The Gardeners' World Blog

A fascinating start to the Euro 2008 qualifiers: England and Scotland with maximum points, and a great comeback by Northern Ireland against Spain after a bad start against Iceland.

I know a lot of people are interested in audience figures, so here are the key ones for the BBC network coverage. The biggest audience in recent days was a peak of 9.1m for England v Andorra live from Old Trafford. Then we had 3.9m watching the climax of Brazil v Argentina on BBC One; and 3.4m watched Wednesday's Match Of The Day with highlights of Macedonia v England and Northern Ireland v Spain. (The peak for Sky's live coverage from Macedonia was 2.6m.) Wales v Brazil rated at 1.1m on BBC Three; and Germany v Ireland reached a high of 673,000 also on BBC Three...

Apologies to those of you who found you were unable to listen to the second-half commentary of the Macedonia-England match on the website yesterday. This was a mistake, which we will seek to ensure doesn't happen in future. Here's a more detailed explanation from the Five Live Interactive team:

"Radio Five Live and Five Live Sports Extra offer many of their commentaries online but some events are blocked because the online rights are not held by the BBC. Other commentaries, such as Premiership football, are available to UK users only because Five Live doesn't have permission to stream them to a worldwide audience. So if you try to listen to Premiership commentary through an internet provider that is not recognised as a UK ISP, you will hear an apology message rather than the football.

The system by which online streams are blocked and unblocked occasionally fails due to human or technical error. We obviously strive to avoid this as we know how frustrating it is for users. Unfortunately the second half of last night's England game was blocked when it should have been available to UK users and for that we apologise. We are now reviewing our internal processes in order to minimise the chance of this happening again."

When Paula Radcliffe questioned the decision to appoint Linford Christie as a mentor to Britain's young athletes, it was always going to stir up a debate within sport.
Thursday's Five Live Sport examines Christie's new job and whether he is a suitable role model ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.
Our reporter, Arlo White, speaks to athletes, administrators and those closely involved with Christie's failed drugs test in 1999.