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Following the flame

Published: Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 2:16PM

Juliette Bremner from the street of London as the Olympic flame comes to the capital.

Tim Henman, Kevin Pietersen, Theo Walcott and Ellen McArthur were among the 80 torch-bearers due to carry the flame from Wembley Stadium via the site of the 2012 London Games in Stratford, east London to the O2 Dome in Greenwich.

Pro-Tibetan demonstrators were out in force along the route. Around 500 people from six pressure groups planned to use the occasion to attack the Chinese government's human rights record and its recent crackdown in Tibet.