0:00:12 > 0:00:16Hello again. There's been a big, new oil find under the North Sea.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20It's so big that it could produce 300,000 barrels of oil a day
0:00:20 > 0:00:23and there are 35 gallons in every barrel.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26This vast deposit of oil lies 75 miles
0:00:26 > 0:00:28north-east of the Shetland Islands,
0:00:28 > 0:00:33which themselves are about 160 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35The oil will be taken by pipeline to Shetland,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38but getting it out of the ocean will be a big problem.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40The sea there is 500 feet deep
0:00:40 > 0:00:42and when the drill reaches the bottom,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45it then has to get through 10,000 feet of rock
0:00:45 > 0:00:46to get to the oil.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52A drilling rig can cost between £40-£50 million
0:00:52 > 0:00:55and it'll be at least a year before anyone knows
0:00:55 > 0:00:59just how much oil there is in this latest undersea reservoir.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Another big snag is the weather.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07In this area of the North Sea, it's some of the worst in the world
0:01:07 > 0:01:11with constant gales and massive waves.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Once the oil does get to Shetland,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16it's going to change the way of life of the people who live
0:01:16 > 0:01:17in these remote islands.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Many Shetlanders feel that when the rich oil men move in
0:01:22 > 0:01:24the traditional industries of herring fishing,
0:01:24 > 0:01:27knitting and farming will be threatened.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31This is because the oil companies will be able to pay higher wages.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34But other people say the changes will all be for the better
0:01:34 > 0:01:37because they'll give the islands more prosperity.
0:01:37 > 0:01:38One thing is certain,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41the oil that comes through Shetland in a few years' time will mean that
0:01:41 > 0:01:46Britain won't have to rely completely on oil from the Middle East
0:01:46 > 0:01:50and shortages, like the one we've got at the moment, might be avoided.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55In Yugoslavia, two young, British plane spotters have been
0:01:55 > 0:01:58sentenced to four years each in prison for spying.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Roger Curtis, from London,
0:02:00 > 0:02:03was on holiday in Yugoslavia with his friend, Paul Mason, when
0:02:03 > 0:02:07they were arrested at Mostar Airport for spying on military aircraft.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10They both said that the plane spotting was their hobby
0:02:10 > 0:02:13and quite harmless but the police didn't believe them.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16This afternoon, I asked Paul's mother, Mrs Marjorie Mason,
0:02:16 > 0:02:18if she thought it possible they were spies.
0:02:18 > 0:02:23He's been a plane spotter since I bought him his binoculars
0:02:23 > 0:02:26as an O-level present.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30There's no...no reason at all to think that they're spies.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33They don't have the time, or anything,
0:02:33 > 0:02:36they're just interested in aeroplanes.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Now you've just heard that both Paul and his friend
0:02:38 > 0:02:43are going to have to serve four years in jail in Yugoslavia.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45How do you feel now?
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Well...
0:02:48 > 0:02:51The quickest way to get them out is...
0:02:51 > 0:02:56We shall work as hard as we can to get them out now
0:02:56 > 0:02:59because they must be made to understand
0:02:59 > 0:03:01that our way of life is different from theirs
0:03:01 > 0:03:06and these boys are not spies.
0:03:06 > 0:03:07There's no harm in them at all.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12The magazine Which? that examines all kinds of things for sale
0:03:12 > 0:03:14has been looking at craft kits which might appeal
0:03:14 > 0:03:16to people from 11 upwards
0:03:16 > 0:03:19and it thinks that three of them could be very dangerous.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24The first is the Dip-It Fantasy Film.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26It's a kit for colouring wire shapes
0:03:26 > 0:03:30and Which? says the colouring liquid stained clothes and hands
0:03:30 > 0:03:34and gives off a vapour which could make you feel very ill.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38It's also highly inflammable, but the tin does carry a warning
0:03:38 > 0:03:41saying that children using the kit should be supervised.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44The enamel craft kit could also catch fire
0:03:44 > 0:03:48and, says the magazine, the hardener could irritate the skin
0:03:48 > 0:03:51and it's impossible to get off clothes once it's hardened.
0:03:51 > 0:03:56And the red and the yellow paint contain lead, which is poisonous.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59The maker said that the colours had now been changed, but Which? said
0:03:59 > 0:04:04there was a lot of lead in the kit they bought only two months ago.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07The most dangerous kit, according to Which?, was this one -
0:04:07 > 0:04:09the enamel air kit.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12It has a little kiln with what looks like a handle
0:04:12 > 0:04:14where the flex comes out.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18This gets very hot and it could burn a child badly.
0:04:18 > 0:04:23And the yellow and green paints had a lot of lead and arsenic in them,
0:04:23 > 0:04:25which are both dangerous.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27The makers say that they've never had any complaints
0:04:27 > 0:04:30about children being burned or poisoned
0:04:30 > 0:04:33but Which? says that they think children shouldn't use
0:04:33 > 0:04:35this kit at all.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39On New Year's day, two men and one girl are going to set out
0:04:39 > 0:04:43for an epic round-the-world journey, rowing all the way.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Derek King, Peter Bird and Carol Maystone are using
0:04:46 > 0:04:49the Britannia II, the same boat that John Fairfax
0:04:49 > 0:04:54and Sylvia Cook used two years ago when they rowed across the Pacific.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57It's 35 feet long with plenty of room to lie down,
0:04:57 > 0:04:59but little shelter from rough weather.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03The round-the-world journey is 24,000 miles and it'll take them
0:05:03 > 0:05:04about two-and-a-half years.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07They leave Gibraltar on the 1st January,
0:05:07 > 0:05:09go across the Atlantic and through the Panama Canal,
0:05:09 > 0:05:13then across the Pacific, past Australia and over the Indian Ocean.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16They hope to be allowed through the Suez Canal.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18It's blocked by large ships at the moment,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21but they hope a rowing boat will get through.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Then up the Mediterranean and back to Gibraltar.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Today, the three rowers were trying out their boat
0:05:26 > 0:05:28on the Thames in London.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Their leader Derek King has done one long distance row before,
0:05:31 > 0:05:33single-handed around Ireland.
0:05:33 > 0:05:38The others haven't but Carol says she will row on equal terms with the men.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44One of the biggest problems we're all facing these days is what to do
0:05:44 > 0:05:47with the growing mountains of rubbish we throw away
0:05:47 > 0:05:50as life gets richer and more wrapped up.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Plastic wrappings are the biggest problem
0:05:53 > 0:05:55and, unlike paper and cardboard,
0:05:55 > 0:05:57plastic won't rot away with the weather.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00But scientists in Japan may have found a solution.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02David Smeaton reports for Newsround.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05For years now, scientists have been trying to find a plastic
0:06:05 > 0:06:09that's non-poisonous and can be easily destroyed.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Now a firm in Japan says it's done just that.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16They've produced a new material called Pullulan.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20It's made in a laboratory by growing yeast together with starch,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23that you get from corn or potatoes,
0:06:23 > 0:06:25or by mixing with products from dates.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27The result is this powder.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31If you mix water with Pullulan,
0:06:31 > 0:06:36you can use it to press out solid plastic shapes.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39It can also be used to make a very strong glue
0:06:39 > 0:06:42and another way you can use this new starch plastic,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44you can draw it out into fibres.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47So there's a prospect perhaps even of clothes from it.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51You can also use it to make what we all recognise,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55the normal flimsy plastic for wrapping things up.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Well, the next point is, how do you get rid of it?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Easily.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- No harm.- No harm.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04What other things have you made from this?
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Well, we have made bread and rolls and cookies and biscuits with it.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13There you have it, a new plastic, made from starch that you can eat,
0:07:13 > 0:07:16that's non-poisonous and can be easily got rid of.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19If it can be made cheaply in commercial quantities,
0:07:19 > 0:07:23it could work a revolution in our lives and our homes.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25You never know, there may come a day
0:07:25 > 0:07:29when we don't have to take the sandwich out of the wrapper
0:07:29 > 0:07:30before we eat it.
0:07:32 > 0:07:33Mmm...
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Farmers in the north of Scotland
0:07:37 > 0:07:40are being taught new ways of rounding up their cattle.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41At a special one-day course,
0:07:41 > 0:07:45they're learning how to lasso cows Wild West style.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47The farmers are shown how to make a lasso
0:07:47 > 0:07:51and tie the special knots, but they're also getting real practical
0:07:51 > 0:07:53experience in the art of steer roping.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00The cows they are learning on are friendly enough,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03but many of the cows that roam the Scottish Highlands are almost wild.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Highland cattle don't see people very often
0:08:05 > 0:08:07and they don't like coming down to the farms
0:08:07 > 0:08:10and, when they need special medical treatment,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13the farmers and vets have to go out to them
0:08:13 > 0:08:15but the cattle have still got to be caught
0:08:15 > 0:08:18and farmers think that roping them, cowboy fashion,
0:08:18 > 0:08:19might be the answer.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21That's all from us for now.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24We'll be back with Newsround again next Tuesday. Bye-bye.