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The number of dead in Italy's earthquake now stands at 278. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
A state of emergency has been declared. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Marcos Burnett, who was 14, and Will and Maria Henniker-Gotley, | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
All died in the same collapsed building. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
TRANSLATION: There was nothing we could do with our bare hands. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
They were sleeping in a room on the ground floor and it | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
As time passes, with so much devastation, the authorities say | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
there's little hope of finding anyone else alive. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
We'll have the very latest from the scene. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
The BBC learns of significant cost cutting plans, that could affect NHS | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
France's highest court lifts the ban on burkinis, | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Lifeguards will be on the beach at Camber Sands this | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
bank holiday weekend, after the deaths of five men. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
And West Ham's newest signing, who'll never put his boots on. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Hamilton will be playing catch up at the Belgian Grand Prix. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:17. | :01:42. | |
Three British citizens, all from London, are among | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
the dead after Wednesday's earthquake in central Italy. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Marcus Burnett, who was 14, was on holiday with his parents | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
and sister, who both survived, while Will Henniker-Gotley, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
who was 55, and his wife, Maria, who was 50, also died. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
They were all just outside the the town of Amatrice, | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
where emergency teams are continuing to search for survivors. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
278 people are now known to have died. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Two British families, the Henniker-Gotleys and | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
This is the house in which both British families were staying. | :02:20. | :02:32. | |
And you can see that the damage is dramatic. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Both families have paid tribute to the work of those relief workers | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Their neighbour, Nando Bonnanni, was the first to reach them. | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
TRANSLATION: I shouted and called out for Maria and Will, | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
There was nothing we could do with our bare hands. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
They were sleeping in a room on the ground floor and it | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
The Burnett family from London lost their 14-year-old son, | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
His school called him a much loved and admired boy. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
50-year-old Maria Henniker-Gotley and her 55-year-old husband, | :03:12. | :03:12. | |
They were from Stockwell in south London. | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
They were always fun, you could always have a laugh with them. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
It's just shocking that you go off on a lovely summer holiday and, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
you know, we won't ever see them again, really. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Many survivors are left with a simple, powerful question. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Why did so many buildings fall and so many people die? | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
11-month-old Elena Sofia has no idea that she, | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
She and her mother, Sonia, are recovering in hospital. | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
I freed myself and started asking for help, but everyone | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
So I went back and with my hands I freed my daughter from the rubble. | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
I could only see her little foot and I just pulled her out. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
The worst hit town, Amatrice, will soon begin to hold | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
This town, and others, will have to find new ground | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
Damian Grammaticas is in Amatrice, one of the worst affected towns. | :04:28. | :04:48. | |
The authorities are clearly believing finding anyone beneath | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
that rubble is diminishing. Yes, but the rescuers have not given up hope. | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
If you hunt yard is a way they have set up a temporary airfield. Pelle | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
tops of -- helicopters have been ferrying rescue teams to outlying | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
villages. Some places where no specialist teams have been yet. A | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
couple of yards that way there is dust still rising from the centre of | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Amatrice, where the diggers are working. All around, rescue teams | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
are busy moving up and down, because they have told us they believe there | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
is still hope. They say people can survive three days or longer and | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
they will continue to look. The difficulty, as with the British | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
casualties, will and Maria Henniker-Gotley and Marcos Burnett, | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
the locations are remote and the construction, too, you take a look | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
and you can understand these old stone buildings are not built to | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
withstand earthquakes. When it hit, the buildings came down and it is | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
unlikely that more people have survived. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
NHS services across England could be cut, as part of wide ranging | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
The proposals include ward closures in some areas, | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
cuts to bed numbers and changes to Accident Emergency departments. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
NHS England needs to save ?22 billion by the end of 2020, | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
and says local people will be consulted on the plans. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Yes, here in West Yorkshire and in communities around England, a lot of | :06:18. | :06:33. | |
debate has been going on about what the NHS might look like in future. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
It has been going on under the radar until now but it seems to add up to | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
something significant. NHS managers say it is simply about making better | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
use of money at a time of increasing pressure, but campaigners say it is | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
really a license to make cuts which will inevitably affect patients and | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
services. It could result in a radical | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
shake-up of health care and services in some areas, with possible | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
closures of A units, hospital buildings and a review of GP | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
services. It looks like quite a lot of these plans are proposing | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
large-scale reconfigurations, shifting services, or shutting them | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
down and providing them elsewhere. Here in Leeds, plans have been drawn | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
up for the possible closure of some wards across several hospitals in | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
the city. Government officials with their hands in the NHS pockets | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
should get the cuts, not the doctors, nurses, patients and people | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
who use and work on the NHS, front lines. The population is growing, so | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
how can you make cuts? In Middlesbrough, the local A is a | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
marked for closure. Care will suffer. Campaigners are concerned by | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
the latest news of a wider local reorganisation. Everything seems to | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
be piecemeal and there does not seem to be an overarching plan that puts | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
patients and the public at the centre. There needs to be a huge | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
debate about the NHS. Other plans include Leicester, Leicestershire | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
and Rutland, with proposals to reduce three General hospitals to | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
two. The Black Country area of the West Midlands, with a plan to close | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
and A unit. And Inc or more, a plan to move resources from hospital | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
care into the community. -- in Cornwall. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
The word from NHS England is that local councils and leaders will work | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
together to decide the best use of resources to meet increasing demand | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
for patient care. The background to this is the need for efficiency | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
savings to help make NHS finances add up. NHS leaders say it is not | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
about cuts for the sake of it, but how to meet the needs of a growing | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
and ageing population. With demand comes rising costs. We are not | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
trying to save the simple answer is to slash and burn and close | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
services, but we need to think about how we deliver services. And what | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
tends to drive up costs. NHS England says that no plans have been | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
finalised. When published in October, there will be a chance for | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
local people to have their say. Judging by today's exchanges, | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
stand-by for a heated debate about the future shape the NHS. | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
If you talk to senior people at the top of NHS England they say this is | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
an important process for the NHS. They have to find these ?22 billion | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
of savings by 2020 and this exercise is all about that, finding how to | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
make money go further. But it will be a hard sell. Local patient groups | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
and others will undoubtedly oppose closures. And some will be arguing | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
that what the NHS really needs is more money. | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
Hugh Pym, live in Leeds. An optometrist who failed to spot | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
symptoms of a life-threatening brain condition during a routine eye test | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
of a young boy, who later died, has been given a two-year | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
suspended prison term. Honey Rose failed to notice that | :10:02. | :10:02. | |
Vincent Barker had swollen optic discs when she examined him | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
at a branch of Boots in Ipswich. The abnormality is a symptom | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
of fluid on the brain. Eight-year-old Vincent died | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
in July 2012, about five Thousands of civilians have begun | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
to move out of a suburb of the Syrian capital, | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Damascus, after living under The evacuation from Daraya | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
follows a deal between Hundreds of rebel fighters will also | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
be allowed to leave under the deal Lifeguards will be deployed this | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
bank holiday weekend at the beach in East Sussex where five men | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
from London died on Wednesday. Council officials hope the temporary | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
service at Camber Sands Relatives say those | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
who died may have survived Ian Palmer is there | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
for us this evening. This is what local people have been | :10:51. | :11:04. | |
campaigning for, but it is only temporary. It is only temporary. It | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
will last until the end of the bank honoured a weekend on Monday. When | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
you walk past these families on the beach, the dominant conversation is | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
water safety. To reassure them, they are going to introduce up to six | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
lifeguards over the weekend. It will be a difficult task. There are seven | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
miles of beach and when it is busy there are 25,000 people enjoying its | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
delights. A petition that has been started allowing recent events has | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
attracted 7000 signatures, calling for a permanent lifeguard. But | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
having -- having spoken to beach patrol teams here, they say having a | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
permanent lifeguard could be counter-productive. Because | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
particularly those people coming from outside the area, not sure | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
about the hidden dangers of the beach, they may feel overly | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
reassured by having lifeguards on the beach. The beach patrol teams | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
say that really the water safety message needs to be learnt well | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
before you come to this beautiful spot on the east Sussex coast. Ian | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Palmer, thank you for that. France's highest court has suspended | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
a ban on full-body swimsuits, While the ruling only | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
applies to one town, that of Villeneuve-Loubet, | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
it's likely other resorts, including Cannes and Nice, may have | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
have to lift the restriction. Campaigners said the burkini ban | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
infringed the rights of women Hugh Schofield is in | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
Villeneuve-Loubet. You join me on the beach at | :12:32. | :12:46. | |
Villeneuve-Loubet, which is not the most picturesque of beaches. But | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
maybe it is more typical, ordinary, popular, with people from all | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
backgrounds coming to enjoy the sun and the sea. It is also the | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
epicentre of this burkini row. Because it was on this beach here, | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the ban on this each here that has been overturned by this Court in | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Paris. This afternoon we were able to meet some Muslims in on the beach | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
and break the news to them and they were very happy. | :13:18. | :13:30. | |
This was the moment we told this woman and her family the burkini ban | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
had been lifted. She is Muslim, originally from Tunisia, and she | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
told me that if it were not for the ban, she would have been wearing a | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
burkini on the beach today. Now that the news has come from Paris, she | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
will be covering herself more fully tomorrow. | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
TRANSLATION: It has been really hard because we all felt we were being | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
judged. Even though I have been covered for 30-year is, it has never | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
been a problem. In the last two weeks, I felt awkward. It is the way | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
people were looking at me. Before, people did not show how they felt | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
towards us but now they say they don't like it and that really hurts. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
One woman knows what it feels like. She was photographed apparently | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
being told by police to remove an item of clothing. That made the | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
burkini ban not just a French but an international story. But now the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
state Council in Paris has reversed the local banning orders, which were | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
issued over the last two weeks by some 30 towns along the Riviera. The | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
towns had said that after the lorry attack, there was a risk to public | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
order from outward signs of Muslim affiliation on a public beach. The | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
judges disagreed. It is based on the principle of the Freedom of | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
religion, the freedom to express religion and to be able to wear | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
whatever you want, even on the beach. Of course, not everyone in | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
France will agree with the court's decision. Former President Nicolas | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
Sarkozy says he wants a burkini ban across the whole country. And the | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
polls suggest that a majority of the French would probably agree. They | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
want to stop what they see as the gradual encroachment of Islamic | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
lifestyle and symbols into the public sphere. Outside France, such | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
arguments seem to cut little ice. The burkini ban sparked protests | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
outside French embassies in London and Berlin, and campaigns on the | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
internet urged the French to let women wear what they want. At France | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
is a comp that is country. Things that might seem obvious in other | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
places do not seem so obvious here. -- France is a complex country. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
Things like letting women wear religiously inspired clothing on the | :15:48. | :15:48. | |
beach. Three British victims of the Italy | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
earthquake have been named. Marcos Burnett who was 14, | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
and Will and Maria Henniker-Gotley, Meet the new kind of | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
professional football player. Coming up in Sportsday, will have a | :16:07. | :16:18. | |
close look at the weekend's but all with four managers looking to | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
maintain their 100% start to the season. | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
One of the biggest names on the high street, BHS, | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
will close its remaining 22 stores this weekend, bringing | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
to an end almost 90 years of British retail history. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
It's collapse into administration has meant the loss of 11,000 jobs, | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
and resulted in a parliamentary inquiry. | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
Our Business Correspondent Emma Simpson has more. | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
The dying days of a once great high street name, | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Today the bargain hunters were out in force. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
The sad thing is my grandmother worked for them 60 years ago. | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
First time in a very long time, just to get a bargain. | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
I don't really shop in there whatsoever. | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
I shall miss it very, very much - and I mean that. | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
This store was purpose built for BHS in the 1960s and one of the few | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
I'm being shown around the vast BHS store on Edinburgh's Princes Street, | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
by the man with big plans for this site. | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
On every floor there are stark reminders of the past. | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
Yes, this is a measure of the human scale of what happened to BHS. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
There are 250 lockers in here, which reflects the number of people | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
They hope to create new jobs, with plans for a shop, | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
This is the rooftop and this is what I think is one of the most | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
And hopefully a restaurant right at the top. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Nobody would have wanted the set of circumstances which has led | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
to BHS failing, but luckily for us this is the right building | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
in the right place to deliver something really | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
BHS had some of the biggest stores on our high streets, | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
Many, like this one, are riddled with asbestos up | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
in the ceilings and it will cost landlords many millions of pounds | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
It's clear that some will be easier to re-let than others. | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
A large number of these BHS stores are in weak and declining towns, | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
and therefore the issue lies in, will they ever be reoccupied? | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
To reoccupy them will require finding retailers who are willing | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
to move into that space, which may be the wrong | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
All of this space seemed right in the 60s, like this old staff | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
canteen, but BHS failed to keep up with the times. | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
The end of an era, but the BHS story, with so many questions | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
and investigations, is far from closed. | :19:19. | :19:19. | |
In the last half hour, police have confirmed that five men | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
have been arrested in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent on suspicion | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
An Army Bomb Disposal Team have been called | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
in as a precautionary measure to the Lee Bank area of Birmingham. | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
Detectives are searching a number of properties as part | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
Police in Brazil have charged the American swimmer, Ryan Lochte, | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
The 12-time Olympic medallist, had claimed he and three team-mates | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
were robbed at gunpoint during the Rio Games, | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
The maximum penalty is 18 months in jail, and the 32-year-old | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
could be tried in his absence, if he fails to return to Brazil. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
The entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
says he's lucky to be alive after coming off his bicycle | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
in a high speed crash on the British Virgin Islands | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
The 66-year-old suffered a cracked cheek, torn ligaments and severe | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Sir Richard was on a training ride heading down a steep hill | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
Today he tweeted "My life flashed before my eyes as I fell headfirst | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
New files released today, shed light on Germany's attempts | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
to compensate British victims of Nazi persecution. | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
In the mid 1960s, the West German authorities paid one million pounds | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
to the British Government, to give to victims. | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
But despite 4000 people claiming they'd suffered at the hands | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
of the Nazis, little more than a thousand received any money. | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Many were from the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
occupied by the Germans, and Nick Higham is in | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
Clive, we are all familiar with stories of the Holocaust and Nancy | :21:02. | :21:22. | |
brutality but it's rare to come across first-hand evidence and | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
research still that those were British. Dash-macro Nazi. These | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
archives contain both and they show that many who were entitled to | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
compensation as part of the scheme didn't get it, they were not | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
eligible however bad their treatment. They showed some who got | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
money for it wasn't enough. Final scenes of the long drama | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
in the Channel Islands. May 1945 and Guernsey has | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
been liberated after Far-away in Germany, | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
Channel Islanders too Paul and Phil's father | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
Gerald was one, caught with two sacks of stolen German | :21:55. | :22:04. | |
coffee and sentenced to hard labour. At the war's end he had | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
been at risk of death. They were actually | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
on their way to Dhaka, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
they didn't know it at the time, the Allies | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
were advancing and the German army | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
was in a bit of disarray. Didn't understand they were shooting | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
prisoners who Gerald's health was ruined | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
by his imprisonment. Letters, one from | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
the Foreign Office... In the mid-1960s he was one of 4000 | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
people applying for compensation as victims of Nazi | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
persecution, only a quarter of a Gerald got ?2100, | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
around ?28,000 today. The files are now being released | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
at the National Archives, those of other Channel | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Islanders are harrowing reading. Frank Tuck describes | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
being beaten with a pick handle and flogged with | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
the 'The fear that ruled us | :22:52. | :22:52. | |
was indescribable', he wrote. He saw a fellow Guernsey man die | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
of Jack Harper was sometimes | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
chained in a standing position without food all night, | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
by a sadistic German guard. And Thomas describes | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
working in clothes soaked through that dried on one's back, | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
sometimes frozen stiff. Thomas one of 17 Guernsey | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
policemen sentenced for sabotage and was so weak | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
by the end he couldn't stand. He got two and a half thousand | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
pounds, Margaret Godfrey Do you think he felt the money | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
was sufficient or do you think he thought | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
that was meagre? I think they thought | :23:35. | :23:35. | |
it was Today Guernsey is a peaceful place, | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
these files reminder that even here, some people suffered | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
terribly under Nazi Germany. Video gaming is a multi billion | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
pound industry worldwide, and it's marketing potential is now | :23:46. | :23:59. | |
attracting conventional So now Sean Allen who's | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
from Somerset has achieved huge success playing | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
FIFA 16 on a console, he's been snapped up | :24:06. | :24:06. | |
by West Ham United to represent Our Technology Correspondent, | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Rory Cellan-Jones has more At West Ham's training ground | :24:10. | :24:22. | |
they are preparing for the big match against Manchester City on Sunday | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
but one new signing is watching from His skills lie in a virtual | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
version of football, rather Sean Allen whose game name | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
is Dragonn plays the video game Fifa, the 24-year-old | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
lives in Somerset, signed in May for West Ham after he was | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
the runner-up in this year's I am just always trying to keep | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
the higher pressure... The first e-sports player signed | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
by a Premier League club is expected | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
to represent West Ham every time he plays | :24:52. | :24:52. | |
in a But his training takes place | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
in front of the games What would you say to | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
people who thought... Obviously people are always going to | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
think about that, sitting indoors, playing video games, but I have | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
proved the amount of money made this year especially from Fifa, | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
I've proved most people like... Earn less than what I earned | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
in a year just from working and I've been sitting | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
here doing video games. West Ham who have moved | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
into the Olympic Stadium, believe e-sports will one day be big | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
business for the club. Football is, of course, | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
a vastly lucrative sport with also vast revenue earning | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
opportunities while e-sports is One day could a vast | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
stadium like this be filled with an audience who turned up | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
to watch a video game? In fact, in South Korea, | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
that's already The stadium was packed out | :25:46. | :25:46. | |
for the final of League of Legends, and much more | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
popular games than Fifa. And football isn't | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
the only sport trying to connect | :25:57. | :25:57. | |
with video games fans. The car-maker Nissan has been | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
running the PlayStation academy, | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
taking the best online games players to race | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
for West Ham believe its initiative | :26:06. | :26:06. | |
will help it connect In the club shop many | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
fail to identify Signed back in May, | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
do you recognise him? We need a striker, hopefully | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
he's a striker, yes. West Ham won't say but you can bet | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
Sean Allen is paid a tiny fraction of what | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
Cheikhou Kouyate earns. Mind you, in this game, | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
Sean won 5-0. A Bank Holiday weekend almost upon | :26:44. | :27:01. | |
us and of course that means there is rain in the forecast but not a | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
complete wash-out. Some sunshine around. This afternoon, it has been | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
glorious, here is the same west of Sheffield, blue skies, Fairweather | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
cloud. You can see from the satellite image, most of England and | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
Wales has been clear, Scotland and Northern Ireland some cloud | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
producing one or two isolated showers mainly in the north-west. If | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
you have planned this evening, most places looking dry. Tonight, fairly | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
fresh across most places but hot and humid in the south-east, | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
temperatures in the high teens. By the early hours of Saturday, rain | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
creeping up from the English Channel fishing across the south of England. | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
Some uncertainty about this area of rain on Saturday but it looks like | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
it will affect parts of the Midlands, England, Central and | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
southern England, to the north fresher with sunshine, to the south, | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
hot and humid with the chance of isolated showers. Through the course | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
of Saturday night, looking like this area of rain drifts northwards, in | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
the firing line parts of northern England, North Wales, light surface | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
water first thing on Sunday. Improving story on Sunday, the | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
low-pressure area clearing gradually towards the east, sunshine and | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
showers but as we head through the day, it showers becoming fewer and | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
further between, chances of some heavy ones in the South, | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
temperatures between 15-23. Looks like Bank Holiday Monday should be | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
quiet, lighter winds, driver most, still a chance of some showers | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
towards the south. Not a complete write-off. Clive... Thank you. | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
That's it, so goodbye from me and now on BBC One, | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
it's time to join our news teams where you are. | :28:46. | :28:47. |