2012 Games ceremony to be city-wide

Organisers of London 2012 will not try to imitate the pageantry of the opening and closing ceremonies at the Beijing Games, Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has said.

Instead of holding the ceremonies inside the main Olympic Stadium, the London organising committee is looking at staging a series of events across the city.

Ms Jowell said: "We don't want to try to emulate Beijing. What we want is new ways of thinking about the opening ceremony.

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