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Hi everyone. It's Tuesday, 9th October. I'm Nel. I'm Hayley and | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
we're live with today's Newsround. The man trying to fall to Earth | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
faster than the speed of sound. And how this cheerleader broke a | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
flipping amazing record! But first, today saw the opening of a massive | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
new training centre for England's top footballers. It's been a long | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
time coming and cost a lot of cash, but the Football Association hope | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
it'll turn around England's fortunes in World Cups and other | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
big tournaments in the future. It's in Staffordshire, right in the | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
heart of England, so I went down this morning to see what all the | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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fuss is about. It's home to 24 England teams and there's been a | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
total investment of over �100 million. Welcome to St George's km | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
park. It's the FA's new National Football Centre. It has taken over | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
ten years to build and cost �120 million and today it opens its | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
doors for the very first time. The England team are training for the | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
World Cup qualifyer this Friday. The pitch has been made as an exact | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
replica of the Wembley pitch. But this place isn't just for Roy | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
Hodgson's men, but it's the home of the ladies' side and the next | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
generation of the younger players. It would be nice to see youngsters | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
hopefully getting an early wow factor. Great place to come and | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
they want to be with the England teams through the age. Can they | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
stay through to the seniors? It's an aspirational home now. All the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
pieces of the jigsaw are here. We'll have to wait to see if the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
last piece can be put in place - winning the World Cup. It looked | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
amazing. I was this close to Wayne Rooney and the whole team playing a | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
match. But how will St George's Park actually work and will it | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
really help England win trophies in the future? I've been finding out. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
1966, a year when England was at the top of their game, winning the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
World Cup. Since then, though, things haven't been so rosy. It's | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
been 16 years since the men's team reached a semi-finals of a major | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
international tournament and that's why the FA is looking to some of | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
football's super powers, France and Spain for inspiration. They have | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
centres of excellence just like St George's Park. We are coming to | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
this quite late. We've been talking about building one for over ten | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
years now. Is the centre going to make a difference for the next | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
World Cup? This is about ten years away. I don't think even the one | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
after in 2018. It's a long-term thing. Spending money to get the | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
best facilities has worked before. This is the national cycling centre | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
in Manchester, where the Olympic stars like Sir Chris Hoy and | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
Bradley Wiggins and Victoria Pendleton train. It's been open for | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
18 years and in the cyclists have gradually improved. Storming to the | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
top of the medals tables at the last two Olympics. The FA's hoping | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
this will have the same effect on England's footballers, but with the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
players still having to split their time and efforts between club and | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
country, will things change and will we see another World Cup win | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
for England? We'll just have to wait and find out. Staying with | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
football and it's not been a good day for Bolton Wanderers' boss, | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Owen Coyle, who's been sacked by the club. Bolton were relegated | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
from the Premier League last season. And they've continued to struggle | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
in the Championship. Coyle was praised for the support he gave to | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Fabrice Muamba earlier this year after the Bolton midfielder had a | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
heart attack on the pitch. Wonder how that cheerleader's getting on? | :04:04. | :04:14. | |
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Let's have a look. More on that in a bit. Next, to a man who certainly | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
isn't scared of heights. Let's check up on Austrian skydiver, | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Felix Baumartner, who's waiting to see if he'll be able to perform the | :04:23. | :04:33. | |
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highest, fastest skydive of all time. The weather's delayed his | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
attempt this afternoon. They're hoping to get the balloon inflated | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
in the next hour or so. When he does make the jump, it'll be from | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
the edge of Earth's atmosphere and he'll freefall at more than 700 | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
miles an hour, breaking the speed of sound. It's very dangerous and | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
two people have died trying to break the record in the past. And, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
if you want to find out more about how he does that jump from his | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
ultra-thin balloon to his pressurised space suit, head over | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
to the Newsround website right now. There's a page with all the facts | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
and you can see my interview with the man himself too. Next, to a new | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
conservation project with a difference in the Peak District. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
It's hoped that these tiny green beads called moss balls could help | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
bring back life to hills across northern England, They have been | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
spoiled by industrial pollution and wild fires. So we sent Leah to | :05:20. | :05:28. | |
investigate in a helicopter! When you think of the Peak District, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
you'd expect something like this - lush wild grass, tranquil lakes and | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
breath-taking views. But not this. Black land with hardly anything | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
growing. After more than a hundred years of industrial pollution from | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
surrounding cities and wildfires, parts of the Peak District have | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
been ruined. I'm taking to the skies. Today, I'm joining a team | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
who are bring life back to this area. Our target, Black Hill, would | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
have taken about 45 minutes to get to by car I guess, so it's much | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
faster to take helicopter and the views are quite stunning So this is | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
the answer. Moss balls. Each tiny bead is bursting with strains of | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
green moss which eventually grow into healthy fresh moorland plants. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Good for the thousands of sheep and good for us. And here's the proof - | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
land goes from this to this. Sphagnum moss is an unusual plant. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
It holds about 20 times its own weight in water. It keeps the | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
bogland up here healthy and that's good for species of wading birds | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
that rely on this as a feeding ground. And the whole food chain of | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
other species aswell. So today, for the first time, we'll be sprinkling | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
six million of these tiny little beads all across this landscape to | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
try and turn this dull, lifeless grass into something a little bit | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
like this This is a massive operation but it's hoped over the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
next few months a 150 million of these tiny moss balls will help to | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
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transform this huge landscape back to its former glory. You know, a | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
helicopter is how she usually travels to work? I would believe it. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Next, to a story that's really got you going over on the website - all | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
about how much TV you watch. A new study says that 7 to 12-year-olds | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
are spending too much time looking at their TV, computers and phone | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
screens. Experts say you should be limited to watching an hour of | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
telly a day, to help your brain develop better. We have had loads | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
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If you looked up at the sky before you went to bed last night you may | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
have seen the Northern Lights. They were seen over parts of Scotland, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Northern England and Northern Ireland. Some people were even | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
lucky enough to capture the sight on camera. Impressive photos! Well, | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
if you head over to the Newsround website right now you can see even | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
more. Before we go, lets find out how many backflips 16-year-old | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
cheerleader, Miranda Ferguson managed in a row to break the world | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
record. Her target was 32, but she managed 35. Two officials were | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
there to witness the record and her team-mates were well chuffed. She | :08:32. | :08:35. |