The Mayor and Mayoress of Skegness Couns Adrian Findley and Sarah Staples were the first couple to place a love lock on Skegness Pier. A percentage of the new attraction is going towards defibrillators for the town.
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00:30Well, we're on Skegness Pier today and at 12 o'clock we're going to get some announcement
00:39which hopefully we should be able to tell you a bit more about. There's giant hearts
00:44on here, so something that may interest you.
01:15Good afternoon everybody, welcome to the pier deck in Skegness, to this brand new attraction
01:21which hopefully many people will come, visit, make their mark on it with a lovely love heart
01:29that you can lock onto it, take away the key and leave it a little symbol, a little symbol
01:34of your love here in Skegness.
01:39Wheyyyy!
01:45Are we good? We shall.
01:48I'm going to be the honours. Here do you want to go?
02:06Here we go, there we are.
02:10Woof, woof!
02:16Never know, this start next year there could be hundreds on it. Hopefully.
02:40As you know we're on the pier today and the exciting news, the Mayor of Skegness is going
02:47to tell you some of what's been actually going on today. Mr Mayor, tell us what's happening.
02:52Yeah, so basically we got an invitation to come to the pier, it was a bit top secret
02:56but it was a surprise for us really because we had no idea what we were coming here for
03:00and lo and behold it's a brand new attraction on the Skegness Pier called the Heart of Skegness.
03:06It's basically you come along, you go inside the pier, play on the grab machine, you pull
03:11out a love heart, then you get to write your names of you or a loved one or family members,
03:17whatever you want to put on it, lock it onto the Heart of Skegness and keep the key.
03:23We've just had the honour of putting on the first love heart and hopefully there's a lady
03:28out there now, Sarah will put him on very shortly with a grandma's name on it and so on.
03:35So anybody that you've got special in your life that you'd want to come along and put
03:42a padlock on it, I'm sure there'll be many people that'll be able to come along and see
03:48it for years to come. But yeah, it's a brand new attraction on the deck of the Skegness
03:52Pier, brilliant idea and I'm sure people will be able to watch it grow with hundreds if
03:58not thousands of padlocks on it.
04:00So there you go, basically, putting it bluntly, we have one heart at the moment on the pier,
04:07we believe there's going to be more. It's a giant metal framed heart, you go in, you
04:12put your money in the machine, you grab a heart out of there, you put your name on the
04:15heart and you can pin it onto this giant heart on the pier.
04:19That's pretty much it in a nutshell.
04:21Yeah, I mean, cracking idea. I can see them going to be needing more than one heart myself
04:25though, do you not agree?
04:26They did say that once it fills up they'd probably end up putting another frame on it,
04:30but yeah, I can imagine it being a massive success.
04:33So there you have it, come down, get a heart, put it on the machine.
04:38We're here with Katie also on the pier, she's just put a padlock on as well, can you tell
04:42us a bit about what it's for and everything?
04:44My padlock was my son, Craig, he died of heart defect at 18, 12 years ago today, and I'm
04:53just wanting to get out there, these deliberators are needed.
05:00So you put it on for your grandson?
05:03No, for my son.
05:04Your son, sorry, and you got the honour of laying the second heart on the heart.
05:09That did, yes.
05:11Nice bit tearful I suppose, but you know.
05:14It's just a poignant thing because today's the 12th, 12 years today he died of undiagnosed
05:19heart defect.
05:21And you'll always have somewhere to come and have a look now.
05:23Yes, yes.
05:24That's carried for you.
05:25You know, there's stories like this all over, come and place a heart on it, it's somewhere
05:31for you to come and have a look.
05:32Yes, yes.
05:33And that may raise money for deliberators, that's what it's all for I suppose.
05:37Right, thank you Katie.
05:39Back with Joe and the Mayor of Skegness again.
05:41Now, it's just come in that every time you buy one of these locks, part of the money
05:47is going to get the defib machines in Skegness and all around the pier and everywhere.
05:52If I'm wrong on that, you can tell me, but we'll go for it and see where we go.
05:57Yes, so a percentage of every love lock that's won on the grabbers, a percentage of that
06:01money will go towards funding defibrillators in and around Skegness.
06:04And is there any idea how many you're hoping to get?
06:08We want to keep going, so the more locks that we get on there, the more defibrillators that
06:13we'll be able to fund.
06:14See, that's cracking news, isn't it?
06:17The more people come up and put one of these locks on the heart, the more you give in to
06:22the defib, the more the defibs we get out.
06:25One day you could need one, you don't know.
06:27We've seen this happen ourselves, haven't we Mr Mayor?
06:30Somebody needs one, the machine's there.
06:32At the moment, I believe we've got to walk quite a distance from the pier to get one.
06:36It's up the top end, isn't it?
06:39So, we do have one on the pier already, that we keep anyway, but our aim is to have as
06:44many around Skegness as possible.
06:46The reality is that for every minute that you don't have access to a defibrillator,
06:49your chance of survival goes down by 10%.
06:52So, from our point of view, the more that we can get, the better it is for everybody.
06:56So, there you have it.
06:57Come on up, put a heart on the heart, put a padlock on it, come on up and out towards
07:02another defib.
07:03The more we get, the more defibs.
07:06Thank you very much.
07:15Oh!
07:16It's already put in.
07:17I want to get to move it around.
07:22Oh, okay.
07:23Keep going, keep going.
07:24Yes.
07:33Oh!
07:34It's already put in.
07:36Yay!
07:40Brilliant.
07:42Oh, and it's pink.
07:44And it's pink.
07:45Lovely.
07:46There we go.
07:47Lovely.
07:48So, that's how you do it.
07:50Easy as that.
07:51Prize every time.
07:52You know they're all going to write shit out of a rig, don't they?
07:54I don't think he was.
07:55He put his money in.
07:56Prize every time.
07:57He won one straight away.
07:58And a recycle bin.
07:59Yes.
08:00That's a really good idea.
08:01You saw it there yourself.
08:02There can't be any better than that.
08:04Pop it off.
08:05Pop it off.
08:06So, come on up.
08:07Have a go on this machine.
08:08Get a heart.
08:10Write whatever it's for.
08:11Could be for your loved one, your lost one.
08:13Anything.
08:14And then come and lock it on to the heart on the fear.
08:17I don't think this heart's going to last long.
08:19I think there's going to be more than one of them.
08:21Maybe three, four.
08:22We need to get a green one now.
08:24It will soon be filled.
08:25Do you not think, Mr. Mayor?
08:27He's waffling because he's won one, look.
08:29Do you think, how long do you think, roughly, go on, have a guess, to fill that heart up?
08:34Oh!
08:36A good season, it'll be full.
08:38Two seasons.
08:39So, there you go.
08:40Come on up here.
08:41The machine's just inside the door.
08:43Come on, have a go on it.