24/02/2016 Newsround


24/02/2016

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Leah here today with your top stories, including some of this:

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The boat launched from America that washed up in Wales.

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And the robot that's killing weeds on a farm in Yorkshire.

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The world's biggest catapult fires again.

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But first, Ant and Dec will be presenting tonight's Brit awards

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in London where Adele's expected to the win the top prize -

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She is also in the running for best British female.

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Coldplay could make history if they win Best Group -

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One Direction are also up for Best Group and Video of the Year

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Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Little Mix are expected

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And Martin will be there on the red carpet at 4.20pm this afternoon.

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He'll be with fans waiting to catch a glimpse of the stars,

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How did this small wooden boat end up on a beach in Wales?

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Well, it washed up after travelling nearly 4000 miles at sea.

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A mysterious boat washes up on a beach in Wales.

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There is no one on it, so where did it come from?

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It's called the Carolina Dreamer and it's been at sea

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At the beginning of February, these children, along

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with their mum, spotted it floating towards them.

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William was so excited, shouting there's a boat,

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So I went in and pulled it out to get a better look.

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Now covered in barnacles, the boat crossed the Atlantic

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She discovered it had been launched by children at a school

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in Charleston, in South Carolina in the United States.

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I'm so happy for the children that were involved,

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because they were just waiting desperately for news.

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We've just had some lovely messages from them, really excited to hear

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The schoolkids attached a tracking device to the boat and followed

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the Carolina Dreamer on its 4000-mile journey.

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It set off from the South Carolina coast in May last year.

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It first landed on a beach a week later on the island of Bermuda.

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It then relaunched on its way across the Atlantic,

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around Ireland, and eventually into Cardigan Bay, Wales.

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The school lost contact with it around ten miles to the north west

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of Aberystwyth, unaware it had been found on the beach.

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When they found out it had been rescued, they couldn't believe

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the Carolina Dreamer was still alive.

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I was really excited that someone found our boat and that we don't

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have to worry about contacting people about it any more.

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Helen's already taken the boat to a children's school in Wales.

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They hope to relaunch the Carolina Dreamer back

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Now to the massive fire-throwing catapult that's back in action

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after being repaired at Warwick Castle in England.

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It's the largest missile launcher of its kind in the world

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and we were there to catch all the action.

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It's made of wood. It's got a big wheel and a stick.

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And it launches, like, big balls that are on fire.

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Allow me to introduce you to the world's largest seize

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engine, a huge catapult called a trebuchet.

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Our machine is called Ursula, the bear.

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She is designed to destory castles, towns and villages.

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She stands at 18 metres tall and she weighs 22 tonnes.

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The shots we launch from our machine would weigh around 150 kilograms.

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Imagine two huge washing machines being thrown at you at 140mph.

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This machine has to fire every six minutes, so my men must run up these

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If the sun is pouring through the slats of the wheels

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and they're looking at it, they're going to get dizzy.

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And if they get sick, well, what comes out

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A farmer's son from South Yorkshire has developed a robot that can find

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weeds in crop fields and spray them with weed killer.

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It has two cameras and a Sat-Nav to find its way around and he's been

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trying it out on his dad's farm near Stocksbridge.

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That's all from me. I'm back in half an hour with more.

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Join us then. I will see you very soon.

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