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latest from Newsround. On the way.... | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
The controversial cull of badgers is set to begin. | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
And is our seas clean enough to swim And Bradley Wiggins is ruled out of | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
the Tour de France. First, the controversial cull of | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
badgers. For some, they're a precious part of our country's | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
wildlife. For others, they're a disease-carrying pest. Tomorrow, a | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
six week trial will begin in Gloucestershire and Somerset with | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
farmers licensed to shoot badgers in an attempt to stop the spread of | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
bovine tuberculosis in cattle. But the plans have split opinion, as | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
Nel's been finding out. They are a secretive, nocturnal | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
species and a popular and protected British wild animal, but badgers | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
have been blamed for the spread of Irvine to prognosis, or TB, a | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
disease which has led to the slaughter of thousands of cattle | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
which has cost the government millions in compensation. In an | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
attempt to halt the spread of disease, the government are going to | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
allow farmers in the south-west of England to kill 70% of the badger | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
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population. Other farmers have lost animals and that is devastating, not | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
only for production but also the emotional impact. The only solution | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
is a badger cull. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea but many | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
farmers say it is the right thing to do. If you shoot them you make | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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spread the disease. This is about trying to control bovine TB in cars | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
and we would like to see a vaccine which would allow the cattle not to | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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transfer the disease between themselves. Those against the plans | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
are not backing down. It looks like the fight for this animal is not | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
going away any time soon. In the last couple of minutes it has | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
been reported that Bradley Wiggins has been road out of the Tour de | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
France. People died of the Giro d'Italia with a chest infection | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
earlier in the month and Team Sky says he has been ruled out of the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Tour de France due to a knee injury. Mars, the next frontier of space | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
travel. But if travelling 250 million miles, through space debris | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
and solar flares wasn't tough enough, getting to the Red Planet | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
now comes with a serious health risk! NASA has released data from | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
their Curiosity rover's eight month journey to Mars. This shows | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
astronauts would be exposed to damaging doses of radiation which | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
could cause cancer, heart problems and memory loss. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
If the sun has got you thinking about a trip to the beach and dip in | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
the sea, listen up. Last year, more than 40 of our beaches failed to | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
meet the basic European standards for water quality, and the rules are | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
set to get tougher. So what might the impact be for some of our | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
seaside towns? If you're taking a stroll along the | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
beach, you might find the sea looks pretty inviting for a quick dip. But | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
the European Union are so worried about the quality of water on our | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
beaches they're introducing stricter controls. Last year, 42 beaches | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
across the UK failed to meet basic European water quality standards, | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
according to the Marine Conservation Society. Although things have | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
improved in the last 20 years, two beaches here in Blackpool failed to | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
meet basic hygiene standards. problem is bacteria. That gets into | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
the water. We get big problems when we have heavy rain. It hits our | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
towns and hits farmland and washes bacteria into the water. The EU want | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
to introduce a new system for rating beaches in 2015. This will rate | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
beaches excellent, good, sufficient, or poor. The worst beaches will have | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
signs telling people not to swim there. But some people are worried | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
that these ratings will have a knock-on effect on businesses in | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
towns like Blackpool, which depend on tourists visiting its beaches. If | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
I were to say to you that the water quality was not good, would it stop | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
you from swimming? It would be better. I would know it would be OK | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
for my daughter to go in. Despite many spots needing a clean-up, 90% | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
of the areas tested are safe for swimming. Just check with your | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
parents before you dive in. And adventurer Nick Hancock has | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
failed in an attempt to land on a tiny, rocky island and live there on | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
his own for 60 days. Nick, who was on Newsround two weeks ago, is | :04:51. | :04:54. |