04/04/2014 Newsround


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This is Newsround. It's Friday the 4th of April. I'm Ricky. Coming up

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in the next five minutes: Scientists think that an icy moon in the rings

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of Saturn is a likely candidate for supporting life.

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And, could we be back on Panda watch soon? Edinburgh's two giant pandas

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could be ready to mate once again. First: It connects together most of

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the south west of England. But, for the past two months, the railway

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line in Dawlish has looked more like a broken roller-coaster. After it

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was destroyed in January's winter storms, the people living in large

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parts of Cornwall and Devon have had to find other ways of getting

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around. But, today, the line reopens, and Ayshah is there for us.

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Here's Nel with a reminder of what happened. For 150 years, this rail

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line has survived but ever the sea has thrown at it. The winter storms

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proved too much and in February waves punched a huge hole in the

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line leaving the tracks suspended in mid air. The waves have taken away

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the ground work that used to be under the track, leaving the famous

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railway track hanging there. Since then, Network Rail has spent ?50

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million repairing it. The operation has been enormous, involving

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hundreds of engineers working 24 hours a day for eight weeks. They

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have been known as the Orange army dressed in their fluorescent gear.

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It is clear as to why so much work has gone into repairs. It is the

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mainland -- mainline and has cost the economy ?2 million a day. As the

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holidays begin, large parts of the South West are now open for

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business. She's the author who inspired CBBC's

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Tracy Beaker and the Dumping Ground. And, later this year, Jacqueline

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Wilson will release her 100th book. Tomorrow, an exhibition opens at the

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V Museum of Childhood to celebrate the former children's laureate. It

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features a recreation of Jacqueline's childhood bedroom. And

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she told the BBC how different life was like back when she was growing

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up. We didn't even have a television in

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our living room until I was about nine. No, children didn't have

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anything then. They had books and I loved my books. It is strange,

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sitting here, and seeing a bed very much like the one I had. The exact

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paintings I had on the wall. It is what everybody thinks about,

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returning home to your childhood. Space time, and Saturn's icy moon,

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known as Enceladus, could be home to life, according to Nasa scientists.

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They've been looking at new data that's come back from the Cassini

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probe, shooting through the solar system, scouting for signs of life.

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It found evidence that suggests a huge volume of water underneath the

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ice on the moon, which supports the idea that the frozen world could be

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one of the most likely places in our solar system to support life. The

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next step is to see whether we could get a spacecraft to go and have an

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even closer look. Check out these pictures of a

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satellite that was launched yesterday as part of a European

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project to gather more images of Earth. The Sentinel-1A spacecraft is

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the first of a number of satellites being launched to gather more

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information about our planet. It's hoped this long-term programme will

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help scientists keep track of changes to the Earth's environment,

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and better understand the human impact on it.

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Tennis. And Andy Murray is in action later today, when Great Britain

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takes on Italy in the Davis Cup quarterfinals. The Scot spent most

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of yesterday in bed with a virus, but did manage to train for 50

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minutes last night. Team-mate James Ward is up against Fabio Fognini in

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the first match this morning. We could soon be back on panda

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watch. Edinburgh Zoo's two giant pandas could be ready to mate within

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the next week or two, according to their keepers. Tian Tian and Yang

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Guang arrived in Scotland last year, on loan from China. After a lot of

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waiting around, there was nothing. Pandas are famous for not being good

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at breeding. The zoo is hopeful that there'll be more success this time

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around. The trailer for the Shaun The Sheep

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movie has been released by its makers, Aardman, who also do Wallace

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and Gromit. The movie follows the sheep as he swaps the farm, and

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heads to the city for a new adventure. It hits cinemas around

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the world in about a year. But you can see the trailer on the Newsround

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website right now.

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