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Secretary Amy Terriere has become track star Kelly’s confidante and closest friend.

Friends believe that Amy has helped the former army sergeant find a new level of happiness following her double gold in Athens in August.

The pair have now become virtually inseparable, and earlier this month they enjoyed a holiday together.

They spent three days in the scenic Stellenbosch region, the heart of the South African wine industry, driving to local beauty spots, enjoying walks together and doing what all girls love - shopping.

Despite Kelly’s newfound fame and fortune they spurned luxury hotels, instead staying in the small one-bedroom apartment at Stellenbosch University, where Kelly trains during the winter.

But this time Kelly kept off the running track, opting to spend as much time as possible with Amy.

Until last month Amy spent nine months living with another female friend in Croydon, Surrey.

South Africa has become a second home to Kelly in recent years. She moved there in November 2002 to live with Mozambique-born athlete Maria Mutola.

Maria won the 800m title at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 but was beaten by Kelly this summer.

The pair had enjoyed one of the closest relationships in athletics, but their friendship cooled earlier this year.

Kelly then moved out of the home they shared and bought her own five-bedroom villa in Potchefstroom, near Johannesburg.

I took them to Radio 1, and left one for John Peel. Every Wednesday or Thursday there was a get-together in the Hyde park with the Chapel Music staff, they had a little football team, I would go along, you know, put on some boots and some shorts and join in, we might have a kickaround or we might have a proper match, it was great fun. So we’re getting changed in the park after the game and someone’s car was there with the doors, the car doors open. And Kid Jensen was on, he was on Radio 1 before John Peel, and Peel was talking to Kid Jensen. And Peel said something along the lines of, ‘I’d do anything for a mushroom biryani right now.’ And Jeff Chegwin had this great idea, to buy a mushroom biryani and take it down there, you know, and say I’ve left my record, if you’d listen to it that’d be great, my name’s Billy Bragg, and just get in his face.

So I thought, OK, that sounds great, so off I went, clump, clump clump in my football boots, cos you know Hyde Park up to the BBC is only about half a mile, found an Indian restaurant, there’s loads of them in the West End. Bought said mushroom biryani, took it down to reception, clump clump clump go my football boots, ‘this is for John Peel”. Oh, they say on reception, OK. Peel comes down, I give him the mushroom biryani, say my name’s Billy Bragg, and I left this record, perhaps you might have a listen to it, he says oh yeah sure, I will do, I will do, thanks very much! Thankyou, he said. He’s as surprised as anybody, you know.

So off he goes with his mushroom biryani, so I go home and tune in and sure enough, after about a half an hour, I start to hear the opening chords of ‘Milkman of Human Kindness’, at the wrong speed.

On the way here today, we passed under a bridge that carried the interstate where 100 to 200 homeless Americans sleep every night. And we stopped, we got out, we went in and spoke to them.

There was a minister there who comes every morning and feeds the homeless out of her own pocket. She said she has no money left in her bank account, she struggles to be able to do it, but she knows it’s the moral, just and right thing to do. And I spoke to some of the people who were there and as I was leaving, one woman said to me, “You won’t forget us, will you? Promise me you won’t forget us.” Well, I say to her and I say to all of those who are struggling in this country, we will never forget you. We will fight for you. We will stand up for you.

But I want to say this — I want to say this because it’s important. With all of the injustice that we’ve seen, I can say this, America’s hour of transformation is upon us. It may be hard to believe when we have bullets flying in Baghdad and it may be hard to believe when it costs $58 to fill your car up with gas. It may be hard to believe when your school doesn’t have the right books for your kids. It’s hard to speak out for change when you feel like your voice is not being heard.

But I do hear it. We hear it. This Democratic Party hears you. We hear you, once again. And we will lift you up with our dream of what’s possible…

All of you who have been involved in this campaign and this movement for change and this cause, we need you. It is in our hour of need that your country needs you. Don’t turn away, because we have not just a city of New Orleans to rebuild. We have an American house to rebuild.

This work goes on. It goes on right here in Musicians’ Village. There are homes to build here, and in neighborhoods all along the Gulf. The work goes on for the students in crumbling schools just yearning for a chance to get ahead. It goes on for day care workers, for steel workers risking their lives in cities all across this country. And the work goes on for two hundred thousand men and women who wore the uniform of the United States of America, proud veterans, who go to sleep every night under bridges, or in shelters, or on grates, just as the people we saw on the way here today. Their cause is our cause.

Their struggle is our struggle. Their dreams are our dreams.

Do not turn away from these great struggles before us. Do not give up on the causes that we have fought for. Do not walk away from what’s possible, because it’s time for all of us, all of us together, to make the two Americas one.

Thank you. God bless you, and let’s go to work. Thank you all very much.