Back early. Some of those, if they are looking slightly tired, it may be because they had a bit of a late night at the closing ceremony. Certainly, an exciting time. Looking slightly tired. Those metals partly on show there. Hopefully we will be going to our reporter megan, who is their arts and pancreas hoping to grab their arts and pancreas hoping to gmba their arts and pancreas hoping to grab a few words with some of those team gb stars. Megan, tell us about the journey, team gb stars. Megan, tell us about thejourney, tell us team gb stars. Megan, tell us about the journey, tell us what the note is arts and pancreas this lunchtime. I cant see what you re saying at the moment because we are downstairs from the platform. The athletes will be walking behind me shortly. There are loads of people here ready to welcome team gb home. We have been speaking to families. The first athletes has walked through the doors. It is a great atmosphere here. It isjubilant, everybody is waving flags, t
Warned that his mental illness was so severe he could end up killing someone. Calocane s mother and brother have told bbc panorama it was one of a series of missed opportunities that could have prevented the killings. He was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of caretaker ian coates, and students barnaby webber and grace o malley kumar last year. Our correspondent navtej johal reports. For so long we had thought that it would end in tragedy. But i thought the tragedy would be him taking his own life, and it was, like, infinitely worse than that. The family of valdo calocane are talking publicly for the first time. In 2023, he fatally stabbed students barnaby webber and grace o malley kumar, and school caretaker ian coates. He also seriously injured three others by driving into them. Valdo calocane was convicted of manslaughter for the killings, and is detained in a secure hospital. The families of his victims believe that although he was mentally ill, he kne
Recognisable cities transformed into an olympic park. Final rehearsals ahead of tomorrow s unprecedented opening ceremony staged not in a stadium, but on water, with athletes paraded down 6km of river on boats in front of 300,000 spectators and the eyes of the world. The man in charge today telling me he was confident. I can tell you that no stones have been left unturned. It s been now years that we ve been working with the government authorities in order to make sure that this ceremony and all the games are safe and secure because there is no party if there is no security. With an emphasis on temporary venues and iconic settings, organisers are vowing to deliver the most sustainable games in history. There s been record ticket sales, although hundreds of thousands of seats remain available. After spectators were largely barred from the last games in tokyo due to covid, the hope here in paris is that this will represent a return to the olympics in all its glory. This audacious plan to