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Petition update, 22 February 2008

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Current signatories

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

• Bruce Wyatt
• Angela Phillips
• Maurice Hyde
• Rowan Tanner
• Nick Jackson
• christine Mann
• Laurie Hadley
• Chris Kellers
• William Lewis
• anthony gumble
• Les Walker
• jacqueline robson
• Joan Crook
• gerald inglis
• Mrs Sylvia Harrison
• Peter Jennings
• Maureen Heseltine
• Christopher Blakey
• Sharon Symons
• Derek Palgrave
• Clare Street
• Elizabeth Cox
• soul
• Mary Seager
• H J Barlow
• Linda Mason
• Elizabeth Stocks
• Benjamin Starkie
• Hannah Starkie
• Tracy Evans
• Alan E Jones
• Martin Worthy
• Gerald Elston
• Mrs Isabel Leeming
• R Bishop
• Peter J Armstrong
• Joyce Finnemore
• Gay J Oliver
• Lynda thompson
• Robert Nield
• Caroline Maria Gibb
• Celia Heritage
• Diana Bickerton
• Leslie Bush
• Dave Lewis
• Martin York
• Pat Smith
• Brad Hepburn
• Susan Westlake
• Adam Gorzelak
• Terry Kaye
• Elaine Clarke
• Mike Thacker
• Richard Ratcliffe
• J Spink
• Nicola Waterfall
• Lisa Rex
• Irene Greatorex
• Susan Stone-Grundy
• Julie Goycher
• Patricia Cornelius
• Elizabeth Anne Taylor
• barbara whitehead
• Brian Johnson
• Melissa Ford
• Lynda Raistrick
• Ann Carter
• Doreen Bailey
• June Staniforth
• david hooper
• Sheila Smith
• Maureen Scholey
• Audrey Grant Morris
• Genista Spencer
• David L. Jones
• Barbara Iggulden
• Peter Barlow
• Rosemary Arthur
• Susan Ashton
• Susan Lister
• George Gummer
• Norma Maxwell
• Margaret Butler
• David Cordingley
• Peter Glover
• Linda Hayball
• Doreen Berry
• Margaret Jones
• K. G. Chaplin
• Pam Elliott
• Mike Burnett
• Judy Domoney
• Graham Jordan
• Pete Hunnisett
• Ann Simcox
• Christine Metcalfe
• Juliet Mills
• Barbara Hague
• David Hague
• Jackie Depelle
• Thomas Hogg
• Mike Smith
• Alan Brigham
• David Magauran
• Carol Ravensdale
• Janis Coatsworth
• Peter Middleton
• Stephen Benham
• Elizabeth Gaydon
• Alistair Balharrie
• Mervyn Reeves
• Carol Brassfield
• Eileen Milton
• Michael Senior
• Barbara Turnham
• Carol Medlicott
• abbie starkie
• steph levitt
• William Weir
• Suzie Morley
• Robert Stedall
• Gordon Wesley
• R. J. Lofts
• Hugh Wilding
• Mr G E Dugdale
• Ann Redman
• ALAN MARSHALL
• Margaret Wickens
• Richard J. Rossington
• David Ogden
• Gwyn Rhys
• Claire Donaldson
• Anna Long
• R A Strudwick
• Jean Burger
• Elizabeth Burling
• John Simpson
• Fiona Sheehan
• Sue Adams
• Ann Rutt
• Jocelyn Floyd
• Anthony Hicks
• MARY KNIGHT
• Lynda Crofts
• Judith Anne Mitchell
• Donald E King
• Mr. Derek Saffell
• Alec Quarterman
• Eireen Coulson
• Angie McInroy
• David Cutteridge
• C Critchlow
• Pamela Caldwell
• Kim Tomlinson
• John Dalton
• Alison Wright
• philip how
• Frances Bevan
• Brian Holden
• Audrey Du'Mont
• Pauline E
• John Tout
• Geoff Griffiths
• Stan Rose
• Gareth Griffiths
• John H. Blythe
• Anne Job
• Roberta Goodall
• Keith Dowling
• Val Everson
• Jan Gow
• julia duff
• Sonia Howie
• Rosemary Rees
• Kathleen Cameron
• Don Bird
• vera Shipp
• John Turner
• T.L.Messingham
• Pauline Lowrie
• Jennifer Holliday
• Lesley Matthews
• Jenny Evans
• Emily Kearns
• Hazel Wallace
• MICHAEL bERNARD sAYERS
• Theresa Stewart
• Steve Russell
• P. Middleton
• Roger Randle
• Jennie Scott
• Derek E. Thompson
• H Y Simpson
• Catherine Ryan
• Angela Elfassi
• janet watkins
• Stella Hunt
• thomas price
• Lorraine A, Phillips
• Penny Potter
• Roy Hiscock
• Naomi Fellerman
• Georgina Phillips
• Adrian Bagust
• Barbara Castle
• Christopher George Merry
• Christine Gent
• Pamela Lewis
• john downes
• Denise Mary Atkins
• Janet Watts
• Karen Ramsey
• Philip Gloyn
• Mary Maylott
• Cheryl Satchell
• Antony Dalton
• Roger PARTRIDGE
• VAL LLOYD
• carol battle
• Hellen Brown
• Susan Shenton
• Mrs.R.H.Kinsella
• Maria Preston
• Linda Hutton
• Janis King
• Rodney Pitt
• John Hall
• Thomas Biltcliffe
• John Feast
• Iain McCulloch
• Anne Bovett
• peter young
• Jeff Pettman
• Colin Wilson
• Anne Burns
• Dick Herridge
• Judith Torrice
• Pamela Al-Romaithi
• Lucy Tang
• Alison Cotton
• Dorothy B Rayner
• Steve Trotter
• Olive Price
• Yvonne Thomas
• Peter Rowley
• Constance Evans
• Maureen Stewart
• Judith Gaillac
• Susan Pitt
• Jennifer Horwood
• Neil Fraser
• andrew fraser
• Jessica Bankes
• Eliza Forde
• kasia oberc
• David Albert Milchard
• simon grosvenor
• Frances Brett
• david pacifico
• Marcus Herbert
• Anthony Pledger
• paul matthews
• Christine A Dawson
• Kristian Baxter
• Melanie Whitehead
• Myra Qureshi
• Stuart Fraser
• A. Barron
• Robert Barratt
• David Mansell
• John Haggerstone
• Christopher W Stupples
• Richard Mansell
• john welton
• Helen Stansfield
• Charles Fraser
• Mrs R Jopson
• Mark Feltham
• Peter R A Birchwood
• Hector Birchwood
• Katjana Gattermann
• Diana Bouglas
• Jagoda Sumicka
• Edwin Morgan
• Phil Jennings
• Andrew Dakers
• Robin Woods
• Jackie Taylor
• Andrea Unsworth
• Michael Norris
• John Tate
• Victor DeMiguel
• Ron Voce
• Dom Ford
• M Lukhman
• Eva-Maria Nag
• Neil Davies
• LINDA REES
• Phil Wiseman
• J J Saturley
• Victor F Voss
• Elizabeth Hamilton
• Maurice Roy TAYLOR
• Veronica Frances
• Raymond Thomas
• Barbara Willis
• Geoff Swinfield
• John Blundell
• Rosalie Sutton
• DEBORAH TORRY
• Angela Wear
• mary Milne-Day
• Lesley Ford
• Maureen Selley
• Godfrey A F Philpotts
• Tina Brooks
• Colin E Baslington
• P Barber
• John Starkie
• Ann Brooker
• Doreen Grant
• Christine Stjernberg
• Cyril Black
• Janet Black
• Joyce Kershaw
• Roger Goacher
• Chris Smart
• J.Malyan
• Teresa Simmonds
• louise murchison
• Paul M Cooper
• Robert Turner
• Richard Ireson
• Terence Taylor
• Cindy Van Ackeren
• Barbara McCallum
• Myles Earle
• Claire Ward
• Helen Whichelow
• Peter Leonard Bird
• Lynne Marsh
• David Jon Beverley
• Glynice Smith
• Tony Genovese
• Steven Smyrl
• Valerie King
• christina barton
• Pamela Joyce
• Kevin Smith
• Francesca Draper
• Mark Maughan
• Julie Robertson
• Coral Mist
• Francis Bond
• Michael Hutton
• beryl barrow
• Victoria Martin
• Martina Quinn
• Paul Gallagher
• Betty Anderson
• Emma Peplow
• David Cresswell
• Jane Tegg
• John Gooderson
• R H Brooks
• John Band
• Francis Howcutt
• Janet Hill
• Ann Gahan
• Robert C Thompson
• Peter William Whipps
• Sonia Bennett Murray
• Geoffry Bennett
• Kathryn Sonia Murray Young
• Peter H. Latham
• Angela Savva
• K Stanley
• P Buttrey
• mathew carr
• Eileen Eves
• Rosemarie Raines
• Martin Hockey
• Judith Dunn
• Diana Copnall (Mrs)
• Ralph George Copnall
• Albert Cruse
• Mel Wood
• Mavis Bourdice
• Brian Blackman
• Norma Kyson
• Keith Murray
• Stella Young
• John Woodard
• Rosemary White
• C Bedingham
• Marge George
• debbie grenfell
• Gordon Drewe
• Chris Radmore
• Lorraine Hatt
• Maureen Watts
• Barbara Roberts
• Lyn Spivey
• Veronica Siddall
• c.granville
• Amanda Jackson
• Pauline Parnell
• Edith Richter
• Robert Bergh
• Alison Cook
• Peter Cook
• Sally Kirkwood
• paul henderson
• monica neville
• Lesley Wyke
• Tammie Lee
• Jean Britteon
• Gavin Tester
• Coral Burridge
• Christopher Dent
• Sue Dean
• Betty Landimore
• Jo Fitz-Henry
• Beryl Gorse
• Philip Sherlock
• Adrienne Roche
• Tracey Fellows
• A R Criddle
• J.F. Roache, MBA
• Judith Young
• Sian Davies
• Oku Ekpenyon
• Mary Bryceland
• Gail Cameron
• Marika Sherwood
• Julia Bush
• Andrew Calow
• Eunice Williams
• William Patrick Hide
• francoise robertson
• Martin Spafford
• Patricia Keeble
• carol march
• Patricia Norrington
• James A.R. Fisher
• Christine Durance
• Ronald James Dawson
• Edmund William Janes
• John Rolph
• David Myers
• Michael Pitt-Payne
• Michael Wheeler
• Jill Wheeler
• Carole Moon
• James Rounce
• Susan Thorp
• William Travers
• Michael J Rea
• Carole Anderson
• Kate Buchanan
• Abu Bakkar
• george mcelvoy
• Nicola Phillimore
• Elizabeth Williams
• Madeleine Duke
• Joan Rushton
• R. Meehan
• Sue Moore
• Robert Stewart Milligan
• Kenneth Simmons
• Naomi Leggett
• John Allison
• Jacque Barker
• nicola durkin
• JOYCE HALLETT
• F B Medhurst
• Robert Parker
• Julia Greenwood
• Jack Hammersley
• Jennifer Symien
• Trevor Banks
• H Sharp
• Elsie Gale
• Kate Holloway
• William Membery
• Brenda Green
• Mrs Pat Fyfe
• Helen Turner
• John Tyhurst
• Daphne Johnson
• Keith Johnson
• Bob Spilsted
• Jennifer Anne Wootton
• Chris Worsfold
• Emma Bennett
• Nicola Adams
• Andy Clemett
• Catherine Knight
• Jan Bower
• PETER HOWARD

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