 Highlights included co-hosting a week-long "road show" of live programmes around the country, and covering the America's Cup races live, as well as interviewing a wide range of newsmakers and politicians.In 2004, Hawkesby joined Eric Young as host of the late news show "Tonight", which she fronted on her own for two years after Young left.She left on maternity leave in late 2006 and has since announced she will not return.