The Red Devil parachute regiment free-fall team celebrate one year to go to the Paralympic Games in Weymouth, home to the Paralympic Sailing.

Selection for London 2012 volunteers started in the South West today as <a href="news/2011/08/final-regional-london-2012-volunteer-selection-event-und.php">the ninth and final regional Games Maker selection event opened its doors in Plymouth</a>.<br/><br/>Olympic Skeleton racer and London 2012 board member Adam Pengilly was on hand to officially launch the interview programme.<br/><br/>The sports hall at University College Plymouth St Mark &amp; St John will welcome an estimated 1,200 applicants, all looking to secure one of the 70,000 Games-time roles

Unlimited, a groundbreaking Cultural Olympiad programme that celebrates arts and culture by disabled and deaf people, <a href="http://www.london2012.com/news/2011/08/cultural-olympiad-arts-project-gets-further-funding-boos.php">has been awarded £700,000 of funding in its final round of commissions</a>.<br/><br/>Creating the Spectacle! will present an ambitious series of performances of a self-propelled underwater wheelchair. It is the latest in a series of innovative projects conceived by Sue Austin and produced through Freewheeling, in conjunction with ICCI at University of Plymouth and B-Side Mulitmedia Arts Festival, Weymouth.

Lucy MacGregor, Annie Lush and Kate MacGregor of Great Britain in action during a Women's Match race during day one of the London 2012 test event at Weymouth and Portland International Regatta 2011.

Paralympic Mascot, Mandeville tries Beach Volleyball at the launch of the first Cornwall Beach Games, a London 2012 Inspire project organised by Cornwall Sports Partnership

<p>From left to right Robert Hardy, Jason Gardener, Councillor Simon Cook, Ethan Gatehouse, Williams Harms, Councillor Geoffrey Gollop, Carla Armstrong Brown, Jesse Armstrong Brown, Bernice Gollop and Greg Nugent pose in front of the Clifton Suspension Bridge to mark the announcement of the first locations to be confirmed on the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay route, and the launch of the public nomination process to find 8,000 Olympic Torchbearers.</p><p/><p/>

Nick Dempsey celebrates one day to go until applications for Olympic Games tickets close on Weymouth beach home to the Sailing at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Chris Holmes, LOCOG Director of Paralympic Integration and 9 times Paralympic Gold medallist joined local Games Maker applicants at the WPNSA to officially launch the start of the regional interview programme.

Royal Ballet Prima Ballerina, Tamara Rojo, with students from the Urban Dance School strike a pose as the first commissions for the London 2012 Festival are announced at the Royal Opera House.