02/09/2016 Newsround


02/09/2016

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Morning, guys, Naz here with Friday's Newsround.

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A huge hurricane has landed in Florida in the last

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It's the first one to hit Florida in 11 years.

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Hurricane Hermeen is really big and people who live

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there are staying indoors, putting up shutters

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The biggest worries are high winds, heavy rain and flooding.

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350 years ago today the Great Fire of London started.

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It was a four-day blaze, which swept through Britain's

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capital, destroying large parts of it.

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To mark the anniversary, a model replica of London will be burned,

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But what exactly happened and how did it change

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Charles II would have been your monarch.

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This is what you would have been wearing.

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Your house would probably have been made out of wood.

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There was no fire brigade, and chances are someone

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you know had had a deadly disease called the Plague.

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Then on the 2nd of September, life like this changed for ever.

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A spark from a baker's oven on Pudding Lane lit a fire,

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and the combination of strong wind, closely built homes and a warm

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summer meant it quickly roared through the streets of London,

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Eight out of every ten buildings were destroyed,

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including 13,000 houses and 87 churches.

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Six people were reported to have died and more than 70,000

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But the catastrophe also meant a new beginning.

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It cleared the way for a brand-new city with better, cleaner buildings,

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made out of stone, and the first organised fire service.

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The Great Fire marked the end of medieval London and the start

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Next - there's just a few days until the Paralympic Games kick

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One event making its debut at the Games is Para-triathlon

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where athletes take part in three different sports - swimming,

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George Peasgood will be the youngest para-triathlete representing

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Paralympics GB and he's been speaking to Newsround.

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Being part of Paralympics GB is absolutely amazing and I didn't

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Now I understand when people say they're kind of speechless

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about being either an Olympian or a Paralympian.

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So what really grabbed me was just kind of the interaction

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So I competed out of enjoyment when I was a junior.

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I went to the tri club for fun, just to meet friends and I just

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really enjoyed the actual training side of it,

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I had an accident when I was two years old and so it has really

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affected my muscle growth and my ankle mobility.

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For the swimming, it means that my kick is very minimal.

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For the bike, it's just means I've got less power

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And then for running, I just can't really stride out

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Being so much younger than quite a lot of the competitors,

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I'm going out there mainly to gain experience.

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Tokyo or even 2024 is going to be where I am going to be more peaking

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So, yeah, I'm really just going out to Rio to enjoy it a bit more

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If there's anything that you want to do,

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There's no reason why you can't do it, and Paralympics

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and the Paralympic movement from London really inspired me

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to put myself on the same sort of level as able-bodied people.

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So I live and train with the able-bodied squad

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here in Loughborough, and there isn't really a reason

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why I can't do that, and there shouldn't be one.

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I never want to say, what if I did something.

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So I have taken every opportunity I have had to really go out

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and do something and try and make a difference,

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and try and inspire people, which I never thought I be able

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to do, but people told me I've been an inspiration to them and that's

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Andy Murray is through to the final after he beat his opponent.

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Now it's been an epic summer, right?!

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Wales' success at Euro2016, a record-level heat wave,

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and how can we forget TeamGB's glory at Rio?

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But it's all coming to an end, and for many of you,

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But here at Newsround HQ we don't want to let the summer go yet!

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Get online quick - we want to know what's

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been YOUR summer best bit - send us a photo or video of the most

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amazing or unusual thing you did this summer.

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That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.

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