Northern Echo Olympic Dream Campaign

EDM number 2295 in 2005-06, proposed by Kevan Jones on 06/06/2006.

That this House congratulates the Northern Echo Newspaper on its Olympic Dream campaign to raise vital money for grassroots sport in the North East; welcomes the campaign's aims of securing funds for talented youngsters through the sports charity SportsAid and helping to encourage children's sport and spread the benefits of the 2012 Olympics; is disappointed at the decision of the London 2012 Organising Committee to ban the use of the word Olympic from the Northern Echo Newspaper's campaign; and calls on the Government to intervene to ensure regional and community-based initiatives in support of the 2012 Olympics are allowed to use the term `Olympic'.

This motion has been signed by a total of 81 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.