"This is not fair," she tells the Prime Minister. "You tell us to playsport and then the grown-ups in charge here go and build where we play.Please can you help us stop them taking away our play area ... or do youwant us to grow up fat like the big councillors do?"
Let's hope Sharmaine's campaign is more successful than that of12-year-old Jack Smithies, who also recently turned to Gordon Brown forhelp. He sent a petition to the PM's website calling for children in theUK to be allowed to keep elephants as pets. He's longing for one himselfbut "at the age of 12, I find that nobody takes me seriously," hewrites.
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