Olympic torch takes a ferry across the Mersey

Around 20,000 people packed the area in front of the Liver Building by the stage on which the cauldron with the Olympic flame was lit.

The torch has been in Liverpool and journeyed through the Wallasey Tunnel to Birkenhead before going on the ferry.

When asked what keeps him going, the blind Iraq war veteran Craig Lundberg who carried the flame off the ferry told the BBC's Tony Livesey "I'm just a Scouser, that's all it is plain and simple."