Bronze and marble casts of Olympic and Paralympic champions are going on display in Hampshire.
The 11 sculptures which include this cast of silver medallist Lewis Smith will be exhibited in Fleet until November.
Olympic silver medallist Lewis Smith is cast in Bronze Credit: Hart District Council
Blade runner Oscar Pistorius and five times Olympian swimmer Mark Foster also feature in the exhibition.
Artist Ben Dearnley said "My Olympic work focuses on the core strengths of each Olympic and Paralympic athlete I have worked with, capturing something of the essence of what it is that makes them the best in the world at what they do."
The finished art work by artist Ben Dearnley Credit: Hart District Council
Gamesmakers have rolled out the red carpet for Team GB as they enter the Paralympic Village in London. Hundreds of performers sang Queen's "Bicycle Race" as they entered the park.
A busy Aylesbury waits for Paralympic flame Credit: ITV Meridian
The town of Aylesbury is celebrating its paralympic connections as hundreds of people line the streets for the torch relay. The flame will be carried through the town from Stoke Mandeville Hospital on its way to the London 2012 Games.
Art installation in Aylesbury Credit: ITV Meridian
The stage in Stoke Mandeville Credit: ITV Meridian
Hundreds of people are heading to Stoke Mandeville for the start of the 24 hour Paralympic Torch Relay. The flame will leave the spiritual home of the games this evening before it is carried by more than 500 torchbearers to London.
A Gurkha soldier from Folkestone is preparing for his first paralympic games after he was introduced to sport through the army's Battle Back Programme.
Lance Corporal Netra Rana is one of three former or serving members of the British Army in Team GB's two sitting volleyball teams.
The 28-year-old who served with 1st Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles, had his lower left leg amputated after being injured by an IED on patrol in Afghanistan in January 2008.
He was introduced to the sport through the Battle Back Programme in 2009 and was named adaptive sportsman of the year at the Army Sports Awards in 2011.
Visual impairment is no bar to Brighton's Ben Quilter. He was fifth at the paralympics in Beijing. He's now ranked number one in the world and has set his sights on London gold. The thirty year old trains at the Judo performance centre at Dartford in Kent.
He has a rare genetic conditon called macular degeneration, which is often seen in elderly people. His focus is on his first bout but as Penny Silvester explains, there's another important date looming.
