Wales' Paralympic Flame joins others on road to London

Wales' Paralympic Flame continues its journey to London today ahead of the start of the Games.

A day of celebrations were held yesterday in Cardiff, with a spectacular lantern procession accompanying a group of torchbearers.

The procession culminated with a Flame Festival in Cardiff Bay, with music and laterns.

Falklands veteran Simon Weston lit a ceremonial cauldron during the event.

The Welsh Flame will today be united with those from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland at the Buckinghamshire village of Stoke Mandeville, the 'spiritual home' of the Paralympics. It's there that the London 2012 Paralympic Flame will be created.

It will then embark on a 24-hour relay to London, carried by disabled and non-disabled people, many of them from Wales and nominated due to their work in the community. They will work in teams of five, each carrying their own torch, and passing the flame between one another, as they complete their section of the journey.

116 teams of torchbearers are taking part, carrying the Flame to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London, in time for the Opening Ceremony on Wednesday night.