Apollo Theatre Collapse

Ongoing coverage, with sketchy stories at the moment of either a balcony collapse or the roof. The vagueness of what has collapsed exactly has given them licence to proclaim THEATRE COLLAPSE which sounds quite dramatic, possibly moreso than it is.

Nice to see BBC News' expensive relocation to Central London has paid off. Sky have had live cameras on the scene for about 20 minutes, the BBC are using just one still image taken off Twitter.

Live at the Apollo is meant to be on BBC One tomorrow at 21:30. It will be interesting to see if it is still shown.

It's a different theatre, the Apollo on Shaftsbury Ave rather than the Hammersmith Apollo.

It seems to me that Sky got there before it was all sectioned off properly, and therefore they are the only unit there, broadcasting from within the police cordon.

I did not know that. I expect I am not the only one not to know that though, so the point still stands.

So, Live at the Apollo doesn't come from the Apollo but merely an Apollo? Next you will tell me that it isn't live.

ABC News is live streaming online a clean feed from Sky News.

Fox News have been dipping into Sky's feed too, but not clean.

BBC News is running videos of the outside shot on mobile devices. Sky is interviewing eyewitnesses live on camera. Can only guess the BBC News unit cannot get near due to the road closures.

... A bit of a shame really as they're only 20 minutes from the scene at BH.

Ross Hawkins has been reporting live from the scene on the phone for the BBC.

Edit. It appears the BBC do have a camera team on the ground as they they're showing some latest pictures.

Yes they've only just started with some latest pictures but nothing live yet. In the 90's I'm sure BT used to have 'hot spots' in central London that broadcast cameras could connect to in order to send live pictures when there was no OB van.

I wonder if they'll have any live pictures from the scene for the BBC News at Ten?

The 'Latest pictures' are the same on BBC as Sky News. I wonder what the source of them is. They seem professional rather than someone holding a camera phone the wrong way round or anything.