• Ymgyrch Rheilffordd Gorllewin Cymru / West Wales Rail Campaign
    Caewyd y rheilffyrdd yma yn y 1960au gan ynysu ardaloedd helaeth o Gymru. Mae angen eu ailagor i ailfywiogi'r ardaloedd maent yn rhedeg trwodd. Byddai eu hailagor yn helpu pobl leol i gymudo, yn hwyluso mynediad i wasanaethau iechyd, siopa ayyb, ac yn helpu myfyrwyr i fynychu prifysgolion yng Nghaerfyrddin, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, Aberystwyth a Bangor. Fe fyddai’n hwb i dwristiaeth yn yr ardal, ac yn lleihau'r nifer o gerbydau nwyddau trymion (megis pren, cynnyrch archfarchnad ayyb) o’r ffyrdd cul i’r rheilffordd, sy’n fwy diogel a chynaliadwy. These lines were closed in the mid 1960's and have left these areas of Wales very isolated. They need to be reopened to reinvigorate the areas they pass through. The reopening would help local people with commuting, access health services, shopping, improve access to the universities served by the lines in Carmarthen, Lampeter, Aberystwyth and Bangor. New lines will also boost tourism in the area and enable much of the heavy commercial traffic (timber, supermarket goods etc.) to be shifted from narrow roads to rail, which is much safer and more sustainable.
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    Created by Mathew Rees
  • All UK businesses and companies must use day/date/year convention
    Anyone using a British companies services has the right to have their data provided in the mother-tongue with regards to convention of dates. This sounds Techy and maybe not so important however, it can and does affect people and companies finances. Here is what I am going on about........6/1/2015 is and always should be 6th January 2015 if you are using a British business or companies services. It is NOT 1st June 2015 which is what some other countries use/cultures. This ignorance of locale can and does cause major financial errors, confusion and disruption. The compromise version is the month being written in words EG: 06/Jun/15 or Jun/06/2015. I don't think is good enough. As Boris says, if you go to Rome, you will be expected to at least fit-in, at most integrate. When I downloaded some major banks statements last year, the dates were in US convention not British (English). This bank is a major very old institution. I read the dates correctly but they were in US convention and lead to issues. This is also cultural erosion. It is not acceptable to have this change unmanaged. If you have been affected by reading a date incorrectly that has had major impact on your life or your family please get behind this campiagn and let's start at the top. I have already discussed it with the Banking Ombudsman but it was pushed aside. This is NOT a 'non-issue'. It is as much about 'stealth-change' and NOT involving or asking opinion of the 'average Jo' as much as being a flaw. I have gone on enough now!, please have a serious think about joining this campaign and let's try and reduce cultural erosion and enforce Technical locale conventions. Thank you! NB: Here is a screenshot of computer settings for English (United Kingdom) http://i.imgur.com/7pZnG2t.png
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    Created by Philip Swift Picture
  • Je Suis Charlie
    They were fighting (peacefully) for our freedom and showed greater courage than the rest of us. The least we can do is now is support them by recognising their bravery.
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    Created by Matt Trigg
  • Sack Jeremy Hunt
    He has failed in his role as Health Secretary and needs to acknowledge his failure.
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    Created by Frances Orson
  • Somercotes against development
    We are living in the shadow of 4 historic landfill sites. And are currently in danger of being developed due to the core strategy for housing in Amber Valley Derbyshire. We currently have a live planning application for 200 new homes on top of a landfill site and a potential 700 more within 800 metres help our plight.... This is important for the future health of people in the area.
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    Created by KELLIE JUDSON
  • Please help to Stop, Hamwic housing,stealing our home,10 of us will be homeless.
    This was not Phil's last dying wish, 57 our home of vitality should not be taken over and changed in to a single room occupancy this is a family home.and thats all Phil wanted. There are 4 children that live here too, Hamwick want to make 10 living beings homeless, plus 2 family house dogs, we are all paying our bills and we all live very happy and are taking care of Phil's legacy,just like he wanted us to. But Hamwick's plan is to kick us all out and change 57 vitality house in to a single room occupancy, please help us to save our home,sign and share. YOUTUBE.. phil sadler and you see what you think. its wrong and i really need help.
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    Created by kim raymond Picture
  • Get rid of pink balls in the FA cup - they discriminate against colourblind viewers and players
    Colourblindness is a disability that affects one in eight men (and about 1% of women). Football bulletin boards on the Internet have recently been awash with comments by people unable to follow the FA cup because the ball disappears from view when played on green grass, especially in distance shots. This is particularly bad for those suffering from Deuteranopia (in which the green retinal photoreceptors are absent). The FA makes millions from its fans (a recent £425m from TV alone). The FA is committed to inclusion and to equal opportunities, so the decision to use a ball which causes problems for so many of its customers seems at odds. It is not just the viewing public who suffer from colour blindness. You may recall (http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/nov/07/chris-rogers-pink-ball-colour-blind) that Australian cricketer Chris Rogers recently had to withdraw from a match that was to trial a pink cricket ball. (Also see http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/living-with-colour-vision-deficiency/sport/ for examples of how a colourblind individual would visualise pink on green). Obviously, it's not just about the spectators. Players can be colourblind as well, though most try to keep quiet about it until after their professional career, for obvious reasons (distinguishing between red and green shirts can be a challenge also!). Which is why only recently we discovered, for example, that Ipswich, Charlton and Republic of Ireland legend Matt Holland was colourblind. In Brazil, for instance, goalkeeper Castilho was colourblind, as were two players of the 2000 Brasilian Olympic football team. Pelé also famously had visual impairments rumoured to be colourblindness that almost kept him out of La Seleção. We should reserve pink, orange or "mango" balls for when the playing surface is snowy. Otherwise, there is no logical reason for using them, other than to promote sales of them which will, in turn, make grassroots football even harder for those with visual impairments such as colourblindness. Enough is enough!
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    Created by Tristan White
  • Save Our Paths - Wales
    This is across the UK, but our campaign is aimed at Wales. If we group together and help each other, we can have a greater influence, so please support our local campaign and if we can help with yours please do get in touch. Fences are cut and pulled up, gates are left open, animals are let loose, paths and tracks are left impassable, knee high in mud, quagmires, paths rutted and washed away because the surface has been loosened by the heavy and constant abuse of vehicles; A constant stream of vehicles, where once there was peace with only the odd farmer off to check on his livestock, or person walking their dog, or just out with the family. People of all ages are intimidated while trying to stop trespass on their own land, surrounded by circling motor bikes or vulgar shouts from abusive 4 x 4 owners. SSSI (Sites of Special Scientific Interest) are also being abused, where is the support from the Countryside Council for Wales to enforce the protection of their Sites? Police are too slow to turn up and provide little support to stop these law breakers. What is the point in passing the trespass law or designate SSSI sites, if there are no Councillors, Countryside Council or Police representatives who will help enforce legislation. This is across the Wales, so if we group together and help each other we can have a greater influence, so please support our local campaign and if we can help with yours please do get in touch. Currently our group is in the Llangollen / Denbighshire / Wrexham area and we desperately need your support to lobby the Local Council , Countryside Council and Police to help us in our campaign . We have a Facebook page, please join / like it and also sign the campaign. https://www.facebook.com/Saveourpathsllangollen
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    Created by Jo Smith
  • Promote Pop-up Tenancies (licenced squatting as short-life housing)
    Homelessness can be fatal. To London as a city as well as people like Kinga (who was Kinga ? - see below). Never mind cup-cake shops, London needs pop-up tenancies. Far from a social scourge, squatting of empty commercial and publicly-owned residential property was a dynamic and beneficial element of London's housing ecology for many years. It enabled young people to live cheaply in the capital, kept premises from dereliction and drove the regeneration of much of London. In particular, it directly enabled the growth of the arts and cultural sector of which London is now supposedly so proud. It was the start of the rehabilitation - and gentrification - of Islington, Camden, Notting Hill and Brixton to name just four examples.. Recent anti-squatting legislation inspired by a few sensationalist instances citing 'rogue migrant' activity - and the emergence of opportunistic, privately owned so-called Guardianship scams (which charge high rents and offer no security or rights whatsoever) has: destroyed an age-old counterbalance to the unassailable right of property owners to allow good property to lie empty, completely destroyed our city's ability to support innovative communal group living on any scale, enabled uncontrollable inflation of rented living space, encouraged profiteering by wholly unsuitable buy-to-let landlords driven young people out of London or onto the streets. Short-life housing schemes were once common in London, run by local authority housing departments and Social Landlords (housing associations), these schemes brought homeless people and empty property together within a simple legal framework that recognised squatters rights for an agreed period of years in exchange for the basic maintenance of property by occupants. Many of the housing associations operated as co-ops set up by squatters themselves. Now that Housing Associations have developed to be social landlord property owners themselves, with fully fledged legal capacity, such schemes would be easier to operate now than before. It is ironic that such a simple idea, needed now as never before, has been so lightly let go. Squatting saved 70's London. Breathing new life into run-down areas, enabling arts business start-ups, allowing people to live together in ways other than single living, coupledom or three/four people sharing a huge rent in exchange for a shelf in a fridge. London needs squatting back; for housing, for experimental living, for affordable lifestyles for those putting vocation above income. Without it our city is hollowing out as developers take control and young people leave. Without squatting, London would not be the vibrant place it has grown to be, but may not be for much longer. Squatting saved London. And it saved many Londoners.( It certainly saved me. I was a squatter in the 70's for 8 years.) And it would have saved Kinga. Kinga was a 22 year old law student we (staff of The Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone) found sleeping, blue with cold, in the carpark next door just before Christmas. She died the following day after returning to the streets for her last night hoping to be picked up by a homeless charity. Drugs and relationship breakdown were part of her story, but basically she had just fallen through all the cracks - just as any of us could. All of us who met her know the key element in her tragedy was having no roof of her own.
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    Created by David wybrow
  • Cancel Ched Evans Player registration
    Ched Evans continued attempts to sign for any club prepared to have him are bringing the game of football into disrepute. Evans is a convicted rapist who has shown no remorse and refused to acknowledge his guilt. Footballers whether rightly or wrongly are viewed as a role models especially by their younger fans. Evans is a convicted rapist who has not served his full sentence he has only been released on licence, and is on the sex offenders register. Most football clubs run community projects and Evans due to his conviction cannot have any dealings with children and would not be able to take part in any such projects. His registration to play professional football should be cancelled with immediate effect. Once his appeal has been heard and if it is successful that will be a different matter and his situation could be reviewed then.
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    Created by Nick Clarke
  • Protect the mountain hare!
    Thousands of mountain hares are shot and snared in Scotland because they allegedly carry a disease which reduces the number of grouse available to be shot for "sport". In some areas where mountain hares were previously abundant they are now rare or extinct. This is a national scandal. Scottish Natural Heritage is appealing for "voluntary restraint" from the grouse shooting lobby, but they have already had years to put their house in order. The time has now come for robust, properly enforced legislation to protect the mountain hare which is an important part of Scotland's biodiversity and a revenue earning tourist attraction. You can read more about the Scottish mountain hare here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2875818/Amazing-pictures-rare-mountain-hares-hunched-against-freezing-weather-blizzard-conditions.html
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    Created by Rodney Hale
  • Save our Services/Liverpool
    'Liverpool City Council recently revealed plans to privatise Supported Accommodation for people with learning difficulties in the city. These services play an essential role in supporting people to live independently in the community. The plans will lead to staff losing their jobs or working for new private bosses. The bosses won't hesitate to drive down the pay and conditions of their staff. This will result in a high turnover of staff. This will affect the quality of support tenants get. At a time when many people with learning difficulties/physically disabled can't find work and suffer from hate crime, support should be extended not cut. We the undersigned demand that this support should be provided as a public service by staff who know the tenants, not by the private sector.'
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    Created by Carys Mckenna