:00:14. > :00:16.Good evening and welcome. I'm Alice Bhandhukravi.
:00:17. > :00:18.Five years today the capital welcomed the world -
:00:19. > :00:20.for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics.
:00:21. > :00:22.But beyond the spectacle of the shown and the sporting
:00:23. > :00:25.achievement, London won the Games on the promise of a lasting legacy.
:00:26. > :00:27.Among the pledges: transforming part of east London,
:00:28. > :00:30.So five years on has London 2012 delivered?
:00:31. > :00:32.And was it worth the ?9 billion price tag?
:00:33. > :00:45.Some feel the promises made on regeneration
:00:46. > :00:47.were wildly optimistic, a bit like Usain Bolt saying he
:00:48. > :00:49.could run the 100 metres in seven seconds.
:00:50. > :00:52.His world record of 9.58 is pretty impressive, but it's not
:00:53. > :01:04.So were their promises made on jobs and housing
:01:05. > :01:07.It often seems tailor of two Stratfords.
:01:08. > :01:10.For some the Olympics has given huge opportunities, while others feel
:01:11. > :01:13.This is a new bakery, a small business thriving
:01:14. > :01:16.There is a community that developed now, people
:01:17. > :01:19.living here, people that know each other, people that have their
:01:20. > :01:25.There is now some history in this village.
:01:26. > :01:28.But just outside the park, isolated on the other side of the tracks,
:01:29. > :01:36.Half the houses are gone, there used to be
:01:37. > :01:39.around, I'd say, between 50 to maybe 80 factories around here, which kept
:01:40. > :01:45.Do you think there's a sense that part of the community's
:01:46. > :01:52.Meet Neil and Jackie, volunteer games makers in
:01:53. > :02:01.They loved it so much here they've retired from Kent and is now
:02:02. > :02:04.live in a swanky flat in the former athletes village.
:02:05. > :02:09.6000 people live in a 3000 new homes here.
:02:10. > :02:11.Incredible place to live, it really is
:02:12. > :02:15.And there's just so many things to do and a variety of
:02:16. > :02:26.There's a lot of young people here, which keeps you young.
:02:27. > :02:28.Outside the park, things are different.
:02:29. > :02:30.It's from the top of this building that
:02:31. > :02:31.the BBC broadcast throughout the Olympics.
:02:32. > :02:34.It's just a few hundred yards from the site.
:02:35. > :02:35.This is what is frustrating some local people.
:02:36. > :02:37.There isn't much sign of any regeneration
:02:38. > :02:40.There used to be hundreds of people living here.
:02:41. > :02:47.Now most of the flats are boarded up.
:02:48. > :02:48.For jobs, absolutely, we've helped 34,000
:02:49. > :02:53.In terms of housing, yes, the houses are not enough, they're too
:02:54. > :02:58.And actually, you have to lay the blame squarely at the foot
:02:59. > :03:01.Government is not putting the money into housing that
:03:02. > :03:13.There was a ?28 million overspend on the stadium
:03:14. > :03:16.last year and it cost 323 million to convert it for football.
:03:17. > :03:19.The orbit made a profit of just over ?200,000,
:03:20. > :03:22.but had a new ?3.5 million slide pitted and has a ?12 million loan
:03:23. > :03:25.The aquatic centre was subsidised to the tune of ?1.4
:03:26. > :03:27.million, which is expected to continue for many years.
:03:28. > :03:29.And the Copper Box lost over ?800,000 last
:03:30. > :03:36.I think it is true to say it's the only games that has really
:03:37. > :03:38.provided a long-term legacy, providing a transformation in the
:03:39. > :03:46.That is because it was planned for from the beginning.
:03:47. > :03:48.The Olympics was the catalyst that has transformed
:03:49. > :03:52.How successful it's been depends on your perspective.
:03:53. > :03:58.Well that's the legacy for London, but what about that all
:03:59. > :04:04.The promise that helped win the bid for London.
:04:05. > :04:06.A key legacy aim was to increase grassroots participation and to
:04:07. > :04:10.encourage the whole population to be more physically active.
:04:11. > :04:11.In most sports, weekly participation hasn't
:04:12. > :04:15.Among the biggest drops have come in swimming, with 757,000 fewer
:04:16. > :04:18.people taking part every week, and football, down by more than 170
:04:19. > :04:35.Some, including those who run the Tower Hamlets youth sport
:04:36. > :04:37.foundation, blame a lack of investment at grassroots level.
:04:38. > :04:40.They say they're being forced out of business after the council
:04:41. > :04:43.Its most appalling, when some of the most
:04:44. > :04:45.deprived children in the country, like the children of Tower Hamlets,
:04:46. > :04:49.have these opportunities take away from them.
:04:50. > :04:51.Tower Hamlets Council insist it remains committed to
:04:52. > :04:53.ensuring young people have access to sport.
:04:54. > :04:56.On Sunday, former London 2012 chief Lord Coe was asked to what
:04:57. > :04:58.extent he blamed the failure to boost participation on government
:04:59. > :05:04.decisions to cut sports budgets in schools.
:05:05. > :05:07.I don't actually, because for the first couple of years after
:05:08. > :05:09.the games I was involved with legacy work in this area.
:05:10. > :05:11.In fact, we found between 150-200,000,000 goes into
:05:12. > :05:14.More people are running than ever before, more
:05:15. > :05:27.Athletics up by 864000 and cycling up by 264,000 are among
:05:28. > :05:29.the few sports that have seen a rise in participation.
:05:30. > :05:31.So how has athletics made the leap from Olympic
:05:32. > :05:34.At Lea Valley athletics club, they felt
:05:35. > :05:45.It can be accessed by anybody, whether they
:05:46. > :05:47.are rich, poor, what background you come from.
:05:48. > :05:49.It's got so many different disciplines within it.
:05:50. > :05:55.Whether you want to be a sprinter, long runner or Thrower.
:05:56. > :05:56.London Olympic gold medallist Katherine
:05:57. > :05:58.Grainger is the new chair of UK sport.
:05:59. > :06:00.It funds elite athletes based on their medal prospects.
:06:01. > :06:02.Many say that model needs change for the
:06:03. > :06:10.Do we want to look at a wide approach that actually maybe we'll
:06:11. > :06:13.But support more sports but he won't be as
:06:14. > :06:16.That is constantly going to be looked at.
:06:17. > :06:20.There is a big review coming up next year.
:06:21. > :06:21.For some, sacrificing Olympic glory for
:06:22. > :06:29.greater grass-roots opportunity will feel like a price worth paying.
:06:30. > :06:32.Well our reporter Caroline Davies has been looking a the Olympic
:06:33. > :06:36.Caroline, so the Olympics cost a lot more than was planned and we're
:06:37. > :06:46.That's true, there is still a large amount of money being ploughed into
:06:47. > :06:50.the Olympic Park as we saw in that piece. Let's take one part of that,
:06:51. > :06:56.the stadium. It's been converted into West Ham's homeground but the
:06:57. > :06:59.conversion costs are much more than was estimated that the Mayor of
:07:00. > :07:04.London has commissioned a report to look into it, we'll find out in the
:07:05. > :07:08.early autumn. What about people who live in East London has it changed
:07:09. > :07:11.their lives? We spoke to an academic who specialises in analysing that.
:07:12. > :07:17.She says the East Village have been a success but has been replicated
:07:18. > :07:20.across the rest of East London. You have this fantastic facility in the
:07:21. > :07:24.park and if you go across the road you see lots of people living in
:07:25. > :07:29.quite difficult conditions. The homelessness has gone up in this
:07:30. > :07:34.area significantly. It always has had one of the highest waiting lists
:07:35. > :07:37.in the country and continues to have high levels of housing need, so you
:07:38. > :07:43.have those two worlds and we need much more Easter villages. What
:07:44. > :07:47.about the sporting legacy? No doubt London is a fantastic place to host
:07:48. > :07:50.any sporting occasion but the real concern is getting people out on a
:07:51. > :07:52.sporting fields, into swimming pools, so we might see a change to
:07:53. > :07:55.funding next year. Onto the rest of the day's news now
:07:56. > :07:58.and it's been revealed the Grenfell Tower is unlikely to be
:07:59. > :08:00.demolished untill the end of next year-
:08:01. > :08:03.but, within the next few weeks, the building is to be covered
:08:04. > :08:05.in protective plastic wrapping. Scaffolding will also be put up,
:08:06. > :08:07.to help forensic teams, as they continue their investigation
:08:08. > :08:09.into the fire. If you were living close
:08:10. > :08:18.to Grenfell Tower the night it burned, you probably want to forget
:08:19. > :08:20.what you saw. When I seen the building,
:08:21. > :08:28.I see some mother throw his baby When mother shout, I'll die,
:08:29. > :08:48.but try to live my son. I'm on the 19th floor
:08:49. > :08:50.of a neighbouring tower block. Every morning, residents
:08:51. > :08:52.here and in a neighbouring blocks wake up to what is still a horrific
:08:53. > :08:55.and extensive crime scene. You can still see forensic teams
:08:56. > :08:57.poring through debris From mid-August the building
:08:58. > :09:03.is going to get a protective That will begin the process
:09:04. > :09:09.of taking it down. In terms of recovery,
:09:10. > :09:11.by putting the scaffolding around we can put a lift on the building
:09:12. > :09:15.and that lift, as I said earlier, allows us to take some of that
:09:16. > :09:17.material, nearly 15 tonnes, on each floor, down
:09:18. > :09:20.the side of the building. It also helps the criminal
:09:21. > :09:24.investigation because we're having a scaffolding and the wrap around
:09:25. > :09:27.it, enabling us to take some of the panels on the outside
:09:28. > :09:30.of the building, they can be taken Earlier, a memorial service for five
:09:31. > :09:37.of the Grenfell victims at a church More pain and more tears for those
:09:38. > :09:41.this tragedy spared. It's time for me to wish
:09:42. > :09:52.you goodnight, I'll leave you with Jay Wynne
:09:53. > :10:02.who has the weather. Good evening. This is the view from
:10:03. > :10:07.one of our weather watchers about 4:30pm. Atrocious conditions. About
:10:08. > :10:10.an hour later not far away from Old Street at the Barbican resort patchy
:10:11. > :10:14.cloud and sunshine coming through, so it was one of those days of sunny
:10:15. > :10:17.spells and sharp showers. We'll start tomorrow on a pretty
:10:18. > :10:23.reasonable note, bright start that will turn increasingly cloudy as the
:10:24. > :10:27.day goes on. Still a risk of the odd shower in the next few hours but I
:10:28. > :10:30.suspect most of us will be fine and dry overnight with variable cloud,
:10:31. > :10:35.clear spells coming and going and by the end of the night not
:10:36. > :10:40.particularly cold. 12, 13, maybe 14 degrees first thing. A bright start
:10:41. > :10:43.of the day, some spells of sunshine. Catch yourself lucky if you catch a
:10:44. > :10:46.shower tomorrow because most will be bright and dry in the morning but
:10:47. > :10:49.through the afternoon cloud will increase with the risk of rain later
:10:50. > :10:55.on probably into the early part of the evening. Top temperature around
:10:56. > :10:59.19, 20, 21 degrees. Looking ahead to Saturday, start on a reasonable note
:11:00. > :11:01.but there will be wetter weather later. Through Sunday and Monday
:11:02. > :11:04.but there will be wetter weather later. Through Sunday and Monday it
:11:05. > :11:08.looks dry and bright. Here is Darren with the national picture.
:11:09. > :11:13.Not the sort of whether we'd hoped for at this time of year. It's still
:11:14. > :11:18.warm in the sun does come out. This was a weather watcher picture sent
:11:19. > :11:21.from Fife. We seems angry looking clouds today. Here's one of them,
:11:22. > :11:26.it's brought heavy rain, heavy showers. We had some of those
:11:27. > :11:28.earlier today across Scotland, recently they've affected
:11:29. > :11:29.Lincolnshire. In the last few hours across