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The Teenage Cancer Trust has condemned the secondary ticketing | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
website viagogo for reselling tickets to Ed Sheeran's | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
upcoming charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
They're up for ?5,000 each, and the Trust says only young people | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
with cancer should profit from the concert. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Well, Ed Sheeran's manager has told BBC London that the singer agrees. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
# You know I want your love... He's currently number one in the official | :00:36. | :00:55. | |
UK charts. And number three. So it's not surprising that Ed Sheeran fans | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
are willing to pay huge sums of money to go and see him live. But | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
secondary ticketing site viagogo has come under fire for reselling | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
tickets to a charity concert in aid of teenage cancer patients. The | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
website shows a number of tickets to the gig, ranging from a couple of | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
hundred pounds, all the way up to ?5,000 for the best seats. Once you | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
add in the booking fee and VAT, that comes out at ?6,700 for just one | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
ticket. Despite the Teenage Cancer Trust saying that ID will be | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
required at the door, viagogo are showing that there are ways around | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
this. The Teenage Cancer Trust, who are hosting the gig next month at | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
the Royal Albert Hall, said in a statement... I am Ed Sheeran, and | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
this is day one of the Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Hall... The manager for Ed Sheeran told me that the singer agrees. So | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
what does the campaign against online ticket touting think? I think | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
most people would be quite sickened by the idea of big profiteering on | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
the back of a charity like this. We have got a market now which is | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
fundamentally quite broken, with ticket touts able to block purchase | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
huge numbers of tickets, and then they can resell them anonymously on | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
these platforms. We contacted viagogo for a response, but they | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
have not replied. With the secondary ticketing industry worth an | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
estimated ?1.4 billion a year, it doesn't look like it will be going | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
away any time soon. A top secret spy base in north | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
London, used to great effect during the Second World War, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
is to partly become a museum, after campaigners saved it | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
from being turned into flats. Trent Park in Enfield WAS a stately | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
home, before being used Ayshea Buksh has been | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
there and spoken to the last As a stately home, it hosted | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
royalty and aristocrats. But during World War II, | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
Trent Park in Enfield held captured Locals all knew about the existence | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
of the PoW Cockfosters camp. Some would even speak | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
to the prisoners at But what they didn't know | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
is that they were teams of intelligence operatives secretly | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
working in the basement. One of them was Jewish | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
refugee Eric Mark. He was recruited at Trent Park | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
as a secret listener. I was glad I had a job | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
in which I hoped I could give information to the RAF, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
for instance, to kill that lot. The buildings and grounds | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
were all bugged, so when prisoners relaxed, Eric, now aged 95, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
could eavesdrop into their They started talking | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
about a place called Peenemunde. Peenemunde was where the Germans | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
were doing their atomic research. The land was once part | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
of Middlesex university, but was sold off to developers, | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
who planned to build mostly But after a long campaign | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
by locals and historians, they've now agreed to keep part | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
of it as a public museum. There are some major hurdles | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
to cross - like I say, getting Enfield Council to approve | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
it, getting a good lease from the developers, | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
and obviously raising Berkeley Homes say they'll restore | :04:27. | :04:27. | |
the building to its former glory and create a beautiful setting | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
for 262 homes. And Eric's secret work | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
will finally be given And after a dry night, | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
tomorrow is going to be nice again. Dry, with passing cloud | :04:38. | :04:49. | |
and bright spells. Feeling mild for | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
February at 13 Celsius. That's it from BBC | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
London news for now - It has been a mild day to day and | :04:55. | :05:18. | |
some of us have seen some spring sunshine. Blue skies and sunshine | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
here above the River Thames. It has not been sunny everywhere, though. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
We have got more cloud around across more northerly parts of the country. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Some rain to come tonight across Scotland and northern England, all | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
clearing away by the time we get to Sunday morning. And it will be quite | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
chilly start to Sunday, particularly in the south-east corner, where | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
there could be some mist and fog first thing. Away from the south and | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
south-east, it is a milder start to the day. Still quite cloudy on | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Sunday in the west. For central and eastern areas, a different picture | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
on Sunday, with more sunshine. Temperatures in London for instance | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
getting up to about 13. We | :06:05. | :06:05. |