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the download festival pilot is a huge stepping up of the government s testing of live events. three days long, with capacity for 10,000 happy campers. to be back here isjust. it s incredible. i will go through every guideline and jump through every hoop they want me to to get back here like this. live festivals are basically all i do with my spare time, and live music, so it isjust incredible to be able to be here again and experience that. strict measures are in place to allow this level of freedom at the site. the event will help guide government policy. people are going to be living on site so we are going to understand that kind of living and socialising interaction and also, we are going to have a large scale stage type event and be able to look at the science and understanding of things like the mosh pits. we do the maximum in our power at events to reduce the risk. i think the question for the future is the one that you ask is what level of risk are we happy to take with the sor
download festival at donington park, near derby, is one of them. its taking place this weekend as part of the governments live event pilot scheme . the crowd is smaller and all those attending have had to have a negative covid test. 0ur correspondent, luxmy gopal, reports. they seem like scenes from pre pandemic times, rather than just this weekend. no masks and no keeping two metres apart. after all, you can t do social distancing in a mosh pit. the download festival pilot is a huge stepping up of the government s testing of live events. three days long, with capacity for 10,000 happy campers. to be back here isjust. it s incredible. i will go through every guideline and jump through every hoop they want me to to get back here like this. live festivals are basically all i do with my spare time, and live music, so it isjust incredible to be able to be
people and make new friends. strict measures are in place to allow this level of freedom at the site, and what has been called the first moshing since covid. the event will help guide government policy. people are going to be living on site so we re going to understand that kind of living and socialising interaction, and also we re going to have large scale stage type events, and understand the science of things like the mosh pits. but with a recent rise in the covid infection rate, driven by the delta variant, should these events be going ahead? we ll do our best to reduce the risks. i think the question for the future is the one you ask what level of risk are we happy to take with these sorts of events? i think we ll be able to calibrate that through the research that we re doing. data suggests cases are spreading mainly among the under 25s. around a fifth of people here are that demographic. that age group are gathering together wherever they are. actually what they re doing here
scotland share the spoils. england still favourites to progress while keeping alive scotland s hopes of reaching the last 16. extra clinics and weekend walk ins efforts are stepped up to get more people vaccinated in covid hotspots. the mosh pit is back. thousands of rock fans come together for the download music festival in the latest covid test event. good morning. it is a quiet start to the weekend. a lot of cloud around but a lot of dry weather as well. i will have all the details coming up shortly. it is saturday 19 june. our top story: england and scotland have played out a goalless draw in their euro 2020 clash at wembley. the result means both teams can still qualify for the last 16 knockout stages. an estimated 20,000 scottish fans travelled to london for the match, many without tickets. the metropolitan police said there had been 26 arrests. 0ur correspondent matt graveling has this report. they marched in their thousands and