england are 2 0 down. they go into the famous boxing day test and to win the ashes, the team needs to win the remaining three games in the series. the actor tom hardy is spreading some festive cheer today by continuing the tradition of reading the cbeebies bedtime story tonight with his french bulldog blue by his side. merry christmas. i m tom. this is blue. i hope you ve had a magical christmas day and that your christmas day and that your christmas tree has been shining brightly all day long. he s become one of their most popular readers and his stories have been requested 1.4 million times on bbc iplayer. this evening, he will be reading the christmas pine byjulia donaldson. it is 11 minutes past six. for the last year on breakfast, we ve been following the journey of friends hughie and freddie as they ve raised more than 230,000 pounds for the royal manchester children s hospital, after hughie was diagnosed with leukaemia. they ve been finding out how that money is being spent and
disabled people in work over the next five years, we hear about some of the barriers to employment. questions in beijing, as it s confirmed the 15 year old russian figure skating sensation failed a drugs test before the winter olympics. we can all feel scared sometimes, just like our little owl friend, plop. and we have a sneak preview of the first royal reading of the cbeebies bedtime story. coming up on bbc news channel, britain s women s curling team struggle in beijing after a second defeat in three. they lost to south korea earlier today.