The HIGH GROVE is the epitome of your friendly local pub and has been serving the Gatley estate for over 50 years. Our local pub is at the heart of the community. The pub is also the social hub of the area, providing local entertainment including regular quiz nights, evening events to raise money for local charities and hosting live televised sporting events. The pub is expected to close at the end of 2015 and we desperately need your help to save it. An application to register the High Grove as an Asset of Community Value has now been submitted to Stockport Council and will be heard at the Area Committee meeting on Sept 29th. The potential closure of the High Grove public house demonstrates how vulnerable communities are to speculative and aggressive development tactics, we need you to help us urge the Council to accept the application to list the pub immediately. This will ensure planning permission has to be sought and approved by the council for the pub to be demolished or converted to any other use. The listing also gives the community an opportunity to potentially come together to form a co-operative group to buy and run our local pub. Please sign the campaign and ask your neighbours to do also. Anyone you know who frequents the High Grove or lives in the Gatley and Cheadle area should also be asked to sign it. Protect our pubs from developers.

We the undersigned wish to express our concern that UNISON has not been given an opportunity to have a seat on the BBC 1 Question Time Panel over the last 5 years. Other Trade Union leaders have been given a seat on the Question Time Panel. Considering UNISON is the largest public sector union with 1.3 million members, this refusal to allow UNISON a chance to sit on this panel is unacceptable for a publicly funded broadcasting organisation. We are asking for a statement that the BBC rectify this omission and publicly announce that UNISON will be on future Question Time programmes.

It contains too much caffeine in it that can give potential harm to children. It changes the way the heart beats and drinking a can of energy drink is enough to give a child caffeine poisoning. A local shop sold it to my 8 year old daughter who also bought a can for my grandson aged 7 it states on the can NOT to be given to children OR pregnant women, shops are flouting the warnings on the can and still selling it to children of which should not happen, hence why I set up this petition.

My family members are scattered far and wide so basic email I can cope with after a lot of practise and I often don't understand instructions when a problem occurs. My name is unusual and I would prefer to be anonymous to the general public.

For the health and well being of all staff, also properly paid for the actual hours they work, when salaried they are getting well below the minimum wage Chefs have to work 12/16 hours a day and especially if they are Michelin starred, lack of sleep , lack of breaks and daily pressures have an extreme detrimental effect on them with lots of them turning to supplements (caffeine red bull pro plus) but also what is very common is amphetamines. This year I was made aware of a famous chef near London, where staff started at 6 and finished at 12/1. Some staff were even taking some of the veg up to their rooms to prep for the morning. There seems to be no rules governing hours and conditions in this industry. In France because of the unions chefs are only allowed to work 8 hours a day

Lets cut down on what goes into land fill, less to go into transporting of rubbish and better for environment.

The country is groaning under the weight of its obesity problem, with numbers of diet related diseases reaching epidemic proportions. The impact on the physical and mental well being of the population and the practical and financial cost to the NHS is an increasing concern. Removing the A 'level will further erode the status of food as a subject, it will become a vocational, craft option and uptake at GCSE by academic students will fall. It will be difficult to inspire the next generation of dieticians, nutritionists, food scientists and teachers. Trainee teachers will avoid specialising in a subject which lacks the job satisfaction and rigour of teaching sixth form and will become science teachers instead. Teaching hours and budgets will fall and there will be a shortage of specialist teachers to show children how to cook healthy, nutritious meals. The population will continue to turn to ready prepared convenience food and the spiral of obesity will continue completely unchecked. The government's response is that other routes exist for students wanting to pursue a career in catering - that is absolutely true - however these vocational courses do not provide a route for academic students through to university. They also say that Food Technology is not fit for purpose and again they are correct! Food technology was created 24 years ago to shoehorn food into the new Design & Technology suite, focusing on food as a material alongside paper, textiles and wood to design and make products for a profit. The sooner food is removed from Technology and celebrated for the multifaceted subject that it is, the better! A rigorous A ‘level which explores how to manipulate the physical and nutritional functions of food to create healthy dishes for a range of people would be invaluable for inspiring the next generation of nutritionists, dieticians and food teachers. It would also ensure there will be fully qualified food teachers ready to teach the next generation how and what to cook!

An import surcharge was imposed on solar panels some years ago, ostensibly to protect solar installation companies (presumably by trying to prevent people doing their own installations; the installation companies claimed this would damage their business (!)) The government is removing the subsidies provided for renewable energy installations. My belief is that if they're doing this then the surcharge on solar panel imports should also be removed. If the government is genuinely committed to the introduction of renewables then the import surcharge should be removed, especially as the government is drastically reducing subsidies on renewables. The surcharge was aimed primarily at Chinese imports... somewhat odd as the building of new nuclear power stations is now going to involve Chinese companies to a great extent.

Some ex pat are living in misery because of this ruling.

This is an important environmental issue to help save the planet and reduce landfill and make crisp and snack providers responsible for waste they indirectly create.

It is coming up to that time of year again when fireworks will be sold in shops for the general public to buy. After hearing of too many horrific stories which include fireworks which involve pranks which may of gone wrong and fireworks used for animal abuse, I have decided to try and make fireworks illegal once and for all. Fireworks are an explosive and I don't think they should be on sale for the general public to purchase, make fireworks illegal unless at an organised firework display.

The 2 convenience shops in my village of Lochinver (IV27)are expensive & limited to what they can sell. I myself am disabled and cannot drive,as a lot of other people in the various communities around Sutherland don't have time to go driving 37miles to Ullapool (Tesco) or Tesco & Asda in Tain or Dingwall,approx 50-60miles away !!Even if people could get one of only 2 buses a day to Tesco,Ullapool,its not possible to get frozen products home in sufficient time.I have lived in another village in past years with a longer distance than where I have been now for 4 yes,it's EXTREMELY UNFAIR, especially when they charge for delivery anyway,it's not a free service we need.