26/08/2014 Newsround


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Good morning, guys, Jenny here with news

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of this giant sinkhole on the way. Plus...

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Ayshah checks out the coolest new sport around! This is Newsround.

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First, with the weeks ago until people in Scotland vote on whether

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to become independent from the rest of the UK, the final TV debate to

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convince people one way or another has taken place. Alex Salmond and

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the leader of the better together campaign Alistair Darling put the

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arguments to the audience. They argued over the NHS, oil and whether

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and whether Scotland could still use the pound.

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Now to the latest on the first British man to catch

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the Ebola virus during the recent outbreak in Africa.

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William Pooley's still being treated in a special isolation unit

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after being brought back to the UK on Sunday.

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Doctors have struggled to stop the virus spreading across parts

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of Africa, but health experts say people here should not be worried.

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The first British man affected by the Ebola outbreak has been taken

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He was flown back to the UK on a special Royal Air Force jet.

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It's just part of the many measures being taken to try and make him

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Ebola is a very dangerous virus and can be passed

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from one person to another, although that is difficult.

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It can only be caught if you are directly exposed to body

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fluids like blood or saliva from someone who already has it.

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And the man in question caught it after volunteering to treat people

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affected in an outbreak in the African country, Sierra Leone.

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It was decided to bring him here because

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the government thought it was safer than being treated in Africa.

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Experts say people in Britain should not be worried.

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What we would like to emphasise is that the risk of Ebola virus

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infection to the people of this country remains very low

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Across Africa, a lack of medical expertise has meant that

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the virus has spread, killing more than 1,000 people so far.

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But in Britain, it is a different story.

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Better knowledge and better facilities means that doctors are

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The man, a nurse called William Pooley, will be kept away from other

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The doctors helping him will be using this equipment to treat him

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There is no known cure for Ebola, but health experts say that,

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with proper treatment, patients have a chance of beating the virus.

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Just last week, two Americans who had also

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contracted Ebola whilst working in Africa made a full recovery and

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Moving on, a giant sinkhole has opened up on

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a farm in County Durham - and there are worries it's getting bigger.

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The hole opened up in the ground after an old mine collapsed.

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The land owner, John Hensby, said he'd been warned the hole will grow.

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The European Space Agency has released time-lapse footage of the

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Aurora Borealis - better known as the Northern Lights

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- that was filmed from the International Space Station.

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We've all dreamed of being able to fly - soaring through the sky,

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But that could be about to change because there's

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a new sport in town that gets you a little bit closer to that dream.

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Ayshah took to the water to find out more.

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You might have seen your favourite star doing this or you might have

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seen it on the beach this summer. The sports 's competitors are

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forming tricks like somersaults above water on special jet boots. I

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have come to Littlehampton in the south of England to find out more.

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It is such a unique experience. Everybody in the world wants to have

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a go at flying, you dream of it as a kid and now it is a possibility. It

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is something kids would want to get into. Luckily we have a 15-year-old

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in America who is ranked fourth in the world. That encourages kids to

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have a go. The fly board is attached to the back of a jet skis. The water

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force is redirected to your feet with a 65 foot hose. The proportion

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-- propulsion of the jet ski is what they shoot out of the water. Helmut,

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buoyancy aid, and the British fly boarding champion. Are you going to

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give it a go? All right, then. Fly boarding is a water sport that is

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becoming more popular. The youngest champion is 15, and thousands of

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people around the world have tried it. It is a sport that really does

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make you feel like you are flying. That was quite possibly the coolest

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thing that I have ever done. In football,

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Manchester United have agreed a British transfer record of nearly

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?60 million for Real Madrid winger Angel De Maria, who could sign

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today. On the pitch, Manchester City came

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out on top in the battle of last

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season's top two last night. They beat Liverpool 3-1 with

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two goals from Stevan Jovetic. That's all from me, Newsround's back

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right here in about half an hour.

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