04/10/2011 Newsround


04/10/2011

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Hi there. Sonali and Ore in the Newsround driving seat today.

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That's right and we have a feast of news and views for you. Coming up:

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I've been finding out about the end of time! Sort of. And I've worked

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out whether yetis actually exist or not. Well, nearly.

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I can't wait for that. First though, the RSPCA says it's running out of

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time to raise enough money to open a brand new hospital for abandoned

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animals. Thousands of creatures have been cared for at their old

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centre near Birmingham, but now it's falling apart. The RSPCA was

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the world's first animal charity and the new hospital will bring it

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right into the 21st century. They say every four minutes of an

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abandoned animal is rescued by the RSPCA. Many of them end up here, at

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The centre was built 50 years ago and now it has reached its sell-by

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date. Broken glass, cracked walls and out of date equipment. On the

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telly it is really hard to get a picture of how bad this place

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really is because not only does it look depressing, but it smells as

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well. In the bricks, diseases all over the place. That is why this

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part has been abandoned because it is not say for the animals. -- say.

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Everything is falling apart. It gets to a point where you can't

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pitch up -- catch up buildings any more and they have to be rebuilt.

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We have to provide them with their care they need, but without the

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facilities, it is very difficult. The RSPCA have started work on a

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brand-new Hospital for animals, costing over �10 million. It is a

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15 minute drive from the old centre and the races on to get it finished.

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So this is it. It might not look like much right now, but by

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September next year, hopefully this will be complete and we will have a

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state-of-the-art hospital and it will be bigger, brighter and safer

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for the animals. Her there is a bit of a problem, though. With less

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than a year to go, the RSPCA has not raised enough cash, but they

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are confident they will eventually get there.

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Why are you looking at your watch? We have got 297 days to go until

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the Olympics. But it also tells the time in hours and minutes. Time

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decides everything we do from when we get up in the morning to when we

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go to bed and everything in between. But did you know it's Britain that

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sets the time for the whole world? It has done for more than 100 years,

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but that could all be about to change.

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This is the home of time. This line at the Royal Observatory here in

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Greenwich and when the sun passes over the line, that's midday here.

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And the rest of the time all around the world is worked out from that.

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It's called Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT, and even astronauts up in

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space set their clocks by it. But time hasn't always been worked out

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this way. Every town around the world used to figure out its own

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local time using the sun. So, for example, when it was noon in

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Plymouth, it was 12.17 in London. But when the railways were built,

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that had to change. People needed a way of knowing exactly when the

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train was going to arrive and so Greenwich Mean Time became the time

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that was used across the whole country, and later to work out

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timezones around the world. But some people think this is now out

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of date. What is the main problem with just using Greenwich Mean

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Time? It is based on the rotation of the Earth and takes about 24

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hours, but that is slowing down over time. We have been introducing

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seconds to help account for this, but this might introduce a problem

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where you might make mistakes and it might interfere with a use of

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technology. Have some people think the solution is to switch to atomic

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clocks. They are far more accurate, it would take millions of years for

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one to go wrong by even a second. If the switch happens, it will not

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make any difference to our day-to- day lives, but it means for the

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first time ever, time won't be worked out from the spinning of the

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Earth. TIME for some pop news now. See

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what I did there? Jessie J, who's no stranger to shocking the pop

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world, says she now wants to do something else unexpected - raising

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�1 million for charity by shaving her head! She reckons it's about

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time to have a new hairstyle, and she was inspired after visiting

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kids in hospital. Shaving her head - classic charity

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move. As is crossing the Channel for cash. This is British sprint

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canoeist Paul Wycherley. The Olympic hopeful has kayaked all the

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way to France in a new record time - two hours and 28 minutes,

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smashing the previous record by more than half an hour! He also

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raised more than �100,000 for charity. It makes your arms ache

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just watching him. That would be exhausting.

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For years, explorers have been trying to track down a mysterious

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creature. It's huge and hairy and lives in the shadows. But enough

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about Ore! No, we're talking about the yeti, the abominable snowman

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himself. People have long argued about whether such a creature could

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exist in the remote Himalayas and Siberia. Now the largest expedition

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for over 50 years is about to set Plenty of places to hide. Despite

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hundreds of supposed sightings, the yeti still refuses to come out of

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its icy cave to say hello to actual But just perhaps, this is about to

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end. A team of Russian and American experts has joined forces to go in

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search of. The abominable snowman, but the problem is where to begin.

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They're searching in the Kemerovo region, which is in Siberia, 3,000

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miles east of Moscow. There have been loads of recent reports of

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sightings there. Locals say they steal hens and sheep to eat, and

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one expert even reckons there could be a family of 30 roaming around.

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But what do they look like? Well, this apparent footprint found in

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the snow is so big that some people reckon they're up to seven feet

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tall. In the 1960s, even Dr Who featured a yeti that was covered in

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hair and looked a bit like an overgrown bear, just slightly

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scarier. The yeti's just one of the weird and wonderful creatures

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that's shrouded in legend and secrecy. You may have heard of Big

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Foot, the giant ape-like man roaming the American wilds, or the

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Loch Ness Monster lurking in the depths. None have ever been proven

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to exist and while the Yeti hunters are confident, I think it's a fair

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bet the hairy fellow will remain a mystery for the time being.

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Forget diamonds, it's wax that every superstar dreams of. And now

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Rihanna's had the star treatment, with London's famous Madame

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