THOUSANDS of free tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Evening Celebration on Weymouth Beach were snapped up in just over two hours.

Applications for the wristbands for the event launched on the borough council's website at 7am yesterday morning and by 9.06am they had all been allocated.

The free two-and-a-half hour celebration on the beach will take place on Thursday July 12 and include performances from rapper Wretch 32, the Britain's Got Talent dance act finalists Twist & Pulse and an acrobatic display