10 Downing Street - Military Deaths Petition
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We have made it onto the BBC
We have made the 500 mark ,onward to the thousand .
Thanks everyone
We have made it onto the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...ds/6567599.stm
There may be something on a screen near you tonight !!!!
Thanks everyone
We have made it onto the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...ds/6567599.stm
There may be something on a screen near you tonight !!!!
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Military Deaths
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Coroner plans to transfer inquests
Armed Forces: Inquests
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his statement of 17 April, on service personnel killed on operations: changes to arrangements for repatriation, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the resources available to the Wiltshire and Swindon coroner to carry out military inquests. [132983]
Mr. Ingram [holding answer 23 April 2007]: The MOD engaged fully with the Wiltshire and Swindon Coroner’s Office and Wiltshire county council during the planning stages to change the repatriation airhead from RAF Brize Norton to RAF Lynham. The Wiltshire and Swindon Coroner plans to transfer as many inquests as he can to the jurisdiction of the “home” coroner.
So why can't the Oxfordshire coroner do the same
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his statement of 17 April, on service personnel killed on operations: changes to arrangements for repatriation, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the resources available to the Wiltshire and Swindon coroner to carry out military inquests. [132983]
Mr. Ingram [holding answer 23 April 2007]: The MOD engaged fully with the Wiltshire and Swindon Coroner’s Office and Wiltshire county council during the planning stages to change the repatriation airhead from RAF Brize Norton to RAF Lynham. The Wiltshire and Swindon Coroner plans to transfer as many inquests as he can to the jurisdiction of the “home” coroner.
So why can't the Oxfordshire coroner do the same
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Procurators- fiscal's
Mr Letsgofly
Apparently in Scotland, procurators- fiscal do not have the power to handle overseas deaths.There have talks between Harriet Harman, the constitutional affairs minister, and the Scottish Executive to try to strike a deal that would allow the 450 procurators-fiscal who conduct fatal accident inquiries to have responsibility for inquests. But as yet have got nowhere.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=429802007
Apparently in Scotland, procurators- fiscal do not have the power to handle overseas deaths.There have talks between Harriet Harman, the constitutional affairs minister, and the Scottish Executive to try to strike a deal that would allow the 450 procurators-fiscal who conduct fatal accident inquiries to have responsibility for inquests. But as yet have got nowhere.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=429802007
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Mods!
JUST seen Tappers Dad on the news. Admirable. Cant believe how calm he was...I have signed this petition, and after watching this short news piece, can't believe everyone else here would not do so. Mods, please make it a STICKY!!!
