12/08/2014 Newsround

Good morning, Ricky here with the incredible tale of the schoolboy

the high-speed lawnmowers in a race with a difference,

and we meet the kids on the search for bumblebees.

Let's start then with the amazing story of the nine-year-old who

Around 100 kids each year are born without one or both of their ears,

but now doctors in London have come up with a new way to help them.

It involves making new ears out of other parts of the body,

and schoolboy Kieran is one of those who's had the operation.

When Kieran was born, his ear canal hadn't formed,

Doctors helped him to hear by wiring a hearing aid directly

But Kieran really wanted to have two ears.

Every time I look at them, I say in my head, "I want ears

Then came a letter from Great Ormond Street Hospital

in London, which said he was going to get his wish - new ears.

I'm going to keep this part, but they're just going to make

I might have, like, big elf ears, or elephant ears!

Kieran and his parents went to the famous

Children's Hospital, where surgeons explained how the operation worked.

So, Kieran, we're going to take the gristle from your chest

when you're completely asleep, and I'm going to carve a framework

in the shape of an ear and place it in a pocket under the skin.

Doctors use the shape of Kieran's mother's ears to help create

Kieran was soon taken through for his operation, where surgeons went

about carefully making and attaching his brand-new ears to his head.

Hey, Kieran, look what I've got, I've got a mirror.

You can have a really good look at your ears now.

Kieran's dad says the surgery and the wait to get Kieran's new

He's already a pretty confident chap,

he's very cool about his condition, and this will now mean the only

thing he has to deal with is his deafness, and that's already readily

Now he can just be a normal kid that wants to muck around.

Next to the question of whether it's right to stop prisoners

The European Court of Human Rights will decide this morning on

whether to award compensation to UK prisoners who've complained about

They say their rights were breached when they

weren't allowed to take part in European elections five years ago.

Next to a science experiment on a massive scale,

as children from all over the UK are being asked to spot bumblebees.

The Big Bumblebee Project aims to explore why bee populations have

You're being asked to identify different species and send

I caught up with some of the kids taking part

in the study and Dr Helen Roy, who told me why bees are so important.

We are taking lots of pictures of them, and then put the picture onto

the blog and write a message and send it. All of these bees that we

are seeing here, and some hopper flies as well, are really important

in pollination, carrying the pollen from one flower to another, and that

is important to food production and wild flowers, as well.

There's more on this on the Newsround website, and you can

see my full report with those guys back here at 8.55 this morning.

The Girl Guides have unveiled their brand new uniform today, the first

The new range means members will have a choice

of tops to wear with trousers, skirts, or shorts, as well as

Five young fashion designers spent a year talking to Guides before

Sport, and some of Team GB's biggest stars are gearing up for the

European Athletics Championships which start this morning.

Mo Farah will be going for double gold but has been explaining

the full reasons why he missed the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

The Olympic champion's revealed he was forced to pull out

after collapsing during a pre-Games training run.

Because it is so much pain from my stomach, and called an ambulance,

the ambulance sent with the hospital, and I had to be airlifted

to the main hospital, they thought there was something going on with my

heart. It was crazy, I was in hospital for four days. It was scary

at the time but, for me, I would love to come back and continue the

road to the Commonwealth Games which I ended. I didn't want to disappoint

by fans, a lot of people bought tickets, but at the same time I

wasn't ready, was nowhere near ready.

And finally to a sporting event with a difference ?

Over 30 teams battled through the night in the 12-hour endurance race

It's a bit different from what you might have seen

The winning team managed to complete 366 laps of the circuit.

Newsround's back right here at 8.55am.