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Neil Oliver, The One Show's history man, travelled to Norfolk to meet Charles Matkin. Charles was a volunteer fireman who took part in the rescue effort in the aftermath of the .

With a combination of an unusually high tide, gale force winds and waves reaching heights of over six metres the storm surge lashed the East coast, killing 31 people in Hunstanton, the coastal village where Charles lived. Across the country the storm claimed hundreds of lives and forced a total of , making it one of the worst natural disasters in British history.

The havoc wrought by the storm forced the government to take action, strengthening coastal defences, laying the first plans for the and creating a national flood warning system which is still in operation to this day.

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Tripe. It's a traditional British way of eating a cow's stomach.

As Lucy Siegle found out when she visited Halifax, unless we can get over our collective squeamishness, we're in danger of losing some of our traditional British foods forever.

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Are you a fan of tripe and offal? Share your recipes with the nation below.

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Here's chef Mike Robinson's recipe for crispy tripe:

Ingredients: 500g fresh tripe, 3 litres water, 2 bay leaves, 1 onion, 1 bulb of garlic, 2 lemons, a big bunch of parsley, 2 tbsp olive oil and salt and pepper.

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Method: Simmer the tripe in the water with salt, the onion cut in half, half the garlic cloves and the bay leaves for two hours until it's tender. When cooked, take the tripe out, drain it really well and let it dry for 10 minutes. Slice it thinly and fry in olive oil with lots of finely chopped garlic. When it is crispy, squeeze the lemon juice over the tripe and add a couple of handfuls of parsley and season to taste. Serve with lots of very cold Chablis or similar.

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Will you be eating tripe tonight? Or are you still not keen? Add your comment.

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All this week The One Show is looking at British places and their 'claims to fame'.

On Friday: Angellica steps off the train into the town of Stalybridge, on the trail of the UK's oldest brass band.

On Thursday: Carol Thatcher took to the waters en-route to the Cornish estate of Tregothnan where she visited Britain's only tea plantation.

On Wednesday: Angellica discovered the first flight that took place on the Isle of Sheppey in 1909.

On Tuesday: Carol travelled to West Auckland on the trail of their amazing football triumph.

On Monday: Angellica Bell visited The Watford Gap - the place where the first motorway service station was built.

We're looking for photos that, if possible,Ìýcontain both the claim to fame and yourself, dear viewer. The best photos will be featured on The One Show and in a gallery on this website.

Tell us about your village / town / city's claim to fame, below. Add your comment.

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There's hard ice, soft ice, slow ice... In his fascinating short film, The One Show's Marty Jopson says scientists can't agree on why ice is slippery.

Marty says that there are three popular theories about what allows skates to skate; friction, pressure and vibrating molecules!

To me, the vibrating moleculesÌýexplanation sounds convincing. But tell us your theories, please. Why is ice slippery?

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Earlier in the week, we asked you, loyal viewers, to show some love for the mighty Robin Gibb by recording your very own versions of Bee Gee classic hits. You did not disappoint!

Lots of you sent in videos of people singing along to Bee Gees songs from videosites all over the web. Our favourites were picked and shown to Robin Gibb.

One of them came from Nick Lester in Dudley.

He wrote "you can view me performing (murdering !!) a snippet of The Bee Gees classic "Stayin' Alive". It was shot early in the morning, so as you can see it was a bad 'hair' day ! Cover those ears now !! "Haaa Haaa Haaa Haaa, Stayin'Alive, Stayin Alive.... :-)"

Nick's performance:

The second video was of Mary and Martin from Exeter singing and playing the guitar to 'Islands in the stream'.

See performance:

Thanks so much to everyone who sent in a Bee-Gee-Oke video.

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of the Bee Gees gives us a tour of the house where the Gibb brothers grew up in Keppel Road, Manchester.

Following in the footsteps of their father, a musician, Robin shows us the bedroom where the brothers taught themselves to sing harmonies and explains the events leading up to their first live gig.

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2008 gave us its share of surprises. America elected its first black president, Team GB returned with glory from the Olympics - and John Sergeant became the most famous dancer in the entire world... who would have thought it!

What does 2009 have in store for us? For example, will Prince William and Kate Middleton get engaged?

What does this year hold? Tell us your predictions for 2009, please.

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Appeal

Back in November 2008 we were contacted by war veteran Michael Lyons asking if One Show viewers could help to find a war memorial for his local junior school. He was convinced that the One Show viewers would know of a plaque that had been hidden or forgotten. Michael had made a promise to find an unwanted memorial for a local school, to aid the remembrance of those who had died in WWI.

As Michael put it "these children are our future. They deserve to know more about their history and the sacrifices their great grandparents made so that they can be here today."

And you, our viewers, did not disappoint. We gratefully received many generous offers of memorials, to donate to the school, from all over the country.

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Dead Man's Pennies

Michael chose three commemorative plaques, commonly known as 'Dead Man's Pennies'. Ninety years ago these plaques were presented to the next-of-kin of the men and women who died in action in the Great War (1914-18). These medals are made of brass gun metal andÌýdisplay the words 'He died for freedom and honour'.

The firstÌýPenny was donated by Jane Pascal in Bristol. Her husband Len had been doing some building work when he came across the plaque and medals wrapped in cloth. This penny commemorated the life of Frederick William Flook who served as a private Royal Warwickshie Regiment.

Another viewer Len Watts from Higham discovered the second dead man's penny, commemorating Lieutenant Edward Francis Thorburn, in a skip.

The third penny, which celebrated the life of Horace Henry Leigh, came from Malcolm Humphries who found it behind his Nan's boiler.

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Presenting the pennies

Thanks to the generosity of these viewers, Michael was delighted to finally able to deliver on his promise. In December he visited Applegarth Junior School, New Addington to be able to present the pennies to the children.

The school were proud to adopt the medals, which will be displayed in the foyer. The pupils will research the lives, and deaths, of the soldiers named on the plaques.

The One Show would like to thank everyone who has been involved in this project.

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