18/02/2017 London News

The Teenage Cancer Trust has condemned the secondary ticketing

website viagogo for reselling tickets to Ed Sheeran's

upcoming charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

They're up for ?5,000 each, and the Trust says only young people

with cancer should profit from the concert.

Well, Ed Sheeran's manager has told BBC London that the singer agrees.

# You know I want your love... He's currently number one in the official

UK charts. And number three. So it's not surprising that Ed Sheeran fans

are willing to pay huge sums of money to go and see him live. But

secondary ticketing site viagogo has come under fire for reselling

tickets to a charity concert in aid of teenage cancer patients. The

website shows a number of tickets to the gig, ranging from a couple of

hundred pounds, all the way up to ?5,000 for the best seats. Once you

add in the booking fee and VAT, that comes out at ?6,700 for just one

ticket. Despite the Teenage Cancer Trust saying that ID will be

required at the door, viagogo are showing that there are ways around

this. The Teenage Cancer Trust, who are hosting the gig next month at

the Royal Albert Hall, said in a statement... I am Ed Sheeran, and

this is day one of the Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert

Hall... The manager for Ed Sheeran told me that the singer agrees. So

what does the campaign against online ticket touting think? I think

most people would be quite sickened by the idea of big profiteering on

the back of a charity like this. We have got a market now which is

fundamentally quite broken, with ticket touts able to block purchase

huge numbers of tickets, and then they can resell them anonymously on

these platforms. We contacted viagogo for a response, but they

have not replied. With the secondary ticketing industry worth an

estimated ?1.4 billion a year, it doesn't look like it will be going

away any time soon. A top secret spy base in north

London, used to great effect during the Second World War,

is to partly become a museum, after campaigners saved it

from being turned into flats. Trent Park in Enfield WAS a stately

home, before being used Ayshea Buksh has been

there and spoken to the last As a stately home, it hosted

royalty and aristocrats. But during World War II,

Trent Park in Enfield held captured Locals all knew about the existence

of the PoW Cockfosters camp. Some would even speak

to the prisoners at But what they didn't know

is that they were teams of intelligence operatives secretly

working in the basement. One of them was Jewish

refugee Eric Mark. He was recruited at Trent Park

as a secret listener. I was glad I had a job

in which I hoped I could give information to the RAF,

for instance, to kill that lot. The buildings and grounds

were all bugged, so when prisoners relaxed, Eric, now aged 95,

could eavesdrop into their They started talking

about a place called Peenemunde. Peenemunde was where the Germans

were doing their atomic research. The land was once part

of Middlesex university, but was sold off to developers,

who planned to build mostly But after a long campaign

by locals and historians, they've now agreed to keep part

of it as a public museum. There are some major hurdles

to cross - like I say, getting Enfield Council to approve

it, getting a good lease from the developers,

and obviously raising Berkeley Homes say they'll restore

the building to its former glory and create a beautiful setting

for 262 homes. And Eric's secret work

will finally be given And after a dry night,

tomorrow is going to be nice again. Dry, with passing cloud

and bright spells. Feeling mild for

February at 13 Celsius. That's it from BBC

London news for now - It has been a mild day to day and

some of us have seen some spring sunshine. Blue skies and sunshine

here above the River Thames. It has not been sunny everywhere, though.

We have got more cloud around across more northerly parts of the country.

Some rain to come tonight across Scotland and northern England, all

clearing away by the time we get to Sunday morning. And it will be quite

chilly start to Sunday, particularly in the south-east corner, where

there could be some mist and fog first thing. Away from the south and

south-east, it is a milder start to the day. Still quite cloudy on

Sunday in the west. For central and eastern areas, a different picture

on Sunday, with more sunshine. Temperatures in London for instance

getting up to about 13. We