It was recently revealed that one BT call centre has set up a food donation point that staff can use when their pay won't stretch to the end of the month. But BT Group made £1.3 billion in profits last year, and paid out £761 million to their shareholders. Instead of asking staff to help each other out, BT Group should pay their workers enough that they can afford to live and eat.

If parking in Whitehall Lane and surrounding roads is prohibited as proposed, parking in the area will become a nightmare! Please sign this petition as it could make a huge difference to our working life.

The evening service No.1/2 has not been reinstated since the pandemic. Ten thousand people cannot get a bus to or from Dumfries town and are therefore excluded from being part of the rest of the town in a form of apartheid. We therefore cannot visit people, go to work or partake in social activities if we are not willing to walk up to four miles there and the same back. Please join the campaign to put pressure on the Stagecoach company and on Dumfries and Galloway Council and Swestrans to provide their customers and community with a decent evening bus service like we had before.

Please help us to have some traffic measures for this junction to ensure all can use the road safely. Drivers don't want to cause accidents but unless action is taken lives could be lost. Improvements are urgently needed. Those relying on the bus for transport often cannot cross the road and have to wait until another bus comes along. Anyone going to the Cabin Cafe, Revolution, KCC Social Services is at risk trying to access them at peak times.

The school was built as an infant school, and is only suitable for 25 smaller students per classroom. But because there isn't enough classrooms the joint classes mean there are 30 or over Key stage 2 aged students in 2 of the classrooms. There is also no room for new students to join as classes are full, so the school is unable to grow as it otherwise naturally would do. Children are currently in split classes which was meant to be a temporary solution but is rolling into another academic year now. The promised 2 year old nursery provision which would hugely help outcomes in early years cannot go ahead for another year.

The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) have historically played a critical role as drivers of Britain’s world-leading Startup ecosystem. More than 30,000 businesses have received investment through the EIS with approximately £24bn raised. The schemes are responsible for building resilience into our small business economy and have lowered the barriers to capital for people from every background. But they have become outdated and unable to fulfil their promise to UK Startups. Startups today are launching without adequate funding because the £150,000 funding cap applied to the SEIS scheme has become outdated. The cap was designed in 2012 at a time when the amount would generally provide enough runway to last the average Startup a year. In 2022, £150,000 lasts a new business only a few months. Equally, the flow of capital to early-stage businesses is being restricted because the EIS sunset clause is set to expire in April 2025. In reality, the deadline for investors has already passed because there is no guarantee that an investment made today will still qualify under the scheme after April 2025. This is suffocating investment and restricting Britain’s innovation funnel.

Because in these difficult Financial times we are already under strain without having to pay to repair our cars and be without them whilst getting repaired. They are completely unnecessary when there are plenty alternatives.

Why we need to stop this charge. If this charge is made then people won’t try the service and won’t improve their health. In turn, there will be an increased need for expensive hospital admissions and treatment due to poorer health and obesity, thereby costing the NHS a lot of money, time and resources.

If you care about the environment, about the different species of life in our oceans and believe these should be protected then you should join this campaign. The public have a right to know all of the facts and be given the opportunity to make an informed decision: after all, the public as well as marine life will be affected. Research suggests that Noise from these seismic blasts extend over thousands of kilometres, particularly in deeper water, impacting a wide range of marine life – from zooplankton, which are a crucial marine food source, to commercially important fish species and marine mammals such as porpoises, whales and dolphins. Effects from blasting not only cause stress, but can also damage hearing and health, and impair ability to navigate, find food, communicate, breed and migrate. Organ and tissue injury can also result.

Currently, the moor is used for grouse and partridge shooting with birds exploited as feathered targets to be killed for entertainment. The lives of these birds will end with many hitting the ground suffering from painful wounds and injuries, having not been killed outright by the shot. What’s more, native predators, including foxes, stoats and weasels, are cruelly trapped and shot to preserve large numbers of game birds for the guns. Scientists have concluded that game bird shooting results in considerable environmental harm to fragile moorland ecosystems. Not only are carbon-rich peatlands left vulnerable to erosion when the protective layer of heather is slashed away to provide fresh shoots for game birds to eat. But the release of large numbers of non-native, farmed partridges to supplement grouse numbers results in biodiversity loss when wild birds are driven out by competition and vulnerable lizards, snakes and butterflies are predated. Yorkshire Water has already halted the burning of peatlands by shooting tenants, but now it’s time for the company to up its game. With the shooting lease for Thornton Moor coming up for renewal imminently the company has the opportunity to bring it to an end. Instead, Wild Moors and the League Against Cruel Sports are calling for Yorkshire Water to restore the moor for nature, climate and enjoyment of local people. Join us to urge Yorkshire Water to end game bird shooting on Thornton Moor.

The football club I support and love, Everton FC, has announced a multi-year partnership with an online gambling company called Stake. The Stake.com brand will feature on the front of the men’s and women’s playing shirts, as well as appearing on screens and media backdrops at Goodison Park, Finch Farm training facility and across the Club’s digital platforms from July 1st 2022. Children and young supporters will be bombarded with the Stake.com brand every time they watch their favourite team play. The advertisement of such a harmful product to children is dangerous and irresponsible. I should know the dangers. As someone who suffered with a gambling addiction for many years. I wouldn’t wish what I went through, the devastation my family and friends experienced, and what other young people are in danger of, on anyone. Gambling harms millions of people in the UK and takes hundreds of lives every year, leaving broken and bereaved families behind. There are already 55,000 children addicted to gambling in this country and the impact is felt disproportionately amongst more deprived areas - such as the one our club represents. The advertisement of such a dangerously addictive product increases the risk of this figure going higher. These obscene levels of harm is why the UK government is strongly rumoured to end all types of gambling sponsorship imminently. I can't wait for government to act. In the meantime, we can urge Everton FC to recognise the dangers of entering into partnership with an online gambling company. Our current chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale clearly recognised these dangers in 2020, when she stated In an ideal world the club would not be sponsored by a gambling company. She also stated ‘we certainly don’t want to be responsible for driving irresponsible betting’ In recognising the many dangers of this partnership, our club should drop this partnership with Stake. Everton are the people’s club. It is a club that cares deeply for the people, and it’s supporters. Everton, over the years, have constantly set very high standards and trends for others to follow. We have to maintain these high standards. A partnership with Stake cannot sit comfortably alongside the fantastic work done by the club’s Everton In The Community in tackling mental health issues. I'm calling on fellow blues, and other football fans, to urge Everton to U-turn on this gambling partnership. Fellow Evertonians, I ask you three questions: - Don't want to be walking billboard for an online casino? - Do you want our young fans to be able to wear the same shirt as the players and as us adults? - Do you think the many people harmed by gambling - like me - deserve to be able to watch the club we love without being encouraged to gamble? If your answer is yes to all these questions, please support me by adding your name to this petition. Thank you Ben

The current policy risks: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720995/FCPG201.pdf -a sudden and drastic loss of wildlife habitats from which it is much harder for species to recover (p26) -permanent damage to soil structure and drainage (p29) -vigorous growth of bracken and bramble in cleared areas which could smother the growth of new trees and existing flora (p29) -increasing the vulnerability of existing ancient trees to windblow(p27) -reducing the carbon sink more rapidly than necessary at a time when climate change is an ever- present threat