26/02/2016 Newsround


26/02/2016

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And sharing some exercise tips with top striker Calum

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Wilson. See you.

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I'm Leah, it's Friday - the best day of the week -

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The weather ends Lindsey's Sport Relief zorb challenge.

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And stick around for some Eurovision fun.

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First this morning we've been following Lindsey from Blue Peter's

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challenge to zorb across the sea from Northern Ireland to Scotland

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Unfortunately weather conditions yesterday forced her to stop.

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She sent Newsround this message once she made it to dry land.

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Hey Newsround, how are you doing, I just wanted to say a little hello,

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I finished my challenge today, we had a really good go at it.

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Unfortunately I didn't make it all the way to Scotland from Ireland

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when I was crossing, but I did go a really long way,

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I did 17 nautical miles in the end which

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was pretty gruelling, pretty tiring, I ate so much flapjack

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and chocolate, you would not believe.

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But we gave it a really, really good go but we

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But I just wanted to let you know that I'm

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rested and healthy and happy, and the Blue Peter crew

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were all here supporting me, I just ate a massive bowl of pasta

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Thank you for all the support throughout this incredible

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If it inspires you to do anything, hopefully it's to get involved this

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To football now and all three English clubs in action last night

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have made it through to the last 16 of the Europa Cup

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Liverpool won 1-0 against German side FC Augsburg

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Tottenham won 3-0 against Italian side Fiorentina.

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And Manchester United beat the Danish champions

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18 year old Marcus Rashford scored twice on his debut for United.

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The spirit was so high in this match, and then we score

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the equaliser, and then a penalty, we missed the penalty,

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and then still we continued with attacking

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football and with the spirit to win, and that is not so easy.

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The UK's entry for the annual Eurovision Song Contest

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Six acts competing to represent Britain will be

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The last time we came first in the contest was 19 years ago -

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so why does the UK never ever seem to win?

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43 countries, millions of dreams, one chance to have the best song in

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Europe. So when have we actually won? 1967, Sandie Shaw became the

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first winner from the UK with her hit. Lulu joined Spain, the

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Netherlands and France in first place with her hit in 1969. 1976,

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brotherhood of Man with a first band from the UK to win with their

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single. The band Bucks fizz who formed specifically for Eurovision

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sang their way to first place with their hit in 1981. And in 1997,

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Katrina and the Waves were the first Eurovision winning entry for 16

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years. Five times is actually quite good but since 1997, the UK has done

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pretty badly, so why haven't we been successful recently? Lately, the

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winner has always had an up yet, up-tempo song or a downbeat pallet

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like Conchita a few years ago. Also there is more, edition now, with

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more countries in the Europe issue and song contest, plus a lot of

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people say that people only vote for their neighbours and our only real

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neighbours are islands so we are always outnumbered. The commission

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takes place this year in Stockholm, what or how a I think the UK has a

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really good chance to see, better than in recent years because the

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voting system has changed. The British public have a say on who we

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want to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song contest.

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That's all from me for now I'll be back with more of the day's top

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