20/04/2016 Newsround

Morning, everyone, I'm Leah live on CBBC

Can you guess what's new about this plucky duck?

And stayed tuned for the fastest snowboarder in Britain.

First this morning, we're starting with panda poo at Edinburgh Zoo.

Sunshine and Sweetie arrived in Edinburgh from China in 2011.

We were all gripped by panda fever as the nation waited to find out

if there was going to be a panda pregnancy or not.

Now they are taking part in a project

a little less glamorous and a lot more smelly.

collected and investigated as part

of a project to understand more about the animals' eating habits.

We need to understand exactly which species of bamboo that pandas in the

wild are eating. The first place to start all that is with the two

panacea. At the moment, we are gathering won one from each panda

once-a-day -- one poo. Next off to the lab to investigate

the poo a bit more closely. So after the poo has been collected,

it comes here to be analysed - Once we get it from the zoo,

it looks like this. We take this and we go

through a process to extract the DNA DNA is basically the building block

of life, every single thing has it and we look at that to try and tell

apart which different species It's not just the pandas

at Edinburgh zoo that We are going to be looking at wild

pandas in China and hopefully finding samples they have left

behind for us and it will give us all sort of information about what

sort of things pandas are eating. It's really hard to work out

what giant pandas are eating, which makes it really difficult

for places like the zoo to make sure they are feeding them

exactly what they need. We are really excited that,

by working out exactly what they are eating,

we can actually help not only conserve them in the wild but also

hopefully help Edinburgh zoo breed Even though looking into panda poo

might be a bit smelly, and even seem a bit strange,

it shows that eating the right stuff is important

for all of us to stay And the results might even

help Edinburgh Zoo breed Now this is Phillip the duck

and he's just been given a brand He was rescued in the US but vets

couldn't save his feet. A tech teacher made some

new flippers with his class. Phillip is now being looked

after at an animal sanctuary. Next, taking part in

after-school clubs can help That's what new research

out today says. So we asked some of you how

after-school activities make Throughout the day, if you've got

an after-school club, like, you are focusing on that and it makes

you happy to know that after school, you're going to be doing sports

instead of just maybe sitting around, watching

telly in your house. When you go to after-school clubs,

you are like spending time with your friends and having

a bit of a mess around. It motivates me to do

better in my work so that the day ends

faster and I can get It helps me relax after a hard day

at school but I haven't had After-school, I think it is fun

because you get to spend a lot of the day in class and then some time

outside with your friends. So that's what they think -

but what about you? Do you go to a club at the end

of the day? Get online and give us your

views on this. In the Premier League,

Newcastle United could only manage a point against

Manchester City last night. City took the lead at St James Park

with this Sergio Aguero header. But Newcastle managed to hit

back before half time. 1-1 the final score but Newcastle

remain two points from safety. And finally, want to see the fastest

snowboarder in Britain? This is Jamie Barrow reaching more

than 94mph in the French Alps. It's a new British record,

but if you think that's impressive, he didn't come close

to the world record, held by the Frenchman Edmond Plawczyk,

who went at over 126mph last year. Newsround's back right

here in about half an hour