02/08/2014 Newsround


02/08/2014

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Hi, I'm Jenny, live from the Newsround studios,

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with all the news you need to know this Saturday morning.

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First, let's catch up on all the action from

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the Commonwealth Games, last night.

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Glasgow finally got their first glimpse of

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the fastest man in the world doing what he does best, as Usain Bolt and

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his Jamacian team mates coasted in to the 4 by 100m relay final.

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Splash star, Tom Daley, and his diving partner, James Denny, smashed

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their final dive to secure silver in the men's synchronised 10m platform.

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And Scotland's Lynsey Sharp was roared home, by the Hampden Park

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crowd, as she grabbed silver in the 800m final, just hours

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after being treated for sickness.

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Next, Monday marks 100 years since the start of Britain's

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involvement in World War One.

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Lots of the fighting happened in France and Belgium,

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where deep trenches were built for the troops to live in.

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Ricky's been to look at a trench in Belgium to find out what life

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was like for people living there during the war.

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This is a typical trench.

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And obviously, it is not just somewhere they fought, they actually

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ate here, they slept here, they did an awful lot of other things.

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Talk us through what happened in the trenches.

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It would be your normal, daily experience, but all in one place,

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in one location, with the added danger of the German shooting.

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You had to do everything here.

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There was no going anywhere else, unless you were wounded.

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You would eat here, as best you could.

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They might have such things as little cookers like this.

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Really, this is as luxurious as it gets, in this kind of trench.

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What kind of things would they have eaten?

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You get a variety of tinned food.

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Some of them were notorious, and some

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of them were actually very tasty.

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Some of them were so bad that they helped to strengthen the trenches,

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because nobody would eat them.

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For sleeping, if the ground was wet, you just had to do the best you can.

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It was quite a harsh existence.

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Especially in winter, when it was cold and damp.

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Certainly in trenches, that is where we find the development

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of what we call trench foot.

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This is a condition where your feet are permanently wet, all the time,

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and you can never dry them out.

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Your feet actually start to rot.

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The officer would come around adding respectively men's

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featured every day.

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He would make sure they were OK.

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Other things, like going to the toilet, you are not moving anywhere.

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How do you go to the toilet, without a toilet?

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Wonderful things called buckets.

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Buckets!

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So no privacy really.

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No, none at all.

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How did they get rid of the waste?

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At night, the bucket would be emptied.

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They would throw what ever was in the bucket,

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towards the German lines!

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Or, if someone was using the toilet and they really had to go

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there, then onto a shovel, and throw the contents

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as far away from your trench towards the Germans as you could.

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That's all from me, Newsround's back just before 12.

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