The Eel Brook is an important part of community life in SW6. It was built in 1892 and has been serving pints to locals ever since. If this pub is important to you, please sign to let our council know. For more information visit https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheEelBrook or follow on Twitter @SaveTheEelBrook UPDATE: the new owner of the Eel Brook has been in touch with the Save the Eel Brook Campaign and we have good news. The plans are to retain the ground floor as an eating and drinking venue, while the flats above will be redeveloped. Plans about the first theatre space are as yet undecided. The new owners are locals too, and not faceless developers, and are keen that the pub works for the people who use it. We have passed on the feedback about the pub we have received through this campaign and we will keep in touch with the new owners as they draw up more concrete plans. Thank you all for your support and for the love you have shown for this pub. Here's hoping we can work together with the new owners to make this place work for all of us. Watch this space for more info!

Volunteer doctors and nurses from MSF were working in one of the few functioning hospitals in Afghanistan. The hospital was targeted by American bombers in an act of complete bungling incompetence. 42 patients and staff were killed by the Americans in their attack. MSF believe that a war crime was committed. Those responsible need to be held accountable for their actions: not only the air crew, but their commanders as well.

Take a look at the video and see what this local green space means to people: https://youtu.be/q6LHopGajd4

‘The Home Office estimates that 14,273 women and girls in Bristol have been a victim of domestic abuse in the past year’ (Bristol Ideal: 2015). For the women who have to flee from domestic abuse there are some fantastic support networks in Bristol that supply ‘emergency’, ‘temporary’ accommodation in safe houses and women’s refuges. I myself was living within a safe house in Bristol with my one year old son when I started this petition. It took me almost a year to move out and that is relatively quick as many women I left behind have been there 2 years and counting. Currently women and families living in temporary housing that need help from social housing to move on are not given priority. This petition is to get Bristol City Council to change the banding criteria to put vulnerable women and children into the highest band, Band 1. Despite being officially classed as homeless and at risk, the current highest banding we can be put into is Band 2. Not all women even get up to Band 2! This petition has got us some great attention and coverage and the issue was out to Bristol City Council in March as a motion to change the banding. A vote was taken and we got a unanimous yes vote. We thought we had won and the change would be made. Unfortunately politics is never that simple. The then mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson, did not action the motion so it was not put through. As the local councillor and mayoral elections were coming up we knew we would not see a change happen till after May. So continuing to campaign we attended mayoral hustings, posed questions on radio programmes and used social media to reach out to all the mayoral candidates to give a response to this band change. All were extremely positive about making this change and promised to see it happen. Marvin Rees, the new mayor of Bristol, went as far as putting it into his campaign manifesto to become mayor. Now he is in power, and has been for over 100 days, we still have not seen the band change! So now we are calling on him to make good on his promise and help save many lives. With the startling, but sadly well known, statistic that on average 2 women per week are killed nationally as a result of domestic abuse, it’s time more action was taken to improve services. Bristol City Council needs to give priority banding to re house survivors of domestic abuse to literally save lives. According to Women’s Aid (online), ‘the most dangerous time for a woman is when she is trying to escape her abuser’. Having to wait months to get into emergency accommodation is not good enough. Having to wait years to get out of emergency accommodation is not good enough. Please sign this petition to make Marvin Rees stick to his promise and make this important change ! Thank You. Reference Links: http://www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic_violence_topic.asp?section=0001000100220036§ionTitle=Statistics http://www.bristolideal.org.uk/domestic-and-sexual-violence/

It is of national importance that the renewal of Trident as a nuclear 'deterrent' should be put forward to the people of Britain. Using clear and concise language the arguments for and against its renewal should be debated and presented to the public so that they can make an informed decision about whether they wish to renew Trident or not. Trident's renewal is not an issue that can be decided by parliamentarians on our behalf, it does require the unequivocal support of the people, via direct democracy. Any decision that would have direct implications on our nation's present and future, to the extent that renewing our nuclear capabilities has, is of the highest importance and should only be decided on a one person one vote basis.

The Financial Conduct Authority recently dropped it's review into Banking Culture, reportedly under alleged Government pressure (or leaning) as reported by the BBC., however this is denied by the treasury. I ask that we pressure the government to reinstate the review. McDonnell said: “This will be a huge blow to customers and taxpayers who are all still paying the price for the failed culture in the banking sector that’s been widely attributed to be among the main causes of the crash and the scandals over Libor and price-fixing.” He said the FCA was making a “dangerous and costly mistake”. “The chancellor therefore cannot stay silent on this issue. It’s time he used his influence to keep this review going. Otherwise he’s letting down the rest of us who bailed the banks out and also allowing a signal to be sent to carry on regardless. Given the scale and severity of the failings in the financial sector and the criminal behaviour shown by some banks, the scrapping of the FCA’s review into banking culture sends the wrong message at the wrong time,”. Also The review was included in the FCA’s business plan for 2015, but was dropped after an initial assessment found it difficult to compare different cultures inside banks. The decision to abandon the review follows the resignation of the FCA chief executive, Martin Wheatley, after the chancellor forced him out in July. A permanent replacement has not been named to take over from Wheatley, who had flagged his tough stance towards the industry by warning he would shoot first and ask questions later.

RUPERT MURDOCH is expected to launch a bid for the 61 per cent of Sky he does not own. This would be a disaster for the UK. If he succeeds his media penetration will approach Berlusconi levels of domination. His previous attempt to take over Sky in 2011 was thwarted at the last minute by the revelation that the News of the World hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. If he gets total control of Sky, Murdoch will quickly start the process of turning it into a UK version of the despicable Fox network in the US. This would be the equivalent of the Sun on our TV screens. Currently, Ofcom keeps a tight rein on UK broadcasters - in stark contrast to the poodle-like press "watchdog" IPSO. But Murdoch now has David Cameron and his culture secretary John Whittingdale on side. Cameron has made it clear in the past that he thinks Ofcom is too powerful. This 38degress petition is part of The People v Murdoch campaign launched by the investigative website Press Gang. Already we've written to Ofcom chief executive Sharon White asking her to launch an inquiry. Read more in the Press Gang article http://wp.me/p3kXx7-dY This is a key battleground — the stakes could not be higher. If Ofcom deems Murdoch unfit, then he'll be forced to give up control of the 39 per cent of Sky. The empire would start to unravel ... The clock is ticking — please sign the petition!

For recreation, and access to the very few walking areas around here, for general quality of life; this is not a city!

Currently many members of his Wadebridge West believe he is not fulfilling his council duties while he serves as a Westminster member of parliament.

The future of NHS is a source of worry for a great swathe of the population. A huge majority of Doctors, experts and professionals linked with the NHS, see Jeremy Hunt's plans as a destructive force for a public service we all hold so dear. Many of his stats (such as the 20% increased likelihood of dying from a stroke at the weekend) have been called out as incorrect by those within the industry. As well as false media claims that those involved are quaffing champagne, whilst one doctor's payslip recently proved that it is possible to be paid as little as £2.61 an hour currently. The NHS is an important part of British culture and seen by many as one of the proudest achievements of Western democracy. The fact that it has currently been dragged into a slagging match at a national level, isn't the correct way to deal with such an issue. As it is a public service, and one that the public not only relies on but also holds in such high regard, the facts should be made public, with both sides allowed a say. Mr Hunt should show he holds the NHS is the same high regard as the public, by treating this situation with the respect it deserves and having an open public debate about these important issues.

I have seen more and more so called reporters think they can throw out any type of fabricated story... even if its racist and has no real truth to the people of great britain without first thinking about the british public and the impact of how the global community will see how the british media are behaving in the war to warp the minds and hearts of the day to day british citizen, through racist propaganda. i am now sick and tired of seeing good decent british men / women and families having to be branded a nation of racist bigots by what i call ''fascist dictator reporters'' . To demonize a people ( west papuans ) who as you all read this are being quietly murdered in a planed genocide , no thanks to the lack of intervention from the e.u. and u.s. would like you all to sign this petition to collectively as a strong british nation, eject nick parker out of his job and to give a real true investigative reporter the chance to make the global community see how great britain still is great... and not just a nation of racist ignorant fools that eat any type of racist propaganda and redress the balance of proper reporting. As a shining example of a true great nation that is fair and balanced in our reports on other nations. Please sign this petition and help me put the great back in british journalism / reporting

Second Edit - and here we are again. Unfortunately this time, on Friday 20th September 2024 I have been informed another pupil from Outwood Academy Adwick has been knocked down. I am unsure of his condition but I'm told it has warranted the services of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Enough is enough.  It's high time Ros Jones and Doncaster Council listened to it's residents. This road would be a challenge for anyone to cross, let alone a child. Something needs doing. And it needs doing NOW.  Edit - we are now in February 2023, 7 years on from the original petition and yesterday (23/02/23) yet another Outwood Academy pupil was knocked down on the A638. Fortunately, this child seems to have escaped with cuts and bruises.  The reality of the situation is simple. There are more houses and businesses than in 2016 which will have increased pedestrian footfall crossing this road (new housing on the site of Brodsworth Colliery, Next, B&Q, Asda warehouses increasing capacity and workforce) and less people are using public transport post COVID and choose to drive to thier daily commute.  Some kind of crossing is desperately needed on this stretch of road. The council need to act now before one of these incidents proves fatal. I have changed the Chief Exec name on the petition. The rest remains the same.  Today (13.01.2016) and in November 2015, two children in two separate incidents have been knocked down on the busy A638 dual carriageway outside Outwood Academy Adwick in Woodlands, Doncaster. The situation could be remedied with a crossing, the cost of which would be far less than the potential disaster that is waiting to happen, the cost of a child seriously injured or worse. We call upon the Ros Jones, Damien Allen and council to ensure our children are able to walk safely to and from school without the risk of being run over.