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Check the Olympic torch relay street-by-street routes. Manchester to host Olympic flame. In pictures: relay landmarks. The flame will visit Greater Manchester twice on its route across the UK. Published 19 March The Olympic flame's journey — Olympic gold medalist and former sprinter Michael Johnson carries the flame at Stonehenge onThursday. The Olympic flame's journey — Lauren Reeder, a teaching assistant, is surrounded by local children while carrying the torch in King's Lynn, England, on July 4.

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Story highlights The Olympic torch will be carried all over London in the next week The Games open in the city Friday The torch relay has gone to more than 1, communities around Britain. The Olympic torch relay began its first full day in London on Saturday, marking the start of the final week-long countdown to the opening of the Games. The flame was handed to the day's first torchbearer in Greenwich, home to the Equestrian Arena for the Games. The torch was also carried up to the roof of the North Greenwich Arena, where gymnastics events and the basketball finals will be staged.

Later in the day, it will reach the Tower Hamlets neighborhood, one of the poorest in London, which has benefited from millions of dollars of investment in infrastructure and regeneration projects as a result of the Games.

The torch made a dramatic arrival at the Tower of London on Friday evening, when a Royal Marine commando, carrying the flame in a lantern descended a rope feet from a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter into the grounds.

London Mayor Boris Johnson was there to greet the torch at the Tower, which dates to the 11th century. Dr Teresa Anderson, Director of the Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, said: "This will be a fantastic opportunity for people in the area to be a part of the Olympic Torch Relay and see the flame in such an iconic setting. It will proceed on to Horwich on 1 June before moving on to Lancashire. Councillor Mike Amesbury, executive member for culture and leisure at Manchester City Council, said: "We are proud to be playing a part in the Olympic torch relay as excitement grows ahead of the Olympics.

Eight thousand people will be involved in the day Olympic torch relay which begins at Land's End, Cornwall on the morning of 19 May