- Council considers new games area for young people in Ham
- ‘Drop in’ and find out more about your Village Plan
- Online one-stop-shop for Council services launched
- Keep busy this summer
- Take part in your own road race
- Be inspired by the Olympics
- Children’s centres open for summer
- Be a part of Orleans House Gallery’s Big 40
- Richmond Youth Council wants you
- Carers offered a well deserved break
- Mayor gets into the Olympic spirit
- Richmond overwhelmed by 120 Olympics volunteering applications
- Plans approved to consider integrated health and social care services
- Richmond outlines new priorities for community safety
- Council confirms £400,000 extra cash for new Community Road and Pavement Fund
- Stay Safe During The Games
- Residents asked about proposed changes to Council Tax benefit
- Cabinet agrees funding for Sixth Forms
- First Volunteering Richmond Roadshows
- School opens for summer
- Richmond's registration services go online
- Business start-ups offered ‘pop up’ shop in Richmond
- Council service delivery during the Olympics
- Crane Park scoops Green Flag Award
- Playbeach back for the summer
- Richmond in Bloom winners dazzle judges
- Over 500 primary school places approved for the borough
- Heathrow expansion no more viable today than in 2010
- Olympics museum display wins Civic Pride funding
- Youngsters capture spirit of Paralympics in poetry
- Deadline is looming to nominate for dignity in care locally
- Hampton carer to carry Olympic flame
- Last call for Olympic Volunteers
- It’s Showtime
- Summer events announced for new-look Twickenham Riverside
- Scholarship boost for aspiring students
- Community spirit at Heatham House
- Be a good neighbour during the Olympics
- Richmond Children’s Services Director gets new post
- Major plans to revitalise Twickenham take a step closer
- New facilities for children with SEN
- Complaints against parking services at an all time low
- Parking during the Olympic Games
- Hampton North set for regeneration boost
- Community spirit gets funding
- Take part in Summer Reading Challenge
- Team Richmond celebrate Games triumph
- All in One Village Plans to launch this week
Release Date: 23/07/2012
Mayor gets into the Olympic spirit
The Mayor of Richmond upon Thames will be heading down the Thames on a local barge this week – ahead of the Olympic Torch on the 27 July.
On Friday, the torch will begin it's final journey towards the stadium by visiting the maze at Hampton Court Palace before setting sail down the River Thames on the Royal barge. Powered by 18 former Olympic rowers, the Gloriana will be joined by a flotilla of vessels as it transports the torch to City Hall for the final leg of its tour. Cllr Rita Palmer will be representing the borough on the local Kingston Royale and will travel down the river with local businesses, before the flotilla begins.
The Mayor of Richmond upon Thames, Cllr Rita Palmer, said:
“It is a pleasure to be involved in the final day of the Olympic Torch relay. Hosting the Games in London is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I am so pleased that Richmond upon Thames gets to not only see the torch twice, but is playing host to a number of Olympic activities. Over the next month I hope that the whole borough gets behind our athletes as we welcome the world to London.”
The Kingston Royale will set sail on Friday 27th July at 7.15am. The barge will then go ahead of the torch which is being carried on the Gloriana. Once the Kingston Royale arrives at Teddington Lock, the barge will pull over for photo opportunities and the Torch will pass. The Kingston Royale will then be behind the Royal Barge Gloriana for the remainder of the journey to City Hall. At lunchtime it will be taken into City Hall, before being transported to the Olympic Stadium at Stratford to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony.
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