Uber make the complaints process a complete nightmare and make what should be a straightforward process unbelievably difficult if not impossible.

The situation is dangerous and getting worse.  • There are no pedestrian crossings on any of the three crossing points.  • There is a lack of effective speed limit and traffic light enforcement.  As a result, some residents feel trapped in their own homes because it is too dangerous to cross the road, including parents with children, elderly people, and those with limited mobility or disabilities. The pedestrian refuge islands are too short for a bicycle, too narrow for a parent with children, and inconsistent for those using mobility aids, making safe crossing impossible. Without safe crossing and speed management, residents cannot safely access essential services including schools, GP and dental services, pharmacy, the Iffley Turn bus stop, shops, library, sports facilities, Florence Park, and community spaces.  Some residents report waiting several minutes for a safe gap to cross. Most have experienced dangerous situations. Many residents feel forced to drive even very short journeys because walking across the junction feels unsafe. Near-misses happen, and it is only a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt. The safety of this junction must be the paramount priority. This has been previously discussed with councillors, with reassurances made, but it only resurfaces as a topic when local elections approach. This petition is about basic safety and dignity. People should not be trapped in their own neighbourhood because crossing the road has become too dangerous. Sign to demand action before someone gets hurt. 

Current verification platforms, such as Yoti, have alternative methods, but places like Discord are not using them. They seem to rely on government IDs or face scans. The face scans are very precise and for a totally blind person who might want to do this independently, it's impossible. I, myself, have tried several times. However, platforms such as Steam or Microsoft provide other methods that don't require a face scan. Such as entering a credit card number. This has worked first time for me.

This is important because sewage pollution directly harms people, wildlife, and the environment.  1. Protect Public Health – Sewage carries bacteria, viruses, and chemicals that can make people sick if it enters rivers, seas, or drinking water. 2. Save Wildlife – Rivers, lakes, and oceans are home to fish, birds, and plants that are killed or damaged by untreated sewage. 3. Preserve Ecosystems – Clean water is essential for healthy ecosystems. Sewage disrupts the balance, leading to long-term environmental damage. 4. Prevent Climate & Environmental Damage – Polluted water contributes to wider environmental issues, including harming the oceans, coastal areas, and local communities. 5. Uphold Human Rights – Water is a basic human need. Everyone deserves safe, clean water, not water treated as a profit-making commodity. In essence: clean water is life — we can’t let profit destroy it. Privatised water companies have been allowed to prioritise shareholder dividends over environmental protection and infrastructure investment. The result has been widespread sewage dumping into our rivers and seas, damaging wildlife, harming public health, and polluting our natural environment. We call on the Government to:  • End the system that allows water companies to effectively self-regulate.  • Legislate to remove the routine use of sewage overflow discharges into rivers and coastal waters.  • Introduce a clear and time-bound plan to return water services to public ownership.  • Require mandatory reinvestment of profits into infrastructure and environmental protection. Clean water and healthy ecosystems must come before corporate profit. 🧪  Sewage spill scale • In 2023, water companies discharged untreated sewage into rivers and seas for around 3.6 million hours — the worst on record. That’s more than 410 years’ worth of raw sewage dumped in one year.   • There were approximately 464,056 sewage spill events reported in 2023 — up about 54 % from the previous year.   📉  How frequent and long • On average, each monitored storm overflow spilled around 31.8 times during 2023 — far above the government’s target of less than 10 per year.   • Untreated sewage spills often lasted around 8 hours each time they occurred.   🌊  Coastal pollution • Analysis shows over 68,000 incidents of sewage released directly into the seas and estuaries in 2023, lasting more than 440,000 hours near coastal waters.   🐟  Environmental impact • Sewage discharges contribute to widespread water quality failures — with many waterbodies not meeting ecological health targets because of sewage and wastewater pollution.   🧍‍♂️  Health & Recreation • High sewage spill rates have been linked with increased illness reports after swimming in bathing waters, with thousands of people falling sick in recent seasons.  

Our money could be used to fund much needed Social House building and local services. A managed phase-out of fossil fuels is the only fair way to solve our climate crisis and end the creation of new plastics polluting our planet.  Allow us to spend our taxes where we want them spent.

Men in Scotland are facing a silent health crisis. They are significantly more likely to die by suicide, experience social isolation, and suffer poorer health outcomes than women—yet why does Scotland still not have a dedicated Men’s Health Strategy? While the UK Government announced its first ever Men and Boys’ Health Strategy for England in November 2025, and countries like Ireland (since 2009) already have targeted policies in place, the Scottish Government has confirmed there are currently no plans to develop one. This is all despite clear evidence—including recent Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) research—showing men account for the vast majority of suicide deaths in Scotland. The Scottish Government has recognised that different groups have different health needs, demonstrated by the appointment of a Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health (2021-present) and a Women’s Health Plan (2021-29). Yet men, who face some of the most severe and persistent health inequalities, continue to lack a focused, national strategy to address their specific challenges. Is it because men are still influenced by the ‘Strong and Silent’ type Victorian male ‘worker’ cultural model and suffering in silence is seen as a badge of masculine honour so nobody ‘hears’ about it until it’s too late? In a recent response, Jenni Minto, Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health, confirmed “There are no current plans for the Scottish Government to develop a specific strategy focused on men’s health”. This comes at a crucial time, as Scotland prepares a new Suicide Prevention Action Plan, and as the rest of the UK begins taking coordinated action to improve men’s health outcomes. The Scottish Men's Sheds Association (SMSA), as the national body leading support for male lifestyle health, wellbeing, and prevention through the Men’s Shed movement, has never received direct funding from the Scottish Government’s ring-fenced budget for suicide prevention which increased again to at least £3 million for the 2026–27 financial year. This is despite more than 11 years of proven impact since the first Men’s Shed opened in Scotland, and the SMSA now supporting and developing over 210 Sheds nationwide—engaging 12,000+ men in their communities, reducing isolation, and improving both physical and mental health. The Scottish Government has stated it wants to explore “new and creative” ways to reach and support men. We welcome this ambition. However, it is deeply concerning that the government has not invested in, from this pot, nor fully utilised the over a decade-long infrastructure, expertise, and trusted community engagement already established through the intergenerational SMSA central hub and the collaborative research done over a four-year period with Glasgow Caledonian University. Add your signature now to join our mission to support men and boys health - in it together. Thank you. Dr Jason Schroeder  CEO Scottish Mens Sheds Association

The cost to charge an electric vehicle on the UK road system is often as high as filling a vehicle with fossil fuels, this is no encouragement to make the switch.  There is clear profiteering from the big players and this needs to be capped.

We are appealing to the powers that be to provide bleed kits to buses/taxis/shops throughout the city as a result of constant crime involving these weapons after the high statistics of the cities knife crime issues which it appears has been committed again twice in a week.  We ask you to sit and discuss with us (Birmingham Public) openly and honestly ways we the public and you can work together without risking more lifes.  We ask you consider at least to provide the finance for bleed kits throughout the city. We ask for more voluntary type security patrols.  We ask for a council funded first aid training on a mass level to allow the public to help.. feel safer.. less useless and afraid.

Even with the recent speed limit restrictions, cars and motorbikes often drive too fast or dangerously, and residents have experienced many close calls where they have nearly been hit.  This is a crossing point in high demand that is used by many children, as it leads from Big Wood and Northway Gardens up to Brookland School, and to the bus stops on Falloden Way.  Anne Clarke recently told residents that TFL are currently modelling options for safer crossings of Falloden Way, and she agrees that preventative measures are now needed to ensure serious accidents are avoided in future. Please sign this petition to support the cause and create pressure for TFL and Barnet Council to act.

Project Play works with children at the border between France and the UK. In recent years, children have been telling us more and more about experiences of horrifying violence at the hands of the state. From tear gassing babies to confiscating toys and tents during brutal evictions, the actions of the police leave many children terrified and traumatised. Children also tell us about witnessing drowning, injury and death during attempts to cross the Channel. New reports from Humans For Rights Network and Project Play show that UK funding and policy is responsible for deaths at the border in Calais. The UK government has given at least £784 million to France since 2014 for border security. A group of French MPs have recently launched an inquiry into how joint UK-French funding has affected people’s lives there, and it’s time for the UK to do the same. In 2024 and 2025, 22 children lost their lives at the UK-France border. Their names were Abadeh, Mohamed, Roula, Sara, Abdelaziz, Mohammed, Ishannullah, Sablia, Meri, Mansur, Maryam, Salah, Agdad, and 8 unnamed children. Many more adults were also killed. In their memory, we must stop the cruel policy choices that led to their deaths.  People have to land on UK soil in order to claim asylum. UK policy has left people in Calais no choice other than to use dangerous methods to do this, because no safe and legal routes are provided. And, according to the French Interior Minister, 720 out of 1200 police officers patrolling the border daily - the ones treating children and babies with such inhumane violence - are funded by the UK. We need an urgent inquiry into how our funding and policy is causing deaths and trauma for people at our borders.  

The cost is unaffordable and the building is not fit for purpose.

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corporate greed and profit before public health and the environment.    Our privatised water system has failed.  Sewage pollution is making people sick, destroying livelihoods, and wrecking our environment. Whilst bills rise, water companies extract billions and fail to invest. Whilst they get rich, we get sick.  This is no accident. It was a choice. Since privatisation, the Government and regulators have looked the other way and let this scandal fester. Now our waters are some of the dirtiest in Europe.   After more than three decades of broken pipes, broken promises and a devastating human cost, your Government has pledged “once in a generation” plans to clean up the water industry. But in reality, your plans lock us into the privatised system where profit comes first and the public gets sick.    What are we calling for?     1. Public health must come first and profit from sewage pollution must end.   2. The Government must end the current privatised water industry.   3. The Government must take back control of water companies and restructure them, removing the profit motive, to ensure they operate for people and the environment. No option, including public ownership, should be off the table.  It’s time to end the profit-driven sewage scandal and put #PeopleBeforePayouts