London 2012 Paralympic Games

Great Britain win five silvers and a bronze in the men and women’s swimming on a busy evening in the Aquatics Centre.

Hannah Cockroft wins gold in the T34 100m wheelchair race, after smashing the previous world record for the distance in the qualifying heat.

Derek Derenalagi, the British soldier injured in Afghanistan five years ago, makes his Paralympic debut today in a battle for discus gold.

Aileen McGlynn wins ParaGB’s first medal of the second day of the Games – a silver in the 1km time-trial.

ParalympicsGB cyclists win a gold in the 3,000m pursuit, but suffer a controversial decision in the 1km time trial.

Tube bosses tell Channel 4 News they will try to keep and even expand a network of accessible ramps for disabled passengers which were only expected to remain for the Paralympic and Olympic Games.

In 1988 ITN reported from the Sobel Centre in north London – at the time one of the few sports centres in the UK offering facilities for people with disabilities.

Mark Colbourne won ParalympicsGB’s first medal of the London 2012 games – picking up a silver in the 1km time-trial.

Jonathan Fox wins ParaGB’s first gold from the aquatics centre in the 100m backstroke S6 class.

Para GB will field 74 athletes on the opening day of the Paralympic Games today, including five multiple Paralympic gold medal winners hoping to repeat their success in London.

Sarah Storey wins ParaGB’s first gold of the 2012 Games with an emphatic victory over Poland’s Anna Harkowska in the C5 cycling individual pursuit.

Jon Snow meets chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff and US Paralympics team head of delegation, General Martin Dempsey, to talk about the team, TV coverage, and ‘green on blue’ killings.

Nyree Kindred and Hannah Russell win silvers for ParaGB’s first medal from the aquatics centre.

The decision of the University of Illinois to pull out of staging the 1984 Paralympics meant Stoke Mandeville had just four months to prepare for the arrival of 1,500 athletes from around the world.

“Our country is known by genocide, now we have a chance to go there and Rwanda be known by the good players, not by genocide, by sport.”