06/02/2014 Newsround


06/02/2014

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Morning guys, Ayshah here with Thursdays top stories. Coming up:

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UK set for more heavy rain. The Winter Olympics have landed.

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This is Newsround. First, to what could mean extra

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money for sport at your school. The Prime Minister is adding millions

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more to primary schools in England to spend on sport. David Cameron

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says that IF his party wins the next election, then every year until

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2020, schools will get to share ?150 million between them. They can spend

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it however they want: on new equipment, sports coaches, or more

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after-school clubs. The idea is to keep you guys more active and carry

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on the legacy of 2012's Olympic and Paralympic Games. We're hoping to

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speak directly to the Prime Minister about this later today and we want

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to know what YOU want to ask him. If you had one question to put to David

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Cameron about sport in YOUR school, what would it be?

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Sorry, guys, but more bad weather on the way today if you're living in

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parts of southern England and Wales - and that's after days and days of

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heavy rain and battering winds. More than 200 homes have already been

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evacuated and a section of the railway line that connects Exeter to

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parts of Cornwall was destroyed. With the bad weather causing chaos

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for thousands, the Government has promised to spend ?100 million

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rebuilding those communities that have been affected.

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Next, the Olympic Games are back, but this time we're replacing the

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sandpits with snowballs and the heptathlon with halfpipes. The 22nd

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Winter Games officially opens tomorrow, but the snowboarders have

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already hit the slopes this morning and the figure skating heats begin

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this afternoon. So hold on to your wooly hats, grab your coats and put

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on those gloves, because things are getting reallllllly cool! Here's

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Martin. The Winter Olympic Games in Russia

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will bring together some of the coolest athletes in the world.

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Bobsleigh, skeleton and freestyle skiing are just some of what you

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have got to look forward to over the next couple of weeks. With high

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hopes of a record medal haul for Team GB. For Great Britain's best

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medal tally, you have got to go back to the first Winter games, held in

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France in 1924. But a new generation of young and talented stars, this

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time we are targeting between three and seven medals. So who are the

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ones to watch? Freestyle skiing. This teenager won the first World

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Cup skiing medal by a British female in 19 years last season. James Woods

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became Britain's first freestyle skiing world championship medallist

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for 20 years, when he won silver. And snowboarding, former Acrobat

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Billie Morgan will be twisting and turning. Olympic debutant Jenny

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Jones is representing Bristol. There are hopes that Team GB can speak to

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success on the ice after this 23 Rob led Scotland to a world title in

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March. But it is in the skeleton where Britain's best hopes alive.

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This is yarn old one the world skeleton title in 2005. Let the

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games begin. I am so looking forward to seeing

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more of that! Sticking with sport and this man has promised to bring

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some of the world's top players to Miami after confirming he's to

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become the owner of a new footy club in America. Becks was given the

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option of running a club when he signed for LA Galaxy in 2007. Fans

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will have to wait a few years until the team is ready for action but

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Beckham is looking forward to the future. If someone turned around to

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me at 11 years old and said, you're going to play for Manchester United,

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you're going to represent England, you are going to play for Real

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Madrid, AC Milan, the Galaxy and then become an owner, I probably

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wouldn't have believed them. We want to create a stadium, a soccer team,

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a football club that is the People's football club. It is simple as that.

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Now head over to the website to get more of the latest news including

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That's your lot, bye!

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