$announcement_topics = array();
	//$announcement_forums = array_unique(array_keys($auth->acl_getf('f_read', true)));
	$announcement_forums = array(2);
	
	$announcement_topics = 'SELECT * FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '
							LEFT OUTER JOIN ' . POSTS_TABLE . ' ON ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '.topic_first_post_id = ' . POSTS_TABLE . '.post_id
							' . $forum_id_where . '
							WHERE ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '.topic_approved = 1 AND ' . $db->sql_in_set(POSTS_TABLE . ".forum_id", $announcement_forums) . '
							AND ' . POSTS_TABLE . '.post_text IS NOT NULL 
							ORDER BY ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '.topic_last_post_time DESC';
	
	$announcements_topics_result = $db->sql_query_limit($announcement_topics, TOPICS_LIMIT);

	while ($topics_row = $db->sql_fetchrow($announcements_topics_result))
	{
		$topic_title		= $topics_row['topic_title'];
		$topic_author		= get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_poster'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_colour']);
		$topic_date			= $user->format_date($topics_row['topic_time']);
		$topic_last_post	= append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $topics_row['forum_id'] . '&t=' . $topics_row['topic_id'] . '&p=' . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id']) . '#p' . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id'];
		$topic_last_author	= get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_last_poster_id'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_colour']);
		$topic_link			= append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $topics_row['forum_id'] . '&t=' . $topics_row['topic_id']);
		
		$post_text = $posts_row['post_text'];
		$post_text = smiley_text($post_text);
		
		$template->assign_block_vars('announcements', array(
			'TOPIC_TITLE'		=> censor_text($topic_title),
			'TOPIC_AUTHOR'		=> $topic_author,
			'TOPIC_DATE'		=> $topic_date,
			'TOPIC_LAST_POST'	=> $topic_last_post,
			'TOPIC_LAST_AUTHOR'	=> $topic_last_author,
			'TOPIC_LINK'		=> $topic_link,
			'TOPIC_TEXT'		=> censor_text($post_text),
		));
	}