Our campaign to get reporters from your favourite local newspaper into the Olympic Games next year has made it to the House of Commons.  As things stand, London's single biggest event in a generation will have no local media coverage of any kind after all regional press applications for passes were declined by the British Olympic Association (BOA).

That means, while we will continue to bring you the build-up to the Games and reflect the decisions affecting the taxpayers who have made the Games possible, we will not be able to bring you any coverage of the Games themselves.

Jo Johnson, Conservative MP for Orpington, took the battle straight to the top, enlisting the support of Minister for Sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson in the Commons on Thursday.

Mr Johnson said: "It is a cause of great concern to me that local media, particularly in London — the city on whose good will the success of these games depends — are being shut out.  Will [Mr Robertson] join me in calling on the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport to look closely at the decision by the British Olympic Association to deny media accreditation to such fine local London papers as the News Shopper?"

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