Queen's Baton Relay comes to Bristol

Thousands of Bristol school children escaped the classroom this afternoon to watch the Queen's Baton arrive in the City. But many admitted they didn't know it's promoting the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

They start in exactly 50 days and many of the West's top sportsmen and women will be competing. Today the Baton was transported on a boat along the harbourside before going on display at Millenium Square. Richard Payne reports

The Queen's Baton has arrived in Bristol ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in seven weeks' time.

The City's four Batonbearers will carry the Queen's Baton through Bristol in a relay. The Baton will make its way through Bristol Harbour and past City Hall before ending at the Sports Park in Millennium Square where the public can try 20 different sporting events.

Tracie Colbron is Bristol's first Batonbearer. Tracie is a basketball coach from Westbury on Trym. She won the Children's Coach of the Year award at the 2013 West of England

Celebration of Sport Evening.

The Queen's Baton Relay is on its way to Bristol in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer.

The four Batonbearers have been selected by the West of England Sport Trust and Bristol City Council: James Gibson and Rondene Vassell, Bristol City Council Youth Mayors; Peter Miles, a Judo athlete from Whitchurch; Tracie Colbron, a Wheelchair Basketball Coach from Westbury on Trym.