Can you please check that you have signed the petition below which is being sponsored by the Daily Mirror but comes from the Asbestos Victims Support Group Forum, and that you circulate it widely to members, to friends, to any networks you have, urging people to sign up. Please remember that we have worked many of us, on sites such as Norcross and Ilford Park in buildings that have in the past, and in some cases still have contained asbestos in their structures.http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AsbestosTimebomb/
Your petition reads:
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Support the aims of the Daily Mirror's Asbestos Timebomb campaign. We urge the Prime Minister to work towards implementing the five campaign demands. These are: A £10 million National Centre for Asbestos Related Disease to find better treatment, alleviate suffering and find a cure for mesothelioma. Compensation reinstated for victims of pleural plaques scars on lungs caused by asbestos after it was scrapped two years ago. Fair and equal compensation for asbestos disease sufferers who can't trace the insurers of the bosses who exposed them, through a new Employers Liability Insurance Bureau paid for by the insurance industry. A public register of all asbestos surveys carried out on public buildings. The Health and Safety Executive must be given the resources to meet its own targets for inspecting asbestos removal work."
