Hello.
It's the big newscast related announcement you've all been waiting for,
which is not me and Chris taking over from Claudia and Tess on Strictly Come Dancing.
It is this.
Pudsy Bear of Children in Need has been in this very studio and he handed me an envelope saying,
here is your,
well, he didn't say anything because he's mute,
but the envelope said, here is your Children in Need challenge.
This year, it's all about doing things that are around about the number 25.
We're going to do a 25 hour long.
episode of Newscast,
which will start at 8am on Thursday the 13th of November and end at 9am on Friday,
and which you can join in by listening to live on BBC Sounds or watching live,
including the bits where I'm not off, on iPlayer.
And we will be joined by lots of members of the Newscast family.
So let's see how they react to what I've roped them into on this episode of Newscast.
And in the second half of this episode,
you will hear the conversation me and Chris recorded with Joe Pike and Alex on Thursday night,
where we reviewed the week's news.
But there was a piece of news we didn't have then, which we have now, which we're going to discuss.