18/05/2012 19:51
Olympic Flame to arrive in UK with special flight
The Olympic Flame will arrive in the UK on Friday night after it was handed over at a ceremony in Athens, the Press Association reports.
British delegates including David Beckham fly back from Greece to RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall.
They will attend a special ceremony welcoming the flame, before it is taken on a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles.
The flame will finally reach east London's Olympic Stadium and the opening of the Games on July 27.
London was officially handed the flame on Thursday in a rain-hit sundown ceremony at the old Panathenaic Stadium, venue of the first modern Olympics in 1896.
The flame was handed to the Princess Royal, who was watched closely by other members of the official delegation including London 2012 chairman Lord Coe, Olympics minister Hugh Robertson, London mayor Boris Johnson, former England football captain David Beckham and five British sporting teenagers.