17/01/2014 Newsround

Hello guys. Martin here taking you into the weekend with your Friday

afternoon Newsround. Coming up: I'm at an animal centre meeting some of

the cute animals that have been affected by the UK storms.

Also, the schoolboy hoping to become the youngest person ever to trek the

South Pole. And the train that's packed with Pandas. This is

Newsround. First animal charities are warning

that recent flooding across large parts of the country has had a

devastating effect on the UK's wildlife. Seals are among the

animals worst affected. The RSPCA have told us their centres have been

really busy taking in seal pups, whose habitats were destroyed last

month. It's not just seals though. Barn owls have struggled to hunt for

food and many hibernating hedgehogs have been become trapped by the

water. I'm at this wildlife centre in

Cheshire in the North West of England. They've had a really busy

start to the year because of the UK storms, they've received a few

animals who have been badly affected. I'm joined now by Lee, who

is the manager here. We've got a couple of otters in here. You can

see one of them in there at the moment, how old is he? About 15

weeks old. With these two otters being so young, that's the problem,

they haven't got their parents to look after them. Exactly. They would

be reliant on their mum for a good few months. But now they're

separated. We monitored them for a while, but there's no chance they

would survive on their own, so they've had to come in. Is that a

seal I can hear in the distance? That's one of our two seal pups.

Lots of animals here. It's a busy time of year. Yeah, it -- yeah, it

is. The storm has brought in the otter cups and the seals. These two

will be released into the wild in September this year. But it's not

just the otters, we have a couple of seals here, one in particular.

They've come from the East Coast of England, battered by the storms

before Christmas. He's called Kellogg's. Is he OK? Is he going to

be released soon? All fingers crossed. He's one of six that came

in before Christmas. All of this emare doing extremely well. He's

here probably for the next few days. Then we will move them out to the

bigger pools outside. He originally came from the East Coast. That's a

long way away. How come here he's? Our sister facility in Norfolk,

we're struggling with the sheer enoughs that were coming in. Busy

time for lots of wildlife centres. Hopefully he'll be back in the wild

in a couple of months. Next up, some exciting royal baby

news, the Queen's granddaughter, Zara Phillips has had a baby girl.

There's no name yet, but the Queen is said to be delighted at the news

of a great grand child number four. It's the first child for Silver

Medal-winning Zara and her husband former England rugby player Mike

Tindall. For an Olympic star to some winter

hopefuls. With a few weeks to go before the winter games in Sochi, on

the ice things are being looking good. British ice dancers, Penny

Coomes and Nick Buckland bagged bronze at the European figure

skating championships in Hungary. A British schoolboy is on the brink

of becoming the youngest ever person to trek the South Pole. 16-year-old

Lewis Clarke has spent six weeks walking for miles in tough

conditions. Yesterday he called his school in Bristol to answer

questions. He said he will be relieved when he finally reaches the

Pole. His family are really proud. There's a British obsession with the

polar wastes and there's Everest as well. You feel like Lewis is now in

that, sort of, in that group. Really proud he's my brother and that he

has done all this stuff and that he's raising money for charity too.

If that made you feel cold, warm yourself up on the website. Just see

how hot Australia is by watching chocolate melt on the street. And

check out a hot new look for Saturday morning's on CBBC.

Finally, train journeys, never the most exciting way to spend your time

unless your train is covered in pandas. This train in China is

covered with cartoon pictures of of Pandas. The pictures are on seats,

the doors and even the windows. Yuanzai is a massive superstar there

with thousands of people heading to the zoo every day to see her. We

posted this stunning video of the secret life of a coral reef on the

Newsround website. Go and check it out. Jenny will be here in the

morning with all your weekend news. Have a great weekend.