NORTH-EAST home rule campaigners will take their message to the Prime Minister's Sedgefield constituency today.

This follows last Saturday's campaign day in Alnwick, Northumberland.

The day of activity will follow an extensive telephone survey of the Sedgefield area.

The Campaign for a North-East Assembly claims early results show "overwhelming" support in Tony Blair's own constituency, for elected regional government for the North-East.

Campaign spokesman Ian Mearns said: "We intend to prove to the prime minister with this intensive campaign in his own backyard that the people of the North-East in general, and particularly his own voters in Sedgefield, want power devolved in the region."

Campaigners with placards, balloons and banners will be in the Market Place, Ferryhill, between 10am and 10.30am.

At 11am the campaigners will deliver their call for an elected regional government to Tony Blair's office in Trimdon Colliery. Leaflets will also be delivered to homes in Ferryhill and Trimdon Colliery.