The board of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which manages Pinderfields, Dewsbury and Pontefract Hospitals, approved plans to create a 'Wholly Owned Subsidiary;' effectively a private company owned by the Trust. Essentially, staff and services currently provided in-house such as, Facilities and Estates, will be 'outsourced' to this new arms-length company in a bid to save money. The Trust claims that money will be saved by exploiting a tax loophole. However, the Trusts CEO has given no guarantees that wages, conditions and pensions of current NHS staff will not be affected and it seems likely that the main savings will come from employing new staff on non-NHS terms and conditions with no access to the NHS Pension Scheme, creating a two-tier workforce. This is a form of backdoor privatisation that will have direct consequences on health workers and could potentially affect patient care and service delivery. Why is it that honest, hard-working people, always seem to pay the price? NHS Staff are valued members of our community, they are our neighbours, our friends and our colleagues, who dedicate their lives to helping others. After years of increased workloads and understaffing due to Austerity and nurses using foodbanks due to the pay cap, this latest threat to jobs is their 'reward'. The Mid Yorkshire Unison Health Branch is due to ballot their members for Industrial Action in a bid to protect jobs. The Wakefield Constituency Labour Party believe NHS Workers deserve better than this, especially at a time where there is a need for higher wages and better conditions. We will be standing with Unison members in this fight and we would like to call on your support in opposing these plans.

Home Office have refused to extend the visa of Dover's only private physiotherapist, the best we have ever had, on grounds he cannot prove investment of minimum £50,000 in UK when he and his accountant have submitted proof that he has, and because he has been unable to employ a second full time member of staff when he has advertised continually for the past two years for a second physiotherapist. None want to come and work in SE England, preferring London and its big money. Had this physio chosen to work in London a second physio would have been easy to find and his visa would have been certain once the investment issue was resolved. But he chose to fill the gaping hole in physiotherapy treatment in Dover and has been punished for it. Home Office have ignored the evidence of his employee search. His receptionist now faces unemployment, the taxes and business taxes he pays will be lost to the country, and Dover will be deprived of private physiotherapy cover. His contracts with 24 insurance companies, Sussex Police and The Department of Work and Pensions in Hastings, another physiotherapy deprived area where he holds a weekly clinic, will have to get by without him if the decision is not rescinded. We have a Government, it appears, that do not care about the physiotherapy needs of Dover where the NHS is already unable to cope in this field. Dover's MP is supportive and fighting the physio's case with the Home Office but publicity and more letters of support to the Home Office are needed. This petition seeks to ensure Satheesh can continue to provide his wonderful skills to Dover and its surrounding area.

It is vital the store remains because many elderly people without access or an understanding of modern technology live in the town and for them this is one of their main suppliers of basic groceries like bread and milk. When I was younger, my grandmother would buy me my favourite treats from M&S; therefore it too holds a special place in my heart. This is why it is so important the store must remain open!

Over 30 neighbours and local residents have serious concerns about the proposed redevelopment of the plot at 7 Stoney Lane. If this Planning Application is approved by the Planning Committee it will set an alarming precedent for this area of Winchester, which is already under significant pressure from the housing development at Barton Farm/Kings Barton. Weeke is becoming a hot-spot for developers and the detrimental impact to traffic flow, pressure on local services, decline in wildlife and resulting glut of meanly-proportioned 'family homes' with tiny gardens is unwarranted and unsustainable. If this Planning Application succeeds it will not be long before we are experiencing the 'Chilbolton effect', where developers run rife and current householders are forced out, to the overall detriment of the area. While this particular housing scheme might not affect you directly, an adverse decision is very likely to impact you in the near future. Full details of this Planning Application are available here: https://planningapps.winchester.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=P4WHA5BPFUO00 7 Stoney Lane is a narrow and gradient-impacted site, surrounded on all sides by established family homes which sit sensitively within the lie of the land. An active developer has bought this site outright and seeks to make it financially viable by building 4 large properties; the scheme is barely different to one which was soundly rejected by the Planning Committee in December last year yet the Planning Department have, again, recommended it for approval. The scheme is overbearing and awkward in relation to adjacent properties, causes severe overlooking and intrusion into habitable spaces and neighbouring gardens, is out of character with the area and provides no social housing, no affordable housing and offers no CIL. The two rear family properties are inaccessible and not even 'lifetime properties' - they are simply being crow-barred into the landscape and the long-term impact on direct neighbours will be appalling. I could, sadly, go on.... Whilst we expect some development to take place at 7 Stoney Lane we do not agree that *this* proposal is acceptable. The developers have been given every opportunity to liaise with the Planning Department yet local residents have not been afforded any such facility to openly discuss this Planning Application, despite repeated requests. We have asked for detail and been supplied with incorrect datum and inconclusive 'pictures' which show a distorted of view what could/would be built in reality. We feel our valid concerns are being dismissed to the benefit of the developer. It does not feel like an equitable decision-making process. Although the Planning Department have recommended this scheme for approval the ultimate decision will be made by Councillors on the Planning Committee. We are hopeful that these Councillors will use this opportunity, once again, to resist undue pressure from developers and make a fully-informed decision, having listened to the communities which they represent. Please sign this petition and help us ensure a fair hearing at Committee stage, where the final decision will be made by elected Councillors.

I am writing this petition for my elderly mum who is nearly 93, she lives in a small historic cottage in the village of Dalton Piercy dating back to 1750 that is a listed building. In front of the cottage is a very pretty small border of roses and flowers that looks fantastic. It was in situ when the house was purchased in 1967 We have recently received a letter from the local Parish Council giving us 14 days to remove all flowers and roses otherwise they will employ a contractor to do it and charge us. The reason given is that the border is on registered green This seems very unfair, as other houses adjacent the green appear to have small areas of garden or other encroachments that also appear to be on registered village green My mother is housebound and in deteriorating health, the house and flowers have been her pride and joy for 50 years. The threat of the needless destruction of such a pretty flower border is causing her huge distress and anxiety.

Health workers get paid so little, they work long frequently unsociable hours. They need to be able to afford to live near where they work so they don’t have to add huge travel time and costs to their daily life. Our lives are literally in these people’s hands and we need to give them the respect that they clearly deserve and one way we can show this respect is to let them have affordable housing. The house prices in Camden are extremely high, we have a huge amount of very expensive housing already. The average house price in this area is over a million pounds and the average London wage for a nurse is only £24,963. How on earth are the backbone of our health service supposed to afford to live anywhere near where they work? Affordable nurses housing should be sacrosanct. Camden council needs to backtrack on these plans as a matter of urgency. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/18/royal-free-secretly-planning-to-develop-100-year-old-hospital-into-luxury-flats?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast2018-05-22

When it comes to re-cycling, Gedling Borough Council rates a poor 260th out of 350 English local authorities. Gedling re-cycles only 36.7% of its domestic waste compared to the national average of 45.2%. Gedling’s announcement that it intends to be a ‘Plastic Clever Council’ is welcome but has to be seen in the context of its recent closure of 6 local ‘bring’ recycling sites and the earlier cancellation of its commercial recycling collection service.

This well known spot deserves a more well thought through development. The Market town of Stone needs more independent businesses to bring sites like these back to life, to bring local people together. It does not need a corporate ‘service station’. Several planning issues are associated with this proposed development. - The property is in Green belt, and the over development will impact the openness which is unacceptable. - It adjoins a conservation area, so again is highly inappropriate - Road safety issues, multi stop, fast transactions from the centre of a busy roundabout. Will causes accidents and near misses for sure. - Environmental impact due to increased litter from the site itself, and from cars leaving the site. There are also light pollution issues during the evening on local residents. - Local economy, there are already two petrol stations within 1 mile (one within 1/2 a mile) and that excludes Morrisions. On top of the financial impact on those petrol stations, the council should be encouraging people to eat on Stone High street within local independent eateries that support local people. As is the policy! Support local businesses, not service station eye sores with drive thru take always.

It's only a matter of time before some one is seriously injured or hurt

'This tree is a part of the British landscape, its lore and utility deeply embedded in our history. Of our trees, the ash is second only to the oak in national importance; scholars of Anglo-Saxon might even place it at number one. The resilient and ubiquitous ash has always been respected for its benevolent or healing properties. At least three British saints threw their wooden staffs to the ground to see them sprout miraculously into ash trees.' (Tim Richardson, The Telegraph.) Ash trees are currently threatened with Ash dieback and this great old tree is not affected, it could live another 120 years.

Such a beautiful, precious space. Home to over one thousand trees & Marshall’s want to destroy it!

This is disrespectful to the fallen Scots and also the English. Culloden is close to the hearts of every born Scot. A loss that's felt to this day. There is more than enough land in and around Inverness to build without it being done on a burial / battle site of National importance. Please share...