YOUNGSTERS from Isleworth carried historic Olympic torches through the borough on Wednesday as part of a London-wide relay.

Pupils from Worple Primary School, in Queens Terrace, held aloft the torches used in the 1948 London and 1956 Melbourne Games.

Headboy and girl Tyler van Rensburg and Radost Dimitrova, and sports captain Yoan Kusmanov, carried the torches from their school to Richmond Lock, where they handed them over to pupils from St Stephen's Junior School, in Twickenham.

Earlier that morning all pupils at the school had the chance to hold one of the torches during a special assembly about the Olympic flame.

The event was part of the Big Walk Once a Week (WoW) relay, organised by Transport for London, involving 30,000 pupils from 250 schools across the capital.

It was held as part of ongoing education and celebrations ahead of the London 2012 Games.

* HANDOVER: Senior pupils from Worple Primary show off the mid-20th century Olympic torches before handing them on to the waiting youngsters from St Stephen's Junior