• reforest britian
    Nature needs a helping hand and. This campaign could get communities together help climate and create places for wildlife. To much of our forested land. Is commercial and is poor for nature On highlandsnwe lost our scrub overgrazing again. So when rains the waternos not absorbed therfor runs off floods low lying areas so planting forests in right areas would reduce flooding too
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    Created by carl holmes
  • Using phone while driving
    Hands-Free Mobile Phones Unfortunately, in RoSPA's view, this law does not ban the use of hands-free mobile phones. Although the government accepts the evidence that using a hands-free phone while driving distracts the driver and increases the risk of an accident, they do not think a hands-free ban would be enforceable. RoSPA disagrees. Drivers should also note that the existing law requiring drivers to be in proper control of their vehicle, or careless or dangerous driving laws can be applied to driving while using a hands-free phone, if the police believe the nature of the driving warrants it. Despite the law and the dangers, a proportion of drivers persist in using their mobiles while driving. Surveys conducted in 2009 found that 2.9% of car drivers, and 5% of van and lorry drivers, were talking on either a hand-held or hands-free mobile phone. As can be seen in the graphs below, the use of hand-held mobile phones by drivers reduced after the introduction of the law in 2003, then gradually rose gain, before decreasing when the penalty was increased in 2007 (marked with vertical black lines). Unfortunately, the number of drivers using hand-held and hands-free mobile phones has been increasing steadily since mid 2007. 1 Trends in Hand-held and Hands-free Mobile Phone Use by Car, Van & Lorry Drivers (Weekdays) The Definition of Driving Under existing law a person may be regarded as "driving" a vehicle while the engine is running and the vehicle is stationary. The offence applies to all motor vehicles, including motorcycles, but not apply to pedal cycles. Hopefully this will stop people from using there phones etc while driving and it would cut down on accidents and injuries and deaths.Mobile phones are biggest cause of road fatalities DRIVERS admit their concen­tration is disturbed by passengers but the deadliest distraction is the mobile phone. By JOHN INGHAM PUBLISHED: 00:01, Tue, Jul 22, 2014 Department for transport, car crash, car deaths mobile phones, on phone whilst driving, driving with phone, texting whilst driving, phone driving death figures show that mobile phones are biggest accident risk. The biggest in-car cause of fatalities is motorists texting, tweeting and taking calls. An AA poll of 18,000 members found 38 per cent had been distracted by other people, radios, phones and sat-navs in the past 12 months. Of the nearly 7,000 who admitted losing concentration, 548 reported a near-miss and 106 had crashed. Eighteen per cent said adult passengers were most at fault, 14 per cent blamed children, 13 per cent took their eye off the road to twiddle with their sat-nav and 12 per cent their mobile phone. Of the 88 deaths caused by distractions in 2012, 17 were due to mobile use Department for Transport Official figures show mobile phones pose the biggest accident risk to drivers. The Department for Transport said that of 88 deaths caused by distractions in 2012, 17 were due to mobile use – a higher death rate than other in-car causes. Last week Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin hinted the penalty points for using a hand-held phone at the wheel could be doubled to six. Millions of us are breaking the law on texting at wheel of the car, AA president Edmund King, called for “smart” features on in-car devices to block them from use at the wheel, adding: “The higher kill rate for mobile phone-related reported accidents provides a strong wake-up call.”
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    Created by Terry Murphy
  • ALDI - Please re-stock QUORN products
    ALDI customers - who are vegetarians should be able to obtain quality QUORN products from their shop and not have to settle for the sub-standard tasteless product that you have replaced it with.
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    Created by Graham Dixon Picture
  • Ban Automatic Reciept Printers
    Only a very small % of receipts are required by consumers, the vast majority are thrown straight in the bin either by the cashier or the consumer. This is a huge waste of paper not to mention all the other resources that are required for production and distribution of these receipt rolls. Requiring a simple prompt to find out whether the consumer wants a receipt printed is a common sense way to reduce our collective waste.
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    Created by Emyr Hopkins Picture
  • VW Emissions Scandal
    It seems that big business just thinks it can get away with cheating the system. The UK Government introduced the new road tax system to encourage us to drive more efficient and clean engined vehicles. Customers who buy these vehciles do so for many reasons but for a multi national, multi billion pound company to so blatently cheat the system is wrong and they should be penalised sufficiently so that they do not do it again. They are very sorry so they say, so very sorry now that they have been caught cheating.
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    Created by Neil Hetterley
  • MPs with other jobs should wear badges to identify the job
    This is important to make it obvious when MP's actions are being influenced by external sources
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    Created by Gordon McIntosh
  • Save B&Q Muller Road
    B&Q Muller road Bristol has been serving the central communities of Bristol for 27 years. Trades people and keen D.I.Y lovers rely on this store. It has no problem making trade. It just doesn't own the land so now the land owner is selling to another housing development. With the closing of the Filton store aswell the closest store is now Longwell Green! a journey that many will find difficult and upsetting. I for one have been using this store for 20 years..for little jobs and big ones. Bits and bobs etc.I have always loved going here on my own as well as with family and enjoyed searching the isles for things as well as choosing plants in the garden section. The staff are very helpful and lets not forget having a lovely egg butty in the car park on a Saturday! Its more than just a B&Q its a very important part of our community.
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    Created by Inkerbelle Fox
  • Keep concessionary charges for disabled people in Cambridgeshire
    This is important because this will stop disabled people from accessing the library in the way they do at the moment. The decision was made with no consultation. Due to the nature of some disabilities some people cannot read books, but benefit from literature in different ways. The charges will mean people will start having to pay to use a service that is available free for people without disabilities in the form of books.
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    Created by Timothy Sykes
  • Make Honours independent of the Prime Minister
    Every year we have a tawdry process of the Prime Minister using honours for influence and to reward friends and donors to their party. Celebrating people who do important work for others in public service, the business/charity sectors and popular figures in the arts, sport and media is important and the main purpose of having an honours system. Political interference devalues the reason for having honours. There is no reason why an independent committee could not ensure appropriate balance in the awarding of peerages where the recipient has a declared political allegiance.
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    Created by Martin McCrea
  • Save Suffolk Fire Service
    To a certain extent, we take the Fire Service for granted. But at a time when we need them, they are there for us. These people spend their careers risking their lives in order to save others. They work under huge pressure just by the very nature of their job, the last thing they need is further financial pressure. Less stations means further distances and longer travel times to emergencies. Less engines means a station unable to deal with as many emergencies and having to call in support from elsewhere. Less funding means less Fire Fighters, less training and less equipment. The people who will be affected by these cuts in the long run are members of the public. Who in their hour of need, will be left waiting longer for a Fire Service which they pay for, but which struggles to get to them in time. Ultimately, further cuts to a struggling Fire Service will cost lives. If you live in Suffolk, you will feel these cuts when you most need this service. When you are having the worst day of your life. So please sign this petition and share it with as many people as you can now, so together we can stop Suffolk County Council dismantling our Fire Service and risking our lives. A series of Public Consultation Meetings hosted by Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service will be held across the county in the New Year, where you learn more about the proposed cuts and we can have our say. To attend these meetings, send an email to - [email protected] The public consultation meetings will be held in Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and Sudbury, two meetings will also be held in the Lowestoft area. These are on January 28, 2016 at Wrentham Village Hall, running from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, and on February 1 at the Riverside Centre in Lowestoft from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Please help to support our Fire Service and the Men and Women who work tirelessly to keep it running. Thank you.
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    Created by Diarmuid O'Driscoll
  • Social Housing in Stratford East London
    By upgrading the mostly unused tower blocks this would increase the social and key worker housing stock. The Carpenters Estate has a Tower Block and houses left empty for year in an area with no key workers homes or social housing. The Tower Block was considered unsafe but was used by the BBC during the Olympics and is still empty now. Newham Council's motto is " live work stay" but the reality is quite different We need homes for the people of newham not just empty tower blocks sold to overseas investors.
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    Created by margaret hamilton
  • Better mental health provision in the UK
    I lost my husband to mental health just before Christmas. This has ripped apart and devastated our family. As a family we were failed. We were given very little support and information. Basically left to cope on our own. More needs to be done. Mental illness can be a killer like cancer and heart disease but it has a very low profile and funding. This needs to change and it needs to change NOW! More and more people are suffering. Mental health wards are full yet run on minimal staff. Patient care is lacking and community follow up is so stretched that the support just isn't there. We need to change this for now and future generations. As a nation we need to do something. Stand together and fight for more help. Everyone knows someone affected. Please sign and support me in this campaign so we can hopefully change the lives of those suffering. Its what my husband would want us to do...he wasn't happy with the care he had.
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    Created by Cath Fletcher