VOTE: Lone Bognor resident to carry Olympic torch

By The Newsroom
Published 5th Jul 2012, 08:00 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 18:55 BST
Bognorians will be outnumbered by Germans by three to one when the Olympic torch comes to the town.

Just two residents out of 24 bearers will be holding the symbol of the Games when it visits Bognor on July 16.

But six Germans and three residents of the Southampton area will be holding aloft the famous flame during its 64-minute tour of the town.

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The sole Bognor resident to have the honour of running with the flame through the town centre is Gabby Broadhurst.

She will be one of 12 torch bearers in the central section of the torch’s route from the A259 around Hotham Park into the High Street and Queensway before it heads north up the A29 to Frensham Avenue.

Gabby, 44, said she believed her leg of the relay was between Queensway and Canada Grove.