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Petition update, 24 February 2009

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When someone dies from mesothelioma, an asbestos related cancer, it is classified as ‘an unnatural death’ and a coroner must carry out an inquiry.

As was highlighted in the British Lung Foundation report ‘An Unnatural Death’, when a death from mesothelioma occurs outside of a coroner’s working hours the bereaved can be visited by uniformed police in a marked police car, sometimes in the middle of the night. Many relatives say that this leads them to feel under suspicion during a distressing time.

We welcome the inclusion of the Coroners and Death Certification Bill in the Draft Legislative Programme for 2008-09 and the publication of the updated Charter for the Bereaved, which states that a Chief Coroner should be appointed and set minimum service standards for mesothelioma inquiries.

We urge the Prime Minister to ensure that the Bill is passed in the next parliamentary session and that coroner’s inquiries are consistently sensitive to the needs of families bereaved by mesothelioma.

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• Claire Taylor
• Tim Vickers
• SUSAN HALFORD
• Philip Hughes
• Vivien Parker
• Sally Morgan
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• Patricia Jones
• Shan Evans
• Denise Smith
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• Chris Knighton
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• Mick LAFFEY
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• Margaret Tait
• Professor Paul A Corris
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• Stephen Holley
• Ian Babbs
• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHS-dentists4all/)
• michael gilbert
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• Wei Shen Lim
• dave anderson MP
• Elizabeth McShane
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• gwen.eggerton
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• Deben Harris
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• Andy Lloyd
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• Terry Robinson
• Elizabeth Stenhouse
• John Gibson
• Helen Clark
• Chris Wightman
• Martyn Willmore
• Alison Maher
• vera Davison
• Mrs Mavis Robinson
• elen de lacy
• Naomi Fordyce
• Katherine Plant
• sara goodhead
• ALISTAIR J HENRY
• Carolyn Fordyce
• Sarah Agnew
• TRACY FLOCKHART
• Alison Fordyce
• Lynn Mitchell
• Michael S Firth
• Dorothy Darwent
• Sarah Adkins
• Colin Fordyce
• gareth agnew
• Sally Moore
• Nicholas John
• Diane McLellan
• Peter Stiles
• john duffy
• Maria Ashford
• Richard Daly
• Mark Turnbull
• anne miskelly
• Dr Elizabeth Foster (GP & daughter of a mesothelioma victim)
• Christine Lesley Fullalove
• Derek Maylor, CWU.
• Ian Macpherson
• Roger Buckle
• Sheila Buckle
• Angela Lucas-Herald
• John Smith
• Julie Hemming
• David Barton
• joseph farrell
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• janette humphreys
• T Reynolds
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• Penny Borgen
• Vivien Bruce
• Caroline Fletcher
• Sophie Phillips
• Elaine Ryder-Mills
• Sandra Hummerston
• Lucia Sabel
• Christine Wilder
• Richard Moody
• Lindsey Fitzpatrick
• Rachel Buckle
• Eve Boakes
• Philip Ryan
• Sandra Wakelin
• Norma Wildey
• Michael Howard
• Martin Palmer
• Paul Mckenna
• Joanne Moses
• Chloe Stables
• Sheila Verity
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• John Rowland Seymour
• Jonathan Buckle
• Andrea Latheron
• Paul Bennett
• sally rowe
• Marika Townsend
• Frances McKay
• sheila o donnell
• Gill Tapper
• Helen Dutton
• melanie munro
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• Kay Rowe.
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• Paula Munro
• Paul Selwyn
• Charlotte Wells
• Fran Clements
• Caroline Williams
• Elizabeth Penrose
• Rachel Verghese
• Lynn Reaper
• Sandra Mifflin
• Stephanie griffiths
• Kevin Mckinaly
• LesleyBeanland
• johanna phelps
• Catharine Wynn Harding
• James Entwisle
• Clifford Rice
• Margaret Breading
• Patricia Webb
• Michelle Samson
• suzanne marlborough
• Sharon Wood
• Lara Woodward
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• Sheila Burke
• John Towersey
• Natalie Olds
• Brian Olds
• Christine Ann Bfrown
• Trudy Wood
• Amy Dennis
• Maria Head
• Bente Idowu
• Carol Lamb
• Emma Mills
• pamela clover
• denis clover
• Adam clover
• Kathryn Phillips
• Jan Chatfield
• Antony J. Webb
• Deborah Smith
• Donna A Johnston
• t.allatt
• mandy buffery
• Randolph King
• Alison Cardy
• Wendy Ferguson
• Terence Mason
• carol harrison
• Timothy Belson
• Kevin Holmes
• Pamela Bowery
• Alexandra Taylor
• Graham Bowery
• liz busher
• Lorraine Creech
• Peter W Jones
• Lisa Mann
• Tamara Romanyk
• Fiona McCartney
• julie Manning
• jeanette hemming
• stephen ash
• Gaynor drury
• Jerry Turner
• Koren Bromley
• Sarah Avery
• Alan Boxall
• Joanne Vidler
• Rosalind Peter
• Lisa Bhella
• Carol Diver
• Aidre Puzey
• John Michael Owen
• Ann Smith
• Lyn Johnson
• Hayley Marie Dexter
• Chris Garlick
• Linda charalambous
• Angela caulfield
• Marina Soya-Bongay
• Kate Rawlings
• Irene Frampton
• Stephen Howlett
• James Sorah (Vice Chair, Blackpool South CLP)
• Vicky Lamonby
• paivi.williamson
• m.walker
• Kenneth Wright
• frnk turner
• Julia Hills
• Hannah Ball
• Delphine Brown
• Sonia Mahdjoubi
• Cyril Shore
• Susan Whiting
• Suzanne Dawes
• Catherine Wood
• M C L Rushbrook
• Esme Inegbu
• Donna Kelly
• Stephen Pratt
• Ian Armstrong
• Donald Watson
• Victor Boulter
• Pat Armstrong
• June Kay
• Christopher Rycroft
• Clare Gibson
• Karen Theobald
• allen potter
• Margaret Barnard
• Roy Workman
• Graeme Murphy
• Nichola Scarlioli
• Julia Duffin
• Elizabeth Rodgers
• Annie Reeves
• Sam Russell
• Mary Brennan
• Sheryl Hall
• JOHN O'NEILL
• jane campion
• George Wyatt
• Ashleigh Morse
• Shirley Morse
• David Albert Phillips
• gillian dugdale
• pamela cook
• julie frost
• Sally Adam
• Christine Shippen
• sylvia rich
• Wendy Pickard
• caroline Thornton
• Ian Walker
• Joyce Creba
• Patricia Blake
• Tony Papps
• Barbara Devine
• Pauline Crowe
• luisa taylor
• GEOFFREY PHILLIPS
• Nigel McCarthy
• Sheila McGrath
• G. C. Rochard-Thomas
• sally carnes
• David Armstrong
• Michael Durham
• Dave Mitchell
• Tina Jeffery
• Sheila Blackham
• GAIL TYTHERLEIGH
• Robert Phillips
• Catherine Webber
• L. Michael Andrew
• Sue Andrew
• Margaret Rowland
• Angela Quantrill
• Barry McGrath
• Andrew Moore
• Robert Andrew
• Anne Allured
• Elfriede Rickards
• Pierre Quinquenel
• Edmund Hugh O'Donnell
• Philippa Holttum
• Charlotte Jackson
• Prakash Moodley
• Jane Spooner
• Gill Swift
• Alison Richardson
• Jane Edmonds
• John Charman
• jo.harvey
• Cinzia Sicbaldi
• Christopher Andrew
• Lana Boulger
• John Wales
• Julie Slaney
• Peter Cawdell
• Eleanor Gunson
• Richard Bhella
• Lynne Wolf, wife of Mesothelioma victim
• VIVIEN NOWELL
• Julie Dodd
• Margaret White
• Claire Furlong
• Lynsey Jukes
• beverley birritteri
• Gemma Kenny
• rosie clark
• George Clark
• Sylvia Proud
• malcolm wolf
• Pamela Wilson
• Alexandra Johnston
• Elizabeth Lugg
• Harriet Lugg
• Tom Cowling
• Jonathan Edmonds
• Tracy Wolf
• Kerry Myers
• Mary Myers
• simon lawrence
• Kay Hughes
• PAULINE PRANGLEY
• Andy Ward
• Kirsty Patterson
• Andrew Noble
• Lindsay Millar
• ZOE HIRST
• Teresa MacDonald
• ruth fawcett
• Brian Jamieson
• Carol Daggar
• Charlotte Firth
• Kylie HALL
• mrs kay cartner
• Janet Hoyle
• Elizabeth H Birkby
• Pam Bollington
• Gerald Lang
• lindsey devaney
• Owen Webber
• Denis O'Gorman
• Charlotte Kramer
• Rosemary Lugg
• Paul Taylor
• Peter Turnbull
• Professor Malcolm Ranson
• Catherine Read
• Karen Hammond
• michael Clapham
• Hazel Lugg
• Michael Hunt
• David Stevens
• Natalie Thomas
• Jacqueline Turp
• Eric Wilson
• kierson ginda
• pete ginda
• Dee Bolton
• Graham Sherlock-Brown
• William Simmons
• Helen Slater
• Amelia Taylor
• Dr Albiruni Ryan Abdul Razak
• Paula Gawthorpe
• Patricia Worthington
• Michelle Blagden
• Marlene Johnson
• Doris Short
• Roger G Plowman
• Marcella Gange
• Jane Plowman
• yvonne harling
• Barbara Gibbins
• Theresa MCarren
• Paul Barron
• Amanda Morgan-Taylor
• Anne Brundell
• Gill Clarke
• Dominic Slater
• Paul Brocklehurst
• Caroline Buyers
• Helen Wilkinson
• Shelagh Brown
• Kate Crawford
• Cecilia Field
• Caryl Dexter
• Hannah Slater
• Amanda-Jayne Archer
• hilary bichovsky
• DEBORAH BORDERIAU
• gill cotterill
• Josie Shaw
• Brian F. Ruddick
• Kevin Hewish
• Joanne Southam
• Angela White
• Ralph White
• Alison Edgley
• Ben Southam
• Christine wells
• David Miller-Crook
• James Brundell
• George Winterton
• Fiona Brown
• Lynne Welsh
• Helen Staley/Daughter of Mr Derek Staley, mesothelioma victim.
• Maria Petrou
• Jason Gittens
• Patricia Winterton
• Marie Clifford
• Steve Clifford
• Helen Lee
• Linda Smith
• paul nugent
• Nigel Franklin
• Leslie Wolf
• David Toon
• Joa Douglass
• C Winterton
• Robert Stone
• james hill
• Lynn Johnson
• Paul Johnson
• Angela Bishop
• Kathleen Kelly
• Carol Bradley
• Neil Scott
• DENNIS WALKER
• Jennifer Hibberd
• Chris Sheldon

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