MP PRESENTS CHIVENOR PETITIONS TO DOWNING STREET
February 25, 2010 3:20 PM
Today North Devon MP Nick Harvey, along with local campaigners Bob and Judith Thompson, lobbied Downing Street in person over the Government's plans to halve the operating hours of Chivenor Search and Rescue helicopters.
Mr Harvey said: "It is very encouraging how the whole of North Devon has rallied behind this cause - we have to signal to the Government that future S&R provision has to be right from the very word 'go'. Ultimately people's lives are at stake."
The total number of signatures objecting to the Government's planned reductions to North Devon's vital Search and Rescue service is just under 18,000.
The largest number of signatures - some 11,000 - was collected via the Facebook campaign organised by the father-daughter team of Bob and Judith Thompson. Signatures were also collected via Nick Harvey's website, petitions at Roundswell's Sainsbury's and Barnstaple's Pannier Market, Braunton Parish Council, and at shops in Lynton and Lynmouth, Combe Martin, Mortehoe and Woolacombe and in Barnstaple.
Nick also teamed up with the North Devon Journal to present their own '24 not 12 for Chivenor' campaign, which included another 1,400 signatures.
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