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The legendary entertainer Sir Bruce Forysth has

The former star of Strictly died this afternoon at his home

From the Generation Game to Play your cards right,

he'd entertained millions of people on screen for more

His showbiz career began in 1939 - at the age of just 14 -

The BBC's director general, Tony Hall, has called him one

of the greatest entertainers our country has ever known.

We'll be looking back at the life of Sir Bruce Forsyth.

An investigation is under way into 17-year-old Moussa Oukabir,

who's suspected of carrying out yesterday's attack.

We live in Barcelona with the very latest on the huge police operation.

Overnight there was a second attack in another coastal area when a car

drove into a crowd. One woman died and five suspects were shot dead by

police. The authorities say both atrocities had been planned for some

time. Spain stops to remember the dead. Three days of mourning have

been declared. You don't really understand what's

happened for probably And then when you see the people

on the floor, you realise The Defence Secretary apologises

to the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq 12 years ago

when an explosion hit his a double century as England

pile on the runs against And in sport on BBC News,

Liverpool have rejected a third offer from Barcelona for Phillipe

Coutinho. It's understood the latest offer

is in the region of ?114 million. Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six. One of the biggest stars of British

television, Sir Bruce Forsyth, has died this afternoon

at the age of 89. His career had spanned more than 70

years and included Sunday Night at the London Palladium,

Play Your Cards Right, the Generation Game and,

more recently, Strictly Come He retired from Strictly in 2014

after presenting the programme His former co-presenter, Tess Daly,

said today she was heartbroken to hear of his death and called him

a friend, a gentleman Our correspondent David Sillito

looks back on his life. Live from London, this is Strictly

Come Dancing. Please welcome your hosts... Bruce Forsyth! When it

comes to TV history, Bruce Forsyth was simply the face of Saturday

night. Strictly Come Dancing, the last hurrah in a career that went

back more than 70 years. The boy Bruce, The Mighty Atom was just the

beginning of a life of song, dance and comedy.

# That's why the lady is a Tramp! There are things he could call on,

he could handle it. And when things went wrong, he could step in and put

them right. Of course, those shows were alive. That is where he was at

his pomp, live. Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the 60s was his

big break. Beat The Clock showed that he could make a game show must

watch TV and ten members of the public into prime-time

entertainment. That it! You've won! Nice to see you, to see you... Nice!

Nowhere showcase the talent better than The Generation Game in the 70s.

Nice to see you, didn't he do well? The catchphrases became part of

national life. Didn't he do well? Among the tributes today, the

director-general of the BBC said he was one of our greatest

entertainers. He defined Saturday night. After that, Play Your Cards

Right on ITV. Another successful game show. Tony Blair insists that

weapons of mass destruction will eventually be found in Iraq. Well,

it would be nice to see them, to see them... Nice! On Have I Got News For

You he reminded TV what a pro he was. He had a regret, it was not

making it in America. In films, and his main love, as a song and dance

man. This could save the whole show. Just do as I do. It'll be like The

Generation Game, all right? You're never quite prepared for it in the

end, are you? He was such a remarkable, iconic figure. In all of

television history in this country, that is the kind of man we're

talking about. Sir Bruce Forsyth. He first appeared on the BBC in 70

years later,... Sir Bruce Forsyth first appeared on the BBC in 1939.

70 years later, he was still there, still the king of Saturday night.

Sir Bruce Forsyth who has died today at the age of 89.

David Sillito, our Arts correspondent is with me now.

A career of more than 70 years, he really will have his place in

television history. If you are 16 or 96, you know Sir Bruce Forsyth. If

you go back to 1958, the Palladium, Beat The Clock, his big break, he is

showing at all. The fact that he was a song and dance man, he could do

comedy, he could play the piano, he could act, he had spent years, from

the 1940s, the 1950s, in every theatre in Britain, getting it

wrong, getting it right. He have that skill that he could bring in

front of not just the TV audience, but also the audience at the London

Palladium, and, really crucially, members of the public. That special

bond of making them relaxed, making them the stars of the show, the

slightly waspish wit. He knew how far he could push it and still have

everybody on his side. Nothing was better than when it went wrong.

Other people would have been terrified on live television, in

front of 20 million people, as you had on The Generation Game. For him,

he knew that was when the magic was. When suddenly they went crashing in

with the crocodile into the paddling pool and it went everywhere. He was

at his best. There are very few people, TV people, that they have

been able to turn to over the years and say, whatever we throw him into,

it will work. There are very few people that are the king of Saturday

night, and that was Sir Bruce Forsyth. Very true.

The rest of the news now and police in Spain say they believe

the suspects in the attacks carried out in Barcelona and Cambrils

were planning one or more bigger attacks than those that were carried

Street a huge manhunt continues for a suspect that is thought to have

killed 14 people and injured scores of others, on Las Ramblas, the huge

thoroughfare that runs behind me. Local media say he is an 18-year-old

Moroccan. This is the suspect, suspected of using his brother's

identity papers to hire the van that mowed down scores of people in this

thoroughfare yesterday afternoon. Police in another seaside area shot

five suspects who were thought to have been involved in another

vehicle attack. One woman died and seven others were injured. As a

result of these attacks, four people have been arrested.

Let's take a look back at how events unfolded.

On Wednesday night, there was an explosion at a house

in Alcanar 120 miles from Barcelona where gas cannisters

One person was killed and 16 people were injured.

Yesterday afternoon a white Fiat van veers off the road and into a crowd

outside the Placa de Catalunya metro station.

It then continues its path down Las Ramblas, the pedesterian street

Then at 1 o'clock this morning there was a second attack

in Cambrils when a car rammed into pedestrians.

The five men shot dead who were wearing what turned out

The first of our reports tonight looks at the attacks and those

A shared silence. Across another European city touched by terror, one

minute of stillness filled the space that Woods could not. A void with a

single burning question, why? Then, as King Felipe and the Prime

Minister looked on, applause and defiance.

We are not afraid, they chanted. But the previous 24 hours of violence

were shocking. This, a street in the coastal town

of Cambrils. A terror suspect is cornered and is wearing what police

believe is a suicide belt. They decide there is only one course of

action. The dead man was one of five who try to mow people down in a car

on the nearby seafront. All of the attackers were shot by police and

investigators now believe they were part of a terrorist cell of eight to

12 people, some of whom were in this house, 120 miles from Barcelona the

night before, when a blast killed one person and injured seven others.

It is thought explosive devices were being prepared, as well as the

blueprint for Barcelona's Las Ramblas attack. Nick and Stephanie

from Lincoln were caught up in the panic. A white van ploughed into the

path of hundreds of people. They run for cover into a nearby cafe. The

only thing going through my head was Paris, and the London attacks, where

the attackers would come through restaurants and bars, shooting and

stabbing people. I thought, we are going to get shot, we are going to

get shot. It felt like it was never ending. When we turned around, after

the first bang, bodies everywhere, kids everywhere, people shouting. I

can't seem to shift that from my mind at all. It is absolutely

heartbreaking, what people have gone through here. You were running for

your lives? Absolutely. In sheer panic and terror. You don't

understand what is happening. For probably about a minute or two. And

then you see the people on the floor, you realise what has

happened. Police have released this image of four suspects. A young

Moroccan man, Moussa Oukabir, three others. His older brother was

arrested and then released yesterday. More information is

coming out about the victims, like Bruno Gulotta, 35 and from Rome, on

holiday with his wife and two children, a little boy and girl, now

fatherless. There are concerns for Julian Cadman, who is seven and

thought to have dual Australian and British nationality. He has not been

seen since the attack. The Spanish are resilient people. 24 hours after

the blood-letting, this is Las Ramblas, where, a few hours ago,

bodies lay, now there are flowers. On the boulevard where the white van

eventually crashed, there is a shrine. So many have told us that

life must go on, that the terrorists will never win. But lives have been

changed here for ever. I should say that it isn't clear at

this stage if any of the four suspects the police are hunting were

some of those that were killed in last night's attack in Cambrils.

That was an attack that witnesses say was absolutely terrifying. Five

men in a car, driving indiscriminately, knowing down

bystanders and pedestrians that they came across. They were thought to be

wearing viable suicide vests. Later investigations suggested that they

were fake. Police are convinced that both attacks at Cambrils and here,

Las Ramblas, were coordinated and were planned carefully, and are

linked. Where Davies has been speaking to some of those caught up

in the attack. Heavily armed police in this small

tourist resort an hour and a half's These are the same police units

who in the early hours of this morning shot and killed five

militants who had driven the car

onto a crowded promenade. Eyewitnesses said police had no

choice as the car's occupants all appeared to be wearing explosive

belts and had one intention - There was a terrible noise

as the car accelerated into the crowd, says local

shopkeeper Juan Dominguez, One woman ran towards me, he says,

saying a man was going wild The car, a black Audi,

flipped onto its roof, It was removed from the scene today

as visitors and locals reflected Among them a British junior judo

squad training in the area, initially thankful they had missed

the earlier attack in Barcelona. I said nothing's going to happen

here, we'd seen a high police presence but then we realised

that was for Barcelona and then we said nothing will happen

here and two hours later You never think it's

going to happen to you. A woman who was stabbed

in the attack here later died from her injuries

and although the explosive belts worn by the gang later

turned out to be fakes, police say the attack was brutal

and was very much part of what had Further down the coast there is now

a massive police presence outside a house destroyed

on Wednesday which may have One theory - it could have

been a bomb factory that blew up accidentally,

prompting the killers to bring Our Security Correspondent Gordon

Corera is in Barcelona. The police are now suggesting that

perhaps a much bigger attack was being planned than what we saw in

Las Ramblas and further down the coast. Yes, yesterday we thought we

knew what this attack looked like, an attack in which a lone attacker

inspired by Islamist ideology had taken his car and rammed into

people, but over the last 24 hours the complexion has changed. The

explosion looks like a group planning a bomb which had gone

prematurely, perhaps killing one of them, so they then decided they had

to act because they suspect that the authorities would get onto them. It

led to them carrying out more rudimentary tax than they originally

intended. All of this points to a much bigger cell and a much bigger

network. The urgent question for the authorities now is how many people

were involved? Have they identified all of them? Does the attack remain?

And also how do they arrest them? That is the very latest from

Barcelona and with that, it is back to you.

The mother of a soldier who died in Iraq 12 years ago

while travelling in a lightly armoured Snatch Land Rover has

received a letter of apology from the Defence Secretary,

Private Phillip Hewett was killed when an explosion hit his vehicle.

Now other families who lost sons in a similar way say

that they should also receive an apology.

Here's our legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman.

Sue Smith's son, Private Phillip Hewett, was killed by an improvised

explosive device while travelling in a lightly armoured Snatch Land

Sue hoped an inquest, due to last five days,

would provide answers about the Snatch and how

Phillip died, but it lasted just three hours.

Quite honestly, it was like a smack in the face.

It was almost as if those three lives had been worth an hour each.

It was almost like I was something under somebody's foot and they just

Didn't actually make me feel less determined,

In 2013, Sue and two other families of soldiers killed

in Snatch Land Rovers won a landmark ruling the Supreme Court,

enabling them to sue the MoD because the Human Rights Act

was deemed to apply to soldiers on the battlefield.

It was the publication here in July last year of the report

into the inquiry into the Iraq war by Sir John Chilcot that

It gave a damning assessment of how, for years, the Ministry of Defence

failed to replace the inadequate and lightly armoured

Almost a year after the Chilcot Report, Sue's case,

along with that of two other bereaved families, has

been settled and she's received a letter of apology

from the Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon,

But at least, the end of it, it was worth it.

Not his death, but for him to be remembered for

Major Matthew Bacon was killed in a Snatch in Iraq in 2005.

His father, Roger, who didn't bring a legal case, also

Why didn't they think about all those other families that

The Secretaries of State should now write to all of us

Sue's 12-year legal battle with the army that sent her son

In the last few minutes, breaking news from Washington. Donald Trump's

chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, has been fired from his post. Let's

go to Washington and our correspondent. Another high-profile

departure. Do we know what has happened? This extraordinary

merry-go-round that is the trump White House and another player flung

out. Perhaps the most controversial of them all, Stephen Bannon was

known with somebody with far right tendencies and sympathies even. He

founded a far right newsagency, Breitbart, and was brought into the

trump campaign during the election and was widely seen as the man who

formulated the strategy that got Donald Trump to the White House. He

told Donald Trump to be himself more particularly on issues of race. But

in the last week or so with everything that has gone on with the

far right march and rally in Charlottesville and the violence

that followed and the fact Donald Trump failed to unequivocally

condemn the far right, there was more focus on Stephen Bannon with

many calling for him to be removed because of the influence he was

having on the White House. In the end it was perhaps something very

different that meant he left, simply he did not get on with other people

in the administration in what is being seen as a factional war at the

moment in the corridors of power. Police in Finland say two people

have died and at least six others have been injured

after being stabbed The suspect was shot in the leg

by police and taken into custody. Police have urged people

to avoid the city centre. Security has been reinforced

at Helsinki airport and at railways The entertainer Michael Barrymore

has won damages against Essex Police for his wrongful arrest

in connection with the death The body of Stuart Lubbock

was discovered in a swimming pool Michael Barrymore is claiming more

than ?2 million in compensation. The BBC has announced the death

of the award-winning Liz Mackean was a correspondent

on Newsnight for 14 years. In Northern Ireland,

she won the trust of all sides and produced some of the most

insightful reporting She was best known for her coverage

of the Jimmy Savile Cricket now and England have passed

the 500 runs mark on the second day of the first day-night Test match

against the West Indies. There was also a double century

for Alastair Cook as the pink ball is used for the first time

in an international in this country. Our sports correspondent

Joe Wilson reports. Replica pink cricket balls

are available in waterproof plastic. Still, many dressed undaunted

but hold onto your sombrero. Minute after hour after year,

does he ever make a mistake? West Indies' bowling

was an invitation, ideal if you're starting your test career,

and Dawid Malan made 65. He could and probably

should have made more. We'd almost forgotten

that wickets could fall. This happened just before lunchtime,

which is at teatime Cook was heading for 200,

and the way he got there was sadly symbolic of West Indies

in this match. Well, anyway, Cook just

smiles and scores. He was batting past his

bedtime last night. We're all still getting used

to this day-night business. Others felt Ben Stokes could've hit

this anywhere, found a fielder, good catch but a missed opportunity

and he knew it, In his 130th over in the middle,

he scored England's 500th run And had made 243 when there was an

LBW decision and was finally out. It was a grand tradition of sheer

concentration. England have declared on 514 and James Anderson came in

and took a wicket straightaway. West Indies in their first innings, 8-1

and may be quite glad that it has just started to rain.

Let's have a look at the latest weather.

It looks pretty changeable this weekend, but not as turbulence as

today. Thanks to this weather watcher, we saw a lot of rain in

eastern and western areas of Scotland. Heavy thundery downpours

developed quite widely. All of this was brought in on a pretty strong

wind, particularly for Wales and the South West. We could see Gales on

the south coast this evening. Some dry weather by the end of the night

for many and temperatures 12-13. It stays changeable into Saturday, but

not quite as turbulence as today. There will be fewer showers and some

spells of sunshine. The showers most likely in Scotland, Northern

Ireland, northern England and Wales. In many southern areas it should be

dry for a good part of the day. Still breezy, but not as windy as it

been today. No great shakes in temperatures for this time of year.

The showers will fade away during Saturday night and it will turn dry

with clear spells. It will be cool and quite chilly. A bright start for

many and in northern and eastern areas it will stay that way. Rain

will make an erratic process in across the south-west of England and

Wales and Northern Ireland. Temperatures 17-20. Is that wet

weather moves eastwards, we see a south-westerly wind pulling in some

warm and humid air in southern parts of the country. Next week

temperatures could get up into the mid-20s, but there is a chance of

mid-20s, but there is a chance of rain in the north and west.

Back now to our top story and the death of Sir Bruce Forsyth.

He was 89. There is a special tribute to him tonight on BBC One at

seven p:m.. But now we leave you with some of the most memorable

moments in his career. Tea service, a rug, two military

fence. A blender, didn't she do well? Just do the same thing, we are

coming in now. Right. # I am putting on my top hat,

messing up my white tie, dancing... # In other words, in other words, I

love you. Fly me to the