Nurses, school children and a giant bell to bring fun start to the Games
Evening Standard
A 27-tonne bell - much larger than Big Ben - will be rung at 9pm on July 27, at the start of the ceremony. Now being struck at Whitechapel Foundry, it will be engraved with a line from a speech by Caliban in The Tempest: "Be not afeard, ...
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