12/09/2011 Newsround

Good evening all. Leah and Rick here. Have you had a good weekend?

How David Walliams is doing on the very last day of his Thames River

swim. See how fast I can go in one of

these. More from Page later. Scotland and

Northern Ireland have been getting huge gales this afternoon as the

remainings of a hurricane sweep overhead.

Hurricane Katia started near America before heading our way. The

last time the end of the hurricane hit us was two years ago, but in

some parts of the UK today, winds could reach 80mph.

That's enough to blow a lorry off a When high winds arrived this

morning, the results were scary, but spectacular. Northern Ireland

and Scotland were first hit, but it is not over yet. Weather experts

are watching closely and the BBC's Liam Dutton has been telling us

what's going on. At the moment you have got this

huge area of of of low pressure centred across the UK. It was

formerly Hurricane Katia. It has worked towards us. Those are the

isobars. When they are close together that means the winds are

set to be strong. How dangerous will the winds be?

Will school be cancelled? It is hard to say because each individual

school make the decision on the weather where they are. Central and

southern parts of Scotland, Northern England and Northern

Ireland, gusts of wind as high as 80mph and that's enough to cause

damage and disruption. If you are travelling today, keep in touch

with the forecast. The winds are going to die down

during midweek. It will stay windy tonight and

tomorrow. But they will ease down He is lucky enough to stay in a

calm and warm studio. Plenty of BBC reporters have been out and about

today and bracing the full force of the wind!

See if you can spot how many times a BBC reporter, Collette Hume gets

interrupted by a cameraman wiping the lens.

You don't need to be on the coast right now.

We're going to have to wipe the lens.

Hopefully Colette is inside having a cup of tea.

She has the Six O'Clock News. David Walliams is close to finishing his

amazing swim down the Thames. He started the challenge last Monday

to raise money for Sport Relief, but he is due to finish in under an

hour. This afternoon I was sent out It is a week that David Walliams

will never forget. Over the past eight days, he has

swum nearly the full length of the Thames. From the start, in

Gloucestershire, he passed Oxford, Reading and Windsor Castle. This

afternoon he arrives in Central London, finishing off this London

outside Big Ben at Westminster. Earlier today, David Walliams made

it here to Kew. He is having a break, before that final push

eleven miles in that direction. The last stretch is the most dangerous.

There is lots of boat traffic on the river and the water is really

dirty. There is about 500 million litres of raw sewage. That's about

500 million litres of these filled to the top with poo which is gis

gusting. -- disgusting.

Along the way it has been a choppy ride. Although he took medication

to protect him from bacteria in the water, he picked up a tummy bug in

the first few days and carried on swimming despite being sick and

having diarrhoea. At every stop, he had loads of people cheering him on

and even a few celebs turned up too!

He found time to rescue a dog. His body might be aching, but when he

makes it to the finish, he climb out knowing he raised nearly �1

Now I bet David wishes he could swim as fast this. We're talk 80mph

and it has been driven by a 12- year-old!

Page is a champion drag racer and over the weekend she competed in

the European Championships where she lost out by 100th of a second.

We caught up with her ahead of the The best thing about drag racing is

going down the track and going really fast. My car goes 0 to 60 in

2.5 seconds which is faster than a Ferrari. Dragsters are long and

skinny because they have to be aerodynamic to go fast down the

track. This is my steering wheel. This is my tail fin and it stops me

from flying in the air. These are my wheels and they have to be big

so I get lots of grip. Drag racing isn't about putting your foot to

the floor, it is about controlling your car and knowing what your car

is going to do. It is hard to be able to keep a junior dragster in a

straight line. It has started raining and I'm going to go and

have a test drive in my car. There is a wind wind. You have to wear a

fire retardant suit and fire retardant boots and fire retardant

gloves. You have a neck brace and a helmet. We wear this gear to keep

us safe in case there is a crash. How did it drive? I feel the

wheelspin loads and it was fine when I put my foot down and when I

took off, I was all over the place. It is great here to race because it

is just the speed and the adrenalin that you get going down the track.

You just want more and more. And that's it from me. I have got

more practising to do ahead of the big race! I'm Page and I'm

reporting for Newsround. Pixie Lott scored her third number. She beat

off competition from Leona Lewis and The Saturdays.

Our next pop star, Doris Day is probably older than most of your

grandparents. She is 87 and has become the oldest artist ever to

enter the UK top ten album charts. She has gone straight into the

charts at number nine. We have run out of time on BBC One.