At the Sanctuary on Sea launch event in June 2015, Brighton & Hove was named 'Sanctuary on Sea' in recognition of the city-wide efforts to create a culture of welcome for people fleeing conflict and persecution. At the event, you underlined the city's commitment to welcome refugees to our city. Now is an important time to deliver on that commitment.

I believe this issue is important because we have to whatever we can to save the lives of those that have embarked on these journeys. These children have had to flee their homes in search for a better life and we need to provide some sort of comfort for them. A few Syrian kids were asked What makes you happy? Moiad,8, from Dara'a, Syria said "There is no war here. Reading and playing. Helping my mum." Briksam,9,from Homs, Syria."I like going to school,studying and taking tests.Being with my family." Najam,6,from Homs, Syria. "Toys.When my older brother, Ahmed, comes to visit." These Children only want one thing , to live their lives as normal children and this is something they should be able to experience in a free world and not caught in the middle of war. We must remember that although their homes have been taken , we need to ensure their futures are not taken away from them. To find out more go to www.unicef.org.uk

David Cameron announced we’ll welcome 20,000 more Syrian refugees. But there’s a catch. This will take 5 years, leaving thousands of refugees in limbo. It’s now up to us to show that in cities, towns and villages all across the country we’re ready to welcome people now. Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome

David Cameron announced we’ll welcome 20,000 more Syrian refugees. But there’s a catch. This will take 5 years, leaving thousands of refugees in limbo. It’s now up to us to show that in cities, towns and villages all across the country we’re ready to welcome people now. Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome

David Cameron announced we’ll welcome 20,000 more Syrian refugees. But there’s a catch. This will take 5 years, leaving thousands of refugees in limbo. It’s now up to us to show that in cities, towns and villages all across the country we’re ready to welcome people now. Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome

David Cameron announced we’ll welcome 20,000 more Syrian refugees. But there’s a catch. This will take 5 years, leaving thousands of refugees in limbo. It’s now up to us to show that in cities, towns and villages all across the country we’re ready to welcome people now. Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome

Oliver Campbell was convicted because he suffered from a brain injury and is of low IQ and very suggestible. He 'confessed' to murder to the police in the absence of his solicitor. His co-defendant, Samuels, also convicted of murder, told the police that Oliver wasn't present at the crime and had nothing to do with it, but because he didn't give evidence at the trial, the jury was never aware of this. Since then Samuels has repeated that Oliver is innocent, but the CCRC refuses to use this evidence as grounds to refer the case for a second appeal. Oliver has now been released, but still seeks to have his murder conviction overturned. Back in 2002 A television investigation cast doubt on the murder conviction and produced a documentary as part of the series Rough Justice showing their findings......... (the following is an extract from an old article) Oliver Campbell has been in jail for 10 years of a life sentence for the murder of an East End off licence owner, Baldee Hoondle, during a robbery in July 1990. Although Campbell confessed to the crime under interrogation, his lack of legal representation at the time and the strategy employed by the police to gain a confession from a 20-year-old man of limited mental ability have already been said to cast doubt on the case against him. Campbell has since persistently protested his innocence. Next Sunday the BBC programme Rough Justice will present an analysis which challenges the prosecution's case. It contains a statement from an accomplice to the robbery which, if true, exonerates Campbell, and it claims to be able to name the person who fired the fatal shot. A crucial piece of evidence was a baseball cap dropped by the murderer as he ran from the off licence. During interrogation, the police told Campbell that his fingerprints were found at the scene and the hairs on the cap matched his. In fact, the forensic tests had not been completed. When they were, no fingerprints of Campbell were found and the hairs were not his. There is, allegedly, no forensic evidence linking him to the scene. Later, at an identity parade, neither of the two witnesses to the crime picked out Campbell as the man in the cap. The two robbers were said to be 5ft 10in or 5ft 11in; Campbell is 6ft 3in. Campbell is left-handed while the shot was fired most probably by a right-handed man. Campbell had lived in a number of foster homes and is claimed to be borderline mentally defective. An accomplice to the crime, Eric Samuels, who was sentenced to five years for robbery, said that Campbell was not the killer. But his evidence was never heard in court. Campbell may have contributed to the police case by admitting to knowledge of the crime which he had actually got from a BBC Crimewatch programme.

Amina is a Tunisian national who is 35 weeks pregnant. I cannot visit Tunisia for the birth of our first child because of the FCO's restriction following the attack there this summer. There is one more week before she cannot fly from Tunis to the UK. The Home Office Helpline said the "Surinder Singh route" was appropriate for us - this is where a UK National has transferred his life to another EU country and while there has created and strengthened family ties with a non-EU National. In these circumstances EU rules apply (as set by the Surinder Singh case and subsequent rulings). The non-EU spouse then has the right to enter the UK with their husband/wife, as is the case in any other EU Country. This case was refused because the Entry Clearance Officer thought that couples also had to live in the EU after their marriage. (We went to Hong Kong for 12 months post-doctoral research work in a University, then came back to the UK.) In fact subsequent clarifications from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) show that the family relationship must be created and strengthened within the EU - we were both resident in France at the time of our marriage. There is no requirement to live in the EU for any further period of time. This mistake in implementing the law can be overturned from within the Home Office. At the moment we are denied our right to a family life together and in particular will be apart for what should be the best day of our lives - when our child is born. Aside from personal issues, it is ridiculously difficult for a British national to bring their spouse to the UK. In our case, the overwhelming response of friends and family is "surely she can be with him as his wife".... The British public are unaware of the issues facing genuine legal immigrants and need to be told how the UK's isolated stance on Borders and Immigration is creating misery for individual families in so many ways. It must also be noted that two UK members of parliament have been in touch with the Home Office on our behalf due to the tight time-scale involved. Their best efforts to help us have been met with bureaucratic brick walls, un-informed ‘contact centres’ and a complete absence of communication links with anybody in a position to accelerate our urgent case. My attempts to contact UKV&I were similarly un-fruitful, although quite lucrative for the visa service who charged me in excess of £10 on a telephone call to simply tell me that Amina’s case had not yet been assessed. The UKV&I email enquiry service on the gov.uk website seemingly generates automatic responses based on key words in the original question asked by the user, with replies ranging from unhelpful to absurd. Two important and quite general questions are raised as a result of this experience; firstly, how can the UK government get away with not applying EU immigration law, requiring many cases that fall outside the letter of previous rulings to go through ECJ appeals? The UK is part of the EU and the laws of the wider union come before national law. The UK’s ‘pick and choose’ attitude towards EU policies is evident here, with the government being very keen to remain part of the economic treaties, whilst shirking its responsibilities on other matters, particularly immigration. The government’s refusal to participate in the proposed quota system to distribute migrants in the current crisis, as well as Theresa May’s recent announcement that the EU’s ‘Freedom of Movement’ policy is actually a truncated version of ‘Freedom of Movement to a job’ are other clear demonstrations of this irresponsible attitude. Secondly, how can the government justify branding people as ‘illegal immigrants’, when even those seeking to follow the law and obtain visas through proper channels are refused leave to enter the country? The current visa system is incomprehensible and completely un-yielding, refusing to adapt to an individual’s circumstances or provide information to those elected to represent the public: our MPs. The Home Office and those working in it are supposed to be providing a public service, and even acknowledge this through referring to users of the visa system as ‘customers’. Immigrants are already ineligible for state benefits, and must pay the Immigration Health Surcharge regardless of whether or not they use NHS services, so arguing that preventing, for example, spouses of British citizens from coming to the UK will reduce the burden on the state is untrue. Furthermore, the inflexible nature of immigration policy means that the UK is often losing qualified professionals to other countries, as is the case here. Both my wife and I are doctors of physics, and are being driven out of the UK despite our qualifications. We are not alone in this situation, the Surinder Singh route is not a 'loophole' that the government should seek to close - it is one of the last defences protecting EU law from the UK's cruel immigration rules.

Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome

Britain is a Christian country, and Storrington is a Christian village. We are ready to offer help, support and accommodation to Syrian refugees until they can be found their own accommodation and jobs. We don't want Britain to be the kind of country, or Storrington the kind of village, that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome

David Cameron announced we’ll welcome 20,000 more Syrian refugees. But there’s a catch. This will take 5 years, leaving thousands of refugees in limbo. It’s now up to us to show that in cities, towns and villages all across the country we’re ready to welcome people now. Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome

David Cameron announced we’ll welcome 20,000 more Syrian refugees. But there’s a catch. This will take 5 years, leaving thousands of refugees in limbo. It’s now up to us to show that in cities, towns and villages all across the country we’re ready to welcome people now. Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome