0:00:02 > 0:00:07This Time on Tenby 24/7, fisherman Richard Collins faces hard times ahead.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11Everything seems to be going up, shellfish are staying the same.
0:00:11 > 0:00:15Pest Controller Lee Richards deals with Tenby's unwanted guests.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19It's going to be a rodent paradise when everyone's gone home.
0:00:19 > 0:00:23And have vandals ruined the town's chances of winning Britain In Bloom?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27We've got to hope the judge takes things into consideration.
0:00:27 > 0:00:33This is seven days in the life of one of Wales's holiday hotspots.
0:00:33 > 0:00:40Seven days with the people who work here to make the holidays a treat.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43This is Tenby 24/7.
0:00:46 > 0:00:51Hugging the Pembrokeshire coastline is the small seaside town of Tenby.
0:00:51 > 0:00:58In the summer months, over 50,000 tourists flock to soak up the lively seaside atmosphere.
0:01:01 > 0:01:06With so many people to cater for, works starts early for the locals.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Listen up. Today, we've got regular cod,
0:01:09 > 0:01:15mini cod, regular haddock, large haddock, mackerel.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Nothing else.
0:01:17 > 0:01:24Delman Fecci's Welsh Italian family have been running a fish and chip shop in Tenby for 76 years.
0:01:24 > 0:01:30He and his brother Charles have got to get their skates on this morning.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33They have over a tonne of potatoes to chip.
0:01:33 > 0:01:38Charles has all the fish to prep before the rush starts front of house.
0:01:38 > 0:01:43It's quite relaxing actually. You don't have to deal with anyone.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47You don't get shouted at by 100,000 people in the queue,
0:01:47 > 0:01:53and all your servers and you always cook the wrong thing, no matter what it is, it's something else you want.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Never mind!
0:01:55 > 0:01:59- You live and love it! - And I'm the only one that does this.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Oh, someone has to, I suppose.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09Give it some welly. Digging for Wales!
0:02:09 > 0:02:10Del, your mackerel!
0:02:10 > 0:02:15Oi, get your arse in here with these mackerel!
0:02:15 > 0:02:19There's somebody shouted, I've been told.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23It's quite astounding, how deaf you are, aren't you?
0:02:23 > 0:02:26He's my brother and I love him, no other way.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Good God, we spend more time with one another than with our partners,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- so it has to be right somewhere along the line.- Yes, there is that.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Most marriages don't last this long!
0:02:37 > 0:02:41Or we'd been had up for murder, we'd be out by now!
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Yeah, we'd have been out for parole, I'm sure of it!
0:02:46 > 0:02:53Tenby's Welsh name is Dinbych y Pysgod, meaning "little fortress of the fishes".
0:02:53 > 0:03:00And fishing the waters around the coast today are childhood sweethearts Richard and Sarah.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04They've been catching lobster and crab for over a decade
0:03:04 > 0:03:08and Richard himself has been working on boats even longer.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13Too long now. I can't remember!
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Since he left school.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19- Well, he did it weekends and holidays, didn't you?- Yeah.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23- He'll be 34 on the 24th of this month.- Hey? Behave!
0:03:25 > 0:03:31They've gathered in their lobster catch, but for this fishing couple the day's still young.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34This is the start now. We'll be straight out.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Sarah will take these down and we'll go straight out.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42See you later. Have a good day.
0:03:42 > 0:03:47As their boat, the Mistress 3, heads back out to sea,
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Sarah is off to run their latest business venture,
0:03:51 > 0:03:55a wet fish shop in the Old Harbour Master's office.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59I'm doing about 12 hours a day
0:03:59 > 0:04:05and Richard is doing between 15 and 17 hours a day, every day.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09And the weather doesn't seem to be changing at the moment.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12So it's going to be ongoing.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16I miss being on the boat.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20I find being in here very...confined really.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23It's just nice to be out in the open and outdoors.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29We opened on the 12th April.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33Sarah's idea, not mine. Of course.
0:04:33 > 0:04:38Just to try and promote our local lobsters really.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45That's the female. Full of eggs.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47And that's the male, then.
0:04:47 > 0:04:52I think it's 22 days now, we've done, without a day off.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58We'll keep going until the gales come.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Everything is blooming marvellously in Tenby.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12Last year the town received a Silver Gilt Award
0:05:12 > 0:05:14in the nationwide Britain in Bloom competition.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18The resort is gunning for gold this year
0:05:18 > 0:05:22under the leadership of town councillor, Sue Laine.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23What we're going to do today,
0:05:23 > 0:05:26if the Youth Club starts in Augustus Place,
0:05:26 > 0:05:28I'll walk down with you now,
0:05:28 > 0:05:31and the Air Cadets can go onto the esplanade
0:05:31 > 0:05:34and working towards each other then that way.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38All it is really is getting the route ready for the judges
0:05:38 > 0:05:41and it's stray weeds we're looking for today if that's all right. Smashing.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45I'm a Tenby girl, born and bred in Tenby.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Very proud to come from Tenby.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52You'll find that most people, Tenby people, are very proud.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55We've got a lot to be proud of, I think.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00This year Sue's working closely with schools, pensioners
0:06:00 > 0:06:03and local youth groups in order to get Tenby shipshape in time
0:06:03 > 0:06:05for the judge's tour.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Just grab it, and then that in the middle is a weed.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Doing a good job. It makes such a difference, doesn't it?
0:06:13 > 0:06:17The only industry Tenby's got is tourism and this is part of it.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I think when you can present your town to look its best
0:06:20 > 0:06:23and be one of the best in the country,
0:06:23 > 0:06:27then I think that's a great help to Tenby and Pembrokeshire.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31- How much do you want to win? - I want to win. I want it.
0:06:31 > 0:06:32I'm hungry for it.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34I want gold.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36I want gold. Yeah.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Tenby is looking as pretty as a postcard.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47But as the resort swells in population every summer,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50there are some unwanted guests that are attracted to it.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Hello. Is that Mr Rossiter?
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Hi, it's Lee Richards from the Pest Control.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00County council Pest Control Officer Lee Richards
0:07:00 > 0:07:01has a licence to exterminate.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Yeah. I think that's the place. There we are, I'm not too far away. I'll be with you shortly.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13First job now - after the pigeons on town walls.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Don't want to keep them waiting too long.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Got to check the traps quite regularly.
0:07:19 > 0:07:24To be fair to the poor animals we are going to be dispatching shortly.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30With over 50,000 holidaymakers in town over the summer
0:07:30 > 0:07:33the pigeon population has become a bit of a problem.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37In the winter when the food supply dwindles, you know,
0:07:37 > 0:07:41there's a...it won't sustain the population it sustains in the summer.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45So, the most humane thing to do is keep the numbers down
0:07:45 > 0:07:47and that's what I attempt to do.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50That's what we're going to have a look at now at the top of the town walls.
0:07:51 > 0:07:56Lee's job today is to set the traps to try and catch the birds.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00In one cull in the past I reached a thousand.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05When you look, you wouldn't think there were that many birds about
0:08:05 > 0:08:07but it's quite surprising.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13I don't want to eradicate them altogether, I mean,
0:08:13 > 0:08:14that's not the idea.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17It's just to get it down to manageable numbers.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21So, the pigeons, they distress with the lack of food.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24And plus, you don't want too many of them about the place.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27They do spread quite a bit of disease.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Salmonella, dysentery, gastroenteritis amongst many things.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36This is one of their nesting areas where I try to...
0:08:37 > 0:08:40..keep the egg situation down.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43You can see the nests here, look.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Basically made out of sticks and er, pigeon poo.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Dead bodies that'll need to be removed.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52This is the problem, you see.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54These birds haven't been killed by me,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56these birds have starved by the looks of things.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06But one man's pest is another man's friend.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Whilst Lee is actively trying to reduce the pigeon numbers...
0:09:10 > 0:09:11There's a welcome.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14..Julie Schofield is on a personal mission
0:09:14 > 0:09:16to help look after Tenby's birds.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20There's One Foot.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21One Foot.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Come on.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26One Foot.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Oh! Missed it.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Throughout the year Julie feeds her feathered friends
0:09:34 > 0:09:38and tries to rescue or tend to any injured birds she finds along the way.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41All friends, it's all there.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45Because they're fed over the wall,
0:09:45 > 0:09:48in the summer it doesn't matter because people can walk past
0:09:48 > 0:09:52and the birds aren't frightened and the people aren't frightened. It works quite well.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57People have noticed, I think, there aren't as many birds
0:09:57 > 0:10:00pestering people along the parade and places like that
0:10:00 > 0:10:02because they know they can get a feed here
0:10:02 > 0:10:04and they're not as desperate as they used to be.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10I suppose I've been feeding the birds, well, the Tenby birds,
0:10:10 > 0:10:12certainly 40, 50 years, certainly.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Yes, quite a long time.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18I'm very old.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21There you are, good boy. That's it.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30With so many holidaymakers in town this week,
0:10:30 > 0:10:33pressure is on the locals to make their money while the sun shines.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Over at the fish and chip shop, brothers Delman and Charles
0:10:39 > 0:10:41are putting their heart and 'sole'
0:10:41 > 0:10:43into getting ready for the lunch time rush
0:10:43 > 0:10:45just like their Italian forefathers.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Yeah, yeah!
0:10:48 > 0:10:50My Dad taught me. I taught my son.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53I have to say I'm old enough, I taught Charles.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Would you like salt and vinegar?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58I remember when my poor old dad was working with me,
0:10:58 > 0:11:01and my mum was alive, I wasn't allowed to cook.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Not for me dad, anyway.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06I could carry everything in and he insisted on putting everything in.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09When my mum worked here I cooked with her all day.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Just never told me dad.
0:11:12 > 0:11:13It's funny, really.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16And she couldn't cook cod. She could cook a mean plaice.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19It's very, very strange.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21I suppose everyone has a gift somewhere.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23It's just knowing it.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27The curry sauce is very hot and it will burn and sting.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Would you like some salt and vinegar?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31- Please, on all of it.- Righto.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35Yeah. Sure. Get it really wrong and there's a launderette next door.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Just get these out.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42I've got these chips out first
0:11:42 > 0:11:45and then I've got the next batch in from raw.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48And then I'll do a batch of fish.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Just got to second guess all your customers.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55I like to think I'm a Jedi warrior and I use the power of the Force
0:11:55 > 0:11:58to figure out what people want.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Doesn't always work, funny enough.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02£22.10 pence, please, madam.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Once of us has got the sums right. Woo-hoo!
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Ready. Away.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20Out on the open seas, Richard's still hard at work.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23He's making the most of the lobster and crab season
0:12:23 > 0:12:26but rarely gets a chance to eat any himself.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29No, I don't eat much fish.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32I don't have time, really, to eat, really.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35At the moment, we're just living on take aways.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Running the shop at the minute.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45That's £2.00, please.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48There's seasoning just by the door there.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52Richard and Sarah's long hours mean they hardly get to see one another
0:12:52 > 0:12:55which is tough when you've been together as long as they have.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57I met him outside the cinema in Tenby
0:12:57 > 0:13:00when I was supposed to be in the cinema watching a film.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02He was outside with his friends.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05And then boyfriend and girlfriend, you know what kids are like.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Just...
0:13:09 > 0:13:10Had our daughter.
0:13:10 > 0:13:16Richard was 15 when I got pregnant and 16 when I had her
0:13:16 > 0:13:19and we said that we'd give it a go and we've never looked back.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21He's worked hard.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24I'm emotional today when I think about that.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Yeah, she does want to come back on the boat. Whether she will, I don't know.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37When she comes out on the boat she whinges then.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Proper Caldey Island crab these are.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44We nick them to put them in the keep pots otherwise they'll all fight together.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47They'll end up with no claws or legs.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Sue Laine is inspecting her floral displays.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03And she has discovered a problem that could dash her hopes
0:14:03 > 0:14:05in the Britain in Bloom competition.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09One of the flowerbeds has been vandalised.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11It was last night so I don't know.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Looks like somebody's just dived on it or something.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17So sad. So pretty.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Especially just before the judging.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21They're all broken here.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29I suppose we've just got to hope that the judge takes things into consideration, you know,
0:14:29 > 0:14:33that there are people, unfortunately, out there who do things like this.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37There is not much time left before the judges arrive in town.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42The county council gardeners are responsible for the public arrangements
0:14:42 > 0:14:46and Sue hopes they can help.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- Morning, boys. - Hiya, Sue. How you doing, love?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- All right.- I don't know if you've heard about the damage
0:14:51 > 0:14:54- that's been done on Belmont Arch. - Yeah, I've just come round that way.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57I hope now, if I see Will,
0:14:57 > 0:15:00we might be able to get a couple of yellow begonias to take its place
0:15:00 > 0:15:02and we'll do them later on now.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06It must be devastating for you because you worked so hard.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Well, it disheartens you, to be honest with you.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11This competition means so much to everyone.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14I keep asking them to do more that's physically possible really.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17It's just... But as I say, we get results
0:15:17 > 0:15:19and they're good, they understand.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- So...- They don't mind the nagging?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25No, they don't mind the nagging.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28They've probably got wives at home that nag them.
0:15:34 > 0:15:39Down by the harbour, a distressed seagull has been rescued by Julie.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Come on, baby. There you go.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45There you are. All right.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Do you want a little bit of that? Do you want a bit?
0:15:49 > 0:15:52No. He's gone in there where it's nice and dark and safe.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55So, we'll see.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57He's eating the Welsh cake. Look.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01You see? Look. Brilliant.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05It's nice that he's eaten so early on, that's really very good.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09I have to get him some more because he's obviously ravenous.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15When an injured bird needs help, Julie makes an emergency call
0:16:15 > 0:16:19to a local bird rescue centre run by Maria Evans.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21- So thin.- Isn't he thin? - Goodness me.
0:16:21 > 0:16:26He's lost a feather there, that's why that's gone like that.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28All right, all right, all right.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30- I'll let you know how this one goes on.- Yes, please.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33- Please do.- Take care. - Bye-bye.- Bye.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37She's saved countless, countless lives
0:16:37 > 0:16:40through her knowledge and observation.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43So, you can't always catch a bird the first day.
0:16:43 > 0:16:48Sometimes it takes four, five, six - a fortnight.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51But Julie ultimately manages to catch them
0:16:51 > 0:16:54and I come and pick them up and we treat them at the farm
0:16:54 > 0:16:57and then they're released back into the wild.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02They talked about culling seagulls for a long time
0:17:02 > 0:17:05which, thank God, they're now a protected species.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08But a lot of people would rather they were not protected.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12They make a mess.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14So do people. Tell me about it.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17The amount of rubbish I pick up on the hill is nobody's business.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Erm...
0:17:20 > 0:17:22There's too many of them.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26Well, there's too many of everything including us.
0:17:26 > 0:17:27You know.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31But there are always very sound arguments against it.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35That's why I try and do it discreetly
0:17:35 > 0:17:37where they're not a nuisance to anybody.
0:17:39 > 0:17:40So far so good.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Not everyone in Tenby agrees with feeding the birds.
0:17:50 > 0:17:55Council Pest Control Officer Lee Richards knows they are a problem.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58"Please do not feed the gulls.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02"Health and safety." Exactly. They're spreading disease.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07"They may look pretty," quite, "very aggressive and hurt people,
0:18:07 > 0:18:09"especially children."
0:18:09 > 0:18:12I'm afraid people don't realise the danger.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14He's looking, see.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18Just looking for someone having a sandwich and he'll be after them.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21They're watching me and my reputation goes before me, I think.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25That's all they do all day, watch us.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29But some people like feeding the birds, you know.
0:18:30 > 0:18:31They don't pay no attention.
0:18:32 > 0:18:37Leftover food and rubbish is a tasty meal for vermin.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40If they're going to be anywhere, this is where they'll be.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Lee's checking his traps for another unwanted pest.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Not touching it.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48There's too much alternative food being put down.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53We'll see what's been going on with our little device down here.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Hello, here he goes. There he is.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Rattus Norvegicus.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07Well, there we are. What can't speak can't lie.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12The only way to...really combat the rats up here
0:19:12 > 0:19:16is to stop that feeding of the birds, I'm afraid.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19There's no need for it on an industrial scale that takes place up here.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21There's really no need for it at all.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26They're wild animals, they are, they can, they're pests,
0:19:26 > 0:19:28they can fend for themselves.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29So, what chance have I got?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32I'll keep on it. I'll get there in the end.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41During the busy summer months, fighting pests is a never-ending battle for Lee.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45It's going to be a rodent paradise when everybody's gone home for their dinner.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49What's left on the beach will keep them going.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00In town the 'plaice' to be is at a fish and chip shop.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03£5.10 then, please, sir.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07A busy service is something Delman likes to see.
0:20:08 > 0:20:13There are days when you think, I don't really want to get out of bed
0:20:13 > 0:20:16and then you get in and everyone around you is laughing and bubbling
0:20:16 > 0:20:19and your customers are quite happy and you think,
0:20:19 > 0:20:21I remember now. You're glad you've come in.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26Yes, down on the condiment table which is by the tomato sauce.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Once you've paid for it, away you go, all right.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Down there. No worries.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33In keeping with their Italian roots,
0:20:33 > 0:20:37Charles and Delman take great pride in cooking their own recipes
0:20:37 > 0:20:39even when it comes to mushy peas!
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Nearly. Nearly. Just a tiny bit more salt.
0:20:45 > 0:20:50I went to Loughborough about 25 years ago to an uncle.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53They did mushy peas but they wouldn't show me how to cook them.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55So I had to fake drunk,
0:20:55 > 0:20:58sitting in the corner of his kitchen and watch him.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03When I got the recipe and miraculously I wasn't drunk any more
0:21:03 > 0:21:05I left the kitchen and here I am.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07These Italians, they won't tell you anything!
0:21:07 > 0:21:10They're horrors for secrets.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Can I have a curry here, please?
0:21:15 > 0:21:18The town is a riot of colour.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22The council gardeners have been busy
0:21:22 > 0:21:25and managed a last-minute fix on the vandalised flower bed.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Just a drop of water and it should come all right.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Just in time before the Britain In Bloom judges arrive.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Welcome to Tenby first of all.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Tenby is a population of 5,000.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42This time of year it rises to 65,000.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45The only industry in Tenby itself is tourism
0:21:45 > 0:21:49so the floral impact is extremely important to our economy.
0:21:49 > 0:21:54If you could try and put a figure on the number of volunteers involved.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56- 800-900 I would say.- Yeah?
0:21:56 > 0:22:00- And is that young, old? - It's from the age of three...
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- ..right the way through to 90.- Great.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05- OK?- Yep.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Britain in Bloom judges John Woodward and Mel Henley
0:22:13 > 0:22:17now need to see what sort of show Tenby and its local residents
0:22:17 > 0:22:18have put on display.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21This is Michael, he's our county councillor.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25- Welcome to Tenby.- Thank you. - And I'm Mel.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27How are you enjoying Tenby?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Brilliant. Lovely day.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32- You've brought the sunshine with you.- Well...
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Picture postcard Tenby. - Beautiful, isn't it?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40So, that's this garden here.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43- It's very useful to have the before and after pictures.- Yeah, yeah.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46- Very useful.- They've done an awful lot of work in here.
0:22:47 > 0:22:52Judge, Mel Henley, has previous knowledge of this seaside town.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55I came here as a child with my parents three times
0:22:55 > 0:22:58and then I brought my own children here.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01So, I've got some fond memories of here and Caldey Island
0:23:01 > 0:23:03and the whole area.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Time for Sue to guide the judges towards her repaired display.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Fingers crossed.
0:23:15 > 0:23:20And at sea, fisherman Richard hopes his fortunes are changing too.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26It's getting harder. Prices of fuel and bait.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Everything seems to be going up.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33The shellfish is staying the same, not going up with it.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42- Which one would you like? - Erm, I'll have that one.- Yeah.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Even though he's been working since 6.00am,
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Richard's back to put in a four hour shift in the shop.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59That's going off to be dressed now. Ready for the weekend, hopefully.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05There's no let up for either of them.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08The lobster season carries on until Christmas
0:24:08 > 0:24:11and unless we go on holiday he never has a break.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13There's maintenance to do on the boat -
0:24:13 > 0:24:17painting, pots to make, nets to fix.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20You should be saying that.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Quite happy.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Julie's rescued another feathered friend.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33This time it's a malnourished pigeon.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36He's very thin. The breastbone's very thin here.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40See, that's very thin.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41Probably very hungry.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45Once they get so weak that they can't fly properly,
0:24:45 > 0:24:48they don't stand any chance at all, do you?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51There you are, sunshine, bundle in.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57"If I have stopped one heart from breaking,
0:24:57 > 0:24:59"I have not lived in vain.
0:24:59 > 0:25:04"If I have eased one life, the aching, or cooled the pain
0:25:04 > 0:25:06"Or helped one fainting robin into his nest again
0:25:06 > 0:25:09"I have not lived in vain."
0:25:10 > 0:25:12I'd like it on my headstone.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Everyone who helps everyone else must feel like that.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18I hope they do because that's what we're here for, really,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21to help one another.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26- Done for the day?- All done for the day, no more killing.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Time to look after my animals now.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Out to do what I like doing best in my garden.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37And my birds.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44See, I'm not really cruel. I do look after them.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46- DOG BARKS - Hello, Ben.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52All they need for a little treat.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57And that's where I like to sit and watch my birds.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00The end of another day.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Another glorious day in Tenby.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11The Britain in Bloom judges are about to finish their tour
0:26:11 > 0:26:14at the patched-up flower bed.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17This garden here was vandalised but the gardeners have managed
0:26:17 > 0:26:20to get some plants and sort it out.
0:26:20 > 0:26:21- That looks good.- Yeah.
0:26:23 > 0:26:24OK.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29They don't give much away, do they? They're very cagey.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31I don't know.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Just above there is the garden we started off in this morning.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- Looking back at that. - Round the corner.- Yes.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43It's the end of judgement day for Tenby
0:26:43 > 0:26:45and now all Sue can do is wait.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48We've done everything we possibly can.
0:26:48 > 0:26:53We're even waiting now to have new signs done for the town.
0:26:53 > 0:26:58We want to win gold so we can put - Tenby, Winners of Britain in Bloom.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01That's our next aim. Gold winners.
0:27:09 > 0:27:14At the Fish and Chip shop, Charles Fecci is nearing the end of a 14 hour day.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19It's the end of the night so I've put a fish in there as well.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21It's better than throwing it away.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26It's quite an all-or-nothing game in here.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29In the summer it's here we go.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32In the winter months it's like...nothing.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36So, we've got to make hay while the sun shines, really.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38That's it, that's the motto.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41That's why we start early in the mornings, finish late at night.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Night, ladies and gentlemen. Ross, I shall see you Friday.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Eva, I see you tomorrow.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Goodnight, guys. Toodeloo.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53This has been one of the busiest weeks of the summer season
0:27:53 > 0:27:54in the seaside resort of Tenby.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59During that time the firemen put on a carnival.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Look at the crowds, look. Makes you feel proud.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06The Lifeboats were launched eight times.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Babs the Traffic kept the town vehicle-free.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Could you watch your backs please, sir.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15There's a lorry coming through and I'd hate for you to get in the way.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Fish were auctioned for charity.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Tenby people are generous.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22You can't beat Tenby.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25The Summer Spectacular went off with a bang.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30And in The Britain in Bloom Competition
0:28:30 > 0:28:34the town received a Silver Gilt again
0:28:34 > 0:28:37and for the first time ever won The Tourism Award
0:28:37 > 0:28:41for floral displays capturing the perfect holiday atmosphere.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49Subtitles by Red Bee Media