:00:17. > :00:25.Hi there, news fans. We have a show bursting at the seams coming your
:00:25. > :00:29.way. That is how I feel after my steak and mushroom pie. Sonali and
:00:29. > :00:34.Ore with you tonight with Newsround. Here are just a couple of things we
:00:34. > :00:38.have in store for you. We are searching for wildlife after the
:00:38. > :00:43.devastating fires in Dorset. the boat launch that blew everyone
:00:43. > :00:46.away! First up, we're talking horseracing.
:00:46. > :00:50.The world-famous Royal Ascot races are on this week - which means
:00:50. > :00:56.300,000 people getting all dressed up to for a day or two of fun at
:00:56. > :00:59.the races. But there's a serious side to it all too. The people who
:00:59. > :01:05.run racing have started a big debate about whether jockeys should
:01:05. > :01:08.be allowed to whip horses to make them go faster.
:01:09. > :01:11.This was Ballabriggs charging to victory in one of the most famous
:01:12. > :01:15.races in the world, The Grand National, back in April. If you
:01:15. > :01:18.look closely, you can see the rider using his whip to spur the horse on.
:01:18. > :01:21.After the race, officials told jockey Jason Maguire he'd used the
:01:21. > :01:26.whip too much. He stayed champion, but he was fined and banned from
:01:26. > :01:30.riding for five days. Racing rules say that riders can
:01:30. > :01:33.use whips to steer a horse out of danger or to encourage them to go
:01:33. > :01:37.faster. Lots of racing fans think this is fair, but some people
:01:37. > :01:42.reckon using a whip to make a horse run is wrong. And they're choosing
:01:42. > :01:46.to stay away from racing. believe a large proportion of
:01:46. > :01:48.people are not coming because of their view that the use of the whip
:01:49. > :01:58.is cruel. People at Towcester racecourse in Northamptonshire were
:01:59. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:02.asked what they thought. No, it doesn't bother me. If they are good
:02:02. > :02:06.enough, they don't need a whipping. The don't with the horses, that is
:02:06. > :02:09.mean. The British Horse Racing Authority, which makes the rules of
:02:09. > :02:12.the sport, says that whips are designed with padded tops so they
:02:12. > :02:15.don't hurt the horses and insists that in some cases, they have to be
:02:15. > :02:18.used to keep the animals safe during races. But they are now
:02:18. > :02:23.looking at how whips should be used and deciding whether jockeys who
:02:23. > :02:26.abuse the whip should face bigger punishments.
:02:26. > :02:30.It looks like some of you could be getting an extra day off school at
:02:30. > :02:35.the end of the month. Some teachers in England and Wales say they won't
:02:35. > :02:37.be working on Thursday 30th June because they're going on strike.
:02:38. > :02:40.They're upset at changes the government wants to make to their
:02:40. > :02:43.pensions - that's the money they get when they retire. Teachers
:02:43. > :02:48.unions reckon they'll be worse off, but politicians say walking out is
:02:48. > :02:58.wrong because it affects your education. Talks are going on to
:02:58. > :02:58.
:02:58. > :03:08.try to stop the strike happening. Thousands of kids across the UK
:03:08. > :03:11.
:03:12. > :03:15.tried to break a world record today. They were trying to break the
:03:15. > :03:18.record for the biggest walking bus. There was a serious message behind
:03:18. > :03:22.it all. They want cars to slow down outside their schools. More than
:03:22. > :03:26.1,000 kids are hurt on roads every year - something these guys want to
:03:26. > :03:30.change. Drivers are reaching their limits with speed and they cannot
:03:30. > :03:36.see the children who are crossing. They parkin illegal places, like
:03:36. > :03:40.the zig-zag lines and they go across the speed limit. If you go
:03:40. > :03:46.too fast and you don't look, they could come very fast and not notice
:03:47. > :03:50.you. People need to note that you have to slowdown near schools,
:03:50. > :03:55.because it is a look -- public place and there are lots of little
:03:55. > :04:00.children. People have to look because they might run someone over
:04:00. > :04:04.if they are going too fast. Last week, we told you about one of the
:04:04. > :04:07.biggest heath fires to hit Dorset. The area is home to a wide range of
:04:07. > :04:10.wildlife, so the blaze ended up killing thousands of animals and
:04:10. > :04:13.destroying their natural habitat. Now the race is on to help save the
:04:13. > :04:17.ones that survived. Ricky's spent the day at the scene of the fire to
:04:17. > :04:20.find out more. A wall of fire sweeps across the
:04:20. > :04:22.Upton Heath nature reserve, burning everything in its path. Hundreds of
:04:22. > :04:26.firefighters battled to stop the flames from reaching nearby homes.
:04:26. > :04:36.But it was too late for the animals who live right here. The sheer
:04:36. > :04:45.scale of the fires shocked everyone. I saw flames start in there, and
:04:45. > :04:48.five minutes later they had stretched to that stop over there.
:04:48. > :04:53.That's because this is one of most important wildlife sites in England.
:04:53. > :04:57.And a third of it has been devastated by the fires. You can
:04:57. > :05:00.still smell burning and the ground is black. They came at a critical
:05:00. > :05:03.time for wildlife as birds were nesting and reptiles breeding. The
:05:03. > :05:13.Dorset Wildlife Trust have asked volunteers to come forward and help
:05:13. > :05:16.
:05:16. > :05:21.rescue the animals. How devastating has the fire been to the wildlife
:05:21. > :05:26.here? It has gone back 20 years. Thousands of animals have died, and
:05:26. > :05:32.since then a lot of the Habitat has gone, the trees and bushes, they
:05:33. > :05:36.have disappeared. Now it is time to release the reptiles which have
:05:36. > :05:39.been found so far. Hundreds of volunteers turned up to help with
:05:39. > :05:44.the search, and they are expecting even more people over the next
:05:44. > :05:49.couple of days. We will be out here every day trying to find stuff.
:05:49. > :05:54.will take a while to grow back, so we will do what we can and move
:05:54. > :05:57.them back. This little Sand Lizard is back on safe land about to start
:05:57. > :06:07.a new life. Volunteers are hoping to rescue even more over the next
:06:07. > :06:10.Now if you're showing off a brand new racing boat to the world's
:06:10. > :06:13.media, you'd probably want to focus on how fast it is, how cool it
:06:13. > :06:17.looks. And this one in San Francisco certainly did make a big
:06:17. > :06:19.splash, just not for the right reason. After just a few minutes in
:06:19. > :06:22.the water, one crew in one of yachting's biggest racing events,
:06:22. > :06:30.the America's Cup, had a bit of a disaster when their catarmaran
:06:30. > :06:35.capsized. None of the crew were hurt, just a bit embarrassed.
:06:35. > :06:39.It won't be the last capsize, and it won't be the first. That is
:06:39. > :06:44.always going to be part of this game and, frankly, we should have
:06:44. > :06:47.avoided it. It is a mistake, and if you make a mistake, you pay the
:06:47. > :06:50.price. Talking of boats, check out this one made from plastic milk
:06:50. > :06:56.bottle tops! A man from Cambridgeshire took three years to
:06:56. > :07:00.collect the 10,000 lids he needed. A lot of melting and moulding in
:07:00. > :07:06.his back garden later, he had had a boat fit for a charity row down the
:07:06. > :07:11.River Cam. And he did not capsize. Nice
:07:11. > :07:14.technique. British ladybirds are being wiped
:07:14. > :07:17.out by an invasion of a foreign rival. That's what wildlife experts
:07:17. > :07:21.told us today. The numbers of about ten types of ladybirds have been
:07:21. > :07:24.going down over the past 20 years. They include the ones you might see
:07:24. > :07:27.in your garden, with ten or 14 spots on them. Scientists reckon
:07:27. > :07:37.it's down to the Asian Harlequin ladybird, which compete for their
:07:37. > :07:38.
:07:38. > :07:41.food and sometimes even eat British Before we go, we want your opinion.
:07:41. > :07:44.We've heard that one in six primary school kids are put into different
:07:44. > :07:48.sets depending on how well you learn. We want to know what you
:07:48. > :07:52.think about this. Does it happen at your school? Are you in a high