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      <title>mrs Valerie Hemingway [Signature #5024]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:04:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Gill Holmes [Signature #5023]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Gill Holmes, United Kingdom<p>Vital time will be lost due to the greater initial time required to reach the Merseyside and Lancashire coast areas. Response times could impact on lives potentially lost from the diverse commercial shipping that passes through the region and of members of the public undertaking leisure activities.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 04:54:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MR Michael Smart [Signature #5022]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MR Michael Smart, Edinburgh, United Kingdom<p>coast guards are an essential part of every day life, the very day they are taken away is the very day we will need them. never ever compromise on safety.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 8 Sep 2014 12:42:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Kathleen Bury [Signature #5021]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Kathleen Bury, Millom, Cumbrian, United Kingdom<p>This is complete madness.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:07:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MR DALE GUITON [Signature #5020]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MR DALE GUITON, WALLASEY, MERSEYSIDE, United Kingdom<p>THE COUNCIL SHOULD NEVER CLOSE ANY OF THE COAST GUARD OR EMERGENCY SERVICES DOWN BECAUSE THAT IS A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND CAN CAUSE PEOPLE TO DIE OR DROWN.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>John Butler [Signature #5019]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[John Butler, LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:38:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr peter smith [Signature #5018]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr peter smith, wallasey, United Kingdom<p>this is a much needed organization and essential service for the maritime industry and the public</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Michael Jenn [Signature #5017]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:45:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr Robert Bourn [Signature #5016]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr Robert Bourn, Preston, Lancs, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:54:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr joseph davies, caernarfon<p>why close all the coastguard stations down !!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 8 Sep 2013 01:07:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Martin Jones, Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:12:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:09:41 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>William Roberts [Signature #5012]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[William Roberts, LLangoed, Anglesey, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:53:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Tess McEvoy [Signature #5011]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Tess McEvoy, London, United Kingdom<p>The local knowledge of the terrain and waterways in this region is vital to rescuers.  Outsourcing can only result in endangering lives of both rescue teams &amp; victims.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr Arnold Williams, United Kingdom<p>half baked idea which management are struggling to implement due to poor planning, lives will be put at risk for no logical reason.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>To plan the closure of this essential facility is criminal.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr neil anderson, doncaster, south yorks, United Kingdom<p>all coast guards are vital services</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Jacqueline Bowden [Signature #5004]</title>
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      <title>Lucy Pearce [Signature #5000]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lucy Pearce, Southport]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:32:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Petra McCauley [Signature #4998]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:15:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 8 Jun 2013 12:42:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Philip James [Signature #4996]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 03:54:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Gill Martin [Signature #4995]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Gill Martin, Onchan, Isle of Man, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:39:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr David Parry [Signature #4994]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 05:09:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Eric Sale [Signature #4993]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Eric Sale, United Kingdom<p>Is nothing safe in this governments hands.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 04:27:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Steven Perry [Signature #4992]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Steven Perry, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom<p>It&#039;s absolutely absurd, what this government thinks baffles me! Live will be lost!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 12:27:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Kenneth Dumbill [Signature #4991]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:47:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Darren Hillman, Liscard, Wallasey, Merseyside, United Kingdom<p>It is crass and short-sighted penny-pincing to expect staff at Holyhead CG to have the local knowledge that the staff at Liverpool have.</p>

<p>Lives will be put at risk if this closure gnes ahead. As a boat-owner,</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:16:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Neal Bedwell [Signature #4988]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Neal Bedwell, Whitland, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 9 Mar 2013 07:00:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr William Ward [Signature #4987]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr William Ward, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom<p>The Tory party should be sued if anyone loses their life because of this flawed decision.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 6 Mar 2013 08:27:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 6 Mar 2013 07:35:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[T Dignan, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom<p>This IS such a vital service!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss C Meadows, United Kingdom<p>We need the coastguard station to stay open at the mouth of the Mersey. They are essential to the safety of shipping and the community.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #4978]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Roger MacPherson, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom<p>Not in the interest of the country to close Coastguard stations, they are as vital as Fire, Police &amp; Ambulance services and provide a unique safety net to the communities they serve.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Nigel O&#039;Hare, Newton stewart, United Kingdom<p>I sail around the Irish Sea and want my coast guard service to be organised by people who have local knowledge.</p>]]></description>
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This Government only favours the Rich, we are just Surf&#039;s.</p>]]></description>
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