The horrific mass stabbing attack left 11 people in hospital, but thanks to brave staff and passengers, lives were saved. Showing this kind of bravery in a nightmare scenario is incredible, and we’re calling for national honours to properly recognise these remarkable people. Sign the petition now to show how much we appreciate them and how grateful we are for their sacrifice.

❤️ Why is This Bill Essential? Facts and Stories from the Frontline The campaign to reintroduce and pass the Autism (Wales) Bill is not about adding another layer of bureaucracy; it is about saving and transforming lives by enforcing consistency and accountability in our public services. The Head: Why the Law Must Change The Welsh Government currently relies on a Code of Practice for Autism services. Unlike a Bill, a Code of Practice does not fully enforce public services to meet the specific needs of autistic people, often leaving adherence as discretionary rather than mandatory. The facts show this discretionary approach is failing: Crisis in Waiting Times: Diagnosis is the gateway to support. Yet, in Wales, thousands of children and young people are waiting for an ASD or ADHD assessment. In June 2023, 67.4% of children and young people waiting for an assessment had already been waiting for 26 weeks or longer. For adults seeking an autism diagnosis through the Integrated Autism Services (IAS), the average wait in late 2022-23 was 95.1 weeks (nearly two years). A "Needs-Led" Failure: The original purpose of the Autism Bill was to ensure a clear and consistent pathway to diagnosis and guarantee that local authorities and the NHS take necessary action to provide timely support. The current system leaves many autistic people and their families receiving "very little if any support" while they wait for assessment. The Mental Health Catastrophe: Autistic adults in Wales are six times more likely to report low life satisfaction and eight times more likely to report feeling chronically lonely compared to the general population. About 80% of autistic people are diagnosed with at least one mental illness in their lifetime, compared to 26% of the general population. When the system provides temporary, ill-informed responses, it exacerbates this crisis. A legally binding Bill would require the Welsh Government to publish an Autism Strategy and issue statutory guidance to the NHS and local authorities, placing mandatory duties on them to act and be held to account. The Heart: A Personal Plea for Change If I were talking to a friend, I would explain it simply: "This campaign is personal, and it’s urgent. I’ve just been through a harrowing family emergency where I had to fight to reinstate my elderly, disabled mother's care package while simultaneously trying to get crisis mental health support for my older sister. I watched as she was fobbed off with sleeping tablets after repeating distressing symptoms of a mental breakdown. She is facing years of waiting for an ASD assessment, despite the strong likelihood of a diagnosis that could finally unlock appropriate, specialist support." "This isn’t an isolated incident. I was diagnosed in 2018, and even with that diagnosis, the system is not a crisis service. The current Code of Practice means that when the system fails people like my sister—or those facing life-threatening mental health crises—there is no clear legal duty to step in and provide proper, specialist care. "We saw what happened with the original Bill: the government promised the Code would be enough, but my meeting with Mark Drakeford MS and his subsequent letter to the Minister prove that the promises have not been delivered in practice. "We need your voice to put the power of law behind this. We need a Bill that forces every health board and council to stop the two-year waits, provide mandatory autism training for staff, and offer specialist, lifelong support. It’s the difference between a life of isolation and crisis, and a life with dignity and support." Join us because this Bill is the only way to ensure the rights, safety, and well-being of all autistic people in Wales are protected by law, not just by hope.

Although these plans seem to enhance the country's need for green energy, their completion will bring about devastation for the marshland environment they plan to build their ten story converter station on, damaging a habitat used by a variety of bird species already under threat of extinction. It will cause disturbance to the nature and serene beauty of the area in particular the old Hoverport site in Pegwell bay which will be disturbed by drilling and trenching an undersea cable onto the site and used as a staging area for the massive amounts of hardcore and building materials used in the construction of the converter station, which will be the largest in Europe if it gets completed. This scheme seems to be the worst possible option for the environment but it seems to be the cheapest option for the shareholders of a private company which will maximise their profit at the expense of OUR natural resources and wildlife which is in desperate need of our care and protection. The net effect of this scheme will be the opposite of green energy as it will cause so much environmental devastation. We must not be hoodwinked by this private profiteering company to let them destroy so much natural habitat.

Right now, the government is propping up the declining oil and gas industry by giving oil and gas producing companies massive tax breaks - to the tune of £2.7 billion every year. Meanwhile these same companies have paid billions of pounds to their shareholders, all whilst laying off large sections of the workforce. This scandal has to end. This financial support could and should be redirected to create jobs and support workers instead. Part of the additional revenue created by ending these tax breaks could fund a targeted jobs guarantee for those currently working in high-carbon industries like oil and gas, that ensures they can find equivalent alternative employment or funded retraining. It’s time for the government to take real action – end tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, and back workers instead. 

⚠️  Shock planning return for Our Village?! 🏡❌ I’m honestly baffled 😳 to see this planning application back on Somerset Council’s table. Not often that happens — usually, once it’s gone through an officer’s report, that’s it. So why now? Here’s the kicker: it’s an outline application 😡. That means:  • No actual houses need to be built yet 🏚️  • They just get to change the principle of the land from agricultural ➡️ housing 🌾➡🏠  • And it could push our village boundaries further out 🚧 Meanwhile, there’s plenty of land already available ✅ — old factory sites, brownfield plots, areas in the local plan. We don’t need to eat up more countryside just to satisfy developers’ profits 💸. Also, I’m incredibly puzzled .. 🤷‍♂️why is there no new officers report or any assessment and  why  has gone directly to planning board From what I can see, this has all the same problems as the last plan:  • Wrong type of housing ❌  • Wrong location ❌  • Minimal benefits to the village ❌ And here’s a huge problem: we STILL don’t even have a secondary school locally 🏫. Children would continue to be forced onto circular bus routes to Shepton Mallet or Castle Cary 🚍💨, and those additional transport needs are often ignored. This isn’t just inconvenient — it’s a real community failure. And don’t get me started on developer 💰💰💰 contributions… supposedly to help the community, but Somerset Council has one of the worst records for making developers actually pay up 💀. “Oh, they can’t meet their profit margin” 💸… and the council rolls over. Seriously? 😤 We need homes, yes. But we need: ✅ Affordable homes ✅ Properly designed homes ✅ Homes in the right places Not another cookie-cutter sprawl ruining our village and our community 😡 Perhaps this is yet another incompetent error administration? By  who ? The developer ‘chancing it”.. someone else ? 🕵️🪽🐷🐖🪽- I mean given it is adjacent to a former pig farm perhaps flying pigs are as likely! If you care about our village, this is the kind of thing we can’t let slip through. Speak up, comment, and ask questions before it’s too late 🗣️✊

I’m starting this because too many families are being hurt while a small number of online operators make huge profits. Gambling is causing sleepless nights, maxed cards, and the shame of chasing losses on slot games designed to keep you playing. That is not a fair fight. The scale is big. Industry takings are around £15.6bn a year, with online casino £4.4bn of that and £3.6bn from slots alone. These are exactly the products most linked with harm. At the same time, NHS referrals to gambling clinics have more than doubled in the past year, showing rising demand for help. Public health officials estimate gambling harms cost England £1.05–£1.77bn a year when you add direct costs and the wider health impact. Children and young people are still heavily exposed to gambling advertising online, even as rules tighten. Raising duties on the highest-harm, highest-profit online products and ringfencing the money for treatment, prevention and research is a fair, targeted step. A new statutory levy exists, but ministers control tax and can go further where the harm is greatest. This petition asks them to do exactly that.

The rainbow rail at Mile End skatepark is the least used part of the park, no-one likes it, no one skates it.  It's especially frustrating as underneath the rail is a perfect kerb, but the stupid rail is in the way. The park would be SO much better if we could chop out the rail and skate that instead. The kerb is what we all want to skate. It's perfect for beginners and more experienced skaters to practice on before taking tricks to one of the bigger ledges. Simply chopping out the rail would open up the obstacle and make the park much better.  Seriously, NO ONE wants to skate the rainbow rail. Please chop it out and get rid of it. 

This space is vital to our village.  Taking away the play equipment will be detrimental to the physical and mental well being of the children and the parents of the village. It’s a meeting place for the children after school and at weekends giving them somewhere to discover play and get some exercise outside of their school class groups. This is extremely important to their social skills development too. Children today play outside 50% less than their parents did. Removing our playground makes this crisis worse.   For the parents, it’s a chance to mix with other parents and sometimes the only opportunity to share advice and connect with other adults, especially if they don’t drive or don’t have a car. For the parents of the children that have just started at the local school, it’s a way of helping them and their children integrate into the community.  247 peer reviewed studies prove playgrounds increase children's physical activity by 28%. Removing ours will harm our children's health. Research shows that investment in quality play environments is linked with not only higher physical activity but improved social interaction and better mental health outcomes for children. 

Despite prostate cancer affecting tens of thousands of men each year - including one in four Black men - routine screenings for men at risk still aren’t available. But right now the UK National Screening Committee is deciding whether to recommend routine screenings, which could save thousands of lives every year.  Public figures and politicians are already calling for it and now we - the British public - are making the same demand: introduce routine screenings for men at risk NOW to save thousands of lives.

Residents of the Tall Trees development in Beckview are living with unfinished roads and raised ironworks that have been left in place for months. These hazards are causing repeated damage to vehicles and creating unsafe driving conditions throughout the estate. Homeowners have paid full price for their properties yet are forced to drive daily on unsafe, unfinished roads. The ongoing dispute over responsibility cannot continue at the expense of residents’ safety and vehicle damage. Immediate action and accountability are needed to make Tall Trees safe for everyone.

When private investors take over struggling companies, they often promise rescue — but when those companies fail, it’s ordinary people who pay. Greybull Capital owned Monarch Airlines, British Steel and Comet. Each collapsed, costing thousands of jobs and tens of millions in taxpayer money. Monarch’s fall alone forced the Government to spend £40 million flying stranded passengers home. It’s wrong that the same investors can then make a profit from failures and donate to political parties while their companies declare “no one in control”. The system rewards secrecy and punishes honesty. Passengers, workers and taxpayers deserve stronger protections, not another bailout for corporate speculators.

Join the petition to North Yorkshire Council to reduce the speed limits in Pateley Bridge by extending the current 20 mph zone to the remainder of the town limits:  • the B6265 (Ripon Road) past Harefield Hall entrance to the Methodist Church • Old Church Lane to beyond the entrance to the Springfield estate • the B6265 (Street Lane), Bridgehouse Gate, to the turn off to Bewerley to connect with the existing Bewerley 20mph zone • Low Wath Road (past Nidderdale High School and Sunflowers Day Nursery). Pateley Bridge is a lovely Dales town, known for its natural beauty with a close community of residents.  However, vehicle speeding and impatient driving has become an endemic problem and is making people feeling unsafe and making residents lives a misery in a number of locations in town. The Ripon Road residential area, a conservation area, sees a great deal of traffic entering and exiting the town, often at a speed too dangerous for the road and pavement lay out.   Ripon Road is not a main road, yet many drivers treat it like one.  Data from March to May 2025 on shows many vehicles speeding excessively, with over 27,000 going over 35mph, 4,300 going over 40mph, and some going up to 60mph which is very dangerous.  The current speed limit of 30mph is not enough to keep everyone safe.   Statistics from other towns that have implemented similar changes show a significant reduction in accidents, increased walking and cycling to and from schools and enhanced community safety. There has been a large number of concerns and complaints raised to myself and the Council from residents who feel they are now being very threatened by fast moving vehicles putting their lives at risk walking into and out of Pateley Bridge due to the speed and close proximity of traffic outside of the current 20mph zone.  Residents have reported being hit by car mirrors, feeling intimidated by close passing vehicles on the many narrow pavements, vehicles driving on pavements, vehicles overtaking on blind bends and road rage incidents.   Cyclists and horse riders also report feeling unsafe due to speeding vehicles passing too closely with many being forced onto pavements or driveways by impatient drivers.  These behaviours are not acceptable in our respectful town; speeding vehicles are putting people at risk of serious injury and in many cases vulnerable members of our community avoiding walking into and out of town or walking to local schools.  The UK government guidance on urban speed limits supports this proposal, suggesting that areas with high pedestrian activities and narrow roads and pavements, like Pateley Bridge, should have reduced speed limits to increase safety.  It is vital we protect those on foot and vulnerable highway users from speeding vehicles by reducing the speed limit.  The Town Council and our County Councillor are fully in favour of this proposal.  Change is urgently needed to protect our entire community, including our most vulnerable.  Without it the safety, health and well-being of the children, older adults and wider community remains at stake.  Road safety will continue as a barrier to walking and cycling in the area, including to and from schools.   Maximum speed limits of 20mph have been delivered in many other rural areas of North Yorkshire. We want these improvements for the entire Pateley Bridge community.  Evidence shows that people hit by a vehicle at 20mph are around five times less likely to be killed than at 30mph.