AI data centres are using evaporative cooling to maintain their equipment, drawing on our limited clean water supply, running it through their systems and losing large quantities to evaporation. Larger data centres can use up to 5 million gallons of clean water per day – enough for a town of up to 50,000 people. This directly threatens the survival of people living near data centres and our climate.  While large swathes of the general public are under a hosepipe ban, AI datacentres are allowed to use and waste millions of gallons of clean drinking water a day, simply because they don't feel like investing in less wasteful systems. In a country that experiences annual droughts (in part due to water company incompetence but lets not even start on that) this is not acceptable.  They have chosen this method because it is cheapest and easiest for them, least impactful for the company's bottom line. But alternative methods exist that can reduce water consumption by up to 70%, it would just require effort and investment on the part of the company.  If AI companies want to use British land for their technology, they will need to invest in protecting the environment here.  AI is coming, we will only end up with more data centres. This water wastage will only increase while our supply stays the same. Who loses out? The British public. 

Our rivers can't take any more Big Chicken. Now is the time to act, not plan to make the problem worse. Across the UK, rivers are already paying the price for industrial chicken farming. Every year, over 1 BILLION chickens are reared in the UK producing 3.5 million tonnes of chicken manure. In many areas there is already more waste than the land can safely absorb. When fields become overloaded, rain washes pollution into rivers, fuelling toxic algal blooms, killing wildlife and devastating precious habitats. At the same time, much of the feed used to raise Britain's industrial chickens relies on imported soya linked to the destruction of some of the world's most important rainforests. Yet instead of fixing these problems, the Government is backing more industrial chicken production.  But where will all the extra chicken waste go? There is no credible plan. There isn't enough capacity to safely process the manure produced already let alone all the extra waste, and there isn't enough suitable land to spread it without increasing the risk of river pollution. We don't need a plan to produce more cheap chicken, we need a plan that supports farmers to produce good food without polluting our rivers.  Growing the poultry industry without a sustainable plan for managing its waste is reckless. We need a better approach. It's time to stop #BigChicken choking our rivers.

Living in London costs more than living outside of the capital.  In-work poverty is rising leading to increased use of food banks by working people. More than 20 London NHS trusts are already accredited Living Wage employers  – the Royal Free Trust is not yet accredited The Royal Free Trust is responsible for many NHS facilities across North London and employs thousands of people We clapped for our NHS workers during the pandemic - now we ask the trust to pay all who work for them the Living Wage

The Government should maintain adequate support through PIP, Universal Credit, LCWRA, Carer’s Allowance, Housing Benefit and other essential benefits; uprate payments in line with living costs; and publish full poverty, disability and equality impact assessments before making major changes. Deliberate benefit fraud should be tackled through targeted, evidence-led investigation and appropriate enforcement. Genuine claimants should not be punished through blanket cuts, repeated reassessments or unreasonable conditions because of the actions of a minority. Any reform must be developed with disabled people and benefit claimants, protect those who cannot work, and offer voluntary, properly funded employment support to people who are able and want to work. The objective should be reducing poverty and improving security—not simply reducing benefit expenditure. My name is Phoebe, and I rely on disability benefits because my conditions affect almost every part of my daily life. I have cerebral palsy, severe instability in my knee, autism, anxiety, depression and complex PTSD. These are not choices, and they cannot be removed by cutting my income or placing me under greater pressure. My knee can become extremely painful, unstable and locked in place without warning. On my worst days, I cannot reliably walk even 20 metres without having to stop. I may need to pause for up to ten minutes before I can move again. Even on better days, walking around 50 metres can leave me exhausted and in pain. Because of my cerebral palsy and knee problems, I can lose my balance, trip or fall. Standing for prolonged periods also causes significant pain and fatigue. My mental health and autism create further barriers. Unfamiliar journeys can cause overwhelming distress, panic and freezing. I can become withdrawn and unable to communicate properly with strangers. I need prompting and support with medication, preparing food, washing, managing money and completing other everyday activities. I would love to have the freedom and security that other people take for granted, but I cannot reliably sustain employment when I do not know whether my knee will lock, whether I will fall, or whether anxiety and PTSD will prevent me from leaving home or communicating. Being unable to work consistently does not mean that I lack ambition or value. It means that my body and mind impose limitations that determination alone cannot overcome. PIP and Universal Credit with LCWRA are not luxuries. They help me pay for essential living costs and maintain as much independence and dignity as possible. Without that support, I would not suddenly become less disabled or able to work. I would simply become poorer, more isolated and more dependent on other people and public services. I understand that deliberate benefit fraud must be investigated and dealt with firmly. But genuine claimants should not be punished because a minority abuse the system. Cutting benefits or making eligibility increasingly restrictive would force disabled people to choose between food, heating, transport, care and other necessities. Behind every benefits statistic is a real person who may already be fighting pain, exhaustion, fear and isolation. We should not have to live in constant anxiety that the support keeping us safe will be taken away. I am asking the Government to protect essential benefits, listen to disabled people and reform the system with compassion rather than forcing vulnerable people further into poverty.

This data centre will massively create a deficit in safe drinking water, create mass pollution and loud noise that’ll disrupt both humans and animals residing in Southall west London. It is only speeding up the climate crisis. Please sign to prevent this.

St Mary’s Church, built by local people, to serve as the ‘mother church’ of Kirkintilloch, has stood, majestically, at the very heart of the town, for over a century.  Worshippers have shared their time, talents and resources in this fine building for the greater glory of God.  St Mary’s has been a place where life’s highest and lowest moments have been marked by many thousands over the years, both within the Parish and beyond. St Mary’s beautiful building has always warmly welcomed worshippers to services and wider audiences for performances and events. Incorporating superbly crafted furniture and artworks, St Mary’s is also notable for its remarkable collection of stained and painted glass windows, gifted to the building and admired as among the most significant in any Scottish church.  Now the Church of Scotland has decided to close St Mary’s and to sell the building off. If you want to help save St Mary’s for its congregation and for future generations in Kirkintilloch, please sign this petition. Please also guide others to sign this petition and encourage as many of your family and friends as you can to sign up. Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you.

The announcement that funds are to be withdrawn from the iconic Jodrell Bank is bound to be anathema to many of us, whether scientists or not. The research carried out there has done so much over so many decades to help us understand better the workings of the universe of which we are part. Call for a reversal of this pointless policy. It won't even save much money. Everyone is affected by lack of understanding of our place in the world/solar system/cosmos in these increasingly divisive and troublesome times. Trump is trying to shut down science in the US (in the name of the 'great god dollar'), we must not allow right wing influences to do the same here in Europe.

We spent 4 to 5 months building bike jumps and trails in our local park and the council have knocked them down continuously. We kept rebuilding them time after time after time, but this time they knocked them down and said if we get enough signatures on our petition they will think about building us a bike track at our local park.

Don’t sink our ferry! The West Lynn Ferry is under threat, with an estimated £1.8m needed for essential works to make the landing stages safe and keep the ferry running. The borough council has allocated £800,000 to the ferry from the Community Infrastructure Levy – a charge paid by housebuilders when they undertake new developments. But another £1m is needed from the two local authorities – King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council and Norfolk County Council. Records show there has been a ferry running between Lynn’s town centre and West Lynn since 1285. The ferry is a vital service, providing a sustainable transport link for residents and tourists and reducing the number of unnecessary car journeys. The Borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk has demonstrated its commitment to the ferry crossing by including it in its Masterplan and it is hoped it will fund its share of the works.  This petition calls on Norfolk County Council to commit £500,000 which will be crucial in order to complete these works so the ferry can keep operating for generations to come. 

Lincolnshire Police are now rated worst Police Service in England and Wales.   Marc Jones was responsible for appointing Paul Gibson as Chief Constable of Lincolnshire, between them the force has continued to fail catastrophically. Marc Jones has been catastrophic as Police and Crime Commissioner. The performance and service of Lincolnshire Police is appalling to the people of Lincolnshire. Since 2016 Marc Jones has done nothing to improve our Police Service and has had lots of complaints lodged against him with soft touch punishments from the very weak Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel.  We require someone who cares about our Police Service and will make sure the Chief Constable will deliver the service and performance expected by the residents of Lincolnshire and His Majesty's Inspectors of Constabularys.

EVERY time our data is harvested and sold, each citizen must be provided: • full transparency on who is selling it and to whom • notification with the option to withdraw permission, stopping the sale • payment when the data is sold • payment when the data is used • compensation when the data is stolen or misused Every day, tech companies harvest everything about us: what we click on, what we watch, where we go, who we communicate with. This data is one of the most profitable resources on Earth. Tech companies and online data brokers didn't build that resource: we did. Every data point is a reflection and result of of our own behaviour, our own attention, our own lives, and right now, we have no say in how it's used, no visibility into who's buying it, and no share of the billions it generates. Andy Burnham has scrapped the national digital ID scheme - proof that when a data grab is unpopular enough, government will back down. But the online age-verification and surveillance software that will scan every message and photo on our phones will remain fully in place, while the companies actually harvesting and monetising our personal data face no equivalent scrutiny. We're still being asked to prove who we are to platforms, while those platforms are never asked to prove what they're doing with our data, or share the profit they’re making out of us. A NEW LAW: REAL OWNERSHIP OF OUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT. Give every citizen a statutory property right over their own data, using laws modelled on the kind of protection Denmark has already introduced to protect people's likeness from AI deepfakes. Any company that wants to use, sell, or profit from our data should need our permission, every time, and should have to pay us ever time for the use of that data. Citizens get paid. Citizens get control back. The exact mechanism that gets the money to you is a detail to be refined but not a reason to wait. A national fund paying an annual dividend is one option, as are a direct licensing fee per company, a data trust that negotiates on your behalf, or a hybrid of all three. The principle remains the same: nobody profits from your data without your permission, and nobody profits from it without you seeing some of the money. New Job Creation. This will require the creation of a new, dedicated regulator - an Ofcom for our data, which will create a new jobs and put new guardrails around an industry hugely resistant to regulation. This body must have real powers to audit companies, enforce licensing, and hold data pirates accountable when they take without asking or profit without paying. When - not if - your data is stolen - the data brokers and companies responsible for keeping it safe must be forced to financially compensate every individual whose data was compromised. Right now, when a company loses your data to hackers or unscrupulous brokers, you bear the risk, the cost and the fallout. That has to change.  Big tech companies have grown richer than most countries, using data most people didn't know they were giving away and never agreed to sell. If a new Prime Minister can find the will to scrap one unpopular data scheme, he can find the will to back this one too. Sign if you're tired of being the product.  Sign if you want to be paid like the shareholder you’ve always been. Big Tech and data brokers have turned consumers and customers into product, and UK citizens deserve something that returns us to feeling as if we are worth our government investing in us, not bleeding us dry. In a digitally-driven world that evolves at breakneck speed, we need a modicum of control and choice again, and a system of permissions and compensation that actually pays us some respects, plus a flow of passive income, may represent a few steps in that hopeful and fair direction. In addition, an entire regulatory body - and therefore thousands of jobs - will need to be created to make this idea work.    

Currently, every household who are unfortunate enough to live under the flight path all have terrible sleep (and it has been going on for few years years) due to deafening flight noise pollution, day and night. The nights are particularly unbearable as they take off and land from 11.00pm onwards right through the night and early mornings.  Sleep deprevation causes multiple health issues from Brain fog, stress, hypertention and long term causes are Dementia. Until the two bodies sit down and fully understand the impact, we will not get any resolution fit for purpose. We want the same kindness given to us as people living around Heathrow flight path.  We should not be treated like animals and be ignored. The last local MP (Conservative) had the audacity to suggest that I should go and see my GP for sleeping pills!!! Talk about insult to Injury.  This action needs to be taken NOW!