:00:07. > :00:12.Hi, I'm Ayshah with Newsround. First today, we are talking about money
:00:13. > :00:15.getting a make over. Plastic English banknotes that can survive a spin in
:00:16. > :00:19.the washing machine will be brought into circulation in 2016. Countries
:00:20. > :00:24.including Australia, New Zealand and Mexico already use them. The Bank of
:00:25. > :00:32.England says the new notes stay cleaner and are more secure than
:00:33. > :00:35.cotton paper ones. Next, to one of the biggest criminal thefts Britain
:00:36. > :00:38.has seen in the past century - the Great Train Robbery. A gang stole
:00:39. > :00:43.millions of pounds from a train carrying post to London. One of the
:00:44. > :00:47.those involved, Ronnie Biggs, died today. He became infamous after
:00:48. > :00:57.going on the run from police for more than 30 years. 1963. At this
:00:58. > :01:00.time, lots of letters, parcels and money were transported around the
:01:01. > :01:03.country by rail. One of these mail trains, heading to London from
:01:04. > :01:05.Glasgow, was stopped by a criminal gang in Buckinghamshire. They
:01:06. > :01:09.escaped with 120 bags of cash, totalling more than ?2.5 million - a
:01:10. > :01:14.whopping ?40 million in today's money. The train driver, Jack Mills,
:01:15. > :01:20.was badly hurt and never fully recovered. One of the gang members
:01:21. > :01:25.was this man - Ronnie Biggs. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 years
:01:26. > :01:29.in prison. But in 1965 he escaped from Wandsworth Prison by climbing
:01:30. > :01:35.over the wall. He fled to France, then Australia, before ending up in
:01:36. > :01:39.Brazil. In 1974, he was arrested. But then he had a son and, under
:01:40. > :01:44.Brazilian law, was protected from being sent back to Britain. I don't
:01:45. > :01:48.regret the fact that I was involved in the train robbery. As a matter of
:01:49. > :01:56.fact, I am quite pleased with the idea I was involved with it. Why? It
:01:57. > :02:01.has given me a little place in history. Many people, including the
:02:02. > :02:05.family of the injured train driver, didn't believe Biggs should have
:02:06. > :02:09.been famous or have made money out of his crime. In 2001, as his health
:02:10. > :02:13.worsened, he flew back home to the UK to get medical help and was taken
:02:14. > :02:16.back to prison. Ronnie Biggs was released from jail in 2009 after
:02:17. > :02:20.becoming seriously ill. Trains don't carry large amounts of cash any
:02:21. > :02:26.more, so a serious crime like the Great Train Robbery is unlikely to
:02:27. > :02:30.ever happen again. Next year, it is 100 years since the start of World
:02:31. > :02:35.War I. Millions of people died in the conflict. But in the midst of
:02:36. > :02:38.the battles, in 1914, German and Allied soldiers stopped fighting and
:02:39. > :02:41.played a special football match, all in the spirit of Christmas. This
:02:42. > :02:51.week, Martin went back to the scene with some young footballers. Take a
:02:52. > :02:57.look. World War I affected nearly everybody in Britain. Men and boys
:02:58. > :03:02.from the country were sent to fight in the harshest conditions
:03:03. > :03:07.imaginable. Many never returned. One of the most amazing stories to come
:03:08. > :03:11.out of the conflict was the Christmas truce. Where German and
:03:12. > :03:17.British soldiers climbed out of the trenches into no man's land and
:03:18. > :03:24.shook hands, said -- sang carols and played football. I am in Belgium, in
:03:25. > :03:27.the town of Ypres. They have come to celebrate the truce by playing in a
:03:28. > :03:33.football tournament and discover what life was like the soldiers. The
:03:34. > :03:38.trenches ran across the Western front for around 500 miles. It
:03:39. > :03:45.divided the German and allied forces in France Belgium. We are at the
:03:46. > :03:50.German support line and these trenches date from 1917. This is a
:03:51. > :03:56.bunker, designed to withstand shelling. It is hard to imagine
:03:57. > :04:02.because we have got such good lives to what it must have been like. Why
:04:03. > :04:08.do you think it is important the children to understand what happened
:04:09. > :04:12.in 1914? They need to understand that at the worst moments, humanity
:04:13. > :04:19.can shine through. We are lucky in this day and age that we have so
:04:20. > :04:23.much. Living in a trench, it is horrible to think about. This
:04:24. > :04:34.British cemetery has 950 soldiers buried here. Every night since the
:04:35. > :04:41.war, local people have gathered for Last Post. It is a memorial with the
:04:42. > :04:46.names of the British troops never found. For the footballers taking
:04:47. > :04:49.part, the weekend has taught them that while they open presents on
:04:50. > :04:59.Christmas day, with their families, take some time to remember those who
:05:00. > :05:01.fought in the First World War. There is a lot more about Ypres online. We