Torvill and Dean honoured in their home city

Ice skating champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have been honoured in their home city of Nottingham to mark their farewell tour.

The Olympic gold medallists unveiled a newly-updated tram in their name on Tuesday to celebrate 50 years of dancing together.

A rink at the National Ice Centre was also officially named after them and a blue plaque marking their final performance together at the centre was revealed.

Dean said they will "always be a part of Nottingham", adding the city will always have a "special place" in their hearts.

The pair became household names after their gold medal-winning performance of Bolero at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics in 1984.

They became the highest-scoring figure skaters of all time for a single programme.

On Tuesday, they returned to Nottingham to mark 50 years since they formed their skating partnership in the city.

They said it was a "huge honour" and "really special" to be at the unveiling of the tram and to have a rink named after them.

"Nottingham is where we grew up and where we both first started to skate," Torvill said.

"We've never had an ice rink named after us, and to have it here in Nottingham, where it all started, is very special.

"An ice rink is a special place that brings communities together and we are honoured that we are going to be part of it forever."

The ice skating legends will perform the final show of their farewell tour 'Our Last Dance' in Nottingham on Saturday.

They said the tour, which began in London in April and has visited nine venues across the country, was "very much a celebration of our careers".

Dean added: "The final performance will be emotional, but not a sad occasion.

"We want to skate the best that we can skate.

"The audience has been so receptive. It's nostalgic for a lot of people and it's sort of conjured up memories of the past for them - good memories."

Torvill said: "This whole tour has been a celebration. We want to leave on a high and want the audience to enjoy celebrating with us."

Martin Ingham, CEO at the National Ice Centre, said: "Not only did they provide the inspiration for millions of people to start their skating journey but they provided the inspiration for this building which over the last 25 years has seen over seven million skaters come through our doors.

"They opened the building. They held the greatest skating gala that this country has ever seen in 2002 in front of Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

"They did a unique thing skating with the Olympic torch here and have skated so many times with Dancing on Ice and now with the Last Dance."

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