09/10/2013 Newsround


09/10/2013

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Afternoon, guys. Coming up: Sir Chris Hoy and the Queen join forces

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to get the Commonwealth Games ball The passenger forced to land a plane

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after the pilot collapsed. Stay First, deciding when to leave home

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might seem like a long way off but imagine being told you had to go

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Thousands of foster children in England are currently given no

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option but to go it alone once they reach 18. Leading charities say

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option but to go it alone once they age should be raised to 21 to give

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them a better chance in life. And today that change in the law is

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being debated in the House of Lords. There are many challenges to life as

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a foster kid. And one of the biggest is knowing you might have to fend

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for yourself as soon as you're is knowing you might have to fend

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That's when the money foster parents get for looking after young people

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runs out. Charities say changing the law so that age is 21 would make a

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their foster parents after 18 were twice as likely to stay in education

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voluntary changes with many councils twice as likely to stay in education

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extra £2.7 million a year. The doing that officially would cost an

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extra £2.7 million a year. The two. You were forced to leave your

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extra £2.7 million a year. The foster parents at 18. What was that

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like? It was tough. I had just got into university and I was excited

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about it, but there was an element of family missing. Some people do

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not have the opportunity to go to university, 18 is young. Most people

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are not able to live by themselves that such a young age. Do you think

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the law should be changed to make sure foster kids can stay with their

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parents until they're 21? Yes. It would have made life at university a

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lot easier. I would have had people that I could have spoken to, which

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is what most people that age are looking for. You have obviously

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is what most people that age are well for yourself, are you hoping

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light-stick and Her Majesty The together to mark the start of the

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2014 Commonwealth Games Baton Relay today, and Leah was right in the

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The moment Her Majesty kicked off the countdown to the 2014 Glasgow

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Commonwealth Games. Inside the baton, a handwritten note officially

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inviting athletes from across the Commonwealth to take part. The baton

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has a big journey ahead. Nearly 120,000 miles to be precise. So

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has a big journey ahead. Nearly is taken on its incredible journey

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Oceania, North and South America, around the world. It first heads to

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Oceania, North and South America, Africa and the Caribbean, arriving

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back in the UK in May, wrapping Africa and the Caribbean, arriving

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with a 40 day tour of Scotland. It is going to inspire a whole new

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improving the lives of children special because it only happens

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to our home country. The baton is on Palace, roll on the 23rd of July

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24, 2014. Next to the passenger Palace, roll on the 23rd of July

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had to land a plane after the pilot With no previous flying experience,

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it needed two flying instructors to guide him in into Humberside Airport

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via radio. The pilot sadly died guide him in into Humberside Airport

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passenger back is something he'll never forget. It is a fantastic

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feeling that I have saved somebody's pictures of a lorry driver brushing

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his teeth at 60 miles an hour. They crackdown in Hampshire. They also

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caught a woman putting makeup on mid-motorway and another driver

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