LUCKY Hillingdon children are getting the opportunity of a lifetime as 4,671 Olympic and Paralympics Games tickets are being given out to schools across the borough.

One in eight children across London will be given a ticket to the Games after 125,000 tickets were set aside through the Get Set Ticketshare scheme, in partnership with 2012 organisers.

Letters were sent out on Thursday to those who joined the Get Set Education Network, detailing which sports and venues the children will be attending. The biggest ticket allocation is to the popular sports of football and basketball.

Tickets are said to be allocated at no cost to the schools, parents or to the taxpayer.

Mayor Boris Johnson said: “We’re heading into what will surely be the most exciting and inspiring summer of sport this country has every seen, and it is only right that the capital’s young people are at the heart of the action.”

Games chairman Sebastian Coe said: “The opportunity for young people to see world class sport close up is something that was a core part of the bid.”

In total 95,761 tickets have been allocated for young Londoners and 22,252 tickets for accompanying adults.