Edgbaston Reservoir and Summerfield Park are two of Birmingham’s most loved community spaces. Families, children, joggers, cyclists, and nature lovers gather here daily to enjoy fresh air and green surroundings. But our parks face a serious problem: overflowing bins and litter left behind.  When bins are too small and spill over, trash ends up on the ground, blowing into the water, damaging the environment, and harming wildlife. Foxes, birds, and other animals eat discarded food and packaging—putting their health and survival at risk. Visitors are also left with dirty, unpleasant spaces instead of clean, welcoming parks.  Overflowing bins don’t just look bad—they’re dangerous. Plastics and rubbish can blow into the reservoir, polluting the water and harming fish and plant life. This issue is not about people caring less—it’s about not having enough proper facilities to dispose of waste responsibly. The current bins are simply too small to cope with the amount of rubbish left during busy days, especially in the summer months. Also,squirrels and rodents are scattering rubbish, creating hygiene issues. We, the undersigned, are calling on Birmingham City Council and local authorities to: 1. Install larger-capacity trash cans that are rodent proof at Edgbaston Reservoir and Summerfield Park. 2. Increase the frequency of waste collection, especially during weekends and summer. 3. Provide educational signage reminding visitors that this is home to wildlife, and we are only guests. By taking these steps, we can:   • Protect wildlife from harm. • Preserve the natural beauty of our parks. • Encourage responsible waste disposal. • Create safer, cleaner spaces for everyone in the community. Why is this important? Edgbaston Reservoir and Summerfield Park are more than just green spaces—they are community lifelines. Families gather here for picnics, children play, joggers and cyclists enjoy the paths, and nature thrives around us. But every time bins overflow, these beautiful places are spoiled with rubbish on the ground, food waste scattered everywhere, and wildlife put at risk. It’s heartbreaking to see our parks—spaces that should bring peace and joy—turned into dumping grounds simply because the bins are too small. Bigger bins and more frequent collections are simple solutions that can make a big difference. Why should others join? Because this isn’t just about litter—it’s about respect. Respect for nature, respect for our community, and respect for the spaces we all share. Clean parks mean safer play areas for children, healthier homes for wildlife, and welcoming green spaces for everyone to enjoy. What I’d say to a friend: “I go to the reservoir and see rubbish piled up higher than the bins, food rotting on the ground, and animals scavenging in dangerous waste. It makes me sad because this is supposed to be a place where we feel proud to bring our kids, our families, and our friends. Imagine if every time you went to relax in nature, it felt like stepping into a landfill. That’s not fair to us, and it’s not fair to the wildlife that calls these parks home. That’s why I care. And that’s why I’m asking you to care too.” Our parks are treasures—but they need our care. We urge Birmingham City Council to act now. Bigger bins that are rodent proof mean cleaner parks, healthier wildlife, and a stronger community. OUR PARKS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY.  

Camden Council’s proposed heating retrofit for the iconic Grade II* listed Alexandra Road Estate risks locking residents into permanently high bills, colder homes, damp and mould and greater inequality. The current proposal: • No insulation to walls or roofs • No renewable energy, despite proven savings of 20–50% from solar PV • No ventilation, leaving homes vulnerable to damp and mould • No thermal modelling, even though this is required under Awaab’s Law If Camden proceed with these works roof insulation and solar panels will not be possible to be installed in the future. Camden tenants will face permanently high heating bills, while private homeowners elsewhere enjoy subsidies and efficient upgrades. The resident-led proposal, backed by leading engineers and sustainability experts, offers a cheaper, healthier, and futureproof solution: • Roof and wall insulation • Solar PV on all roofs • Mechanical heat recovery ventilation (where possible) • Full thermal modelling including cold bridging assessment and overheating ✅ I support this proposal and ask Camden Council to work with residents to deliver it. This is not just about Alexandra Road. It’s about how we retrofit all council homes ensuring affordability, sustainability, and fairness. #AwaabsLaw #Health #Equality #ClimateChange #Retrofit #HousingRights

The new Hillsborough Law is aimed at improving transparency and accountability of public bodies in the aftermath of major disasters. Keir Starmer promised last year, the new law would be introduced before the Hillsborough Anniversary in April. But sadly that date has passed and nearly a year on from his public commitment, we are still waiting.  For too long, victims of public tragedies have faced an uphill battle for truth and justice. From Hillsborough to Grenfell, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the contaminated blood scandal – countless families have been denied answers and accountability. The Hillsborough Law isn't just about Hillsborough. It's a vital piece of legislation that would prevent future injustices and ensure that victims of public disasters are finally treated with dignity and respect. It would establish a duty of candour for public officials, empower victims' families, and stop cover-ups in their tracks.

Wealthy landowners are burning our moorlands for grouse shooting on the land. But the toxic smoke from this burning blows over surrounding communities and releases tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. It’s terrible for our health, for the planet, and for animals. It needs to stop.  Burning heather causes harmful air pollution, resulting in spikes in hospital admissions in nearby communities. Notably, the event on the 9th October 2023 in Sheffield, when burning on Moscar Moor caused smoke to blanket the city, raised levels of harmful PM2.5 air pollution to five times the legal limit. The highest levels were recorded at Lowfield Primary School. Children are particularly vulnerable to poor air quality, and those children were exposed to harmful levels of air pollution for hours that day. Our children deserve to breathe clean air. The peatlands of England are perhaps our biggest carbon store - more than the forests of the UK, Germany, and France combined - yet burning them releases tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change. These dry, burnt moorlands also cause rainwater to simply run off them, causing flooding in nearby communities. A healthy, wet moorland with lots of sphagnum moss acts as a natural flood defence, soaking up all the excess water. A wetter moorland also helps stop wildfires from spreading. Landowners argue that controlled burning stops wildfires, but because the land has been drained it is more likely to catch fire.  As parents, we worry so much about the futures of our children, and all children. With the climate crisis in full swing, we are seeing more floods and wildfires every year, yet this incredibly valuable asset on our doorstep is being burnt to a crisp. We need to be doing all we can to protect our kids now and into the future. Our children deserve a liveable climate. Additionally, the practice of grouse moor management has created a monoculture. Did you know that real healthy moorlands are more than just heather? We should be seeing a much wider variety of plants and animals on our moors, but the land is managed to inflate the population of grouse to the detriment of many other species. Landowners and gamekeepers are accused of killing birds of prey, corvids, and small mammals - anything they see as a threat to the grouse population. Not to mention the poor grouse themselves, who are killed simply for fun.  When you take your kids for a walk through a grouse moor, they won’t see much. They are devoid of life, with few birds or insects. Compared to a walk through a healthy moorland, where they may spend hours foraging bilberries, finding frogspawn, admiring mosses, hunting for minibeasts, and spotting birds like kestrels and stonechats. Our children deserve thriving moorlands to joyfully explore. They deserve good health and hope for the future. Our children deserve an end to moorland burning.

AI is getting more powerful every month. It could cure diseases, yes but it’s already destroying jobs, spreading lies, and could wipe out humanity if we lose control. Experts like Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” have warned: “It’s not inconceivable that humanity is wiped out by AI.” Right now, the UK government is focused on small fixes like tackling online scams. That’s like putting a padlock on your garden shed while leaving the nuclear plant down the road with the doors wide open. The truth? There are two urgent things we don’t have but desperately need: 1️⃣ A global AI safety body like NATO for AI, so every country follows the same strict rules, and no one races ahead with dangerous systems just to get ahead. 2️⃣ Strong, enforceable AI safety laws here in the U, so no AI system is released unless it passes tough safety tests, just like planes, cars, or medicines. 3️⃣ Create comprehensive laws not just to regulate AI technology itself, but also to govern how AI is used in society, ensuring responsible and ethical deployment across all sectors. Without these, AI could: 💣 Design deadly weapons faster than we can stop them 🗳 Manipulate elections and economies globally ⚡ Override human control permanently 🚨 Launch devastating world cyber attacks that could cripple infrastructure, economies, and lives. AI is already causing harm today: ❌ Jobs disappearing without safety nets ❌ Disinformation flooding our feeds ❌ Tech giants hoarding power and data ❌ Privacy stripped away We’ve made rules to keep planes in the air and food safe to eat. So why are we letting the most powerful technology in history run without them? Tell the UK government: work with the world, pass real AI safety laws, and protect people not just profits!

The Water Maze in Victoria Park, Bristol is a unique and historically significant feature.  • Design and Construction: The maze was designed by Peter Milner and constructed between 1983 and 1984 by the Avon County Community Environment Scheme and Bristol City Engineers. It was built to commemorate the end of sewage discharge into the River Avon  • Water Source: The maze is supplied by spring water flowing through an old pipe originating from Knowle Hill. This pipe is part of a historic water system that once carried clean water to St Mary Redcliffe Church in the 12th century  • Structure and Layout: The maze is circular, with a diameter of approximately 8.5 meters. It features a shallow brick channel through which water flows from the center outward. The path is about 15 cm wide, with a 21 cm gap between paths. The layout is unicursal, meaning it has a single, non-branching path with no dead ends  • Symbolism and Inspiration: The design is inspired by a roof boss in St Mary Redcliffe Church. It symbolizes Bristol’s historical and modern efforts to secure clean water, referencing both medieval and 20th-century infrastructure developments • Location: The maze is situated on the northeast side of Victoria Park, near St Luke’s Road, between Bedminster and Totterdown. Unfortunately it now runs dry, it has not had water flowing through it for some years now.  We want to put pressure on Bristol City Council and Wessex Water to reinstate the water, which is a crucial part of the Water Maze in Victoria Park.   If you are a resident of Windmill Hill or a visitor to the park, please add your name to the petition to make this happen.  How can you have a Water Maze with no water, it is a heritage feature and requires the respect that it deserves.

Because no matter your age, you will eventually reach retirement. Your pension is a very important part of your retirement plan, and it affects your lifestyle in later years. Not every worker earns a huge salary, but every worker pays into occupational pensions, and it is our future.

This petition is being brought forward by the Liverpool Hospice Action Group, following the deeply concerning news that Marie Curie has permanently closed all inpatient beds at its Woolton hospice — a vital service relied upon by countless families in Liverpool and the surrounding region. Sadly, this is not an isolated case. Across the UK, hospice beds are vanishing quietly, leaving dying people without access to dedicated, specialist care when they need it most. Many hospices are being forced to scale back or shut inpatient units due to inadequate government funding, workforce pressures, and changes in strategy by major providers. At the same time, millions of pounds continue to be raised annually by the public to support hospice and palliative care. This raises important questions about transparency and accountability: How are major end-of-life charities allocating these funds if front-line services are being reduced or closed? The issue goes beyond bed numbers. It is about dignity, choice, and fairness at the most vulnerable stage of life. As Parliament continues to debate the Assisted Dying Bill, it is vital that people have genuine choices about where and how they receive care at the end of life — whether that be at home, in a hospice, or elsewhere. If there is a reduced choice of where to receive end of life care for a dignified, pain-free death in a hospice may that lead people to choose a premature end to their lives via assisted dying (if/when available)? We therefore call on the UK Government and devolved administrations to launch a full review to: 1. Investigate the causes, scale, and consequences of the loss of inpatient hospice beds across the UK 2. Review the use of public and charitable fundraising by major end-of-life care organisations 3. Examine the sustainability of the current hospice funding model, and the responsibility of the state in providing end-of-life care 4. Ensure equitable access to inpatient palliative care services, regardless of postcode or socioeconomic background 5. Safeguard patient choice in end-of-life care — including the right to hospice admission where clinically appropriate Dying people deserve better than silence and service cuts. We urge the Government to act now, before more lives are affected by this hidden crisis in end-of-life care.

The UK's paternity leave policy is the worst in Europe. New dads and non-birthing parents only get two weeks of leave paid at less than half the minimum wage. Self employed people get nothing. The Dad Shift is campaigning to change that. If you agree we need better paternity leave that properly supports kids and parents, add your name now.

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish line first, the dust has now settled and nature thrives on the former Arena Essex Raceway site. Its complex history has led to a unique 52ha mosaic of brownfield features, calcareous grassland, flowery Thames Terrace Grassland, bare ground, scrub and young woodland - earning it a nationally important invertebrate population and Local Wildlife Site status.   This hidden secret in Thurrock has no public rights of way, but much of the site has been used for many years for fishing and informal walking and cycling. It has also been found by wildlife in an increasingly developed landscape. Its 52ha are home to hundreds of species of invertebrates, including Brown-banded Carder Bee (Bombus humilis), Five-banded Weevil-wasp (Cerceris quinquefasciata) and the Dingy Skipper butterfly (Erynnis tages)- with many more to be found- as well as rare plants such as Endangered Broad-leaved Cudweed (Filago pyramidata) and birds such as Red Listed Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos).   The chequered flag was waved on the Raceway in 2018 and its future as a wildlife haven is now at risk from a new data centre campus for Google. The Google-associated ‘Global Infrastructure UK Limited’ plans would lead to over 80% of its precious Open Mosaic Habitat on Previously Developed Land being lost. Meanwhile, Google boldly touts claims in its 2025 Sustainability Report of “Cultivating nature on our campuses” and “rebuilding nature in the very places it’s been paved over”.  Buglife is calling on Google to live up to its sustainability claims by changing course and sparing this unique wildlife site. Tell Google to search for somewhere else for their development! 

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Why Our Estate Needs a Calisthenics Setup — Now Right now, our community is missing something simple but powerful: a place where people — especially young people — can get active, stay healthy, and connect with others without needing money, transport, or a gym pass. Installing a small calisthenics area (like pull-up and dip bars) would bring huge benefits straight away: • 🧑‍🎓 For young people: It gives them something positive to do close to home. It keeps them off the streets, off screens, and out of trouble. It builds confidence, discipline, and good habits — all through free, outdoor movement. • 👨‍👩‍👧 For adults and families: It’s a free way to stay fit, fight stress, and build healthier routines. Parents could work out while kids play. People who can’t afford a gym would finally have access to regular exercise. • 🧠 For mental health: Being active outside improves mood, reduces anxiety, and supports emotional wellbeing — for all ages. • 🤝 For the community: It brings people together. It turns underused spaces into shared spaces. It makes our estate feel safer, more positive, and more connected. This is a small ask — just a few pieces of equipment — but the impact would be real and lasting. Other areas in Milton Keynes already have this. It’s time we had it here too. Let’s invest in our health, our youth, and our neighbourhood.