Bristol is now the second most congested city in the UK and pollution kills nearly 200 people a year. Yet in the last 3 years just 1 km of truly protected cycleway has been built. Bike Life survey shows that in Bristol – 80% of people support increasing the safety of cycling 70% of people want to see more spent on safer cycling infrastructure The next Council needs to make a comprehensive network of safe, connected cycle routes.a priority.

BT / Openreach have been promising fibre-optic broadband to rural communities in Pembrokeshire for a long time, and yet installation dates keep getting pushed further back because we are simply not a priority. As customers we cannot just switch provider, because the majority of rural communities have old-fashioned BT exchanges, a fact that not only means we are caught in a monopoly trap, we actually pay more for our services than areas which do have other suppliers. Enterprise and entrepreneurship are big buzz words in our county at the moment, but how can successful businesses be built when our Internet speeds barely pass 3 mbps? We need more choice, and better service!

My dads health is suffering and mine too with worrying it's for his sake

The Practice Group plc (a private company) has been running The Willows Surgery in Lower Bevendean along with four other GP surgeries in Brighton and Hove. At the beginning of this year they announced that they would no longer be running their Brighton and Hove surgeries after June (this already follows the closure of two of the city's GP surgeries last year). This announcement has left a huge hole and The Willows is now threatened with closure. Lower Bevendean is in a somewhat isolated area on the outskirts of Brighton. It is an area of mostly low income households and is made up of largely council and ex-council housing. The surgery has just under 2,000 patients and all have been feeling extremely anxious since the news. No-one wants to see their GP surgery close down! If The Willows were to close patients would have to travel outside their local area to see a doctor. The nearest GP to Lower Bevendean would be a long trek up and down a hilly area and as a large number of The Willows patients are elderly or disabled or in poor health they would not be able to manage the extra travel to see a Doctor. Even if travelling wasn't a problem, the nearest GP surgery simply has not got the capacity to take on an extra 2,000 patients. So realistically patients would have to travel a lot further to register with a new GP. As there seems to be no 'highest priority' scheme in place, the elderly and the less able bodied will be the last in the race to find a new GP and will find themselves having to travel the furthest. We've heard reports of elderly patients in tears as they are so worried about what will happen if their doctor disappears from their community. The less frail residents are angry. Why must they travel across the city to see a doctor? How is it possible that an NHS GP will vanish from the neighbourhood because the private company who were running the surgery decided that they wanted to earn more profit from us? In order to keep our NHS public we need to fight the 'behind our backs' privatisation of our health services! We need to make sure that our health service is about people and not profits! The community in Lower Bevendean need your support in their fight to stop the closure of The Willows GP Surgery. The community of Lower Bevendean needs to have local access to a GP and they require NHS England, along with Brighton and Hove CCG to ensure that a GP service will continue at the Willows Surgery !

‘At a time when councils are struggling with ever deeper cuts to our budgets, it makes sense that we use our spending power to favour companies that pay their taxes. After all, it is companies’ and individuals’ tax payments that ultimately fund council budgets. I hope that councils across the UK will agree – and adopt policies similar to Oxford City Council’s.’ Jean Fooks, Councillor for Summertown Ward, Oxford According to Christian Aid’s Sourced campaign Councils spend billions of pounds each year on goods and services. This puts them in a powerful position to insist on minimum ethical standards from the companies that they do business with. calls on local councils to introduce tougher questions about tax compliance when they buy goods and services from private companies. HMRC calculated in 2013 that the UK itself is losing in the region of £30bn, of which £9bn was estimated to be unpaid tax by big businesses[i]. However the official figure is likely to be conservative and a separate estimate by tax expert Richard Murphy puts tax avoidance(legal) at £19.1bn for 2013/14 [ii]– the amount pencilled in for cuts to our schools, hospitals and other services over the next four years[iii]. This figure is separate from tax debt of £18.2 and the still larger figure of £82.1 for tax evasion (illegal). Tax avoidance and evasion by big multinational companies also hurts local small and medium-sized companies that pay more tax proportionately. This means they cannot compete on a level playing field with multinational companies. The harmful impacts of tax avoidance and tax evasion are found not just in the UK. Christian Aid has highlighted the damaging effect of corporate tax evasion and avoidance on the world’s poorest countries. Tax dodging is costing these countries up to US$300bn each year – far more than they receive in aid. Case study: Experian is used by the majority of UK local authorities to provide information, data collection and analysis,15 especially for detecting cases of fraud. 50% of Experian’s subsidiary companies are based in tax havens,16 including Costa Rica,17 Delaware (USA), Ireland and Jersey[iv] [i] Measuring tax gaps, 2013 edition: Tax gap estimates for 2011-12, HM Revenue & Customs, 2013, p4,www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/249537/131010_Measuring_Tax_Gaps_ACCESS_2013.pdf [ii] Tax Research UK 2014 : The Tax Gap [iii] Guardian 18-Jan-2016: The Cayman Islands – home to 100,000 companies and the £8.50 packet of fish fingers [iv] Christian Aid Campaign Sourced

A lot of us are on package contracts and believe unlimited texts should include anything apart from photos sent as free!!

We are about to start a new build and have spent a year negotiating with SSEPD for an electricity connection. Their prices changed constantly, they sent the wrong contract to the Wayleaves team (the team that sort out the permissions with landowners) and then said that it was going to cost more because the works team had discovered a problem with the planned works on the quote. They say they won't tell us what the extra cost will be until they have done the work! So we have no idea if or what they might be planning to charge us on top of the amount we have already paid based on their quote.

Having watched PMQs for decades, today, 24th Feburary 2016, underlined what a farce it has become. The Prime Minister has now fallen so low as to mock the way people dress. Although this may be common behaviour on the playing fields of Eaton, it completely debases his high office and our great country. Despite some wonderful innovations from the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, the Prime Ministers behaviour has worsened, and he continues as he did in 2010 to not answer straight questions to which the British public deserve straight answers. There seens to be a misconception from the Prime Minster that PMQs is a time for levity whereas it performs an essential constitutional function for British citizens to get information directly from the Prime Minister. In short it is time the Prime Minister grew up and lived up to his responsibilities to the people of Great Britain.

When asked 86% people believe in the importance of seasonality, and 78% claimed to shop seasonally, however only between 5-10% of people knew when various fruit and vegetables are actually in season. Supermarkets are increasingly providing customers with products that are out of season; using artificial growing techniques and transportation across hundreds of miles. Although these can be seen as advancements in technology or production yield, supermarkets should help people make more informed choices when it comes to sustainability and health. If Supermarkets set up a clear section of their shops with products that are "In Season" locally with tasty recipe information to go with it, we can be happier in the knowledge our food retains more of its nutrients, is aiding local businesses, may be grown organically to help biodiversity and tastes better too! This is not necessarily about eliminating food that is out of season, because everything is in season somewhere in the world! It is about a designated area for all the goodies that are "In Season" locally - it's not a big change to re-jiggle stock so that the seasonal stuff is in one place. From broccoli, apples and peppers in March to apricots, cabbage and new potatoes in May, give us the opportunity to make informed decisions. Buying in season also supports local businesses by being more economical. Harvesting "In Season" means less reliance upon artificially creating climates and long term storage systems which could result in cheaper produce for the consumer. Why the big 5 should listen: Tesco aims to reduce its CO2 emissions and help children learn about food - seasonality is a big part of natural food production. ASDA and Morrison's are starting to sell wonky veg, showing a clear move towards consumer demand for healthy, local, seasonal, chemical free products. Sainsbury's aim to be the "greenest grocer" with "20 by 20" goals for health, the environment and sustainability and an "In Season" section would be a great step towards this. The Cooperative Food has an ethical food policy to support British farmers, help producers with Fairtrade and play an active role within our communities. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to message me or leave a comment :)

We strongly believe that it will be detrimental to our business and put public safety at risk of not having a visible taxi rank in close proximity to the front of the railway station. This will affect everyone including people with disabilities, elderly, lone travelers, young children and people with excessive luggage.

Parliament is shown to a worldwide audience, who see abusive behaviour and verbal noises on a daily basis, of a type usually only heard in a farmyard. You may be able to laugh it off but the rest of us cringe with shame. You represent 60 million people in this country but look like football hooligans on a piss-up. Any similar behaviour on the part of any other one of us would result in instant dismissal, rather than the support of his colleagues and a thumbs up from the boss. Have a little pride in your position as the Speaker of the House and do the right thing, and stop the embarrassment of PMQs every week.

We want to make children feel safe while in school right? Don't be fooled by the teachers "we will get it sorted out" I went to this school got bullied myself for 1 year and a half they did nothing so i had to move school! I read about people on social media sites killing themselves because they are been bullied, im sure that you as parents do not want to go through this with your child!. So do something about it today and make this school a safer and more welcoming place.