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Petition update, 08 April 2008

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We are fighting against closing local schools only for them to be reopened as Academies with private sponsors taking away local governance and community involvement. The Government should invest money and retain ownership in our schools.

Current signatories

Christine Botting, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• theresa langworthy
• Maria Langworthy
• Sharon Hollick
• Ryan Langworthy
• Michelle Nayler
• Gary Simmons
• Susan Odev
• Dave Butler
• Barbara Mcleod
• lisa haynes
• Rosemary Moore
• Kevin Dibble
• Giles Carter
• Laura Summers
• Alison Batchelor
• Susan Chapman
• IAN HEYWOOD
• Susan Travers
• David Hall
• M. Friend
• Tony Potter
• Robert Fitzsimmons
• Catriona Ferreira
• Sean Duffy
• Will Hesse
• Michael Meredith
• Annette Farley
• Christopher Botting
• Dominic Burrows
• Janet Collins
• Michael Cockerell
• Pete Jordan
• Anne Panayiotou
• Claire McLeod
• Mr R Rogers
• Sandra Adams
• Elizabeth Brown
• Samantha Williams
• Stephanie Curtis
• Irene Jones
• dawn smith
• lynne marsh
• Robert Langworthy
• TRACIE PRICE
• Carolyn Hofman
• Jemma Arbin
• Angela Davies
• Natalie O'Brien
• Karen Vallins
• Tamsin Meredith
• e.riches
• Anthony Meredith
• Jean Garford
• m.vallins
• Jo Woollacott
• Mary Wood
• Hayley Wood
• Rachel Wood
• Alastair Wood
• Neil Williams
• scott pilkington
• Anthony Bunce
• Samuel Ian Mumford
• Leslie Charles Green
• Stewart Travers
• Lucy Travers
• J Woolley
• Laura Hall
• rodney reynolds
• Theresa Champ
• Catherine Curtis
• Paul Taylor
• Claire Mackenzie
• John Butler
• peter mitchell
• Sally Stenton
• Sue Wright
• Elizabeth Jane Panayiotou
• andrew baisley
• d.centeno
• Susan Gottschall
• Kevin Tiernan
• Roy Sinclair
• Laura Gompertz
• Toby Mallinson
• Juanita Shepherd
• karen Mee
• I Lindsay
• sue percy
• Laurie Harpum
• Angela Mills
• Eileen Sinclair
• Tony Batchelor
• Hannah Senior
• Richard Senior
• John Symons
• Julia Emerson
• Robin Wiles
• Susan
• Hieng Tang
• Stephen Wood
• Rebecca Barnett
• Grant Daniel Wakefield
• Michelle Fish
• Julie Witherow
• Nathan Luckett
• Geoff Holmes
• Audrey King
• Sarah Panayiotou
• chris spillane
• Stuart Paulley
• Elizabeth Plant
• leanne mcging
• Jack Sunderland
• Lianne Nixon
• Judith Redkwa
• Wendy Hewitt
• Jim Grady
• Ken Wright
• Jackie Hellier
• Mark Heaton
• Anthony Hill
• Lee McLoughlin
• George W Sharp
• Michael Schofield
• suzanne thorpe
• Bridget Chapman
• Mac Andrassy
• Julie Ball
• Nichola Nelson
• bryan beckingham
• Nye Goodwin
• CHRIS SHAW
• Ken Pickup
• David H Mitchell
• Michael Custance
• Sarah Bodkin
• alasdair smith
• Adele McKail
• Maria Monaghan
• John Andrew Ling
• Kevin Courtney
• Helen Currie
• Martin Jones
• Gerald Clark
• Ken Muller
• Dave Harvey
• Pete Bevis
• rodneykaykreizman@yahoo.co.uk
• Christine Wilkin
• Tim Woodcock
• John Yandell
• carole buxton
• Robert Andrew Archer
• Vivien Green
• Richard Hatcher
• fiona maxwell
• andrew james moore
• Charlotte Crow
• Sonia Jones
• Ms Lee Green
• Carole Regan
• janice goodsell
• vicky smith
• Tom eastwood
• Polly Donnison
• Enyd Norman
• Sarah Ker
• Robin Tall
• Simon O'Hara
• Vicki Simmons
• Julie Hunt
• Andrew Berry
• Julie Waterson
• Shirley Franklin
• peter muller
• Meg Howarth
• Ravinder Dhillon
• Vaughan West
• Padraic Finn
• Jane Coles
• Paul Greaney
• Harriet Williams
• Ian Crosson
• Ceinwen Hilton
• Ian Record
• Lee Scott
• chris clements
• jane slater
• Tim ~Bancroft
• Dave Clinch
• Elizabbeth Clinch
• titilola enitan akinde
• Ricky Knight
• Clare Fermont
• David Smale
• Jean Roberts
• Patrick Roberts
• Martin Edmonds
• Margaret Savill
• Sean Traves
• Joe Higman
• John Lynch
• Mrs C Thomas
• Justin Jewell
• Oliver Myers
• Jo Hillman
• John Daly
• Miss D Makwana
• Greg Robbins
• Julia Elston
• Pat Baxter
• James Lowe
• amanda norris
• Patricia Woodward
• Bernice shamplin
• Vincent Allen
• Lee Jackson
• Andrea Ross-Nichol
• Michelle Kirkbride
• Susan Smith
• Suzie Eden
• rupert shortt
• Jackson Day
• andria marsh
• George Arthur
• Cecilia Abarca
• Sasha Simic
• kerensa oreilly
• John Leonard
• Charles D. Newton
• Carolyn Gelenter
• Jill Hayman
• Walter Castro
• Sarah Johnson
• Vivien Coupe
• farida dhada
• Luna North
• David Fisher
• Cathryn Hinton
• helen
• Naomi
• Barry Brinklow
• Keely Druce
• Gaynor O'Ryan
• Danielle Nash
• Elizabeth Wilbond
• Keith Swain
• Mike Floate
• Mark Cartmell
• Scott Slater
• kate mackey
• Mike Douglas
• Ms S Stavri
• Constance Spriggs
• Joanna Hinson
• Christine Clark
• Thomas McGoldrick
• Taric Armine
• Tony Buttifint
• Robert Stapley
• Dion Norbury
• Joe Higman
• Carol Archer
• Danielle Williams
• Marina Johnston
• Miranda Harris
• Nicola Griffiths
• Ben Gallagher
• Phil Reynolds
• Kathy Smith
• Sarah Grossman
• Stan Hasketh
• Alan Douglas Hinsley
• Jessica Mason
• Maureen Irons
• Dave Shaw
• Damien McNulty
• LINDA HINSLEY
• amanda nolan
• eddie ritson
• Jo Wilson
• Emma Frame
• Andy Magee
• Rebecca Wildish
• clare panyandee
• Nat Queen
• Tony Wilkins
• john webb
• Mary Woodley
• Madryn Reynolds
• Louise Underwood
• S. Yarar
• Joan Payne
• Katherine Condon
• Layla Embleton
• Emma Stuart
• maria oliveira
• amy saville
• byron sheffield
• Debi Alper
• Derek Jones
• Joanne Sanderson
• Nicholas Myers
• Holly Smith
• Ken Cridland
• Alice Luck
• Martin Spafford
• conor ratcliffe
• Katy Warburton
• Allrik Birch
• Jennifer Scott-Thompson
• Alan Watkins-Groves
• Roy Cushway
• Jack Robert Langley
• David Andrews
• Katherine Bambridge
• alison piet
• trevor letford
• Keith Elms
• Anna Fisher
• Theresa Russell
• John Hathway
• Liz Watkins-Groves
• Lisa Wotton
• Stephen Porter
• John Lepp
• Mark Williams
• Ian Cunningham
• Pam Allen
• Andrew Wheatley
• Angela Ansell
• Pauline Doidge
• Peter Watkins-Groves
• Richard Brennan
• Penny Haskell
• Steven Hearsey
• Andrea Railton
• Christine Nightingale
• Nigel Duffin
• Kit Hardy
• Lisa Chu
• Mike Towl
• Matthew Blissett
• Nicola Louise Maasdam
• Jonathan Goulding
• Denise Barber
• Yvette Spring
• alan kendall
• Peter Wardley-Repen
• Mike Everett
• Feargal Hogan
• Ian Connor
• Jacob Butterly
• K. Warburton
• Brian O'Sullivan
• E Avis
• Barbara Williamson
• Kevin Starling
• Christine Artus
• Antoinette Wisbey
• Paul Matthews
• Helen Andrews
• Daniel Marcus Caldon
• Derek Hill
• Rosalind Haskins
• Ian Woods
• Cleo Kinder
• Janet Kelly
• Linda Seager
• Ben Holdsworth
• catherine Boothman
• michael boyce
• Josie Herbert
• Laura Barber
• Richard Craig
• David Crompton
• Mrs S Grant
• Anne Tatum
• Cllr. Chris Boden
• Heather Bower
• Derek Kennedy
• Jordan Kean
• Mandy Garcka
• Jenny Hunting
• Tina Cole
• Dorothy Lewis
• Edward Sedgwick
• Andrew Usill
• Lauren Cadman
• James Burgon
• David Faulkner
• Stephanie Nesteruk
• Martin Deane, Green Party
• Alexandra Ross
• Valerie Rogers
• Susan Chester
• Justine Connolly
• Josie Wilshaw
• Colin Price
• matthew banner
• Annabel Jones
• jamie forman
• Hilary Sheffield
• Surjit Bhulanny
• Mrs V Purnell
• Chris watkins
• Stephanie Babet
• Alisdair Cruchley
• Jenny Macdonald
• Michael Johnsson
• Melonie Gouldbourne
• Sarah Ruston
• Sharon Saunders
• Alan Petty
• Helen Griffiths
• Adam Casey
• Dr Sharon Menghini
• ADRIENNE PYKE
• doug fletcher
• Stephen Parkes
• carolan smith
• Emma James
• Cherry Shelton-Mills
• Katherine
• peter moger
• Georgina Schueller
• Fiona Elizabeth Baird
• Gwendolyn Potter
• Sue Klein
• Barbara Thaxter
• Neil TOwnsend`
• Colette Ozanne
• dawn kelly
• David Hart
• Nicola Davis
• deborah thompson
• Amy Owen
• Simon Allcock
• Donna Dewar
• Melanie Haywood
• Sally Richardson
• Richard Fallon
• Fiona Millar
• Abby Pulfer
• Thomas Ronald Millar
• rosalind durant
• Deborah Smith
• Dr Stephen Fairlie
• Una Doyle
• Sean Thompson
• Sally Thompson
• sally wade
• Joanna Dench
• Carmel Elwell
• George Binette
• Luca Salice
• Valerie Stagg
• PETER HOWARD
• Stuart Leather
• Alison Hawley
• pete green
• Patrick Murphy
• Gareth Halfpenny
• Ian Murch
• William Conway
• Ann Duggan
• paul shipstone
• Ian Leaver
• Dennis Charman
• Robert Wilkinson
• Audra Ratcliff
• Ian Jones
• W J Walder
• Geoffrey Branner
• Gawain Little
• Louise Doswell
• Alex Parker
• MarkChilvers
• Tony Mulgrew
• Jon Duveen
• Helen Saunders
• Nicole D'Angelo
• Maggie Bremner
• David Hearn
• Claudia Glasgow
• Roger Bentote
• Christa McKee-Lerbs
• lara schroder
• Fran Postlethwaite