18/07/2011 Newsround

Evening, everyone! Leah and Ricky here, with Monday's dose of

Newsround. Stay tuned, because we have got a packed programme on the

way. Here is a taster: we have good news for people who don't like

animal testing. And the real MI High! We take a

look at a spy school for kids. But first, Britain's top policeman

and one of his most senior officers have quit over the phone hacking

scandal. Sir Paul Stephenson was the head of the Metropolitan Police,

who look after London and are responsible for big events like the

Olympics. John Yates was in charge of fighting terrorism. But now they

have both gone after being criticised for being too close to

journalists at the News Of The World, the very paper they were

meant to be investigating. The Metropolitan Police is

Britain's biggest police force, and they take charge of most big

investigations like the one into phone hacking. Journalists from the

News Of The World are accused of getting into the voicemails of

celebs, politicians and even victims of crime - all to try to

get juicy stories. When it all came out, the newspaper was shut down

and the people in charge could be in big trouble if it is proved that

they knew about it, although they say they didn't. But now police

officers themselves have come under the spotlight, with claims that

some of them have been much too friendly with the journalists they

are meant to be investigating. Top officers have had dinners with

bosses from the News Of The World, and employed one of them after he

left the paper. There are even claims that the newspapers have

been paying police officers for information, which is illegal. Now

people are worried that these friendships stopped the

Metropolitan Police from taking their investigations into phone

hacking seriously enough, meaning it could go on uninterrupted for

years and years. All of this meant that last night, the commissioner

Sir Paul Stephenson felt he had to go, even though he says he has done

nothing wrong, and today Assistant Commissioner John Yates followed.

The Metropolitan Police could not have lost these top officers at a

worse time. They are under a lot of pressure to make sure London is as

safe as possible for the Olympic Games next summer. And the trouble

will not stop with the police. Even the Prime Minister, David Cameron,

has been accused of getting too pally with journalists, employing a

past editor of the News Of The World as his right hand man. This

scandal shows no sign of dying away. This story is going to run and run,

but keeping up can be confusing. If you want to get the low-down on

everyone involved, check out our guide on the website. Someone who

never gets confused is the BBC's chief political correspondent,

Laura Kuenssberg. I asked her why this story is such a huge deal.

goes right to the heart of what happens in this square mile, what

happens in the corridors of power and how politicians and journalists

who report on what is happening relates to the police. So we have a

triangle of powerful people, and this scandal seems to be sucking

all of them in. The story keeps getting bigger and bigger, to the

point where even our Prime Minister seems to be drawn into it. What

will happen to him? No one is saying that David Cameron knew

about what was going on, but he cannot easily escape this gamble,

because he was friends with and work with someone for a long time

who was in the middle of it. This story is moving so fast that nobody

could be confident of saying where it will go next.

Now to a subject you guys really care about - animal testing. Loads

of you contacted us last week when we reported that more animals are

being used in experiments in the UK. Well, there has been a development.

The Government says it wants to ban all testing on animals for

household products like bleach. It's already against the law to

test make-up on animals, but it will still be OK to use them, like

here, to help find cures for diseases.

If you have ever had a leaking pipe in your home, you will know that it

is not much fun. So spare a thought for the people living in Liverpool

who woke up to a huge 12 metre high plume of water gushing out of their

street this morning. Around 100 homes have been evacuated.

Now, for lots of you, the countdown is on to the summer holidays! But I

would not dig out your shades just yet. We have had a weekend of

really wet weather - this is Perth in Scotland - and forecasters

reckon we could be needing our brollies and wellies quite often

over the next few weeks. So what's going on? I went to ask Nina Ridge

from the BBC weather team. It has been pretty awful. We have had rain

and showers and not a great deal of sunshine. It is all due to an area

of low pressure we have in the North Sea. That is bringing in the

cloud that has been swirling around. We will continue to see those

weatherfronts and the unsettled conditions.

If you have ever dreamt of being like Rose or Blane from MI High - I

know I have! - you don't want to miss this next story. Kids are

being given the chance to experience the life of a top secret

agent at a centre built for budding spies in Milton Keynes. We put

Agent Joe on the case. These days, you do not have to be a

grown-up to be a spy. CBBC's MI High puts kids in the world saving

shoes of teenagers. And next month, spy kids four hits the cinemas in

four D, allowing kids to actually smell the adventure. But the

creator of this centre thinks this is the closest children could get

to the world of espionage. Spy missions in Milton Keynes now has

gigs new James Bonds as young as six. My mission is to destroy a

nuclear warhead. I am walking across this wardrobe because there

are lasers on the floor. The guided stories test children mentally and

physically. We have a runaway ship heading for the enemy. We need to

steer it back, but there is no steering wheel. The centre has been

built from a big kid's small idea. It started with my children. I used

to do mini missions around the floor at my house. How do you get

across the kitchen without crossing the floor. I was talking to one of

my customers about it, and they said, you must do this for other

people. Half a million pounds later, you have this massive place with

12,000 square feet full of excitement. Some of the puzzles are

more complex than others. And Bob has designed a number of short cuts.

But I cannot tell you where they are, because they are top-secret.

Now, Ricky, do you know what your cat has been up to today? Well, I

am never sure, but Bella is usually asleep in the greenhouse or running

riot through Hertfordshire. Well, maybe you should talk to the

scientists who have been fitting cats with spy cams to find out what

they get up to when we are not around. When they are not napping

for 12 hours a day, country cats love hunting, while city cats

prefer staying closer to home. There is good news as well - cats