he's been talking about that and hull's cultural legacy with our arts editor, will gompertz. hull is reflecting on its year in the limelight, which saw the turner prize come to its refurbished art gallery, new public spaces created and music on the streets. a lot of people visited, including banksy. and james graham, one of the country's leading playwrights, who has written a farce, that looks back on hull's year as city of culture and its organisers‘ obsession with monitoring and evaluation. what a pleasure it is to meet someone so senior in the civil service, who embraces systems thinking and statistical analysis when it comes to the quantifiable impact of art. it's kind of my thing. what do you think the legacy of the city of culture in hull's going to be? the main legacy will be the audience, developing an audience and breaking down some of those psychological barriers that says culture is a different thing. this is outrageous. it's a joke! the hull sense of humour, it has to be funny. culture, that's what my data says. it's about breaking down this idea that it has to be elitist and hull is the perfect place for that, because it's always had a strong

working—class tradition of writers. art is everywhere, that's what we're told in ourtraining. well, there's never been anything on summergangs road — ever! people are a bit worried that it's been so extraordinary, it's beaten all expectations, and the complacency that might come from that might mean that day by day, week by week, we don't keep going, we don't keep fighting for audiences. ooh, here's me volunteering at the turner prize. ooh, here's me with another robot... the play lovingly satirises the full blooded enthusiasm of hull's day—glo dressed army of volunteer guides, some of whom were in the audience. so you were a volunteer? i was. how did you find the play? i found it very funny. and quite affecting towards the end, because we put a lot into it and we loved doing it and we think we have helped make hull better. the one thing right the end, especially for me, was the fact

that they were talking about how bad people think hull was before. nobody wanted to go to hull, and everything has changed. and that, to me, was the essence of it. so there you have it, an assessment of hull's year as city of culture in a sentence. or, alternatively, you could read the mountains of data produced by the monitoring and evaluation team. will gompertz, bbc news, hull. newsnight‘s about to begin over on bbc two in a few moments. now on bbc one it's time to join the news team where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm holly hamilton.

coming up on the programme... arsenal are the big spenders on transfer deadline day with a club record £56 million for pierre—emerick aubameyang. cristian eriksen takes just 11 seconds to break the deadlock at wembley and score the fastest premier league goal this season. and humiliation for chelsea as the blues suffer a shock defeat at home to bournemouth. hello and welcome to the programme. coming up in a moment, we'll have all tonight's premier league action — including the third fastest goal

in premier league history. but first, the clock is ticking. we're into the final minutes of the january transfer window. in terms of spending, it's arsenal who have been splashing the cash, with their club record signing of pierre—emerick aubameyang at a cool £56 million. but what do we know about the striker from gabon? joe lynskey has been finding out. this is arsenal's new gift from gabon. the £56 million striker with quite the back story. his path to the world stage has come via the equator, a country are unlikely to make the world cup but with one super star. at 28, he is already on their record scorer. that choice of allegiance is set apart. aubameyang's background meant he could have played for france, italy or spain. you overlooked european stardom for his african roots, admitting that choice was down to

his father, psni senior. he won and number of caps for gabon. a move to saintjames ‘s park broke down in 2013 and in camejurgen klopp laws—mac dortmund. four called a news in germany have brought 1111 goals. aubameyang's talent has been tempered by controversy. he has the making a habit of making the wrong kind of headlines. with this player, stardom comes as part of the package. but arsenal will hope they have found a new goal—scoring icon ata time have found a new goal—scoring icon at a time when they need it most. arsene wenger the big spender this january. let's head to the emirates, where our correspondent can speak to us. arsenalfans will arsenal fans will be hoping to have that goal—scoring legend mentioned here. here's already been

competitive area on me and he has the shot, doesn't he? years been given the number 1a shot, the famous shots now arsenal player has worn since henry at the emirates stadium. quite a wait to put on his shoulders but he seems the player to take it in his stride. very confident. since the start of the 2015—16 season, he has scored 45 more goals than any arsenal player during the same period. he could go into the starting line—up on saturday when arsenal play everton at the emirates stadium in the 5:30pm kick—off. arsenal are the lighted with the signing. it was a protracted deal to say the least with an agreement in place with dortmund and clear. but dortmund had a replacement in mind. they wanted to be 0livier giroud, but fortunately for them, a joint chelsea. dortmund got rishi batch arrived from chelsea on loan and giroud was able to leave arsenal fan

around £80 million and go to chelsea. a mixed day for arsenal in some senses, but good news on the contract front. mesut ozil is now the highest paid player that arsenal. another record broken. we broke the story this morning that fzi come new 3.5 it a he [ie-m