The Olympic Flame leaves Kent
The torch will leave the Meridian region as it heads through Kent and Surrey today on its way to London 2012. The flame leaves Maidstone this morning, with hundreds of people expected to line the route to Guildford.
The torch will leave the Meridian region as it heads through Kent and Surrey today on its way to London 2012. The flame leaves Maidstone this morning, with hundreds of people expected to line the route to Guildford.
The last leg of the Olympic Torch relay through Kent was disrupted this morning when someone in the crowd apparently tried to grab it as it passed by. Police say a man has been arrested. David Johns reports on the torch's journey from Maidstone to Sevenoaks.
A 17-year-old man has been arrested for trying to grab the Olympic flame as it passed through Gravesend.
The Olympic torch received a rapturous response in Maidstone this morning as it was taken by rowing boat along the River Medway.
Pictures from the route as the torch winds its way through Kent, starting at Deal this morning, onto Ramsgate then Canterbury and Maidstone.