:00:09. > :00:14.Calls for an inquiry into this year's GCSEs after England's exam
:00:14. > :00:18.watchdog admits there was a problem. The grading system did change
:00:18. > :00:23.between January and June for some English papers. Students are being
:00:23. > :00:27.offered a resit. That is not enough, say many head teachers. We will not
:00:27. > :00:31.be fudging this matter. We are strident and clear in our view that
:00:31. > :00:35.this needs to be sorted out. We will have reaction from students
:00:36. > :00:38.and parents. Her also tonight: the battle of the
:00:38. > :00:44.billionaires - Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wins a legal marathon
:00:44. > :00:48.against fellow Russian Boris Berezovsky.
:00:48. > :00:52.Her delight and despair at the Paralympics - Mark Colbourne breaks
:00:52. > :00:54.his own world record to win his individual pursuit. But a
:00:54. > :00:59.devastated Jody Cundy is disqualified after a false start.
:00:59. > :01:03.His family vent their frustration. This was the most important race of
:01:03. > :01:08.his life. He spent four years training for this, and they have
:01:08. > :01:12.taken it away. I can't believe they were doing to him.
:01:12. > :01:19.And wildfires on the Costa del Sol. Hundreds of Britons are evacuated
:01:20. > :01:22.near the holiday resort of Marbella. Coming up on the BBC News Channel,
:01:22. > :01:32.where will Clint Dempsey end up? We will have the latest on the
:01:32. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:51.transfer deadline moves in a Good evening. The row over this
:01:51. > :01:54.year's GCSE results has deepened tonight after a report by England's
:01:54. > :01:59.exam watchdog. Ofqual has admitted there was a problem with the
:01:59. > :02:01.grading system for some English exams. It's said papers set in
:02:02. > :02:06.January were marked more generously than those in June. Some students
:02:06. > :02:11.are being offered a retake, but not having their marks upgraded.
:02:11. > :02:14.Tonight there have been calls for an inquiry from Labour. This is an
:02:14. > :02:19.issue that has angered students and teachers alike.
:02:19. > :02:25.A week ago, there were scenes of celebration. But it was a day of
:02:25. > :02:28.despair for others, with claims that the results of a GCSE English
:02:28. > :02:32.exam were not fair. Teachers said the grade boundaries had been moved
:02:32. > :02:36.halfway through the school year, meaning pupils who would have got a
:02:36. > :02:40.C if they sat the paper in January ended up with a D in June. Today
:02:40. > :02:45.Ofqual said there was a problem, but with the January exam, which
:02:45. > :02:49.had been marked too generously, and the lower grades stand. We have
:02:49. > :02:54.looked closely at the June units. They were award correctly and the
:02:54. > :02:58.standard is right. But we found that in January, a unique set of
:02:58. > :03:02.circumstances made it difficult for even professional examiners to be
:03:02. > :03:07.sure at the time that they were making the right judgments. On
:03:07. > :03:11.reflection, they were generous. Many headteachers and union leaders
:03:11. > :03:15.had spoken to Ofqual this week, but as they watched the regulator give
:03:15. > :03:21.the results of their investigation into the controversy, many were
:03:21. > :03:26.shocked and angry. It is the worst of both worlds as far as I am
:03:26. > :03:31.concerned, because if there is an acceptance here that the system has
:03:31. > :03:35.not worked properly, particularly for students who took that
:03:35. > :03:41.examination with a curate at the end of year 11. It is particularly
:03:41. > :03:44.bad news for students like Sheridan. Predict today C, he was awarded a D
:03:44. > :03:49.after the exam, and now it looks like he will miss out on an
:03:49. > :03:56.apprenticeship. I was meant to start next week on Monday. But that
:03:56. > :04:00.will not happen now. How can they impact on somebody's life over
:04:00. > :04:08.changing grades to fit figures? They obviously need people to fail,
:04:08. > :04:11.for some reason. It is horrendous, what they have done. The regulator
:04:11. > :04:15.says it recognises the strength of feeling, and it is working with
:04:15. > :04:20.exam boards to offer early resits for those who missed out on the
:04:20. > :04:23.grade they need. A C can be crucial for anyone who wants to continue
:04:23. > :04:26.their education or get an apprenticeship, but there are
:04:26. > :04:33.people deeply concerned that any delay will mean they will miss out
:04:33. > :04:37.on a job or a place. The assemblies in Northern Ireland, where some
:04:37. > :04:41.pupils also sat the GCSE, have ordered reviews into these results,
:04:41. > :04:47.and many questions will be asked over the performance not of peoples,
:04:48. > :04:51.but over the exam board at the centre of this marking controversy.
:04:51. > :04:55.As our political correspondent joins us now from Westminster. So
:04:55. > :05:01.Labour have called for an inquiry. This puts it squarely in the
:05:01. > :05:05.political field? It certainly does. If the Education Secretary Michael
:05:05. > :05:12.Gove felt this would prefer a report from Ofqual would end a row,
:05:12. > :05:16.he has been taught a harsh lesson. Not only are Labour calling for an
:05:16. > :05:21.inquiry, but he will be subjected to harsh questions when Parliament
:05:21. > :05:24.resumes on Monday. In addition, a cross-party group of MPs may hold
:05:24. > :05:28.an inquiry of their own when they meet next Wednesday. I suspect that
:05:28. > :05:32.Michael Gove will be on the front foot, though, next week. He will
:05:32. > :05:36.say firstly that he will talk to Ofqual before deciding on further
:05:36. > :05:40.action, and secondly that the whole exam system in England needs to be
:05:40. > :05:44.radically reformed. He will take comfort from the fact that this
:05:44. > :05:48.report exonerates him of any political interference in the exam
:05:48. > :05:53.rows. But I imagine tonight that most pupils are not interested in
:05:53. > :05:57.the politics of this, they are more worried about their own futures.
:05:57. > :06:00.It has been billed as the battle of the billionaires, with the owner of
:06:00. > :06:06.Chelsea Football Club on one side and a fellow Russian businessman on
:06:06. > :06:09.the other. Today Roman Abramovich won his legal row with Boris
:06:09. > :06:12.Berezovsky when the High Court in London rejected claims that he had
:06:12. > :06:17.blackmailed Mr Berezovsky over an oil deal. Bridget Kendall reports
:06:17. > :06:21.on a case that has lifted the lid on the sometimes murky work --
:06:21. > :06:26.world of post Soviet business. A courtroom clash of Russian titans,
:06:26. > :06:33.a tale of alleged betrayal, blackmail and secret deals.
:06:33. > :06:37.Arriving for the ruling this morning, exiled Kremlin Boris
:06:37. > :06:40.Berezovsky seemed confident of victory. He had claimed that Roman
:06:40. > :06:45.Abramovich forced him to sell valuable assets cheap, cheating him
:06:45. > :06:49.out of billions of pounds. But in court, the judge said it was up to
:06:49. > :06:55.Mr Berezovsky to back up his allegations, and the bottom line
:06:55. > :06:59.was that she didn't believe him. Scathing, the judge said she found
:06:59. > :07:05.him an unimpressive and unreliable witness who regarded truth as a
:07:05. > :07:10.flexible concept. Outside, and it stays warm of journalists, Mr
:07:10. > :07:14.Berezovsky admitted that he was flabbergasted. I am absolutely
:07:14. > :07:21.amazed with what happened today. I am surprised completely. Sometimes
:07:21. > :07:24.I think putting himself a supporter this judge. Instead, it was the
:07:24. > :07:28.owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, who had cause to
:07:28. > :07:33.cheer today. Thank you the judge, he said he felt comprehensively
:07:33. > :07:37.vindicated. It is a far cry from 15 years ago, when back in Russia,
:07:37. > :07:43.both Mr Abramovich and Mr Berezovsky were oligarchs, self-
:07:43. > :07:47.made billionaires jointly profiting from Russia's Wild West capitalism,
:07:47. > :07:51.both enjoying a jet-setting lifestyle. They fell out when Mr
:07:51. > :07:54.Berezovsky lost favour with President Britain, and now they are
:07:54. > :07:58.both in London and have brought their quarrels with them. This is
:07:58. > :08:02.the spot in London's Sloane Street where Boris Berezovsky, who had
:08:02. > :08:10.been shopping in one designer store, suddenly dimmed his rival at
:08:10. > :08:14.another shop down the street. So he marched towards him and served a
:08:14. > :08:18.writ to him, saying, here is a present for you. Arriving to give
:08:18. > :08:21.evidence, the two would come face- to-face again during a trial which
:08:21. > :08:26.experts think could be the most expensive legal case ever involving
:08:27. > :08:31.individuals. There are a couple of cases I know about where you are
:08:31. > :08:36.talking �1 million a day for trial costs. This case has run for 70
:08:36. > :08:41.days, so you are talking somewhere in the region of up to �150 million
:08:41. > :08:45.for this case. It is still unclear what costs Mr Berezovsky might face.
:08:45. > :08:49.They could cut deep. These days, his wealth is estimated at a mere
:08:49. > :08:56.half a billion pounds, but it does not seem likely that this case will
:08:56. > :08:59.stop the trend of Russian tycoons seeking justice in London.
:08:59. > :09:03.There was triumph and despair for Great Britain's Paralympic team
:09:03. > :09:08.today, with more gold, silver and bronze medal winners. But there was
:09:08. > :09:11.also disappointment for the cyclist Jody Cundy, who was controversially
:09:11. > :09:15.disqualified in the individual time-trial. Here is a round-up of
:09:15. > :09:20.the day's action. In was almost as though he had won
:09:20. > :09:23.already, but Mark Colbourne's Crace had not even started yet. Such had
:09:23. > :09:26.been his dominance in qualifying for the final of the individual
:09:26. > :09:30.pursuit at the Bush supporters were already sure they knew the outcome.
:09:30. > :09:35.Three years ago, Mark Colbourne broke his back in a paragliding
:09:35. > :09:39.accident. Yesterday, he won ParalympicsGB's first murder of the
:09:39. > :09:44.Games, a silver. Here he was, cycling ruthlessly and relentlessly
:09:44. > :09:50.towards a gold. He had broken his own world record in the process.
:09:50. > :09:53.Britain had yet another champion of the velodrome. Jody Cundy's right
:09:54. > :09:59.foot had been amputated when he was three. He won the kilometre time
:09:59. > :10:03.trial in Beijing and was expected to do the same in London. But he
:10:03. > :10:08.stumbled at the start, and then stopped, certain that under the
:10:08. > :10:12.rules, he would be allowed a restart. The crowd and cyclists had
:10:12. > :10:16.to wait impatiently while his coach spoke to the judges, and then a
:10:16. > :10:25.verdict which didn't go down well. The decision had been taken that it
:10:25. > :10:28.was wider, not technical error. And no second chance. Jody Cundy was
:10:28. > :10:32.furious, swearing loudly, and at one stage had to be restrained. He
:10:32. > :10:35.then started throwing his kit onto the floor. Outside, his parents
:10:36. > :10:40.lambasted the judges, telling me their son would never get over what
:10:40. > :10:44.happened. This was the most important race of his life. He
:10:44. > :10:48.spent four years training for this and they took it away from him. I
:10:48. > :10:54.can't believe they would do it to him. He is the most decent, honest
:10:54. > :10:58.person living, and you have probably ruined his life. While
:10:58. > :11:03.they then left the velodrome, consoling each other and clearly
:11:03. > :11:06.distraught, their son reappeared to offer an apology. I said a few
:11:06. > :11:11.things I maybe shouldn't have said, but in the heat of the moment,
:11:11. > :11:17.having just seen my chance of defending my Paralympic title slip
:11:17. > :11:23.out of my hands, I had a few choice words, and I apologised to anybody
:11:23. > :11:27.that her bows. Hannah Cockcroft had already broken 21 world records
:11:27. > :11:30.before these Games started, so it was no surprise to see her when
:11:30. > :11:35.ParalympicsGB's first gold medal in the athletics stadium. The sitting
:11:35. > :11:37.volleyball was notable for more than the result. For Martine Wright,
:11:38. > :11:43.the number seven carries extra significance. She lost both legs in
:11:43. > :11:49.the 7/7 bombings. Today she became a Paralympian. T come out today and
:11:49. > :11:52.play for my country in front of my family, friends and the whole home
:11:52. > :11:56.nation, has been one of the proudest moments I have ever had.
:11:56. > :12:04.Tomorrow you will see more of this man. Jody Cundy has a second event.
:12:04. > :12:07.The angry man could yet leave these games as a gold medallist.
:12:07. > :12:10.The organisers of London 2012 say this will be the biggest and best
:12:11. > :12:14.Paralympics ever, and that is not just about the athletes and the
:12:14. > :12:16.number of spectators that have bought tickets. This year, the
:12:17. > :12:23.Paralympics have attracted more commercial sponsorship than ever
:12:23. > :12:26.before, but that is creating tensions.
:12:26. > :12:30.The big names competing at the London Paralympics, this is
:12:30. > :12:36.uncharted territory. Never before has a games attracted so much
:12:36. > :12:41.commercial backing from so many household brands. And they don't
:12:41. > :12:45.come bigger than the deal with Sainsbury's. In a first for the
:12:45. > :12:51.Paralympics, the �20 million contract is not tied to the Olympic
:12:51. > :12:55.Games. This is also the first time the TV rights have been sold in an
:12:56. > :13:00.auction, Channel 4 pain around �9 million for the deal. Surely this
:13:00. > :13:04.gold rush is good for the games? must ensure that we manage
:13:04. > :13:08.ourselves well and ensure that our values are at the centre of what we
:13:08. > :13:12.do. The London Games are a breakthrough for the Paralympic
:13:12. > :13:15.movement, not only in terms of the ticket sales and the high levels of
:13:16. > :13:19.public engagements and enthusiasm, but because of the added commercial
:13:19. > :13:25.interest. But as with any big sports event these days, new
:13:25. > :13:29.opportunities come attached with risks. Shame on you! He is a good
:13:29. > :13:33.example. These protesters outside the Department for Work and
:13:33. > :13:37.Pensions today are angry at one of the biggest Paralympics sponsors.
:13:37. > :13:40.They are critical of the role they play for the Government in
:13:40. > :13:45.assessing disabled people for welfare benefits, with some arguing
:13:45. > :13:48.that there should be dropped from the Games altogether. Their role in
:13:48. > :13:53.supporting the Paralympics, which for me as a former Paralympian, is
:13:53. > :14:01.such an amazing opportunity to celebrate my life and my community,
:14:01. > :14:06.to have a sponsor that is somehow appearing to take a very negative
:14:06. > :14:09.perspective around disability, just doesn't feel like the right fit.
:14:09. > :14:15.toss said it respected the campaigners' right to protest, but
:14:15. > :14:18.added that the tests it conducted were professional and compassionate.
:14:18. > :14:21.Visa are another big Paralympic backer, but the BBC has learnt that
:14:21. > :14:25.they were threatened with legal action by a leading charity for
:14:25. > :14:30.failing to deliver cash machines on the Olympic Park with audio
:14:30. > :14:39.guidance. We don't do things like that lightly. We discussed it at
:14:39. > :14:44.length, and we were very serious and we wanted change. Beazer said
:14:44. > :14:51.it hadn't broken any equality laws, and in a statement added that a
:14:51. > :14:56.change at short notice was not visible at a feasible, but all ATMs
:14:56. > :14:59.are equipped with keypads. The unique nature of the
:14:59. > :15:03.Paralympics is one of the reasons for the warm embrace they are
:15:03. > :15:11.receiving in London. The challenge for the movement as it grows is not
:15:11. > :15:14.to compromise the value of the After two days of competition,
:15:14. > :15:17.let's see how the medals table looks. China are top with 13 golds,
:15:17. > :15:27.and Australia in second place with seven golds. Paralympics GB lie
:15:27. > :15:32.
:15:32. > :15:34.fourth in the table with four golds and 20 medals in total.
:15:34. > :15:37.The Republican candidate for the American Presidential election,
:15:37. > :15:39.Mitt Romney, has accused Barack Obama of failing to deliver the
:15:40. > :15:42.change he promised America. In his keynote speech at his party's
:15:42. > :15:45.convention in Florida, Mr Romney promised to create 12 million jobs
:15:45. > :15:52.and cut the national deficit. Our North America editor Mark Mardell
:15:52. > :15:58.was there and has sent this report from Tampa.
:15:58. > :16:01.The band played Gimme Some Loving, and the entire build-up was about
:16:01. > :16:06.provoking passion in the crowd. In between the music they had been
:16:06. > :16:09.told stories bringing alive Mitt, the man, a compassionate, loving
:16:10. > :16:13.leader. His disappointment with the economy, with the president. Many
:16:14. > :16:18.in his party feel a fury towards President Obama, but his tone was
:16:18. > :16:21.more sorrow than anger. What happened, he asked, to all that
:16:21. > :16:25.excitement four years ago? You know there's something wrong with the
:16:25. > :16:30.kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was
:16:30. > :16:33.the day you voted for him. He said he'd wanted Obama to succeed
:16:33. > :16:36.because he'd wanted America to succeed, but now it was time to
:16:36. > :16:41.restore the promise of America. President Obama promised to begin
:16:41. > :16:45.to slow the rise of the oceans. LAUGHTER
:16:45. > :16:47.And to heal the planet. LAUGHTER
:16:47. > :16:57.My promise is to help you and your family.
:16:57. > :17:02.APPLAUSE Earlier, the evening's careful
:17:02. > :17:08.choreography took a stumble with the star guest's bizarre rambling
:17:08. > :17:11.contribution. Clint Eastwood pretended he was talking to an
:17:11. > :17:17.invisible President Obama. What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't
:17:17. > :17:21.tell a man to do that to himself. You're absolutely crazy. In the
:17:21. > :17:31.eyes of his audience he redeemed himself with a catchphrase made to
:17:31. > :17:31.
:17:31. > :17:35.go with a magnum. I started it. You finish it. Go ahead... Make my day.
:17:35. > :17:41.It hardly made Mitt Romney's day. He'd rather have the voters talking
:17:41. > :17:45.about his word, places like Florida. It has huge economic problems, and
:17:45. > :17:47.his central promise is to create 12 million new jobs in America. A
:17:48. > :17:50.third of all voters in this state are independent, and his speech was
:17:50. > :17:55.artfully designed to appeal to those in the centre ground. It was
:17:55. > :18:01.focused on the economy, and there was little to alarm the undecided.
:18:01. > :18:06.Are you hungry today? This hotel owner is one of those. She voted
:18:06. > :18:11.for Obama last time and now thinks he's failed, but she's repulsed by
:18:11. > :18:15.some Republican speeches. After the speech, she's warming to Mr Romney.
:18:15. > :18:18.He does have a different approach, and I do think he seems to be
:18:18. > :18:21.somebody who can maybe work collectively and solve a problem.
:18:21. > :18:25.This is what I thought Obama would do, you know, pull everyone
:18:25. > :18:29.together, but he never pulled anyone together. To win, Mitt
:18:29. > :18:33.Romney needs Americans to at least like him, if not love him - a
:18:33. > :18:42.little late. He has started telling his story.
:18:42. > :18:49.Coming up on tonight's programme: The modern make-over that's
:18:50. > :18:52.transformed historic Hadrian's Wall - a light show from end to end.
:18:53. > :18:56.Thousands of people have been forced to flee from a huge wildfire
:18:56. > :18:58.raging in southern Spain. Homes and hotels on the Costa Del Sol have
:18:58. > :19:00.been evacuated, with many people, including hundreds of Britons,
:19:00. > :19:08.taking shelter in temporary accommodation. From Marbella, Tom
:19:08. > :19:11.Burridge reports. Fanned by hot winds, the fire moved
:19:11. > :19:18.quickly through an area of countryside in the heart of Spain's
:19:18. > :19:25.Costa del Sol. The flames destroyed homes, apartments and businesses
:19:25. > :19:29.not far from the resort of Marbella. Dozens of aircraft and hundreds of
:19:29. > :19:34.firefighters and military personnel were drafted in. At one point,
:19:34. > :19:38.Spain's main coastal motorway was cut off by the flames. Some people
:19:38. > :19:44.here have lost everything. The fire began overnight in the
:19:44. > :19:49.hills north of Marbella. Thousands of people were forced to flee with
:19:49. > :19:53.what they could. Some took their animals too.
:19:53. > :20:00.One man died in his home. Some reports suggest he'd been evacuated,
:20:00. > :20:05.but chose to return. Many people took refuge in emergency centres.
:20:05. > :20:11.Around 300 British tourists and British ex-pats among them. Claire
:20:11. > :20:15.Lloyd lives near Marbella. She was woken in the middle of the night.
:20:15. > :20:18.They said, just get out in English and in Spanish, so we just
:20:18. > :20:21.literally left. We didn't grab handbags or anything. We just left
:20:21. > :20:28.because it was frightening. Tonight, helicopters were still fighting the
:20:28. > :20:32.last of the flames. Up on the hillside here, there's a
:20:32. > :20:36.burnt smell in the air. This is a town just north of Marbella. The
:20:36. > :20:41.fire is now almost under control, but as you can see, there's a thick,
:20:41. > :20:47.dark layer of smoke in the sky above these hills.
:20:47. > :20:51.Tonight, Spain seems to be winning the battle, but at a great cost. In
:20:51. > :21:01.a country that needs all the revenue it can get from its vital
:21:01. > :21:04.Six months ago, a BBC News investigation unveiled scores of
:21:04. > :21:08.illegal immigrants were living in sheds and outbuildings and forced
:21:08. > :21:14.to pay high rents. Now Ministers say they want to clamp down on the
:21:14. > :21:17.rogue landlords and clear out the so-called beds in sheds. Chris
:21:17. > :21:21.Rogers has been given exclusive access to a police raid in West
:21:22. > :21:25.London. This doorway leads to one of
:21:25. > :21:29.Britain's modern-day slums in Southall, West London. Inside,
:21:29. > :21:34.illegal immigrants cramped in rented rooms. Accommodation extends
:21:34. > :21:38.to the garden in so-called sheds with beds.
:21:38. > :21:41.These outer buildings are often constructed without planning
:21:41. > :21:45.permission. They can be dangerous with exposed wiring and poor
:21:45. > :21:50.sanitation. Get changed. Put some clothes on.
:21:50. > :21:54.They're offered as a cheaper alternative to people struggling to
:21:54. > :21:59.meet higher rents, mainly Indian and Pakistani illegal immigrants.
:21:59. > :22:02.There is noes cape - even through the back doors that lead to
:22:02. > :22:07.surrounding alleyways. So how many of you are living in
:22:07. > :22:12.this shed? Five. Five of you? Three in there, two in there. It's
:22:12. > :22:15.cramped, small. The message, the Ministers
:22:15. > :22:20.responsible for housing and immigration want to get across, is
:22:20. > :22:23."We're dealing with it." Councils have been given more power and
:22:23. > :22:26.money. This is a pretty sophisticated shed if I ever saw
:22:26. > :22:31.one. Had that been stopped right at the early stage, we wouldn't be
:22:31. > :22:34.ending up with streets of buildings like this with, you know, lots of
:22:34. > :22:38.people shoved into small spaces, but this needs to be actually
:22:38. > :22:42.tackled by the councils on a planning basis from the outset, and
:22:42. > :22:45.they need to show an example by knocking some of these down.
:22:45. > :22:48.there's thousands of them. Yes, and you have to start somewhere.
:22:48. > :22:52.the focus of operations like this one, targeting six houses in one
:22:52. > :22:57.street, is not to flush out illegal immigrants, but to prosecute the
:22:58. > :23:02.landlords who exploit them. It's a national problem, but the
:23:02. > :23:06.highest concentration is found in Southall. Hundreds of rogue
:23:06. > :23:13.landlords are providing slum-like accommodation for a total of around
:23:13. > :23:18.�800 a month. 22 illegal immigrants were found, including a child. 14
:23:18. > :23:22.were living in illegal sheds with beds. Their landlords now face
:23:22. > :23:27.prosecution. We'll continue to work with other agency, but we do need
:23:27. > :23:32.more powers. We need powers to actually enforce and take to court
:23:32. > :23:37.immediately rather than just issue warnings. Just a mile from
:23:37. > :23:41.Southall's slum, you find dozens of illegal immigrants sleeping rough
:23:41. > :23:45.under motorway bridges like this one. Migrant welfare groups have
:23:45. > :23:55.warned a crackdown on sheds with beds could force many more
:23:55. > :23:58.
:23:58. > :24:01.immigrants onto the streets. Tennis, and at the US Open Laura
:24:01. > :24:04.Robson has become the first British woman to reach the fourth round of
:24:04. > :24:07.a Grand Slam tournament for 14 years. The 18-year-old Olympic
:24:07. > :24:17.silver medallist beat the ninth seed China's Li Na in three sets.
:24:17. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:22.Her next match will be against reigning champion Sam Stosur.
:24:22. > :24:27.It's one of Britain's most famous historic sites, but right now
:24:27. > :24:29.Hadrian's Wall is getting a rather modern make over. 400 colourful
:24:29. > :24:32.balloons containing pulsating lights have been installed along
:24:32. > :24:38.the entire length of the wall. Our arts correspondent David Sillito is
:24:38. > :24:47.there. In the cold, damp darkness, a ribbon of colour. Two-year-old
:24:47. > :24:50.Ethan was entranced. Blue! A 73- mile long line of 400 giant bobbing
:24:50. > :24:59.balloons illuminating Hadrian's Wall. I describe myself as nerd
:24:59. > :25:04.artist. A nerd artist? Yeah. A bit of technology, a bit of art. Mm-hmm.
:25:04. > :25:09.500 people... Yeah. Putting up some balloons... Yeah. On an old Roman
:25:09. > :25:14.wall. Yeah. It's mad. They glow. They blink. They shimmer. The
:25:14. > :25:18.colours controlled by the watching crowds via smartphone, Hadrian's
:25:18. > :25:24.Wall reimagined not as a barrier, but a place to meet, gaze and
:25:24. > :25:29.wonder - what's it all about? is about exploring new
:25:29. > :25:32.possibilities, new realities and also that artists are kind of the
:25:32. > :25:38.R&D department for humanity, and this is our vision of a possible
:25:38. > :25:43.future. And this is just one of what's been a series of outdoor
:25:43. > :25:47.spectacles. Festival 2012 aimed to make culture part of our Olympic
:25:47. > :25:52.moment. So have we noticed amidst this summer of sport? At the end of
:25:52. > :25:59.July, we were ahead of target with 9.6 million free tickets already
:25:59. > :26:03.taken up, and we'd said we'd get ten million for the whole Festival.
:26:03. > :26:08.Whee! Hello. This is an amazing experience. I have never seen
:26:08. > :26:16.Hadrian's Wall, and perhaps this is (Babbles)