100,000 people land Paralympics tickets

More than 100,000 people have got tickets to the London 2012 Paralympics in the first-round sale, organisers say.

London 2012 estimates that 800,000 tickets have been sold to the public now that the random ballots for the oversubscribed events have been finished.

It means that about nine out of ten of the 116,000 people who applied for 1,146,000 tickets are in line to get all or some of their ticket bids, London 2012 said.

Successful buyers will start to see the payments being taken from their accounts from Tuesday before they find out exactly which tickets they have got.