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Former boxer Michael Watson and Paralympian Dame Tanni Grey Thompson will be among the torchbearers taking part in the 24-hour Paralympic relay. | |
Watson, who suffered brain damage in a fight in 1991, will carry the flame in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday. | |
The relay travels from Stoke Mandeville - the spiritual home of the Paralympic Games - to London overnight on Tuesday. | |
Ahead of this, flame festivals will be held in London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff across the weekend. | |
Four national flames were href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19333610" >kindled at the summit of the highest peaks in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales on Wednesday. | |
Ceremonial caudrons | |
They will be taken to flame festivals which are being held in London on 24 August, and then on consecutive days in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff. | |
The first of four UK ceremonial cauldrons will be lit on the north terrace of London's Trafalgar Square, outside the National Gallery, on Friday morning | |
Paralympic former event rider Claire Lomas, who completed this year's London Marathon in 16 days, will light the cauldron using the English national flame which was kindled on Scafell Pike. | |
London Mayor Boris Johnson and Seb Coe, chair of London 2012, will be present at the ceremony along with scouts who were involved in hiking up the mountain to kindle the flame. | |
On Friday afternoon the flame will be taken to a number of places in the city including the Houses of Parliament, the Royal Opera House and on the Docklands Light Railway. It will also be met by performers from this weekend's Notting Hill Carnival. | |
Outside Stormont in Belfast on Saturday, Paralympian and Disability Sport Northern Ireland Chair Angela Hendra will light a cauldron using the national flame kindled at the summit of Slieve Donard. | |
Rosie Smith, who was nominated by Scottish Disability Sport, will use the flame created at the top of the mountain which she has climbed, Ben Nevis, to light a cauldron on The Mound in Edinburgh on Sunday. | |
The final cauldron will be lit outside City Hall in Cardiff by Paralympian Simon Richardson on Monday. | |
All four ceremonies take place at about 08:00 BST and are not public events. | |
On 28 August the four flames will be brought together in Stoke Mandeville where they will create the Paralympic flame. | |
A 24-hour torch relay, which starts at 20:00 BST that day, will see the Paralympic flame carried 92 miles by 580 torchbearers, working in teams of five, from Stoke Mandeville Stadium through Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and all six of London's host boroughs to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford. | |
There it will be used to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Games on the evening of 29 August. |