In February 2017 after months of negotiations trying to avoid compulsory redundancies triggered by deep budget cuts, EHRC management sent e-mails to 8 workers work addresses informing them they were being made redundant whilst they were taking part in a lawful one day protest strike. The EHRC still has over 47 equivalent vacancies these displaced workers could easily fill, but has so far refused to do so. What is so shocking is this employer also happens to be the UK's UN recognised guardian of our Human Rights! With Brexit uncertainty and challenges to Human Rights law being suggested, we need a strengthened fully resourced EHRC to defend the most vulnerable from discrimination and attack.

Imagine that pile of rubbish pictured creating a corresponding mountain of tax revenue from whomever is unnecessarily putting non-recyclable materials into the supply chain. In Germany, the supermarkets themselves have bins near the checkout area into which customers are tacitly invited to place their unwanted packaging items for the retailers to dispose of. We need to minimise the use of non-recyclable packaging in retail, especially our fresh food. I used to work at a labelling factory: there are other viable ways of packaging, tagging, labelling and barcoding products that do not entail use of non-recyclable products. Nor is there any need for food retailers to ask customers to use plastic bags to package products such as loose vegetables in for weighing at tills (they need to be transparent for the person on the till to identify what they're weighing). It used to be that loose items would be weighed by staff in the same way as at their delis, where barcoded labels would be produced for the till staff to scan at checkout. More recyclable products - not film, tetrapack, or anything else that is not widely recyclable - should be used. I also want to see a ban on the use of any non-recyclable disposable gloves used in food retailer outlets such as a well known sandwich retailer, whose staff seem to change gloves each time they touch meat and are then trained to put on new gloves when they make another sandwich: there must be a better way. Retailers could be taxed for the amount of packaging waste they put into the system , and for the amount of non-recyclable packaging they are bringing into the system from their plants and the products they bulk buy and sell on. This would reduce non-biodegradable waste in landfill, and encourage reduction of unnecessary packaging - I don't want film around a DVD or a cucumber - which are uniform in price anyway - so that the supermarket can put a barcode on that rather than the products directly. The UK should especially given the Brexit choice, prioritise innovation in packaging technology that could be sold to the world instead of perpetuating the inertia that seems to plague politicians on green issues (possibly for fear of upsetting sectors that lobby and contribute to the economy, and perhaps also donate to political parties). For example Amazon have reduced their non-recyclable packaging (although they do not apparently pay enough tax): we should take the principles and positive elements of what such global corporations do and apply them more widely, and look into other countries' green packaging solutions. Ministers should stop their myopia and short-termist electioneering campaigns over-focusing on natural greed and our desire to preserve individual wealth, and look at ways to boost our economy, further the manufacture and use of green technologies, reduce waste in landfill and increase tax revenue from the massive national and international corporations controlling our food industry and pricing. The reality is that all the larger supermarkets are trying to convince us that they are ethical and have a corporate social responsibility, and this would be a good way of demonstrating that they mean it. Not everyone I know on social media has awareness of green organisations trying to further this project as a common aim, but would support the idea of such a tax: even if they do not believe in recycling, the vast majority would like to have less recycling to do, and would agree with there being fewer non-recyclables in the supply chain and the notion that corporations should be paying more tax. Green issues and tax revenues affect us all - many excuse their failure to recycle because they say our species is hurtling toward its doom in any event. It is exactly that sort of attitude that is damaging our world: we should expend our energy on ways to save ourselves instead: if we can get to the moon why can't we stop over-relying on non-recyclable packaging?

COMMUNITY PROJECT – WEST EDINBURGH Over the years the local community has started to diminish with an increase in crime and drugs and a reduction in places for our children to go, which doesn't involve them hanging around the streets, getting in to trouble, or playing computer games indoors. With the increase of housing being built for the lower income family and population growing in the South West of Edinburgh - with another housing development being built in Longstone as we speak (Place for People, planning application 15/00687/PND) I want to re-engage our community and open sports and fitness facility with a "access for all" mentality, for adults and children alike. Over the past 12 months, I have been engaged in an attempt to obtain a local space, available for long lease at a reasonable low yield rate as a boxing and fitness gym in our local community. I have been involved in sport for a number of years and have seen first-hand the benefit it can offer to our youth. With a have a huge passion for sports and fitness and seeing a positive change in the community. We would engage with Schools, and offer affordable sports holiday camps. We would foster our community relations offering youth groups for young kids who want to try a new sport, encouraging them to understand not just the physical element of this, but the nutritional, mental and lifestyle element of being involved in sports. I have started this petition as I have come up against a substantial issue. The main problems are that there are no community spaces available, we have no buildings which haven't been knocked down to make housing or which haven't been sold to the residential or commercial market. Without a thought for what facilities these growing communities will use! The local Edinburgh council have advised that it against the policy of the Council to provide spaces at low rental as they must make as much revenue from this as possible. Commercial or privately owned properties are asking circa £1000 pm for rent. Not including any utilities or equipment. This would mean charging membership fees if £30-£40 to use the facility, which completely defeats the purpose of the project. Ideally we would like to turn the club into a charitable organisation once established, but this wouldn't be a viable option with a private lease! It’s just so costly! Throughout these last months I have worked alongside Boxing Scotland, the government run organisation which we would affiliate with. I have engaged with the Lord Provest and MSPs as well as the local council. However community spaces are now few and far between leaving us with only high yield commercial properties available for rent. Boxing Scotland are on board with helping us apply for funding for gym equipment and subsidiary items but we can’t progress with any of this until we find a space which is going to stand the test of time. I know that health, reduction in obesity or drug and alcohol related issues, mental health, wellbeing and a reduction in youth crime must be on the agenda of our Government. We must want to see people taking pride in their communities and helping our youth become more than just statistics of their surroundings. I know that there must be a way to make this project a reality. I would like to add at this point that the facility (if we are able to find or even build a space) would be in the heart of the community, servicing areas such as Wester Hailes; Longstone; Redhall; Murrayburn; Westburn; Sighthill; Parkhead; Saughton Mains & Broomhouse. A large and growing community of 10,000+ I reach out in the hope that we can work together on this project to build a strong community for our future generations and growing population. Please sign this petition.

The demographic has changed drastically over the last few years with lots of families and young couples moving into the area from other parts of Bristol (and London). Everyone I speak to; friends, family, neighbours and fellow parents at the school gates agree that this investment is long-overdue. We need a pub that appeals to the many, not the few 😉

Gravesham Borough Council want us, the residents, to take any excess to the tip ourselves. This is NOT what we pay our council tax for. This will be a requirement for ALL families, every single week. Some do not even have cars, what will happen to the rubbish then? There will be MORE rubbish on the streets, and an increase in rats and foxes attacking refuge. There needs to be a change, this has not been thought out well at all, and is nothing short of cutting corners to save cost.

Wensum Lodge was once well-known as a thriving Norfolk County Council-run arts hub for the Eastern region. It is still the only place in the region, and certainly in Norwich, to offer accredited qualifications in many of the creative courses run there. These are all due to be cut in September 2017, with only 3 months notice. The recent numerous managerial staff changes and funding squeezes have caused problems at the Lodge, which might be ameliorated were they able to attract more paying students - something which they can do if their online presence and communications strategy improved, and if they continued along the accreditation route. Current students enrolled on courses at Wensum Lodge are often making career changes, or are developing skills in the creative industries which they then plan to use to undertake freelance work - all of which add to the creative life of the city. The value of hosting accredited courses is significant: they are instrumental in training individuals that have allowed our region to develop a strong reputation for the creative arts, and they facilitate the development of careers in those areas. This makes a positive impact on multiple levels: for the creative economy of the area - financial and reputational, not to mention the mental health of students taking these courses. Cutting courses that are poorly advertised and administered makes very little sense when the courses themselves are highly subscribed. On a practical level, some classes could be relocated to more appropriate providers, but the arts courses that are offered cannot. For example, the nearest places offering accredited Ceramics courses were in London, and then almost exclusively in the northwest of the UK. What Wensum Lodge should be doing is investing in publicity and learning support networks (computing, and online presence, amongst other things) in order to encourage more paying students rather than cutting classes that are popular and a valid part of the Eastern region's creative artistic ecosystem.

This is a very important issue for the OAP's and disabled members of the communities affected. These people use our bus service as a way of staying completely independent for as long as possible. These changes to this bus route will leave the most vulnerable members of our community alienated. A short while ago, an elderly relative of mine walked home with a couple of bags of shopping. This is around the same distance as he would be forced to walk to and from his now closest bus stop - if these changes go ahead. Unfortunately due to this he suffered a heart attack. Thankfully he made a full recovery. My worry is that the people like the relative I speak of will just give up and stay at home. They shouldn't have to do this. We have had a bus service to Afoneitha for as long as I remember, having grown up there. It's important to our OAP's and disabled folk that this service isn't taken away from them. Stop the changes to service 3 and 4 - let Rhostyllen, Garden road and Afoneitha keep their vital bus service.

As there has been footage of violence at both Arsenal's and Tottenham's football grounds, it is only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.It is a public right of way on match days to pass through, however when the potential of trouble is imminent local residents are denied this access. There have been many incidents of abuse and threats made on social media which I find childish and classless. If they have paid dues like every other filming body to the local authority then so be it, however it is a public space for use by all. I am writing to the club to establish who funds the security of the said people and only ask, not that they stop, they have the right to an opinion, but that it moves for safety reason into somewhere more suitable as they did in their beginnings .

Please consider these points 1) Any train journey from Carlisle to Edinburgh would be quicker than any bus journey. 2) Trains will improve accessibility in the Borders, link communities to key markets through strategic transport routes such as the Waverley Route or Borders Line. 3)This extension will improve access from the Scottish Borders to key markets in to Edinburgh, Carlisle and Newcastle. 4) The track bed should not be another A66 or other road, it should be a reinstated version of a remodelled Waverley Route. 5) Consideration for potential rail freight on this route: Rail freight has soared by 60% over the last ten years and one freight train can carry up to or over the equivalent of 50 heavy-goods vehicles, which is great for the environment. 6) Extending the Borders Railway could have a huge effect on the region, improving transport links to major markets and boosting the economy. 7) Corbyn's re-nationalisation policy will threaten the re-instatement of the Waverley or Borders Route, because after the railways have been re-nationalised their will be less money and projects will take longer due to bureaucracy - relating to a system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials - over-concerned with procedure at the expense of efficiency or common sense. 8) This remains a region which is all too often left behind. 9) First slated for the axe in 1963 by British Railways' infamous Chairman, Dr Richard Beeching, the closure of the Waverley Route from Edinburgh through the Borders to Carlisle ranks as the worst rail cut in British history, with Galashiels and Hawick left further from a railway station than any other towns of their size in Britain. Now Gala has re-joined the rail network, with a key aim being able to seek restoration of passenger and freight rail services along the entire 98-mile length of the Waverley Route, re-connecting the communities cut off in 1969. 10) Why extend to Hawick & Carlisle? Hawick is the Borders town which has suffered most from the loss of the old Waverley Route in 1969. And to meet its full potential, the Borders also needs a direct rail link to the South. The key benefits of southwards extension would be: a) Better social inclusion, economic regeneration and tourism opportunities; b) An attractive alternative to the car – faster, safer and greener travel for the future; c) sustainable freight transport for timber from Kielder and the Borders forests – getting logs lorries off the roads - one freight train can carry the equivalent of 50 lorries or over; d) a strategic diversionary route, relieving pressure on the busy West Coast Main Line; 11) Can it really be done? Yes! The ambition enjoys support from politicians at the highest levels of government, from Borders Chamber of Commerce – and Scottish Borders, Carlisle and Cumbria councils and high-level planning policies are in place to protect the disused track bed from further redevelopment; 12) What needs to happen next? These key issues need to be overcome: a) A through route to Carlisle to be the ultimate objective with maximum journey time targets of Edinburgh to Galashiels in 50 minutes; Hawick in 70 minutes; Carlisle in 115 minutes and once electrified these timings would be slashed even further; b) Re-examine the case for timber by rail from Kielder and the southern Borders - remember one log freight train can carry the equivalent of about 50 heavy goods road vehicles and a train is less carbon; c) Examine the case for other types of freight to and from the Central Borders; d) Examine the value to the wider rail network of a diversionary route provide a robust infrastructure specification and sensible future-proofing for upgrades; e) Recommend any further planning safeguards needed to protect the railway line of route; f) An early engineering study of the best means of negotiating the Melrose bypass incursion on to the original track bed of the railway - the road could be built on top of the railway or vice versa; Please consider this carefully.

· Our Library is well utilised and serves a wide area including Cleadon, East Boldon, West Boldon, Boldon Colliery and Whiteleas. · Our Library is the valued ‘hub’ of our Community and is regularly used by schools, children, families, job seekers and older people. · Our Library hosts many community group activities. including Storytots, Baby Bounce, Knit and Natter, Jiggle and Wiggle, Reading Group and AGE UK Computer drop-in sessions. · Our Library provides vital internet and on-line services for those who don’t have access to a computer · Our Library supports national programmes such as World Book Day and the Summer Reading Challenge · Our Library is the only community space serving Cleadon and East Boldon · Our Library provides a meeting space for residents to meet with local Councillors · Our Library provides a place to go for those who are on low income or suffering from mental heal problems as there is nowhere else to go · Our Library proves access to a broad range of research materials and information · Our Library is where so many children discover what books they like and become lifelong readers.

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This is such an important part of our community and vital to the health and well being of older members of our community.We all know someone who has used the services and are using the services and to let this go without even a whimper is a disgrace. They provide advice, enable independence and combat loneliness.