15/08/2011 Newsround


15/08/2011

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Hello, everyone. Leah and Ricky steering you through Newsround this

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Monday. We've been sorting through today's big stories and we've

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picked the ones we know matter to you. Coming up... Hayley's

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practicing her steps in the next of her summer holiday series. And if

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these people are going on holiday, they're not getting very far! But

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first, it's not very often we can say these words. England are the

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best team in the world! Yep, after beating India again, the country's

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cricketers have arrived where its footballers and rugby players can

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only dream of going - on top of the world! It's even more surprising

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because England's cricket, a bit like its weather, used to be a bit

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of a joke. Being an England fan isn't always easy. But when your

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team become world number one, I think it's fair to feel a bit of

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pride. It's amazing to see the batsman's improved. It's great. It

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means everyone who is enjoying cricket has something to aim for,

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and has someone at the top to look up to and be like in the future.

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For more than 300 years people have been playing cricket in England.

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But just because we came up with the game doesn't mean we've always

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been good. For the last decade it's been a rocky ride for England fans.

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Back in 1999 they were officially the worst team in the world.

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Between 1989 and 2003, England didn't win the famous Ashes series

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against Australia once. Then in 2005, this finally happened and the

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team became national heroes overnight. But glory didn't last

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for long. Two years ago we ranked sixth, but after new coach Andy

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Flower came on board everything started to change. England began an

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unbeaten run of Test match wins. Great cricketing nations fell one

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by one until... In January this year, England won the Ashes trophy

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on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years. Then on Saturday

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they beat India - the number one Test nation - in the third of four

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home tests to leapfrog them in the rankings. And there we are - world

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Number One. Not since our grandparents were young has England

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had such a successful team. More kids are taking up the game and

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finally they have a team to be proud of. You are number one, great

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work. Keep it up, England. Jimmy Anderson, you are a legend. Now,

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can England's other teams learn from this? Well sports journalist

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Matthew Syed joins us on the sofa. Do you reckon they'll be able to

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stay on top? Mack the million dollar question. We've seen other

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teams get to the top but can they sustain the focus that got them

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there? What about some of our other national teams that aren't doing so

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well - can they learn anything? There is a lesson to be learnt.

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It's no fluke they got to the top, they have worked harder than any

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other national cricket team in the world. If the other teams can learn

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from that we will get more success elsewhere. These guys work

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incredibly hard. Unquestionably. That has been key to their success.

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Is he staying or is he going? The saga over Cesc Fabregas' future has

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finally come to an end. He is leaving Arsenal. The Gunners have

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let him return to his hometown club, Barcelona, for �30 million. He's

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already been shown off at Barca earlier today. He started playing

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for Arsenal when he was just 16 years-old - the club's youngest

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ever first team player. A final sports story now and good news for

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animal lovers. Yes, fences for the Grand National race at Aintree are

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being lowered, to make the event safer for the horses taking part.

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It's after two racehorses - not these ones - died falling over at

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fences earlier this year. It's hoped these changes will help stop

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more fatal injuries in the future. Strictly Come Dancing fans will

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already be polishing their shoes as the show returns next month. But if

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you think dancing's just for the stars, you're wrong! Yes, because

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the show that's responsible for getting half the country dancing

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has also got loads of you guys into ballroom. In the latest of Hayley's

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Super Summer series, she's been meeting the kids who have swapped a

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Blackpool, a seaside town that sees swarms of kids heading to the beach

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at the famous tower in the summer holidays. But I'm going backstage

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to meet some of the kids to have a 50 -- a very different view of the

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tower. Natasha and Robbo ballroom dancers and are performing in the

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famous tower ballroom this summer to hundreds of visitors. It can get

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pretty noisy in there. Here we are in the famous tower ballroom. But

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you are not touring here. We are dancers. We do competitions and

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shows throughout the years, dancing with the stars off at Strictly Come

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Dancing. These are holidays, here you are dancing inside. Why?

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just love to dance. It's our life. It's an honour to be dancing in the

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famous tower ballroom. The atmosphere is amazing. I love the

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lights, the dance floor is amazing. I have done a bit of dancing before

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but I've never done ballroom dancing. Would you be able to teach

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me? Yeah. You think I'll be able to do that? Maybe. Can you show me

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I certainly need more practice! But it's not just the steps that go

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into making these guys ballroom dancers. It's the glitz and glamour

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that makes these guys true stars. Hayley for Strictly Come Dancing?

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Now, think Hollywood blockbuster and you wouldn't automatically

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picture Glasgow. But the Scottish city is being turned into a movie

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set for the next two weeks. Street signs have been changed and

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American cars have been brought in to make it look like downtown

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Philadelphia. It's all for a film about zombies taking over the world,

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starring this man - Brad Pitt! Finally, to evidence that perhaps

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humans really weren't built to fly. These guys have been taking part in

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the Bird Man competition in Worthing in Sussex. The idea is to

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fly as far as you can using homemade objects, though I'm not

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sure this Doctor Who wannabe quite understood that. This man took the

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top prize, reaching 78 metres and spending an impressive 14 seconds

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