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Wednesday live from Newsround HQ. Lots to get through. Including: : A | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
mega heatwave hits China. And is your cat more like Usain Bolt or Mo | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Farah? This is Newsround. First to the quiet village of Balcombe in | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
West Sussex where the boss of energy company Cuadrilla has said they plan | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
to start drilling in the next few days despite a seven-day protest | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
against it. The technique is called fracking. It happens underground and | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
could open up a whole new energy supply for the UK. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Deep below the surface leaking gas is trapped in small pockets of rock | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
called shale. By drilling into the rock and flushing down a mixture of | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
water and chemicals, gas is forced out and flushed along the drill | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
pipe, back to the surface to generate power. Some people say | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
fracking could supply a quarter of the UK's gas in the future but | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
others reckon the technique isn't safe. The people of Balcombe in West | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Sussex are protesting after energy company Cuadrilla wanted to start | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
drilling in the area, after carrying out tests on other sites in the UK | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
in 2011. This time they say they're looking for oil not gas but local | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
people aren't so sure. If they find resource, they will look to exploit | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
it and to do that they will use fracking. Most of the gas we use in | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
the UK is imported from overseas and the government say we could save | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
loads of money if we produce our own. If we become more | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
self-sufficient in gas, we will not have to rely on other countries. In | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
the US, because of mistakes, we have seen people 's water supply damaged, | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
people being able to set fire to their water tanks, and local | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
earthquakes. The gas released by fracking is cheap and cleaner than | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
coal and other gasses to burn. But others say renewable energy from | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
wind farms like this one is a safer and cleaner option, even if they | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
produce less power. With the demand for energy growing, new ways of | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
generating power needs to be found. Last week's heat wave may have had | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
many of you out in the garden or down at the beach soaking up the | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
sun. But figures suggest that many young people turn to sun-beds to get | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
that summer holiday look. In England and Wales you're not allowed to use | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
a sunbed unless you're 18 or over, but according to cancer Research UK | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
over a quarter of a million 11 to 17-year-olds use them. That's lead | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
to questions as to whether the laws are strict enough. A healthy glow, | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
an all year round tan or the skin kissed look. Call it what you want, | :02:58. | :03:07. | |
but looking tanned seems to be the look celebs are after. But some | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
people turn to sunbeds and they are not always safe. Some sunbed UV rays | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
are 15 times more powerful than the midday sun - and using sunbeds | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
doubles your chance of developing the most serious form of skin cancer | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
known as malignant melanoma. Donna began using sunbeds aged 12, for 12 | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
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minutes a day. Ten years later she must be supervised to make sure no | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
one under the age of 18 uses them. But in England that's not the case | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
and the Government is under pressure to change that. | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill has pulled out of the world athletics Championships | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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because she has been suffering from an ankle injury. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
It seems Team GB didn't just inspire a generation at last years London | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Olympics. They may have inspired a while new generations of pet | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
owners. A survey by the Co-operative pet insurance suggests that Mo and | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Bradley are now among some of the most popular cat names thought to be | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
inspired by the success of runner Mo Farah and Sir Bradley Wiggins. If | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
you reckon it's been hot here recently then spare a thought for | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
these guys in China. Record temperatures of up to 40 degrees | :04:50. | :04:53. |