NORTHERN ECHO OLYMPIC DREAM CAMPAIGN

Early day motion 2295, tabled 6 June 2006 by Lord Beamish (Labour). Signed by 80 members.

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'.

Signatures by party: Labour 65, Liberal Democrat 6, Conservative 4, DUP 4, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.