MORE than 3,000 people from Fareham have signed a national petition campaigning against Hampshire call centre jobs being moved to India.

Protesters took to the Fareham streets again yesterday to draw attention to plans by Lloyds TSB to move jobs overseas.

An estimated 350 jobs at the bank's Solent Business Park centre, in Whiteley and at its C&G centre in Segensworth could be under threat at the end of this year if the company decides to move operations to Bangalore.

Yesterday more than 300 signatures were collected outside the bank's West Street branch in Fareham, adding to the 3,274 petition signatures already collected in the town and the 25,000 collected from across the Solent.

Last month the bank announced profits of £4.3 billion but worker's union LTU says Lloyds TSB still wants to transfer 1,500 jobs to India by the end of the year.

Union assistant secretary Peter O'Grady said: "People in the south, particularly in Fareham, seem to want to queue up to sign.

"They realise that there are local jobs at risk.

"Customers really are against the plans."

LTU has collected more than 300,000 signatures towards its half a million national target for the petition. Once that mark has been passed it will present the final document to Lloyds TSB bosses.

So far protests in Fareham have taken place at monthly intervals with another expected in four week's time.