My son has just lost a school friend in a tragic road accident this week whilst he was cycling to school Tuesday morning. A car and Tyler collided and he sadly sustained fatal injuries, sadly a helmet was not worn. This MUST stop. On spot fines or confiscate cycles if a helmet is not wore by the cyclist. Helmets should be the norm, to make it less trendy for these teenagers to go without one. Everyone will be in the same boat so it becomes less of a stigma.

The road is very busy particularly in the area of the Brighton Hill Centre. The sight lines are poor with stationary buses and a blind corner. Cars regularly exceed the speed limit. There are high numbers of vulnerable people crossing the road. Elderly and unwell people cross to access medical facilities, children and young people cross to access two local schools and there is significant footfall to local shops. Often the only way to cross is to rely on the goodwill of drivers. When buses are stationary cars cannot see pedestrians crossing and vis-versa. Do not wait until a child is injured or worse before improving road safety here.

The government have said that no one should be made worse off by moving onto Universal Credit. But people, like me, who are moving onto Universal Credit due to a "change in circumstances" aren't getting any protections. And are losing hundreds of pounds a month in income. I moved onto Universal Credit two years ago when my wife sadly lost her battle with cancer. I had to quit my job to look after my two young children and I was left waiting for weeks before my payment came through. Basic rights are put in jeopardy such as food, water, and a roof over your families head. The government aren't doing enough to address this. Please will you sign my petition calling on them to make sure no one moving onto Universal Credit is left worse off?

Music bring so many benefits to so many people and the ability to learn an instument at school is critical in protecting our cultural heritage

The naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said climate change is humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years and it could lead to the collapse of civilisations and the extinction of "much of the natural world". "We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe", warns the United Nations. "Urgent changes are needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty", says the International Panel on Climate Change. Our Government is ignoring these warnings and is not on target to meet the environmental commitments it made in Paris in 2015. Sheffield City Council should be a trailblazing Council like Bristol, Nottingham, Frome, the Forest of Dean, Scarborough, the London Assembly and the growing number of councils that are declaring an emergency and planning to quickly reduce their emissions. Declaring a Climate Emergency means acting as if it is an emergency by taking measures to reduce carbon emissions from both production and consumption as quickly as possible. We still have a chance to avert the worst of the scientific predictions currently being made but we must act now. Sheffield City Council is meeting on Wednesday 6th February and should declare a Climate Emergency before it is too late. It is vital the motion they pass sets a firm commitment to carbon neutrality by 2030. Please sign this petition, and contact your local councillor to ask them to support the motion for a zero carbon city by 2030.

Cutting funding to these organisations will force complete closure of some centres and a dramatically reduced programme of groups/services to others. This will have severe consequences on the local community, young and old, with detrimental impacts on their health and well being. Pilton Community Health Project, Pilton Equalities Project, North Edinburgh Timebank, Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre, Muirhouse Millennium Centre, Almond Mains Initiative and North West Carers all face major cuts to their services. Some will have to close. These projects provide a lifeline for many people. They offer support for women experiencing domestic abuse; breakfast clubs for children; activities for older people; counselling and support for those with mental health problems; access to food for those on low incomes; literacy work with people with learning disabilities; low cost handyman service for older people and more. These services enable people to participate in their community, keep themselves active and healthy. Poverty and social isolation blight our communities. The organisations were already working to the limits of their resources and still not meeting all the need.

This is important for the safety of pupils attending Cromer Road School, and for parents, staff and local residents. We consider that these measures are urgently required in order to protect the safety of our children. A resident’s cat lost its leg after being hit by a speeding vehicle on Shaftesbury Avenue. It does not bear thinking about this happening to a small child, and there have recently been some near misses along Cromer Road after school. There is also a problem with Lorries persistently getting stuck on the narrow roads, causing log-jams and damaging parked vehicles. The Cromer Road one-way system includes: Cromer Road, Shaftesbury Avenue and Bulwer Road (to the east of Plantagenet Road), New Barnet, EN5

It has become clear that the United Kingdom is neglecting foreign nationals who have joined our Armed Forces. Often discharging them without any support or token of thanks for their service. Many are deported back to their country of origin despite creating a life and family in Great Britain. This is wrong and cruel. If a person is prepared to die for us, we should acknowledge this and offer security and peace by giving citizenship.

60% of all lethal car NOx in London is emitted by blackcabs. Blackcabs are up to 30 times more polluting than equivalent private cars! [1] As even ambulances have to pay the mayor's pollution charge, then really toxic black cabs should not be exempted from paying it. They are a public health emergency on our streets. 40% of all cars in central London are blackcabs. [2] Yet they only carry 1% of all trips in London. [3] They are the most inefficient use of precious road-space. Empty London blackcabs drive 230 million miles every year, looking for paying customers. [4] Emergency vehicles and people trying to get to work, school & shops are blocked daily by black cab jams, yet the mayor allows cabbies to drive empty in bus lanes for free. The Mayor must impose congestion and pollution charges on London’s largest source of vehicular pollution and congestion. New York has imposed a congestion charge on cab-users rather than cabbies and that is what we want – a £5 per trip congestion charge for all cab-users. Blackcab pollution is carcinogenic and damages the lungs of our kids for life. Even the new Electric Cabs emit 70% of the particulates of non-electric cabs. Blackcabs are not public-transport. They are expensive privately chauffeured vehicles for hire. For the sake of the lives of those using buses, walking and cycling, we need to radically reduce unnecessary blackcab usage in London. We need cleaner and far fewer cabs. Those with disabilities would be exempted from the cabuser congestion charge, which we also want applied to minicab users. This petition is hosted by Stop Killing Cyclists. Please sign & share widely on your social media. Yes We Can! Thank you! ___ Notes: 1. Stat on blackcabs emitting up to 30 times more lethal NOx than equivalent car & 60% of all car NOx in London is from the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/black-cabs-taxis-air-pollution-london-research-true-icct-a8688141.html 2. Stat on Blackcabs making up 40% of cars in cczone is in Travel In London Report 9 Table 6.6 Pg 187 http://content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-london-report-9.pdf (Taxis make up 20% of total traffic, Private hire vehicles 12% and private cars 18% - so taxis make up 40% of car traffic) 3. Blackcabs making up just 1% of all trips is from the TfL Report Travel in London Report 10. Page 22 http://content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-london-report-10.pdf (taxis make up 400k of the 27.1 million trips) 4. Approx 23,000 black cabs, drive an average of 20,000 miles each and approx 50% of that is without passengers http://content.tfl.gov.uk/taxi-and-phv-demographic-stats.pdf https://www.insuretaxi.com/2016/08/taxi-driver-survey-2016/ https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/any-answers/dead-mileage-percentage

Dorset schools are facing £4.2 million in cuts. Dorset CCG's new Development and Behaviour Pathway puts the responsibility on schools to make referrals for conditions like ASD and ADHD. Schools, which have had to make cuts to staff and increase class sizes, will struggle to meet this requirement. Children will be at risk of being left without a diagnosis unless there is extra funding and training for schools. The current situation is unacceptable; a lack of support for children and young adults with SEND because of school budget cuts; delays in assessments for ASD and ADHD, have led to an increase in pupils being excluded from school with no adequate alternative provision. Many families are desperate and have little or no support and schools are struggling to cope. We call on Dorset Council to demand proper funding from government for schools and SEND provision and to put an end to the crisis we now face.

Our little hospice is the only one in South Tyneside to provide palliative and End of Life care for the people of South Tyneside. We have provided excellent palliative care for 30yrs and will be a huge miss to our community. Many families in South Tyneside have had a loved one who has received treatment or has died peacefully in our care and them memories stay with these families knowing their love one had been looked after at that sad time of their lives

Opencast coal extraction is a reckless and dirty industry that is fuelling climate change while hurting communities in the UK and abroad to fuel UK power stations. Over the next few weeks, the UK government faces a choice: it can let this dirty industry get bigger, or it can end opencast coal extraction for good, honouring it’s promise of a 2025 coal phase-out to the British people, saving communities and protecting the climate. Right now, the government is considering whether to allow two opencast coal mines in the North of England 1. Bradley in Pont Valley, which is already destroying the countryside, and 2. Druridge Bay, which threatens a pristine stretch of coastline. Both mines are being pursued by Banks Group; the only company in the UK pushing for the expansion of coal extraction. They have already extended their operation at Shotton, Northumberland and are undertaking a scoping inquiry into a new one at Dewley Hill, near Throckley, Newcastle. Together these four projects would extract over 6.5 million tonnes of coal and release around 13 million tonnes of Co2 . There’s no time to lose - at the Bradley mine in Pont Valley, each day that goes by means more coal being burned and more countryside being lost. The government is due to make a decision on both Bradley and Druridge Bay in the next few weeks. Banks Groups lawyers and lobbyists are putting forward their arguments in favour of their damaging projects. Let’s make sure we get heard too. Sign our petition to make sure that the government makes the right decision and ends opencast coal mining for good.