:00:18. > :00:20.he admits he wasn't telling the truth. Mr Mitchell says it is
:00:21. > :00:25.worrying that a serving officer behaved in this way, a comment
:00:26. > :00:28.echoed by fellow MPs. For a serving police officer to admit to
:00:29. > :00:31.fabricating evidence to bring down a Cabinet minister is about as serious
:00:32. > :00:34.as it gets. We'll be looking at how damaging
:00:35. > :00:37.this has been at the end of difficult week for the police.
:00:38. > :00:40.Also tonight, Fears of more bloodshed on the streets of the
:00:41. > :00:50.Central African Republic, as the President resigns. The rain may have
:00:51. > :00:52.stopped but the flood waters are still rising.
:00:53. > :00:57.The French President threatens legal action after a magazine prints
:00:58. > :01:00.details about an alleged affair. Where will you be when the world
:01:01. > :01:01.comes to Scotland? Why Jessica Ennis-Hill won't be at
:01:02. > :01:07.the Commonwealth Games. In Sportsday, British sailors say
:01:08. > :01:09.they risk illness every time they compete in Rio's polluted waters
:01:10. > :01:34.ahead of the 2016 Olympics. Good evening.
:01:35. > :01:37.A police officer has admitted lying about witnessing the row in the
:01:38. > :01:41.so-called plebgate affair which led to the resignation of a Cabinet
:01:42. > :01:44.minister. PC Keith Wallis originally said he had seen the argument
:01:45. > :01:46.between police officers at the gates of Downing Street and the
:01:47. > :01:51.Conservative Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell in September last year. Mr
:01:52. > :01:55.Mitchell was accused of swearing and using the word "pleb". Today PC
:01:56. > :01:59.Wallis has pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office and
:02:00. > :02:02.offered to resign. The head of the Metropolitan Police has apologised
:02:03. > :02:12.to Mr Mitchell. Our Home Editor, Mark Easton, has the story.
:02:13. > :02:17.It was an encounter that lasted less than a minute, but the alleged use
:02:18. > :02:19.of the word pleb by a government minister to a police officer has
:02:20. > :02:23.cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds, the minister
:02:24. > :02:28.his Cabinet post, at least one police officer his career and quite
:02:29. > :02:33.possibly his liberty, too. PC Keith Wallis claimed in an e-mail that he
:02:34. > :02:35.had witnessed the then Cabinet Minister Andrew Mitchell shouting
:02:36. > :02:43.obscenities at police officers here at the gates to Downing Street. In
:02:44. > :02:48.fact, he was nowhere near. Today, PC Wallis pleaded guilty to misconduct
:02:49. > :02:51.in a public office. The judge granted him bail but warned that all
:02:52. > :02:57.sentencing options remained open to the court. The maximum penalty is
:02:58. > :03:00.life imprisonment. Andrew Mitchell has issued a statement saying he is
:03:01. > :03:04.pleased justice has been done but that many questions remain
:03:05. > :03:08.unanswered. For a serving police officer to admit to fabricating
:03:09. > :03:12.evidence to bring down a Cabinet minister is about as serious as it
:03:13. > :03:15.gets, and it really does beg the question, if it can happen to
:03:16. > :03:21.Cabinet ministers and politicians, then it can happen to anybody. The
:03:22. > :03:25.Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, has sent a
:03:26. > :03:28.personal apology to Mr Mitchell. In a statement he said, to lie about
:03:29. > :03:33.witnessing something and provide a false account falls way below the
:03:34. > :03:37.standards that I and PC Wallis's colleagues expect of police
:03:38. > :03:40.officers. His actions have also negatively impacted upon public
:03:41. > :03:44.trust and confidence in the integrity of police officers.
:03:45. > :03:47.Despite recent scandals, public confidence levels in the police have
:03:48. > :03:53.actually remained relatively consistent, but trust is a fragile
:03:54. > :03:56.commodity. I think most of the police officers in this country are
:03:57. > :04:00.quite upstanding. They uphold the law for the rest of the country, so
:04:01. > :04:06.it is quite surprising that he told a lie. We're supposed to trust the
:04:07. > :04:10.police and that just makes me think to myself, I can't trust the police
:04:11. > :04:15.because they're lying. 48 hours after the relief of being exonerated
:04:16. > :04:19.by the Duggan inquest jury, Scotland Yard finds itself having to respond
:04:20. > :04:24.to a scandal about the integrity and honesty of one of its officers, and
:04:25. > :04:26.it is not over yet. Several other Met officers face possible
:04:27. > :04:31.misconduct disciplinary cases following the plebgate affair. There
:04:32. > :04:36.is a police complaints commission investigation and a possible libel
:04:37. > :04:41.case. I think what we now need to do is learn the lessons of what has
:04:42. > :04:45.happened. We need to make sure that police officers understand the
:04:46. > :04:47.nature of what has occurred. I have met many police officers over the
:04:48. > :04:53.course of the year who are very embarrassed I what has happened. The
:04:54. > :04:56.affair has pitched police against all editions with suggestions that
:04:57. > :05:00.the episode actually has its roots in the fierce argument over reform
:05:01. > :05:05.of police pay and conditions in England and Wales. This has been
:05:06. > :05:07.another difficult and dark day for the Metropolitan Police.
:05:08. > :05:10.Mark is at New Scotland Yard. Mark, it's been a week where trust in the
:05:11. > :05:17.police has been under intense scrutiny. Today's news is a blow to
:05:18. > :05:21.their reputation. I do think this is a very difficult moment, actually,
:05:22. > :05:24.for Scotland Yard, because normally when you have these kind of scandals
:05:25. > :05:28.you will have politicians lining up to support the boys and girls in
:05:29. > :05:31.blue, to make the point that the vast majority of officers do a
:05:32. > :05:36.difficult and dangerous job, often with great integrity and indeed a
:05:37. > :05:40.very. That kind of support is there not on the ground this time, of
:05:41. > :05:44.course, because actually the victim is one of their own. And there will
:05:45. > :05:48.be more days like this one. This story has not wished. I think for
:05:49. > :05:53.Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner here at Scotland Yard,
:05:54. > :05:56.he is going to need to show real sure-footedness over the next weeks
:05:57. > :06:00.and months to ensure that what is currently a major embarrassment for
:06:01. > :06:04.Scotland Yard does not become a major crisis.
:06:05. > :06:07.There has been shooting on the streets of the capital of the
:06:08. > :06:09.Central African Republic tonight after the President suddenly
:06:10. > :06:13.resigned, leaving the country with a dangerous power vacuum. President
:06:14. > :06:16.Michel Djotodia seized power in a coup last year with the aid of a
:06:17. > :06:21.mainly Muslim rebel movement called the Seleka. There has been bitter
:06:22. > :06:24.sectarian violence since, with fighting against rival Christian
:06:25. > :06:29.militia. Nearly a million people have fled their homes. And despite
:06:30. > :06:32.the presence of African peacekeepers and French troops, over 1000 people
:06:33. > :06:35.have died in the fighting since December. Paul Wood and cameraman
:06:36. > :06:46.Fred Scott report from the capital, Bangui.
:06:47. > :06:52.There was joy in Christian areas even before the President's
:06:53. > :06:59.resignation was confirmed. Go, just go, he screams, what happened to us
:07:00. > :07:06.will happen to you. They are singing, today we kill Muslims.
:07:07. > :07:13.French troops watched as more and more Christians came out. Muslims
:07:14. > :07:22.stayed at home. This was the moment the Christians heard Michelle
:07:23. > :07:27.Djotodia had stepped down. We think he is mocking the former
:07:28. > :07:31.President's wife. The bow and arrow belonged to a fighter with the
:07:32. > :07:37.anti-Balaka, the Christian militia. Their arms are crude, the rifles
:07:38. > :07:42.home made. Magic amulets stop alerts from the enemy's machine guns. My
:07:43. > :07:49.amulets made it easy to kill Muslim soldiers, he says. They helped force
:07:50. > :07:53.a president to resign. Today's events are their victory, they
:07:54. > :07:57.believe. There is quite a mood of triumphalism among the Christian
:07:58. > :07:59.vigilantes, the anti-Balaka. The question now is whether the
:08:00. > :08:06.President's resignation will spur them on to try to seek revenge. The
:08:07. > :08:09.Seleka slaughtered our people like animals, says the commander here. We
:08:10. > :08:14.have to kill them to make them afraid of us. But, he goes on, there
:08:15. > :08:22.has been enough killing. It should stop now. Some aren't listening.
:08:23. > :08:32.This afternoon the mask was attacked. They demolished it, brick
:08:33. > :08:36.by brick. -- a mosque was attacked. Some Christians can't forget what
:08:37. > :08:42.happened to them. In Bangui's main hospital we found victims of the
:08:43. > :08:47.Seleka militia. This man had gone to a local market and was kidnapped off
:08:48. > :08:56.the street. His hands were tied, his brother tells me, and then they cut
:08:57. > :09:00.his throat. Some 900,000 people, Christians and Muslims, have fled
:09:01. > :09:04.such violence. These people are hiding in the grounds of a half
:09:05. > :09:13.finished church. They just want to go back to the way things were. But
:09:14. > :09:22.on the streets of Bangui, a toxic mix of hysteria and hatred. So much
:09:23. > :09:26.blood has flowed here already. The wild men may determine what happens
:09:27. > :09:30.next in the Central African Republic.
:09:31. > :09:32.The French President, Francois Hollande, is threatening legal
:09:33. > :09:35.action against a magazine after it published details of an alleged
:09:36. > :09:40.affair. Closer magazine printed seven pages of pictures of the
:09:41. > :09:43.President with a French actress. Mr Hollande has not denied the story
:09:44. > :09:48.but called it a deplorable invasion of privacy. It comes at a difficult
:09:49. > :09:52.time for the French President, with the economy struggling and his own
:09:53. > :09:56.approval rating at just 22%. Tonight, Closer said it will remove
:09:57. > :09:59.the story from its website. Our Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt, is in
:10:00. > :10:03.Paris for us tonight. Gavin, unusual for the French press to delve into
:10:04. > :10:11.the private life of a President in this way. It is. In the past, many
:10:12. > :10:16.French leaders had complicated personal lives, but the public
:10:17. > :10:20.rarely got to hear the details at the time. At this morning France
:10:21. > :10:27.awoke to a magazine publishing photos and details of comings and
:10:28. > :10:33.goings which, the magazine says, reveals the reality of a
:10:34. > :10:37.President's life after hours. This is a story about the French
:10:38. > :10:41.president, scooter rides, and an actress. This was the president
:10:42. > :10:49.today and his entourage, crossing the street near the palace. But a
:10:50. > :10:52.French magazine alleges that President Hollande made similar
:10:53. > :10:56.short journeys to this apartment, just 200 metres from his office, but
:10:57. > :11:03.on the back of a scooter and disguised by a helmet. He was said
:11:04. > :11:08.to be meeting Julie Gayet, a film actress and one of his dominant
:11:09. > :11:12.supporters. Jury the election campaign, she had described him as
:11:13. > :11:17.humble and a good listener. -- during. The magazine says, this was
:11:18. > :11:22.the secret love of the President. Over the revelations about this
:11:23. > :11:26.apartment, the President's office said Francois Hollande greatly
:11:27. > :11:30.deplores the invasion of his privacy, to which he has a right
:11:31. > :11:36.along with any other French citizen. What they did not do was to deny the
:11:37. > :11:40.story. I think that politicians have the right to have a private life.
:11:41. > :11:44.The president is just a human being, as everyone, and he has the right to
:11:45. > :11:50.have a private life, including a sexual life. The President's partner
:11:51. > :11:55.is Valerie try Weiler, lives at the Palace. Today, the magazine
:11:56. > :12:02.attempted to justify revealing new personal allegations.
:12:03. > :12:06.TRANSLATION: Is the Private life of a President private or public. He
:12:07. > :12:09.has talked a lot about private matters, describing his wife as the
:12:10. > :12:13.love of his life. He has the liberally opened up his family and
:12:14. > :12:18.created interest in them. These revelations, a difficult time for
:12:19. > :12:21.the president. He has the lowest approval rating of any modern French
:12:22. > :12:26.president. There have been protests against high taxes, unemployment
:12:27. > :12:32.remains stubbornly high and the economy hovers near recession. It is
:12:33. > :12:36.probably not very good for President Hollande to be seen gallivanting and
:12:37. > :12:42.trekking in the streets of Paris when the economic situation is so
:12:43. > :12:46.dire. Next week he hosts the first conference of the New Year. Many,
:12:47. > :12:50.recalling the high hopes of his inauguration, saw this as an
:12:51. > :12:54.opportunity to relaunch a troubled presidency. Now, he is involved in a
:12:55. > :12:58.scandal. The French might respect privacy, but on most newspaper
:12:59. > :13:05.stands, Closer magazine was sold out. A few years ago a magazine
:13:06. > :13:08.surely would never have carried out surveillance on a serving president,
:13:09. > :13:11.but there are those here who believe it is wrong for an elite to know
:13:12. > :13:17.about the personal lives of a president, whilst the public are
:13:18. > :13:26.kept in the dark. But whether any of this will actually damage President
:13:27. > :13:29.Hollande, very hard to know, Fiona. Teachers in England would have to be
:13:30. > :13:33.licensed every few years in order to work in state schools. Under a
:13:34. > :13:37.Labour government, the BBC has been told. Tristram Hunt, the Shadow
:13:38. > :13:40.Education Secretary, says that the licensing teachers would allow the
:13:41. > :13:47.worst ones to be sacked and help others to receive more training and
:13:48. > :13:50.professional development. Stop carrying out experiments with
:13:51. > :13:54.schools and start focusing on the quality of teaching. That is what
:13:55. > :13:58.the man who wants to be the next Labour Education Secretary says the
:13:59. > :14:05.government should now be doing. Any questions? No. Tristram Hunt says
:14:06. > :14:08.that teachers in future should be licensed, and their skills assessed
:14:09. > :14:15.every few years to see if they are fit to see working in schools, a
:14:16. > :14:18.sort of classroom MOT. This is about believing that teachers have this
:14:19. > :14:21.enormous importance and, just like lawyers and doctors, they should
:14:22. > :14:27.have the same professional standing, which means relicensing
:14:28. > :14:30.themselves, continual professional development of being the best
:14:31. > :14:34.possible they can be. Labour argued that what really matters in
:14:35. > :14:38.classrooms is the quality of teachers. That is why they now say
:14:39. > :14:42.that every teacher will have to become qualified. That there will be
:14:43. > :14:46.relicensing of teachers every few years, which means that most
:14:47. > :14:51.teachers will be helped with more training, but the ones that can't
:14:52. > :14:54.improve will be sacked. Labour have been listening to a head who was
:14:55. > :14:59.made a dame for her work in turning around this one is failing school in
:15:00. > :15:02.north London. She says it is vital to regularly assess teacher
:15:03. > :15:08.performance, to give more support to teachers who can improve and, yes,
:15:09. > :15:11.to sack those who can't. At the end of the day, headteachers have to
:15:12. > :15:15.look at the fact that we are here to provide a good education for the
:15:16. > :15:42.children. The best way to do that is to help teachers develop well. But
:15:43. > :15:45.there are occasions where perhaps the individual is not suited to
:15:46. > :15:47.teaching, and in which case it is then best to move on. Some teaching
:15:48. > :15:50.unions combined with the Tories to help kill off a very similar
:15:51. > :15:52.proposal made by the last Labour government. The NUT said then that
:15:53. > :15:54.five yearly classroom MOTs wherever pointless and unnecessary hurdle for
:15:55. > :15:57.teachers. Listen to what they say now. The devil will be in the
:15:58. > :15:59.detail. If this turned out to be a continuation of the Michael Gove
:16:00. > :16:02.denigration of teachers it would be very negative. But if relicensing
:16:03. > :16:03.were truly based on a new entitlement to high quality
:16:04. > :16:05.professional development that was controlled by the teaching
:16:06. > :16:12.profession, then we could talk about the detail of how to do it. It could
:16:13. > :16:16.be very positive for education. The key union attitudes is likely to be
:16:17. > :16:20.whether this makes it easier for heads to wave goodbye to failing
:16:21. > :16:26.teachers. Labour insist that that is precisely what they intend to do. If
:16:27. > :16:29.you are not a motivated teacher, passionate about your subject,
:16:30. > :16:33.passionate about being in the classroom, then you shouldn't really
:16:34. > :16:37.be in this profession. If you are not willing to engage in relicensing
:16:38. > :16:41.to upgrade your skills, you really shouldn't be in the classroom. The
:16:42. > :16:46.Government insist it has already acted to remove poor teachers from
:16:47. > :16:50.the classroom. In the past, Michael Gove has attacked this sort of idea
:16:51. > :16:55.as adding to the bureaucracy facing schools. Labour's message with this
:16:56. > :16:58.announcement as they are interested in teaching, not fiddling around
:16:59. > :17:02.with school structures. What's more, they want parents to think they are
:17:03. > :17:11.tough enough to get rid of bad teachers. Three care workers who
:17:12. > :17:16.abused elderly residents at a nursing home in Lancaster have been
:17:17. > :17:20.sentenced to between four and eight months in jail. A fourth member of
:17:21. > :17:23.staff has been ordered to do community service. The four worked
:17:24. > :17:27.at Hillcroft Nursing Home whether victims, who suffered from dementia,
:17:28. > :17:31.were bullied and assaulted during a period lasting over a year. They
:17:32. > :17:35.told fellow staff they were bored and doing it for their own
:17:36. > :17:39.entertainment. Darren Smith, Katie Cairns, Gemma Pearson and Carol
:17:40. > :17:42.Moore showed complete disregard for the well-being of the people they
:17:43. > :17:48.had been entrusted to care for. Further to that, their ill-treatment
:17:49. > :17:52.was directed at some of the most vulnerable members of our
:17:53. > :17:57.community. These people couldn't speak out or defend themselves.
:17:58. > :18:03.Their behaviour was utterly contemptible. The bodies of a woman
:18:04. > :18:06.in her 30s and two children aged five and seven months have been
:18:07. > :18:10.discovered at a house in Brent in north-west London. Police say they
:18:11. > :18:13.are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths. Brent
:18:14. > :18:18.Council have told the BBC the family were known to them. Even though
:18:19. > :18:22.there is to be a brief respite from the recent rain, floodwaters are
:18:23. > :18:25.expected to continue rising. The Environment Agency is warning
:18:26. > :18:29.communities in southern England in particular of the risk of further
:18:30. > :18:32.flooding from swollen rivers. The River Thames is carrying 400 tonnes
:18:33. > :18:36.of water through Surrey every second, that's ten times more than
:18:37. > :18:40.normal for this time of year. There are currently over 90 flood warnings
:18:41. > :18:47.across England and Wales. Our correspondent has more. From this
:18:48. > :18:51.light it's hard to see where the Thames ends and begins. A watery
:18:52. > :18:55.blow for mile after mile, and it still rising. At Marlow in
:18:56. > :19:00.Buckinghamshire the river spilled over. Whilst at war grave in
:19:01. > :19:05.Berkshire the flooded house on the right belongs to magician Paul
:19:06. > :19:10.Daniels. He tweeted he was OK. There's a bridge that takes us from
:19:11. > :19:15.here to the house. We met Mark Lancia, who's flown in from Belgium,
:19:16. > :19:19.to resupply his stranded mother. He inched forward into her submerged
:19:20. > :19:26.garden, knowing the water is going up. Do you think you will still
:19:27. > :19:31.stay? Yes, of course. We have a basement and I have to keep pumping
:19:32. > :19:39.the water out of that. If I don't it will be inundated. So I had to stay.
:19:40. > :19:44.Residence here say the next 48 hours will make the difference between
:19:45. > :19:48.inundation and salvation. What everybody along the Thames is
:19:49. > :19:52.telling us is, we want up to date information with all this water
:19:53. > :19:56.continuing to rise. They are being advised to go to the Environment
:19:57. > :20:01.Agency website and tap in their location. If I put in Wraysbury,
:20:02. > :20:04.where we are, tap it in and you can see here that a lot of the map is
:20:05. > :20:10.deep blue, which means a very high risk of flooding. Sorry to keep you
:20:11. > :20:14.waiting, it's a bit cold out here. The Prime Minister was in
:20:15. > :20:17.Oxfordshire today, meeting people whose homes were already
:20:18. > :20:23.underwater. He defended his record on flood protection. We are
:20:24. > :20:28.increasing on the 2.1 billion spent in the previous period, so spending
:20:29. > :20:32.on flood defences is going up. The row about building new housing in
:20:33. > :20:37.flood prone -- areas surfaced again today. Government and developers
:20:38. > :20:42.simply can't agree whether drainage gardens like this one in Sheffield
:20:43. > :20:44.are the answer. Capturing water on the surface of this housing
:20:45. > :20:49.development, the pollution is removed because it goes through
:20:50. > :20:53.vegetation, it provides biodiversity and landscape benefits for the
:20:54. > :20:57.community, but it also controls the flow into the stream locally.
:20:58. > :21:01.Whether its gardens or cars, the risk of being submerged continues
:21:02. > :21:10.this weekend. There's not much rain, just bucketloads of worry.
:21:11. > :21:14.Plans for a referendum on Britain's's membership of the EU
:21:15. > :21:19.have cleared their first hurdle in the Lords today. If the bill becomes
:21:20. > :21:23.law there will be a vote in 2017. Our political correspondent watched
:21:24. > :21:26.the debate from Westminster. Britain's relationship with the
:21:27. > :21:30.European Union is at a critical phase, with heated debate over the
:21:31. > :21:34.powers of the EU, the rights of its citizens and whether we should
:21:35. > :21:37.remain a member at all. The Lords have been debating a bill which
:21:38. > :21:42.would ensure a referendum on our membership of the EU by the end of
:21:43. > :21:48.2017. We politicians have made a regular mess of it, over decades.
:21:49. > :21:55.That is why we need to get the people to decide. Labour have not
:21:56. > :21:58.ruled out a referendum, but say this bill would cause uncertainty which
:21:59. > :22:06.would damage our economy. The bill is not about changing or improving
:22:07. > :22:13.the EU. It is indeed stage one in raising impossible demands of the
:22:14. > :22:17.European Union in order to create a pretext for leaving it. The Lords
:22:18. > :22:20.will demand changes to the bill, which will require further
:22:21. > :22:24.consideration, and there's a real danger the bill will run out of time
:22:25. > :22:30.to become law. David Cameron wants to reclaim a raft of powers from the
:22:31. > :22:34.EU before we get to the referendum, which has been debated here today.
:22:35. > :22:38.To achieve this he needs the support of our European partners, but he has
:22:39. > :22:42.angered some potential allies by suggesting curbs on the freedom of
:22:43. > :22:48.movement of EU citizens and their rights to claim benefits here. That
:22:49. > :22:52.has punted a senior member of the EU commission to accuse British
:22:53. > :22:55.politicians of peddling myths about an invasion of foreigners. I am
:22:56. > :23:03.mostly frustrated about the political leaders. Because what is
:23:04. > :23:08.leadership if you are just trying with populist movements and populist
:23:09. > :23:13.Dick speech to gain votes? You are destroying the future of your
:23:14. > :23:19.people, actually. Age UK IPP said he was grateful for such comments. For
:23:20. > :23:22.reminding us that the European project is all about rampant
:23:23. > :23:30.supranational is, with really a searing disregard for national
:23:31. > :23:34.sovereignty. So whatever happens to the Referendum Bill, there will be
:23:35. > :23:41.no letup in the wrangling over our relationship with Europe from now
:23:42. > :23:44.until the election. The heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill won't compete in
:23:45. > :23:48.this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow because she's expecting her
:23:49. > :23:52.first child. The Olympic gold winner said she was excited and overwhelmed
:23:53. > :23:57.by the news, and that she still plans to bid for a second gold medal
:23:58. > :24:01.in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Our sports correspondent sent this
:24:02. > :24:08.report from Glasgow. It contains flashing images. Jessica Ennis-Hill
:24:09. > :24:14.is the Olympic champion. It is perfect day for Jessica Ennis!
:24:15. > :24:17.Overwhelming, unexpected and exciting. Jessica Ennis-Hill a well
:24:18. > :24:20.have been describing her golden Olympic moment, but instead was
:24:21. > :24:26.talking about her biggest challenge yet, pregnancy. The 27-year-old, who
:24:27. > :24:28.married last year, said her plans the 27-year-old, who married last
:24:29. > :24:32.year, said her plans for 2014 have been completely turned upside down,
:24:33. > :24:36.but she is 100% set on trying to retain her Olympic title in Rio
:24:37. > :24:41.wants a baby is born. I think now, taking this period of time might
:24:42. > :24:44.actually lengthen her career, with the World Championships in London,
:24:45. > :24:50.the Commonwealth Games will be on the Gold Coast in 2018. There's
:24:51. > :24:53.always a championship year. Even by the righteously high standards, that
:24:54. > :24:57.will be tough, according to Denise Lewis, who also fell pregnant
:24:58. > :25:02.shortly after winning heptathlon gold. It's challenging, let's put it
:25:03. > :25:08.that way. Not only are you dealing with new evolution or relationships
:25:09. > :25:12.that you have with your baby, but with the goals you've set for
:25:13. > :25:16.yourself. Yes, I want to be back competing at the Olympics. Here at
:25:17. > :25:22.Hampden Park, preparations are well under way for the athletics this
:25:23. > :25:24.summer. Games organisers have sent congratulations to Jessica
:25:25. > :25:28.Ennis-Hill. Ticket sales have been excellent, as fans clamour to see
:25:29. > :25:32.the big stars in action. But that big question now is, just which of
:25:33. > :25:36.those box office names will they actually get to see? Sir Chris Hoy,
:25:37. > :25:41.who has had a stadium named after him, has retired but he will remain
:25:42. > :25:45.an ambassador. Mo Farah says he may not compete, as he is focusing on
:25:46. > :25:50.this year's London Marathon instead. Usain Bolt may run the 200 metres
:25:51. > :25:53.but as yet is undecided. I think there will be a lot of new names
:25:54. > :25:58.coming forward. There's also a large number of current championship and
:25:59. > :26:02.Olympic medallist that will be there. There are 17 different
:26:03. > :26:06.sports, something every day. Every time you turn on the television or
:26:07. > :26:10.go to the stadium there will be a world champion, Olympic champion or
:26:11. > :26:15.Olympic medallist who will be there, competing with our athletes. So
:26:16. > :26:19.Glasgow has lost a star and Ennis Hill has missed out on her second
:26:20. > :26:22.consecutive Commonwealth Games, the one gold medal missing from a
:26:23. > :26:30.glittering CV. But another major title will be added this summer,
:26:31. > :26:34.that of mother. That's all from us. Starting on BBC Two in a moment, you
:26:35. > :26:37.can hear more of Newsnight's interview with the editor of a
:26:38. > :26:39.magazine responsible for