The ceremony went ahead without disruption, despite a string of apparently Co Ordinated Sabotage Attacks on frances high Speed Rail Network early on friday, the motive for which remains unclear. More on that in a moment, but first Maryam Moshiri on the dazzling show from the city of light. What a culmination, what an end to what has been at times a difficult day for the organisers of the Paris Olympics and, indeed, the ceremony. The day started with those train delays, with those attacks on various Train Lines around france, but it ended with a real bang. The Opening Ceremony was promised to be a joyful event, an event that would be beautiful theatre in the heart of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it really did deliver. We had the french celebrating their culture, their art, theirfashion, their music, but also celebrating a global sense of unity, a global sense of belonging together, and that really is what the olympics are about. The flame, well, that was also an am
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Well being. It s confirmed that human remains found in the pyrenees are those of the missing british hiker esther dingley. And warming up for tonight s first night of the proms, as the royal albert hall welcomes back a full audience with no social distancing. And coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: more from the tokyo games, as bryony page wins bronze for team gb in the women s trampolining final. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, has said she s determined to make changes that will save lives after the country reported a record number of deaths from drug misuse for the seventh year running. More than 1,300 people died of drug misuse in scotland last year alone. Almost two thirds of all drug related deaths were of people aged between 35 and 5a. Scotland s drug death rate continues to be more than three and a half times that for the uk as a whole. It means scotland continues to have by far the highest drug death rate re
At ellesmere port. And at 2. 45pm, we ll be going across the uk to find out more about the stories affecting you from ourjournalists up and down the country. Stay with us for that. Hello and welcome if you have just joined us. The health secretary sajid javid has announced that people, who ve had both doses of a covid vaccine, will no longer have to self isolate if they come into contact with a positive case of the virus. The change which will come into force on 16th august, and will also apply to people under the age of 18 who are currently not eligible for vaccination. And in the last half hour, the education secretary gavin williamson has announced an end to the bubble system in english schools with no more self isolation for pupils who come into contact with positive cases. Here s what mr williamson had to say. Though keeping children inconsistent groups was essential to control the spread of the virus when our population was less vaccinated, we recognise that the system of bub