Winning The Game Against Diabetes
 International experts say that this year more than 70,000 youngsters under the age of 15 will develop type 1 diabetes worldwide - equivalent to 200 new cases a day.
Young people with diabetes are being encouraged to manage their lifelong condition by rewarding them for doing regular blood tests - with a glucose meter that gives out points on handheld computer games.
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 Commonwealth Conversations - The Auckland Event
Seven Auckland schools got together to design a ten year plan for the future of the Commonwealth. These are their ideas after an afternoon of debate at One Tree Hill College.
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Kiwi bumblebees causing a buzz in Britain
 Specimens of a bumblebee species which survive in New Zealand despite having died out in its native Britain have been shipped to London Zoo for checks on whether they carry harmful viruses.
If the tiny short-haired bumblebees are given a clean bill of health, English researcher Nikki Gammans plans to return to the South Island in December to collect as many as 50 to 100 bees, to be used in a captive breeding programme to support multiple releases of the species back in England over several years, the Guardian newspaper reported.
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MY COMMONWEALTH COMPETITION
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 Stoat survives 30-mile car ride
A stoat had a very lucky escape when it survived a 30-mile car journey trapped in the front grille of a sports car.
A man spotted the creature run in front of his car as he drove home at night, but thought he'd dodged the tiny animal so carried on driving.
But the next morning he found the stoat peeping out from under the bonnet, struggling to pull itself free.
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 England to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup
England fought off rival bids from South Africa and Italy to win the right to stage the competition.
It will be the second time England has hosted the competition - the last time was in 1991.
The 2015 World Cup will take place in very sporting decade for the UK. The country is already hosting the 2012 Olympics, the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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 Kiwi Kids share ideas about saving the Planet with British Counterparts
What are kids doing on the other side of the world to help save the planet? Well, that’s exactly what Somersham School in Cambridgeshire, England found out from Puhinui School in Auckland at a video conference link-up last week.
An online discussion forum on the British High Commission’s children’s educational website,connected Kiwi Kids with their British counterparts.
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Scientists get to the bottom of what makes whoopee cushions funny
 Acoustics Professor Trevor Cox from the University of Salford has revealed the nation’s funniest whoopee cushion sound following a two-week web experiment into what makes flatulence funny.
Professor Cox, one-time owner of the world’s largest whoopee cushion, is passionate about using sounds to increase the public’s involvement in science, adding:
‘The Whoopee Cushion has a great deal in common with the human voice and how instruments work, so it is a memorable way of portraying the principles of acoustics.’
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