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Hello, you're live with Newsround just after 5.00pm. Taking you

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through to the Easter weekend. You've got Leah and Ore keeping you

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up to date today. Coming up: There'll be no baby pandas for

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Britain this year. And, forget carrying around a phone, now all

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you need is a pair of digital glasses.

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First, the weather. Britain has been hit with snow and rain in the

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past week - but believe it or not the county is also in the middle of

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a big water shortage. Twenty million people in England

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are being told they aren't allowed to use their hoses because there's

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just not enough water around. I've been digging up the details.

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Digging! If you live in the north you don't

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need me to tell you it's been freezing. This week, loads of snow

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has fallen and it's left over 1,000 homes without electricity. Power

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cables were brought down by the weather. In the south, though, it's

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a totally different story. Believe it or not, the last two-

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year period has been one of the driest on record and in some places

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it's officially being called a drought.

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If you live in these areas, the Government says you have got to be

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smarter about how you use your water and that means using a hose

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to water the garden, wash your car or even fill up your paddling pool,

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is out. Anyone caught could have to pay �1,000 punishment.

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How come this is happening when there's been so much rain and snow?

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At the moment we have dry conditions in the south. We have

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had a quarter less rain than you normally expect. In the north and

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west we have had more rain. The reason for that, most of the

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weather comes from the west over the Atlantic Ocean, it's very wet,

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it's very moist and so if you live on the west you get more rain. But

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if you live on the east that air that weather has travelled over

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land, so it's drier, therefore you get less rain.

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What's got a lot of people angry is the amount of water wasted by

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leaking pipes. Around 3 billion litres of water are lost every day,

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that's the equivalent of 1,300 Olympic-sized swimming pools. But

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water companies say they are working hard to to fix them. Big

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sports events have been let off the hosepipe ban. The people organising

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the Olympics will be able to water the grass at all the different

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venues. But for all you guys living in the areas hit, chances are you

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won't be able to use your hose all summer.

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OK. Sad news if you're fans of Sweety and Sunshine, as time has

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run out for the world's most famous panda duo at Edinburgh Zoo. Female

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pandas can only breed for 36 hours a year so the last two days have

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been really important. Months of planning went into it and one very

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secret weapon, as Joe's been finding out Oh well, maybe next

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year. In this box is a panda breeding

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secret weapon. The precious cargo has travelled more than 200 miles,

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and now it's being taken to the lab for special top secret analysis. So,

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this is it. The sample. Yeah. What's inside here? There we go.

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Where is it? That's it. OK. Ever since Edinburgh zoo's famous pandas

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arrived last year keepers have been preparing for them to breed. But

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it's notoriously difficult to get pandas to have babies as they can

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only breed for about 36 hours every year. Keepers have been waiting for

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them to be ready to get pregnant and the clues to when this will be

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are in her we,. That's where scientists at this laboratory come

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in. They are animal poo and wee experts and have been examining the

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wee for months. How many samples like this have you received from

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Scotland? We have had 122. This is just a few of them. It's about a

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coke bottle's full which isn't that much. One the samples are tested,

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the results are plotted on this graph to predict when the pandas

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should be put together. The lines are two different chemicals in the

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body and we are looking for when they cross over one another. You

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have this pattern here. Breeding pandas in captivity is rare, maybe

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one in every ten years, so there's lots of people involved to get it

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right. Why does it have to be so precise? Why can't we put them

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together? The pandas can be aggressive and we need to put them

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in together at the right time. There is always next year. Best of

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luck to you. Now to the coolest pair of glasses

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on the planet! They look pretty normal right? But that's where

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you'd be mistaken. Because these specs can check the weather, access

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maps, search the internet, take photos and even start video chats!

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You won't find them in the shops yet but the creators, Google, says

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users can control the glasses with their voice.

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Interesting, cool, isn't it. Yesterday was our big 40th birthday.

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It was. To celebrate, we've been looking back at what's happened in

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each decade since Newsround started. Today, Hayley revisits the decade

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which gave us smartphones, Harry Today I am rewinding the clock back

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to the year 200, that's why I am in front of this landmark that was

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built specifically to celebrate the new millennium. Our top stories...

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This was what Newsround looked like ten years ago, the decade of the

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gadget. They changed how we watch TV, listen to music, play games and

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kept in touch. Phones went from looking like this, to like this.

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And forget having a games console, computer TV and mobile, just one

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gadget could do all that and more. As far as films, it was all about

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one waving wizard and Newsround was there right from the start. Only

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one TV programme, ours, was allowed on to the movie set for a series of

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world exclusive interviews. I found out that you could audition by

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sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.

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Harry Potter hit the cinemas in 2001, the series was soon to become

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the most successful in film history. One of the big stories we covered

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was the death of the Queen's mum. In April April 2002, at the age of

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101 the Queen mum died and the nation went into mourning. She had

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lived for more than a century and survived two world wars. When her

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husband, King George VI, died in 1952, her daughter Elizabeth became

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Queen. Before the funeral Prince Harry and Prince William joined a

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procession behind the coffin. Schools around the country joined

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in a two-minute silence to show their respects. Not everyone in

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Britain agrees about whether the Royal Family is a good thing, but

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the death of the Queen Mother united the country.

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Not everything that made it on to Newsround this century was quite so

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important, though. I will leave you with a taster of some of the

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stories that probably didn't make headlines anywhere else.

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They've rather unusual rubbish collectors in Sicily. Donkeys. Six

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of the animals have replaced trucks there to save money and help the

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environment. In other news, a runaway cow has caused chaos in a

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German city, she broke out of the farm on went on the rampage,

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causing �17,000 worth of damage. Every night this week we will be

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looking back at what else has changed since we have been on air.

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So tune in on CBBC. Definitely do that. If you miss

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Hayley's full report you can check it on the website. While you're

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there, check out our guide to why we eat chocolate eggs at Easter.

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