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Summer Paralympics - The French capital is getting ready to host 11 days of elite competition that will produce new stars at a range of landmark venues as the Paralympic Games gets underway with its opening ceremony at 8pm French time this evening. Eleven days of elite competition across 22 sports. With no fewer than 549 medals at stake, 4,400 athletes will be taking part from 128 different nations, each of them with a disability. This evening's ceremony will be staged not in a stadium but in the city, with the location shifting from the River Seine to the Champs Élysées. A “people’s parade” will be accessible to the general public before arriving at the Place de la Concorde with the lighting of the Paralympic torch. The sporting action begins tomorrow.
Tributes to police officer fatally killed whilst on duty - Tributes are to be paid today, Wednesday 28th August, in both Cannes and Mougins following the death of police officer Eric Comyn. 54-year-old Eric was fatally mowed down by a motorist on Monday evening during a police road check on the A8 motorway in Mougins. The father of two had been serving in the force for 30 years. Emergency services at the scene were unable to save him. Meanwhile, the motorist who was on the run having fled the scene was stopped by police in Cannes in the early hours of Tuesday morning and was found to be under the influence of alcohol.
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