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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.

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Tonight our new accent investigator Alistair McGowan continues his

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journey around Britain, finding out why we sound the way we do. Where

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are we off to tonight? Let's just say I end up in Frank Skinner's

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Birmingham and leave it at that. Looking forward to that. We are

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also off to Swansea to a street with no lights since they were

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turned off three months ago. Matt Allwright is here later to explain

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why and how it could happen to you. Also coming up, you are going to

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love this, this Terrier has an acting challenge for tonight's

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guests. They are two of the country's best-loved acting talents.

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One is a Golden Globe winning actress who has starred with these

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three handsome men - Brad Pitt, Jude Law and Martin Clunes.

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other is BAFTA winning actor who has starred with these three

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glamorous women - Gwyneth Paltrow, Keeley Hawes and Brenda Blethyn.

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Please welcome Brenda Blethyn and Martin Clunes.

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APPLAUSE Great to see you both.

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Lovely to have you here. Of course, you two know each other because you

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starred in Saving Grace together. We did. I forget what you played. I

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was the doctor and I went on to great things. Hang on now, how did

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Martin compare to Jude Law and Brad Pitt? Brad who? He made an

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impression then? Oh, yes, not half. Brad Walsh. It was quite a relaxing

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scenario for you, because you... Saving Grace? A lot of the time in

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the back of a car fast asleep, judging by this photo. Did I?

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asleep on the sofya. Do you remember I had my puppy Mary. It

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was my introduction to Cornwall really. Beautiful spaniel.

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character you played in that was called Doc Martin and that was the

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beginning then. Yes, it wasn't the same character. It was quite a nice

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man in that film, but yeah, that was the start of all that, yes.

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Great things. I love that programme. It was fun doing that movie. It was

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hillarious. Craig, who is now massive, he was fun. He does the

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late, late show that's on in America after Letterman. And you

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got him doing a Cockney monkey. It was all like "Here you are ..."

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It's a Cockney monkey. Those skills could come in later. We're also

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going to be finding out about your dock Autumnaries with horses and

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dogs and -- documentaries with horses and dogs and Brenda, yours

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as well. Yes it's a Disney animation. Now exciting news for

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our One Show gardeners. We are giving you the chance to zoin a

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garden that will be built at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower

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Show. Christine Walkden will be on hand to give advice. We have three

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viewers giving it a go right now. All the details are coming up for

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you later on. Now it's time to meet Oscar. He's just six but he has

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I'm called Oscar and I'm six. whole diving experience started

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with his older brother who desperately -- desperately wanted

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to be a power ranger and diving was the way to learn to do twists and

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turns etc. Oscar started when he was four. On his very first lesson

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he went onto the 3m springboard and jumped off. I don't think Oscar has

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ever been scared of diving or I've been coaching Oscar for over a

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year now. When I saw him for the first time, he catch my eye. I

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thought, yeah this kid is quite good. Oscar does three sports. They

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all interlink with each other. trampolining and gymnastics.

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takes a lot of work. It takes work in the gym, you do about an hour,

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an hour-and-a-half. And then in the pool about one hour. About eight to

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ten hours a week. At the moment Oscar, because of his age, is doing

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dives from the 1m, 3m and 5m boards. At the moment he's learning the

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twists as well. And the back twist you're standing back on the board

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and you twist and on the forward dive, you stand forward and you

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don't twist. For such an age, it's quite hard to master. Diving Antic

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extreme sport, physically and mentally, it is demanding. We have

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Marines based in Plymouth, the 42 Commando and we often see these big,

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burly, six-foot men refuse to jump off the 10m.

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It's quite unusual for a six-year- old to go up there and do a jump

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and so a good jump, Notts just a jump. It's fun and you learn good

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dives. You hit the water at about 33mph. It hurts if you get it wrong.

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Can you actually break a bone. It makes us feel incredibly proud

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when we see Oscar performing, not just as competitions but also just

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in training. And in the evening, he goes to bed and think what's an

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amazing day he's had. I feel the need to applaud.

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APPLAUSE What a lad! You have to have stood

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up there to look out and know what he's going through. Would you ever

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do that? No. Martin? Yeah, I've done a lot of it. My brother can

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dive off the 10m. Dive, not jump? Dived, yeah. He tried to teach me

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and I did a huge belly flot and I just had the image of it in my head

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and started laughing under water. He had to pull me out. We better

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leave that there. Goodness me. You've done it though. I have.

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Let's watch out for him maybe in the next Olympics would be a bit

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too close. Any way... When is his autobiography out? When is yours

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out? Goodness me, you are a busy lad, doing the horses, the dogs.

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You have a dog documentary on tomorrow night. Yes, I just narrate

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it. It's really interesting. I learned loads of stuff on it.

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have a look then. We've trained them so that they'll

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We've trained them so that they'll hunt for us Guard our homes,

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retrieve on command and herd our livestock.

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But they also bring their own magic Dogs seem to understand our needs

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and have a desire to help us out. and have a desire to help us out.

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APPLAUSE My goodness me, what a dog she

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would be at lambing time. It's probably a messed up dog. The dog

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really should eat the lamb. That's probably what it wants to do.

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There's a lot of retrieving instinct in that spaniel. If it's

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holding the bottle. It's in the a sheepdog. It's more of a holder for

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the bottle. Are your three, you have three dogs. Yeah. Are they

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that useful? No! Not at all. My Jack Russell opened up the throat

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of one of my lambs. He got told off that day. He's a swine. He's

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learned that lesson now we hope, please God. If they run very

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quickly, Jack Russells are Jack Russells, aren't they? You uncover

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incredible things in this documentary. Will you voice some

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for us now? These facts, yes. I wasn't listening when I narrated it.

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They are, this is on about they have different barks to communicate

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different emotions. Six different barks. I heard, there was a dog

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psychologist who wrolt a book, I can't remember his name. He said

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when a dog barks basically it's going, "Hey. Hey. Hey." There's

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this thing that evolved from wolves that they do more howling. The

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thought of the bark is that they are trying to communicate with

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humans. That's one of them. Something about sight? They are

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colour blind, but they don't see in black and white. They have two

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colour sensors, we have two. They see mainly blue and yellow. They

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process visual signals much quicker than we do. The other fact...

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fascinating way they shake. they smell. No, the shaking is

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amazing. They photograph today brilliantly. They shake through 180

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degrees. It actually corkscrews down and sends the water off in,

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more efficiently than shaking side to side. That is good footage.

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Brenda, you've moved straight on from dogs to monsters. Yes. Your

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voice in a lovely character in a new Disney series called Henry

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Hugglemonster. Tell us about it. It's -- it hails from the brown bag

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animation company in Dublin. Everyone thinks because it's Disney,

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it's come from America. But this has come from Dublin. They're twice

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Oscar nominated for their animations. It's written by Nieve

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Sharky, the Children's Laureate in Dublin. It's about theess kapaids

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of Henry Hugglemonster. He's a five-year-old. It's absolutely

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delightful. I'm the next door neighbour. I play Ernestine, I

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wonder why they chose me. My husband is played by Brian Blessed.

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Actually most people think we are one in the same person. How close

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to the microphone can Brian stand? I missed his bit because he

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recorded before me. I had the advantage of his voice when I was

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in the studio. Absolutely great. There's been cameras in the

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recording studio as well. We have some stuff of you here.

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Thank you Henry. Come on in. Huglemonster toffee is worth

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singing about. Try this one. It's just an old high chair.

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It's very cosy animation. It's absolutely enchanting, I think.

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Jerry Hall well voices in it. She plays a pop singer. Because

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Isabella wears a tutu all the time. It's really great. It starts

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February 8. It must be lovely to bring those characters to life

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juftd with your voice. Because you're not physically acting.

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You're just thinking about everything. It's a different

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discipline. I love it. I love doing radio work as well. For that same

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reason. Alistair McGowan is fast becoming The One Show's new expert

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on accents. Last week he discovered the history of the Liverpudlian

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accent. This week we sent him across the Midlands to find out

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what the Vikings ever did for us. I love exploring accents and the

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differences I hear from one place to the next never ceases to amaze

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me. Whether it's the Scouse accents, everybody's favourite Liverpudlian

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comedian John Bishop. Or the Welsh accent of Robbie savage or the

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Cheshire tones of singer song writer Gary Barlow. Tell you what,

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do you know what, yeah. Today I'm starting my journey in the oldest

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part of Nottingham city centre. I'm teaming up with accent expert

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Professor Clive Upton. This was the site of the original Anglo-Saxon

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settlement. We're going back that far? That's right, back to the

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sixth century. Then in vom the Vikings in the eighth century.

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These Anglo-Saxons become cut off from those in the west. It is my

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favourite accent. Barbara is Nottingham born and bred. Believe

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it or not, the way she speaks today is influenced by that Viking

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occupation of the East Midlands over a thousand years ago. I always

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say "You all right, me duck?" As soon as I say that, they'll say

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"Nottingham" There's another sound which I think is particularly

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endemic to this area. What does a bar ber do. Gives you an A-cut.

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have a friend who said to me come over here to have a H after cut.

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It's really very special to this area. It locks this area into the

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north of England as well. This is where those viekles come in.

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Because the Vikings that occupied the East Midlands had strong links

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with the north. That's why we're hearing from Barbara a lot of

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sounds that are forms of what you also hear further north. When we go

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further west, we'll find that a lot of the sounds there are linked into

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the south of the country. Heading west is what we're doing. And less

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than an hour from Nottingham the historic town of Tamworth. It is on

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the line that used to divide the East Midlands from the Anglo-sexon

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west. If this influences the way people speak today the accents here

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should be a meeting place of Hours is a mongrel accent, a bit of

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Leicestershire, a bit of Derbyshire, and quite a lot of Birmingham.

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hearing these different sounds in your accent, no is quite soft, but

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it is also quite West Midlands. it? There is a bit of everything in

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the accent. I do not think I have got an accent! Everybody else has

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got an accent. Well, of course! So the Tamworth accent is as I

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expected it, a middle ground, but when we cross the Ancient border

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into the Anglo-Saxon territory of the West Midlands, well, there is

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no question about which accent dominates here! And we are going to

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find it in Birmingham's historic jewellery quarter. Do people know

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where you are from? Immediately! It is the bane of my life, really,

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people referred to the fact that I come from Birmingham or starve a

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good example of the difference between the East Midlands and the

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West Midlands would be the word And we can also link the Birmingham

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accent to the Anglo-Saxons and their strong connections with the

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South. You have got the eye sound, which goes right down to the south

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coast. Absolutely. Nobody in the Midlands actually sounds like a

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Viking or an Anglo-Saxon any more, but it is clear to me that the way

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this region was divided up over 1,000 years ago explains the

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incredible variety of accents it boasts today. It is too easy to

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forget our history, but our accents do not forget, they are living and

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breeding time capsules, a vital and surprising record of our cultural

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and social past. Brilliant series of films, I love,

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everyone you go up to, you instantly go into their accent,

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nobody seems to mind. No, they don't, everybody I meet, I have to

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do it! Is that your favourite, the north-east? I do like the north-

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east, but the one I like most from that area, you heard a lot of

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enduring the Olympic Games, and when I was doing a gig up their...

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It is Brendan Foster! Accents must be really central to you creating

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your impressions. Yeah, absolutely, if you're doing someone like Dara O

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Briain, the Southern accent, that is the steading point. Obviously,

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if you are doing the southern Irish accent, you have to be able to do

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Northern Ireland, like Colin Murray from Match of the Day 2, you have

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to know the difference, and there are loads of accents and Ireland.

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But I used accents for jokes, and one of the first jokes I did, there

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was a big title, how do people in Leeds pronounce the name of the

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band That There? Are there any accents that you struggle with?

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am not very good, I am from Worcestershire, everybody talks

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like this around to me, where my family is from, but when you get to

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Newbury and Swindon, Bristol, and on towards Devon and Cornwall, I

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really struggle, because I hear Worcestershire so strong.

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Fortunately, I am going up on tour in April and May, and a lot of the

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daytime Tiverton, Exeter, places down there, Newbury, so I will be

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able to hear the access. I will go to that diving centre in Plymouth!

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Was it an accent that way that you had problems with? The director

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said don't even... Are I go walkabout with accents, I cannot

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hold on to them for long before they start to wonder. I get

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hamstrung by them. I had to revoice a job I did last year because I

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started to go like that. You have to learn it way in advance of the

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job, otherwise all you are thinking about is the accent. Didn't you

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have some trouble with Geordie? You can help him with this! It is

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very... You did not have a trouble with it? No. I did! It is very hard.

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Spend a lot of time talking to the local people, I am still learning.

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If you ever want to do an accent, it is the shape of the mouth, that

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is as important as the sound. Nottingham that we were talking

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about today, it is a very loose jaw. If you are from Liverpool, it is

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really tight around there, put your mouth in the right shape, you

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cannot help but talk like people from that area. Yes, the way the

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placement of the tone is enough. I brought along this book, oh, I do

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not know if you can see that. Back in the 1930s, you would not have

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got a job on the BBC because of the way you speak. Mike Dilger is

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amazing, but even Gyles Brandreth would not have been allowed to

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broadcast. You are kidding! would not have been posh enough, I

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know it is hard to believe. The Manual Of Broadcast English, they

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wanted all the presenters and newsreaders to speak in the same

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way, you had to stay off correctly, because, that, and that went on

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until the 1960s. One of my favourite broadcasters was Norris

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McWhirter, and if you remember him, with Roy Castle, he absolutely had

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that way of talking which rent right back to the 1930s. But that

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all changed later, and now we can speak more less how we want. This

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shows some very interesting words, how they should be pronounced by

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We all say issue, very lazily. But that is how words were

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pronounced, they told people how to pronounce it. I think I have heard

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Gyles say housewifery! He also brought a recording of the first

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regional accent on television. was during the Second World War,

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and the Germans, for their propaganda, used to copy BBC

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English, and they could copy Received pronunciation BBC English,

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so the British decided to change the way the news presenters spoke

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to make it harder for the Germans. They employed a man called Wilfred

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Pickles, an actor, from Leeds, or Yorkshire at least, and he read the

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news to try to confuse the Germans so that they cannot copy his

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pronunciation. There is only one sound in it that sounds different,

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but this was brought Yorkshire at the time. It caused an outcry.

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morning's news is of successful counter-measures against the

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invasion of Malaya. President Roosevelt has spoken of casualties

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in the earlier Japanese air raids on the Pacific naval bases. The

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Japanese are reported to have lost an aircraft carrier and some of

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their bombers and submarines. could not understand it! The only

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word there was aircraft. That was about it. It caused an outcry.

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Thank you very much. Banks, Wilfred, Top man! Now our gardening

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competition, time to showcase a garden you have designed at the RHS

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Campden Court Palace Flower Show. - - Hampton Court. He if you have

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been desperate to get pruning and planting again, this is just the

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You might well be wondering what I am doing on a cold, snowy January

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morning. Well, I am at Hampton Court in south-west London,

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measuring out a space eight metres by eight metres. It may not look

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very much now, but we want one of you to turn this plot into

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something very special. Today we are launching a competition in

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partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. The prize is

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the chance to turn this patch of land into a family garden for the

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Hampton Court Flower Show. For one week in July every year, 34 acres

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of this tranquil parkland play host to a Stanning for a spectacle. --

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to a stunning floral spectacle. They celebrate the best of

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contemporary design. It is hard to imagine that they have been built

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in just 21 days. We want you to send us your design, and one of you

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will win the chance to build your garden with the help of a

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professional mentor. That mentor is designer Adam frost. Adam already

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holds four RHS gold medals for show gardens he has created at the

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Chelsea Flower Show. Now, we are asking the One Show duet to design

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a plot here at Hampton Court as a family garden. Now, do you have to

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be experienced to be able to do that? Anybody can do it. What are

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gardens about? They are about people, yeah, space and plants. So

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what you have done, I think, is brilliant. If somebody has got

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enough room, they can pay the site out, you can start to imagine what

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you could do. So visualise it, feel it. Yeah, we are in the garden now!

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Draw some shapes on a page. We will do that inside where it is a bit

:25:24.:25:34.
:25:34.:25:34.

Let's get you warm! We want to know what kind of family

:25:34.:25:38.

friendly guarding you would create, cutting-edge, full of flowers,

:25:38.:25:44.

packed with vegetables? What would be your ideal? So this is an eight

:25:44.:25:49.

by eight plot, have you drawn it to scale? Exactly to scale, so I am

:25:49.:25:55.

working 50-1, two centimetres on the roulette=1 metre on the page.

:25:55.:26:00.

The next thing is some tracing paper. All the time, you have got a

:26:00.:26:04.

scale underneath, and we can play with our shapes. Just as soon as

:26:04.:26:10.

you start doing this, it is a garden, a terrace, a lawn.

:26:10.:26:13.

understand the space, play with the shapes, make it individual and for

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a family. Exactly. Quite simple, really. That is why we are here!

:26:20.:26:24.

The design can be done on computer or by hand. The key thing is that

:26:24.:26:30.

your ideas are clear to the judge, and the main criteria is that it

:26:30.:26:34.

works as a family garden. We will need your entries by March 1st, and

:26:34.:26:39.

after that the three most promising designers will compete against each

:26:39.:26:45.

other for the Grand Prize, an opportunity to be here in July,

:26:45.:26:50.

building your show garden alongside the professionals! So now it is

:26:50.:26:54.

over to you. You can find all of the details, the terms and

:26:54.:26:59.

conditions on the website. Good luck and get Designing! What an

:26:59.:27:05.

opportunity! Christine and Adam are here with our three amateur but

:27:05.:27:09.

very keen gardeners. This is not part of the competition, but can

:27:09.:27:14.

anyone enter this? Anybody over 18 who has not got a horticultural or

:27:14.:27:18.

design qualification, or earns an appreciable amount of money in

:27:18.:27:23.

those industries. We want someone who was really keen, enthusiastic,

:27:23.:27:28.

passionate about gardening to whack it on paper! It is that simple, you

:27:28.:27:33.

don't need to know about plants. many ways, the less you know, the

:27:33.:27:38.

more creative you can be. The RHS will be providing a list available

:27:38.:27:43.

on the website that the candidates will be using. Do not make obvious

:27:43.:27:46.

mistakes, to not put a wetland plants next is something that needs

:27:46.:27:52.

a dry. If it is a children's garden, you do not want thorny thing is,

:27:52.:27:55.

poisonous plants. You want bold colours, bold flowers that kids

:27:55.:28:01.

will get involved with, plans that will attract insects. Lots of ideas

:28:01.:28:05.

there. He even though you are whacking it down on paper, there

:28:05.:28:13.

are a few things banned. You cannot have a gnome! They are going to

:28:13.:28:19.

have to stay at home. When does a Nome become a garden ornament?

:28:19.:28:24.

when it is out of home, away from home. There is no way we can have

:28:24.:28:30.

one. You cannot have things like mirrors, banners, obviously you

:28:30.:28:33.

need to think about height restrictions, or those details are

:28:33.:28:41.

on the website. OK, great. OK, I am out, what about you? This year at

:28:41.:28:46.

Chelsea you are allowed gnomes, the centenary year. We are talking

:28:46.:28:51.

Hampton Court! At least they are allowed back in a little bit.

:28:51.:28:55.

have been helping them all afternoon. What should these three

:28:55.:28:58.

and the people at home keep in mind when they are designing a family

:28:58.:29:02.

garden? To not be put off by the fact that you have got Christine as

:29:02.:29:11.

a mentor. I had a scary day! I have got used to end now. Anyway, keep

:29:11.:29:15.

it simple, do not over-complicated, build a really good story in your

:29:15.:29:20.

head. Or three of them have created stories, and they know who they are

:29:20.:29:24.

developing the garden for. When you get to the show, you have got to

:29:24.:29:28.

tell a story. You have got one child at university, a daughter who

:29:28.:29:33.

is 12 living at home, so what kind of things have you kept in mind in

:29:33.:29:39.

your garden this afternoon? Well, I wanted to create three different

:29:39.:29:43.

zones for the three different people in the family, so the adult

:29:43.:29:47.

zone here with the patio, the barbecue area, and then moving into

:29:47.:29:52.

a covered area which my daughter went to stage productions in, and

:29:52.:29:56.

then a chill-out zone for my son with a fire pit perhaps. When we

:29:56.:30:00.

are entertaining, all the children can be together, we all in one area

:30:00.:30:06.

but in different zones. It sounds great, doesn't it? What is really

:30:06.:30:10.

lovely about that, just this afternoon the shapes have developed,

:30:10.:30:13.

and they are really simple overlapping shapes. That would look

:30:13.:30:23.
:30:23.:30:29.

Is this a pond here? I have layers. Yes, what are you doing here?

:30:29.:30:33.

have a two-and-a-half-year-old and ultimately I don't want him scared

:30:33.:30:36.

of spiders or bees. It's a lot about getting all the creatures

:30:36.:30:42.

into the garden. Getting him used to nature in general, I suppose.

:30:42.:30:45.

Wouldn't you be worried with a pond with a two-year-old? Never let him

:30:46.:30:51.

out there on his own, no. I fell in many ponds when I was young and I

:30:51.:30:56.

survived. It's the way that this one really engages young people

:30:56.:31:01.

with their garden. He's done visuals and all sorts of things. He

:31:01.:31:05.

has got a fine art degree, so he's a bit of a ringer. He told me that

:31:05.:31:11.

when he got here. Wendy's is looking good. Yes, Wendy's started

:31:11.:31:15.

off, go on darling, you tell them. It's inspired by having a central

:31:15.:31:19.

building in the middle so even if it's tipping down you could go into

:31:19.:31:25.

the garden and enjoy. It Good call. I have the central idea and then a

:31:25.:31:29.

journey thaw can go on with a path that goes through this lovely

:31:29.:31:32.

fragrant area and then out the other side with a lawn round the

:31:32.:31:35.

back. There Would any of you compete in the

:31:35.:31:44.

real thing? I would love to. Don't be shy, get in there.

:31:44.:31:51.

sense of movement through that one is fantastic. This did start off as

:31:52.:31:57.

a telephone box. A little bit. think so many people think you have

:31:57.:32:00.

to be something quite spectacular to be a garden designer. No.

:32:00.:32:05.

your heart you have an idea. Bang it on paper. And that is how it

:32:05.:32:09.

will work. Be true to yourself and your story. You will get to Hampton

:32:09.:32:19.

Court. There you are. I have to go six months with this lady!

:32:19.:32:23.

Christine was saying, it's purely for amateurs this. If you love

:32:23.:32:26.

gardening and you've never done anything like it before, don't

:32:26.:32:30.

worry, get in there. There's a budget to get it up and running.

:32:30.:32:34.

These guys will be with you every step of the way. We will help them

:32:34.:32:38.

on a fantastic journey. You will need to go to our website to enter.

:32:38.:32:41.

The terms and conditions and the everyone triforms are there. The

:32:41.:32:46.

closing date is March 1. We will be back to see how these three get on

:32:46.:32:52.

later on in the show. Get colouring in. First, last night,

:32:52.:32:55.

we saw Ironbridge in Shropshire get their flood defences in place after

:32:55.:33:00.

two weeks' worth of rain fell in a single day. This week it's the 60th

:33:00.:33:04.

anniversary of the 1953 floods that destroyed over 20,000 homes, a

:33:04.:33:08.

perfect storm had been brewing at sea and it led to the worst

:33:09.:33:14.

peacetime disaster the country had ever known.

:33:14.:33:18.

On the 31 January, 1953, a terrifying storm was brewing out

:33:18.:33:23.

there. It was due to a combination of a massive European wind and a

:33:23.:33:28.

very high tide. It was heading in One Direction - en route it claimed

:33:28.:33:32.

over 200 lives at sea. That was just the beginning. In some places

:33:32.:33:36.

those waves got over 5.5 metres high and the sea defences never

:33:36.:33:43.

stood a chance. The mammoth wave went on to claim another 307 lives.

:33:43.:33:47.

80 people were killed on the North West coast of Norfolk. In 1953,

:33:47.:33:50.

local radio stations didn't broadcast at night. Many weather

:33:50.:33:53.

stations only operated during the day. People simply didn't know what

:33:53.:34:01.

was coming. In the this town, many families lost a loved one. Neil's

:34:01.:34:07.

family, however, would all survive. It was my eldest daughter's

:34:07.:34:13.

birthday party was being arranged. My wife had decided to cancel it

:34:13.:34:21.

because the gales that day was anything up to 100mph. Had they not

:34:21.:34:25.

come, a tremendous amount of those little children that was drowned on

:34:25.:34:30.

the road, would have been at the party. All of them would have been

:34:30.:34:35.

saved had they come to your party? Oh, yeah and probably some of the

:34:35.:34:37.

mothers as well. Have you ever been able to come to terms with that?

:34:38.:34:47.
:34:48.:34:48.

Not really. On a daily basis, I'm talking about now, 60 years after,

:34:49.:34:53.

it's indescribable what happened on that night.

:34:53.:34:57.

John Madden was 15 at the time and luckily out of town. When he

:34:57.:35:02.

returned it was to a scene of carnage. I was just amazed at the

:35:02.:35:06.

devastation, but even more so by the fact that some of those who

:35:06.:35:11.

drowned were my former class mates at the primary school here. It was

:35:11.:35:14.

a very poignant moment walking around that area where the floods

:35:14.:35:20.

hit and remembering the people who had drowned. We know now that it

:35:20.:35:25.

was a set of circumstances, extreme low pressure that raised the level

:35:25.:35:29.

of water. Hurricane-force winds and all of this channelling down the

:35:29.:35:34.

North Sea, which is a funnel shape and so the water got higher as it

:35:34.:35:40.

came down. The waves down here were over 5.5 metres high? Absolutely.

:35:40.:35:45.

It wasn't just waves, it was a wall of water. They were totally

:35:45.:35:48.

unprepared for the 11 feet of water that went in one side of the

:35:48.:35:53.

bungalow and out the other, taking the people with it. Whenever we

:35:53.:35:55.

have these memorials of the floods, people come together and share

:35:56.:36:02.

their memories. But the sadness is still there, when we stand tomorrow

:36:02.:36:10.

at the flood memorial, it will be How is your farm faring in this

:36:10.:36:16.

terrible weather then? Muddy. It's been muddy, you know the land slide

:36:16.:36:20.

that blocked the tunnel and killed those people, that was right by us.

:36:20.:36:24.

We've been muddy since then. Then we got a snow topping for a while.

:36:24.:36:27.

That made a change. That leave it's in a terrible state. The horses

:36:27.:36:31.

have mud fever. The sheep are miserable. All the fun of the fair.

:36:31.:36:35.

Other people have got it much worse than us. You talk about your horses,

:36:35.:36:39.

two of them in particular, they're the basis of another documentary

:36:39.:36:44.

you're doing. Yes. Bruce and Ronnie, isn't it? Yes, my babies. Introduce

:36:44.:36:49.

these two then. That's Brucey on the right. That's Ronnie on the

:36:49.:36:52.

left, my right, as it were. I bought them when they were eight

:36:52.:36:55.

months. They're nearly three now. They've been loafing around until

:36:55.:36:59.

this year. Then we put them into work in the programme and you see

:36:59.:37:03.

them learning and see me learning. I go around the world and see some

:37:03.:37:08.

other people who are still using horses to work rather than for

:37:08.:37:14.

leisure. That's the basists documentaries. You send them to

:37:14.:37:18.

hoof camp. How do they fare? biased. I'm really proud of them. I

:37:18.:37:21.

don't want to give anything away, but they're home now and they did

:37:21.:37:30.

really well. They were very, very good horses in the first place.

:37:30.:37:35.

you ride? I don't ried those yet but they pull me in a cart. He's

:37:35.:37:40.

probably better than in this clip then. This is Ronnie when he first

:37:40.:37:45.

started training. Make me proud, Ronnie.

:37:45.:37:53.

Right, Bruce, goodbye. Oh. The theory behind Ronnie

:37:53.:37:57.

working with axel is because they're hitched together, he'll

:37:57.:38:01.

have no choice but to go along with everything he does.

:38:01.:38:09.

I've tried to put a clip on them. Whoa goodbye. I don't know what

:38:09.:38:12.

that was, but... You see, never take your eye off them.

:38:12.:38:16.

They're pulling well with the cart now at home? Yeah, they're at home

:38:16.:38:20.

and fully functional. They're lovely. I was hanging out with them

:38:20.:38:23.

yesterday. Very handy to have around if you've lost your driving

:38:23.:38:28.

license. Yes, they sure are. years ago, did you ever imagine oud

:38:28.:38:32.

have this farm and these animals? No I never saw any of it coming at

:38:32.:38:35.

all, not a bit of it. How did it all start then? We wanted a field.

:38:35.:38:39.

We lived down there for a long time. We wanted a field to put a pony in

:38:39.:38:43.

for my daughter. Then a couple of acres would have been fine. Then we

:38:43.:38:48.

ended up buying 130 and it sort of snowballed from there. You have to

:38:48.:38:52.

keep the grass down. Yes, then the sheep and we have 15 horses now and

:38:52.:38:59.

some rescues and stuff. But it's absolutely a dream come true for us.

:38:59.:39:04.

Those boys, I just adore them. can see it. That comes across.

:39:04.:39:07.

so proud of them. They're just going to get better and better and

:39:07.:39:11.

better. The next thing we're doing is teaching them to sit like dogs.

:39:11.:39:20.

them come up like a camel. You've been busy as well. As well as the

:39:20.:39:27.

Disney series that we talked about, you've filmed this real tear jerker

:39:27.:39:35.

called Mary and Martha with Hillary Swank. Yes it's a Richard Kurt is

:39:35.:39:38.

script. It's two women with completely different backgrounds.

:39:38.:39:48.
:39:48.:39:49.

Both lose their son to malaria in Africa. It's a well-made piece.

:39:49.:39:53.

It's really just raising awareness, because it's a problem that could

:39:53.:40:00.

be so easily solved so cheaply and simply. When you consider that a

:40:00.:40:05.

child dies every minute from malaria, it's, yeah. I mean this

:40:05.:40:09.

show is on for one hour, 60 children will have died. That's

:40:09.:40:13.

right. I went to Africa at the beginning of the year to do a

:40:13.:40:18.

similar film on malaria. It's just, they just need nets basically. It's

:40:18.:40:22.

that simple. How is the experience for you then, you filmed a lot in

:40:22.:40:26.

an orphanage in Africa, didn't you? Yeah, and the children there, I

:40:26.:40:33.

mean, just wonderful. They're just so, they find things to smile about

:40:33.:40:37.

and laugh about. It's kind of heart rending, it really is. It must be

:40:37.:40:42.

hard for you to play a character and acting... That's a fiction.

:40:43.:40:47.

acting like that. Yeah, it is. But the situation exists. You're

:40:47.:40:51.

reminded of it all the time. Lots of the children were orphans who

:40:51.:40:56.

had lost their parents for other reasons and one of the actresss in

:40:56.:41:03.

it had lost her mother. Mainly it affects children, malaria. The

:41:03.:41:12.

Comic Relief project in 2009, they sent 600,000 nets out there. That

:41:12.:41:17.

supplied say a quarter of a million families. It's cut the deaths by

:41:17.:41:19.

about 20%. APPLAUSE

:41:19.:41:25.

Which is fantastic. It's marvellous. Before we move on. Let's have a

:41:25.:41:35.
:41:35.:41:42.

look at you in that situation. Please don't be embarrassed. I need

:41:42.:41:46.

to be useful. I don't have a job. Do you think I could be of any help

:41:46.:41:52.

at the orphanage at all? Really? Yes, really! Of course. It's easy

:41:52.:41:57.

to be useful here. I can cook quite well. Victoria sponge cake a

:41:57.:42:06.

speciality. I'm a brilliant player, if somewhat violent. Like mother

:42:06.:42:12.

like son. That looks great. Good luck with your trip to Africa.

:42:12.:42:15.

Thank you. Now all of you cat owners will probably know by now

:42:15.:42:20.

that your cat will always get his or her own way. Yeah and to prove

:42:20.:42:25.

the point here's Hamish McHamish, a ginger moggy that has an entire

:42:25.:42:35.
:42:35.:42:36.

town wrapped around his finger. St Andrews atracks thousands of

:42:36.:42:39.

visitors a year to its splendid golfing greens, stunning scenery

:42:39.:42:45.

and a world-renowned university with particularly famous alumni.

:42:45.:42:48.

But there's one visitor in particular who's attracted the

:42:48.:42:54.

attention of the locals. He turned up on its streets 13 years ago and

:42:54.:43:03.

has been here ever since. May I introduce, Hamish McHamish. He's

:43:03.:43:08.

somewhat of a celebrity in the old town, preferring to roam free he

:43:08.:43:15.

chooses where he wants to sleep or eat each day. He even has his own

:43:15.:43:20.

social media page with over 3,500 fans and is well known for popping

:43:20.:43:25.

up in pretty unusual places. In my toilet. That's the most unusual

:43:25.:43:30.

place I've found him. I like to see him sitting in the Town Hall steps.

:43:30.:43:38.

There's a myth about him that if he crosses your doorstep that he's

:43:38.:43:42.

looking shop. We give him a brush because sometimes he looks messy.

:43:42.:43:47.

Though I'm convinced other people do it as well. Some days he turns

:43:47.:43:51.

up dapper. He's so famous he's had a book written about him. Why is he

:43:52.:43:56.

so popular? I think because the good folk of St Andrews see it as

:43:56.:43:59.

their collective responsibility to look out for him because he has no

:43:59.:44:05.

fix add bode. He's really welcomed with open arms. Mapping Hamish

:44:05.:44:08.

McHamish's seemingly random routes around St Andrews is the perfect

:44:08.:44:12.

case for The One Show team to investigate. Yesterday we put a GPS

:44:12.:44:16.

transmitter on a collar around his neck while at one of his favourite

:44:16.:44:20.

places, the local estate agents. It sends a signal to a satellite pin

:44:20.:44:26.

pointing his location. There are two further readings from

:44:26.:44:31.

neighbouring Queens gardens. Then he disappears. So the last reading

:44:31.:44:34.

we have locating Hamish McHamish's whereabouts was last night on this

:44:34.:44:39.

very road. Now the GPS only works when he's outside or near a window.

:44:39.:44:43.

And it's pretty cold outside. So I'm guessing he's curled up inside

:44:43.:44:46.

somewhere warm. So, we're going to have to use good old fashioned

:44:46.:44:56.
:44:56.:45:00.

techniques to find where he is. I'm I have enlisted Susan's not to try

:45:00.:45:07.

to track him down. I have not seen him, so sorry. Everyone knows him!

:45:07.:45:12.

After nearly two hours of searching and all but given up hope, there is

:45:12.:45:17.

a message on his social media page. He is in a house just behind the

:45:17.:45:21.

street, right between the hair salon and the estate agents. It is

:45:21.:45:26.

the moment of truth, I finally get to meet the famous Hamish McHamish,

:45:26.:45:32.

who has been here all the time! Hello, how long has he been here?

:45:32.:45:37.

He has been here since about 4 o'clock yesterday. He comes once or

:45:37.:45:42.

twice a week. I think he likes it because it is quiet. Hamish has

:45:42.:45:46.

been master of his own destiny for so long, it may seem like he looks

:45:46.:45:51.

after himself out of necessity, but he is just a free spirit who left

:45:51.:45:55.

his owner's garden when he grew from make it into a very

:45:55.:45:59.

adventurous young cat. Today his own neck can only be sure of seeing

:45:59.:46:03.

him one C year, and only then after she has hunted him down, so she can

:46:03.:46:09.

take him to the vet for his vaccinations. Did you try to find

:46:09.:46:14.

him when he first wandered off? used to go out at night, we used to

:46:14.:46:19.

go and look for him in neighbouring streets. If I found him, if he

:46:19.:46:22.

wanted to come home, he would allow me to lift him up and carry him

:46:22.:46:28.

home. Like a cat taxi service. If ever a cat was a free spirit, that

:46:28.:46:34.

one is! Delight that the community have embraced him? I think it is

:46:35.:46:44.
:46:45.:46:46.

delightful, yes, he is the St I want a Hamish, he is lovely,

:46:47.:46:51.

huge! You have not got a cat officially, but you have your own

:46:51.:46:55.

version of Hamish. There is one that comes in the window when I am

:46:55.:47:05.
:47:05.:47:07.

not looking. Do you feed him? Their he is! Oh, yes! Look at the state

:47:07.:47:15.

of that stair carpet! Earlier, Martin told us that dogs show six

:47:15.:47:19.

different types of emotions through their barks, but we know a dog that

:47:19.:47:26.

can do a lot more than that. Yes, he is Dodger, Martin Clunes' dog in

:47:26.:47:33.

dark Martin. There he is, he is a genius! We apologise for this.

:47:33.:47:42.

want to see if his emotional range is actually greater than yours!

:47:42.:47:52.
:47:52.:47:52.

ladies and gentlemen, it is time This is how it works, we are going

:47:52.:47:58.

to give you an emotion to convey into this camera here, Cameron four,

:47:58.:48:02.

and our studio audience will vote on the most powerful of expressions.

:48:02.:48:12.
:48:12.:48:15.

-- camera. Dig deep! One at a time. Your first emotion is embarrassed.

:48:15.:48:23.

Brenda, you are first. Oh, that is very good! With silent-movie...

:48:23.:48:33.
:48:33.:48:44.

Contestant number three, it is over He gets a round of applause, let's

:48:44.:48:51.

go to the live audience, Dodger, Martin or Brenda? Hole! It is a

:48:51.:48:59.

fix! Dodger! We have got three rounds, by the way. You have to

:48:59.:49:09.
:49:09.:49:17.

pull it out of the bag. Your next And what about Dodger? Can he beat

:49:17.:49:27.
:49:27.:49:31.

That is Neil! Sonia has been busy, I have not seen him do that before!

:49:31.:49:37.

Audience, what do you reckon? Dodger! OK, you are going to have

:49:37.:49:44.

to really up your game now. The last emotion... Cock our legs?

:49:44.:49:54.
:49:54.:50:12.

More! More! Come on, Dodger, what That is rubbish! Dodger! Will it be

:50:12.:50:22.
:50:22.:50:23.

a clean sweep? Let's find out, it is time to vote! Oh, look at that!

:50:23.:50:30.

Not bad, blimey! It is good, but of course the overall winner out of

:50:30.:50:34.

the three rounds was Dodger, who could not be here tonight, but he

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Brilliant! He is a genius, that dog. Wonderful, wonderful. Our consumer

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reporter is in Swansea to visit an unadopted street. What exactly is

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an unadopted street, and why have the residents been left in the dark

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Britain's streets have been lit up for hundreds of years. Before

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electricity, gas and oil lamps used to guide people along their way

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after dark. But in this street just outside Swansea, there is a problem.

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The streetlights have all been installed, but watch what happens

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Nothing! The street was plunged into darkness when the lights were

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switched off, and they have not been back on since. OK, so the

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residents have not quite have to resort to gas lamps and candles,

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but they are having to take tortures wherever they go.

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lights just suddenly went out. warning? No warning at all, and we

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thought that it was some kind of fault on the line. But they have

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not been a power cut, and this was not a cost-cutting measure by the

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council leader. The lights had been disconnected on purpose by the

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energy company Swalec. It was because the developers to build the

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street, David McLean Homes Ltd, went into administration in 2008

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without paying their electricity bill. Sway they say they have been

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painful delight ever since, and they are not copping up any more. -

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- Swale X say they have been paying for the lights ever since. I will

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turn this one off to start with. Kelly is a mother of two, and she

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is extremely concerned about their children's safety. We have no

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lights in the morning or the evening. It is clearly a safety

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hazard, walking around in the darkness. Obviously, visitors are

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not aware of the situation, it is an accident waiting to happen.

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looks like the darkest part of the street. Without the torch, that is

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pretty dark! I will switch it back on! That really is a problem.

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silly things like putting the rubbish out in the evening, you

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need a torch to do something as simple as that. If you leave

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something in the car and realise late at night, you think, no, I

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will not go out when it is pitch black on my own at this time of

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night. Why aren't the council paying for the lights? When a

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development like this is built, the council does not take

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responsibility for the maintenance of the roads or the street lamps

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until they are satisfied that everything has been installed to a

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good standard. Until that happens, it is known as an unadopted road,

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and maintenance is the respondents at -- the responsibility of the

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owner. The lights on the rest of the estate are still on because

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they were built by other developers, who have not gone into

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administration. But this street was still unadopted when the company

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went bust, and when the residents of the 45 houses at the council to

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take responsibility, they said no. Tony is one of the residents. What

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is the council's relationship to this place? Well, their first

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response was, as the street is not adopted and never was, it is our

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problem. Did you know about this? No, when we bought our houses, we

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knew that it was to be adopted, but we did not realise there would be a

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problem. We just assumed it would happen sooner or later. Swansea

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council said that lots of things need fixing before they will adopt

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the street. The lights are in need of safety improvements, and the

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roads are in poor condition with loose kerbs. The bill to get it all

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fixed could come to more than �17,000. But who should pay? The

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council has agreed to pay 20% of the cost as a goodwill gesture, but

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they want the rest of the money to be paid by the residents, which

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could work out at more than �300 for every household. They say they

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have stepped in when no one else macro words. -- no-one else would.

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We have all been paying council tax for nine years, so we believe the

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council should be looking into this matter and switching the lights

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back on for us. But whether the street is eventually adopted or not,

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there is one thing at the forefront of everyone's minds. In the

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meantime,... Matt Allwright is here. The thing to remember is that they

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are paying council tax, so how come they are not having the same

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service? They are paying their council tax, but this is the thing,

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even if you have a private road, where you take responsibility for

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the road and the electricity, you still pay the full council tax.

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That is what Swansea Council are saying. If you look at this place,

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we cannot budget for unadopted road because they are not our

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responsibility yet. They are, however, they do not have to do

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this, but they are offering to pay 20% of the repair costs that the

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community are going to be faced with. They don't have to do that,

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and they are trying to get some sort of resolution. Lots of people

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do live without streetlights anyway, but how widespread is this problem,

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for those on an unadopted street? Well, we have seen cases right

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across the UK, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Northern Ireland,

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there was a case of one dealer who has been without street lighting

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for five years now because he is in an unadopted road. So what is

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happening across the UK, and the worry is that you have got this 12

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month period before the street becomes adopted if a developer goes

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bust or into administration. We are untroubled Times, we could be seen

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more of these. What about the family's we saw in Swansea? What

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can they do? Swansea are helping out, they are offering 20%, but the

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reality is that at some point they are going to have to pay for the

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repairs, stump up some money, about �300 each, to get these repairs so

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the council will adopt the street and get things working again.

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you live and an unadopted street, how worried should you be? Well, it

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is fairly rare, we have got to say that. It is fairly rare that you

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get this particular situation, but if you have got a developer and

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they are going through this process of application, it is something you

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should be aware of, work out how they are doing. It is not

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impossible that it could happen, it is very difficult to do anything

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about it. Well, we do have a link on our website that will give you

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more information. If you head there, I hope that makes sense. Go to the

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website if you are in a similar situation! Shall we go and see how

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our gardens are getting on? You have run out of time, pencils down!

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They are all beautifully coloured in, here we go, let's have a look.

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Which of these three would you have picked? This is not the

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competition... This one. OK, why, Adam? It is a lovely piece of

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design. It has some level changes, which is really interesting in a

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small space, and do not worry about strong shapes, because I like this,

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it is a simple design, it works. They're all great, obviously.

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and Wendy are looking a bit deflated now! They are awesome.

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This is just more awesome! It is about designing a family garden,

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but you do not need to have a sand pit, it can before any stages of

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the family. Thank you both and thank you to three. All the

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information for the competition will be on our website as well.

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Christine, it is a dream for you, this one. It is! Thank you to our

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guests, Brenda, Martin and Alastair Paul Stocker you can hear Brenda

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