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Hello, everyone. Leah and Ricky steering you through Newsround this | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Monday. We've been sorting through today's big stories and we've | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
picked the ones we know matter to you. Coming up... Hayley's | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
practicing her steps in the next of her summer holiday series. And if | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
these people are going on holiday, they're not getting very far! But | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
first, it's not very often we can say these words. England are the | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
best team in the world! Yep, after beating India again, the country's | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
cricketers have arrived where its footballers and rugby players can | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
only dream of going - on top of the world! It's even more surprising | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
because England's cricket, a bit like its weather, used to be a bit | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
of a joke. Being an England fan isn't always easy. But when your | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
team become world number one, I think it's fair to feel a bit of | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
pride. It's amazing to see the batsman's improved. It's great. It | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
means everyone who is enjoying cricket has something to aim for, | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
and has someone at the top to look up to and be like in the future. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
For more than 300 years people have been playing cricket in England. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
But just because we came up with the game doesn't mean we've always | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
been good. For the last decade it's been a rocky ride for England fans. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Back in 1999 they were officially the worst team in the world. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Between 1989 and 2003, England didn't win the famous Ashes series | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
against Australia once. Then in 2005, this finally happened and the | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
team became national heroes overnight. But glory didn't last | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
for long. Two years ago we ranked sixth, but after new coach Andy | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
Flower came on board everything started to change. England began an | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
unbeaten run of Test match wins. Great cricketing nations fell one | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
by one until... In January this year, England won the Ashes trophy | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years. Then on Saturday | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
they beat India - the number one Test nation - in the third of four | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
home tests to leapfrog them in the rankings. And there we are - world | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
Number One. Not since our grandparents were young has England | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
had such a successful team. More kids are taking up the game and | :02:27. | :02:36. | |
finally they have a team to be proud of. You are number one, great | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
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work. Keep it up, England. Jimmy Anderson, you are a legend. Now, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
can England's other teams learn from this? Well sports journalist | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Matthew Syed joins us on the sofa. Do you reckon they'll be able to | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
stay on top? Mack the million dollar question. We've seen other | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
teams get to the top but can they sustain the focus that got them | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
there? What about some of our other national teams that aren't doing so | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
well - can they learn anything? There is a lesson to be learnt. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
It's no fluke they got to the top, they have worked harder than any | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
other national cricket team in the world. If the other teams can learn | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
from that we will get more success elsewhere. These guys work | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
incredibly hard. Unquestionably. That has been key to their success. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Is he staying or is he going? The saga over Cesc Fabregas' future has | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
finally come to an end. He is leaving Arsenal. The Gunners have | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
let him return to his hometown club, Barcelona, for �30 million. He's | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
already been shown off at Barca earlier today. He started playing | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
for Arsenal when he was just 16 years-old - the club's youngest | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
ever first team player. A final sports story now and good news for | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
animal lovers. Yes, fences for the Grand National race at Aintree are | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
being lowered, to make the event safer for the horses taking part. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
It's after two racehorses - not these ones - died falling over at | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
fences earlier this year. It's hoped these changes will help stop | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
more fatal injuries in the future. Strictly Come Dancing fans will | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
already be polishing their shoes as the show returns next month. But if | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
you think dancing's just for the stars, you're wrong! Yes, because | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
the show that's responsible for getting half the country dancing | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
has also got loads of you guys into ballroom. In the latest of Hayley's | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Super Summer series, she's been meeting the kids who have swapped a | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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Blackpool, a seaside town that sees swarms of kids heading to the beach | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
at the famous tower in the summer holidays. But I'm going backstage | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
to meet some of the kids to have a 50 -- a very different view of the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
tower. Natasha and Robbo ballroom dancers and are performing in the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
famous tower ballroom this summer to hundreds of visitors. It can get | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
pretty noisy in there. Here we are in the famous tower ballroom. But | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
you are not touring here. We are dancers. We do competitions and | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
shows throughout the years, dancing with the stars off at Strictly Come | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Dancing. These are holidays, here you are dancing inside. Why? | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
just love to dance. It's our life. It's an honour to be dancing in the | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
famous tower ballroom. The atmosphere is amazing. I love the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
lights, the dance floor is amazing. I have done a bit of dancing before | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
but I've never done ballroom dancing. Would you be able to teach | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
me? Yeah. You think I'll be able to do that? Maybe. Can you show me | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
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I certainly need more practice! But it's not just the steps that go | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
into making these guys ballroom dancers. It's the glitz and glamour | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
that makes these guys true stars. Hayley for Strictly Come Dancing? | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Now, think Hollywood blockbuster and you wouldn't automatically | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
picture Glasgow. But the Scottish city is being turned into a movie | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
set for the next two weeks. Street signs have been changed and | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
American cars have been brought in to make it look like downtown | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Philadelphia. It's all for a film about zombies taking over the world, | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
starring this man - Brad Pitt! Finally, to evidence that perhaps | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
humans really weren't built to fly. These guys have been taking part in | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
the Bird Man competition in Worthing in Sussex. The idea is to | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
fly as far as you can using homemade objects, though I'm not | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
sure this Doctor Who wannabe quite understood that. This man took the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
top prize, reaching 78 metres and spending an impressive 14 seconds | :07:09. | :07:13. |