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Syrians are having water for Dinner, what are you having?I heard on the news this morning that a person had been reported to have been interviewed on the Radio, that he was having a bowl of water with some spices for dinner. They have no food and have even been eating the grass. It has now however snowed, so the grass is covered over. They are so starved, it was reported that they have even eating their pets.\ Image is copied from BBC Website dated 7th January 16, Story Title: Syrian government 'to let aid into besieged Madaya'8 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Paul Davis
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Stop Illegal and Dangerous Parking on Western Rd!Illegal parking at along this narrow stretch of Western Road causes numerous problems for pedestrians and road users. The restricted visibility on such a busy, fast road makes it very dangerous to cross, with pedestrians having to come right out in to the road before being able to see the oncoming traffic. Cars emerging from side streets do so blind due to illegally parked vehicles, buses and trucks can have trouble passing and congestion is exacerbated. Narrow pavements mean that at times pedestrians are forced off the pavement and in to the road. Furthermore the added noise late in to the night of car horns and drivers shouting to one another constitutes a public nuisance.89 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Amy Kitching
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Allow Donald Trump to continue to enter the United Kingdom without hindrance.In order to safeguard the principle of 'free speech'.19 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Mick McInally
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Improve Rural Mobile Phone CoverageWith all the mobile networks claiming 99% population coverage for mobile phone signal why is only 63% of the UK land mass covered by signal. Over 4500 miles of UK roads have no mobile phone coverage at all. This is not only dangerous but it is stifling development in rural areas and holding back local businesses. The government have an arrangement with the 4 main UK networks to spend £5bn by the end of 2017 to improve this but they have already come up against issues themselves with planning permission, un-co-operative landlords, site access and power to the sites. If we can make enough noise to make them realise how important this is to our communities then they will make the necessary changes needed to push through these plans. If we don't? We can see the 2017 deadline come and go and very little will change apart from 4g coverage in cities getting faster and faster.18 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Scott Dennistoun
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Change Highways laws to permit personal mobility devicesThere have been multiple inventions across the world in the last few years that would alleviate congestion and aid the restricted movement public in this country, if the law were modified. Currently these PMD's do not fit into our highways act simply because they aren't disabled carriages, are motorised and so cannot be driven on the pavements and are too slow for the road networks. I propose that room should be made in the highways act and by extension in the Cyclist part of the Highway code for the use of properly registered and maintained "safe" Personal Mobility Devices. These devices are growing in popularity across the world (I believe at the last count the Segway for example was a legal form of transportation in 30 different countries now) and simply sticking our head in the sand and quoting legislation based on an act that was made in 1835 is putting us at risk of missing the boat on properly regulating the safe and controlled use of these devices. If we were to open the doors on this issue, we could provide laws and rules to do things like prohibit the use of these PMDs inside so that people do not injure themselves riding around the office as I have seen in one Youtube video, but also we can regulate the types of PMD allowed on Cycle lanes for example. Most of these PMDs are limited to 10mph the equivalent of a fast run, so could legitimately use cycle lanes and pavements where it is safe to do so, if the law were changed to allow these vehicles to be treated similarly to bicycles. Furthermore, if these PMDs were treated like a stage between a bicycle and motorbike, they could be taxed and regulated like a discount motorbike. Allowing for further regulation and control, perhaps even licensing to promote safe usage of them too (which is more than is required for Disability "buggies"). Currently Disability "buggies" have 2 classes -4mph they are allowed unrestricted access to public areas, +4mph these vehicles have to have a tax registration and have road legal lighting on them. There is a section in the Highway code for the correct use of these devices, most of them are electric and most of them are often used in public areas with little or no danger to the public. All I am asking, is for a similar allowance for Safe Personal Mobility Devices to be given a fair chance to be used by a public who are crying out for an alternative to sitting in traffic jams all day, whether using public transport or not, or having to get all hot and sweaty cycling to work through fume and traffic clogged streets. Providing a section in the Highways act to classify PMDs would allow for this development. To further my argument, most of these PMDs are also electric and so would be far less polluting than even the most eco-friendly hybrid bus that Boris can sponsor. You ride your electric PMD in to the office in the morning, charge it back up using the company solar panels, then ride it home and plug it back into your solar panels at home, much better than riding a hybrid bus that uses a diesel generator to charge its batteries when it's outside of the congestion zones.2 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Simon Macmanus
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Protect child refugeesThere is a clear risk of child abuse in this arena. Italy has estimated that 4000 child refugees have simply disappeared. In addition to providing a safe final destination we would urge the IDC to consider the physical and psychological impact of placing children in medieval dungeons without access to food or water and without appropriate stimulation and care. The Children's e-hospital has witnessed first hand the treatment of children as young as 7 years in this manner. This is totally unacceptable behaviour by Europe and Britain must do its part in helping these children.27 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Tim Ubhi
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cameron flouting the laws of the landThe hunting act was passed in 2005 by a majority in Parliament. This law is regularly being broken and the law enforcers/government appear not to be acting to stop this. No hunt has been brought to court having been caught breaking the hunting act law. The police forces in these hunting area, seem to ignore the illegal activities of fox hunters. many illegal acts are caught on video, and yet cases bought before the courts thus far have been by private individuals ie RSPCA/LACS rather than law enforcement officers. Cameron is the Prime Minister of this country and should be seen to enforce these laws, instead of encouraging them. He is a well known fox hunter/supporter himself. There are many comments on Facebook regarding this issue, as the public dont understand why weekly we are learning about yet another illegal hunt, resulting in the death of a wild animal.8 of 100 SignaturesCreated by dee donworth
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reforest britianNature 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 too6 of 100 SignaturesCreated by carl holmes
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Using phone while drivingHands-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.”17 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Terry Murphy
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ALDI - Please re-stock QUORN productsALDI 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.20 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Graham Dixon
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Ban Automatic Reciept PrintersOnly 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.19 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Emyr Hopkins
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VW Emissions ScandalIt 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.17 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Neil Hetterley
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