This area is vital to the local community. We have a shortage of sports pitches and community open space on the Western side of the town The Council should be putting the local community before profit.

These teachers and pupils have worked hard to succeed. This government is not supporting children, especially children in the state sector and especially children who do not come from priveleged backgrounds. All children are our future.

Wandsworth Borough Council is pushing through, at breakneck speed, a proposal to sell 46% of the playing fields at Elliott School in Putney (15,070m² / 3.72 acres / 41% of the total site including buildings) for private redevelopment despite the school being a Grade II-listed building and despite a public consultation which showed 96% of respondents to be against any land sale. Lord Hill of Oareford, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools, has just given consent for these playing fields to be sold during the Olympics, despite the spirit of the law which protects them, despite their Grade II listing and irrespective of public opinion and statutory stakeholders. Unless challenged in the strongest terms, a devastating precedent is about to be set which will legitimise sale of public land in other boroughs and counties across the UK. THIS IS THE THIN END OF THE WEDGE: all schools and all public land are seriously threatened by the lack of opposition to such proposals. This is an opportunity to make a stand for green space, education, architecture and national heritage, public health, democracy, accountability, and, ultimately, sound stewardship of public assets and public income. A full briefing pack is available on the campaign's website: http://saveelliottschool.tumblr.com/ An e-petition to the Government to force debate in Parliament is here: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/34446 If you have signed THIS petition, PLEASE SIGN THE GOVT. E-PETITION TOO! Questions welcome at [email protected]

The employees of Remploy are mainly disabled and their work there provides them with a high degree of independance, self esteem and the benefits of working with other people. closing these factories, especialy in the current economic climate is likely to throw them on the mercy of the benefits system.

The law is a discriminatory one which relies on an individual police officer's judgement and, as such, is open to abuse. The police officer is open to criticism for misuse of the order and under 16 year old's are vulnerable to overzealous application and miss-accusations. The discriminatory nature of the order encourages the hatred and fear of young people and allows some to feel justified in discriminatory attitudes toward them. It encourages those who have suffered at the hands of badly behaved youths to believe that they are all like that and to become more afraid. It will only serve to alienate young people and make them feel that the police are there simply to control them but not to protect them. Already young people in Bangor are avoiding going out to the cinema and to after school clubs for fear of being caught in the curfew or of being beaten up by the marauding gangs that this order implies are on the loose in the city center. Bangor is a lovely historic place with much to offer young and old alike. It suffers from very little anti-social behavior apart from a very few people in limited areas and the usual after pub and club problems present in all cities. It is suffering in the downturn from an empty high street (the longest in the country) but there was no rioting in Bangor last year, the out of town JJB sports, PC World etc were not ransacked as was seen in other towns and cities across the UK, so why Bangor? There was no consultation with the public or even their elected representatives on the City Council. This is despite the ACPO guidance that there should be consultation with the effected community and a Rowntree report, which concludes that these laws have only been effective where consultation and involvement had taken place. This law is badly worded, heavy handed, discriminatory and draconian and it should be stopped now!

The Channel Island of Sark has just 600 inhabitants. They lead a peaceful and historic way of life that has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of years. The islanders get around on bikes or by horse and cart - there are no cars or tarmac roads on the island. It is a unique and beautiful place, a rare piece of tranquillity in a chaotic modern world. But now the billionaire owners of The Telegraph newspaper, the Barclay brothers, are threatening that way of life. Twenty years ago, they bought the tiny neighbouring island of Brecqhou and built a huge mock gothic castle that looms over Sark. Ever since, they have been buying up every hotel, small business and piece of land they can get their hands on. The islands status as a tax haven means the brothers have to pay no tax on their fortune back to the UK. The Sarkees have been doing everything they can to resist their power over the island. In 2008, the Barclays tried to flood the island's first democratically elected government with their allies. When the islanders emphatically rejected them in favour of their own representatives, the brothers retaliated by firing everyone who worked in any of the businesses they had bought out - that amounted to a sixth of Sark's population losing their jobs. It doesn't end there. Those who speak out against the brothers' stranglehold on the island are publicly dragged through the dirt in the Sark Newsletter - a weekly propaganda piece written by the Barclays' lieutenant, Kevin Delaney. The islanders recently told the Guardian and BBC that they live in fear in a "culture of bullying and intimidation." The Barclay brothers company Sark Estate Management (SEM) has turned much of their good quality agricultural land over to vineyards, land that was traditionally used by the islanders for centuries for growing crops and grazing livestock. In November 2012 a peaceful protest at the Sark Mill vineyards against the spread of vines resulted in 120 Sark residents signing a petition asking the Barclays to reconsider their vineyard project but this was ignored. SEM continue to spray the vineyards with chemicals and residents fear for the health of Sark's pristine ecosystem and their fresh water supplies which come from under the ground. Sark is a dependency of the Crown but, so far, our government has left the islanders to fend for themselves. The Department of Justice has admitted that it has an "ultimate responsibility to ensure good governance" of Sark. They are aware of what's going on - former Justice Minister Lord McNally has already been to visit the island. It's time Lord Faulks, the new Justice Minister and Chris Grayling, the Secretary of State for Justice, lived up to that responsibility. You can find out more about the situation in Sark in this recent Panorama show: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01px74c/Panorama_The_Tax_Haven_Twins/ Or this earlier Today programme piece: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9709000/9709518.stm

There have been a lot a fatalities and seriously life changing accidents on the road outside the school. It leads to a busy main road and it’s important our kids are safe and there’s something in place so they can cross the road as there are no lights not crossing and no lollipop lady/man.  As we know there’s been another accident involving a young lad been air lifted to a&e .

Motorists are constantly breaking down in the water or having to turnaround and going a different way,causing considerable damage to the grass verges.

Beckfoot Allerton Primary School is close to a busy main road (Allerton Rd). Our primary school children have to cross this road to get to school. There is no zebra or traffic light crossing and this is leading to the children being put in danger of a road traffic collision. We sometimes have a lollipop lady but she is not always there. We would like to take a preventative approach rather than wait for a serious accident to happen.

To Wakefield Council With reference to the planned Regeneration improvements to Gorton Street Park in Kinsley WF9, we, the residents of Kinsley ask you to please fence off the entire field on Gorton Street, not just the area currently used as a rugby pitch. We ask that the park area be left in its existing position, but with more play equipment than is currently available. The area to which Wakefield Council is proposing to move the playpark is right next to a road where illegal car racing takes place. Its existing location is at least at a point where the racing cars are forced to slow down in order to turn onto another road. If moving the park is unavoidable, then the entire green area absolutely needs to be fenced off to avoid accidents happening in the future. This is the only green space left in Kinsley and it needs to be kept open for the community

The residents of Castle Terrace, Berwick upon Tweed are sick of the speeding traffic in our street. These are some of the problems we currently face: 1. A daily gamble to safely exit our drives. 2. Drivers coming off the A1 and think they are still in a 60mph zone. 3. Drivers going too fast to safely negotiate the bend at the station end of the street. 4. Lorries and cars overtaking parked cars narrowing the road dangerously. 5. Cyclists been squeezed into a gauntlet. 6. Pedestrians taking risky crossings. 7. Parents rushing to get children to school on time. 8. Boy racers. Castle Terrace residents have formed a group to take up the issue of speeding in the area. Our local Councillor arranged a speed survey and in the week surveyed, the results unsurprisingly confirmed our concerns of speeding. Here are the highlights 1. Roughly half of all drivers broke the speed limit. 2. Nearly 4000 vehicles exceeded the speed limit 3. The top speed recorded was 75.6mph 4. 40 mph plus is exceeded regularly The survey was taken during a school holiday otherwise the numbers may have been higher.

People are relying on the bus for work, shopping, parents with children and buggies, older people who cannot walk the distance to get their shopping and medication. People are paying for a service and not receiving it. All people want is a reliable, timely, consistent bus service to enable them to get food, medicine, meet a friend, get out of their homes to get some social time, avoiding loneliness. It’s not a lot to ask for all of the above reasons.