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Good afternoon team CBBC. You are with Nel and Ricky this Thursday. | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
Stay where you are for all the top stories. Coming up: We'll have news | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
of the largest solar storm to hit the UK in years. And Russia's | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
amazing Eurovision grannies. First, we're talking about Her | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Majesty, the Queen. This week, we've seen Prince Harry having a | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
right Royal time in the Caribbean, out-sprinting Usain Bolt and | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
throwing some shapes on the dance floor - all to mark 60 years of his | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
gran being on the throne. Today, the Queen kicked off her own | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK in style in Leicester. Take a look. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
It may not be as exotic as Jamaica, but Leicester's got its attractions, | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
too. Famous for crisps, its covered market and, of course, Gary Lineker. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Today, it got a special visit from the Queen. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
It's all to celebrate 60 years of her being on the throne, which is | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
pretty special. Only Queen Victoria has managed to sit in the big chair | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
for so long. Although hopefully we will be taoeubl see a lot more of | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
the celebrations this time. It's not the first time Queen | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Elizabeth II has visited Leicester. Here she is taking a tour of the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
city back in 1958. Since then, Leicester's changed a lot. It has | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
gone from being a quiet provincal town to one of the most | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
multicultural cities in Europe, with some of the biggest Diwali | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
celebrations outside India. One thing that hasn't changed is the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
reception she gets. I am here to see the Queen and I have been here | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
since 9.00am. I am here to see the Queen because it's once-in-a- | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
lifetime I am ever going to be taoeubl see her. I have never seen | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
her before. Actually live. They have to go to a lot of places and | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
it's nice of them to come to the city that I live in. I am going to | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
give her a rose. The Queen's been shown some Leicester love today and | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
you may get a chance to see her, she's travelling the length of the | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
UK until the tour ends on July 25th. The six British soldiers killed | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
after their armoured vehicle was blown up in Afghanistan on Tuesday | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
have been named. Privates Daniel Wade, Daniel Wilford, Anthony | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Frampton and Christopher Kershaw, along with Sergeant Nigel Coupe and | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Corporal Jake Hartley died when their vehicle was hit by a Taliban | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
bomb. Their deaths make it 404 loses for the British military | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
personnel in Afghanistan since 2001. Let's move on to other news. | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
You might not have noticed, but when you were at school this | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
morning the planet was being battered by the largest solar storm | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
in five years. The storms are caused by flares on the sun and are | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
not harmful to us but the good thing is they can increase our | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
chances of seeing the Northern Lights, as I've been finding out. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
The sun, our very own star. But something is stirring on its | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
surface. Now two explosions have sparked the | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
biggest magnetic storm the earth has experienced in five years. Tim | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
O'Brien is from the University of Manchester and has been studying | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
stars for 25 years. If You imagine on the surface of the sun there's | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
all this energy that's pushing out bubbles from the surface of the sun, | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
sometimes those bubbles don't escape and are pulled back on to | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
the sun. Other Other times if there is enough energy the bubble heads | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
out into space towards the earth. When this happens, particles are | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
released and when they reach earth they collide with our planet's | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
magnetic field, causing a natural light show, known as the Northern | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
Lights. The storms can also interfere with technology and | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
planes travelling sometimes have to change routes T might affect sat | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
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lies too -- satellites. This solar activity peaks every 11 years. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Don't forget to look at the night sky, especially if you live in the | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
north because thanks to the sun you may be lucky enough to see the | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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greatest light show on earth. From the sun to the seas. Leah's | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
been reporting on the issues affecting wildlife around the great | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
British coast. That's right, and today she heads to the Orkney | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Islands in Scotland to find out more about the mysterious decline | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
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of harbour seals. The UK is the number one spot for | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
seals in Europe. There are two different types that are permanent | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
residents across our shorelines, you will find most of them here on | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Orkney, but can you tell the difference? | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Harbour seals have a dipped forehead, V-shaped nostrils, and a | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
shorter snub nose. Grey seals have a flat face, no real forehead, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
their nostrils are flared and they have a broad snout. Over the last | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
decade there's been a big drop in the number of harbour seals spotted | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
off our coasts. It's here on Orkney where one of the biggest drops has | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
been recorded. That's why these animals make it on to the card, 20 | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
years ago on Orkney there were over 8,000. Now there's less than 3,000. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
Efforts are being made to find out what's happening to them. Lots of | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
work's going on at St Andrew's University where scientists are | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
tagging harbour and grey seals to track where they're going. Footage | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
here shows the seals' movements over four months. They hope it will | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
give them some clue as to why so many are disappearing and help them | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
come up with a way of stopping the decline. Ross is also one of the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
people trying to figure out what's going on. Can you tell us why we | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
are seeing a decline with the harbour seals and not the grey | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
seals? It's something to do with the supply of food I think. The | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
grey seals tend to stay out in deeper waters, mid-Atlantic. The | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
harbour seals are more inshore around the waters of the UK and | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Orkney. It's a different species of fish. What would it mean to Orkney | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
if they days peered? The harbour seals are a very important part of | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
the system here. Time head tout sea to get a closer look at these | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
curious kraoe turs. It wasn't long before we spotted a male and female. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
The question is will sights like this become rare? We have to keep | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
an open mind and hopefully we will find out and be able to stop any | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
problem that's causing the death. The future is still very uncertain | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
for harbour seals but the good news is there are lots of people working | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
hard to try to stop these incredibly cute creatures | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
disappearing from our coastlines. Let's hope they're successful. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Tomorrow Leah's visits Lundy Island - one of Britain's greatest natural | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
wonder. She must be exhausted! Now time to listen to something | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
special. These grannies have been picked to represent Russia in this | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
year's Eurovision Song Contest. Let's hope they don't steal the | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
grey vote from our own Engelbert Humperdink! What do you think of | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
that? I think they're fantastic. The red, everything about it is | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
perfect. I think we have more of a chance of winning the Eurovision | :07:46. | :07:51. |