31/07/2013 Newsround


31/07/2013

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Wednesday live from Newsround HQ. Lots to get through. Including: : A

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mega heatwave hits China. And is your cat more like Usain Bolt or Mo

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Farah? This is Newsround. First to the quiet village of Balcombe in

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West Sussex where the boss of energy company Cuadrilla has said they plan

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to start drilling in the next few days despite a seven-day protest

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against it. The technique is called fracking. It happens underground and

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could open up a whole new energy supply for the UK.

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Deep below the surface leaking gas is trapped in small pockets of rock

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called shale. By drilling into the rock and flushing down a mixture of

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water and chemicals, gas is forced out and flushed along the drill

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pipe, back to the surface to generate power. Some people say

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fracking could supply a quarter of the UK's gas in the future but

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others reckon the technique isn't safe. The people of Balcombe in West

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Sussex are protesting after energy company Cuadrilla wanted to start

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drilling in the area, after carrying out tests on other sites in the UK

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in 2011. This time they say they're looking for oil not gas but local

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people aren't so sure. If they find resource, they will look to exploit

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it and to do that they will use fracking. Most of the gas we use in

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the UK is imported from overseas and the government say we could save

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loads of money if we produce our own. If we become more

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self-sufficient in gas, we will not have to rely on other countries. In

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the US, because of mistakes, we have seen people 's water supply damaged,

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people being able to set fire to their water tanks, and local

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earthquakes. The gas released by fracking is cheap and cleaner than

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coal and other gasses to burn. But others say renewable energy from

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wind farms like this one is a safer and cleaner option, even if they

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produce less power. With the demand for energy growing, new ways of

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generating power needs to be found. Last week's heat wave may have had

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many of you out in the garden or down at the beach soaking up the

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sun. But figures suggest that many young people turn to sun-beds to get

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that summer holiday look. In England and Wales you're not allowed to use

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a sunbed unless you're 18 or over, but according to cancer Research UK

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over a quarter of a million 11 to 17-year-olds use them. That's lead

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to questions as to whether the laws are strict enough. A healthy glow,

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an all year round tan or the skin kissed look. Call it what you want,

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but looking tanned seems to be the look celebs are after. But some

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people turn to sunbeds and they are not always safe. Some sunbed UV rays

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are 15 times more powerful than the midday sun - and using sunbeds

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doubles your chance of developing the most serious form of skin cancer

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known as malignant melanoma. Donna began using sunbeds aged 12, for 12

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minutes a day. Ten years later she must be supervised to make sure no

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one under the age of 18 uses them. But in England that's not the case

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and the Government is under pressure to change that.

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Jessica Ennis-Hill has pulled out of the world athletics Championships

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because she has been suffering from an ankle injury.

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It seems Team GB didn't just inspire a generation at last years London

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Olympics. They may have inspired a while new generations of pet

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owners. A survey by the Co-operative pet insurance suggests that Mo and

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Bradley are now among some of the most popular cat names thought to be

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inspired by the success of runner Mo Farah and Sir Bradley Wiggins. If

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you reckon it's been hot here recently then spare a thought for

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these guys in China. Record temperatures of up to 40 degrees

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