By Joanne Kelly

A HOUSEWIFE and mother-of-three from Westbury was in London on Armistice Day to hand over a petition.

Diana Yeoh, of Redland Lane handed in the petition at 10 Downing Street.

The petition had been signed by 75,277 people who are opposed to Mr Blair signing the Treaty of Nice in France. The treaty is due to be signed in December.

Mrs Yeoh said: "I started working on the petition six months ago. If one individual can collect this many signatures in six months it is a very clear indication of the strength of feeling."

People from west Wiltshire and from all corners of the country showed their support for Mrs Yeoh's petition.

She wrote to newspapers the length and breadth of the land and within days of the first letters she had received a number of responses.

She launched the petition not only to collect signatures but also as a way of telling people about the Treaty of Nice.

She said: "If Mr Blair signs the Treaty of Nice in December, we in Britain will lose, forever, our right to be a free, independent, self-governing nation, able to trade globally. Instead we will be bound and governed by the freedom-destroying regulations and directions of the EU."

Mrs Yeoh travelled to London with her sons Andrew and Christopher and daughter Erica.

She said: "We want to stop Mr Blair signing away our right of self-government. Armistice Day is the day when we remember all the men and women of this country who died, in two world wars, so that Britain could remain a free, independent, self-governing and proud nation."

Mrs Yeoh organised the petition after reading about the treaty in a national newspaper. She handed it to Mr Blair's staff, with a covering letter.

She believes many people had no idea what the treaty would mean for the country.

She said:"Just think how many more people I could have reached and how many more could and would have had their say if I had more time and money."