Not "Mad" but "Magnificent"!

I've known Lizzie Webb since 1983, when Greg Dyke re-launched TVam with Nick, me, Roland Rat, Wincey Willis doing the weather, and "Mad Lizzie" Webb. Lizzie was a phenomenon in those days, something we'd never really seen on television before. But she almost immediately became hugely popular.

Now, she's doing something completely different - away from the cameras and the newspaper headlines. She's using her experience and enthusiasm, and her obvious skills at both communication and exercise, to transform the lives of young people in and around Berkshire. They're youngsters who've dropped out of society, who come from dsyfunctional backgrounds, many of whom are in trouble with the law, most of whom have been excluded from school. And she turns their lives around, by getting them interested in exercise and training, and encouraging them towards qualifications and even becoming trainers themselves.

This weekend, some of her pupils will be instructing the police at a special event at St Lawrence Church in Reading at 4pm, Saturday. The very kids who've been at the wrong end of the law will be challenging police to fitness routines, and showing them what they've learned.

I can't tell you how inspirational Lizzie is - and how amazing her pupils have become. I'll be meeting them on Monday's programme. But for the moment, I wish them all the very best on Saturday.