IN PICTURES: Week two of the London 2012 Olympic torch relay

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OPERA stars, Olympic champions, TV personalities and a whole load more inspiring and unheralded individuals are taken the torch on the second week of it's 70-day journey to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

SPICE UP YER LIFE: Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm carries the Olympic torch in her native Liverpool (Getty Images)

 

FERRY MAN: Craig Lundberg carries the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Birkenhead and Liverpool (Getty Images)

WINNING POST: Kimberley Cooper accompanied by Grand National winner Neptune Collonges holds the Olympic Flame on the race track at Aintree, during Day 14 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay (Getty Images)

 

HOMETOWN HERO: 2004 Olympic silver medallist Amir Khan lights the cauldron in his native Bolton (Getty Images)

LAUGHS: Comedian and Comic Relief fundraiser John Bishop carried the torch at Jodrell Bank (Getty Images)

NOD TO HISTORY: John Simpson, vice-president of the Wenlock Olympian Society, whose annual Games, founded 50 years before the modern Olympic movement, inspired IOC founder Pierre de Courbetin takes the torch in Much Wenlock (Getty Images)

OLYMPIC STAR: Imran Sherwani, who scored the goals when Great Britain beat Germany in the 1988 Olympic hockey final, lights the cauldron in Stoke on Trent (Getty Images)

POPULAR: Big crowds greet the torch as it is carried through the Shropshire village of Much Wenlock - an inspiration behind the founding of the modern Olympics and the name of the official London 2012 mascot (Getty Images)

NEW HEIGHTS: Sir Chris Bonington carries the Olympic flame on the summit of Snowdon, the second highest peak in the sport (Getty Images)

ODDS ON: Grand National winning jockey Jason Macguire was the final torchbearer as the flame arrived in Chester (Getty Images)

DOING A BOLT: Douglas Bancroft carries the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Aberystwyth and Tre Taliesin (Getty Images)

2012 EXPRESS: The Olympic Flame travels on the Ffestiniog Railway from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog during the Olympic Torch Relay (Getty Images)

PROUD: Philip Richards carries the Olympic flame at Oystermouth Castle (Getty Images)

THAT'S CHEATING: Paul Adams carries the Olympic Flame on a land train on the leg through Swansea (Getty Images)

NATIONAL HERO: Colin Jackson won everything in athletics apart from an Olympic gold medal and admitted he felt emotional after carrying the torch (Getty Images)

TV STAR: Gethin Jones, a former Blue Peter presenter, carries the flame through Merthyr Tydfil (Getty Images)

HANDOVER: Llio Roberts pass the Olympic Flame to Zak Lee-Green on the Torch Relay leg through Cardiff (Getty Images)

BIG CROWDS: Bronwen Davies carries the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Caerphilly and Pontypridd (Getty Images)