(1) Nirj Deva, number two on the Conservative list, was confident he had kept his own seat along with party colleague and Tory Eurosceptic torchbearer Daniel Hannan, but wouldn't be drawn any further on how many of its five MEPs the party could salvage.
(2) As torchbearers continued through Tower Hamlets to Hackney, across town International Olympic Committee members were checking into their Park Lane hotel and arrangements continued to be made for the arrival of 120 expected heads of state.
(3) Daniel Hannan, long the Conservatives' Eurosceptic torchbearer, said the results showed that there was "a clear majority for independence" in Britain.
(4) Olympic torchbearer Gemma Flaxman keeps the flame burning despite pouring rain in Southend-on-Sea.
(5) During London’s 2012 Olympics, seven Cameroonian athletes went missing , as did an Ethiopian torchbearer.
(6) "From the athletes refining their technique, to the volunteers learning about their roles, to the torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame and the people supporting them as they go, each and every one of them is playing their part in making these a Games to remember.
(7) So you’re not going to take him out to the face – you’re going to take him out to the body.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Former boxer Michael Watson was a Paralympic torchbearer in 2012.
(8) We'll not just cheer the torch, we'll be cheering Pat Baggott, Bryony Brooks, Anji Chant, Axel Guglielmacci and Helen Youngs, the four inspiring women and one inspiring man chosen to be our Totnes torchbearers.