
:07:47. > :07:52.We've trained them so that they'll hunt for us Guard our homes,
:07:53. > :08:02.retrieve on command and herd our livestock.
:08:03. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:09.But they also bring their own magic Dogs seem to understand our needs
:08:09. > :08:13.and have a desire to help us out. and have a desire to help us out.
:08:13. > :08:16.APPLAUSE My goodness me, what a dog she
:08:16. > :08:19.would be at lambing time. It's probably a messed up dog. The dog
:08:19. > :08:23.really should eat the lamb. That's probably what it wants to do.
:08:23. > :08:27.There's a lot of retrieving instinct in that spaniel. If it's
:08:27. > :08:31.holding the bottle. It's in the a sheepdog. It's more of a holder for
:08:31. > :08:36.the bottle. Are your three, you have three dogs. Yeah. Are they
:08:36. > :08:42.that useful? No! Not at all. My Jack Russell opened up the throat
:08:42. > :08:47.of one of my lambs. He got told off that day. He's a swine. He's
:08:47. > :08:51.learned that lesson now we hope, please God. If they run very
:08:51. > :08:56.quickly, Jack Russells are Jack Russells, aren't they? You uncover
:08:56. > :09:02.incredible things in this documentary. Will you voice some
:09:02. > :09:07.for us now? These facts, yes. I wasn't listening when I narrated it.
:09:07. > :09:10.They are, this is on about they have different barks to communicate
:09:10. > :09:14.different emotions. Six different barks. I heard, there was a dog
:09:14. > :09:23.psychologist who wrolt a book, I can't remember his name. He said
:09:23. > :09:26.when a dog barks basically it's going, "Hey. Hey. Hey." There's
:09:26. > :09:30.this thing that evolved from wolves that they do more howling. The
:09:30. > :09:35.thought of the bark is that they are trying to communicate with
:09:35. > :09:39.humans. That's one of them. Something about sight? They are
:09:39. > :09:45.colour blind, but they don't see in black and white. They have two
:09:45. > :09:52.colour sensors, we have two. They see mainly blue and yellow. They
:09:52. > :09:56.process visual signals much quicker than we do. The other fact...
:09:56. > :10:00.fascinating way they shake. they smell. No, the shaking is
:10:00. > :10:06.amazing. They photograph today brilliantly. They shake through 180
:10:06. > :10:12.degrees. It actually corkscrews down and sends the water off in,
:10:12. > :10:18.more efficiently than shaking side to side. That is good footage.
:10:18. > :10:22.Brenda, you've moved straight on from dogs to monsters. Yes. Your
:10:22. > :10:27.voice in a lovely character in a new Disney series called Henry
:10:27. > :10:29.Hugglemonster. Tell us about it. It's -- it hails from the brown bag
:10:29. > :10:34.animation company in Dublin. Everyone thinks because it's Disney,
:10:34. > :10:43.it's come from America. But this has come from Dublin. They're twice
:10:43. > :10:47.Oscar nominated for their animations. It's written by Nieve
:10:47. > :10:51.Sharky, the Children's Laureate in Dublin. It's about theess kapaids
:10:51. > :11:01.of Henry Hugglemonster. He's a five-year-old. It's absolutely
:11:01. > :11:02.
:11:03. > :11:09.delightful. I'm the next door neighbour. I play Ernestine, I
:11:09. > :11:15.wonder why they chose me. My husband is played by Brian Blessed.
:11:15. > :11:19.Actually most people think we are one in the same person. How close
:11:19. > :11:22.to the microphone can Brian stand? I missed his bit because he
:11:22. > :11:25.recorded before me. I had the advantage of his voice when I was
:11:25. > :11:30.in the studio. Absolutely great. There's been cameras in the
:11:30. > :11:40.recording studio as well. We have some stuff of you here.
:11:40. > :11:40.
:11:40. > :11:44.Thank you Henry. Come on in. Huglemonster toffee is worth
:11:44. > :11:52.singing about. Try this one. It's just an old high chair.
:11:52. > :11:59.It's very cosy animation. It's absolutely enchanting, I think.
:11:59. > :12:02.Jerry Hall well voices in it. She plays a pop singer. Because
:12:02. > :12:06.Isabella wears a tutu all the time. It's really great. It starts
:12:06. > :12:09.February 8. It must be lovely to bring those characters to life
:12:09. > :12:11.juftd with your voice. Because you're not physically acting.
:12:11. > :12:14.You're just thinking about everything. It's a different
:12:15. > :12:21.discipline. I love it. I love doing radio work as well. For that same
:12:21. > :12:24.reason. Alistair McGowan is fast becoming The One Show's new expert
:12:25. > :12:28.on accents. Last week he discovered the history of the Liverpudlian
:12:28. > :12:35.accent. This week we sent him across the Midlands to find out
:12:35. > :12:40.what the Vikings ever did for us. I love exploring accents and the
:12:40. > :12:45.differences I hear from one place to the next never ceases to amaze
:12:45. > :12:51.me. Whether it's the Scouse accents, everybody's favourite Liverpudlian
:12:51. > :12:56.comedian John Bishop. Or the Welsh accent of Robbie savage or the
:12:56. > :13:01.Cheshire tones of singer song writer Gary Barlow. Tell you what,
:13:01. > :13:06.do you know what, yeah. Today I'm starting my journey in the oldest
:13:06. > :13:10.part of Nottingham city centre. I'm teaming up with accent expert
:13:10. > :13:15.Professor Clive Upton. This was the site of the original Anglo-Saxon
:13:15. > :13:22.settlement. We're going back that far? That's right, back to the
:13:22. > :13:26.sixth century. Then in vom the Vikings in the eighth century.
:13:26. > :13:28.These Anglo-Saxons become cut off from those in the west. It is my
:13:28. > :13:32.favourite accent. Barbara is Nottingham born and bred. Believe
:13:32. > :13:37.it or not, the way she speaks today is influenced by that Viking
:13:37. > :13:43.occupation of the East Midlands over a thousand years ago. I always
:13:43. > :13:46.say "You all right, me duck?" As soon as I say that, they'll say
:13:46. > :13:56."Nottingham" There's another sound which I think is particularly
:13:56. > :14:04.endemic to this area. What does a bar ber do. Gives you an A-cut.
:14:04. > :14:08.have a friend who said to me come over here to have a H after cut.
:14:08. > :14:13.It's really very special to this area. It locks this area into the
:14:13. > :14:16.north of England as well. This is where those viekles come in.
:14:16. > :14:20.Because the Vikings that occupied the East Midlands had strong links
:14:20. > :14:26.with the north. That's why we're hearing from Barbara a lot of
:14:26. > :14:31.sounds that are forms of what you also hear further north. When we go
:14:31. > :14:36.further west, we'll find that a lot of the sounds there are linked into
:14:36. > :14:42.the south of the country. Heading west is what we're doing. And less
:14:42. > :14:47.than an hour from Nottingham the historic town of Tamworth. It is on
:14:47. > :14:51.the line that used to divide the East Midlands from the Anglo-sexon
:14:51. > :15:01.west. If this influences the way people speak today the accents here
:15:01. > :15:04.
:15:05. > :15:10.should be a meeting place of Hours is a mongrel accent, a bit of
:15:10. > :15:17.Leicestershire, a bit of Derbyshire, and quite a lot of Birmingham.
:15:17. > :15:22.hearing these different sounds in your accent, no is quite soft, but
:15:22. > :15:27.it is also quite West Midlands. it? There is a bit of everything in
:15:27. > :15:33.the accent. I do not think I have got an accent! Everybody else has
:15:33. > :15:38.got an accent. Well, of course! So the Tamworth accent is as I
:15:38. > :15:41.expected it, a middle ground, but when we cross the Ancient border
:15:42. > :15:47.into the Anglo-Saxon territory of the West Midlands, well, there is
:15:47. > :15:50.no question about which accent dominates here! And we are going to
:15:50. > :15:56.find it in Birmingham's historic jewellery quarter. Do people know
:15:56. > :15:59.where you are from? Immediately! It is the bane of my life, really,
:15:59. > :16:03.people referred to the fact that I come from Birmingham or starve a
:16:03. > :16:13.good example of the difference between the East Midlands and the
:16:13. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:19.West Midlands would be the word And we can also link the Birmingham
:16:19. > :16:28.accent to the Anglo-Saxons and their strong connections with the
:16:28. > :16:37.South. You have got the eye sound, which goes right down to the south
:16:37. > :16:41.coast. Absolutely. Nobody in the Midlands actually sounds like a
:16:41. > :16:45.Viking or an Anglo-Saxon any more, but it is clear to me that the way
:16:45. > :16:49.this region was divided up over 1,000 years ago explains the
:16:49. > :16:53.incredible variety of accents it boasts today. It is too easy to
:16:53. > :16:57.forget our history, but our accents do not forget, they are living and
:16:57. > :17:04.breeding time capsules, a vital and surprising record of our cultural
:17:04. > :17:07.and social past. Brilliant series of films, I love,
:17:07. > :17:14.everyone you go up to, you instantly go into their accent,
:17:14. > :17:19.nobody seems to mind. No, they don't, everybody I meet, I have to
:17:19. > :17:23.do it! Is that your favourite, the north-east? I do like the north-
:17:23. > :17:28.east, but the one I like most from that area, you heard a lot of
:17:28. > :17:35.enduring the Olympic Games, and when I was doing a gig up their...
:17:35. > :17:41.It is Brendan Foster! Accents must be really central to you creating
:17:41. > :17:45.your impressions. Yeah, absolutely, if you're doing someone like Dara O
:17:45. > :17:49.Briain, the Southern accent, that is the steading point. Obviously,
:17:49. > :17:53.if you are doing the southern Irish accent, you have to be able to do
:17:53. > :17:57.Northern Ireland, like Colin Murray from Match of the Day 2, you have
:17:57. > :18:02.to know the difference, and there are loads of accents and Ireland.
:18:02. > :18:12.But I used accents for jokes, and one of the first jokes I did, there
:18:12. > :18:13.
:18:13. > :18:18.was a big title, how do people in Leeds pronounce the name of the
:18:18. > :18:22.band That There? Are there any accents that you struggle with?
:18:22. > :18:26.am not very good, I am from Worcestershire, everybody talks
:18:26. > :18:31.like this around to me, where my family is from, but when you get to
:18:31. > :18:35.Newbury and Swindon, Bristol, and on towards Devon and Cornwall, I
:18:35. > :18:40.really struggle, because I hear Worcestershire so strong.
:18:40. > :18:45.Fortunately, I am going up on tour in April and May, and a lot of the
:18:45. > :18:50.daytime Tiverton, Exeter, places down there, Newbury, so I will be
:18:50. > :18:55.able to hear the access. I will go to that diving centre in Plymouth!
:18:55. > :19:00.Was it an accent that way that you had problems with? The director
:19:00. > :19:04.said don't even... Are I go walkabout with accents, I cannot
:19:04. > :19:09.hold on to them for long before they start to wonder. I get
:19:09. > :19:15.hamstrung by them. I had to revoice a job I did last year because I
:19:15. > :19:19.started to go like that. You have to learn it way in advance of the
:19:19. > :19:26.job, otherwise all you are thinking about is the accent. Didn't you
:19:26. > :19:33.have some trouble with Geordie? You can help him with this! It is
:19:33. > :19:38.very... You did not have a trouble with it? No. I did! It is very hard.
:19:38. > :19:43.Spend a lot of time talking to the local people, I am still learning.
:19:43. > :19:47.If you ever want to do an accent, it is the shape of the mouth, that
:19:47. > :19:54.is as important as the sound. Nottingham that we were talking
:19:54. > :19:58.about today, it is a very loose jaw. If you are from Liverpool, it is
:19:58. > :20:04.really tight around there, put your mouth in the right shape, you
:20:04. > :20:10.cannot help but talk like people from that area. Yes, the way the
:20:10. > :20:16.placement of the tone is enough. I brought along this book, oh, I do
:20:16. > :20:22.not know if you can see that. Back in the 1930s, you would not have
:20:22. > :20:25.got a job on the BBC because of the way you speak. Mike Dilger is
:20:25. > :20:31.amazing, but even Gyles Brandreth would not have been allowed to
:20:31. > :20:36.broadcast. You are kidding! would not have been posh enough, I
:20:36. > :20:40.know it is hard to believe. The Manual Of Broadcast English, they
:20:40. > :20:46.wanted all the presenters and newsreaders to speak in the same
:20:46. > :20:51.way, you had to stay off correctly, because, that, and that went on
:20:51. > :20:55.until the 1960s. One of my favourite broadcasters was Norris
:20:55. > :21:00.McWhirter, and if you remember him, with Roy Castle, he absolutely had
:21:00. > :21:05.that way of talking which rent right back to the 1930s. But that
:21:05. > :21:09.all changed later, and now we can speak more less how we want. This
:21:09. > :21:19.shows some very interesting words, how they should be pronounced by
:21:19. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:46.We all say issue, very lazily. But that is how words were
:21:46. > :21:50.pronounced, they told people how to pronounce it. I think I have heard
:21:50. > :21:54.Gyles say housewifery! He also brought a recording of the first
:21:54. > :21:58.regional accent on television. was during the Second World War,
:21:58. > :22:02.and the Germans, for their propaganda, used to copy BBC
:22:02. > :22:06.English, and they could copy Received pronunciation BBC English,
:22:06. > :22:10.so the British decided to change the way the news presenters spoke
:22:10. > :22:14.to make it harder for the Germans. They employed a man called Wilfred
:22:14. > :22:18.Pickles, an actor, from Leeds, or Yorkshire at least, and he read the
:22:18. > :22:21.news to try to confuse the Germans so that they cannot copy his
:22:21. > :22:27.pronunciation. There is only one sound in it that sounds different,
:22:27. > :22:30.but this was brought Yorkshire at the time. It caused an outcry.
:22:30. > :22:34.morning's news is of successful counter-measures against the
:22:34. > :22:37.invasion of Malaya. President Roosevelt has spoken of casualties
:22:37. > :22:41.in the earlier Japanese air raids on the Pacific naval bases. The
:22:41. > :22:48.Japanese are reported to have lost an aircraft carrier and some of
:22:48. > :22:54.their bombers and submarines. could not understand it! The only
:22:54. > :23:03.word there was aircraft. That was about it. It caused an outcry.
:23:03. > :23:08.Thank you very much. Banks, Wilfred, Top man! Now our gardening
:23:08. > :23:14.competition, time to showcase a garden you have designed at the RHS
:23:14. > :23:16.Campden Court Palace Flower Show. - - Hampton Court. He if you have
:23:16. > :23:26.been desperate to get pruning and planting again, this is just the
:23:26. > :23:33.
:23:33. > :23:37.You might well be wondering what I am doing on a cold, snowy January
:23:38. > :23:42.morning. Well, I am at Hampton Court in south-west London,
:23:42. > :23:47.measuring out a space eight metres by eight metres. It may not look
:23:47. > :23:52.very much now, but we want one of you to turn this plot into
:23:53. > :23:55.something very special. Today we are launching a competition in
:23:55. > :24:00.partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. The prize is
:24:00. > :24:07.the chance to turn this patch of land into a family garden for the
:24:07. > :24:13.Hampton Court Flower Show. For one week in July every year, 34 acres
:24:14. > :24:17.of this tranquil parkland play host to a Stanning for a spectacle. --
:24:17. > :24:21.to a stunning floral spectacle. They celebrate the best of
:24:21. > :24:26.contemporary design. It is hard to imagine that they have been built
:24:26. > :24:30.in just 21 days. We want you to send us your design, and one of you
:24:30. > :24:37.will win the chance to build your garden with the help of a
:24:37. > :24:41.professional mentor. That mentor is designer Adam frost. Adam already
:24:41. > :24:47.holds four RHS gold medals for show gardens he has created at the
:24:47. > :24:52.Chelsea Flower Show. Now, we are asking the One Show duet to design
:24:52. > :24:57.a plot here at Hampton Court as a family garden. Now, do you have to
:24:57. > :25:02.be experienced to be able to do that? Anybody can do it. What are
:25:02. > :25:07.gardens about? They are about people, yeah, space and plants. So
:25:07. > :25:11.what you have done, I think, is brilliant. If somebody has got
:25:11. > :25:19.enough room, they can pay the site out, you can start to imagine what
:25:19. > :25:24.you could do. So visualise it, feel it. Yeah, we are in the garden now!
:25:24. > :25:34.Draw some shapes on a page. We will do that inside where it is a bit
:25:34. > :25:34.
:25:34. > :25:38.Let's get you warm! We want to know what kind of family
:25:38. > :25:44.friendly guarding you would create, cutting-edge, full of flowers,
:25:44. > :25:49.packed with vegetables? What would be your ideal? So this is an eight
:25:49. > :25:55.by eight plot, have you drawn it to scale? Exactly to scale, so I am
:25:55. > :26:00.working 50-1, two centimetres on the roulette=1 metre on the page.
:26:00. > :26:04.The next thing is some tracing paper. All the time, you have got a
:26:04. > :26:10.scale underneath, and we can play with our shapes. Just as soon as
:26:10. > :26:13.you start doing this, it is a garden, a terrace, a lawn.
:26:13. > :26:20.understand the space, play with the shapes, make it individual and for
:26:20. > :26:24.a family. Exactly. Quite simple, really. That is why we are here!
:26:24. > :26:30.The design can be done on computer or by hand. The key thing is that
:26:30. > :26:34.your ideas are clear to the judge, and the main criteria is that it
:26:34. > :26:39.works as a family garden. We will need your entries by March 1st, and
:26:39. > :26:45.after that the three most promising designers will compete against each
:26:45. > :26:50.other for the Grand Prize, an opportunity to be here in July,
:26:50. > :26:54.building your show garden alongside the professionals! So now it is
:26:54. > :26:59.over to you. You can find all of the details, the terms and
:26:59. > :27:05.conditions on the website. Good luck and get Designing! What an
:27:05. > :27:09.opportunity! Christine and Adam are here with our three amateur but
:27:09. > :27:14.very keen gardeners. This is not part of the competition, but can
:27:14. > :27:18.anyone enter this? Anybody over 18 who has not got a horticultural or
:27:18. > :27:23.design qualification, or earns an appreciable amount of money in
:27:23. > :27:28.those industries. We want someone who was really keen, enthusiastic,
:27:28. > :27:33.passionate about gardening to whack it on paper! It is that simple, you
:27:33. > :27:38.don't need to know about plants. many ways, the less you know, the
:27:38. > :27:43.more creative you can be. The RHS will be providing a list available
:27:43. > :27:46.on the website that the candidates will be using. Do not make obvious
:27:46. > :27:52.mistakes, to not put a wetland plants next is something that needs
:27:52. > :27:55.a dry. If it is a children's garden, you do not want thorny thing is,
:27:55. > :28:01.poisonous plants. You want bold colours, bold flowers that kids
:28:01. > :28:05.will get involved with, plans that will attract insects. Lots of ideas
:28:05. > :28:13.there. He even though you are whacking it down on paper, there
:28:13. > :28:19.are a few things banned. You cannot have a gnome! They are going to
:28:19. > :28:24.have to stay at home. When does a Nome become a garden ornament?
:28:24. > :28:30.when it is out of home, away from home. There is no way we can have
:28:30. > :28:33.one. You cannot have things like mirrors, banners, obviously you
:28:33. > :28:41.need to think about height restrictions, or those details are
:28:41. > :28:46.on the website. OK, great. OK, I am out, what about you? This year at
:28:46. > :28:51.Chelsea you are allowed gnomes, the centenary year. We are talking
:28:51. > :28:55.Hampton Court! At least they are allowed back in a little bit.
:28:55. > :28:58.have been helping them all afternoon. What should these three
:28:58. > :29:02.and the people at home keep in mind when they are designing a family
:29:02. > :29:11.garden? To not be put off by the fact that you have got Christine as
:29:11. > :29:15.a mentor. I had a scary day! I have got used to end now. Anyway, keep
:29:15. > :29:20.it simple, do not over-complicated, build a really good story in your
:29:20. > :29:24.head. Or three of them have created stories, and they know who they are
:29:24. > :29:28.developing the garden for. When you get to the show, you have got to
:29:28. > :29:33.tell a story. You have got one child at university, a daughter who
:29:33. > :29:39.is 12 living at home, so what kind of things have you kept in mind in
:29:39. > :29:43.your garden this afternoon? Well, I wanted to create three different
:29:43. > :29:47.zones for the three different people in the family, so the adult
:29:47. > :29:52.zone here with the patio, the barbecue area, and then moving into
:29:52. > :29:56.a covered area which my daughter went to stage productions in, and
:29:56. > :30:00.then a chill-out zone for my son with a fire pit perhaps. When we
:30:00. > :30:06.are entertaining, all the children can be together, we all in one area
:30:06. > :30:10.but in different zones. It sounds great, doesn't it? What is really
:30:10. > :30:13.lovely about that, just this afternoon the shapes have developed,
:30:13. > :30:23.and they are really simple overlapping shapes. That would look
:30:23. > :30:29.
:30:29. > :30:33.Is this a pond here? I have layers. Yes, what are you doing here?
:30:33. > :30:36.have a two-and-a-half-year-old and ultimately I don't want him scared
:30:36. > :30:42.of spiders or bees. It's a lot about getting all the creatures
:30:42. > :30:45.into the garden. Getting him used to nature in general, I suppose.
:30:46. > :30:51.Wouldn't you be worried with a pond with a two-year-old? Never let him
:30:51. > :30:56.out there on his own, no. I fell in many ponds when I was young and I
:30:56. > :31:01.survived. It's the way that this one really engages young people
:31:01. > :31:05.with their garden. He's done visuals and all sorts of things. He
:31:05. > :31:11.has got a fine art degree, so he's a bit of a ringer. He told me that
:31:11. > :31:15.when he got here. Wendy's is looking good. Yes, Wendy's started
:31:15. > :31:19.off, go on darling, you tell them. It's inspired by having a central
:31:19. > :31:25.building in the middle so even if it's tipping down you could go into
:31:25. > :31:29.the garden and enjoy. It Good call. I have the central idea and then a
:31:29. > :31:32.journey thaw can go on with a path that goes through this lovely
:31:32. > :31:35.fragrant area and then out the other side with a lawn round the
:31:35. > :31:44.back. There Would any of you compete in the
:31:44. > :31:51.real thing? I would love to. Don't be shy, get in there.
:31:52. > :31:57.sense of movement through that one is fantastic. This did start off as
:31:57. > :32:00.a telephone box. A little bit. think so many people think you have
:32:00. > :32:05.to be something quite spectacular to be a garden designer. No.
:32:05. > :32:09.your heart you have an idea. Bang it on paper. And that is how it
:32:09. > :32:19.will work. Be true to yourself and your story. You will get to Hampton
:32:19. > :32:23.Court. There you are. I have to go six months with this lady!
:32:23. > :32:26.Christine was saying, it's purely for amateurs this. If you love
:32:26. > :32:30.gardening and you've never done anything like it before, don't
:32:30. > :32:34.worry, get in there. There's a budget to get it up and running.
:32:34. > :32:38.These guys will be with you every step of the way. We will help them
:32:38. > :32:41.on a fantastic journey. You will need to go to our website to enter.
:32:41. > :32:46.The terms and conditions and the everyone triforms are there. The
:32:46. > :32:52.closing date is March 1. We will be back to see how these three get on
:32:52. > :32:55.later on in the show. Get colouring in. First, last night,
:32:55. > :33:00.we saw Ironbridge in Shropshire get their flood defences in place after
:33:00. > :33:04.two weeks' worth of rain fell in a single day. This week it's the 60th
:33:04. > :33:08.anniversary of the 1953 floods that destroyed over 20,000 homes, a
:33:09. > :33:14.perfect storm had been brewing at sea and it led to the worst
:33:14. > :33:18.peacetime disaster the country had ever known.
:33:18. > :33:23.On the 31 January, 1953, a terrifying storm was brewing out
:33:23. > :33:28.there. It was due to a combination of a massive European wind and a
:33:28. > :33:32.very high tide. It was heading in One Direction - en route it claimed
:33:32. > :33:36.over 200 lives at sea. That was just the beginning. In some places
:33:36. > :33:43.those waves got over 5.5 metres high and the sea defences never
:33:43. > :33:47.stood a chance. The mammoth wave went on to claim another 307 lives.
:33:47. > :33:50.80 people were killed on the North West coast of Norfolk. In 1953,
:33:50. > :33:53.local radio stations didn't broadcast at night. Many weather
:33:53. > :34:01.stations only operated during the day. People simply didn't know what
:34:01. > :34:07.was coming. In the this town, many families lost a loved one. Neil's
:34:07. > :34:13.family, however, would all survive. It was my eldest daughter's
:34:13. > :34:21.birthday party was being arranged. My wife had decided to cancel it
:34:21. > :34:25.because the gales that day was anything up to 100mph. Had they not
:34:25. > :34:30.come, a tremendous amount of those little children that was drowned on
:34:30. > :34:35.the road, would have been at the party. All of them would have been
:34:35. > :34:37.saved had they come to your party? Oh, yeah and probably some of the
:34:38. > :34:47.mothers as well. Have you ever been able to come to terms with that?
:34:48. > :34:48.
:34:49. > :34:53.Not really. On a daily basis, I'm talking about now, 60 years after,
:34:53. > :34:57.it's indescribable what happened on that night.
:34:57. > :35:02.John Madden was 15 at the time and luckily out of town. When he
:35:02. > :35:06.returned it was to a scene of carnage. I was just amazed at the
:35:06. > :35:11.devastation, but even more so by the fact that some of those who
:35:11. > :35:14.drowned were my former class mates at the primary school here. It was
:35:14. > :35:20.a very poignant moment walking around that area where the floods
:35:20. > :35:25.hit and remembering the people who had drowned. We know now that it
:35:25. > :35:29.was a set of circumstances, extreme low pressure that raised the level
:35:29. > :35:34.of water. Hurricane-force winds and all of this channelling down the
:35:34. > :35:40.North Sea, which is a funnel shape and so the water got higher as it
:35:40. > :35:45.came down. The waves down here were over 5.5 metres high? Absolutely.
:35:45. > :35:48.It wasn't just waves, it was a wall of water. They were totally
:35:48. > :35:53.unprepared for the 11 feet of water that went in one side of the
:35:53. > :35:55.bungalow and out the other, taking the people with it. Whenever we
:35:56. > :36:02.have these memorials of the floods, people come together and share
:36:02. > :36:10.their memories. But the sadness is still there, when we stand tomorrow
:36:10. > :36:16.at the flood memorial, it will be How is your farm faring in this
:36:16. > :36:20.terrible weather then? Muddy. It's been muddy, you know the land slide
:36:20. > :36:24.that blocked the tunnel and killed those people, that was right by us.
:36:24. > :36:27.We've been muddy since then. Then we got a snow topping for a while.
:36:27. > :36:31.That made a change. That leave it's in a terrible state. The horses
:36:31. > :36:35.have mud fever. The sheep are miserable. All the fun of the fair.
:36:35. > :36:39.Other people have got it much worse than us. You talk about your horses,
:36:39. > :36:44.two of them in particular, they're the basis of another documentary
:36:44. > :36:49.you're doing. Yes. Bruce and Ronnie, isn't it? Yes, my babies. Introduce
:36:49. > :36:52.these two then. That's Brucey on the right. That's Ronnie on the
:36:52. > :36:55.left, my right, as it were. I bought them when they were eight
:36:55. > :36:59.months. They're nearly three now. They've been loafing around until
:36:59. > :37:03.this year. Then we put them into work in the programme and you see
:37:03. > :37:08.them learning and see me learning. I go around the world and see some
:37:08. > :37:14.other people who are still using horses to work rather than for
:37:14. > :37:18.leisure. That's the basists documentaries. You send them to
:37:18. > :37:21.hoof camp. How do they fare? biased. I'm really proud of them. I
:37:21. > :37:30.don't want to give anything away, but they're home now and they did
:37:30. > :37:35.really well. They were very, very good horses in the first place.
:37:35. > :37:40.you ride? I don't ried those yet but they pull me in a cart. He's
:37:40. > :37:45.probably better than in this clip then. This is Ronnie when he first
:37:45. > :37:53.started training. Make me proud, Ronnie.
:37:53. > :37:57.Right, Bruce, goodbye. Oh. The theory behind Ronnie
:37:57. > :38:01.working with axel is because they're hitched together, he'll
:38:01. > :38:09.have no choice but to go along with everything he does.
:38:09. > :38:12.I've tried to put a clip on them. Whoa goodbye. I don't know what
:38:12. > :38:16.that was, but... You see, never take your eye off them.
:38:16. > :38:20.They're pulling well with the cart now at home? Yeah, they're at home
:38:20. > :38:23.and fully functional. They're lovely. I was hanging out with them
:38:23. > :38:28.yesterday. Very handy to have around if you've lost your driving
:38:28. > :38:32.license. Yes, they sure are. years ago, did you ever imagine oud
:38:32. > :38:35.have this farm and these animals? No I never saw any of it coming at
:38:35. > :38:39.all, not a bit of it. How did it all start then? We wanted a field.
:38:39. > :38:43.We lived down there for a long time. We wanted a field to put a pony in
:38:43. > :38:48.for my daughter. Then a couple of acres would have been fine. Then we
:38:48. > :38:52.ended up buying 130 and it sort of snowballed from there. You have to
:38:52. > :38:59.keep the grass down. Yes, then the sheep and we have 15 horses now and
:38:59. > :39:04.some rescues and stuff. But it's absolutely a dream come true for us.
:39:04. > :39:07.Those boys, I just adore them. can see it. That comes across.
:39:07. > :39:11.so proud of them. They're just going to get better and better and
:39:11. > :39:20.better. The next thing we're doing is teaching them to sit like dogs.
:39:20. > :39:27.them come up like a camel. You've been busy as well. As well as the
:39:27. > :39:35.Disney series that we talked about, you've filmed this real tear jerker
:39:35. > :39:38.called Mary and Martha with Hillary Swank. Yes it's a Richard Kurt is
:39:38. > :39:48.script. It's two women with completely different backgrounds.
:39:48. > :39:49.
:39:49. > :39:53.Both lose their son to malaria in Africa. It's a well-made piece.
:39:53. > :40:00.It's really just raising awareness, because it's a problem that could
:40:00. > :40:05.be so easily solved so cheaply and simply. When you consider that a
:40:05. > :40:09.child dies every minute from malaria, it's, yeah. I mean this
:40:09. > :40:13.show is on for one hour, 60 children will have died. That's
:40:13. > :40:18.right. I went to Africa at the beginning of the year to do a
:40:18. > :40:22.similar film on malaria. It's just, they just need nets basically. It's
:40:22. > :40:26.that simple. How is the experience for you then, you filmed a lot in
:40:26. > :40:33.an orphanage in Africa, didn't you? Yeah, and the children there, I
:40:33. > :40:37.mean, just wonderful. They're just so, they find things to smile about
:40:37. > :40:42.and laugh about. It's kind of heart rending, it really is. It must be
:40:43. > :40:47.hard for you to play a character and acting... That's a fiction.
:40:47. > :40:51.acting like that. Yeah, it is. But the situation exists. You're
:40:51. > :40:56.reminded of it all the time. Lots of the children were orphans who
:40:56. > :41:03.had lost their parents for other reasons and one of the actresss in
:41:03. > :41:12.it had lost her mother. Mainly it affects children, malaria. The
:41:12. > :41:17.Comic Relief project in 2009, they sent 600,000 nets out there. That
:41:17. > :41:19.supplied say a quarter of a million families. It's cut the deaths by
:41:19. > :41:25.about 20%. APPLAUSE
:41:25. > :41:35.Which is fantastic. It's marvellous. Before we move on. Let's have a
:41:35. > :41:42.
:41:42. > :41:46.look at you in that situation. Please don't be embarrassed. I need
:41:46. > :41:52.to be useful. I don't have a job. Do you think I could be of any help
:41:52. > :41:57.at the orphanage at all? Really? Yes, really! Of course. It's easy
:41:57. > :42:06.to be useful here. I can cook quite well. Victoria sponge cake a
:42:06. > :42:12.speciality. I'm a brilliant player, if somewhat violent. Like mother
:42:12. > :42:15.like son. That looks great. Good luck with your trip to Africa.
:42:15. > :42:20.Thank you. Now all of you cat owners will probably know by now
:42:20. > :42:25.that your cat will always get his or her own way. Yeah and to prove
:42:25. > :42:35.the point here's Hamish McHamish, a ginger moggy that has an entire
:42:35. > :42:36.
:42:36. > :42:39.town wrapped around his finger. St Andrews atracks thousands of
:42:39. > :42:45.visitors a year to its splendid golfing greens, stunning scenery
:42:45. > :42:48.and a world-renowned university with particularly famous alumni.
:42:48. > :42:54.But there's one visitor in particular who's attracted the
:42:54. > :43:03.attention of the locals. He turned up on its streets 13 years ago and
:43:03. > :43:08.has been here ever since. May I introduce, Hamish McHamish. He's
:43:08. > :43:15.somewhat of a celebrity in the old town, preferring to roam free he
:43:15. > :43:20.chooses where he wants to sleep or eat each day. He even has his own
:43:20. > :43:25.social media page with over 3,500 fans and is well known for popping
:43:25. > :43:30.up in pretty unusual places. In my toilet. That's the most unusual
:43:30. > :43:38.place I've found him. I like to see him sitting in the Town Hall steps.
:43:38. > :43:42.There's a myth about him that if he crosses your doorstep that he's
:43:42. > :43:47.looking shop. We give him a brush because sometimes he looks messy.
:43:47. > :43:51.Though I'm convinced other people do it as well. Some days he turns
:43:52. > :43:56.up dapper. He's so famous he's had a book written about him. Why is he
:43:56. > :43:59.so popular? I think because the good folk of St Andrews see it as
:43:59. > :44:05.their collective responsibility to look out for him because he has no
:44:05. > :44:08.fix add bode. He's really welcomed with open arms. Mapping Hamish
:44:08. > :44:12.McHamish's seemingly random routes around St Andrews is the perfect
:44:12. > :44:16.case for The One Show team to investigate. Yesterday we put a GPS
:44:16. > :44:20.transmitter on a collar around his neck while at one of his favourite
:44:20. > :44:26.places, the local estate agents. It sends a signal to a satellite pin
:44:26. > :44:31.pointing his location. There are two further readings from
:44:31. > :44:34.neighbouring Queens gardens. Then he disappears. So the last reading
:44:34. > :44:39.we have locating Hamish McHamish's whereabouts was last night on this
:44:39. > :44:43.very road. Now the GPS only works when he's outside or near a window.
:44:43. > :44:46.And it's pretty cold outside. So I'm guessing he's curled up inside
:44:46. > :44:56.somewhere warm. So, we're going to have to use good old fashioned
:44:56. > :45:00.
:45:00. > :45:07.techniques to find where he is. I'm I have enlisted Susan's not to try
:45:07. > :45:12.to track him down. I have not seen him, so sorry. Everyone knows him!
:45:12. > :45:17.After nearly two hours of searching and all but given up hope, there is
:45:17. > :45:21.a message on his social media page. He is in a house just behind the
:45:21. > :45:26.street, right between the hair salon and the estate agents. It is
:45:26. > :45:32.the moment of truth, I finally get to meet the famous Hamish McHamish,
:45:32. > :45:37.who has been here all the time! Hello, how long has he been here?
:45:37. > :45:42.He has been here since about 4 o'clock yesterday. He comes once or
:45:42. > :45:46.twice a week. I think he likes it because it is quiet. Hamish has
:45:46. > :45:51.been master of his own destiny for so long, it may seem like he looks
:45:51. > :45:55.after himself out of necessity, but he is just a free spirit who left
:45:55. > :45:59.his owner's garden when he grew from make it into a very
:45:59. > :46:03.adventurous young cat. Today his own neck can only be sure of seeing
:46:03. > :46:09.him one C year, and only then after she has hunted him down, so she can
:46:09. > :46:14.take him to the vet for his vaccinations. Did you try to find
:46:14. > :46:19.him when he first wandered off? used to go out at night, we used to
:46:19. > :46:22.go and look for him in neighbouring streets. If I found him, if he
:46:22. > :46:28.wanted to come home, he would allow me to lift him up and carry him
:46:28. > :46:34.home. Like a cat taxi service. If ever a cat was a free spirit, that
:46:35. > :46:44.one is! Delight that the community have embraced him? I think it is
:46:45. > :46:46.
:46:47. > :46:51.delightful, yes, he is the St I want a Hamish, he is lovely,
:46:51. > :46:55.huge! You have not got a cat officially, but you have your own
:46:55. > :47:05.version of Hamish. There is one that comes in the window when I am
:47:05. > :47:07.
:47:07. > :47:15.not looking. Do you feed him? Their he is! Oh, yes! Look at the state
:47:15. > :47:19.of that stair carpet! Earlier, Martin told us that dogs show six
:47:19. > :47:26.different types of emotions through their barks, but we know a dog that
:47:26. > :47:33.can do a lot more than that. Yes, he is Dodger, Martin Clunes' dog in
:47:33. > :47:42.dark Martin. There he is, he is a genius! We apologise for this.
:47:42. > :47:52.want to see if his emotional range is actually greater than yours!
:47:52. > :47:52.
:47:52. > :47:58.ladies and gentlemen, it is time This is how it works, we are going
:47:58. > :48:02.to give you an emotion to convey into this camera here, Cameron four,
:48:02. > :48:12.and our studio audience will vote on the most powerful of expressions.
:48:12. > :48:15.
:48:15. > :48:23.-- camera. Dig deep! One at a time. Your first emotion is embarrassed.
:48:23. > :48:33.Brenda, you are first. Oh, that is very good! With silent-movie...
:48:33. > :48:44.
:48:44. > :48:51.Contestant number three, it is over He gets a round of applause, let's
:48:51. > :48:59.go to the live audience, Dodger, Martin or Brenda? Hole! It is a
:48:59. > :49:09.fix! Dodger! We have got three rounds, by the way. You have to
:49:09. > :49:17.
:49:17. > :49:27.pull it out of the bag. Your next And what about Dodger? Can he beat
:49:27. > :49:31.
:49:31. > :49:37.That is Neil! Sonia has been busy, I have not seen him do that before!
:49:37. > :49:44.Audience, what do you reckon? Dodger! OK, you are going to have
:49:44. > :49:54.to really up your game now. The last emotion... Cock our legs?
:49:54. > :50:12.
:50:12. > :50:22.More! More! Come on, Dodger, what That is rubbish! Dodger! Will it be
:50:22. > :50:23.
:50:23. > :50:30.a clean sweep? Let's find out, it is time to vote! Oh, look at that!
:50:30. > :50:34.Not bad, blimey! It is good, but of course the overall winner out of
:50:34. > :50:44.the three rounds was Dodger, who could not be here tonight, but he
:50:44. > :50:51.
:50:51. > :50:56.Brilliant! He is a genius, that dog. Wonderful, wonderful. Our consumer
:50:56. > :50:59.reporter is in Swansea to visit an unadopted street. What exactly is
:50:59. > :51:07.an unadopted street, and why have the residents been left in the dark
:51:07. > :51:11.Britain's streets have been lit up for hundreds of years. Before
:51:11. > :51:16.electricity, gas and oil lamps used to guide people along their way
:51:16. > :51:19.after dark. But in this street just outside Swansea, there is a problem.
:51:19. > :51:29.The streetlights have all been installed, but watch what happens
:51:29. > :51:31.
:51:31. > :51:36.Nothing! The street was plunged into darkness when the lights were
:51:36. > :51:39.switched off, and they have not been back on since. OK, so the
:51:39. > :51:43.residents have not quite have to resort to gas lamps and candles,
:51:43. > :51:48.but they are having to take tortures wherever they go.
:51:48. > :51:52.lights just suddenly went out. warning? No warning at all, and we
:51:52. > :51:56.thought that it was some kind of fault on the line. But they have
:51:56. > :52:01.not been a power cut, and this was not a cost-cutting measure by the
:52:01. > :52:04.council leader. The lights had been disconnected on purpose by the
:52:04. > :52:09.energy company Swalec. It was because the developers to build the
:52:09. > :52:13.street, David McLean Homes Ltd, went into administration in 2008
:52:13. > :52:18.without paying their electricity bill. Sway they say they have been
:52:18. > :52:23.painful delight ever since, and they are not copping up any more. -
:52:23. > :52:28.- Swale X say they have been paying for the lights ever since. I will
:52:28. > :52:33.turn this one off to start with. Kelly is a mother of two, and she
:52:33. > :52:36.is extremely concerned about their children's safety. We have no
:52:36. > :52:40.lights in the morning or the evening. It is clearly a safety
:52:40. > :52:45.hazard, walking around in the darkness. Obviously, visitors are
:52:45. > :52:50.not aware of the situation, it is an accident waiting to happen.
:52:50. > :52:56.looks like the darkest part of the street. Without the torch, that is
:52:56. > :52:59.pretty dark! I will switch it back on! That really is a problem.
:52:59. > :53:03.silly things like putting the rubbish out in the evening, you
:53:04. > :53:07.need a torch to do something as simple as that. If you leave
:53:07. > :53:12.something in the car and realise late at night, you think, no, I
:53:12. > :53:15.will not go out when it is pitch black on my own at this time of
:53:15. > :53:18.night. Why aren't the council paying for the lights? When a
:53:19. > :53:22.development like this is built, the council does not take
:53:22. > :53:25.responsibility for the maintenance of the roads or the street lamps
:53:25. > :53:29.until they are satisfied that everything has been installed to a
:53:29. > :53:34.good standard. Until that happens, it is known as an unadopted road,
:53:35. > :53:39.and maintenance is the respondents at -- the responsibility of the
:53:39. > :53:42.owner. The lights on the rest of the estate are still on because
:53:42. > :53:45.they were built by other developers, who have not gone into
:53:45. > :53:50.administration. But this street was still unadopted when the company
:53:50. > :53:56.went bust, and when the residents of the 45 houses at the council to
:53:56. > :53:59.take responsibility, they said no. Tony is one of the residents. What
:54:00. > :54:03.is the council's relationship to this place? Well, their first
:54:03. > :54:09.response was, as the street is not adopted and never was, it is our
:54:09. > :54:13.problem. Did you know about this? No, when we bought our houses, we
:54:13. > :54:17.knew that it was to be adopted, but we did not realise there would be a
:54:17. > :54:21.problem. We just assumed it would happen sooner or later. Swansea
:54:21. > :54:25.council said that lots of things need fixing before they will adopt
:54:25. > :54:29.the street. The lights are in need of safety improvements, and the
:54:29. > :54:34.roads are in poor condition with loose kerbs. The bill to get it all
:54:34. > :54:39.fixed could come to more than �17,000. But who should pay? The
:54:39. > :54:42.council has agreed to pay 20% of the cost as a goodwill gesture, but
:54:43. > :54:47.they want the rest of the money to be paid by the residents, which
:54:47. > :54:54.could work out at more than �300 for every household. They say they
:54:54. > :54:57.have stepped in when no one else macro words. -- no-one else would.
:54:57. > :55:00.We have all been paying council tax for nine years, so we believe the
:55:00. > :55:05.council should be looking into this matter and switching the lights
:55:05. > :55:12.back on for us. But whether the street is eventually adopted or not,
:55:12. > :55:18.there is one thing at the forefront of everyone's minds. In the
:55:18. > :55:21.meantime,... Matt Allwright is here. The thing to remember is that they
:55:21. > :55:26.are paying council tax, so how come they are not having the same
:55:26. > :55:30.service? They are paying their council tax, but this is the thing,
:55:30. > :55:34.even if you have a private road, where you take responsibility for
:55:34. > :55:38.the road and the electricity, you still pay the full council tax.
:55:38. > :55:42.That is what Swansea Council are saying. If you look at this place,
:55:42. > :55:46.we cannot budget for unadopted road because they are not our
:55:46. > :55:52.responsibility yet. They are, however, they do not have to do
:55:52. > :55:54.this, but they are offering to pay 20% of the repair costs that the
:55:54. > :55:58.community are going to be faced with. They don't have to do that,
:55:59. > :56:02.and they are trying to get some sort of resolution. Lots of people
:56:02. > :56:07.do live without streetlights anyway, but how widespread is this problem,
:56:07. > :56:11.for those on an unadopted street? Well, we have seen cases right
:56:11. > :56:15.across the UK, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Northern Ireland,
:56:15. > :56:19.there was a case of one dealer who has been without street lighting
:56:19. > :56:23.for five years now because he is in an unadopted road. So what is
:56:23. > :56:27.happening across the UK, and the worry is that you have got this 12
:56:27. > :56:31.month period before the street becomes adopted if a developer goes
:56:31. > :56:36.bust or into administration. We are untroubled Times, we could be seen
:56:36. > :56:41.more of these. What about the family's we saw in Swansea? What
:56:41. > :56:45.can they do? Swansea are helping out, they are offering 20%, but the
:56:46. > :56:50.reality is that at some point they are going to have to pay for the
:56:50. > :56:54.repairs, stump up some money, about �300 each, to get these repairs so
:56:54. > :57:00.the council will adopt the street and get things working again.
:57:00. > :57:04.you live and an unadopted street, how worried should you be? Well, it
:57:04. > :57:08.is fairly rare, we have got to say that. It is fairly rare that you
:57:08. > :57:11.get this particular situation, but if you have got a developer and
:57:12. > :57:16.they are going through this process of application, it is something you
:57:16. > :57:19.should be aware of, work out how they are doing. It is not
:57:19. > :57:24.impossible that it could happen, it is very difficult to do anything
:57:24. > :57:29.about it. Well, we do have a link on our website that will give you
:57:29. > :57:34.more information. If you head there, I hope that makes sense. Go to the
:57:34. > :57:42.website if you are in a similar situation! Shall we go and see how
:57:43. > :57:47.our gardens are getting on? You have run out of time, pencils down!
:57:47. > :57:51.They are all beautifully coloured in, here we go, let's have a look.
:57:51. > :58:00.Which of these three would you have picked? This is not the
:58:00. > :58:06.competition... This one. OK, why, Adam? It is a lovely piece of
:58:06. > :58:12.design. It has some level changes, which is really interesting in a
:58:12. > :58:18.small space, and do not worry about strong shapes, because I like this,
:58:18. > :58:22.it is a simple design, it works. They're all great, obviously.
:58:22. > :58:26.and Wendy are looking a bit deflated now! They are awesome.
:58:26. > :58:31.This is just more awesome! It is about designing a family garden,
:58:31. > :58:36.but you do not need to have a sand pit, it can before any stages of
:58:36. > :58:39.the family. Thank you both and thank you to three. All the
:58:39. > :58:45.information for the competition will be on our website as well.
:58:45. > :58:51.Christine, it is a dream for you, this one. It is! Thank you to our
:58:51. > :58:55.guests, Brenda, Martin and Alastair Paul Stocker you can hear Brenda