The Paralympic Games torch relay travels through the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone

Preparations for the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris saw the torch light from England to France via the Channel Tunnel.

After lit in Stoke Mandevillebirthplace of the Paralympic movement, the flame makes its way to Paris to mark the start of the games.

Sunday’s relay saw 24 British athletes walk the tunnel from Folkestone, joined by 24 French athletes to carry the flame.

When it reaches the French coast in Calais, the flame splits into 12 parts that will cross France.

Helene Raynsford of Guildford rowing club, along with Gregor Ewan, lit the Paralympic flame.

Ms Raynsford became the first Paralympic champion when the sport debuted in Beijing in 2008, while Ewan is a three-time wheelchair Paralympian.

Among other places, the Flames will visit Lyon, which will host 11 football matches during the games, and Lorient, home of two-time paragliding gold medalist Damien Seguin.

The cauldron in Paris will be lit when all 12 flames return to the city on August 28, followed by 11 days of competition.

I games running until September 8, there are more than 4,000 athletes from around the world competing in 549 medal events in 22 sports.

Stoke Mandeville is now permanent the lighting point for all the Paralympic torchesin the same way the Olympic Flame is lit in Olympia in Greece.

In 1948 Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized the Stoke Mandeville Games, a competition for wheelchair athletes, which was held on the same day as the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London.