Thousands of Olympic athletes and spectators are heading home today after the London 2012 Games closed in style.

A world-wide audience of 300 million was treated to a spectacular celebration of British music - directed by Bournemouth-born Kim Gavin ... which included performers from George Michael and the Spice Girls to Tinie Tempah and Jessie J on a stadium filling union jack stage.

It marked the end of Team GB's most succesful Olympics in aover a century - with 29 golds among our 65 medals as we finished third in the table behind the USA and China.

One of our stars was the Games' first ever women's boxing champion - Nicola Adams: