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Games coverage boosted

Channel 4 is clearing its daytime schedule to air more coverage of the London 2012 Paralympics after securing record viewing figures.

From today until the end of the Games, programmes that had been planned for broadcast on More4 in the late afternoon will now go out on the main Channel 4 station.

It comes after 2.9 million viewers tuned in on Saturday at around 6pm to see 17 year-old swimmer Ellie Simmonds win gold in the S6 400m freestyle with a new world record. The channel is set to broadcast daily coverage of the Games from 7am to 11.15pm with a 30-minute break at 7pm for the news.

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