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A stone's throw from the shopping mecca of Cardiff city centre

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lies a street with a long history of home-grown business.

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Good morning, Coray And Co, how can I help?

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A kilometre-long melting pot of independent retailers,

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City Road is the country's most diverse street.

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Almost 60% of those who live here were born outside of Wales.

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So much diversity on City Road -

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my Scottish accent's just adding to it, I think!

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A place where new...

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I hope open next month.

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..and old collide.

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I wouldn't like a business down here.

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Now it's altered.

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Where change is inevitable,

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and fun times are always just around the corner.

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Vibrating mascara?

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Looks kind of spiky.

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-SIREN WAILS GASPS:

-Look at that!

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On a street that was once the site for public executions...

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I'm going to cry.

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..it's not always easy to survive.

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But the people of City Road have learned to come out fighting...

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Let's go! Let's go!

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..and they never stay down for long.

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I love you, Dave!

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This is life on City Road.

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It's the place to be for action.

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With 161 shops open for business,

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City Road is an eating, styling and selling hotspot.

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From party tricks...

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Somebody is going to be winning a leather outfit.

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I hope it's not my dad.

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..to classy cuts...

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Hairdressing is my life.

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You cut me, and I bleed hairdressing.

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I've always, always said that.

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..to life-changing body art...

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Pointing? Straight on?

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..whatever it is you're looking for,

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you can almost certainly find it on City Road.

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One man who savours the great variety of life here is Chris Jones.

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City Road, from an outsider's point of view,

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it's probably quite rough,

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but you don't notice that when you live there,

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it's just where you live and that's it, you know?

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Chris and his miniature Doberman, Baxter,

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live in a flat that overlooks City Road.

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Good boy. Good boy.

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City Road, it's a bustling metropolis by itself.

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Come on, then, let's go.

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Chris and Baxter love the sights, the sounds...

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There's loads of different people speaking different languages.

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..and the smells of City Road.

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There's loads of different restaurants.

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You could eat food from four different continents.

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I live next to the Mexican restaurant.

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My bedroom always smells like good Mexican food,

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which is nice!

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HE CHUCKLES

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With Baxter fed and walked, it's time for Chris to start his day job.

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NEEDLE BUZZES

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How's it feeling?

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You OK? You don't feel sick or dizzy or faint?

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-No.

-Good.

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An award-winning artist, Christ part-owns Physical Graffiti -

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a tattoo parlour that's thriving.

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It's the shop's ten year anniversary, this year.

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When it started off, it was just on the ground floor,

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and now the shop's three floors.

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We've got six artists, a shop manager.

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It's just gone from strength to strength.

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In this job, Chris gets all kinds of unusual requests...

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I'm having a snake with boobies.

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..but he doesn't get many clients like Linda.

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Hello.

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Wow!

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Linda and her husband Alan

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have come to see Chris with a very special tattoo request.

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What kind of nipple do you want?

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-3-D.

-3-D.

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-Yep, please.

-I mean, obviously, it's only...

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It's an illusion.

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I never really fancied having any tattoo done before.

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I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

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But it's just going to put a close...

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to the operation and everything I've been through.

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It's like the final part of it.

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What Linda has been through includes a double mastectomy

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and a breast reconstruction,

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which has left her without natural nipples.

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I've brought a picture just before my surgery.

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-Ah, right.

-It's all down to shading and colouring and...

-Yeah, exactly.

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That's why I haven't got any inks out yet,

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-cos it depends on your skin tone.

-I have got, like, a...

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The times I've done it in the past,

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I've had to make the one nipple look like the nipple that's still left,

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which, depending on the nipple,

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can sometimes be quite difficult to do, I think -

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but because this was two, I had total free rein, which is cool.

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I want the expert.

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I mean, I'm not embarrassed about how I look now,

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but I just think when the nipple's there, been tattooed,

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I'll just look like any other woman in the changing room.

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Good morning, Coray And Co, how can I help?

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Right next door to Physical Graffiti

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is another business that's customer-facing.

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What are we doing today then?

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-Well, the usual, really, Mark.

-OK.

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Although they're neighbours,

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the tattoo salon and the hair salon are worlds apart.

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Coffee?

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I always describe it as a five-star, down-to-earth salon.

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Owner Mark is proud of the quality of customer that the salon attracts.

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OK, well, bring them in, and we'll do all that, as well.

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There's been a lot of celebrity clients that we've come across here.

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Most famous is Sian Lloyd, our Welsh weather girl.

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-Hi, Sian.

-Hiya! Hiya, Mark.

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And, really, she's part of the family.

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I've been with your well over 20 years - 25 years?

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Sometimes, perhaps, we're not quite politically correct.

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What about Donald Trump?

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-What a twat, eh?

-HE LAUGHS

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God!

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If you say you're a supporter, Mark,

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I'm never going to speak to you ever again.

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Oh, no, I don't, I don't, I don't.

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Wahey!

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She travels from London to Cardiff just to get her hair done.

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It's a six hour round-trip, but he's the best.

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And you just go to the best, don't you?

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If you achieve the style that the client wants, then you've got it.

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Eat your heart out, Adele!

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THEY CHUCKLE

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I've done lots in my life.

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I've represented Great Britain's Olympic standard in Washington DC,

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I've had conversations with Hillary Clinton,

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I've been to the Kremlin in Russia.

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But I'm still a hairdresser.

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-Thank you, thanks, guys.

-See you, Sian, take care. Bye.

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Mark has owned his salon here for 20 years.

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He even spent his childhood on City Road,

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living above a cafe that his parents owned.

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My friends all lived in the side streets

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opposite my mum and dad's cafe.

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I knew all the shopkeepers.

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So, when I look back, they were the good old days.

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But the City Road of Mark's youth has changed.

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With the rise of big brand shopping in the city centre,

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some of the street's retailers have lost out -

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and Mark thinks this once classy road has seen better days.

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We have a good reputation in Cardiff.

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However, the street is getting scruffier,

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and I think the area, at this moment in time,

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doesn't warrant the clientele that we need.

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Sorry, I didn't know I'd locked you out.

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Today, Mark's parents have popped in

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for one of their regular appointments

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with senior stylist, Michael.

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Don't mind me stripping in front of you, do you?

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It was very nice down here when we had our cafe.

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There was car salerooms, there was also butchers, clothing shops,

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tailor shops - but it's completely changed now.

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It's more like an eating place, isn't it?

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-Do you go eating down here, Michael?

-I do, yeah.

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There's a restaurant on the end of our block that's quite nice.

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Oh, I like foreign foods, don't get me wrong.

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I really enjoy foreign food.

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But I don't think I'd like a business down here now.

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Now it's altered.

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As the street has changed,

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so too has the kind of customer walking past the salon.

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Business has dropped so bad - at one time,

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all these seats used to be occupied.

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He had around about eight staff,

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and you used to have to wait for the seat.

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It was so full up.

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I still love coming to work - hairdressing is my life.

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You cut me, and I bleed hairdressing.

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I've always, always said that.

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However, I would just like a different outlook,

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as opposed to City Road.

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While business isn't exactly booming for the five-star salon,

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across the road, the old adage that sex sells

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is proving to be true on City Road.

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It's not a sex shop.

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We don't sell sex.

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It's a sexy shop.

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Not much of that, is there?

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SHE WHISTLES

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That's not going to keep you warm in winter.

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Passion is one of the street's biggest, most successful shops.

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The owner, Faith, makes your love life her business.

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So, we sell lingerie, shoes, boots,

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some toys, and things, basically, to spice up your romantic side.

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Generally, my customers are part of a couple

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that want to add some enhancement to their relationship.

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I'm not sure this is my area.

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It's really, really important

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to ensure that you have an intimate relationship

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with your partner, because it brings you so much closer.

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I don't know what that is.

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THEY LAUGH

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Faith got the idea for her business

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after reading the advice of professionals.

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If you speak to any sex therapist these days,

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they will tell you, the first thing, if you don't have orgasms,

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is, do you own a vibrator?

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You need one.

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So, I found my market that way.

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I do sometimes see myself as a bit of a therapist.

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-VIBRATOR BUZZES

-Ooh, there you go.

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-Yeah!

-It's quite noisy, actually!

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I've heard you're meant to test it on your nose.

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Yeah. So, if I go up this end with a remote...

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Yeah. Oh, yeah, OK.

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If you put it inside your coat.

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-BUZZING STOPS

-I'm zapping you!

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-BUZZING RESUMES

-Oh, yeah, OK.

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SHE CHUCKLES

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Loads of people ask me, "Have you used everything in this shop?"

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Well, actually, I'm still walking, so I doubt it!

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SHE CHUCKLES

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City Road looks very different

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to the wealthy Edwardian thoroughfare it once was.

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But through all the changes,

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one annual event has never failed to come around.

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This is City Road's 110th Christmas.

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And there's one man that always likes to make a show of it.

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I'm about to wreck Santa.

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Christmas is dark, rainy, depressing,

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and you need light to brighten,

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to pump energy back into us.

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Clients come in, they look for the dancing Santa,

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the chirpy Mickey Mouse clock house

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with its 12 animated Christmas carols.

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I like to think we do Christmas in a very tasteful way,

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with the tiniest bit of tack.

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Here we go.

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# Up on the housetop reindeer paws

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# Out jumps good old... #

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Welcome to Christmas at Coray And Co!

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HE LAUGHS

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# Fa, la, la, la, la, la

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MUSIC CUTS OUT

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Ooh...

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In December, Mark and the team

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are usually working their fingers to the bone...

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Christmas is a hairdresser's busiest time of the year.

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The period is probably two weeks,

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so you have two weeks to do everybody's hair.

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..but so far this year, business is worryingly slow.

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Mark puts it all down to their location.

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We're losing passing trade by being in this area.

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We need more parking, we need better surroundings.

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On standby for a last-minute Christmas rush

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is part-time stylist Richard.

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This is one of the nicest places I've ever actually worked.

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MARK CHUCKLES

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You're never asked for anything beyond what's reasonable.

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You don't mess around.

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Not when it comes to Christmas, he doesn't.

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-# It's the most wonderful time of the year... #

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I'm absolutely freezing.

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# With the kids jingle-belling and everyone... #

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Just hoping this ladder holds up.

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Perhaps these decorations will help pull in the punters

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for what might be Coray's very last City Road Christmas.

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The salon's been on the market for two years.

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But, in fact, in this climate,

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trying to sell is almost like a big chain around your neck.

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This is the second Christmas that I've said,

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"I don't want to be here next year."

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Fingers crossed, I won't be here next year.

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But who knows?

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Of course, Christmas is a time for sharing the love.

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We do pick-and-mix condoms.

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-Shall I show you?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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Across the road at Passion,

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Faith is gearing up for the Christmas rush.

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At Christmas time, I'll sell more of the expensive toys.

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Girls also like wrapping themselves up like Christmas presents,

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so they will come and buy a sexy outfit.

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Take the layers off and see what's underneath!

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SHE CHUCKLES

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A surprise!

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This will be Faith's 16th year of selling festive season fun.

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I actually started up at the end of a recession.

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Things were on the up, confidence was good.

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There was times when I had to call in my sister or my friends,

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or even my kids, to help me pack orders because we had so many,

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and we couldn't cope -

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and that was when I was working from my dining room table.

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There have been some really tough times, though,

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and, you know, the mood in the nation

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definitely, definitely affects how business is.

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So, if people feel...

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crappy, then sales are crappy, and that's sad.

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Cash flow is stressful, because everything that we have in here,

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I have to buy it, and it sits there until I sell it.

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So, it's money sat there.

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So, there's money that isn't in my bank.

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So, that's not the fun part of the business.

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You know, I'm not a multi-million-pound company -

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I'm still a small business.

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So, I'm fortunate that I can make my own living,

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but I'm not rich yet, so maybe I have to keep looking

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to find the perfect product, or something,

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to make me loads of money!

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# There's a feeling of Christmas... #

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Finding and stocking the product that will keep her customers smiling

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is Faith's mission for Christmas...

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Let's see what we've had in today from our lovely suppliers.

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..whatever shape it might come in.

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Ooh!

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See, now, who wouldn't want one of those for Christmas?

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Ooh, we have a vibrating mascara...?

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I don't know, it looks kind of spiky.

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Each to their own!

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Excuse me just a second. I will be right back.

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Over the years, Faith has carved herself a reputation

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as City Road's sex toy therapist.

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Right, so that's like a Rabbit.

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It's way bigger than these.

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It's dead kinky.

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She's built herself a loyal client base...

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I've got so many lovely customers. I love my customers.

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If you need any help, just give me a shout.

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..and tonight she wants to celebrate with them.

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Tonight is, um...

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our sweet 16th birthday party.

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It's 16 years since we set the business up.

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So, it's really great for me to have my family and friends around me,

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to help me celebrate it.

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So, I'll feel good tonight.

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I've got all this, and it's brought up my kids,

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and it's helped me pay my mortgage, and...

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it's mine.

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# Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la

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# Que alegre se siente el alma!

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# Fa, la, la, la, la... #

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At Coray And Co, there seems to be some Christmas magic in the air.

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# Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la... #

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'Hi, Mark, it's Cat,

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'calling from Moginie James estate agents.'

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'Um, I wondered if you could give me a quick call -

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'it is really good news.'

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After two years of being on the market,

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Mark has finally had a decent offer on the salon.

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Lovely decorations, as usual!

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MARK LAUGHS

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When Mark's bank manager drops in for a cut and colour,

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he can't wait to share the good news.

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We had an offer.

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It's a few thousand pounds away from what I want.

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Um...but I said yes.

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So I come upstairs, told Michael and Amy I've said yes.

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-Mm-hmm?

-And, um, they all went into panic attack.

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-"Oh, my God, it's real! Oh, my God!"

-Still having a panic.

-SHE LAUGHS

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Like many of his clients,

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Mark's bank manager thinks that selling up and leaving City Road

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is a smart move.

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I think that Mark's relocation to an affluent suburb

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would certainly help increase his new client base.

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And his existing client base will follow him wherever he goes.

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But we're not going to Pontypridd.

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SHE LAUGHS

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Of course, the ones that you want to get rid of,

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you can just, you know, run away without telling them, is it?

0:17:420:17:45

-Yes! I will definitely run away without telling a few clients.

-Yeah.

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# I will follow him follow him wherever he may go... #

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I don't think I'll be sad. I think I'll be happy.

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It's a new venture.

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It's the reinvention of the salon - which is what we need

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to inject that little bit of excitement back into life.

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Fingers crossed, it'll happen.

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# ..Keep me away. #

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While Mark is dreaming of what might be,

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next door, at Physical Graffiti,

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the big day has arrived for cancer patient Linda.

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I've been excited all day!

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SHE CHUCKLES

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Last year, Linda had a double mastectomy

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and breast reconstruction,

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which left her without natural nipples.

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I'll draw them on first, and we'll get them...

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how you want them.

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Linda and her husband Alan are hoping that tattoo artist Chris

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can help them draw a line under the past

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and give Linda back her confidence.

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With Linda, you're not just doing a pretty picture on somebody.

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You're giving her something that has been taken away.

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Whereabouts?

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I mean, do you want them kind of, you know, pointing?

0:18:530:18:56

Straight on? It's...

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-We can...

-Straight on, I think?

-Straight on.

-Yeah?

0:18:580:19:01

Alan's no stranger to the tattoo artist's needle, either.

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See, that's another one I got.

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Oh, God, classic!

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-How much was that?

-£3.50.

0:19:090:19:11

-Yeah? Ha-ha!

-I think it was about 1974.

0:19:110:19:15

Um, I'll draw them on first.

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And then we can go from there.

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But it's more about...putting them kind of in the right place, I guess.

0:19:200:19:25

Linda isn't the first person in her family

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that's faced a battle with cancer.

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My, um, eldest sister, she had both breasts removed...

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but then, unfortunately, she had secondary cancer,

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and she died at the age of 62.

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My other sister, she had, um, a left mastectomy, at the age of 42.

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Because of my two sisters, I was high risk of breast cancer,

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just waiting and wondering if it's going to happen to me.

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So, when Linda find a lump in her breast in 2014,

0:20:060:20:09

she feared the worst.

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It was cancer.

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Just so hard to take, when it eventually comes along.

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Very hard.

0:20:200:20:22

-Are you ready?

-Mm-hmm.

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Here we go.

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In the past, Linda's been conscious of what people might think

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of her nipple-less breasts.

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We went to the...swimming pool this morning,

0:20:330:20:36

and, um, there's a lot of women there

0:20:360:20:38

that don't know what I've been through,

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and I was sort of pulling my top on really quick, you know?

0:20:410:20:44

sort of hiding a little bit.

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I do that anyway, if I'm in a changing room.

0:20:460:20:48

I'm like...

0:20:480:20:49

I've got my towel up and I'm trying to get my pants on!

0:20:490:20:52

I know, that's what men are like.

0:20:520:20:53

Yeah!

0:20:530:20:55

I wasn't nervous about actually doing it,

0:20:550:20:58

but nervous about - was she going to like it or not?

0:20:580:21:01

You know? Cos it...it obviously meant a hell of a lot to her.

0:21:010:21:05

Lovely.

0:21:160:21:17

Great. Lovely.

0:21:170:21:19

-Amazing.

-Yeah.

0:21:190:21:21

They look... They look real!

0:21:210:21:23

They look great.

0:21:230:21:25

Really, really pleased.

0:21:250:21:26

It just looks natural, doesn't it?

0:21:260:21:28

-Incredible.

-Thank you very much.

0:21:280:21:30

You've done a wonderful job.

0:21:300:21:32

Thank you.

0:21:320:21:33

I realise the impact that it's had.

0:21:330:21:36

-Can I have a cuddle?

-Aw!

0:21:360:21:37

'She's really happy with it.'

0:21:370:21:39

Been really looking forward to it,

0:21:390:21:40

-I'm really pleased.

-Thanks very much.

0:21:400:21:42

-Great job. Thank you.

-Thank you very much.

-Wonderful.

0:21:420:21:44

I imagine I'm going to be inundated with...

0:21:440:21:47

nipples, at some time in the future.

0:21:470:21:49

HE CHUCKLES

0:21:490:21:51

In the end...

0:21:510:21:53

I feel, er, more like myself now.

0:21:530:21:55

-Yeah.

-Don't I?

0:21:550:21:57

Across the road, at Passion...

0:22:000:22:02

That's electro sex.

0:22:020:22:04

That is like a TENS machine.

0:22:040:22:07

..preparations for tonight's party are in full swing.

0:22:070:22:10

Whoa! More stuff!

0:22:100:22:12

In the kitchen, things are hotting up...

0:22:120:22:14

..but on the shop floor, Faith is way behind.

0:22:170:22:20

I'm just in the middle of trying to get this stuff ready

0:22:200:22:23

for tonight's party, and my label printer is jammed.

0:22:230:22:26

I could do without that.

0:22:260:22:28

I've got... Ooh, not too much time, either.

0:22:280:22:31

For Faith, tonight is all about keeping her customers happy

0:22:320:22:35

and coming back for more.

0:22:350:22:37

It's the hardest business ever to get word-of-mouth advertising,

0:22:370:22:40

so I don't that they'll go and tell their friends,

0:22:400:22:42

but sometimes they do.

0:22:420:22:43

It'll be all right on the night.

0:22:430:22:46

With just a few minutes to go...

0:22:460:22:49

I'm cheating now, I'm putting things without prices on out.

0:22:490:22:52

..Faith manages to get the goodies out...

0:22:520:22:54

Ooh!

0:22:540:22:55

..just before the guests arrive.

0:22:550:22:57

# Merry Christmas, darling

0:22:590:23:04

# We're apart, that's true... #

0:23:060:23:10

You two are going to be butlering through tonight for a bit,

0:23:100:23:13

and selling raffle tickets, if you can.

0:23:130:23:16

Woohoo, look at this!

0:23:190:23:20

Ladies and gents, it is 16% off, because it's a Sweet 16 party, yeah.

0:23:260:23:31

That's 1-6, not 6-0!

0:23:310:23:33

Ha-ha-ha!

0:23:330:23:34

It's going really well.

0:23:370:23:39

We've got loads of people here, customers and friends and family,

0:23:390:23:42

so it's really nice.

0:23:420:23:43

We got the buff butlers going on, which I really like.

0:23:430:23:46

And then, at nine o'clock, we'll have the raffle draw,

0:23:460:23:49

so somebody is going to be winning a leather outfit.

0:23:490:23:51

I hope it's not my dad.

0:23:510:23:53

Um, it's 5.87 for this.

0:23:580:24:00

Tills are ringing!

0:24:000:24:02

I've got no idea what a vibrating mascara is. Do you?

0:24:030:24:07

If you'd like to make your way down to the pole,

0:24:070:24:09

our fashion show is about to start.

0:24:090:24:11

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

0:24:120:24:14

-Yes!

-Whoo!

0:24:220:24:24

APPLAUSE

0:24:240:24:25

If you have raffle tickets, gather up this end.

0:24:250:24:28

And good luck!

0:24:280:24:30

G-spot dildo, glass.

0:24:300:24:33

-Woohoo!

-I know everybody wants this one.

0:24:330:24:36

Right... Screaming Lipstick that's not a lipstick.

0:24:360:24:39

Sam Blake!

0:24:410:24:43

-Yes!

-LAUGHTER

0:24:430:24:46

Looks like someone's had a lucky night!

0:24:460:24:48

-What a night!

-We just need a handbag to put it all in, now.

0:24:490:24:52

What you need to do is put it on the tip of your nose.

0:24:520:24:55

-Put it on...

-Oh, jeez... God!

0:24:550:24:58

As the party draws to a close,

0:24:580:25:00

there seem to be plenty of satisfied customers.

0:25:000:25:03

Bye, Aunt Denise. Thanks for coming.

0:25:030:25:06

-What did you win?

-Massage!

0:25:060:25:07

-It's not a happy ending massage.

-Aah!

0:25:070:25:10

It's Christmas Eve...

0:25:150:25:18

..and Mark and his team are getting ready

0:25:200:25:23

for their traditional Christmas fancy dress competition.

0:25:230:25:26

Good morning.

0:25:260:25:28

We came across the idea through one of my management courses,

0:25:280:25:32

that everybody dresses up Christmas Eve,

0:25:320:25:34

and every client that comes in votes for the best-dressed person.

0:25:340:25:38

The best-dressed person gets a prize.

0:25:380:25:42

Mark is the most competitive out of all of us.

0:25:420:25:45

He also seems to have abandoned all attempts to keep it classy.

0:25:450:25:48

And it's all about...

0:25:490:25:51

winning, isn't it?

0:25:510:25:53

Not the taking part, then?

0:25:530:25:56

He's the boss, so you kind of...

0:25:560:25:58

you have to hold back a little bit, you know?

0:25:580:26:00

Here we go!

0:26:000:26:02

After weeks of keeping their home-made designs a secret,

0:26:020:26:05

it's time for the big reveal.

0:26:050:26:07

LAUGHTER

0:26:080:26:10

Look at Olaf! Can I have Olaf?

0:26:120:26:15

Last but not least is Richard's festive...

0:26:160:26:20

creation.

0:26:200:26:22

I just, er, stuck anything I could find Christmas themed to my jumper,

0:26:220:26:26

-and that's basically it.

-Competition's tough.

0:26:260:26:28

Yeah, I think, er...

0:26:280:26:30

-Yeah.

-We might have a new contender.

0:26:300:26:32

I need to get a beard for next year.

0:26:320:26:34

THEY LAUGH

0:26:340:26:35

This year was the only time I put effort into making it look good.

0:26:370:26:40

And I was happy with it.

0:26:400:26:41

The tinsel's a bit itchy, though.

0:26:410:26:44

I suppose we just all see the good fun in it.

0:26:440:26:47

It's Christmas Eve, it's a bit of fun.

0:26:470:26:49

It's just good to dress up, take part.

0:26:490:26:51

PHONE RINGS

0:26:510:26:52

Good morning, Coray And Co, how can I help?

0:26:520:26:54

Even on Christmas Eve, it's business as usual...

0:26:560:26:58

..and the votes are rolling in.

0:27:000:27:03

-Thank you.

-No worries.

0:27:050:27:07

A few cut and blow dries later, after shutting up shop...

0:27:100:27:14

So...here we go.

0:27:140:27:15

..it's time to count them in.

0:27:150:27:18

And the first one is...

0:27:180:27:20

..Mark. And the next one is Richard.

0:27:220:27:25

HE LAUGHS

0:27:260:27:29

One, two, three, four, five for Amy.

0:27:290:27:32

It's a two-horse race.

0:27:320:27:34

One, two, three...

0:27:350:27:37

Me and Mark were neck and neck until I took the final vote.

0:27:370:27:40

Sorry, Michael.

0:27:400:27:42

Yeah, I was quite shocked Amy won.

0:27:420:27:45

I thought, er... I thought it was an average effort,

0:27:450:27:47

and, considering she didn't make it - her boyfriend made most of it.

0:27:470:27:50

Michael, remember the Christmas spirit!

0:27:500:27:52

And, as winner, we have a little gift.

0:27:520:27:55

Aw, cool!

0:27:550:27:56

Mascara!

0:27:570:27:59

I'm still convinced it's a fix.

0:28:000:28:02

-LAUGHTER

-Yeah!

-Well done.

0:28:020:28:05

I'm over it, it's fine.

0:28:050:28:07

Christmas 2016 isn't that far away.

0:28:070:28:10

And welcome to the Coray And Co LAST City Road Christmas party.

0:28:100:28:15

THEY LAUGH

0:28:150:28:16

-Cheers, everybody!

-ALL:

-Cheers!

0:28:190:28:21

From affluent Edwardian suburb...

0:28:210:28:24

to modern urban high street,

0:28:240:28:26

in its 110-year history, City Road has been many things -

0:28:260:28:31

and, whilst the path ends here for some...

0:28:310:28:33

-It looks quite classy, doesn't it?

-It is, very.

0:28:340:28:36

..for those who roll with the changes,

0:28:360:28:38

there is still money to be made...

0:28:380:28:40

Tills are ringing!

0:28:400:28:41

..fun to be had...

0:28:410:28:42

SHE LAUGHS

0:28:420:28:44

..and a good fight to be fought...

0:28:440:28:46

I can't feel it!

0:28:460:28:47

..here on City Road.

0:28:470:28:50

# All I want for Christmas is you, baby!

0:28:500:28:56

# All I want for Christmas is you... #

0:28:560:29:00

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