30/01/2018 Newsround

Morning, guys.

It's Tuesday, I'm Ricky

and this is Newsround.

Here's what's coming up:

Closing the road for

a proper playtime.

And how much food does

a dolphin need to eat?

First up, a story of how community

spirit and playing in the street has

helped a girl with autism make

friends for life.

Hayley's got this one.

This street in Bristol in south-west

England kicks out cars once a week

so that children can

play more freely.

The scheme is called Playing Out

and has had a big impact

on these kids' lives.

We've made lots of

friends in the street.

Well, it's really fun and you get

to do lots of activities.

It's also a place where Poppy has

been able to make new friends.

I don't go to school,

I'm hospital education.

So that's basically

the same as home educated,

but my friends still go to school.

Poppy was born with autism,

which is a condition that can affect

the way you live your life and see

the world around you.

Poppy was at a school,

but because of her anxiety

linked to her autism,

that was too overwhelming

and she was becoming very unwell.

So now she stays at home

and has a tutor come

to the house, which is sent

by the hospital education service.

So for her playing out with other

children is more of a rarity.

Most streets, she is too frightened

to walk down because of the noise.

Yet you'll see her in this street

feeling completely happy,

playing with all the children.

It's just so valuable

to us as a family.

If I didn't do Playing Out,

I probably wouldn't have met someone

else who is home educated like me.

She's called Imelda May

and we're best friends.

And if you want to know more

about autism, or to get

some info about anxiety,

you can find loads of information

and advice over at Newsround Online

where you can also watch our

two special programmes.

Next - if we don't eat enough,

we run out of energy

pretty quickly, right?

That's because all of us use energy

from food, called calories,

to keep us on the move.

And if you think you've got

a plateful, you should see how much

dolphins need to munch.

Felling peckish?

If you have had an active day,

you might find your tummy rumbling.

But well kids like you are

recommended to munch around

1500 calories each day.

You will never guess how much

dolphins need to eat.

New research has found

that our flippered friends need up

to a whopping 33,000 calories a day!

Wow!

That's 60 plates of salmon to me

and you, and amazingly,

that amount was less

than scientists expected.

The amount of food a dolphin needs

varies depending on its size

and whether it's resting,

sleeping, diving or

swimming, as well as

the temperature of the ocean.

Looks like this guy's

working up an appetite.

The study was carried out on common

bottlenosed dolphins in Florida.

They were captured for a short time

in order to be monitored

by scientists, who say the research

will help with conservation.

I just hope all that fish

is providing enough vitamin C.

Get it, because they're

in the C, the sea...

Never mind.

Teenagers in Wales could be

able to vote in some

elections from the age of 16.

The Welsh government says it wants

to lower the age at which people

can vote from 18 to 16

in local elections.

In Scotland the voting

age has already been

lowered for some elections,

but in the rest of the UK

there are no plans to let 16

and 17-year-olds vote.

These Welsh teenagers told us

what they think of the idea.

It will be a good thing for us to be

able to vote because we would be

voting for our future.

Personally, I don't believe

we should lower the age to 16

because I don't feel that schools

are educating us enough

on the politics side of things.

I'm in favour of voting

at 16 because I think

we are educated enough at 16 years

old because we use social media.

We see the parties,

the advertisements

they put out out there.

It would probably raise a lot

of interest within the 16,

17-year-olds, but at the same time

I feel like a lot of students

who are 16, 17 will take

the vote for granted.

They'd just sort of vote for whoever

their mates are voting for.

If I use my voice I can change my

future, so I think I would.

It's really important

for everyone to vote

if they have the chance to,

and I think maybe if we did

have the right to vote,

it would be more appealing

for our age group to vote.

That's it from me.

I'll be back in about half-an-hour.