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Michael Clapham MP is Supporting Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week

Michael Clapham MP is Supporting Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week

Local MP, Michael Clapham is lending his support to this year's Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week which is being launched by Co-Awareness at the House of Lords on Monday 17th November 2008. Lord McKenzie will be speaking at the event and attendees will include those who have been poisoned by CO and those who have lost friends and family to this silent and preventable killer.

Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning, usually the result of poorly maintained boilers and other domestic appliances, is thought to kill 50 people in Britain ever year and death rates are rising.

"Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week is intended to draw the dangers of Carbon Monoxide poisoning to the public's attention" explained Michael Clapham MP. "I urge all my constituents to take precautions to protection themselves and their families by making sure that their domestic appliances are maintained and Carbon Monoxide alarms are fitted in their homes."

More information is available at the campaign's website – www.co-awareness.org