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