09/08/2012 BBC London News

It's time to join the news teams Tonight on BBC London News. A

vision of east London after the Games. The mayor outlines his

legacy plans. We'll look at the challenges London

faces to fulfil the promises. Also tonight: as fans queue for the

last-remaining tickets, Olympic chiefs hail London 2012 a great

success. All the people have been really nice to visitors. The

volunteers are also very nice people.

Africa Village has been one of the most popular of the so-called

Olympic Houses across the capital, but unpaid bills means it's shut

Good evening and welcome to the programme. "A Golden Games,

followed by an incredible legacy." That's what the Mayor promised

today, as he outlined how the city will benefit from the billions that

have been invested for the Olympics. Once the action here is over, the

Athletes' Village will be turned into housing, which will be ready

for next year. There are also plans for more flats and houses to be

built as new neighbourhoods are developed inside the Park, bringing

the total of new homes to 10,000. Karl Mercer is in Stratford now.

Come down about 20 floors from where you are and I'm on the ground

of the Carpenters eestate. It is an estate, like where you are, that

silts on the edge of the Olympic Park. It is here on the ground

where Olympic bosses will have to perform at least as well as they

have over the last two weeks, over the next ten years, if they are to

deliver that key buzz word of "legacy."

This is the grand vision for the Olympic Park when the world's gaze

finally turns away from London, tree-lined pathways, shiny new

homes and of course, blue skies. This bright new future, or legacy

as the men in suits call it, was the theme of the day for London's

mayor. All the estimates I have seen show that the Olympic Park

will continue to be a place where people want to go, it will be a

pole of an attraction and Daniel and his colleagues on the London

Legacy Development Corporation are there to continue to load the

trolley. Work on change the park starts as soon as the Paralympics

end. The Athletes Village will be remained the East village with

2,800 home, nearly half affordable with families moving in next year.

It won't end, eventual lit park will be home to five new

neighbourhoods, starting in 2015 and finishing in maybe a decade.

Those behind the revamp say it'll be a new community for locals.

is very much a place for local people. There are just under 1,400

affordable homes. Of those affordable homes about half will be

for social rent. So rents similar to council level of rent. One-

quarter will be for shared owners and the other quarter will be for

people renting to below market levels of rent. Newham council

where, most of the park sits will put more than 300 families in the

new village but its mayor admits it's very much only the start.

will be making sure we get people in there. We are prioritising

people who work and prioritising people that will make a difference.

It is only a small number for the housing demand. We want to see

housing development but we also want jobs. Not everyone is

convinced. Some locals at this estate not buying the regeneration

game. I'm not buying it. Joseph fears locals won't be moved on to

the park and won't be able to afford what are being branded as

affordable homes. I think the housing legacy will be to get on a

bus and get out of Newham. That's pretty much what the mayor is

hoping to do with a lot of the people who are here. The kind of

people he doesn't want here. The people who are lower income, people

who are poorer. Convincing Londoners that they'll get a

lasting legacy with the Games will be as tough, if not tougher than

putting on a month of the Olympics and Paralympics.

There is a huge challenge still ahead. You see the Orbit standing

proudly over the Olympic Park at the moment. There is a huge

challenge ahead to make sure it is still standing in pride of place in

20 years' time. 1 Thank you very much Stay with us,

lots more to come, including: I've spent the day on HMS Ocean

here in Greenwich. The Navy's largest ship, helping to protect

the Olympic Games. There are still three days to go but London's Games

is already getting praise from the International Olympic Committee.

Two leading figures, including the IOS President, says the 2012 Games

are a great success. Our Olympics Correspondent Adrian Warner is

inside the Olympic Park for us now. Very positive words. Absolutely.

The IOC President, Jacques Rogge, has been praising the British

crowds for not just cheering on Brits but the international

athletes, too. But they don't normally like making comparisons

saying these are the greatest Games ever but what happened today was

very interesting. Danny Oswald, the man who has monitored the games for

the IOC started comparing them to Li hammer, that was a winter Games

in '94 which was amazing in terms of atmosphere a small place with

passion and intimacy. They thought they'd never be able to create a

Games like that againings and certainly for a big city like

London to do it, is huge praise. Certainly friendly Games, all the

people have been really nice to visitors, the volunteers are also

very nice people and, yes, certainly this is one of the

positive aspects. There are many more. The quality of the

organisation and also the performances of the athletes. We

have had a great competition neverry sport.

And what have the athletes been saying about the atmosphere?

have heard today from Gabby Douglas. She is eight big gymnast in the the

American team who has done well here. She was full of praise for

the crowds. To have the crowd behind you, you know clap for your

floor routine or just clap any wise and be so loud is an important

thing. I love the crowd it. Motivates me to do better and

better things to put on a great show for them. The crowd has been

amazing here. I think the world always knew that Brits loved their

sport but any old-fashioned idea on the other side of the planet that

Londoners are reserved and not willing to be as passionate as the

South Americans or southern Europeans has gone out of the

window. Thank you. Well that feel-good

factor has meant that people are going to great lengths to get their

hands on the last of the remaining tickets. Many have been queueing

for hours at the national houses across London which are entitled to

sell them. Trying to secure a ticket to the Games has become an

Olympic sport in its own right. This was the queue in Islington

today, as the Czech republic's Olympic Committee continued to sell

its remaining allocation on a first-come, first-served business.

I thought I was on to a winner, and then I got here and it was fairly

long. I think you have to wake up seriously early. I think some

people have been camping. These These are some of the tickets, we

have canoe sprint. We have tae kwon do for �35. We have basketball for

�85 and the beach volleyball final, �450. There is an admiration fee on

top. None of those events are on the Olympic Park, there were

handball tickets on sale earlier today but what most people want is

a way on to the Olympic Park. You have to get here very early for

that. Show us your tickets, how are you feeling? It was a great success.

I have been waiting for a long time standing outside but it was worth

it. How long were you waiting? I don't even know, I think at least

seven or eight hours. OK, understood. Others walked away

empty handed. The key for us was that nothing was happening for the

Olympic village. And that was really why we were here.

And, so, I'm quite happy to see a lot of it on television. For those

wanting the live experience, though, the queueing for the last tickets

will begin again tomorrow morning. The hospitality centre for African

nations competing in the Olympic games has had to close because of

unpaid debts. Africa Village owes suppliers

hundreds of thousands of pounds. It was the first time at an Olympic

Games that the 53 African nations competing had come together to host

one, specially dedicated space. Our reporter Nick Beake is there now.

It was going to well. The organisers tell us that more than

80,000 people came to Africa Village since it opened at the

start of the Games. It seems that lots of people were coming in, but

not much money was being paid out, namely to the suppliers and so,

it's shut. Now, of course lots of people disappointed. You can see

here from these pictures in happier times what was on offer in Africa

Village. There was a real taste of Africa. You had restaurants and

stalls. Today, though, lots of people turning with up bemused

faces. They thought they had come for a day out only to be told there

was nothing on. Very letdown about the whole thing. I don't think it

portrays a good image about Africa. They will all be thinking it is the

Africa Village but they are not thinking about the contractors who

have done this job. They are the people they should be looking at,

not the African village per se. It is very frustrating.

Well Geraldine there was representing Cameroon. She had a

crafts stall inside. Lots of families, too, have been telling us

how disappointed they are not to be able to have the day out they had

planned. I was coming, and I was excited to have a look. It is a bit

of a shame it is closed. It is not very easy for us to come out on a

hot day like this with all the children. We thought we could make

a day out of it. But, we are upset. So, is there any hope that it could

re-open before the end of the Games? Well, we are told that still

hundreds of thousands of pounds, possibly as much as �400,000 is

still owed to suppliers. There have been talks today to see if they

would be maybe able to get it going for the last few days but in the

last half an hour or so I spoke to one of the people behind it and

they say sadly, Africa Village will not now be opening for the

remainder of the Games. Thank you.

If you've been to any events in Greenwich during the Olympics, you

may have seen the 20,000 tonne HMS Ocean docked nearby. It came up the

Thames last month as part of the security measures during the Games.

And our reporter Matthew Morris has been taking a look around.

Returning back to base after a 12- shower shift securing the Olympic

equestrian venue in Greenwich. That means it must be time to eat.

Many of the 1,000 personnel on board have served in places like

Afghanistan and Iraq, making the London Olympics an unusual

deployment. It's been really good, really, really good. It's my first

time of actually experiencing the Olympics myself. People have come

up and spoke to us saying how well we've been and they are pleased to

see us there as a presence. It's the Royal Navy's largest ship at

the heart of the Olympic security plan. Everyone is busy but these

helicopter crews do not want to be called into action. In total there

are seven helicopters on HMS Ocean and at any given time 24 hours a

day there are always two helicopters on immediate standby.

Each will have four people on board, two aircrew and two snipers. Ocean

is a large visible presence here in Greenwich on the Thames. Our

helicopters are here ready to respond but n inactivity of the

helicopters is a sign of success. The headlines will be grabbed by

those up on deck. Seven floors below, fixing sewage pipes they are

also working hard. We are a floating hotel. We have to keep it

air-kind and provide lighting. Behind us we have one of the sewage

treatment plants. We deal with our own sewage. The product we put out

is clean water at the end. There is a lot of stuff that keeps us going

at a steady hum underneath. When not on standby there are chances to

get away. It's the home Olympics and it is a home deployment, too.

It is great to be doing this sort of thing at home which is a big

difference. Obviously the family is not too far away, it is easy to get

in touch and phonecalls. Yesterday I was fortunate to be up at ExCel

watching the men's team table- tennis, a Chinese victory but a

great atmosphere. Even time off for the ship's captain? A few hours, it

was great. Time to head back. HMS Ocean will stay in Greenwich until

after the Paralympics. Still to come before 7.00pm:

Why synchronised swimming is a One of the most positive images

during last year's riots was the way in which communities came

together with buckets and brooms to clean up the capital and reclaim

the streets. The man who co- ordinated the thousands of people,

largely through social media, has found a new way of connecting like-

minded residents who want to improve their part of London.

Burning buildings, looting, but thin blue line stretched beyond the

limit. Clapham Junction last summer. But right clean-up, it Twitter -

Tadd set up on his laptop, helped to arrange this. This is the man

who worked day and night to make it happen. It showed that people want

to help, they want to get out and make a difference. That's what we

are trying to keep going but the next project I'm working on. So the

riots wasn't about destruction, you think? The riots were about

community in lots of different ways. One expression of that was to smash

things up and say, I'm fed up with my community. Another was to say, I

like the community and I want to help it. For 1000 were arrested

after the riots, but Dan says 12,000 people took part in the

clean-up. So he has spent the last year and �100,000 of government

money creating a website, we will gather. Type in your local project,

time and date. The site co- ordinates the community spirit that

came out of the riots and puts it to work. The minister, a west

London MP backing Dan's idea, believes it's worth every penny.

We've seen a lot of local pride in the Jubilee and the Olympics, so

let's tap into that and see how people respond. You are convinced,

aren't you? Totally. Part of my job is ago around the country and I

visit people and these groups who are doing this. I know how much

they get out of it. Andrew bales took an now-famous picture that

says so much about last summer. He was part of the broom army. What do

you remember of the moment when you took your photograph? I remember

thinking this was a really wonderful moment. I remember

thinking this was a group of people getting together to do something

that is good. There was a real sense of community. We will gather

is a test of whether some good can come from some of the capital's

darkest days. With the capital's athletes doing so well, what

happens next? Earlier, we heard how new housing will be created in the

park, but what will the legacy before sport in the community?

Katharine Carpenter is in Victoria Park, at an event to encourage the

talent of the future. You can't get down to grassroots sports at a more

grassroots level than this. Many of the children here are having their

very first taste of athletics. 300 of them have had a go through this

project to date. It's been a massive hit. I loved it all, it was

all great and I'd like to do it again, I'd come back if I get a

chance. I didn't used to really like sport but I like it when all

this has come out. A I'd like the speed bumps, because I want to jump

higher and faster. You think you could be a future Olympian? Maybe.

I really want to be in the Olympics. What would you like to do? The high

jump. The question is - how can all that enthusiasm be transformed into

an enduring legacy, not just for athletics but for sports? Yes, she

is interested in the Olympics, but for her and her friends this is

less about competition than diversion, and it's free, too.

winner! It is a summer camp for youngsters from the White City

estate in west London, run by a charity which really hopes the

current euphoria will translate into people appreciating the wider

overall importance of sport. If we set about it and mean it and go out,

mobilise the people and the resources, go out and build sports

sessions in disadvantaged areas, we can change the local sporting

landscape. The money short everywhere, another charity linked

to this scheme is trying to get people to give up not their cash

but their time. You can volunteer in loads of ways. You can be a

coach, held in the kitchens, be a treasurer. We want to encourage

everyone to think about their community sport in their area and

just get involved. A spread yourselves wider. Caroline already

gives up her time, a lot of it. She's built up this club in Newham,

so there are now 10 teams. She gets the use of the sports hall very

cheaply but as for the rest, she scrapes together what she can.

of it from subs, some of it from training and the rest of it from my

bank account. We just about manage to stay afloat. The many clubs

struggling to break even, some are calling for simple measures like

tax cuts or tax relief on membership fees for children.

think reduction of VAT on the hire of sports facilities, Gift Aid and

junior clubs but subscriptions. It would cost peanuts in the Treasury

scheme of things. And doing more to encourage volunteers. The mayor is

hoped to have captured well the spirit of the London Games, but his

own sports legacy programme isn't running quite so smoothly. There

have been delays in spending millions of pounds on refurbishing

sports centres and building new facilities. And now the money he is

providing is going to fall off sharply. There's been 50 million

over the last three years. There's only 7 million for the next three.

But David Cameron said yesterday money wasn't so much the issue as

the lack of competitive sport in schools. Which rings hollow for

this head teacher in east London. The government has cut funding for

school sports partnerships, which links secondaries with local

primary schools. He's just had to lay off coaches. What is left now

was not what should have been left and not what we were promised. A

true sporting legacy based particularly on hugely increased

participation of young people. Sport England has �250 million to

invest every year in community sport. When the Games End, fresh

government Legacy promises are likely but the expectations are now

high. Someone who is all too familiar with those tales of lack

of funding and facilities is the chairman of London athletics. The

aim of your project here today is to bring athletics into some of the

most deprived areas of London. What is the biggest barrier to kids in

those areas? The biggest barrier is lack of infrastructure, lack of

cultures and facilities. We are trying to engage with the kids in

those boroughs. So far, we've managed to have 60,000 participants

in 10 boroughs in just over a year. We are introducing them to

athletics and hopefully will put them on the pathway which will

eventually lead them to be a Olympic medallists. The government

says it takes the issue of the Olympic legacy very seriously, that

it wants to plough money into facilities, and that it's going to

spend �1 billion in making sure that children don't give up sport

when they leave school. Do you need more than that? I tend to think

what they say in the heat of the moment doesn't always come through,

so I am sceptical. There is money going into grassroots athletics but

it is -- but its direction could do with a bit of work. A how do you

make sure that the enthusiasm that is undoubtedly because of the

Olympics at the moment is carried on into the future and doesn't

disappear once this is over? You've got to have a strategy and

infrastructure. You've got to encourage the clubs, the voluntary

organisations which have formed the bedrock for producing Britain's

athletes. You've got to link them into the other parts of the sport

which are more funded in terms of Sport England funding and schools'

funding. You've got to make the whole thing much more joined-up.

They could well be a future Mo Farah or Jessica Ennis here. One

coach told me he's already spotted 112-year-old boy who could be a

future hope in the javelin. -- 1, 12-year-old boy. The Olympic sport

of synchronised swimming is currently dominated by the Russians,

but there are high hopes but Team GB swimmers this year, after they

received more funding. They made it into the final of the duet event

for the first time. Today, it was the turn of the teams. But all one

family from Ascot, but nerves were almost too much as they watched

their two daughters compete. An excited crowd gathered for the

start of the synchronised swimming team event. None more patriotic and

proud than Bobby Federici, whose wife is competing for Team GB. What

does your wife make up your outfit? She probably thinks I'm a bit of a

plonker, but I'm easy to spot in the crowd. A never proud family in

the crowd are Jenna Randall's parents, from Ascot. The whole

family has lived and breathed the sport for a long time. Write back

from when they were seven, about 42 hours a week, a five-and-a-half

days. Has there been a lot of driving to run from training for

you? First priority, when they were 17 they learned to drive. This is

the moment Great Britain make history - their first ever

appearance in the Olympic team event. And that team is made up 25

event. And that team is made up 25 % of Randalls. The team rose to the

occasion with their technical routine, performed in front of a

crowd that included the Duchess of Cambridge. The great strides the

sport has made in the build-up to 2012 was rewarded with a score that

will see them going into tomorrow's free routine in sixth place.

Fantastic. They've been working on that performance for a long time

now. It is fantastic that we were able to show everyone hour -- what

we were made up. The home crowd is incredible. To hear that is great

Our team have a long way to go to get into medal contention, but the

Randals are hoping to lead the way for future Games. Let's get a

Even the weather has taken on a golden glow. Today we've had lots

of strong summer sunshine. Over the next few days we are going to get

even more strong summer sunshine. This evening it is a little warmer

than it was yesterday evening. Tonight it is going to be a bit

warmer than it was last night in central London, the minimum

temperature holding up at around 18 or 19 degrees. A bit cooler out in

the countryside at 14 degrees. Rather like last night, they could

be so Miss Dan Fogg around as dawn approaches. But tomorrow morning,

any mistiness will go quite readily. If anything, the skies are going to

be bluer than they were today. With more sunshine tomorrow, it is going

to be a warmer day as well. Top temperature somewhere in the

Greater London area getting up to 27 or 28 Celsius. I think the

Olympic Park might be favoured for that. 28 degrees Celsius is 82

degrees Fahrenheit. The sunny weather will stay with us right

through the weekend. Still a lot of strong sunshine around on Saturday

and Sunday. Not quite as warm. I can show you the reason for that on

the outlook. It is the wind direction and speed. A freshening

easterly breeze is going to bring us some fresher air off the North

Sea. That should help a bit with the heat in the capital. There is

still a chance that we could have a few thunderstorms rumbling up over

the London area fairly late on Sunday. If that happens, well, you

never know, we might have some atmospheric fireworks as well as

man-made fireworks for the closing Great Britain has won three more

medals at the London Games. Nicola Adams has become the first woman

boxing champion in Olympic history, taking gold, defeating her Chinese

opponent in the flyweight division. Meanwhile, in the individual

dressage competition, Charlotte Dujardin, who is from Enfield, also

won gold. Her team-mate secured bronze. There Boris Johnson has

outlined how London will benefit from the billions invested for the

Games. There are plans to build thousands more homes in the park in

addition to the Athletes' Village, which will be converted into flats.

The uncle of the missing schoolgirl Tia Sharp has said he hopes she is

saved and has urged her to come home. 12-year-old Tia was last seen

on Friday afternoon, after telling relatives she was going shopping in