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transfers. Make sure you join us tomorrow. We will show you what it

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is like to be a commentator. Good morning to you this Friday.

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Ricky here, from Newsround HQ, with loads of stories for you. Coming up:

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could we be back on Panda watch soon?

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Edinburgh's two giant pandas could be ready to mate once again.

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First: It connects together most of the south west of England. But, for

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the past two months, the railway line in Dawlish has looked more like

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a broken roller-coaster. After it was destroyed in January's winter

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storms, the people living in large parts of Cornwall and Devon have had

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to find other ways of getting around. But, today, the line

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reopens, and Ayshah is there for us. Ayshah, what's the mood like in the

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town? Two trains have come roaring past!

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It is back to business as usual. The town is excited, they have the

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bunting up. People have been with their mobile phones taking pictures

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of the trains going past. For 150 years, this rail line, which

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connects large parts of the south west, has survived whatever the sea

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has thrown at it. But this winter's storms proved too much. And, in

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February waves punched a huge hole in the Dawlish line, leaving the

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track suspended in mid-air like a broken roller-coaster. Since then,

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Network Rail has spent about ?55 million to repair it.

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It must have been a huge operation, to fix those tracks?

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Engineers have working around the clock, working 24 hours a day, for

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eight weeks. To locals, they've been known as the orange army, dressed in

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their florescent gear. But it was hugely important to get this fixed

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as quickly as possible. Having that line closed off was costing the

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country a lot of money. Having it closed is thought to have cost the

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country's economy ?2 million a day. But now, just as the busy time of

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the Easter holidays begin, the railway here and large parts of the

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south west are now open for business once again.

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She's the author who inspired CBBC's Tracy Beaker and the Dumping Ground.

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And, later this year, Jacqueline Wilson will release her 100th book.

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Tomorrow, an exhibition opens at the V Museum of Childhood to celebrate

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the former children's laureate. It features a recreation of

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Jacqueline's childhood bedroom. And she told the BBC how different life

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was like back when she was growing up.

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We didn't even have a television in our living room until I was about

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nine. No, children didn't have anything then. They had books and I

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loved my books. It is strange, sitting here, and seeing a bed very

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much like the one I had. The exact paintings I had on the wall. It is

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what everybody thinks about, returning home to your childhood.

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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. And the Italian crowd will be behind

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his opponent. Space news. And check out these

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pictures of a satellite that was launched yesterday as part of a

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

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spacecraft is the first of a number of satellites being launched to

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gather more information about our planet. -- Saturn's icy moon, known

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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.

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We could soon be back on panda watch. Edinburgh Zoo's two giant

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pandas could be ready to mate within the next week or two, according to

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their keepers. Tian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in Scotland last year,

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on loan from China. And everyone got very excited at the possibility of

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baby pandas on the way. After a lot of waiting around,

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baby pandas on the way. After a lot nothing. Pandas are famous for not

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being good at breeding. 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. While you're there, you need to see our guide to

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when road markings go very, very wrong. And, a story about the cat

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that got stuck down the back of a sofa, in a shop, for five days.

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

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