The Olympic Torch has reached North Somerset - after a stop in Bristol overnight.

It's been an early start for the selected Torchbearers - as the flame has already passed through Backwell, and has just gone through Nailsea ... before it's taken back through Bristol and onto Wiltshire.

And, although it's not on the relay route - the flame will visit Weston's Grand Pier just after ten A-M ... contained in a special lantern.

Pier director Michelle Michael says it's down to the town's MP John Penrose, who was disappointed the resort missed out originally:

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