HUGE numbers of people have voted in a competition ending today to name a jumbo jet after the late Grove teenager Maisie Norton.

Nicky Henshall has entered Maisie’s nickname “Madger Moo” in a national competition being run by travel agent Thomson and is now in the top five. Voting will close at 12pm today.

Ms Henshall, 49, from Grove, entered her suggestion on Sunday afternoon and had more than 2,000 votes within 24 hours. The total number of votes now stands at 9,200.

The mum-of-one said: “When I saw it I thought straight away what an amazing and perfect tribute it would be to honour someone who is truly deserving to fly high.

“I put it on the Oxford Mail’s Facebook page and it’s had a lovely response.

“I’ve known Maisie’s parents Steve and Rosie for about 25 years and when I stumbled across this competition I immediately thought how nice it would be for Maisie to fly high on the side of a plane and see the world in a way that she sadly now won’t be able to.

“I checked with Rosie to see if it was okay and she thought it was a lovely idea.”

The competition deadline is noon on Monday, November 16 and the winner, whose name will adorn Thomson’s latest 787 Dreamliner, will be chosen from the top five entrants.

Thomson will also give the winner £2,500 worth of vouchers, but Ms Henshall said if she won she would donate them to the Caring Cancer Trust, a charity which takes young cancer sufferers like Maisie on respite holidays.

Maisie, a pupil at King Alfred’s Academy in Wantage, passed away at home on October 8, aged 17, after a six-year battle with cancer.

Following her diagnosis in 2009, she became well-loved in Wantage for helping to inspire hundreds of people to raise funds and fight the disease.

In April last year she helped transform Wantage Market Place into a festival of fundraising for Cancer Research UK and other charities, which was dubbed Wantage Standing up to Cancer.

More than 500 people including Maisie took part in a sponsored run or walk on April 27 and more joined a fundraising fete.

The month before, Maisie was presented with the Jake Spicer Special Recognition Award for her fundraising at the Oxfordshire Youth Awards, at Oxford’s New Theatre.

Her funeral on October 21 brought Wantage town centre to a standstill as hundreds of mourners joined a procession from the parish church to Grove Cemetery where she was laid to rest.

* Vote for Madger Moo at nameourplane.com/name/madger-moo.