MEMBERS of a jet-setting Darlington badminton club travelled to No 10 Downing Street ahead of a summer tour taking in Iceland, Canada and the US.

Players from Hummersknott Badminton Club went to Oxford during the Easter holidays, to meet players who will join them on the tour.

The Oxfordshire group is led by Calum Blair, a former Hummersknott School and Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College player.

Both groups travelled to London for the day, where they took a tour of the Palace of Westminster, with passes provided by Darlington MP Jenny Chapman and her assistant Grace Wright, themselves both former Hummersknott and QE students.

They were given access to Downing Street courtesy of David Cameron's constituency office in Oxfordshire.

They also enjoyed a 'meet and greet' session at the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square where the ambassadorial staff spoke about the parts of the US the players will visit in July and answered their questions.

The group's July tour will include eight matches in Reykjavik, Toronto, Washington DC, Baltimore, New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens.

This is the latest in a series of foreign tours and will make it 18 countries the club players have visited in recent seasons.