3:38pm Friday 27th January 2012
By Joe Curtis
THE largest ringing bell in Europe will mark the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, it has been announced.
The 27-tonne bell will hang at one end of the Olympic Stadium in Stratford and will be inscribed with a quote from Shakespeare play The Tempest, which reads “Be not afeared. The isle is full of noises”.
It will chime during the opening ceremony to mark the start of the 2012 Games.
Film director Danny Boyle, who is in charge of the ceremony, said the estimated £27m event would be titled “The Isle of Wonders” and said he took inspiration from the Sydney Olympics in 2000, which have since become known as The People’s Games.
Mr Boyle must organise around 20,000 volunteers who are taking part in the opening performance.
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