Statistics published by the ONS in July 2016 show that the mortality rate in England and Wales increased by 5.7% in 2015. This was equivalent to an extra 27,000 deaths, the biggest annual rise since 1968. Rates were notably higher at ages 75 and over for both males and females in 2015 compared with 2014. In fact, the death rate has increased year on year since 2011 (with the exception of a 1.1% fall in 2014), indicating the reversal of a long term trend of falling death rates which began in the 1970s. Danny Dorling, an Oxford University professor and an adviser to Public Health England, said: “When we look at 2015, we are not just looking at one bad year. We have seen excessive mortality - especially among women - since 2012 ….. I suspect the largest factor here is cuts to social services - to meals on wheels, to visits to the elderly …” Social services budgets have been badly affected by reduced grants from central government, which have been cut by 36% since 2011. Furthermore, as noted by the Guardian (14th November 2015): “Councils in northern, urban cities and London boroughs with high levels of deprivation predominantly run by Labour have seen their budgets cut by almost 10 times the amount lost by mostly Tory-administered authorities in rural southern England.” The precedent for a UN inquiry into violations of human rights caused by government spending cuts was established in October 2015, when, at a closed hearing in London, the UN launched an investigation into alleged violations of disabled people’s human rights in the UK. The inquiry’s findings will be published in 2017.

Are you going to be fit enough to work until your 70 years of age? Also remember, longevity could shorten over the coming years. Finding work for the younger of us could become more and more difficult in future years as technology races on. We should be thinking and working on how we are going to look after the increasing population in general, young and senior while jobs for all of us us are decreasing. Lastly it's not a good idea to think this isn't important to you at the moment. Because I can assure you it is. So, please sign now and protect your future years!

Are you going to be fit enough to work until your 70 years of age? Also remember, longevity could shorten over the coming years. Finding work for the younger of us could become more and more difficult in future years as technology races on. We should be thinking and working on how we are going to look after the increasing population in general while jobs for us are decreasing. Lastly it's not a good idea to think this isn't important to you at the moment. Because I can assure you it is. So, please sign now and protect your future years.

Online gambling operators need to individually adhere to rules in line with the Gambling Commision. We believe it is important to provide a single point where gambling can be controlled in order to prevent gambling addicts accessing online services in the effective way possible.

A 71% male to 29% female ratio of elected Westminster MPs is shamefully unrepresentative of gender ratio in society as a whole. Such a gender imbalance sends out the wrong signal to our children, that unless you look and sound just like a clone of Margaret Thatcher, then you've zero to one in 64.1 million chance of making it to PM of our country. If a bigger building is required don't forget the 71% male dominated Westminster Parliament voted in favour of Trident renewal costing the tax payer an estimated £120 billion. So anything is possible no matter how ridiculous it seems at face value.

|I is important that women who have worked all their lives deserve to enjoy some quality time with their families without any financial worries

We have experienced several severe weather events in recent years, including gales, heavy and prolonged snowfall, and flooding. Any event of this sort, as well as being potentially hazardous for us all (and especially for anyone making a journey) places the communication systems under stress. Mobile phone systems are commendably reliable, but are always dependent on continued operation of the base station. The key to making systems resilient in the most severe conditions is duplication - in this case the land line system as well as the mobiles. For someone in difficulty or travelling, a phone call at the right time can avoid an emergency, or worse, later. BT propose to close many of the phone boxes in the county. The list shows 73 boxes to be closed in South Lakeland, 40 of them within the Lake District National Park. Many more boxes are to be closed in other districts of Cumbria, both inside and outside the Lake District. This will leave us without public phones for long distances in hilly rural areas. In cases of difficulty or emergency, the phones are an important part of our diverse communication system - they need to be kept operating if only for this reason.

Another example of the deficiencies of the regulator essentially shifting blame and their own shortcoming on to these practitioners who very bravely risked their own lives in treating ebola patients. These wonderful nurses and human beings should be honoured and deeply respected not persecuted, its an absolute disgrace. Its about time this injustice was recognised and put right please speak up on their behalf

The Home Office state the IPCC are the only way to hold the police to account. It is of concern that the IPCC are able to block a complaint relating to serious police corruption. As a result of this the police are able to act without fear of prosecution and innocent people are locked up. The IPCC blocked my complaint presented by Simon Kirby MP regarding senior police officers who lied when they stated my brother, Alex, stabbed a police officer in the chest with a very large kitchen knife. The case was dropped when it was proved the large knife to be a small mobile phone. The 'stabbed' Officer, facing near death, became a media hero and received an award. Alex served 15 months in a high security prison awaiting trial. Campaign site includes IPCC complaint, full story, evidence and letters by senior police officers. See 'Brighton Scandal' CAMPAIGN SITE. http://brightonscandal.org.uk/

It would settle the current speculation and uncertainty at this crucial pre-Brexit time, about the role and influence the UK government would hope Mr Farage would be able to wield in an important resource-rich part of the USA, where doubtless his persuasion will secure important non-EU, non-TIPP trade deals for the UK. We also believe he would find the political climate, if not the physical, much to his liking, and he could also stand watch against the climate-change brigade in a key geographical area.

The licence fee is and always has been the source of BBC independence from government interference. If our public service broadcaster has to cow tow to government for its survival, news broadcasts may become biased towards government policy instead of critical.

Children's hospitals are getting bombed in Aleppo. There is a world wide refugee crisis. People are drowning trying to escape from Syria. Children are going missing en route to refuge and losing their parents on the way. This atrocious war has gone on long enough!