Do you want to come home after a long day’s work without worrying about where you’ll park? Do you want the freedom to come and go, knowing there will be space near your home when you return? If yes, sign this now! We need to come together to protect the peace of our road and take back our parking. We are calling on Enfield Council to urgently carry out parking surveys on our road and begin a consultation for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ). The nearby development already has a 7-day CPZ, meaning their residents can park freely on our road - while we are blocked from parking on theirs.  This is unfair and has pushed even more pressure onto our street, leaving local residents struggling to park near their own homes. Every day, residents on our road come home after long hours at work to find there is nowhere to park. What used to be a quiet, manageable street has become overcrowded, with cars from the nearby development filling every available space. Families, elderly residents, and people with children are being forced to park far from their homes, sometimes late at night, carrying shopping or walking in the dark. It’s stressful, frustrating, and unfair—especially when those same drivers are protected by a 7-day CPZ on their own streets, while we have no protection at all. This is our home, and we deserve to feel comfortable, safe, and able to park near it.

He sounds like an excellent civil servant. Why are we getting rid off the good guys?  Sir Olly Robbins is clearly a committed civil servant. We need excellent civil servants like him and he should be reinstated. 

Many older people in the UK are required to fund their own care due to limited provision from the NHS and local authorities. This includes residential care and 24-hour home support, which are often necessary for basic dignity, safety, and quality of life. At present, these costs must be paid from income and savings that have already been taxed. In addition, pensioners may still be required to pay income tax on remaining income, creating a significant financial burden. Unlike discretionary spending, care costs are unavoidable for those with serious health conditions or reduced mobility. Without adequate care, individuals may deteriorate and require more intensive and costly state support, such as hospitalisation. We believe essential care costs should be treated similarly to necessary expenses in other contexts. For example, businesses are permitted to deduct legitimate operating costs before tax. A comparable principle should apply where individuals face unavoidable care expenses. We propose that pensioners be allowed to deduct essential care costs from their taxable income, either fully or up to a capped amount, with appropriate safeguards such as clear eligibility criteria and means-testing. This would help ensure a fairer tax system and reduce the financial strain on those who have contributed throughout their working lives. A care home can easily cost over £6,000 per month, approximately £72,000 per year—far beyond what most people earn, and a significant drain on most pensioner's resources. 24-hour support in home can cost upwards of £1,107 per week, with additional expenses—such as night-time support—adding further to that total (for example, an extra £350 last month alone). These are not choices. They are necessities—basic requirements for safety, dignity, and day-to-day living. Yet all of this is paid from income and savings that have already been taxed. In addition, any pensioner with any additional pension other than the state pension, will to pay tax on their remaining income, even though it is effectively used entirely to fund the care. I believe this is fundamentally unfair. That said, this is not about my family who will not benefit from any policy change that might result from this campaign. But this issue has concerned me for some time. It affects thousands of families across the UK, and many more will face the same situation in the years ahead. This is why I believe it is important to raise the issue now—not for personal gain, but in the interest of fairness.

Residents living around Trundleys Road and Sanford Street are calling on Lewisham Council, Transport for London (TfL), local MP Vicky Foxcroft, and Tribe Student Housing Ltd to fortify the road safety in the area. On the 14th of April 2026, there was a fatal collision on the road (blue circle on map), which some residents in the area were witnesses to and were involved in the attempt to save the young person’s life. The road was reopened within 24 hours, without any additional safety measures in place. Due to the building works of the new flats owned by Tribe Student Housing Ltd, the path has been closed for some time [edit: path reopened 1 May but footway closed signs are still up]. This forces people to cross the road at a bend with little visibility and accessibility, where cars tend to speed. Additionally, the lack of precautionary road signage in the area makes it dangerous. Speed bumps on this road are not nearly enough to stop cars speeding. Before and after the fatal collision, residents see cars drive well over the 20mph speed limit, causing anxiety to people walking down the road at any time of the day. Not long before 14th April, on the 29th of March, there was a driver who crashed on the corner where Trunsleys Road and Sanford Street meet. The van took out the large metal boulder from the pavement and dragged it with force across the pavement. Before that, a car crashed into the building on that corner, causing the wall of the building to break, which has now been fixed. Both of these incidents were in the same area where the fatal collision happened. Salamander reports that many more crashes have taken place on these two roads. When a Millwall game is on at The Den (SE16 3LN), several attendees park their cars on Sanford Street, narrowing the road and subsequently causing road blockages. Residents have seen traffic and standstills due to this, and have seen buses having to reverse, being forced onto the footpath to create space, making it dangerous for pedestrians. Once the flats are built, there will be many more residents in the area. This is a cause for concern as there will be approximately 400 additional people crossing the road. It is also not clear when the building works will be finished, if the path will be reopened and if it will be accessible. We are calling for a zebra crossing and clear appropriate signage of the 20mph speed limit to be put on the road near where the collision happened. In addition, we are asking for Sanford Street to have double yellow lines and a speed camera installed. Finally, a deadline for the reinstatement of the footpath outside the new building is shared with signatories of this petition.

On the Wirral people love their fitness! You only have to walk to New Brighton on a mild day and you'll see plenty of people; walking, running, cycling, and swimming, enjoying our promenade and local parks through exercise. But what about the local gym goers? Does our community provide a place for them work-out and train outside?  I believe that our local residents could be served better by providing outdoor Calisthenics gyms in our local parks and promenade, as free spaces to train in the fresh air, in a friendly and communal setting. 

Who is sick of trying to avoid potholes and there always one you can't avoid as oncoming traffic prevents it!  We pay our road tax and have our cars mot done and THEN pot holes are causing more wear on our suspension, tyres and just generally more wear and tear on tyres from POTHOLES!!!

We call on our Government to protect our personal medical record data from falling into foreign company hands. It's supposed to be confidential and not for sale! People already signed not to have our data shared digitally but this is being ignored put a stop to it now sign the petition to get the Government to listen and take action to stop this.

Redbourn Pitches for Redbourn Children:   Redbourn Recreation Ground is undergoing re-development. Creating a new 3G football pitch and grass pitches.   This has in part been funded through £1.78m offered by a local housing developer in return for being able to build on the playing fields.   This was only given planning permission on the basis the improvements would be utilsed by the local community.   Unfortunately the Redbourn Playing Fields Trust ( the charity responsible for looking after the playing fields) have decided they will let these pitches to football clubs from outside the village.  As it stands Redbourn Rovers, the only local football club in Redbourn, representing over 200 local children and 150 adults will not be allowed to play matches on these pitches.   We believe the Trust is in breech of its primary Charity Mandate which is to represent the interest of Redbourn and its residents.   We have tried to engage with the Trust for over 12 months. They have shown little interest in helping our local club and ensuring Redbourn children are allowed to play on their local pitches which has meant we've no choice but to raise awareness of this situation with the local Redbourn Community and pursue legal action.   Please join our campaign, sign our petition and ensure the voice of Redbourn children is heard.  They have a right to play on their local playing field and we must fight for their fair allocation of football pitches.      Redbourn Pitches for Redbourn Children   

The £1.15 charge soon adds up when a number of books are reserved. On the other hand, the £150,000 ECC says it will save with this charge, is paltry when compared to ECC's overall budget of over £2 billion (Campaigners say cuts are 'biggest attack' on Essex libraries - BBC News). And when cuts are made to libraries, it increases costs elsewhere, such as the social care budget. Our libraries are excellent value for money, and should not be squeezed further. Two surveys have already found this charge will make a real difference to how people use libraries. Between three-quarters and ninety percent of those surveyed said they would either use their library less, or stop using their library altogether (https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CspgVDTDV/). And we've seen this before, where a decline in use caused by cuts, is then used to justify closing libraries. With 2026 declared the National Year of Reading in an attempt to reverse an alarming decline in reading, particularly reading for pleasure, now really isn't the time to place further barriers in the way of using libraries. And the principle of a public library is that it should be free. ECC has set our libraries up to fail, and this disastrous charge must be scrapped.

For too long people with eating disorders have been failed. For too long people with eating disorders have been neglected.    We are calling on the Government for a standalone eating disorder strategy.    Eating disorders are among the most serious and life-threatening mental illnesses yet they have been overlooked and underfunded for far too long. As a result, they now have one of the largest treatment gaps in modern healthcare. In the past decade, eating disorders have risen at an alarming rate, a crisis that worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.    Right now, too many people are waiting for help. Too many are being turned away. Too many are deteriorating while services are stretched beyond breaking point. Eating disorders do not discriminate. They affect people of all ages, genders, and ethnic backgrounds. Yet public understanding remains narrow, and services fail to reflect the true scale and diversity of need. Binge Eating Disorder is now significantly more common than anorexia, yet there are still no dedicated NHS treatment pathways for it in many areas. Children as young as four are being diagnosed with ARFID and are unable to access specialist support. Families are being left to cope alone. Clinicians are trying to save lives in systems that are underfunded, under-resourced and overwhelmed. Lives are being lost. Families are being torn apart. The human and financial cost of inaction is devastating. We urgently need a comprehensive, properly funded, cross-government National Eating Disorder Strategy that: • Delivers an Inquiry to urgently review the current services and why people are dying or getting worse in treatment • Guarantees timely access to specialist treatment for people of all ages • Provides dedicated support for all eating disorder diagnoses, including Binge Eating Disorder and ARFID • Invests in early intervention and prevention • Addresses workforce shortages and ensures proper training • Tackles inequalities in access and outcomes • Commits to long-term, sustainable funding • Treats eating disorders as the public health emergency they are. • Ensures treatment models are disability and neurodiversity-informed

I signed up for a school even to recite the same poem all together in over 100 different languages, in an effort to claim a world record while making previously scarcely heard voices around the world known.My language is Kiribati and I have been unable to translate the poem without paying money online, as google translate does not have it. I know many of you may think this is a silly story from a spoiled child, but I think it really highlights how we fail to represent minorities, being one of them myself.

We call on the council, police, and local MPs to take urgent action to protect law-abiding residents of Hinckley, Barwell, Earl Shilton, and Elmesthorpe from ongoing antisocial and illegal street racing activity. Each month, groups of modified vehicles gather in the Clickers Way and A47 area near Barwell and Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, to engage in street racing and cruising. These events involve cars being driven at speed, often without lights, alongside excessive engine revving and noise. This behaviour is dangerous, disruptive, and unlawful. There have been numerous near misses, with innocent road users put at serious risk of collision. The activity has also caused damage to public infrastructure, including road surfaces, lamp posts, signage, fences, and roundabouts—repairs that ultimately place further strain on already limited council funds. In addition, the noise pollution significantly affects local residents, often late into the night. The sound travels widely, creating conditions comparable to living next to a racetrack, even for those not directly adjacent to the roads. This has led to increased anxiety among residents, who feel unsafe using local roads and concerned for younger or newly qualified drivers who may encounter these events. We urge the relevant authorities to implement effective measures to deter this behaviour and ensure public safety. Preventative action is essential to avoid serious injury or loss of life. It should not take a tragedy for meaningful action to be taken.