The betting shops help to keep people with gambling addictions forever victims.

I have just signed a petition to pay more taxes. Which I support - but it rankles the the not-rich are signing this petition, while the super-rich pay peanuts.

This is the site of repeated accidents, the most recent on Thursday 23 Jan. The residents of Hall Green and those who use the A34 Stratford Road in Birmingham have been campaigning for many years for attention to this dangerous junction and to speeding and hazardous driving along this stretch of dual carriageway. We are scared that unless something is done urgently, the next accident will be fatal. There have already been two fatal collisions here. Improvements should include traffic lights as a priority and safety measures to prevent speeding and dangerous driving. This should include all options including the possibility of installing average speed cameras along the length of the A34 from South & City College up to the Robin Hood Roundabout.

This would be a low cost and fast-acting solution to free up resources for cash strapped hospitals and communities in the UK, with enormous benefits to the environment should the government be prepared to subsidise the currently prohibitive costs on solar panels, as has already been implemented with home insulation schemes.

“I would like to die because life is a constant battle with symptoms and I am worn down by this. More and more my life is taken over by daily tasks such as eating, dressing, and showering, leaving little time for anything else. I still love life very much but I am very tired of trying to make life enjoyable. I would like to die now whilst I still love life, and it is clear to my friends and family that I love life." Jan Sutton https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-to-discuss-assisted-dying We need to do more to give people in Jan's position better choices at the end of life. The Prime Minister recently announced that he will begin cross party talks on the future of social care . That discussion should include consideration of what happens at the end of life. First we need better access to end of life palliative care. According to the institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) 47% of people in Great Britain die in hospital but only 10% of medical staff feel equipped to deliver appropriate care at the end of life. The IPPR recommends that professionals working with people at the end of life should receive appropriate training and more effort should be put into delivering end of life care outside hospitals within the community. Second we need to consider legalising assisted dying for those who want that option. Appropriate safeguards would be required. The option of assisted dying at a point of their choosing for people should be avaialable to those who are terminally ill or whose life has become intolerable to them due to chronic illness or disability and who have previously publicly expressed a wish for this option Providing medical assistance to end a life is legal in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Holland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and seven US States. Research among Canadians with experience of receiving palliative care showed that 78% of them wanted to have the option of assisted dying . A survey by IPSOS Mori for the Economist in 2015 found that 58% of the population of Great Britain believed that people who are terminally ill or find life intolerable due to incurable physical or mental suffering should have the right to assisted dying. Subject to appropriate safeguards we need to have that right here https://www.ippr.org/files/2018-05/end-of-life-care-in-england-may18.pdf https://bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12904-018-0304-6 https://www.economist.com/briefing/2015/06/27/attitudes-towards-assisted-dying

The car park is essential for local shops and services to thrive and its management heavily impacts local residents and businesses. After a previous car park firms unsuccessful attempt at management of the Oastler Road car park, we in the local community are keen to have our say in the management a second time around.

Hate crimes towards the LGBTQ+ community are on the rise. The Home Office reported from 2018 to 2019 police recorded 14,491 crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation an increase of 25% and a further 2,333 offences against transgender people because of their gender identity an increase of 37%. This only accounts for crimes reported with Stonewall reporting that four in five LGBT people (81 per cent) who experienced a hate crime or incident didn't report it to the police. Despite the rise there has been no amendments to the law to count homophobic, biphobic or transphobic hate crimes as aggravated offences. Sections 29 to 32 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 created specific racially or religiously aggravated offences, which have higher maximum penalties than the non-aggravated versions of those offences, hate crimes towards the LGBTQ+ community should be brought up to the same level.

Its important as a community gathering .Often items were sold for pennies and items normally out of budget ranges were there at a reasonable price. I bough a lot of my clothes and dishes for my home there Along with curtains and other necessary items. Too many people live on hourly or short contracts and boot sales are invaluable Charity shops have almost priced some parts of our community out altogether Their prices have risen -a huge amount- Its also a great communal meeting point and if a permanent place was provided perhaps a small cafe could be set up too ,creating a job for someone??!! People just love a good market .

The Metropolitan Police has started using live facial recognition cameras across London. This surveillance technology turns us into walking ID cards and treats members of the public like suspects in a high-tech police line up. These cameras are a threat to our privacy and freedoms – and they need to be stopped.  The police's own stats show live facial recognition to be over 70% inaccurate and more likely to misidentify innocent people of colour as potential suspects. A court even found that police had been using this technology unlawfully.  This Orwellian technology is used to oppress people in China and Russia. The Met would be the largest police force in the democratic world to roll out this dangerously authoritarian surveillance. This is an enormous expansion of the surveillance state and a serious threat to civil liberties in the UK.  The Home Secretary and Met Commissioner must stop using live facial recognition now.

According to Action for Children as many as 1 in 5 children have been exposed to Domestic Abuse. How can we create a zero tolerance attitude towards Domestic Abuse if we do not educate tomorrow’s future on what a healthy relationship is. Many do grow up and go into healthy loving relationships but there are the forgotten child victims of Domestic Abuse that do not have the key knowledge or skills to break their Domestic Abuse Cycles. By teaching children young this may help children in a domestic abuse households recognise this is not normal, have confidence they are not alone and give them the courage to speak out! Today's children will be tomorrow's judges, police officers, social workers, doctors most of which today need further education into domestic abuse and it's effects. By teaching children young we are laying a positive foundation for later understanding into domestic abuse.

Sheffield City Council has so far failed to deliver the Citizen's Assembly on the climate emergency that it promised to organise before the end of 2019.

To stop this woman and all people thinking it is okay to hunt animals for sport Why anyone would think it is morally just to kill a innocent creature is beyond me and for nothing more but because they believe it to be fun