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Following the success of Team GB at the Beijing Olympics, you can join in the local handover celebrations when Olympic Handover Flags will be raised at Dover Seafront and Deal Pier to celebrate the handover from Beijing to London on Sunday (24 August).

A massive street party for the whole family is being held on Dover Seafront from 12 noon on Sunday, leading up to a giant fireworks display from the Prince of Wales Pier at 9pm.

The event will feature a range of free activities and entertainment, including live music, street entertainers, stalls and attractions. There will be a special ‘street athletics’ event from 1pm and a Battle of the Bands competition from 6pm.

There will also be special free swimming all day at Dover Leisure Centre and Tides in Deal, provided by Vista Leisure.

At 3.30pm, the Chairman of Dover District Council, Cllr Bernard Butcher, the Town Mayor of Dover, Cllr Mrs Diane Smallwood, and Dover and Deal MP Gwyn Prosser will raise the Olympics 2012 flag on the seafront to show local support for the Games.

Local sports star and potential future Olympian Hannah Moon will also be on hand to help raise the Olympic Handover Flag for Dover. A second flag will then be run to Deal.

At around 4.30pm, the Olympics Handover Flag will be raised on Deal Pier.

The Olympic Handover Flags in Dover and Deal will be among 500 flags delivered to locations across the globe, and the flags will be raised with regions around the UK.