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    From the archive: 1948, Olympic flame arrives at Dover and quickly makes its way to London HMS Bicester arrives with the Olympic Flame, then a relay delivers the torch to London in less than a day

    From the archive: 1948, Olympic flame arrives at Dover and quickly makes its way to London

    HMS Bicester arrives with the Olympic Flame, then a relay delivers the torch to London in less than a day

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    Giant rainbow lights up the night-time sky at Whitley Bay Global Rainbow is part of something called the Cultural Olympiad, a series of arts events happening throughout the country in the run-up to the Olympic Games

    Giant rainbow lights up the night-time sky at Whitley Bay

    Global Rainbow is part of something called the Cultural Olympiad, a series of arts events happening throughout the country in the run-up to the Olympic Games

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    “The attacks that are being launched on public sector workers at the moment are so deep and ideological that the idea the world should arrive in London and have these wonderful Olympic Games as though everything is nice and rosy in the garden is unthinkable.

    “Our very way of life is being attacked. By then this crazy health and social care bill may have been passed, so we are looking at the privatisation of our National Health Service. I believe the unions, and the general community, have got every right to be out protesting. If the Olympics provide us with an opportunity, then that’s exactly one that we should be looking at.”

    Trade union boss Len McCluskey calls for civil disobedience during Olympics

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