First Lowcog wanted to kidnap the year 2012 and prevent an arts programme using it in the name of their exhibition. Now the IOC has prevented cake makers using Olympic logos in a British Sugarcraft Guild cake decorating exhibition! Jan Thorpe, chairman of the judges committee, yesterday described the crackdown as "excessive". She said: "There is no commercial gain whatsoever from this. We were simply doing an Olympic display during the Olympic year in sugar. We thought the (International) Olympic Committee would be happy that people were getting involved. It really upset us. This is our skill and we wanted to join in."

Avril Unwin, Chairman of the Cambridge Branch, said "The exhibition takes place every two or three years and just happened to fall on 2012 so we thought it would be fabulous to base our designs around the Olympics. We thought it was a lovely opportunity to show off our skills while the Olympics were taking place and that it would promote Britain and the games."

Let them eat cake!