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Following the success of Team GB at the Beijing Olympics, around 150 people joined in the local handover celebrations when Olympic Flags were raised at Dover Seafront and Deal Pier to celebrate the handover from Beijing to London on Sunday (24 August).
 

Pictures by Karol Steele, Dover

2012 Olympic hopeful, rower Hannah Moon from Deal

Dover's dignitaries at the ceremony - MP Gwyn Prosser, Mayor Diane Smallwood and DDC Chairman Bernard Butcher

The Deal Athletics club getting ready to run the torch and Olympic flag to Deal

Hannah Moon bringing the Olympic flag ashore

The 1948 Olympic torch being readied for the run to Deal

Rain may have meant fewer people than expected turned up for the street party and many may have missed the giant fireworks display on the Prince of Wales Pier after the time had to be brought forward from at 9pm to 8.12pm (20.12hrs) due to shipping movements at the port, but it failed to dampen the spirits of the 150 or so who did attend.

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 raised the Olympics 2012 flag on the seafront to show local support for the Games.

And local sports star and potential future Olympian Hannah Moon was also there to bring the Olympic Handover Flag ashore.