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Live coverage of the London 2012 Paralympics - Thursday, September 6 UPDATED 00.45pm

Will Bayley
Will Bayley

by Alex Hoad at the Basketball Arena

00.49am - Crazy evening. Hopefully you saw my pictures from the Olympic Stadium on twitter - special to see David Weir and Jonnie Peacock win their golds for GB.

I'll see you from Brands Hatch in about seven hours time! Night.

8.45pm - Fantastic game here and GB have won it 57-50.

I have to go and talk to Steve but I'll keep you posted on the table tennis on twitter - @kentonline2012 - and then update you here fully later on!

8.14pm - GB lead 42-41 with three quarters gone here.

Sadly the sitting volleyball guys lost in straight sets to Brazil so will now play China for seventh tomorrow.

8.05pm - This night is going to the wire.

Ross Wilson WINS his match 3-2 to level it at 1-1 and now plays Grudzien.

GB are 12-10 down to Brazil in the sitting volleyball while it's tense and 35-35 here at the wheelchair rugby.

7.47pm - This is a thriller, but I wish it wasn't. It's 27-27 at half-time.

Ross Wilson is level at 1-1 in his clash while Brazil have taken the second set 25-16 in the volleyball.

7.33pm - Bayley loses 3-1 so it's up to Wilson now... he plays the next two matches.

Meanwhile we're tied at 20 here with 3.51 of the opening half remaining and GB trail 4-3 in the SV.

7.27pm - Brazil take the first set 25-20 while Bayley loses the third game 11-1 and needs to recover otherwise GB will be 1-0 down.

It's 19-16 to GB here and speedy sub Aaron Phipps is making a difference.

7.20pm - Frenetic action already.... ok. Bayley lost the opening game of the opening match but has just levelled at 1-1.

GB are trailing Brazil 16-11 in the sitting volleyball while here GB and France are locked at 11-11 after the opening eight-minute quarter.

6.45pm - Over at ExCeL Bayley goes first against Poland's Piotr Grudzien while Wilson will be game two against Marcin Skrznecki, who he beat in the singles quarter-finals.

Wilson v Grudzien will be game three and, if needed, Bayley v Marcin S will be the fourth game.

If that doesn't separate them then maybe doubled in the fifth match will.

6.15pm - Just 45mins until Ross Wilson and Will Bayley get underway against Poland in their semi-final.

Also less than an hour until Netra Rana, Charlie Walker, Richard Dobell and GB face Brazil in their opening classification game in the men's sitting volleyball competition.

The winner will play Egypt for 5th place on Saturday while the loser will face China for 7th tomorrow.

But I'm here at the Basketball Arena to see if Steve Brown and his Kent Crusaders teammates Kylie Grimes, Bulbul Hussain and Andy Barrow can secure the win which would keep alive their chances of making the semi-finals.

They face France needing to win tonight, and overcome Japan tomorrow afternoon to secure a place in the last four.

There is also the small matter of possibly the biggest athletics event of the Games, the T44 100m which looks set to pit Oscar Pistorius of South Africa against Jonny Peacock of GB.

They are due off around 9.20pm.

6pm - Turns out Sarah Storey wanted to say thanks to all the Kent fans at Brands Hatch.... while she was still riding.

Storey attacked from the start of the 64km, eight-lap race and finished 7mins and 22secs clear of silver-medallist Anna Harkowska of Poland, covering the course at an average speed of 38kph.

She said: “I just thought I'd test a few legs on the first time up Scratchers Lane. I had gas to spare and got away.

“I've been practicing all year but I can't believe I pulled it out today. I'm so chuffed.

“It's just amazing with the crowds around the course and on the finish straight every single lap. I wanted to say thank you but I had to keep my head down and make sure I made no mistakes.”

4.40pm - Another piece of history at Brand Hatch where Sarah Storey has just won her second gold in Kent, her fourth of London 2012 and her 11th all-time which takes her alongside Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson as the most decorated British female Paralympian.

Both however trail oft-forgotten 1970s and 80s swimmer Mike Kenny by five.

Storey's gold took the GB tally in Kent in the past 32 hours to five, which is clearly amazing.

12.08pm - Claire Harvey's thoughts have already turned to Rio... and I don't mean a post-Games holiday.

11.37am - It will be Poland.

Absolutely epic match finishes with Poland claiming a 3-2 win in the doubles, 11-9 in the last set, to secure a 3-2 win overall in more than 2.5 hours.

Hope they're drained for tonight, I have to say!

11.19am - We're just waiting to see who GB will face in the semi-finals at 7pm tonight as Poland v Belgium is an absolute humdinger and is locked at 1-1 in the fifth and deciding match - the doubles.

10.26am - Sadly Claire Harvey and the GB sitting volleyball women suffered defeat against Japan in their 7th/8th play-off.

They were SO close to landing their opening set of the Games too, leading in the first two sets, including 23-20 in the first, before going down 25-23, 25-19, 25-13.

10.10am - Raimondo Alecci is the Italian who gave Bayley such trouble and he's done likewise to Wilson.

The Italian took the opening game 11-5 and led in the second until Wilson blitzed his way to an 11-6 victory.

He found power and big shots the way forward in the third, claiming it 11-8 before an 11-7 win in the fourth, which clinched GB's place in the last four.

9.38pm - Bayley has put GB in a commanding position, winning 11-7, 12-10, 4-11, 11-5, without really hitting top gear.

The 24-year-old Tunbridge Wells ace won the final five points of the opening game to win it and then saved two set points in the second but was very quiet in the third before knuckling down to take the fourth.

Wilson is back on court for the third game knowing victory would send GB through to the semis.

9.18pm - Wilson cruises through the opening match of the tie, winning 11-5, 11-9, 11-2, and playing some top-notch stuff. The Minster, Sheppey, lad is only 17 remember. Bright future.

Bayley is up next, looking to make it 2-0 and put GB firmly in the driving seat.

8.45am - GB are facing Italy in their table tennis quarter-final starting at 9am, singles first and then doubles last as the decider.

8am - Morning from the ExCeL. Busy day today with plenty of Kent involvement.

First up here in Docklands we have both Ross Wilson and Will Bayley (pictured) taking part in the Class 6-8 team quarter-finals at 9am.

Less than half a mile away, at the same venue, Claire Harvey and the GB women will face Japan in the 7th/8th sitting volleyball playoff.

Don't ask me how I'm going to do it, but I'll figure something out.

Meanwhile this evening we have Steve Brown, Kylie Grimes, Andy Barrow and Bulbul Hussain in GB wheelchair rugby action as GB face France back in the Olympic Park.

Must-win game for GB starts at 7pm in the basketball arena while at the same time, again, back here at ExCeL, GB's men play their first sitting volleyball classification match against Brazil at 7pm, with a 5th/6th play-off at stake for the winner.

Not to mention the tiny matter of a host of golds up for grabs at Brands Hatch in Kent today, with GB's Sarah Storey looking to make it four golds for herself at this Games, 11 overall for her and add a fifth GB medal at Brands in just the second day of competition.

You can keep up to date with all the action throughout the day here, or on twitter @kentonline2012

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