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Preserve St Neots' Green Belt LandThese unreasonably extensive developments present numerous environmental and infrastructure issues: - Additional congestion on local roads, inclusing an already overcrowded and dangerous A428 - Insufficient infrastructure and facilities on the existing Loves Farm site - Insufficient provision for infrastructure and facilities on the proposed new sites - Destruction of an enormous piece of green-belt land - Destruction of the habitat of many species of animal, bird, plant and insect over this vast area. - Inadequate neighbour consultation - Destruction of arable land - A lack of communication from HDC to St Neots Town Council and local residents394 of 400 SignaturesCreated by D Porter Smith
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David Cameron why will you not publicly condemn Israel for slaughter of civilians?War crimes may have been committed, the country need to know the the British government are in no way complicit and condemn such actions.19 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Philip Wall
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Stop unnecessary non recyclable food packaging by SainsburysOur beautiful planet is being choked in waste detritus from human beings. It is constantly in the press about this and that hugely expensive way we could dispose of it. Surely the answer is to not produce it! Supermarket packaging appears to continue to increase to the stage where you can buy hardly any fruit or veg in particular without it being unnecessarily packaged in some way. I think we should boycott such food and give the mighty supermarkets the message.153 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Carol Clifton
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Save Doseley Wildlife HabitatThe area is one of abundance wildlife and varied plant life and wild flowers. It holds a huge population from shrews to badgers. Aquatic life,songbirds, grass snakes, slow worms, common lizards, adders, it is regularly used by members of the local community and walkers. There is a public right of way/footpath which it seems developers want to incorporate into their site, the pathway existed in 1840 for certain and possibly before. This area also forms part of the Dawley Heritage trail. Road access is poor as is street lighting and it would create a significant hazard having the entrance impede the junction with an historic railway bridge which is currently suffering from vehicle strikes even now.106 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Victoria MacLean
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Student Loan Final Year Reduction Should Be Fair for Healthcare StudentsHealthcare students are at university for a longer period per year than an average student, our terms and academic year are substantially longer for all three years of training. Students completely understand that the government cannot fund them via the student loan once they finish university and therefore will not fund them over the summer after they have taken final exams. However the current standard reduction in the amount available under the student loan of £513 is based on 3 months less funding for students which is not representative for the healthcare student population. For healthcare students this should be a pro-rata reduction, determined by their academic year end date and not the national average. I am a student nurse and my pro rata reduction should be £134 which equates to 3 weeks. My friend is studying physio and her pro rata reduction should be £268.14 which equates to 6 weeks. The reduction in our loan should be directly comparable to how long we spend at University as the current system is inequitable. During my final year I will be placed under increased financial pressure. Rather than increasing the stress of the next generation of healthcare students, why not ensure our transition from student to newly qualified healthcare workers is not plagued by how am I going to pay my rent for the final few months? This rate has been calculated by looking at the full amount a healthcare student (i.e. Nurse, Midwife, OT, SLT, Physio etc.) is entitled to receive per annum in their first and second year from the Student Loan Company (SLC) which is £2324 as a Maintenance Loan. I have then calculated that to be a weekly rate of £44.69. In the final year SLC are offering £1811 which is a reduction of £513 on the previous year. The reduction of £513 equates to a removal of funding for 83 days, about 11 ½ weeks.9,569 of 10,000 SignaturesCreated by Alice Edwards
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BUS FLOOR TO ROOF HEIGHT INAPPROPRIATEThe current floor to roof height is low and a passenger is not going to always realise that the height of the vehicle is low that they will bend over and duck their heads to sit in the rear of the bus, especially as all buses other than this newly introduced bus have relatively ample head height when accessing all bus seats. A passenger made a complaint that they literally hurt themselves experiencing neck and head pains approximately 3 days after the incident, that they felt the need to make a complaint after stepping up on a step to access a rear seat they hit themselves firmly on the head on the low floor panel of the bus. Contrary, to the findings of the Automotive Engineer - Defects Investigation, Andrew M Tudor, in his letter dated 4 August 2014, who feels "VSB accepts that the head room at the rear of the vehicle is restrictive, however, this should be clear to occupants, as the roof panel remains level, the floor level raises as it progresses down the bus with a number of steps in it and the view clearly shows that the amount of head room for the rear seats is restrictive." Obviously, this statement that VSB accepts is not the case for all passengers travelling on the bus that choose to make their way to sit in the rear seats for any reason, which in the case of the person that made the complaint was to sit in one of the only available seats on a crowded bus.59 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Andrea Lanning
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Bring the Royal Iris home to the MerseyThe Royal Iris is sitting on the Thames rotting away and we the undersigned want it brought back to the Mersey to restore for use or to be turned into a museum.1,790 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Mary Wheeler
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SUPPORT YOUR FIRE-FIGHTERS PENSIONS ,OUR FIRE SERVICE AND FIREFIGHTERS ARE PRECIOUS , THERE IS TALK OF PRIVATISE THE FIRE BRIGDE .27 of 100 SignaturesCreated by NICOLA BOWE
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Terminate contract of BHCC housing contractor Mears GroupIt is important that unions play a role in working with providers of Council services so that a living wage is achieved and maintained to lessen the benefit burden on taxpayers.257 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Phillip David Jones
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Protect people from becoming unwittingly involved in murder - Ban organ tourism to ChinaDear friends, please take time to read this, I wish for you to be aware of this terrible crime which is often being ignored and kept from the media. It really does affect us all. Killed for Organs: China’s Secret State Transplant Business “It’s being called “abhorrent” and a “crime against humanity.” Allegations of forced organ harvesting in China started to surface in 2006. Since then, mounting evidence suggests these allegations are true—and even worse than originally suspected.”… innocent people are losing their lives, the largest group being the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvAOOwvJMZs Here is a useful link:- Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) aims to provide the medical community and society with objective findings of unethical and illegal organ harvesting. Organ harvesting, the removal of organs from a donor, without obtaining prior free and voluntary consent, is considered a crime against humanity, as well as a threat to medical science in general. www.dafoh.org/petition-to-the-united-nations182 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Becky James
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Stop the sell off of public landThe Government’s new Infrastructure Bill removes control over decisions to sell, or develop, publicly owned land from our local Councils. This is our land. It contains a clause ending the rights of local Councils to grant, or deny, planning consent - while cancelling any rights of way or any need to ask the people of England and Wales if they mind losing their; parks, playing fields, allotments or village greens to developers or road and rail builders. The Infrastructure Bill contains a clause which will allow ALL public land to be privatized and Schedule 3 of the Infrastructure Bill states, “the property, rights and liabilities that may be transferred by scheme include … property, rights and liabilities that would not otherwise be capable of being transferred or assigned.” In plain English, this means all preceding regulation, legislation and other protections are null and void. From the government’s perspective, it’s all about speeding up planning decisions and avoiding the delay caused by local ownership in the decision making process. However, this hands even more power to Eric Pickles and his unelected Planning Inspectors to bully and ride 'rough shod' over locally elected Councils and residents. This Government promised a “Localism Agenda”, but is delivering the greatest shift of power from locally elected people to a burgeoning, remote, Central Government since the signing of the Lisbon Treaty. We must not be resigned to the situation - we must insist our voice is heard1,078 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Peter Grace
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TAKE ACTION TO ALLEVIATE SUFFERING OF ABUSED CHILDRENI need the Ministers of Health and Education to acknowledge that abuse against children is obscene and needs brave and positive action when the abused child is STILL a child and NOT wait until their lives are ruined. Take early intervention, it is the only way. Every Junior School in the country should employ a trained Psychologist. Children need to be taught to trust their therapist and to let the therapist help them to be pulled out, by whatever appropriate means, from their abusive situation. This will be expensive to set up but the millions of pounds saved by the NHS in not having to treat the adult survivors of childhood abuse would outweigh the cost easily. Furthermore, abusers would realise that they will no longer be able to get away with their totally destructive and self gratifying behaviour. Abused children stand out in school, the way they interact with both adults and children alike, their general behaviour plus their lack of confidence, lack of feelings of self worth and their need for isolation. A trained person could spot them easily and effectively. Abused children grow up, the majority, into disturbed adolescents and lost and lonely adults who probably suffer serious mental health problems throughout their lives. IS THIS FAIR? Save the child, punish the perpetrator and in doing so save the NHS literally millions of pounds especially in mental health care for the abused. Most importantly, give these many children the CHANCE of a happy and fulfilled life, let them be able to trust others. Let them be able to feel that they are loved and are capable of loving too. So many who suffer childhood abuse become adults with Personality Disorders who find it impossible to feel worthwhile as a human being and who become emotionally and physically isolated because of their inability to trust anyone, not even themselves. They feel responsible for the abuse they suffered as a child and live a life ridden with guilt that is not theirs.19 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Janet Tuite
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