21/07/2016 Newsround


21/07/2016

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Good morning, I'm Ayshah with Thursday's top stories.

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Coming up in the next five...

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We go dolphin spotting in Wales.

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The conservationist getting ready to fly with swans.

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And the trampoline superstar who's just won a big competition.

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Footie news first though, and it's expected that Sam Allardyce

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will be confirmed as the new England manager later today.

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Allardyce has been Sunderland boss for the last nine months and managed

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to keep his team in the Premier League last season.

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He's thought to have met with the Football Association last

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week to talk about replacing Roy Hodgson, who quit in June

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after England's surprise defeat to Iceland in the Euros.

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From footie to a sport that you may not know too much about.

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We're talking about trampoline gymnastics.

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This is 15-year-old Harrison from Leeds, who has won the national

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title in the Double Mini Trampoline to become the new British champion.

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The sport involves hurtling down a runway at top speed before

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launching yourself into the air to perform a series

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of high-flying stunts.

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Each year, scientists at the Sea Watch Foundation lead

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a week-long campaign at the start of the summer holidays to get

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you guys, and grown-ups, out and about around the UK,

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and we've sent Martin to Cardigan Bay in Wales to join

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in with some young dolphin spotters.

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Cardigan Bay.

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A coast dotted by fishing villages, seaside resorts and beautiful

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stretches of beach.

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But perhaps it's best known as the home of the UK's largest

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population of bottlenose dolphins.

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Over the past 40 years, whales, dolphins and harbour porpoises have

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been monitored by scientists and volunteers all around the coast.

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And today I've joined these guys to take part in one of the annual

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organised watches here on the Welsh coast.

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Seawatch's conservation work hopes to improve the protection of whales

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and dolphins around Britain and Ireland by keeping track of,

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and identifying the individual animals here.

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Despite whoever's at sea, not one dolphin appeared.

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But that didn't stop these guys, who are back on land to try things

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a different way.

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I've looked out about five times, and every time I'm convinced that

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I've seen a dolphin.

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Yeah.

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But it's not, it's a wave.

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So, despite the disappointment so far, how were they feeling?

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I quite like doing this sort of thing, but I haven't really

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done it much before.

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I felt quite disappointed that we didn't see a dolphin,

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but I'm hoping that we'll see one later today.

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I was really, really hoping to see one out in the wild,

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jumping up out of the waves.

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29 species of whale, dolphin and porpoise have been

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recorded in our seas.

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13 species have been identified during whale and dolphin

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watches like this one.

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So, why is this so important?

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Basically, we want to know what's out there.

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Where are they and when are they?

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We need as many eyes as possible on the sea over the National Whale

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and Dolphin Watch, so we'd like to encourage as many people

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as possible to do that.

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If anyone can go out there with their families over that

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nine-day period that starts on Saturday, the more the better.

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The more data we get on dolphins and the more information

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that we have to protect them.

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We've now been looking for dolphins for six hours.

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And we haven't seen one.

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Dolphins?

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They're playing around there.

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They seem to be really close.

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This morning we didn't get any luck, and I was quite disappointed

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and I really wanted to see a dolphin in the end of the day.

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And it shows that if you have patience and you wait and you look,

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you will find it in the end.

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But it was well worth it.

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There it is again.

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And we're all very excited here at Newsround HQ,

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because in our next bulletin at 8:15am we'll be catching

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up with Ruby Barnhill, the 11-year-old girl who stars

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as Sophie in the Roald Dahl classic the BFG movie.

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And if there's anything you want to ask Ruby,

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there's just time to send in your questions for her online.

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And while you're there, why don't you tell us what fantastic

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plans you have for the summer holidays?

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And finally, the Bewick swans making their autumn migration

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from Russia to the UK are going to have company this year.

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Conservationist Sacha Dench is going to journey with them

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using this motor-propelled parachute to try to find out why

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their numbers are in decline.

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She's been training to fly thousands of miles with the birds,

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including over the North Sea.

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That's all from me.

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Newsround's back in about half an hour with actress

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Ruby from the BFG - don't miss it.

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