08/03/2012 Newsround


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Good afternoon team CBBC. You are with Nel and Ricky this Thursday.

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Stay where you are for all the top stories. Coming up: We'll have news

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of the largest solar storm to hit the UK in years. And Russia's

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amazing Eurovision grannies. First, we're talking about Her

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Majesty, the Queen. This week, we've seen Prince Harry having a

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right Royal time in the Caribbean, out-sprinting Usain Bolt and

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throwing some shapes on the dance floor - all to mark 60 years of his

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gran being on the throne. Today, the Queen kicked off her own

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Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK in style in Leicester. Take a look.

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It may not be as exotic as Jamaica, but Leicester's got its attractions,

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too. Famous for crisps, its covered market and, of course, Gary Lineker.

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Today, it got a special visit from the Queen.

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It's all to celebrate 60 years of her being on the throne, which is

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pretty special. Only Queen Victoria has managed to sit in the big chair

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for so long. Although hopefully we will be taoeubl see a lot more of

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the celebrations this time. It's not the first time Queen

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Elizabeth II has visited Leicester. Here she is taking a tour of the

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city back in 1958. Since then, Leicester's changed a lot. It has

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gone from being a quiet provincal town to one of the most

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multicultural cities in Europe, with some of the biggest Diwali

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celebrations outside India. One thing that hasn't changed is the

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reception she gets. I am here to see the Queen and I have been here

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since 9.00am. I am here to see the Queen because it's once-in-a-

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lifetime I am ever going to be taoeubl see her. I have never seen

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her before. Actually live. They have to go to a lot of places and

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it's nice of them to come to the city that I live in. I am going to

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give her a rose. The Queen's been shown some Leicester love today and

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you may get a chance to see her, she's travelling the length of the

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UK until the tour ends on July 25th. The six British soldiers killed

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after their armoured vehicle was blown up in Afghanistan on Tuesday

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have been named. Privates Daniel Wade, Daniel Wilford, Anthony

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Frampton and Christopher Kershaw, along with Sergeant Nigel Coupe and

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Corporal Jake Hartley died when their vehicle was hit by a Taliban

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bomb. Their deaths make it 404 loses for the British military

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personnel in Afghanistan since 2001. Let's move on to other news.

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You might not have noticed, but when you were at school this

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morning the planet was being battered by the largest solar storm

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in five years. The storms are caused by flares on the sun and are

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not harmful to us but the good thing is they can increase our

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chances of seeing the Northern Lights, as I've been finding out.

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The sun, our very own star. But something is stirring on its

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surface. Now two explosions have sparked the

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biggest magnetic storm the earth has experienced in five years. Tim

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O'Brien is from the University of Manchester and has been studying

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stars for 25 years. If You imagine on the surface of the sun there's

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all this energy that's pushing out bubbles from the surface of the sun,

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sometimes those bubbles don't escape and are pulled back on to

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the sun. Other Other times if there is enough energy the bubble heads

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out into space towards the earth. When this happens, particles are

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released and when they reach earth they collide with our planet's

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magnetic field, causing a natural light show, known as the Northern

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Lights. The storms can also interfere with technology and

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planes travelling sometimes have to change routes T might affect sat

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lies too -- satellites. This solar activity peaks every 11 years.

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Don't forget to look at the night sky, especially if you live in the

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north because thanks to the sun you may be lucky enough to see the

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greatest light show on earth. From the sun to the seas. Leah's

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been reporting on the issues affecting wildlife around the great

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British coast. That's right, and today she heads to the Orkney

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Islands in Scotland to find out more about the mysterious decline

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of harbour seals. The UK is the number one spot for

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seals in Europe. There are two different types that are permanent

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residents across our shorelines, you will find most of them here on

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Orkney, but can you tell the difference?

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Harbour seals have a dipped forehead, V-shaped nostrils, and a

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shorter snub nose. Grey seals have a flat face, no real forehead,

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their nostrils are flared and they have a broad snout. Over the last

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decade there's been a big drop in the number of harbour seals spotted

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off our coasts. It's here on Orkney where one of the biggest drops has

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been recorded. That's why these animals make it on to the card, 20

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years ago on Orkney there were over 8,000. Now there's less than 3,000.

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Efforts are being made to find out what's happening to them. Lots of

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work's going on at St Andrew's University where scientists are

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tagging harbour and grey seals to track where they're going. Footage

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here shows the seals' movements over four months. They hope it will

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give them some clue as to why so many are disappearing and help them

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come up with a way of stopping the decline. Ross is also one of the

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people trying to figure out what's going on. Can you tell us why we

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are seeing a decline with the harbour seals and not the grey

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seals? It's something to do with the supply of food I think. The

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grey seals tend to stay out in deeper waters, mid-Atlantic. The

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harbour seals are more inshore around the waters of the UK and

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Orkney. It's a different species of fish. What would it mean to Orkney

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if they days peered? The harbour seals are a very important part of

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the system here. Time head tout sea to get a closer look at these

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curious kraoe turs. It wasn't long before we spotted a male and female.

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The question is will sights like this become rare? We have to keep

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an open mind and hopefully we will find out and be able to stop any

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problem that's causing the death. The future is still very uncertain

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for harbour seals but the good news is there are lots of people working

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hard to try to stop these incredibly cute creatures

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disappearing from our coastlines. Let's hope they're successful.

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Tomorrow Leah's visits Lundy Island - one of Britain's greatest natural

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wonder. She must be exhausted! Now time to listen to something

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special. These grannies have been picked to represent Russia in this

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year's Eurovision Song Contest. Let's hope they don't steal the

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grey vote from our own Engelbert Humperdink! What do you think of

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that? I think they're fantastic. The red, everything about it is

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perfect. I think we have more of a chance of winning the Eurovision

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