20/07/2016 Newsround

It's Wednesday morning and here come your top stories.

But first, to the award ceremony just for cats.

helping his owner Harri is up for a prize for

when he was going through a tough time.

You might have heard of the brave dogs that helps rescue people

Or the horses who help the police when they are out on patrol.

But watch out, there's a new hero in town.

He might look like an ordinary moggy, but to Harri,

Houdini helps me on a day-to-day basis.

When I get home from school, Houdini normally comes

When I get home from school, Houdini normally comes to me and helps me.

Houdini is one of 15 finalists in the competition to find

He was nominated for the award because he helped Harri get

When I touch Houdini, it makes me feel happy.

And safe. Also in the running for the award is Mr Miffy who helped

Jessica Cope with autism. The winner is announced in August. So good luck

to all the cats taking part, and there human owners.

You'll notice it's still pretty warm this morning but yesterday the 19th

of July was the hottest day of 2016 so far for much

of the United Kingdom, at 33.5 Celsius in places.

While lots of people made the most of the sunshine there were delays

The Met Office - the people who monitor the weather - say

thunderstorms and heavy rain are on the way though.

And over on Newsround online we're chatting about the weather, too.

Send us your tips with how you coped.

Now get ready to venture back into the Bronze Age,

because Hayley's been finding out all about an incredible discovery

and the everyday life of people living thousands of years ago.

Welcome to the site that has changed what we're about life in the bronze

age. Under this tent is a snapshot of the world 3000 years ago. On this

farm in Cambridgeshire, archaeologists are now think what is

thought to be the best preserved Bronze Age home ever found in

Britain. It is that fine grained detail of a world, that we would

dealing with crumbs before, now we have the sense that it is almost

present. Our job just have been digging you for ten months and have

discovered that five wooden houses on stilts stood above a river. But

it is thought that they were destroyed by fire, which made their

homes fall into the water, preserving them in great detail,

allowing experts to uncover huge range of amazing objects, showing

what people were eating and even how their clothes were made. You can see

how the food was made and it is still remaining inside the pot. From

sampling it, we can start to think what was in there, barley and beet

and nettles, that kind of thing. This is a bit of bling, and

overelaborate sort of brooch, I suppose. The dig is nearly finished

but what archaeologists have discovered is only just starting.

Britain's lost more than 70% of its cuckoos in the last 25 years

but tiny tracking devices fitted to some of the birds may have solved

A study following their migration has revealed that cuckoos

have two migration routes, with one that appears to be

They hope the new information will help their survival.

Cycling now and Britain's Mark Cavendish has pulled out

of the Tour de France, race saying he wants

to focus on this summer's Olympic Games.

He's already won four stages on this year's Tour,

He hasn't ever won a medal at an Olympic games though

and said training for the two competitions had been tough.

And Great Britain have named their Olympic rugby sevens squads.

Glasgow Warriors centre Mark Bennett,

who has 16 caps for Scotland, is one of four players

The women's team will be captained picked for the men's side.

by England World Cup winner Emily Scarratt.

The Rio games will mark the first time rugby sevens has appeared

That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.