The Lancaster bus depot is the gateway to a lot of Lake district services through Cumbria namely the 555 to Keswick Ambleside and kendal. Quite a lot of people who like to ramble in the lakes in Cumbria who live in blackpool and Lancashire and use the service from early spring through to late autumn to connect through to Lancaster and the 555 via the 42 bus service and considering it takes over an hour to get to the lakes from Lancaster cutting the 42 service back stops people using this route and maximising their stay in the lakes. Even if they set off at 9.15 in thr morning they may not get to Cumbria until 12.30 or even 1.00pm which leaves approximately a two hour stay in Cumbria if that until having to return on the 555 for the amended return to blackpool at 5.40 pm Other people rely on a good service to and from Lancaster from blackpool as well and vice versa either for city shipping or a day and evening out. Other people from villages in between blackpool and Lancaster also use the service to shop in Garstang say for example or visit friends and this reduction of the service has had a detrimental effect with its outcomes

The people of Bristol do not want our city doused in glyphosate, a toxic weed killer linked to cancer and many other worrying outcomes for human, animal and soil health. Last year, thousands of us asked Bristol City Council to ditch glyphosate in favour of safer weed control for streets, housing and parks. The Council tried to fob us off with a half-hearted trial in Cotham, using vinegar, of all things... On the other hand, Marvin Rees, Labour’s candidate for Mayor, seemed to listen and understand. Labour promised to “stop using harmful pesticides” in its election manifesto. In a statement to the Pesticide Safe Bristol Alliance, Rees promised to review the Council’s existing spray contracts – which see glyphosate applied across the city’s housing estates and streets – and to implement either a “city-wide trial” or an “immediate ban” on glyphosate. Marvin Rees is now Mayor of Bristol, but has not made these promises come true. The Council refuses to trial genuine alternatives to glyphosate, has failed to review its spray contracts and continues to make flimsy excuses as to why Bristol cannot join other European cities in simply banning the spraying of these harmful chemicals in public spaces. As for Cotham’s sham ‘glyphosate-free’ trial? The weeds are having a wild time, proving what we’ve said all along – that you need to throw more than vinegar at the problem. Bristol’s people, pets and wildlife deserve better. A survey has received reports of glyphosate being sprayed with no warning near to children, and of cats and dogs poisoned by licking treated weeds. Two healthy bee colonies in North Bristol died after glyphosate was sprayed nearby. The Council’s process is broken. It needs to set a target date for phasing out glyphosate, and plan to achieve this. There is plenty of experience we can lean on – from other pesticide-free cities, and from Bristol’s own community of growers and gardeners – who are already managing public spaces without glyphosate. So come on Marvin, before you make any new resolutions for 2017, please make good your existing promise to the residents of this city. How many more growing seasons of glyphosate do we have to endure? You can read Marvin's pesticide promise in full here: http://www.pesticidesafebristol.org/news/press-releases/toxics-tolerant-or-chemical-crusader-mayoral-candidates-compared-on-glyphosate/ You can help by signing this petition, and by signing your own garden up as a Pesticide Free Zone to show that Bristol means business when it comes to toxic-free green spaces: http://www.pesticidesafebristol.org/pesticide-free-pledge/ Report your own opinions of glyphosate with this survey: http://bit.ly/2hxHPir Check out this piece from The Bristol Cable which summarises the story so far: https://thebristolcable.org/2017/01/forget-the-vinegar-the-real-reek-is-inaction-on-glyphosates/

After signing this petition please formally object via http://didcot.space (will redirect you to the Garden Town plan page) or send an email to [email protected] Comments can be as short or long as you like - just make it clear you object to building on Ladygrove Park. Consultation on these proposals has been extended to 28th February, so please do it now. Thank you! There are plans for 15,000 new houses to be built in Didcot as part of the "Didcot Garden Town" project. This is more than those planned for Bicester Garden Town, recently described as a "dog's breakfast" with ecologically important flower rich meadows being lost to housing. Proposals for Didcot have been announced that are WORSE than first feared. They include building technical office space and accommodation over roughly half of the Ladygrove recreation ground and play park. The remnants would be developed such that there would be no substantial level open green space for casual sports or recreation. A new road cutting across the play park and flats on the play park, opposite the Willowbrook and behind the football club with no additional parking serve to top of this awful proposal. The current morning congestion around the primary school would be intolerable. Our facilities, green spaces and paths integral to our local parkrun are threatened. You can see the briefings here : https://didcotgardentown.commonplace.is/news/2017/01/20/stakeholder-representative-group-presentation-19-january-2017 Campaigners in Bicester have been to court twice to try to protect their environment. If we are to protect our green spaces and amenities the time to act is now, by obtaining a simple undertaking from the project team before their plans are fully formed. If you want to save them please sign this petition and share it with your friends. Thank you! (You can see the Ladygrove areas initially marked out for development on the final pages of these two official downloads published by the Didcot Garden Town planners http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/node/18434 and this http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/node/18447 )

We as family of Wali Dar are presenting this petition in an attempt to support our son who is diagnosis of Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning ability. Wali is suffering from frequent flashbacks to the violence, terror, kidnapping and shooting which happened to him and his family especially his father back in his home country Pakistan. Wali is currently living in United Kingdom and receiving continues help and support of his family who he has full trust. Also, he is receiving high quality supports from NHS mental health services, Barnardo’s disability and inclusion support service, Gateshead Council and his school to deal with stress, anxiety and unforgettable traumatic events that has happened to him. Specialists clearly stated that Wali is a vulnerable young man who finds social interactions very difficult and unable to cope well with changes. Wali is unable to eradicate the shocking experiences of violence and life threatening danger back in Pakistan. Wali is currently receiving EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) treatments but he is yet full of fear to re-experience those traumas. Wali’s family are very worry and concern what will happen to Wali if he will not have opportunity to stay in the UK. His supporters and medical team agree that, if he finds out that he has to go back to Pakistan; this change will raise the severity of his autism. This will happen due to the negative opinion he already has from such environment, what he already experienced and lack of support and professionalism in Pakistan. Wali as a young man has a long way ahead in his life. Witnessing such horrific incidents in childhood is very hard to deal with which requires safe environment, special support and family emotional care and support. Wali should be given the opportunity that other disable children have, to obtain confidence and move towards a better future. If he stays away from Pakistan, where he originally experiences the life threatening dangers, and if he keeps receiving the current professional supports he already has in UK, he will be able to cope with his disabilities, fears and anxiety and build his future life. As his parents and family members, it is very hard and heart breaking to see Wali in this situation every day. We do believe Wali’s life is as important as every other individual lives, which are important to every parent, and he should not be returned to Pakistan. The Children like Wali cannot be blamed for witnessing such incidents; instead, they should be supported and kept safe. We will be grateful if you sign in to our petition and support our appeal to Secretary of State requesting, “Please consider appropriate and fair human rights for Wali and his family and grant this family the right to remain in the UK to be safe”. Thanks for your time and considerations.

Well-run, well-priced restaurants along the busy A48 are all successful. Newnham is arguably the prettiest village on the west bank of the Severn that should be a hub for socialising and tourism and can undoubtedly support its own quality eatery. This was demonstrated recently by the dramatic turnaround experienced by the White Hart in Broadoak (outside of Newnham) that occurred when it changed management. In light of this, it seems obvious that failure to boost trade is not a reflection of demand rather the style of management and fare. The change of use of a historic venue to residential would remove an important asset for residents less able to travel and fundamentally and permanently change the nature of the village. It should at least be at least delayed until alternative management has had the opportunity to turn it around.

The simple crisp needs a better home to help keep our home, Earth, clean. By using a material that cannot at least be recycled for items such as crisps increases the global pollution crisis. Around 6 billion bags of crisps are eaten across the UK alone in one year which means 6 billion crisp bags are not recycled. If a sneaky crisp packet gets into the rest of your recycling the whole of the recycling can be rejected meaning less in the end is actually recycled. Packaging that can be recycled reduces the need for new material to be manufactured and actually helps us save energy! For example by recycling an aluminum can, we save 95% of the energy that it would take to create a new can! But for plastic - One ton of recycled plastic saves 5,774 Kwh of energy, 16.3 barrels of oil, 98 million Btu's of energy, and 30 cubic yards of landfill space.(Sandford University) Crisp packaging needs to be updated for the 21st century and needs to be part of the solution in the ongoing pollution problem and not part of the problem.

This has been a family run pub for 17 years. If these applications are allowed to pass, the landlord, a 68 year old man will be made homeless and the building will be redeveloped. Jonathon and Oz will no longer be running The White Bear. The end result is to re-open the pub after the refurbishments have been completed as a much smaller venue (lowered ceiling, reduced floor space) with no kitchen and no function room. This will mean no more home-cooked traditional food, no parties etc and with the rents this property company demand this will not be a sustainable business for anyone. They wish to make changes to the front of the listed building as well as redevelop the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors into self-contained flats. This will not be affordable housing for the residents of Islington, this will be yet more flats that local residents cannot afford to live in. We believe that, as a local community of residents and businesses, we need to pull together and fight for our local pub and stop allowing the 'big-cats' to force local residents out of areas that have been their homes their whole lives. This is important, not just for The White Bear, but for all of us.

This is important because a 74 year old gentleman was left to rot and decompose in a tent, on the bank of the River Severn in Worcester over the summer of 2016. Cardon Banfield came over with the Windrush community and was let down by the state in his final days. In a report by Worcester City Council, it was found that lessons can be learned from the death of Cardon. Councillor Lynn Denham stated that we should learn these lessons - and the undersigned believe we can only do that with a Safeguarding Adults Review. The Worcester City Council-funded CCP service (which the taxpayer pays £240,000 a year for) should have found Cardon's body. Help get Justice for Cardon, hold the right people accountable and stop another tent death happening on our streets again.

We are concerned about the following aspects outlined in the plan. • The reduction of A&E Departments from three to two. Wherever this closure maybe we believe that it will simply put further pressure on A&E departments in other parts of the county. • Closure of community hospital beds. • The further privatisation and fragmentation of NHS services within the country. • Closure of hospital departments putting further pressure on other services • The redeployment of staff which poses a risk to nurses and other health care professionals pay and terms and conditions. We believe that these proposals pose a direct threat to NHS services within the County and therefore we stand united in our opposition to these proposals. Please sign our petition to oppose these proposals and to save our NHS

Greater Manchester Combined Authority is planning for an extra 227,200 homes over the next 25 years. This is based on an unrealistic economic growth of 2.5% year on year and a flawed population growth forecast. If this plan is approved, Bury will bear the brunt of these proposals with 12,500 new dwellings on Green Belt land and a new industrial and warehousing site larger than Trafford Park at the M66 and M60/ M62 motorways junction. More homes are needed and new jobs are welcome, but we can work out ways to meet our housing needs and facilitate the creation of decent, well paid jobs in Bury without encroaching on the existing Green Belt land.

We love the Lower Lea Valley marshes (Leyton marshes, Walthamstow marshes and Hackney marshes). We love having such an amazing, unique, open green space on our doorstep, a place to reconnect with nature and let our imaginations run wild right in the heart of one of the most densely populated cities in the world. And we want to make sure the marshes are there for future generations to enjoy. This is why we are devastated to learn that the London Borough of Waltham Forest has launched a consultation on their vision for the Lea Valley Eastside (http://walthamforest-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/leabridge/leyton), which involves rezoning the large swathe of green open space around The WaterWorks Centre - part of Leyton marshes - for housing. This land is Metropolitan Open Land, which means it should be protected from all inappropriate development, just like Green Belt land. If these plans are approved, then the spectre of our marshes disappearing under high-rise tower blocks comes one step closer. We have until the end of January to tell the Council - loud and clear - that we will not tolerate building on our marshes. If we can stop these plans in their tracks, then we have a chance to save our marshes for the future.

Many people are evicted in the Private Rental sector with no good reason other than the Landlord wants to make more money This is a major cause of homelessness Landlords can evict without a reason , they dont need arears,unsocial behaviour they do not need to justify the eviction at all. This cannot be right in a country with a Housing Crisis To make an instant improvement in homelessness or potential homelessness and keep communities together Once they eviction takes place it often affects schooling,Doctors surgeries a persons place in the community We are the only European Country that allows renters to be treated so badly