Strictly Come Dancing stars dance with torch in Blackpool
Heavy rain and high winds momentarily put out the Olympic flame and forced Blackpool's evening celebration indoors as the torch relay reached its halfway point.
But thousands still turned out to cheer on the day's torchbearers before McFly's Harry Judd and dancer Aliona Vilani swept across the Blackpool Tower ballroom floor to light the cauldron.
Clive Myrie has more details.
Read More
Most watched/listened
-
Schools set alight in Stockholm violence
-
Toronto mayor denies crack smoking video
-
US road bridge falls into river
-
Preacher refuses to 'abhor' attack
-
Heathrow: 'Flames were coming out'
-
The future Ethiopia only dreamed of
-
Family tribute to soldier Lee Rigby
-
Farmer rescues pigs as pen floods
-
Yachtsman saved by call to Jewsons
-
Video of Woolwich suspect in 2007
-
Family sorrow at soldier killing
-
Africa Beats: Nigeria's Bez
-
Building on Ghana's success
-
'This has nothing to do with Islam'
-
Journey into an Icelandic volcano
~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~09~RS~)
