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Petition update, 26 November 2007

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The honey bee is an often overlooked but absolutely vital part of the environment and agriculture. Bees are said to be worth about a billion pounds to agriculture and horticulture but their role in general pollination and the environment is beyond measure. Recent reports from the USA and UK about massive losses in bee colonies indicate that urgent research needs to be done to understand and counter this trend along with combating the rise in antibiotic resistant varroa mites and other threats. However research funding to the National Bee Unit and other institutions by DEFRA has been cut hugely in recent years with the loss of many jobs and the consequent dispersal of knowledge. This petition urges the Government to put significant extra money into the relevant organisations that study bees and work with beekeepers both commercial and amateur to ensure that this essential creature is protected and encouraged.

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• Ali Smith
• Cee Martin
• Michael Thomas
• Dr Kate Martin
• Julian Beardsworth
• David Newell
• Stephen Lunn
• Simon Lynch
• Mark Pellegrini
• Liam Hemmings
• ROGER CAMPKIN
• Catherine O'Donnell
• Leslie Cooper
• maggie warman
• Graham Pike
• Steve Shipley
• Chris Gwilliam
• Laramie Gwilliam
• Pat Turner
• L M Reilly
• Margo Stevens
• roger bond
• Cindy Taylor
• Brent Stevens
• jon Knight
• Nick Torrington
• susan bailey
• Heidi Herrmann
• Janet Bord
• D.N.Good
• sally viney
• David Guyoncourt
• Joanne Bramwell
• william law
• Sally Harris
• P Bertorelli
• Clinton Smith
• Nigel King
• Jenna Krista Pengilley
• Iain Howell
• Iain Harley
• Carol Courtney
• Janice Hoyle
• angela dougall
• John Penn
• Michael Minter
• Sue Lang
• Dr. E.D.Steel
• erica sarney
• Peter Slater
• Marc Eddy
• John Page
• Mrs. M. Vincent
• Jean Wombell
• Coral Lloyd
• Adrian Cozens
• Trudie Moore
• W.H.Wright
• S.P Beaird esq
• Holly Richmond
• Colin Whitfield
• Richard Snelling
• Susan Ryan
• julie west
• Michael Bowes
• Dr. Geoffrey Lloyd
• malcolm cansick
• Kenneth Hodgson
• john elam
• jonathan norris
• Liam Broderick
• Amanda Millar
• Julie McLynn
• Victoria Horrocks
• Frank Peacock
• Alan Husbands
• Ian Gregory
• V.A.Waldron
• Dorothy Halfhide
• Dr Ross Kay
• Judy Knight
• John Harris
• Lady Cecilia Jocelyn
• Michael Fullagar
• Christopher C Beale
• Rosalind Haskins
• Jim Curwen
• Dr Brian Bertram
• Neville Child
• mary harris
• John Bowtell
• Barbara Bateman
• ADRIAN WEBB
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• Frances May
• David Grant
• clarence
• gwen
• Helen Petts
• Louise Bertrand
• marilyn knox
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• Sally Hardy
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• kirsty shakespeare
• Malcolm Lewins
• David Wyatt
• Hannah Allen
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• Nicholas Holman
• Tim Giles
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• Deborah Lowden
• kate wicks
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• Steve Pidgeon
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• Jim Cotton
• Gina C. Skilton
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• M J Randall
• Gavin Murrell
• William Riley
• derek may
• James York
• Ann Sandall
• Lesley Brand
• Jerome Taupin
• Karl Schmid
• christopher laslett
• Sarah Elliott
• Sally Dickson
• Tom Tamplin
• Rekha Sidhu
• Jon Clements
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• Pauline Taylor
• Steven John Peter Spall
• mike gill
• Mary Ibbotson
• Tony Witham
• Jane Woods
• andy watters
• Louise Cullen
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• Matt
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• Adam Watson
• Paul König
• Bapi Biswas
• Catriona Brown
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• Phill Armstrong
• Shirley Rattray
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• Hazel Walker
• Andy #Webb
• David Clarke
• Michael Headford
• Stewart Taylor
• Linda O'Grady
• Hannah Jauncey
• Linda Moss
• Antony Ellison
• Bill McGill
• Lucy Hyde
• Lorraine Kipling
• Alison Harper
• Mark Lang
• Jill Bennett
• John Bruce
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• Robert Dennes
• Gordon Grosset
• byron turner
• Helen Grosset
• Linda Coe
• c.phillips
• Gavin Ross
• Anne Hirst
• christopher moore
• Brian H Whalley
• John Sibley
• Brian Fowler
• Veronica Joiner
• ALAN MAIR
• Robert Robbie
• Nicholas Lloyd
• John Rogers
• hazel stevenson
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• Alison kahane
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• Roland Philipps
• Tabby Robertshaw
• Nicky Faith
• Alexander Randall
• PAT COLLEDGE
• Jane Clare Whittaker
• Caroline Weiner
• Louise Meldrum
• toby mason
• Bettina Felten
• Quintin Glen
• Donald Carrick
• Edmund Carrick
• K V S Balston
• Michael Stanners
• Carol Frankel
• Rosie Glen
• Michael Oliver
• Wendy Mason
• Kit Lane
• David Hope
• Irene Walters
• julia swift
• Magnus Peterson
• derek anderson
• Elize Truter
• Peter Talbot
• John Coyle
• Aldyth Carrick
• Roderick Michael Davidson
• Paul Mauchline
• A Harper
• carsten S. Jespersen
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• Kate Mills
• tessa hauxwell
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