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Hi guys. It's girl power on Newsround this afternoon. Hayley | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
and Nel here with all the day's top stories. Here's what's coming up. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Switch off, or standby? We've been on an energy saving challenge. And | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
it's my most dangerous mission yet for Newsround - swimming with | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
sharks! But first to Northern Ireland, where the Queen's started | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
a two-day visit as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebrations. But | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
this trip is very different from the other parts of her Jubilee tour. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
That's because over the years there's been a lot of violence | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
there, as people are divided about whether to stay part of the UK or | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
join the Republic of Ireland. This visit is one of the first in 40 | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
years by the Queen, that hasn't been kept a secret and many hope it | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
will show just how far the peace process in Northern Ireland has | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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come. This visit isn't about the past. How can you forget the past, | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
but no-one will. It's about the future. The good thing about this | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
crowd, people here, five, six, seven, eight, nine years of age. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
They've only known the good days in Northern Ireland. We don't have | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
total peace yet, but dare I say it, this looks like a scene you could | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
see in most parts of the UK today. Crowds have lined the streets and | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Union flags are everywhere to be seen. The Queen has visited | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Northern Ireland 19 times during her reign, but she hasn't always | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
been made to feel this welcome. For years, violent clashes there | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
between two main groups of people, have led to a lot of problems. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Unionists wanted Northern Ireland to stay part of the UK and be ruled | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
by the Royal Family. Nationalists wanted the area to join the rest of | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
Ireland, the Republic. For years, armed groups on both sides held | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
violent campaigns. There were bomb attacks in Northern Ireland and in | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Britain. Many people died in the conflict which became known as The | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Troubles. All this made it a very dangerous place for the Queen to | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
visit. For years details of her visits were kept top secret. In her | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Silver Jubilee, she couldn't stay overnight, and no one was allowed | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
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to know where and when she was arriving. Earlier on, the Queen | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
arrived by helicopter to a church in Enniskillen, a town where 12 | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
people were killed by a bomb during the height of the violence. And | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
lots of eyes will be on her tomorrow when she'll meet Martin | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
McGuinness, the former leader of a terrorist group called the | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Provisional IRA, who were responsible for that attack and | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
another which killed Prince Philip's uncle. He's now Northern | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Ireland's Deputy First Minister. Despite the celebrations taking | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
place in many parts of the country, there have still been some protests | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
by people unhappy at the Queen's visit. On the whole though this is | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
seen as a ground-breaking trip that is hoped will mark the start of a | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
new Northern Ireland. Now to a massive stroke of luck for two guys | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
in Jersey and their metal detectors. They've found one of Europe's | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
largest ever hoards of old coins. They're more than 2,000 years old | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
and thought to be worth around �10 million. Archaeologists say there | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
could be about 50,000 in all. It'll take months to sort through them | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
properly. Now, you've been on the Newsround website today, telling us | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
how you save energy. It's after a report found that by leaving things | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
like TVs and mobiles on standby instead of switching them off, we | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
waste enough energy in a year to run two power stations for 12 whole | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
months! Your comments in a sec guys, first though, watch this. You get | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
home from a long day at school, kick off your shoes, turn on the tv, | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
maybe you're laptop too and text your mates on your phone while it's | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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charging. But when you're done, do you actually turn them off? Knell! | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
Nell! As a country we're now using a lot more energy than before, but | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
what makes it worse is that a lot of it is wasted. It's because lots | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
of us aren't turning off stuff tvs and laptops properly, but just | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
leaving them plugged in or on sleep mode. Lots of people reckon that | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
leaving stuff on standby or sleep mode means that it stops using | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
electricity, but it doesn't. Some experts reckoned that the amount of | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
electricity wasted by leaving gadgets in standby or sleep mode | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
would be enough to keep two power stations going for a year. Things | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
like not unplugging your mobile or laptop when its fully charged waste | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
electricity. And overcharging some gadgets like smart phones can | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
actually damage their battery life in the long run. A group that looks | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
into how we can save more energy say that the amount of energy each | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
family wastes by leaving stuff on standby is the same amount needed | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
to power their tv, DVD player, set- top box, hi-fi and radio for 12 | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
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months. Over the next few years it's going to become harder to | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
power Britain, so the Energy Savings Trust want to work with the | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Government to make us more energy smart. On the Newsround website, | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Maika from Bognor Regis says, "My family and I save electricity by | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
not using too many lights and remembering to turn them off. Not | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
only does it save energy it saves money." And Abby got in touch all | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
the way from Hong Kong. She's got a top tip. "My family have reminder | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
notes on everything so when you leave a device on, you see the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
reminder and you remember to switch it off." Last word from Kaleb in | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Merseyside who says, "The way I save electricity is instead of | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
watching TV, I read for two hours." Hope you're watching now, Kaleb. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
Someone who'll be wanting to save up all his energy is Andy Murray, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
who's making his first Wimbledon appearance of the year a bit later | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
on. Could be a tough match. He'll play the former world number three | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Nikolay Davydenko from Russia. Former Wimbledon champion, Rafa | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
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Nadal, is playing now on Centre Court. He's two sets up against | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Thomaz Bellucci. I've done some pretty daring stuff for Newsround. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
I've rescued lions and been pulled on a sledge by husky dogs. But | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
nothing quite beats swimming with sharks. I'm so jealous. It wasn't | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
just for fun though.. Hayley was on a mission to find sharks teeth to | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
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see what they tell us about ancient breeds of the species. This is | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Blackpool Sea Life Centre and there are five different species of | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
sharks, including this eight-foot large one and in a few moments I'll | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
be getting in there to collect their teeth. Experts here are | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
working with the University of Birmingham to find out more about | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
sharks that lived thousands of years ago, by collecting their | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
teeth and today I'm giving them a helping hand. Here we go. To do | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
that, I've got to get in at the deep end. The tank is ten-feet deep | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
and with 15 sharks in there, one nearly nine-foot long, well, I was | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
nervous, but I didn't have to go near their mouths. They lose their | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
teeth naturally, so I just collect them. There you go. It was quite | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
scary, but I've managed to find some shark teeth and I'm glad to be | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
getting out of here. This is one of the teeth I've collected today. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
What sort of information can this tell you? We look at the chemistry | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
and it can reflect the food and nutrition which sharks take. This | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
is a prehistoric tooth and if you compare that one to the one I've | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
got today you can find out the differences between the environment. | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
Exactly. How warm the water was, what was the climate life millions | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
of years ago. The tooth will hopefully help scientists get | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
closer to sharks that were around thousands of years ago, but | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
considering their had teeth this big, well, I think I got close | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
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enough today already. That's it. Look at this egg roulette. One | :08:46. | :08:54. |