Fernie the dog helps kids to read

Fernie the dog is helping to give children the confidence to read at a school in Somerset in South West England.

He can understand words written on flash cards,

Fernie is shown words like sit, and turn around then he does the action.

Studies have shown that a school dog calms children down, improves skills and behaviour.

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13-year-old schoolboy on New Year Honours list

A schoolboy fundraiser has been awarded a British Empire Medal on the New Year Honours list.

Jonjo Heuerman was inspired to raise money by the death of his grandmother

The 13-year-old is the youngest person on this year's list, which gives out special awards to people for achievements like making a difference to their community, being a volunteer for many years or being amazing at what they do for a job.

Jonjo Heuerman, from Dartford, England, has raised more than £235,000 for Cancer Research UK's Bobby Moore Fund.

"It was a big surprise, because I never thought I could get something like this at this age," Jonjo said.

"It made me feel quite proud of myself because I've worked really hard over the last five years."

Jonjo will receive his award, which is special medal, from the Queen or other members of the Royal Family at a ceremony later in 2016.

Bobby Moore who lifted the World Cup for England in 1966 died of bowel cancer in 1993

He added: "In 2009 my Nan died from bowel cancer - she had been fighting it for a very long time.

"My football hero Bobby Moore also died from it about 20 years ago, and I decided to fundraise for the Bobby Moore Fund."

The teenager has walked and cycled thousands of miles across Britain since the death of his grandmother Lyn.

In February 2015, Jonjo cycled to all of England's Premier League football clubs for charity

Jonjo said the hardest challenge had been in February when he undertook a 700-mile cycle ride, visiting all of the Premier League football clubs in England.

He then returned to London and walked to all of the capital's Premier League clubs.

"I'm in training for the next one which is in April. I'm going to be cycling and walking from Germany all the way to the UK," Jonjo said.

Jonjo is one of nearly 1,200 people who have been named on the New Year Honours list.

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The new £1 coin designed by 15-year-old boy

The design of the new £1 coin has been revealed after a competition to design the "tails" side.

The winner was 15-year-old David from Walsall who made a design featuring the four plants associated with the four nations that make up the UK.

His design features the leek, thistle, shamrock and rose, coming out of a crown.

Chancellor George Osborne said the image will be "recognised by millions in the years ahead".

The new coin will be roughly the same size as the current one, but has 12 edges and is both gold and silver coloured, like a £2 coin.

David was declared the winner out of more than 6,000 entries.

The coin featuring his design will start appearing in shops and banks in 2017.

David said: "I was really excited to hear that I had won the competition to design the new £1 coin but hugely shocked as well."

The £1 coin is being replaced for the first time in more than 30 years because there are concerns it is too easy for criminals to copy.

The Royal Mint, which makes new coins, says the new £1 will be the most secure coin that exists in the UK.

Jockeys of future in the Shetland Pony Grand National?

The London International Horse Show brings together some of the finest jockeys and horses in the world.

But for kids wanting to be a superstar jockey of the future, and take part in a race as big as the Grand National - where do they learn the skills needed?

Simple - The Shetland Pony Grand National.

Racing on small ponies called Shetlands, competitors aged between 9-14 speed around the arena on a miniature course with jumps like those seen at an Aintree Grand National.

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Largest cake sculpture record attempt

A world record attempt for the largest cake sculpture has been launched in London.

The massive cake was put together by forty five volunteers over six hours and is big enough to feed twelve thousand people!

It weighs two tonnes, which is nearly the same weight as an average African elephant.

But to break the record the entire cake must be eaten, with all the money raised going towards a children's charity. Yum!

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One Direction sing about letter U on Sesame Street

The members of One Direction have made an appearance on the children's TV show Sesame Street singing a special song all about the letter U.

Together with a muppet version of the letter, Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry, and Louis performed a revised version of their hit, What Makes You Beautiful.Their song for the show was called What Makes U So Useful.The group have been busy promoting their latest album, Four, which was released in the United States on Monday.

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Bob the Builder gets a makeover

Bob the Builder has been given a computer-generated makeover by TV bosses.

The original episodes of Bob the Builder were created with models, like Shaun the Sheep.

But the new episodes will be computer-generated and Bob himself looks a little different.

The new Bob is taller and has a completely new face. He'll also have a new voice when the show returns in 2015.

Old Bob was a big hit - and even topped the music chart

HIT Entertainment that makes the show said although Bob looks different he will have the same "emotional warmth" as old Bob.

The series used to be shown on CBeebies but the new episodes will be shown on Channel 5.

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Here's the theme song 

Malala Yousafzai wins Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the world's most respected awards.

She has been recognised for her hard work promoting the right for girls to have an education.

The prize judges said about Malala: "Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' rights to education."

Malala won it jointly with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.

Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi is sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Malala

Malala, 17, is the youngest person to ever get the Nobel Peace Prize.

She was attacked by the Taliban, an extremist group, in Pakistan two years ago for her campaign work.

Malala was seriously injured in the attack, but she was flown to the UK for treatment and has recovered well.

She now goes to school in Birmingham and continues her campaigning.

What is the Nobel Peace Prize?

What have Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama got in common? They've all won a Nobel Prize.

They're given out every year to people or organisations who have achieved amazing things in different areas.

The Nobel Peace Prize is probably the most famous, but there are others, including ones for medicine, science and economics.

The Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite.

All this week, the winners are being announced. Ricky's been finding out why they're such a big deal.

From CBBC newsround

Boys unearth gold hair tress from 2,300 BC

A group of schoolboys has unearthed a rare 4,000-year-old ornament during a dig in Northumberland.

It is hoped the hair tress will be reunited with one found in 1935

The children from Cumbria were taking part in an excavation at Kirkhaugh when they saw a glint of gold in the soil.

The object, which was found in a burial mound, is believed to be a decorated hair tress from about 2,300 BC.

One of the boys, 7 year-old Joseph, said when he saw the gold in the ground he started "dancing with joy".

Rare discovery

The ornament, which is 33mm long and dates back to the Copper Age, was found alongside three flint arrowheads and a jet button.

The boys said they were "very happy" when they found out their find was gold

It is thought to have been worn by a metal worker who could have travelled to Britain from overseas in search of gold and copper.

The dig was arranged by the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty as part of an archaeology project.

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Being allowed to play computer games in school lessons - sounds too good to be true.

Being allowed to play computer games in school lessons - sounds too good to be true!

But more than 200 UK schools are using a specially adapted version of the popular game Minecraft to help pupils to learn.

Minecraft is set in a virtual world where players build with blocks of different materials.

At one school, children play the game and then write stories inspired by their experience.

Teachers using the game say it can help get kids who don't like books to do more reading and writing.

Computer games have been blamed in the past for causing violence and addiction, but now some schools are encouraging children to play them in lessons to help with more traditional subjects.

So could "Angry Birds" help with trigonometry, or "The Sims" with social science?

Tim Muffett has been to a school in Barnsley which is using Minecraft in its English lessons.

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Boy finds diamond and is allowed to keep it!

A 12-year-old picked up a five-carat diamond at an American park.

Michael Dettlaff found the diamond thought to be worth around £9,700, while visiting the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.

It's the only diamond producing site in the world, according to its website, which allows people to look for diamonds.

Anyone who finds a diamond then gets to keep it.

Finders keepers - Michael got to keep this diamond

Michael spotted the gem just after entering the park. "We were probably there about 10 minutes and I was looking around on the ground and found it on top," he told America's ABC news. "It was very glassy. Very smooth."

"When I brought this rock out of the bag the guy who's there, he just went bug-eyed and he said, 'Hang on a second. I need to take this to the back room,'" "So then people start coming from everywhere and they're like, 'Oh yeah. It's a big diamond.'"

Twelve large diamonds have been found at the site this year.

Michael now hopes to get his find valued. "If it can get cut and it's valuable, I think I'd probably want to have it cut and sell it," he said.

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Ronaldo free-kick breaks boy's wrist at AFC Bournemouth

A young football fan whose wrist was broken by a Cristiano Ronaldo free-kick at Bournemouth has received a shirt signed by the player and his Real Madrid team-mates.

AFC Bournemouth took on the Spanish giants in a pre-season friendly at the Goldsands Stadium on Saturday.

The match attracted thousands of fans.

Among them was Charlie Silverwood, 11, who early in the match was hit by a Ronaldo free-kick and later had to undergo surgery on his wrist.

'No front teeth'

Charlie, from Christchurch, said: "It was Ronaldo's first free-kick of the game. It went straight for me so I blocked the ball with the palm of my left hand and the force, I suppose, reverberated up my arm and broke my wrist."

First aiders at the ground put his arm in a sling and told him to go to hospital.

Real Madrid is a once in a lifetime opportunity - seeing them play your local club - so I watched the rest of the match, mostly in pain considering I still had the sling, and afterwards I then went to hospital," he said.

Charlie has since had an operation to manipulate his wrist back into place and must spend the rest of the school holidays in plaster.

He said: "If I hadn't blocked it with the palm of my hand I would have no front teeth. It definitely had to be some speed otherwise it wouldn't have broken my wrist - 45 mph would be a safe guess I think."

Since the incident, he has been visited by Bournemouth legend Steven Fletcher, who brought him the signed Real Madrid shirt.

Charlie said the president of Real Madrid had also phoned to tell him a signed Ronaldo shirt was on the way.

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George is the name!

Royal baby: William and Kate name their son George

The name of the new prince has been announced two days after his birth

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their son George Alexander Louis, Kensington Palace has said.

The third in line to the throne, who was born on Monday at 16:24 BST, will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.

It is thought the Queen was told of Prince George's name when she met him for the first time on Wednesday.

The family are at the Middleton home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, after spending a night at Kensington Palace.

George was the bookmakers' favourite for the first name of the prince.

The duke and duchess had been expected to pick a traditional royal name for their son, who was born at St Mary's Hospital in London, weighing 8lbs 6oz.

Royal infants usually have historical names which are passed down through the generations.

There have been six King Georges up to now, most recently the Queen's father, although his first name was Albert and he was known to his family as Bertie.

The name Louis is Prince William's fourth name and is likely to be a tribute to Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle and the last British Viceroy of India before independence in 1947.

Lord Mountbatten and William's father the Prince of Wales were very close. Known by the Royal Family as Uncle Dickie, he was assassinated by the IRA in August 1979.

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Royal baby: Town crier announces news of Prince William and Catherine's son

The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST, weighing 8lb 6oz.

The birth of a son to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has been announced to crowds outside St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London.

The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST, weighing 8lb 6oz.

The duchess and the baby are said to be "doing well" and will stay in hospital overnight.

The royal baby was born in St Mary's Hospital in London and is third in the line to the throne.

A town crier ascended the steps to the Lindo Wing, where the duchess gave birth, to proclaim the news to the assembled well-wishers and media.

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Malala UN speech: extremists 'afraid of books and pens'

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai shot by the Taliban in 2012, has called for free education for all children.

She gave the speech on her 16th birthday, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, America.

It was her first time speaking in public since she was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen, while on her way to school in Pakistan in October.

Malala said the Taliban's attack changed nothing in her life, except "weakness, fear and hopelessness died".

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"The extremists were, and they are, afraid of books and pens,"Malala said. "They are afraid of women."

She said she was fighting for the rights of women because "they arethe ones who suffer the most".

She called on politicians to take urgent action to ensure every child in the world has the right to go to school.

'One child can change the world'

"Let us pick up our books and pens," Malala said. "They are our most powerful weapons.

"One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.

"Education is the only solution. Education first."

After the shooting Malala was flown from Pakistan to the UK for treatment, and now lives and goes to school in Birmingham.

A 'hero and champion'

The head of the UN, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, also addressed Friday's session.

Calling Malala "our hero" and "our champion", he said: "She is calling on us to keep our promises, invest in young people and put education first."

Malala has been credited with bringing the issue of women's education to global attention.

About 57m people around the world still do not have access to education, and a quarter of young women have not completed primary school.

In March 2013 Malala was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the most respected and prestigious awards in the world.

Big moment for 11-year-old Pinki Sonkar at Wimbledon

An 11-year-old girl from India was the first Indian girl to toss the coin at the start of a Wimbledon final.

Why? Because she's special!

Pinki Sonkar was born with a cleft lip and palate in one of the poorest parts of India and needed surgery to fix it.

She was the centre of attention on Centre Court when she threw the coin to decide which player would  serve first.

She was chosen to represent the charity Smile Train which gave her her smile back.

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She must be very, very happy. The surgery turned a sad girl with a low self esteem into a beautiful little girl with a happy smile. Her life will certainly not be the same as now she can do everything without restrictions and the future wiil be much promising, for sure!

Pinki had a unilateral complete cleft lip.

Smile Pinki is a 39-minute documentary directed by Megan Mylan. The film shows the story of a poor girl in rural India whose life is transformed when she receives free surgery to correct her cleft lip. The documentary was made in Hindi and Bhojpuri, and won the 81st Academy Award for 
Best Documentary (Short Subject).

Thousands of children are at risk after floods say charity

Thousands of children are at risk of disease after huge floods hit parts of northern India, according to Save the Children.

The charity are warning that thousands of people are still stranded in the mountains without access to clean water or medicines.

Ten days after the heavy rains first hit the state of Uttarakhand officials are worried that they are running out of time to get to survivors.

So far over 80,000 people have been rescued but bad weather and landslides are making it hard for the Indian army to get to everyone in need.

More than 600 people are now known to have died but officials fear the final number could be nearer to 1000.

Early monsoon rains in India this year are believed to be the heaviest in 80 years.

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Warning to cover up webcams after hackers caught spying

There's a warning to cover up and disconnect webcams when they're not being used - because hackers could be spying with them.

Childnet International also advises people not to leave webcams in bedrooms or other private areas.

An investigation by BBC Radio 5 live found websites exchanging pictures and videos taken from webcams without owners knowing.

Police have said that webcam hackers will be prosecuted.

Hackers can get access to computers by using a piece of malicious software (malware) called a remote access Trojan (RAT).

The investigation also found evidence of hackers selling access to victims' computers for small amounts of money.

But some experts have said that this problem isn't widespread - and anti-virus software is able to stop webcam hackers.

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Police search for little April Jones missing in Wales

Police and volunteers are searching for a five-year-old girl who went missing on Monday night.

April Jones was playing with friends near her house in a village near Powys in Wales when she disappeared.
Around 200 volunteers have spent the night searching streets and nearby woodlands looking for her.
She was reportedly last seen getting into a grey van. Police are speaking to the children she was playing with to find out exactly what happened.
Police have arrested a 46-year-old man who they hope will be able to help in their investigation.

It's really rare for things like this to happen but if you are ever worried by something you see in the news, you can take a look at our Newsround guide.

   She's just a kid. If you see her ,please contact the police!