* Steel is a strategic material. Without it we cannot exist on our own, supply our own industries, fight a war if the worst occurred. * Skilled jobs are being lost, these skills may not come back and our industrial future is in peril * Families are suffering, far better to assist the companies in the short term than pay dole to the redundant workers. * Britain needs to look to the long term industrial future like Germany and support its industries.

Recent studies in Sweden have shown that a 6 hour working day is optimal in terms of productivity and physical and mental health.

Creating the 172 acre business park will mean wiping out green fields, businesses and a restaurant. Bayhorne Farm is a 72 acre farm - currently a well established and large Equestrian centre, the only one left in Horley and just one of the many green areas which will be destroyed and build on! If this plan goes ahead many people will lose their businesses, livelihoods, farm land, and homes. Not to mention the impact to the environment and wildlife! Bayhorne Farm has been farmed by 6 generations of the Whittaker Family - due to recent developments it is now the last remaining SCC farmed land left in Horley. Not only will the development plans create a substantial flood risk to the local area which is prone to flooding - it will be catastrophic to the large arrays of local wildlife who call the farm land and Bayhorne home, some of which are protected, such as, Badgers, Deers, Geese, Owls, Hedgehogs, Adders, many species of Birds, Bats, and other animals. Many of these animals return to Bayhorne EVERY year to the same areas of the farm. We have also been contacted by neighbouring residents who said they have confirmed crested newts. The farm has a large quantity of Bluebells which are protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The farm is also home to a listed building, and the land has an historical interest too. The people of Horley have voiced their opinion - they do not want yet more developments, they want to preserve the very reason they love Horley - the countryside and its heritage - keeping the small town rural feel rather than bulldozing all of the green open spaces we have and replacing them with yet more concrete! Utilise the existing empty commercial spaces. Help us to #KeepHorleyGreen and help us petition against these plans! Find us on Facebook @ Keep Horley Green.

David Cameron announced we’ll welcome 20,000 more Syrian refugees. But there’s a catch. This will take 5 years, leaving thousands of refugees in limbo. It’s now up to us to show that in cities, towns and villages all across the country we’re ready to welcome people now. Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome

There is no need for the risk! If you're going to drink, have somebody else drive. In 2013, 260 people were killed and 1,100 were seriously injured as a result of drink driving. More than 70,000 people every year are caught drink driving. If you fail a roadside breath test and are found guilty of drink driving, you may get: six months in prison, an unlimited fine, a driving ban for at least 12 months, a criminal record. Effects of alcohol on driving: Any amount of alcohol affects your judgement and your ability to drive safely. You may not notice the effects but even a small amount of alcohol can: reduce your co-ordination, slow down your reactions, affect your vision, affect how you judge speed and distance, make you drowsy. Alcohol can also make you more likely to take risks, which can create dangerous situations for you and other people. How long do the effects last? Alcohol takes time to leave your body. For example: if you drink at lunchtime, you may be unfit to drive in the evening, if you drink in the evening, you may be unfit to drive the next morning.

St Erth is a characterful, one pub, one shop small village and cannot cope with any further development. With this new development By 3MS Construction on Green lane off Church street, St Erth is now developed to capacity. The ancient bridge over the River Hayle on Tredrea lane will be damaged by construction traffic. Traffic egress from St Erth is difficult, very difficult at busy times. The small village roads are not suitable for heavy/large vehicles. We must stop St Erth becoming another urban sprawl.

It has never been clear since the dawn of the digital downloads era and we, the artists, often earn a very little income from selling a good amount of our music works which cost us a lot of time, love and money. It is important because the music industry is in crisis because of greedy companies like these (Deezer and others). Whilst I am a full time working musician, working hard and struggling to survive, these people and their employees which little have to do with music, make 20 times our profit just by addressing the products WE create, somewhere. ITunes for instance has a much fairer share of the profits with the artists who sell on it. I am a music producer, band leader of a successful Funk band, having sold 1715 copies of my first album on spotify and having earned 5.4€ from it sounds rather offensive. This is not the way the music business should go as they are killing the arts and the art of recording albums. I shall make my money back from the works I sell, not funding my music through borrowed money. We demand a fairer share of these streamed music deals, because in the past they've promised that they would give us more when they'd have more subscribers. Spotify accounts for 20 million active users and still pays artists around 0.002 pence per stream. This has to come to an end!

More than 1 million voters have already dropped off the UK electoral register and another 7 million could follow after the 2015 election, according to the Guardian. If nothing is done, the election results will be distorted. Many renters and students will be excluded from voting because they change address more often than the rest of the population. This is your chance to make democracy work better in all our interests by signing this petition. Thank you.

He has brought the sport of rugby into disrepute with his disrespectful behaviour following the Scotland v Australia quater final match at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Southwark Council has a new policy about tree planting: that no trees are to be planted on pavements less than 2.1m wide, excluding the kerb. That is, as you'll see if you take your tape measure outside, a pretty wide pavement; most of our residential streets are narrower. Many of those streets already have trees on them. These trees are beloved parts of the neighbourhood: they freshen the environment, add beauty through the seasons, and make London feel a better place for people to live and thrive. The trouble is, Southwark's policy means that if any of these much-loved trees get damaged, vandalised or diseased, the Council is now simply cutting them down, rooting them out and paving over where they used to be, leaving behind a sadder, duller street. It's one thing to say that you won't plant new trees - though many of us would be happy to see more trees even in narrow streets - but quite another to say you won't replace old ones that were seen as a popular adornment, not a nuisance, by the people who actually lived in the area. We love these trees, and when they die, we mourn them. Refusing to replace them doesn't make the neighbourhoods more convenient: it impoverishes them, and probably decreases the value of our property as well. Southwark Council, we are asking you to do the right thing for people and for nature and change your policy so that trees that meet with misfortunes can be replaced even if they were growing in the smaller streets. We, the people who live in these streets, want the trees. Please hear us.

The findings of SFCA funding impact survey report 2015 indicates the future of Sixth Form Colleges in England is under serious threat as a result of Government cuts to the sector’s funding. Many Sixth Form College leaders fear for the future of their students and their institutions - 70% do not believe the amount of funding they are likely to receive in 2016 will be sufficient to provide students with a high quality education, and 83% do not believe it will enable them to provide the support required by students that are educationally or economically disadvantaged. Almost all leaders (96%) are either extremely concerned or concerned about the financial health of their college and strikingly, more than a third (36%), reported that it was either extremely likely or likely that their college will cease to be a going concern by 2020. The survey also indicates that 72% of Sixth Form Colleges have had to drop courses as a result of the three funding cuts imposed since 2011. Over a third of Sixth Form Colleges (39%) have been forced to drop courses in modern foreign languages, with A levels in German, Spanish and French the main casualties. Almost a quarter of colleges (24%) have cut STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths). More than three quarters of colleges (76%) have reduced or removed the extra-curricular activities available to students including sport, music and drama, and educational visits. In total, 81% of colleges are now teaching students in larger class sizes as a result of the funding cuts. The report also questions the Government’s policy of reducing the number of Sixth Form Colleges while expanding the number of school and academy sixth forms – despite evidence they are less effective and less efficient than Sixth Form Colleges. Commenting on the report, James Kewin, Deputy Chief Executive said: “This report highlights the damage to students caused by the three funding cuts imposed on Sixth Form Colleges since 2011. The sector cannot survive on starvation rations, and without more investment, Sixth Form Colleges will be unable to provide young people with the high quality education they need to progress to higher education and employment. “The Government should conduct an urgent review of funding across all stages of education and end the funding inequalities that exist between Sixth Form Colleges and school/academy sixth forms – particularly the absence of a VAT refund scheme that, according to our report, left the average Sixth Form College with £317,964 less to spend on the front line education of students last year.”

Tax credits are used to boost the wages of low income workers and act as a vital lifeline for many working families struggling to make ends meet. My daughter is a junior doctor with a two year-old and a disabled partner. Child care is so expensive, so she has to work part time, and rent is so high, so her family rely on tax credits. It's absurd that a young junior doctor and her family should face poverty because of the withdrawal of tax credits. And that's exactly what's happening under the current government. My daughter’s family is beleaguered on all fronts. This is the kind of hard-working family that the Tories talk about and the kind that society wants. So why the punishment? It's going to mean that they can't buy shoes for their two-year old, or food, it's as bad as that. I can see a scenario where they'll be going to their local food bank, and that just doesn't make sense, that you can work so hard and be faced with going to a food bank. I wonder how the public would feel if the doctor treating them for a heart attack had been queuing for a food bank earlier that day? She's doing life-saving work with all the extra stress of poverty.