• Ban the Sale of Fireworks to the Public
    Fireworks are a blight on all peoples lives as well as our animal kingdom. They are too loud and cause great destruction killing or maiming animals and humans. Also the loud decibels of the fireworks has a detrimental affect on those that have served us and have PTSD with being in war-zones as it reminds them of bombs etc going off. There are also idiots setting them off causing mayhem and cruelty to animals and other humans hence another reason to stop the sale of PUBLIC FIREWORKS!!
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    Created by Sharon Robertson
  • Appoint more women, BAME and non-finance sector candidates to the Bank of England's senior positions
    The Bank of England's policy making committees make decisions which have a huge impact on everyone in Britain, yet their members come from a narrow range of backgrounds. Over the last decade, the Bank’s policies have disproportionately benefited the wealthiest in society, while doing very little for the rest of us. [1] Unless its most powerful committees are representative of society as a whole, they won’t fully understand how every community is affected by their decisions. 75% of those on the Monetary Policy Committee, which is in charge of setting interest rates and policy such as quantitative easing, were working in the City or for large companies before taking up their post. There are no members with recent experience working on behalf of the interests of the rest of society, such as in trade unions or civil society organisations. And out of the 23 members on the Bank’s most important committees, only two are female, and BAME communities are underrepresented. Appointments to the Bank’s most senior positions are made by the Chancellor. We support Chair of the Treasury Select Committee, Nicky Morgan MP's recent call for Philip Hammond to seek out and appoint a more diverse range of candidates. ----- [1] Researchers at civil society organisations like Positive Money have shown that quantitative easing and low interest rates - the Bank of England’s main policy responses to the crash - have benefited the richest households by almost 200 times as much as the poorest. See our website for more details.
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  • Save Farnborough Road children's centre
    Sefton Council are planning on closing Farnborough Road children’s centre along with others in the area. The children's centres will be merged into a smaller number of family centres, but this will mean huge cuts to the services children’s centres provide. It is so important to families with young children to have somewhere local to go to. For the parents and children to make friends and have someone to speak to if they need to. The local children's centre provides amazing classes for learning and experiences for babies to pre school children. They are easily accessible and should be kept that way.
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  • Stop the sale of The King's Regimental Silver
    It is important that this Silver is kept as it represents the history of a regiment of the british army which has served with distinction in all theatres of battle. It should also be kept as the regiment has served the cities of Liverpool and Manchester and are ingrained in the cities history's. If you are a true veteran of The King's Regiment you will sign this petition without thinking what others will say. It is your history your father's history your grandfather's history and in my case my Great Grandfather's History and the reason I joined the regiment. The Silver in question should be shared out to Regimental Association's and Regimental Museums within the relivent cities museum's so it can be displayed. If this can't be done it should be stored until a place can be found for it to be displayed. Please sign this petition.
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  • Don't give G4S & Serco the power to arrest
    In a shocking 290m privatisation deal, Serco and G4S – the same two companies who were stripped of contracts for tagging prisoners because a Serious Fraud Office investigation revealed they were charging for tagging people who didn’t exist – are going to be trusted with the handcuffs by the government. Essentially, the proposals would see G4S staff given the powers of Civilian Enforcement Officers. That is, authorised officers/employees of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service becoming vested with the power to seize and sell goods to recover money owed under fines and community penalty notices, and to execute warrants of arrest, committal, detention and distraint. The sticking point here is that although much of the recovery and enforcement arms of the Court service has long been outsourced to ‘Authorised’ Enforcement Officers (employees of various other private companies), the line has until now been drawn at outsourcing the power of arrest. No more.
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  • GAINSBOROUGH NEEDS AMBULANCES - STOP THE CUTS
    Planned changes will leave Gainsborough ambulance station with only one ambulance. East midlands ambulance service wants to move Gainsborough's ambulances to bigger towns like Lincoln and Newmark. A town of 20,000 people can’t have just one ambulance. Waiting times for ambulances are already high and there have been numerous stories about accidents and problems arising from the shortage of ambulances. We believe this will leave the residents of Gainsborough and West Lindsey with an inadequate service that will put lives at risk.
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  • Policy for disable parking outside residental properties
    Hello everyone my name is Samantha, I am currently 30 years old and I live at home with mum and dad. As you can see from my photo I am in a wheelchair, I was wondering if you can help me out. My mum and career Hannah have started this petition to help me but not only myself but other people like me having the same problem that live in the county borough. As it stands at the moment there is no policy in place that allows the council to put disabled parking bays outside residential properties and I want to change that if I can in any way possible. As it stands at the moment we are struggling to park my car on many occasions outside my home, this may not seem a big thing to you but to myself and other disabled people it is. We have a sign outside our home saying that there's a disabled person living here but that doesn't stop them. If this policy got put into place and I had a disabled parking space situated outside the house it would mean the world to me. As I love going out in my car but at the moment I cant go out later on in the evening, a Saturday afternoon or any time at all on a Sunday, which being able to go out more and do more stuff than what I can do now. I hope that I am able to get as many signatures as possible to change this sooner rather than later. I hope you can all sign and share this cause one signature can make all the difference, thank you.
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  • Save the Dolphin Public House
    It is important because this building remains in daily use by both villagers and visitors. The Dolphin public house forms an integral part of village life and without this facility a key social meeting place for both younger and older generations would be lost. It should be acknowledged that Stoke Hammond has already had an exceptional percentage of new properties built and is already over it’s recommended quota identified by the local authority. To allow this significant building to be demolished and replaced with more dwellings would be against the wishes of the local community.
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  • Better working conditions for the Qatar World Cup workers
    Their upsetting deaths go unheard and their poor working conditions, long hours of labour in the blazing heat without enough breaks, are all justified by the end result of this majestic, glorious stadium. But little do we know that the the stadium is being built on a graveyard of human bodies. The World Cup workers, who are mostly migrants from neighboring countries desperate for work, are enduring potentially life-threatening heat and humidity resulting in the deaths of hundreds of dedicated workers. The temperatures are of course inevitable, but the lack of statutory breaks imposed on the workers are not. Their passports have been confiscated and they are refused exit Visa's. So of course they are left unwillingly fixated in this tormenting and grotesque cycle of work and suffering. And this form of modern slavery has been occurring for almost 7 years now. Currently over 1000 have died from "unexpected causes" that the Qatari government neither explained nor investigated further. So once again the poor families of these workers are left in the darkness with false (and in some cases no) information regarding the death of their beloved family member. We all share one commonality... We are all humans. No life is more superior to another. Therefore EVERY life is worth saving.
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  • Stop the closure of Desborough Library
    The library is an important part of the community providing a gathering place for people of all ages. Providing activities for children of all ages and space for other groups. Removal of the library will also make it difficult for many people to gain access to books in the community of Desborough. It is also a vital access point to the council for many people with restricted mobility due to the help desk
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  • Save William Doxford & Sons Entrance
    Doxford's Pallion or West Gatehouse The building we are hoping to save was the original main entrance to Doxford's Shipyard and Engine Works and is located on the former western boundary of the Pallion Shipyard. William Doxford, a timber merchant, started the shipbuilding firm in 1840 at Cox Green, moving to Pallion Shipyard in 1857. Soon after this date, marine engineering evolved as a new discipline in response to the transition from sail to steam and the associated move from timber to iron hulls. Doxford's was one of the first companies to respond to the new demand and developed an engine works in the West Yard in 1869. Doxford's Gate was later built as the main entrance to the works; this part of the site being occupied by the company for 119 years, throughout its most prosperous period. Between 1905-1907, Doxford's had the highest production of any shipyard in the world. The Gate was constructed at around this time, probably c.1903, during a phase of pre-war expansion. The Gate is regarded to be of considerable heritage significance, in terms of its communal, historic and aesthetic value. The Gate is one of the few surviving physical reminders of the 'story' of the Doxford company and reflects the wider history of shipbuilding across the region. The Gate would have been the first building visitors would see when entering the engine works - when built the most advanced and prestigious building of Doxford's yard. As such, it was the main 'public face' and image of the company. However, it also served an important practical function, housing the time clock where workers would clock in and out each day and included the Commercial Office (within the North Pavilion) where new clients and contacts were met and entertained. We believe the building should be saved by way of careful demolition and reconstruction somewhere near Keel Square in the developing cultural and heritage quarter of the city. It would make an ideal Shipbuilding Heritage Centre to inform future generations, and preserve the memory, about the long and proud shipbuilding history of Sunderland.
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  • NYCC open enquiry into failure of Ings Primary School Skipton
    There are currently 7 primary schools Under the NYCC care in danger of closing. We have already lost 3. In an ideal world Ings would remain open, and the heart of the community however as this now seems futile I feel that there needs to be a full investigation into why we have got into this situation, and how we are going to prevent it happening again. I would also like it to be investigated why we are closing these schools yet allowing private developers to put in planning for two new schools in the area- both of which will be owned by an academy or free school, meaning they will no longer be under any of NYCC remit- a massive safeguarding issue
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