:00:00. > :00:15.Tonight on BBC London News we're live at the QE Olympic Park.
:00:16. > :00:18.Five years on from the 2012 Games have the five Olympic
:00:19. > :00:22.There's no doubt this part of east London has
:00:23. > :00:26.But at what cost and what difference has it made to the lives
:00:27. > :00:39.It is like attorney do, it is OK from a distance. -- a tornado.
:00:40. > :00:43.Also tonight is trading a place on the podium a price worth paying
:00:44. > :00:45.to invest in sport at grassroots level?
:00:46. > :00:49.The head of UK sport says they face some difficult decisions.
:00:50. > :00:58.There is a big review coming up next year which will say we are
:00:59. > :01:00.considering we have more China -- challenges financially, should be be
:01:01. > :01:04.Plus one of the most memorable moments of the Games -
:01:05. > :01:06.we hear from judo silver medallist Gemma Gibbons
:01:07. > :01:12.And we reunite the London teenagers who starred alongside
:01:13. > :01:15.Dizzee Rascal at the opening ceremony - in front of a global
:01:16. > :04:20.And it tornado. If you are caught in its path you are displaced and that
:04:21. > :04:23.is essentially what a legacy seems to be doing. Is creating
:04:24. > :04:31.displacement amongst us. It would help 34,000 people into
:04:32. > :04:35.work in this borough. In terms of housing, there is not enough and it
:04:36. > :04:38.is expensive. You have to lay the blame at the foot of government.
:04:39. > :04:41.Government is not putting the money into housing it should.
:04:42. > :05:04.What about the big builds? And has a ?12 million loan
:05:05. > :05:08.outstanding. The aquatic Centre was subsidised and is expected to
:05:09. > :05:14.continue for many years. I think it is true to say it is the
:05:15. > :05:17.only Olympic Games that is providing a long-term legacy and
:05:18. > :05:24.transformation in the area it was based.
:05:25. > :05:30.The Olympics was a catalyst that transformed the area. Its impact
:05:31. > :05:32.depends on your perspective. I'm joined now by Dr Penny
:05:33. > :05:35.Bernstock, Director of the Centre for East London Studies,
:05:36. > :05:37.who's lead research on the impact of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
:05:38. > :05:49.on this part of the capital. We heard a tale of two Stratford is.
:05:50. > :05:52.Is that a fair assessment? I think it is. It is important to
:05:53. > :05:59.acknowledge that lots of investment has been spent in this area. Some of
:06:00. > :06:06.that must trickle down to the local populations. East Village is a good
:06:07. > :06:09.example of what is working. It is a mixed community with lots of
:06:10. > :06:12.housing. This is the housing development that
:06:13. > :06:19.used to be the place where the athletes stayed.
:06:20. > :06:28.Yes. It is 2800 units and many are for social rent. There's lots of
:06:29. > :06:32.investment, new health facilities, a brand-new school. But it is like a
:06:33. > :06:36.grammar school for urban regeneration. You have this
:06:37. > :06:41.fantastic facility in the park then if you go across the road you see
:06:42. > :06:44.lots of people living in difficult conditions. Homelessness has gone up
:06:45. > :06:47.in the area significantly. It has always had one of the highest
:06:48. > :06:52.waiting lists in the country and continues to have. You have those
:06:53. > :06:58.two worlds and we need lots more East villages. As the time goes on
:06:59. > :07:04.and Moore gets developed, the amount of housing could drop as low as 22%.
:07:05. > :07:09.Talking about job creation, have we seen new jobs for people living
:07:10. > :07:21.here? It is quite early on. Lots of jobs
:07:22. > :07:24.are in the area. Lots of jobs employed local people. There is
:07:25. > :07:30.promise of more jobs coming so here in the East is, the local
:07:31. > :07:36.broadcasting centre is being converted and lots of tenants are
:07:37. > :07:42.making -- lots of tenants in that and they're making the first
:07:43. > :07:45.electric car. We don't just want people to get entry-level jobs, we
:07:46. > :07:49.want decent jobs. Thank you very much for joining us.
:07:50. > :07:54.That is the impact on London but what about the sporting legacy.
:07:55. > :07:57.Chris Slegg is in another part of the park.
:07:58. > :08:10.Behind me is the aquatic centre, swimming has seen a huge decline in
:08:11. > :08:15.participation and it is not alone. The question I being asked is
:08:16. > :08:18.whether the generation that was inspired, five years on hubby being
:08:19. > :08:24.afforded a proper outlet for that inspiration? -- have they been.
:08:25. > :08:26.Inspire a generation, the pride that helped
:08:27. > :08:32.In most sports, weekly participation has not risen.
:08:33. > :08:42.swimming with 757,000 people fewer taking part every week and football
:08:43. > :08:49.Some, including those who run the Tower Hamlets
:08:50. > :08:51.sports foundation blame the lack of investment at ground level.
:08:52. > :08:53.They say they are being forced out of
:08:54. > :08:56.business after the council refused the request for funding.
:08:57. > :08:59.It is most appalling when some of the most
:09:00. > :09:01.deprived children in the country, like the children of Tower Hamlets
:09:02. > :09:07.have these opportunities taken away from them.
:09:08. > :09:11.My family are not at the state where they can pay a certain
:09:12. > :09:14.amount for my cricket for me to have fun.
:09:15. > :09:16.Tower Hamlets council says it is committed to ensuring young
:09:17. > :09:22.On Sunday, Lord Coe was asked to what
:09:23. > :09:24.extent he blamed the failure to boost participation on government
:09:25. > :09:28.decisions to cut sports budgets and schools.
:09:29. > :09:31.I don't actually because for the first couple of years after
:09:32. > :09:37.the games, I was involved with legacy work in this area.
:09:38. > :09:40.We found about 150 million to go into primary schools.
:09:41. > :09:43.More people are running than ever before, more are cycling.
:09:44. > :09:56.They are among the few sports which have seen a rise in
:09:57. > :09:59.How has athletics made the leap from Olympic success
:10:00. > :10:03.At Lee Valley athletics club, they have found the Olympic bounce.
:10:04. > :10:08.It can be accessed by anybody, rich or poor, from any background.
:10:09. > :10:12.It has so many disciplines in athletics,
:10:13. > :10:18.Olympic gold medal winner, Katherine Grainger is
:10:19. > :10:22.It funds elite athletes based on their medal prospects.
:10:23. > :10:28.that model needs to change to benefit all sports at all levels.
:10:29. > :10:30.Do we want a wider approach actually?
:10:31. > :10:38.Maybe we do have to expect less medals.
:10:39. > :10:41.But support more sports who won't be as successful.
:10:42. > :10:43.That is constantly going to be looked at,
:10:44. > :10:45.there is a big review coming up next year.
:10:46. > :10:46.For some, sacrificing Olympic glory for
:10:47. > :10:52.greater grass-roots opportunity will feel like a price worth paying.
:10:53. > :10:58.We don't know what would have happened if London had not hosted
:10:59. > :11:03.the games, perhaps the decline would have been sharper. There have been
:11:04. > :11:08.changes in society which no one can be blamed for, video culture, the
:11:09. > :11:13.rising iPads, the temptation for young people not to get out and get
:11:14. > :11:18.active. It does seem that grass-roots sport is suffering in
:11:19. > :11:24.the capital and around the country. That is why questions are being
:11:25. > :11:29.asked, why we have had success like rowing and cycling, should there be
:11:30. > :11:34.a wider appeal in grass-roots sport which taps into wider communities?
:11:35. > :11:40.All these questions are being asked five years on. It seems like we
:11:41. > :11:45.could be in for some sort of shake-up next year. Thank you very
:11:46. > :11:52.much for that. Plenty more from the Queen Elizabeth Park later in the
:11:53. > :11:56.programme, including I will be speaking about my brand-new album
:11:57. > :12:05.and what it was like to perform at the Opening Ceremony of the
:12:06. > :12:08.Olympics. That is still to come but for no, let us catch up with the
:12:09. > :12:09.rest of the news in the studio. Thank you.
:12:10. > :12:15.It's been revealed the Grenfell Tower is unlikely to be demolished
:12:16. > :12:18.till the end of next year but, within the next few weeks,
:12:19. > :12:21.the building is to be covered in a protective plastic wrap.
:12:22. > :12:26.As they continue their investigation into the fire.
:12:27. > :12:41.if you were living close to Grenfell Tower burned, you
:12:42. > :12:46.It is not what I feel but what I remember.
:12:47. > :13:12.When I see the building. I see some mothers through their babies away
:13:13. > :13:19.from the windows. When mothers shout, I am dying but try to live my
:13:20. > :13:24.son. Every morning residents here and in neighbouring blocks wake up
:13:25. > :13:28.to what is still a horrific and extensive crime scene. You can see
:13:29. > :13:32.forensic teams pouring through their rubbish as part of their recovery.
:13:33. > :13:37.From mid-August the building will get a protective wrap and scaffold
:13:38. > :13:43.which will begin the process of taking it down. By putting the
:13:44. > :13:47.scaffolding round, we can put a lift on the building which will allow us
:13:48. > :13:53.to take some of the material, 15 times on each floor down the side of
:13:54. > :13:56.the building. It will also help the criminal investigation because by
:13:57. > :14:01.having the scaffold and wrapping, it will help us take some of the panels
:14:02. > :14:07.from the outside of the building to take them away for forensic
:14:08. > :14:11.investigation. One idea is to have drawings by local schoolchildren
:14:12. > :14:16.projected on the external wrap. Once the scaffolding is up, we will have
:14:17. > :14:22.a discussion about the building. That is an issue for the community.
:14:23. > :14:27.There are some live petitions going around as you know. A memorial park
:14:28. > :14:31.or gardens. It is important it is led by the community and we agree
:14:32. > :14:36.with what they want to do, so that'll be the next step of the
:14:37. > :14:40.process towards the end of 2018. Earlier at the memorial service for
:14:41. > :14:45.victims of the Grenfell Tower took place in a church in Kensington,
:14:46. > :14:50.more pain and tears for the people of this tragedy speared.
:14:51. > :14:53.The country's most overcrowded train services have been revealed -
:14:54. > :14:55.and unsurprisingly - many operate in and out of London.
:14:56. > :14:57.In fact, Government figures show that the most congested service
:14:58. > :15:01.is Southern Rail's 7:16 train from East Grinstead to London Bridge.
:15:02. > :15:07.Its 12 carriages are designed to hold 640 people -
:15:08. > :15:09.but figures show almost 14,000 often squeeze onboard.
:15:10. > :15:11.Latin America's largest sailing ship- the second
:15:12. > :15:13.largest in the world - is visiting the capital
:15:14. > :15:17.The Union - which is more than 53 metres tall -
:15:18. > :15:21.It'll be moored in West India Docks until Sunday.
:15:22. > :15:29.Giving Londoners the chance to get onboard.
:15:30. > :15:32.That's all from me - time now to return to Alice back
:15:33. > :15:50.Thank you. As you can see, we have a tally of all the medals won by Team
:15:51. > :15:59.GB in 2012. 29 Olympic and 34 Paralympic. Over here, 19 Olympic
:16:00. > :16:04.and 43 Paralympic bronze medals. One of the medallist was Gemma Gibbons
:16:05. > :16:08.who won a silver medal in the judo. Five years on she has been
:16:09. > :16:10.reflecting on the 2012 games and life after the Olympics.
:16:11. > :16:16.These were the moments in 2012 that made Gemma Gibbons famous, a silver
:16:17. > :16:22."Love you, Mum" was the message to her mother who died
:16:23. > :16:33.I feel proud, it was a moment that came in a couple seconds which
:16:34. > :16:39.I really like this clip, I have seen it
:16:40. > :16:42.before and you can see in the
:16:43. > :16:44.background, it goes on to the British
:16:45. > :16:45.team and everyone in the
:16:46. > :16:53.They are so happy, they are cheering.
:16:54. > :16:56.Gemma's life has revolved around Judo since she was six.
:16:57. > :16:59.Now she is swapping the mat for the classroom.
:17:00. > :17:06.I first went to secondary school at 11 or 12 and I fell in love
:17:07. > :17:12.From a early age, I knew that once my judo was over I
:17:13. > :17:19.Gemma has had practice teaching children here
:17:20. > :17:24.at her old club in Greenwich where there are a few familiar faces.
:17:25. > :17:32.I think she will make a fantastic teacher.
:17:33. > :17:35.The school that get her permanently will be very
:17:36. > :17:42.Winning an Olympic medal has already made Gemma an inspiration
:17:43. > :17:45.for those at her old club but what about the challenge of teaching
:17:46. > :17:53.It sounds quite weird but I think you can,
:17:54. > :17:56.every teacher out there, that is one of the reasons for becoming a
:17:57. > :18:03.teacher, their job is to inspire the kids to strive for their best.
:18:04. > :18:08.Meeting her from the same club as me made me realise that if I worked
:18:09. > :18:10.hard enough and did what she did maybe
:18:11. > :18:13.I could come out as successful as Gemma.
:18:14. > :18:16.What is more nerve-racking, an Olympic final or standing in
:18:17. > :18:23.Just like judo, as soon as I started competing,
:18:24. > :18:26.those nerves went away and the same with teaching, you're in the zone
:18:27. > :18:30.Judo has taught Gemma Gibbons many things
:18:31. > :18:40.down the years, now it is her turn to do the teaching.
:18:41. > :18:43.They may not have won medals - but they were widely regarded
:18:44. > :18:49.The army of gamesmakers, who gave up their time to volunteer
:18:50. > :18:51.and helped to make the Olympics and Paralympics such a success.
:18:52. > :18:55.John Freedman, who checked tickets at the Olympic
:18:56. > :19:07.Cast your minds back five years, wanted if you like on that evening?
:19:08. > :19:14.I had already seen the dress rehearsal so I knew there was a very
:19:15. > :19:17.special show. Once the crowds arrived, and the sense that the
:19:18. > :19:22.whole world was watching, there was just excitement and relief and joy
:19:23. > :19:27.that we were pulling it off and it was going as everyone had hoped.
:19:28. > :19:34.Obviously you've got a lot from that expedience but you are that and
:19:35. > :19:39.dawn, tell us that. I got involved in an organisation called join in
:19:40. > :19:44.which was set up as a legacy to the Greens and is about supporting
:19:45. > :19:51.grassroots sports throughout the country. You went to Rio De Janeiro?
:19:52. > :19:56.I did. The big events are fantastic but the smaller events need
:19:57. > :20:00.volunteers as well so organisations like this one are very important.
:20:01. > :20:06.What have you taken from the experience? I will work for our
:20:07. > :20:09.reform Synagogue which is an organisation run by volunteers. My
:20:10. > :20:14.experience of the games was volunteers being trained well and
:20:15. > :20:18.knowing that they do useful work and I carry that with me. A positive
:20:19. > :20:25.experience all right, thank you for joining us. Five years ago, we were
:20:26. > :20:30.just hours away from the Opening Ceremony. I was lucky enough to be
:20:31. > :20:32.there, along with 60,000 other people and a worldwide audience of
:20:33. > :20:43.900 million people. One of the performers was Dizzee
:20:44. > :20:45.Rascal and I caught up with him recently.
:20:46. > :20:48.I think sometimes I take it for granted.
:20:49. > :20:50.Then people remind you, the Olympics, is not
:20:51. > :20:52.going to happen again in my lifetime, is it?
:20:53. > :20:58.I remember when I was performing, making sure I didn't
:20:59. > :21:01.perform to the crowd, I performed to the other performers
:21:02. > :21:05.because there were so many of them on the ground.
:21:06. > :21:11.Did you feel the pressure, were you nervous
:21:12. > :21:21.When I got asked to do it, I don't think I understood the
:21:22. > :21:24.gravity of it until we did that dress rehearsal and the whole thing
:21:25. > :21:33.It was like being in a movie I guess.
:21:34. > :21:41.It touched me because like I said when I got
:21:42. > :21:47.the story of Britain, and I got a place in it, it was crazy.
:21:48. > :21:49.I was standing with the dude who invented
:21:50. > :22:13.I have made this album, Raskit, that is owed now
:22:14. > :22:17.I spent two and a half years making that.
:22:18. > :22:21.So you recorded it in America, are they aware of what sounds
:22:22. > :22:33.Even with the early stuff I'm associated with, I
:22:34. > :22:39.was just having fun and trying to experiment.
:22:40. > :22:41.Now you're back in London, back home?
:22:42. > :22:48.I feel more relaxed than I did about any other album.
:22:49. > :22:51.Now it is out and people like it, I am just kind of
:22:52. > :23:07.Dizzee Rascal talking to me earlier. It was not just big names who were
:23:08. > :23:12.stars of the show, they were joined by a cast of thousands of ordinary
:23:13. > :23:19.Londoners, among them some young people. Let us take a look.
:23:20. > :23:33.I am glad to see that Jasmine and Henry joined me now. Can you
:23:34. > :23:41.remember that evening and were you daunted by its? Me personally, I
:23:42. > :23:47.could not understand the pressure at first but the support of the cast
:23:48. > :23:52.members and friends, the team, it's got to be ready to get out in front
:23:53. > :23:57.of people. Jasmine, that experience must have changed your life. You
:23:58. > :24:00.were leading an ordinary life and then you had an audience of 900
:24:01. > :24:11.million and you had to kiss the stranger, why was that? Yes. Was it
:24:12. > :24:15.awkward at the time? Know, everyone was very supportive, it was a
:24:16. > :24:21.professional thing. It felt fine at the time, it just felt like another
:24:22. > :24:29.dance moves. We rehearsed it so many times. Did you realise how much it
:24:30. > :24:33.would change your life? It hasn't particularly changed my life. I am
:24:34. > :24:37.very happy to have done it, we were part of something amazing and I feel
:24:38. > :24:43.really good to be packed here. We can judge did something really
:24:44. > :24:47.special. It was really strange but I do not live a different life. What
:24:48. > :24:54.lasting memories will you remember? I think the support of everyone in
:24:55. > :24:59.the team, especially my personal friends and the crew, they have put
:25:00. > :25:06.me through the hardest times. -- they helped me through. Thank you
:25:07. > :25:12.both very much, it must be a moment that major very proud. No return to
:25:13. > :25:18.the weather. Five years ago we were very worried about what the weather
:25:19. > :25:22.might do. Yes, it felt like it would never stop raining. I didn't
:25:23. > :25:25.interview for German television trying to reassure them that it did
:25:26. > :25:32.not rain always in London. We had the wettest June on record for
:25:33. > :25:38.London. But when it came to the games, after a few showers, it was
:25:39. > :25:38.magic. What can we expect today? I will
:25:39. > :25:49.round and give you the forecast. We have a mixture of sunshine and
:25:50. > :25:53.showers. You can see the showers have been crossing from west to east
:25:54. > :25:59.on the breeze. There have been some heavy winds. Into this evening, we
:26:00. > :26:05.will see one or two further showers through the next few hours.
:26:06. > :26:10.Overnight, they will become fewer. Mostly it is dry and clear tonight,
:26:11. > :26:16.temperatures fall to 11 and 13 degrees. Up early tomorrow morning,
:26:17. > :26:20.there will be beautiful sunshine like at the moment. That will come
:26:21. > :26:24.and go throughout the day. The breeze will pick up from the West or
:26:25. > :26:35.Southwest. Temperatures just more cloud this afternoon. That
:26:36. > :26:40.dream will be with us on off through the weekends at the start. The rain
:26:41. > :26:47.is never far away this weekend. We will keep a lot of clouds, rained on
:26:48. > :26:51.and off through Saturday. Becoming heavier in the evening. Sunshine
:26:52. > :26:58.will see sunshine and showers returning. -- Sunday will see. An
:26:59. > :27:02.unsettled theme continuing into the working week. No sign at the moment
:27:03. > :27:08.of settled weather. Further showers through Monday and Tuesday, equally
:27:09. > :27:12.some dry spells breaking through from time to time and it will be
:27:13. > :27:19.breezy. Temperatures just below where they should be at this time of
:27:20. > :27:25.year. We really need to have another Olympic Games because that sorts the
:27:26. > :27:27.weather out, doesn't it? What about the ?9 billion price tag? But thanks
:27:28. > :27:30.for the weather anyway. That's all from this special
:27:31. > :27:33.programme on the fifth anniversary of the opening of London's Olympic
:27:34. > :27:34.Games. I'll be back with
:27:35. > :27:37.the late news at ten. But from us all on the programme
:27:38. > :28:35.for now, goodnight. BBC Four looks at how life has
:28:36. > :28:37.changed in the last 50 years We had to shock people.
:28:38. > :28:45.How else were they going to see us? You can't ignore
:28:46. > :28:47.men in nuns' habits.