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Leah here today with your top stories, including some of this: | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The boat launched from America that washed up in Wales. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
And the robot that's killing weeds on a farm in Yorkshire. | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
The world's biggest catapult fires again. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
But first, Ant and Dec will be presenting tonight's Brit awards | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
in London where Adele's expected to the win the top prize - | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
She is also in the running for best British female. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Coldplay could make history if they win Best Group - | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
One Direction are also up for Best Group and Video of the Year | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Little Mix are expected | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
And Martin will be there on the red carpet at 4.20pm this afternoon. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
He'll be with fans waiting to catch a glimpse of the stars, | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
How did this small wooden boat end up on a beach in Wales? | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
Well, it washed up after travelling nearly 4000 miles at sea. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
A mysterious boat washes up on a beach in Wales. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
There is no one on it, so where did it come from? | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
It's called the Carolina Dreamer and it's been at sea | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
At the beginning of February, these children, along | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
with their mum, spotted it floating towards them. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
William was so excited, shouting there's a boat, | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
So I went in and pulled it out to get a better look. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Now covered in barnacles, the boat crossed the Atlantic | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
She discovered it had been launched by children at a school | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
in Charleston, in South Carolina in the United States. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
I'm so happy for the children that were involved, | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
because they were just waiting desperately for news. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
We've just had some lovely messages from them, really excited to hear | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
The schoolkids attached a tracking device to the boat and followed | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
the Carolina Dreamer on its 4000-mile journey. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
It set off from the South Carolina coast in May last year. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
It first landed on a beach a week later on the island of Bermuda. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
It then relaunched on its way across the Atlantic, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
around Ireland, and eventually into Cardigan Bay, Wales. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
The school lost contact with it around ten miles to the north west | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
of Aberystwyth, unaware it had been found on the beach. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
When they found out it had been rescued, they couldn't believe | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
the Carolina Dreamer was still alive. | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
I was really excited that someone found our boat and that we don't | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
have to worry about contacting people about it any more. | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
Helen's already taken the boat to a children's school in Wales. | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
They hope to relaunch the Carolina Dreamer back | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
Now to the massive fire-throwing catapult that's back in action | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
after being repaired at Warwick Castle in England. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
It's the largest missile launcher of its kind in the world | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
and we were there to catch all the action. | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
It's made of wood. It's got a big wheel and a stick. | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
And it launches, like, big balls that are on fire. | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
Allow me to introduce you to the world's largest seize | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
engine, a huge catapult called a trebuchet. | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Our machine is called Ursula, the bear. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
She is designed to destory castles, towns and villages. | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
She stands at 18 metres tall and she weighs 22 tonnes. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
The shots we launch from our machine would weigh around 150 kilograms. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Imagine two huge washing machines being thrown at you at 140mph. | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
This machine has to fire every six minutes, so my men must run up these | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
If the sun is pouring through the slats of the wheels | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
and they're looking at it, they're going to get dizzy. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
And if they get sick, well, what comes out | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
A farmer's son from South Yorkshire has developed a robot that can find | :04:11. | :04:33. | |
weeds in crop fields and spray them with weed killer. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
It has two cameras and a Sat-Nav to find its way around and he's been | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
trying it out on his dad's farm near Stocksbridge. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
That's all from me. I'm back in half an hour with more. | :04:47. | :04:58. | |
Join us then. I will see you very soon. | :04:59. | :05:03. |