JOURNALIST Adrian Sudbury’s campaign to sign up bone marrow donors is today going straight to the heart of Government – just 24 hours after its launch in the Examiner.

MP Kali Mountford is planning to introduce our reporter to both health minister Alan Johnson (pictured) and Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families at Westminster this evening to get the campaign on both their agendas.

And Prime Minister Gordon Brown is also hoping to attend the meeting.

Adrian, who is terminally ill with leukaemia, wants to set up a system similar to the one in schools in Germany where a short talk about bone marrow transplants and becoming a donor is built into every sixth former’s curriculum.

And it works.

In Germany they have hundreds of donors and they carry out many transplant operations every year to save the lives of leukaemia sufferers.

Adrian’s struggle with the disease has a worldwide following through his Baldy’s Blog on the Examiner website.

He said: “This is just brilliant, Kali’s support has been brilliant. I always knew that whatever the outcome of my story, this is something I wanted to achieve.

“It would be great if we could get awareness levels higher and that could be through something as simple as 30-minute discussion in the sixth form for every student in this country.”

He wants to end the many myths surrounding bone marrow donation and transplants through his campaign and hopes this will lead to greater numbers of people signing up for the UK bone marrow register run by the Anthony Nolan Trust.

Their representatives were joining 26-year-old Adrian in Westminster tonight. The Trust currently has 16,000 requests for a match on their books.

Adrian added: “Getting the MPs on board and senior minister could be the way to achieving this as a lasting legacy for me and to give the Trust the extra names it really, really needs to help people survive leukaemia.

“It’s exhausting for me at the moment, but this opportunity to get the chance in London tonight to put our case is just brilliant.”

Colne Valley MP Kali has the support of many Labour MPs.

MPs Angela Smith and David Blunkett from Adrian's home city of Sheffield are also involved as is Huddersfield's Barry Sheerman.

Kali aims to table a Commons motion on the subject and raise it in tomorrow's Prime Minister's Questions time,

Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman said: “Kali has spoken to the Prime Minister’s office and we are all keen to give our support to this campaign. Everyone has enormous sympathy for the situation which Adrian finds himself in. He is inspirational.

“It is a terrible situation. We have now got to move on from the inspiration which Adrian has given us to bring about change. I shall make it my business to ensure we can bring about a programme in sixth forms and colleges which will be a lasting tribute to Adrian’s battle.”