"A flaming good idea"

Labour Parliamentary Spokesperson Daniel Zeichner is asking Cambridge people to back his campaign to bring the Olympic flame to Cambridge.

In a letter to Tessa Jowell, Minister for the Olympics he urged her to put Cambridge on the route for the Olympic Torch relay saying Cambridge was an "ideal location" which like the Olympic Movement itself had a "unique mixture of the old and the new".

Daniel Zeichner said: "I am calling on Cambridge people to back my campaign by signing my online petition, by downloading a paper petition"

"Bringing the flame to Cambridge is something local children would remember all their lives."

"I was over the moon when I found out the Olympics were coming to London - this is a unique opportunity to really inspire our young people about sport and exercise."

Find out more about the Olympic Torch Relay at the London 2012 website or the the Olympic website.