We are 2 weeks into a 6-week (tokenistic) 'consultation' period to downgrade our Post Office in Finsbury Park. We have 4 weeks left to ramp up our response. The petition needs to reach 2000 signatures to trigger a debate in full Council Meeting. We all know that Crown Post Office provides important services that feed into the social and economic vitality of the area it serves. Our Post Office is under threat of being downsized into the corner of a store. Here are just a few reminders why we need to keep it viable and serving our community: 1. There is massive regeneration and development of Finsbury Park: our Post Office should be expanding rather than reduced within a franchise. 2. . Franchises depend on profit; franchise takeovers of Post Offices show a track record of low pay and conditions; high staff turnover; less experienced staff; long queues; people becoming irritated... 3. Big picture is that Crown Post Offices process 40% of financial services mail so are a crucial component of London’s economy. Track record of franchises is loss of experienced staff who are able to deal swiftly and efficiently with complex queries so business users suffer loss of time and money. 4. With a strategy of downgrading services, Post Office Limited’s own branding to serve the ‘heart of the community’ would appear to be a nonsense! Could those highly paid PO Ltd Board executives have signed up to such a policy without researching implications for Finsbury Park? We have massive development! Rapid population growth! Increasing demand! 5. A franchise will lose experienced staff who provide a patient, knowledgeable and polite service. Our PO is used by local businesses, hard-working families; small traders, disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals, (including people with issues of mild dementia; people whose first language is not English, people with disabilities, people with hearing or sight loss. 6. Finsbury Park Post Office serves an area of super-diversity. We need a commitment to promoting social cohesion. The strategic planning policy of National and local government (we have three bordering London boroughs - Hackney, Islington and Haringey) has made this commitment. Reducing Finsbury Park Post Office service by squeezing it into the corner of a store would undermine opportunities for social cohesion. 7. Downsizing to franchise of our PO would erode choice, limit access across our whole community, impact negatively on social cohesion and serve no-one's best interests. - KEEP FINSBURY PARK POST OFFICE VIABLE!

People like me were invited to the UK in 2009 to study for a MSc Physiotherapy well before the 35K salary threshold came into existence in 2016. The immigration rule at the time stated we were given 2 years’ visa (PSW) to find a permanent job and if we were able to find a permanent job, we were eligible for indefinite leave to remain if we completed 5 years in our permanent job and our employer still needed us. However, because of this new law, only those people who are earning more than £35,000 on a single contracted salary will be eligible to apply for leave to remain. This law will only discourage people to work for the public-sector organisations such as the NHS where achieving 35K salary within the first 5 years of employment is nearly impossible unless the employee is working in London. People like me who are working 7 days a week and earning well above 35K over the past 2 years with overtime will have to leave their permanent senior physiotherapist NHS job and move to the private sector to fulfil this salary threshold. After the Royal College of Nursing highlighted the impact of this law on the nurses staffing level the Home Office have exempted all nurses from this law however, other important professions such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, many doctors, IT professionals and many engineers are not exempted. We do respect the government’s idea of training UK citizens but they must understand that training them takes time and needs senior staff to train them. Due to our job role, we now provide clinical education to university students and juniors. Also, moving trained people like us from Birmingham to London/private sector will have no impact on immigration however it will only cost money to the NHS to employ more locum staff. The Charted Society of Physiotherapy argues that 500 additional physiotherapists are needed UK-wide each year up to 2020 to meet the demand, with services already facing supply shortages. In the year 2015, Health Education England, a government body, cut the number of physiotherapy training places in England alone by 6.2 per cent, 95 fewer places than the previous year. There were just 1448 NHS-funded training places for the 2016/17 intake. Also due to NHS bursaries cuts and 14% pay cuts to the NHS employees in real terms, less people will be inclined towards health professional courses hence it will be a wise decision to bring the threshold to 28K (average UK salary) so that the Tier 2 visa holders who are already working will be able to continue their work in the UK. We started a petition earlier on this issue #anand35k which gained lot of popularity and 13,346 signatures but due to the general election, our deadline was brought forward by 9 weeks and we had to stop our campaign. I have had various BBC radio, news agencies interview but my most popular one was the BBC Midlands interview which had 338K views in 1 week on their Facebook page. https://youtu.be/w8BYaeKMEEA I personally feel that this law is disrespecting the service we have provided by working 7 days a week, paying our taxes, national insurance, NHS surcharge (only paid by non-EU nationals) and I have never claimed any benefit. I hope we win this time otherwise the NHS and many big companies will be losing experienced trained staff. It will not do justice to the employers who have spent so much money on our training and it will be an injustice to the people who have made their home in the city they are living in.

Aida Emilianna Safari, aged 53, is here in the UK to escape from political persecution in the Congo (DRC). She was a propagandist against Joseph Kabila and was imprisoned from 2005-2006 until her murdered husband’s political allies arranged for her successful escape from prison in 2006. She has been in the UK since 2006. She is now on her fourth lawyer who is acting pro bono to secure her release. In the meantime, on 17 December 2016 Aida’s older sister and nephew were killed in a grenade attack. Joseph Kabila’s reign of terror continues. Aida cannot return home to a country that has already falsely imprisoned her for being part of the opposition to a brutal government.

We believe that Brookfield campus is not fit for the purpose of locating the School of Business: it will undermine teaching and research, and damage the student experience. The reasons for this are manifold, as voiced on many occasions by numerous members of School staff in various fora. These include: • Substantial physical and practical ‘distancing’ of ULSB academic and other student-facing staff from the students’, whose primary base will remain the main campus. • Negligible teaching space and learning facilities for approximately 5,000 campus-based ULSB students despite NSS data showing students prioritise these over new buildings*. • Worsens students' access to tutors as it discourages them from choosing their stated preference for face-to-face contact**. • Planned shared offices for most academic staff is not conducive to undertaking quiet research activities, student supervision and confidential meetings. • Alternative ‘break-out’ accommodation is inadequate and insufficient for ad hoc and confidential meetings. • Staff and students with mobility restrictions are disproportionately penalized by the distance and journey-time between the main campus and Brookfield. • Personal safety concerns associated with crossing Victoria Park after dark. • The lack of a convenient and safe pedestrian crossing of London Road en route from the main campus. • Considerable risk of unpleasant and uncomfortable weather conditions during the 15 to 20-minute walk from main campus. We believe that if ULSB relocates to the Brookfield campus there will be a significant negative impact on the School’s NSS score, and its performance in the TEF and REF will be undermined. Regardless of the many valid criticisms of these performance measures and their uses, they remain the primary benchmarks used by prospective students and external stakeholders to evaluate the School and University. We believe the success of students and staff are bound to one another because “(t)eachers’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions”, as expressed by Diane Ravitch, Historian and Research Professor of Education. With compromised research and teaching conditions and a poor location, we are not able as a School to succeed together. Despite the Brookfield move being at an advanced stage of planning, we understand there has not been any consultation with the Leicester University Students Union (LUSU), let alone the three staff trade unions, UCU, Unite, and Unison. In addition, the views of current ULSB students have not been canvassed, which is astonishing given the current first-year cohort will be in their final year at the time of the planned move in 2019/18 - and will be NSS respondents in 2019. We call on the Provost and ULT to halt the current plans for relocating ULSB to Brookfield and instead work with staff and students to find a suitable alternative that will allow the School to thrive and expand in a location with facilities that enhance the student experience and provides the best possible working conditions for pursuing scholarly activity, as befits a research-intensive university. ________________________________________________________ CITED RESEARCH * Universities UK (2016) http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2016/student-experience-measuring-expectations-and-outcomes.pdf ** HEPI-HEA (2016) http://www.hepi.ac.uk/2016/06/09/hepi-hea-2016-student-academic-experience-survey/

All residents of Harcombe valley, Lyme Regis, Uplyme, Charmouth and Axminster will have to deal with: Sound pollution - the field is on top of a valley and sound carries very clearly, driven by breezes from the coast. 30 lorries with reversing beepers and a bulldozer up there 6 days a week will impact everyone who lives in the valley considerably. Traffic - traffic in our area already reaches congestion levels during peak periods and holiday times. Traffic into and out of Lyme Regis can become untenable. Lorries are advised to go via Charmouth roundabout but we have no faith that there will be adequate policing of this stipulation. Dust/Mud: this scale of delivery of material and waste will result in mud trails being left on the A3052 which is the main route into and out of Lyme Regis on the East side. If the weather is warm and dry, we can only imagine the scale of dust that will be generated, dust that will blow directly across the valley over nearby residents. Land slippage: it has been assessed that in order for this scheme to achieve its stated aims: ‘to level up the playing surface of this driving range’ – parts of the bottom edge of the field in question may well be raised 20-30 feet. This is a very large quantity of material on a significantly steep slope. Since there was a well-known major land slip in the field literally next door to this some years back, it seems entirely justified to have deep concerns about the safety of this scheme – especially for those living underneath it. RUN-OFF – despite all claims that the material being dumped here will be inert and completely harmless, there are plenty of precedents that can be found to show similar dumping schemes can let their standards slide. Before anyone has noticed unwelcome material is being included.. ..and the resulting run-off after rain, affects the grazing nearby, and the stream which is exactly beneath this site. Who will be policing this aspect? AONB – it hardly needs stating that this area is universally noted for its peace and beauty. We only have to witness the huge numbers of people who travel from far and wide to visit the charming town of Lyme Regis and the coast around it, at all times of the year. Does it seem in any way sensible to carve up a large field right next to one of the main arteries to this stretch of coast, and have an unending stream of huge, noisy lorries dumping waste into it 5 years? GENERAL We believe that this site has previously had an application made to provide shelter and floodlighting for the Driving Range. This was apparently denied because of the light pollution it would cause to residents across the valley. I’m sure we’re all grateful that it was denied.. ..but this adds to the amazement that a certain amount of silent lighting would be denied, and yet an unending disruption of trucks, bulldozing, dust, mud, noise and traffic should even be considered appropriate! Overall, even if your decision turns out to approve a scheme that only benefits the proposers, we have very little faith that all the various aspects that will need constant monitoring during the proposed period, will be sufficiently monitored. Please visit this site and take a good, long look at its negative impact on a large number of people in this area, before you decide to condemn us to years of disruption. The residents of Harcombe valley, Uplyme, Lyme Regis, Charmouth and Axminster

The British government and the international community has yet to call the situation in Chechnya what it is: Genocide. The Chechen government is rounding up, torturing and murdering gay men. Their families are being given an ultimatum: murder your relatives or state enforcers will. The media is a powerful force in British civic life and forms the strongest voice in setting the political agenda. We urge you, as editors of our country's dominant media platforms, to ensure that the genocide of gay men in Chechnya becomes a front page issue in Britain. Only then will politicians give the issue the attention it deserves. The General Election allows an opportunity to bring this issue to the front pages at a time when politicians are especially susceptible to headlines. Please understand the huge significance of the power you wield as agenda setters in the United Kingdom. Innocent people are being tortured and murdered and you have the power to stop it. I urge you to embrace the media's power to affect the agenda to save the lives of those desperately in need - before it's too late.

They have taken ten years to build their nursery, preschool, before and after school and this year got their OUTSTANDING rating! My son has been there since 18months old and is leaving in Summer but I was hoping my daughter would be joining at 18 months also! Unless this renewed they will have to make many wonderful staff members redundant and local parents and families will have to search for these services elsewhere - and there is already a shortage!

Leabridge Road is ugly and filthy and the only part that makes me smile is that group of trees as I go home. Already 5 trees across the road have been chopped down and will not be replaced. There will be next to none mature trees left along the grey, dirty road. They will be replaced by nine small trees evenly spaced all around the new store totally destroying the only wall of green foliage along Leabridge Road. I don't understand. We go on about air quality/ pollution, unhealthy living environment so on and despite the very well known fact that trees not only combat pollution but add a sense of well being into our lives, we chop down the trees. Doesn't make sense. Please publicise it and help stop this nonsensical destruction.

The chains are taking over Let Camden be Camden We are the owners of My Village, serving fresh daily food in a homely, rustic and handmade environment. For over 10 years we built My Village, with the help of all our family & friends, layer by layer, plank by plank, as a place which supports the community, its artists, hobbyists and love Offering my village walls for free to exhibit art work. This was not a mass produced 2nd world war cannon wheel, used by the British Army in the 2nd World War. The structure of the sitting area, we brought from a single English family, who had 80s, these pieces of wood, were recovered and restored. This farm was sold to their grandfather, and they discovered that these pieces of wood were from the Spain Armada war, and have been used in the farm in northern England, and neglected since the collapse, in the storm of 1984, we carefully restored the pieces of wood ourselves, and they are now hanging proudly in My Village Cafe. We don’t have WiFi we lose customers, base for social life, books, backgammon, socialise without the screen. The rest of My Village, is made from repurposed wood, from different sources, with equally interesting stories. We did this so we can weave history into the experience and bring it back to life for the Camden’s community. That’s why when you step into My Village you sense history and feel good Vibes. The journey has not been easy, we established My Village in 2006, in what was then a quiet part of Chalk Farm road, when the cafes and shops around us were struggling and shutting down. However, we survived and then later thrived thanks to the help of all our family, friends and customers. Now 10 year on, we are at risk of being shut down, and all that I described above, becoming forgotten history again. Most of Camden is being divided between a few private landlords, supported estate agents, and their aim is agree to raise all of the rent across Camden, making it impossible for independent small business owners to survive, your only chance of survival in this new world, is if you are major chain store, your own landlord or lucky enough to have a decent landlord who isn’t playing the game. This is not only about small business owners, but its also about the people and students of Camden not having access to affordable food & drink. The chains will reduce the quality, the originality of Camden, and raise its prices, making it just another conformist area of London, not letting Camden be Camden. As part of this wider game, our landlord has also started to demand an unrealistic rise in our rent, which would make it impossible for My Village to continue serving Camden. Camden is dominated by three landlords and Bruce estate agent and  they are rising the rent to unbearable and unsustainable levels. Their aim is to push out small business and attract big chains  to Camden . This would truly be terrible detrimental to this area . It would become another clone of many high street and loose the very uniqueness that has made it such a tourist magnet over so many decades.  If you believe that, its our duty to protect Camden, if you believe that Camden should be as free as possible from Chains, if you believe that Camden should keep its history, its originality, if you believe that my village and many like it, should have a right to survive,to keep Camden not be converted to another common, soulless business area, then please sign this petition and lend your support to this cause. For further information about My Village Café please visit. Facebook of My Village Café. Website of My Village café. www.myvillagecafebar.co.uk. Trip adviser.  the guardian link: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guardian/20170306/281706909472538 My Village Cafe S Hamarash 07737892812

Natural Justice dictates that you don't punish someone for another's wrongdoing. These people should not have their achievements taken away on a whim of some bureaucrat whose predecessors didn't do something that he thinks they should have done. If anything the public will have less enthusiasm for Athletics if they think it's all about drugs.

This year I got my first parking fine. Two letters arrived for eighty five pounds each. I heard for from various Managers on the Crown Wharf in Walsall that there is fifteen minutes grace, but when you are shopping it is very difficult to watch the clock. The first fine showed that I went over by a measly thirty six seconds, and the other one showed that I went over by two minutes. I was informed that If I paid the fines within fourteen days I would only be charged fifty pounds each. As I earn close to minimum wage I was gutted, but I gritted my teeth and paid them within fourteen days. Because of this awful situation it has spurred me on to instigate this long overdue petition. Other places in the Midlands have FREE parking, like Bentley Bridge, Merry Hill and Bilston! The twenty four hour Tesco in Walsall has two hours parking if you spend five pounds in the store. A staff member on the till told me that a customer recently said to her, 'After I did my shopping I wanted to have a meal in the café like I used to, but I wasn't able to as I would have gone over the two hour limit, so I had to eat elsewhere'. This week I spotted a car with a parking ticket on the windscreen in Walsall town centre. I was just about to take a photo to illustrate my petition when I heard the doors unlock. I saw a woman approaching me, I asked her if this was her car. It was, so I informed her that she had a ticket and she said in a disappointed voice "I wasn't long." She was happy for me to take the photo. We all need free parking in Walsall. This would be good for business! Customers could shop until they drop instead of always looking at their watches and then running to put money into the cash cows! Please sign this Petition. Thank you.

Since the introduction of the Bedroom Tax, affected tenants have been forced to make a series of cutbacks in order to survive on a lower income. The Department for Work and Pensions estimated that 75% had to cut back on their expenditure on food, 46% reduced the amount they spent on heating and 33% spent less on travel. These are cutbacks that are not necessary - the harshness of the Bedroom Tax is the reason for such measures. 14-25% reduction in housing benefit is a large chunk of income to lose, especially when this money is essential to pay bills. Those losing housing benefit struggle to increase income levels after the tax; 50% of affected tenants wished to do this, by either finding employment or increasing their hours at their current employment, yet found difficulty in being able to do this.