20/01/2016 Newsround


20/01/2016

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In buildings, in cars, we ever you it to eat with.

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It's been making headlines over the past few months as many British

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steel workers face losing their jobs.

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But what is steel and why is it so important to the UK?

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Steel is the most widely used metal in the world. It can be extremely

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strong and flexible. It is used to make all kinds of things like

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buildings and bridges, planes, trains and cars all have parts made

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of steel to help you get around. And you will find it all over your home

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in things like washing machines, fridges and radiators. British

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steel, has long been acknowledged as some of the best in the world. The

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UK has a long history of making steel dating back to

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UK has a long history of making the last few decades this has been

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changing. Nowadays it is China that leads the way, producing around half

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of the world's steel. However, it is making more steel than it needs,

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selling the extra stuff cheaply all around the world. This is a problem

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for steel plants in the UK, who say they are losing business because

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they cannot match the low prices of cheap Chinese steel and forcing many

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UK factories shut down. It still works in Redcar in the north-west of

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England closed last year and now more than 1000 people will lose

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their jobs around the UK, with most of them at the UK's biggest steel

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plant at Port Talbot in Wales. The governor has come under pressure to

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help the plants and communities who need them for jobs. Asnicar

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Government. The Government says it's working to help staff find new jobs

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as quickly as possible. We all know what the Queen's home,

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Buckingham Palace, looks like from the outside,

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but now we can also take a sneak peak of some of the rooms

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inside the palace walls. Thousands of people visit visit

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Buckingham Palace every year and even though they did is guided

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tours, many people did not get to experience what it looks like

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inside. However, we can now do just that with these special glasses,

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which are pretty cool invention. When you move your head the image

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moves with you, so is the next best thing to be there in person. This is

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what the ballroom looks like, and that is the Queen's throne. This is

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the Palace picture gallery with some priceless works of art from the

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Queen's collection. This is the point drawing room, what is extra

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special about this room is there is a secret door behind that mirror.

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The only thing missing from a special tour is the Queen herself.

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Big news about your favourite fairytales today as new research

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suggests they might date back much earlier

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A study has found that stories like Beauty and the Beast

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and Rumpelstiltskin can be traced back thousands of years

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to prehistoric times with one tale originating from the Bronze Age.

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That's almost 4000 years earlier than was previously

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So all day we've been asking about your favourite fairy tales

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Fay, from Leeds, said: "My favourite story is Princess and the Pea

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because in the book I count the layers of mattresses."

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Class 3E from Sutton are learning about fairy tales and told us

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they all really enjoy Rumpelstiltskin.

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Matthew from Rogerstone in Wales thinks Little Red Riding Hood

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And Sana from Hendon said: "My favourite is Cinderella

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because the Fairy Godmother has magic."

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German scientist have taught a drone how to land itself on a moving car.

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The researchers from the German Aerospace Centre

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have demonstrated their aircraft safely landing on a car fitted

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with a net travelling at nearly 50 miles per hour.

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They say the technology could be used to let unmanned aircraft be

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built without wheels to let them stay in the air for longer periods

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Next to news of a new "education edition" of Minecraft.

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Microsoft who are building the new world-building game

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Want teachers to use it teach six different subjects like science,

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English and maths and are adding new features for the school version, but

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schools might have to pay more money for it. The company say more than

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7000 classrooms around the world already use Minecraft in some form.

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Next to an incredible animal rescue.

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A sheep that was trapped for days on the side of a cliff in Snowdonia,

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in Wales, has been saved by an RSPCA team.

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The team lowered themselves down the mountain using ropes to reach

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the sheep, who was then brought down with them.

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The sheep wasn't injured but was very hungry

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Newsround's back here on CBBC at 7.40am tomorrow morning,

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