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Cameron's eve-of-Games rallying call as Salmond hails 'Scolympians'

THE 2012 Olympics will help unite Britain, David Cameron declared yesterday, saying: "This is not a London Games, this is not an England Games, this is a United Kingdom Games."

With just hours to go before tonight's opening ceremony when Scottish Olympian Sir Chris Hoy will carry the Union flag and lead Team GB into the Olympic stadium, the PM talked up what staging the biggest sporting event on the planet could mean for the nation's identity.

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