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We've had such a sporty week on newscast.

We thought we'd have one more sporty theme tune. Yes, it's the snooker and snooker is back with a live audience at the crucible.

They did it last weekend, they're doing it this weekend because it's part of the government's

research into how mass events can be brought back safely. So how have things been going at the

crucible? We can find out now from Jason Ferguson, chairman of the World

Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, who is there? Hello Jason.

Hi, it's great to be here in Sheffield.

The sun is shining.

It's a wonderful day and we are so excited to be at the World

World Senior Championship. And you hear that music and just think, oh, this is like the Olympics again.

It is, you know, every snooker player, you know, it's, it really, it just gets the hair

standing up on the back of your neck.

You know it's the World Championship time when you hear that.

So how's it all going? It really is going well to be

honest with you. I can see people smiling again and it really is uplifting.

Oh good. How many people will be in the crucible this weekend? We started at

very low capacity so that's been a third of the

capacity of the arena. It holds just under a thousand people so it's actually quite a small arena anyway.

So we've had around 300 people maximum in there and that will go up to 50% capacity and we are

building up slowly providing there are no problems. Everything is being monitored carefully

including air quality and you know the intention is

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