The Olympic Flame leaves Kent
The torch will leave the Meridian region as it heads through Kent and Surrey today on its way to London 2012. The flame leaves Maidstone this morning, with hundreds of people expected to line the route to Guildford.
The torch will leave the Meridian region as it heads through Kent and Surrey today on its way to London 2012. The flame leaves Maidstone this morning, with hundreds of people expected to line the route to Guildford.
Artist Tracey Emin has carried the Olympic torch through her home town of Margate on it's journey through Kent today.
She held the flame aloft on the steps of the Turner Contemporary art gallery.
A 17-year-old man has been arrested for trying to grab the Olympic flame as it passed through Gravesend.
The Olympic torch received a rapturous response in Maidstone this morning as it was taken by rowing boat along the River Medway.
Pictures from the route as the torch winds its way through Kent, starting at Deal this morning, onto Ramsgate then Canterbury and Maidstone.