Fancy a flutter on a woolly jumper in the Sheep Grand National?

(CNN)From office sweepstakes to gambling grannies, Grand National fever is sweeping the UK ahead of the nation's world-famous horse race at Aintree on Saturday.

A record-breaking $219m is expected to be laid in bets across the globe on which colorfully named horse will master the fearsome fences over the four-mile course.

"It is the biggest betting event of the year by a long way," Mark Pearson, of British bookmaker Betfred, told CNN.

"With a worldwide television audience of 600m in 2014, it is simply the world's biggest race."

Irish jockey Tony McCoy will be the star attraction at Aintree as the multiple champion jockey races in his final Grand National on mount Shutthefrontdoor.

But for those looking for an outside bet, then the rival Grand National Sheepstakes in Devon could be just the ticket.

Grand National fever is so entrenched in the UK that some ideas are a little barmier (or should that be baa-mier?) than others.

Visitors to the Big Sheep family attraction in Devon on Saturday can place their bets on six of the best jumping sheep, including Woolly Jumper, Red Ram and Sheargar.

The racy sheep, which jump over show jumping poles, must be careful not to unseat their knitted jockeys.

Ascot, home to the prestigious royal flat racing meeting in June, also got in on the woolly races, by staging the Lamb National last month.

There was even a royal presence for the novice hurdlers as Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall watched from the sidelines.

"They did appear to be having a great time," Nick Smith, Ascot Head of Communications and International Racing, told CNN.

Sheep racing events are an unlikely success despite the dangers that the sheep will just follow each other aimlessly around the course.

"There's a sheep dog. They wouldn't do it on their own," laughed Smith.

"If anyone can get a sheep to jump a fence without a sheep dog I'm be very, very surprised. The sheep dog is the key talent in this operation.

"Having said that one or two of the lambs got a bit lost and the sheep dog had to round them up."

Could sheep racing ever usurp horse racing in the hearts and minds of the betting public?

Smith, for one, was quick to scotch the idea that sheep racing could be a regular fixture of the Ascot race calendar.

"It was a novelty event," he explained. "The chances of anyone watching a sheep dog race as a fan and transferring that into an interest in horse racing is nil."

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/10/sport/grand-national-sheep-racing/index.html

STUDENTS AGAINST NUCLEAR ENERGY

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Dear Sir or Madam,

I represent a group called ¨"Students Against Nuclear Energy". I am writing to you because we are concerned about plans to build a nuclear power station in our area.

In our opinion, nuclear powe stations are no safe, so if there is one near our town, the risidents might be in danger. If we have a nuclear power station here, it will be a problem for hundreds of years. Renewable energy, on the other hand, is a better alternative as it is cleaner and safer.

We are theredore decided to take action, and we are going to organize a protest. For this reason, we are sending you a poster and we hope that you will supoort us and helfp to publicize this event.

Jordi Llado

EXPERIMENT RAINBOW GLASS

Material

-Granulated white sugar
-Red, blue, and yellow food colouring
-Four glasses
-A mesauring cup
-A tablespoon
-A large glass
-Water
-An eyedropper

Stages

1.-Pour 200 ml of water into each of the four glasses.
2.-In each glass, add food colouing ansd sugar in he amounts indicated below.
3.-Gently mix the contents of each glass with a spoon. Rinse the spon between each glass to avoid mixing their contents.
4.-Using the eyedropper, slowly put 150 ml of the contents of glass 1 (red) into the big glass.
5.-Then add 150 ml of the content of glasses 2,3 and 4 making the drops flow on the inner edge of the large glass

GLASS 1                                GLASS 2                                                      GLASS 3

6 drops of                         6 drops of yellow food colouring            6 drops of blue food    
red food                            +3 tablespoons of sugar                      colouring +2 tablespoons of 
colouring                                                                                              sugar.
+4 tablespoons
of sugar                    

GLASS 4

3 drops of red food colouring 
+3 drops of blue food colouring
+1 tablespoon of sugar

Whats happening? By adding sugar to the water, it dissolves and become invisible. Suddenly this changes the weight of the water. The more sugar is added to the water, the more the weight of the water increases. In other words, the water becomes denser (for the same amount of liquid it is heavier). In our experiment, the water with the greatest density is the red-coloured one, and the one wit he least density is the purple-coloured one. That's why it floats on the other liquids.

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Shaun first appeared in the Wallace and Gromit films - now he has a movie of his own! Shaun's problems start when the animals on Mossy Bottom Farm decide to take a day off. They put their farmer in a caravan which accedentally rolls away to the big city.
Now Shaun and his friends must go to the city to rescue the farmer!