its principalsjoined a handful of top ballet dancers who had all taken their first lessons at skelton wanted tickets, 5,000 people watched on screens in a nearby park. the gala showing off the great dancers who started theirjourney to the top in the city of culture. applause. well, you may have noticed in there some of the army of 2,500 turquoise—coated volunteers who are working for city of culture. and joining us is — this is special, we have three generations of volunteers, leanne, sheila, and karen. now, how many hours of volunteering have you put in this year between you? we've put injust under 1,300 hours of volunteering. 1,300? between the three of you? between the three of us. incredible. and what have been your highlights? mine was one day maybe, which i absolutely adored. it was a long shift but certainly worth the effort. one of mine was the gay parade. i really enjoyed that. gay pride? yeah. i was lucky enough to be in flood. i was on one of the floating platforms. 0h, brilliant! that was fantastic. we will be seeing some of that later in the programme. and you'll be stick

dinosaurs but no one had everfound a good skelton before. a good skelton before. of us that were involvedosaurs in africa? living at almost the same time in places like spain and france. places like spain and france. in other words, in southern europe. other words, in southern europe. europe and also to some extent in asia. asia. extreme environments or would it have been different that long ago? have been different that long ago? have been a very different environment back then. environment back then. shore of the ancestor of the mediterranean sea. mediterranean sea. have been the southern shore of the ancestor of the mediterranean. ancestor of the mediterranean. have just shown, how do you work out exactly what they look like? exactly what they look like? yeah, it is a long and involved process. it is a long and involved process. find the entire dinosaur but that's extraordinarily rare. extraordinarily rare. never have entire dinosaur skeletons to work from. to work from. what the animal might have looked like. like. start filling in the picture in africa? that's exactly it. we know, i