• Make Brighton and Hove's air cleaner
    The negative health consequences of high air pollution are well documented and the current draft plan will not address this significant problem. The interventions needed to achieve this in our city are clear. Our goals should be in line with WHO guidelines and that of London boroughs of 10 ug/m (NO2). The rolling out of an extended ULEZ (Ultra-Low Emissions zone), the bus only ULEZ, Zero Emission Zones and a Smoke Control Area all need to be implemented immediately. We need solutions that encourage less through traffic, while encouraging pedestrian and cycle access alongside long-term plans for a zero emissions transport network. We need clear interim targets for every year of the action plan to ensure that we do not continue to fail at the implementation of this ambitious but necessary plan. Pollution levels in our city have been illegally high for too many years. There are many interventions available to B&H to tackle air pollution but the current draft is vague on these actions and omits many significant opportunities. The failure to create a robust and enforceable plan risks the continuation of the associated health harm, suffering and death that the large body of scientific evidence shows is already occurring in the city.
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  • Slow down in Fairfield's!
    We understand that the council will consider this and that one of the requirements to make that change happen is for their to be evidence that residents want to see it happen.
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  • Ban balloon and paper lantern releases
    These types of releases are becoming ever more popular, but have devastating consequences for wildlife. Celebrations of a life should not come at the expense of harming those of another! Please join us by signing and sharing this petition widely, thank you.
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    Created by Laura Edie
  • Stop sending pensioners from London to poverty strapped county of Cornwall
    Cornwall cannot afford to serve as a satellite town for London anymore. Historically, we have utilized large Council Estates and housing for this purpose. Today, in 2022, Cornwall is facing a housing crisis, with residents receiving 33% less pay than the national average for services. Recent mortality rates from our primary hospital, Treliske, and Southwest Ambulance services have been alarmingly high. The region is experiencing long wait times, staff shortages, and limited facilities to accommodate the expanding population. In light of these challenges, how can Livewest justify this current situation?
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  • Please fix the Market House junction
    Many people have told us that they find this junction to be scary, and some people avoid the area with their bikes. This is due to a slippery and very uneven surface making it difficult to properly steer a cycle and hand signal. This is especially so when vehicles are in conflict with cyclist's movements. We know that people have sustained injuries, either due to other vehicles hitting them or by slipping and sustaning a broken limb. By ignoring this danger for vulnerable road users for so many years, SWT and SCC are both in breach of their 'duty of care'. Yet it is the heart of town routes that people wish to use. It is one of the 15 hotspots from our 2016 user survey. It is part of the SWT proposed Vivary Park-Station route. Without greater safety here, this route will not be effective. Here are just a few of the many dozens of comments that we have recieved: 'Death trap as it’s so wobbly. Never risked going round in the rain.' 'The cobbles are so bumpy and dangerously slippery in wet weather and makes it impossible to signal to other motorists where you are exiting. Both hands need to be on the handlebars to be able to maintain control of the bike.' 'The cobbles and ridges between mean that the bike wheel gets stuck in the ruts and therefore difficult to steer. Need to hold very tight to handle-bars - therefore impossible to make signals to other road users. Also very prone to wobbling across the traffic because to the ruts.' 'The cobbles are dangerous as I feel that my tyres will slip, especially in wet weather. Also, the jolting on my bike is uncomfortable and painful. I try to avoid cycling on this part whenever possible.' 'vibration through seat handle bars for no suspension bike. Also bad for walkers on carnival night' 'MotorBike tires slide during wet weather' We supported previous Somerset West and Taunton Council's High St Fund bid which included funding to provide a safer surface for cycling at the junction. We were in discussion with SWT on how this would be designed, for several of years. Now SWT's successor , Somerset Council,  say they have pulled this project This is a major let down. They are pulling the scheme because bus priority measures are being considered for East Reach and this might affect the Market St roundabout (although buses currently use the junction in all directions without issues).  Given that the Council has pulled the scheme, they should at least carry out urgent repairs to make it safe. This should include filling the gaps between the cobbles, repairing the subsiding areas and making the surface less slippery in the wet. Somerset Council is in breach of a clear 'duty of care' to cyclists and motor cyclists  in failing to maintain a safe surface on the roundabout.
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  • Fix The Roads and Pavements of Castle Point
    The roads and pavements of the Castle Point area of Essex have been neglected for years. Many defects have been reported and the response to the poor state of the roads and pavements has been woeful. These defects are a serious danger to the people of Castle Point and those who travel around the area. Millions of pounds are sent to ECC from Castle Point Council tax payers each year but the effort put into repairs to roads and pavements in Castle Point is totally inadequate. There needs to be a rapid improvement and much more transparency around record keeping by ECC so progress can be measured. Bland reassurances that all is well when clearly it is not are not acceptable. This situation must be rectified. The safety of road and pavement users in Castle Point is being put at risk because of poor maintenance. This is not acceptable.
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  • West Bromwich Albion FC: Kick gambling ads out of football!
    My name's Mike and I've been an Albion fan since I was taken to the Hawthorns in April 2000 to see us draw 4-4 against Bolton, I was only 6 years old. I'm 27 now (soon to be 28) and the last 21 years I've followed Albion through some amazing highs and crushing lows. We have always been a club of inclusion, we are family-orientated trailblazers, unapologetically loud and a founding club of the modern game. We are a beacon of what is and should be right within football, which is why I am asking our club to sever all ties with the promotion of gambling. I am becoming increasingly concerned with the prevalence of gambling promotion and sponsorship within the game we all love, and unfortunately our own baggies are not immune to this. When I got my first mobile phone I chose T-mobile as my network provider, somehow feeling I was supporting West Brom through doing so, such is the power of advertisement. We have had previous gambling shirt sponsors, the advertising hoardings around the Hawthorns is full of gambling adverts, our social media includes a gambling company on our HT/FT scores and we play in a league sponsored by a gambling company. I have seen some of my closest friends, whom I have known since childhood, struggle through gambling addiction and lose 10's of thousands of pounds. Thankfully, they are still here today, but a frightening number of gambling addicts unfortunately take their own life. I am NOT anti-gambling, but I absolutely AM against the now almost synonymous link between gambling and football, these two do not belong hand in hand. There are 409 deaths related to gambling every year in England alone and a YouGov study from this year shows that 2.9 million people are either already addicted or at risk of being so, with a further 3.3 million classified as “affected others”. These stark figures show what we already know: gambling harm is not an issue affecting just a small minority, it is severely harming – sometimes killing – many. To prevent any young fan from experiencing what my close friends and so many others did, I'm urging West Bromwich Albion FC to cancel all gambling partnerships, say no to any new offers, and back The Big Step campaign.
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  • Chelsea FC: Kick Gambling Ads Out of Football!
    My name is Steve and though my own lived experience of dealing with a relative who has been impacted by gambling harms I am now supporting the Big Step campaign for football to end it's toxic relationship with gambling. There are 409 deaths related to gambling every year in England alone and a YouGov study from this year shows that 2.9 million people are either already addicted or at risk of being so, with a further 3.3 million classified as “affected others”. These stark figures show what we already know: gambling harm is not an issue affecting just a small minority, it is severely harming – sometimes killing – many. To prevent any young fan from experiencing what our family and so many others have, I'm urging Chelsea FC to cancel all gambling partnerships, say no to any new offers, and back The Big Step campaign.
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  • Wolves FC: Kick gambling ads out of football!
    We lost our son Jack to gambling-related suicide in 2017. He was just 24 years old. Jack was a bright, popular, charismatic, and confident young man with his life ahead of him but gambling took that away from him. Gambling was his only problem - he was not vulnerable in any conventional sense of the word. He was a huge football fan and no doubt the harmful relationship between gambling and his favourite sport contributed to his addiction, including times when he was trying to cut down or stop. Gambling advertising in football and elsewhere is risking the health and the lives of millions of young people. I've been a fan of Wolves all my life but I struggle to support a club that continues to promote something so harmful - something that we know that can lead to death. I welcome that this season the club has finally moved away from a shirt-front gambling sponsor, but this is pointless in isolation as there is now a gambling company on the shirt sleeve and the club has other advertising partnerships with the industry. It has to stop, alongside an end to all gambling promotions inside Molineaux and around our pitch. After Jack's death, my wife and I co-founded and now co-chair Gambling with Lives, a charity representing and supporting a community of bereaved families. All of the young people that the families have lost to gambling suicides were bright, popular and happy people like Jack, but with just one problem: addiction to gambling. This suicide risk is real and substantial: recently Public Health England estimated that there are 409 gambling related suicides every year in England alone. A YouGov study from this year shows that 2.9 million people are either already addicted or at serious risk of being so, with a further 3.3 million classified as “affected others”. These stark figures show what we already know: gambling harm is not an issue affecting just a small minority, it is severely harming hundreds of thousands and killing hundreds every year. To prevent any other family from going through what ours and so many others have, I'm urging my club Wolves to cancel all gambling partnerships, say no to any new offers, and back The Big Step campaign to end all gambling advertising in football.
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  • Newcastle Utd: Kick gambling ads out of football!
    There are 409 deaths related to gambling every year in England alone, with the North East been the highest and a YouGov study from this year shows that 2.9 million people are either already addicted or at risk of being so, with a further 3.3 million classified as “affected others”. These stark figures show what we already know: gambling harm is not an issue affecting just a small minority, it is severely harming – sometimes killing – many. To prevent any young fan from experiencing what, I went through as attempting to take my own life and so many others did, I'm urging Newcastle Utd to cancel all gambling partnerships, say no to any new offers, and back The Big Step campaign
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  • Fulham FC: Kick gambling ads out of football!
    My name is Christopher Bilmes. I am recovering from addictions, including gambling, and have been in recovery for the last 13 years. I know first hand the effect that gambling has had on my own life, on the life of my family and my friends around me. It led to my bankruptcy and divorce, and to losing everything. It started innocently enough but, in time, got completely out of hand and I simply couldn't stop. Gambling companies have plenty of other places that they are visible (including on every high street in the country), but normalising something that is so potentially damaging, and having it as a partner for our club is not something Fulham FC should countenance any more. The decision to partner with a gambling company for the 2022/23 season is hugely disappointing and wrong. We don't promote cigarettes, we don't allow alcohol within the view of the pitch - and we shouldn't allow our team shirts and our club to be covered in the livery of a gambling sponsor. There are 409 deaths related to gambling every year in England alone and a YouGov study from this year shows that 2.9 million people are either already addicted or at risk of being so, with a further 3.3 million classified as “affected others”. These stark figures show what we already know: gambling harm is not an issue affecting just a small minority, it is severely harming – sometimes killing – many. To prevent any young fan from experiencing what I and so many others did, I'm urging Fulham FC to cancel all gambling partnerships, say no to any new offers, and back The Big Step campaign.
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  • Sheffield United FC: Kick gambling ads out of football
    There are 409 deaths related to gambling every year in England alone and a YouGov study from this year shows that 2.9 million people are either already addicted or at risk of being so, with a further 3.3 million classified as “affected others”. These stark figures show what we already know: gambling harm is not an issue affecting just a small minority, it is severely harming – sometimes killing – many. To prevent any young fan from experiencing what Jack Ritchie, a young man in the prime of his life and a keen Sheffield United supporter, and so many others did, I'm urging Sheffield United FC to cancel all gambling partnerships, say no to any new offers, and back The Big Step campaign
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    Created by Dave Campbell