1.   THIRTY-FIVE tenants in Highfield Road, Bagillt, who signed a protest petition about their gas fires, have provoked action from British Gas Wales.

2.   Forty business people, the story added, had signed a protest petition.

3.   The councillor for Eaglescliffe, Liberal Democrat John Fletcher, said commuters from the ward had sent BR chiefs a protest petition.

4.   But hundreds of residents signed a protest petition stating buses were crucial for people living in the Albert Hill area.

5.   In spite of objections from hundreds of residents who signed protest petitions and wrote to oppose the scheme, councillors voted by seven to four in its favour.

6.   Although women across Nunavut have started signing protest petitions, there has been little public reaction from Peter Kattuck, the minister responsible for the status of women.

7.   A Mexico City government agency that works to provide legal and other aid for women collected thousands of signatures on a protest petition.

8.   Farmers who planned to submit a protest petition were arrested.

9.   Two dozen members of a group calling itself the Action Committee for the Protection of the Diaoyus had gone to the consulate to deliver a protest petition.