Portslade has suffered for many years from being a poor relation to other parts of Brighton and Hove. Yet it has a vibrant and loyal local community. Change might be coming to Portslade from outside in the form of the Joint Area Action Plans for the port area. Setting up a Heritage Centre in the southern part of Portslade would bring regeneration to Portslade from within the community. A Heritage Centre will cater to all sections of the community – school children, adults, and older people. It would create a community resource and shared space and it could bring visitors into Portslade thus helping to grow the local economy.

The steel industry is recognised by the government as fundamental to a national industrial strategy. It feeds important high earning industries such as ship building, automotive, aeronautic, energy production, construction & transport. "The industry is highly efficient, innovative, investing in new equipment, has high skill/high pay jobs and exports high grade products globally" (Gareth Stace, Director UK Steel, Select Committee proceedings) Too many times in recent decades we have opted out of crucial activities to a point where our ability to service the country has suffered. No more opting out Mr Javid!! Sign this petition and show your support for the companies and workers who are vital to the UK's prosperity, and were rightly immortalised in the Olympic Opening Ceremony 2012.

Currently the NHS covers tuition fees and provides means-tested bursaries. If funding is taken away, future healthcare students will be expected to take out a loan to cover the tuition fee (at least £9000 per year) as well a maintenance loan to live on. UNISON have estimated that a nursing degree under this proposed system would place students in at least £50,000 of debt (excluding debt that they may have from any previous degree). With a starting nursing salary of £22,799 (currently capped at a 1% rise and not in line with the rising costs of living in the UK) it could take around 30 years to pay it off. This prospect would most certainly deter many from taking up these careers. Taking up part-time work is very difficult for nursing and other healthcare students due to long clinical hours. Student nurses have 37.5 hour placement weeks and often have childcare and other caring responsibilities on top of this. Any extra work would likely lead to tiredness and could potentially put patients in danger. Furthermore, the diversity of the NHS workforce would be greatly affected if the plans go ahead. We need people from all backgrounds in the health profession and not just those that can afford it or from a privileged background. Many of us who are current students would have been unable to take up the courses if we did not receiving the funding. Going ahead with the proposed plans would take away the opportunities for many people (particularly those from low income background) currently considering training in our much-needed healthcare professions. If the proposed plans go ahead this will be hugely detrimental to both potential healthcare students and to the NHS as a whole. There is an adjournment debate on Monday 14th December and debate on January 11th 2016. We hope to get as much support as possible so that these plans do not go ahead.

We have a right to ask where our money as tax payers is being spent, if it is funding second homes or undue expenses. Any change to restrict the Freedom of Information Act makes a mockery of it in total. Our MPs should be able to declare with pride that they are not misusing generous subsides and expenses.

We should always be able to find out what government and MP's are spending OUR money on ALWAYS WE TRUSTED YOU BEFORE AND YOU SPENT IT ON DUCK PONDS!

To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.

Many folk now live their lives around the internet and it would certainly involve more of the younger end of society in our democracy, who after all have a voice on the future of our country. An online voting system would surely produce a more accurate reflection of all the population.

Santander currently invests $1,675 million (US) in nuclear weapons. * Of the weapons of mass destruction that humankind has been confronted with, we have succeeded in outlawing biological and chemical weapons. Yet we have still to ban nuclear weapons although we know that it is the most destructive weapon invented so far. There are companies driving the industry and if the investment funds for them are cut off we will have struck a blow for a nuclear weapon free world. Financial institutions, by adopting public policies prohibiting investment in the nuclear weapons industry, actively demonstrate the stigma associated with these weapons of mass destruction. Institutions can and do decide to ban investments in the nuclear weapon industry, and that policies in the financial sector are an important contribution to the global debate on nuclear weapons. * From - http://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015_Report_web.pdf

His request is simple; he wants to speak to you Mr Cameron, to present you with scientific evidence and to show you the social opposition to fracking, particularly from Lancashire where he lives, but he also acts as a passionate green voice for many people in the UK who feel the same way. He isn't a scientist, or a powerful politician or a celebrity; he is a regular everyday bloke who believes fracking is a very bad idea - today (4/12/2015) is his 12th day without food. He wants to talk to you about the exponential growth of support from regular everyday folks who don't have a voice on the telly, the radio or in the papers, but who want you and our government to deliver renewable, sustainable, safe options to power our country. He just wants to talk to you Mr Cameron - go and see him! * * * Gayzer has no PR or media team, no YouTube channel or popular blog page to help raise his profile. Please show your support for his plight; he is your next-door neighbour, he is the voice in the supermarket queue, he is the one who is putting everything on the line to try to protect the future of all of our children.

Because Syrian lives matter.

For those with neurological-developmental disorders, including mild autism and autism without a disability, there are no specialised community services for adults with such disabilities. Social workers and doctors are dealing with those with more mild to moderate learning and neurological-developmental, including asperger syndrome and autism without a learning disability, but have no specialist resources, therapy, or idea on how to support these specific group of adults. I want all local social services and NHS teams through England and in all counties to give adults with autism and asperger syndrome an allocated social worker or doctor that is specifically specialised in long-term developmental disorders. But many people with this disabilities are ignored, given the wrong support, or are forgotton. So the all the government, social services, and MP's needs to implement specialised community teams for adults with long-term and mild to moderate developmental disorders, with specialised social workers, psychiatrists, and advocacy teams. At the moment, alot of high-functioning autistic adults get classed as having more emotional or mental problems, if they do not have a learning disability label on top of their autistic diagnosis - but many autistic adults are not mentally ill, they have a neurological developmental disorder. So the government needs to stop throwing autistic adults into the mental health sector teams and start opening up specialised teams through out the UK that only deal with autism related disorders, including asperger syndrome.. Some areas do have adult clinics for asperger syndrome and mild autism sufferers, but many areas don't - Derbyshire, as I know, do not offer specialised social services workers or NHS staff to adults with asperger syndrome. You can get diagnosed with asperger syndrome now, in Derbyshire, for example...but there are not specialised teams available, so some of us with asperger syndrome get allocated into the mental health system which is unfair, and this means we don't get the proper treatment.. So all local authorities needs to now step up and make it law that all counties must have specialised community teams through the UK and not just in certain parts of the country. So many adults with autism and asperger syndrome, especially those that cannot access learning disability teams, are being left out and not receiving adequate long-term support from their local nhs and social services team. Many autistic and asperger syndrome syndrome adults need more long-term and specialised support, in order to gain the community support that they deserve. This will mean that adults with asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism could access proper treatment and social care. If we could have proper social care teams and NHS clinics that offer specialised support tailored around all areas of the UK, then we could get the right to lead a normal and healthy life. This will improve the quality of families, adults affected with asperger syndrome and autism, and any money can be put into getting adults with aspergers/autism into a good cause.

It is important because the people voted in governments and the government refused to listen when the people from all over the United Kingdom calling for #NoWaronSyria and our voices were ignored.