Quote: A number of MPs are calling for ticket-touting at big sporting events to be made illegal.
The ban would include Wimbledon, where tickets for tomorrow's men's final were being offered on websites for more than £6,000 a pair.
It is only illegal to re-sell tickets for professional football matches.
But now an MP wants touting to be banned at all "crown jewel" sporting events, such as Wimbledon, the Grand National and the Six Nations Rugby.
Sharon Hodgson, Labour MP for Washington and Sunderland North, has the support of a dozen or so colleagues.
"What I want is legislation that makes it a criminal offence to buy up large numbers of tickets, with a view to selling them at a profit," she says.
"If that wasn't allowed, people wouldn't do it." | 
