"SWIMMING came top of a wish list yesterday at Acland Burghley School in Kentish Town when its pupils were asked by Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, and Dame Kelly Holmes, the Government’s new School Sports Champion, as to which facilities they would most like to have access to.

This might be easier said than done as the school, which both Jowell's children attended, has no pool. Of the two local baths, one is closed and the other is under threat of closure."