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Community carries the Olympic torch

March 22, 2012 16:00
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Jessica Elgot,

Jessica Elgot

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Polish-born dinah Gould, 99, from Kenton, will be the oldest of nearly 8,000 torchbearers selected to carry the Olympic flame through the streets of the UK this summer. The Liberal Jewish Synagogue member will be 100 when she carries the flame through Barnet. Mrs Gould still runs exercise classes for residents of her block of flats.

Simon Davies, 36, lives in Jewish Care's Rela Goldhill Lodge. Born with athetoid cerebal palsy, Mr Davies volunteers full-time in the fundraising department of Jewish Care, and runs an online greeting cards company whose profits go to the charity.

The 36-year-old cannot walk or speak, but will carry the torch in his electronic wheelchair.

Leslie Lyndon, 67, the retired cantor at New North London Synagogue, was nominated by his stepson, for his religious work and "for the way he has managed his Alzheimer's disease".