Culled from Manchester Evening news MANCHESTER last night showed the world why commonwealth games have come to the city-sheer enthusiasm and a great party atmosphere. Thousands of spectators took to the streets to witness the baton's arrival in the city after its mammoth 59,000 mile journey. Bands ad street entertainers from all over the world added even more excitement to carnival feeling that has been growing in Manchester. Rado 1 DJs mark and lard hosted the main focus of the celebrations ouside the Town Hall, where a range of music acts relected Manchester's multicultural heritage, befre Ryan Giggs and Stuart Pearce ran with the baton for the final few yards of its journey. Later the festivities climaxed with a thunderous salvo of fireworks. The Queen and duke of Edinburgh toured the city yesterday as part of their two-days visit. The Queen visited the Jewish museum while the Duke officially opened the imperial war museum Norht. Her Majesty will open the games this evening in a ceremony at the city of Manchester stadium. The city has also seen a massive police operation to protect the Games from any security threats. The sporting events are sxpected to watched by up to 500 million views around the Commonwealth. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~