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Hello there! A big welcome to you, you're watching Newsround with me,

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Nel. Lots to get through today including some of this: Find out

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why scientists are staying up all night to track down this animal.

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And it's Day 7 of the Paralympics. I'll be live with all the latest

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from the Olympic Park. First though, lots of you are back

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school this week and maybe you've got new shoes or coat for the start

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of a new school year. But a growing number of kids in the UK don't have

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basics like warm clothes or enough to eat. The charity, Save the

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Children, normally helps children abroad but today it's launched its

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first appeal here in the UK. It says there 3.5 million children

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living in poverty and with the country suffering lots of money

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problems it expects that number to grow. They spoke to 1,500 children

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and found one in eight don't get a warm meal every day - apart from

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the one they might get at school. Hayley's been speaking to two girls

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who know a lot about what it means to feel hungry. We've changed their

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names and hidden their faces to protect their identity.

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I still get hungry sometimes because my mum cannot afford to buy

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a proper seafood. Sometimes I have to have unhealthy food like oven

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chips. For as long as they can remember, there has never been a

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day when the cupboards were full of healthy food. They told me how

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worrying that can be. So times you can wake up in the night because

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you are so hungry. How does it affect your school life? When you

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don't eat, you cannot concentrate in class. If you have been hungry

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ones, it is no doubt it will happen again. Does it worry you that you

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don't know when he will next eat? If you haven't eaten in a while, it

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feels like a pain in your stomach. Scarlett and Charlene's parents

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realise they were not getting enough food at home and was

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suffering. So they contacted a local charity who now give them

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healthy four meals a week. When I was in year three, I was below

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average in most of my A-levels. Now I am in year six I am above average

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and in the top group. Your school work has improved? Yes.

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important is food to you guys? scale of 1 to 10, I would rate it

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as 10, definitely. One of the UK's biggest police

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forces has told Newsround that the number of children stealing food is

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on the up, compared to those stealing things like sweets.

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Greater Manchester Police told us they think it's down to kids not

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having any food available to them in their homes. In Islington in

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London, officers are giving out food vouchers to kids try to stop

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them from turning to crime. They are hungry and at break times

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and lunchtimes they are going out and shoplifting from local

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supermarkets and sweet shops. Because they're hungry they are

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turning to crime? Some of them do, but they are not stealing sweets

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and chocolate and chewing gum, they are going out and stealing bread

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and food for themselves and their family. $$NEWLNE Money problems can

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affect families in lots of different ways. We've been asking

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you if you worry about money, or if your family hasn't had as much to

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spend recently, and lots of you Thanks to everyone who got involved

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in our chat. Here on the sofa I've got Peter Gibson. He works for a

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charity called Rathbone, which provides support for kids and

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teenagers. When we say kids are living in poverty, what do we mean?

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In means they cannot afford the close they might want to buy. It

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might mean they are struggling to travel to school because they

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cannot afford the bus fare. But sometimes they don't get a decent

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meal. I I -- I am meeting inspiring young people every day, who despite

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their poverty, go on and achieve. If there are kids watching this,

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what should they be doing? They should never be ashamed of the fact

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they have not got enough money. It does not make them a bad person.

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They should turn to a trusted adults, and I think they will find

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the adults will say to them, we have been through tough times

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before, we can get through them again. Key positive. Are there any

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charities that they can talk to? Should they be worrying? I don't

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think they should be worrying. It does not mean the rest of your life

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will be like this. There are charities like wrath bone,

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citizens' advice and the local church group might be able to help.

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Keep a smile on your face, stick together.

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Peter thanks for coming in. OK time to update you on all the action

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from the Paralympics. Ricky is there at the Olympic Park for us.

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Ricky what's been going on today? Hi Nel. Well I've just got back

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from inside the Olympic Park where I've heard from so many kids who've

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told me that their views on people with disabilities have really

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changed over the past couple of days. You can hear some of those

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views tomorrow. But, back to the action. David Weir was on the

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athletics track again just hours after winning gold last night. He

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cruised through in 800m, T54 heat. Let's talk a bit about cycling.

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Sarah Storey has been in storming form. She got her third gold

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earlier today in the time trial and that gives her 10 gold medals

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overall. If she wins an 11th gold, she'll be on a par with Britain's

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greatest Paralympian, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson. There has also been

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a silver medal in the cycling. Mark Coleborn has won in the time-trial.

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But the big thing everyone's been looking forward to today is the

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start of the wheelchair rugby. It's one of the Paralympics most

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exciting events but it's not for faint hearted - as Ore's been

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finding out. It's speedy... It's nail-biting...

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It's brutal! And they call it "Murderball"! It's the toughest

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sport on wheels, with full-on wheelchair contact allowed, and

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that makes for some crunching collisions. Here are the rules of

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wheelchair rugby. It's played on a basketball court with four players

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per team. They can be men or women but they must have a physical

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impairment that affects the arms and legs. The aim of the game is to

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carry the ball across your opponent's line. It's played in

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four eight-minute quarters. For spectators, the biggest thrill is

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watching the chairs colliding at speed and it's no wonder the event

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sold out in record time. But that can lead to some serious injuries.

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GB captain, Steve Brown, fell out of his wheelchair during a game

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after crashing with two other players. He broke his breastbone

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and four ribs and was in hospital for six weeks. Ouch! Great Britain,

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currently ranked 5th in the world, are among eight teams competing for

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gold. They finished fourth at the last two Paralympics so they'll be

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hoping the support in London will help them grab a medal on home turf.

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Well, rugby's already under way with GB playing the USA this

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afternoon. I can tell you there were plenty of major collisions.

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But it ended with a US victory, 56- 44. Lots more matches to come.

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Tonight, keep an eye out at 7:00pm for the blade runner himself, South

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Africa's, Oscar Pistorius. He's back in action for the 100m, T44

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heats. Fingers crossed he can do it after his controversial silver

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medal in the 200 metres. This is one of Europe's MoTs

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strangest animals. Scientists say they are rare and because they only

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