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The Olympic Torch travelling around the UK in 70days (May 2012)

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DVB Cornwall
Shaun Linden posted:
I see that they have those arm belts on with security ID that bouncers usually have on. If they are Met Police officers surely they would not need them, or is this due to them not being in uniform?


They're on duty, hence requiring their warrant cards. The arm bands hold these.
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DVB Cornwall posted:
Shaun Linden posted:
I see that they have those arm belts on with security ID that bouncers usually have on. If they are Met Police officers surely they would not need them, or is this due to them not being in uniform?


They're on duty, hence requiring their warrant cards. The arm bands hold these.


Ah, I assumed they were normal security (not police) because i've only ever seen security wear them, not police.
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noggin Founding member
Shaun Linden posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:
Shaun Linden posted:
I see that they have those arm belts on with security ID that bouncers usually have on. If they are Met Police officers surely they would not need them, or is this due to them not being in uniform?


They're on duty, hence requiring their warrant cards. The arm bands hold these.


Ah, I assumed they were normal security (not police) because i've only ever seen security wear them, not police.


I think Police Officers always carry their warrant cards, but normal uniforms have somewhere specific to keep them. The uniforms they are wearing for the Torch Relay are presumably not designed for this...
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David
noggin posted:
The uniforms they are wearing for the Torch Relay are presumably not designed for this...


That would be a pretty a pretty big omission for a uniform that has been especially designed for one event.

I saw adverts on the website feed earlier (one for a hotel chain and one for BT). I hope this was a mistake and I was seeing an international feed rather than the one meant for the UK.
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DVB Cornwall
gottago posted:
Can anyone else see the torch relay coverage being a massive flop? I'm always into the Olympics but I'm not interested in watching it on TV whatsoever aside from the launch of it tonight. The fact that so many hours of it will be available to stream live just baffles me and I'm not sure there's any real need to extend some of the regional news programmes for it. I mean it's just people carrying a flame.


In excess of 100,000 people saw the torch pass through Cornwall today according to first estimates.
IS
Inspector Sands
Markymark posted:
The SIM cards won't be in the camera(s). It sounds like be a number of 3G routers bonded together

Further reading :-

http://www.peplink.com/applications/vpn-bonding-on-3g/


Dejero is another product that uses 'bonded 3G'
http://www.dejero.com/products
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tightrope78
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh309/tigerwoods78/AtSE3yRCEAMB9XV.jpg

Barry Davies carrying the torch into Plymouth last night.
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Im not looking forward to it when it comes up to my part of the world, there missing out big chunks! and most of Larnarkshire and fife not getting to see It
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VMPhil
The BBC2012 Twitter feed has a nice high quality Olympic Broadcaster logo:

http://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1669544865/Generic_Full_POS_V_RGB.png
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VMPhil
Just saw a BBC camerman wearing a hi-vis jacket with the old 1988 BBC logo on:

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Click on the image to see the full sized version, it's a bit pixellated but the best I could do with the stream. I know it's the old logo as it was more clear a few moments beforehand and the picture was more zoomed in on it.
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Inspector Sands
623058 posted:
Im not looking forward to it when it comes up to my part of the world, there missing out big chunks! and most of Larnarkshire and fife not getting to see It

It's going within 10 miles of 95% of the population, though I'd be interested to hear how far away the other 5% are
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DVB Cornwall
First figures in on the economic impact for the doubters .

Falmouth Business Improvement District are reporting £1.1M takings from visitors surrounding the short stop in the town yesterday.

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