London 2012: Modern Britain the theme as Tessa Jowell hints at opening ceremony

By Jacquelin Magnay, Olympics Editor 634PM GMT seventeen March 2010

Shining e.g. London will have the work cut out to compare the Beijing opening rite Photo GETTY

But in the initial spirit of the widespread thesis for the London 2012 opening ceremony, the Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell pronounced on Wednesday it will etch a "modern Britain".

Jowell told a parliamentary cabinet assembly "We are building an proceed that will be renouned with people in this country. They [the opening and shutting ceremonies] will be clearly British and both they and the Games themselves will communicate complicated Britain some-more in balance than the stereotypes that tools of the universe think about us".

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So, if Routemaster buses, black cabs, Buckingham Palace guards and fish and chips are out, what will fill the void?

In the past opening ceremonies have been as politically scold as possible, so design complicated elements of multiculturalism with, of course, nods to Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish tradition. Works by wall scrawl artist Banksy or the some-more mainstream Damien Hirst competence have an coming too. And a lovable small lady or child will sing.

Jowell pronounced she had since capitulation for the London organising cabinet to make use of the strait bill in sequence to make firm the cabling of the lighting gantries to await a far heavier weight, that points to a little kind of trapeze act.

One cautionary tip for the organisers equivocate over-complicating the vicious flame-lighting moment. At both the Sydney Olympic Games and the new Vancouver Winter Olympics, elements of the cauldron embarrassingly failed.