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Save vascular and renal services in Ysbyty GwyneddYsbyty Gwynedd covers a vast geographical area. The decision to transfer services would put patients in the north west of wales at risk. It is vital that we retain key members of medical and surgical staff , who's skills are invaluable!5,443 of 6,000 SignaturesCreated by Helen Williams
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Equal living wage for all agesThe government wants the young to get working but they do not want, I am not surprised they do not want to work for peanuts while someone who is over 25 will make double the wage of 16. The price of bread is not different for 16 year old person to what it is for 25 year old person, so I do not know why there is big wage gap.5 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Dawid Godawa
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Let People in Private Rented Accommodation Back Onto Council Housing ListsIt Is important because private tenants do not own their homes and can lose them at any time . A council place gives them stability from having to keep moving .30 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Teresa Swann
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50% refund if no seats on trainThis would incentivise railway companies to put on enough carriages or services so that people could travel sitting down on seats, instead of standing up or blocking the aisles. I don't like having to pay some £60 for a standard class off peak return to London only to find some mornings that I have to stand for much of the journey, or chance sitting in a reserved seat and hoping that the seat holder doesn't turn up.21 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Dr Phil Wadey
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Put a stop to dangerous parking at Oldfield Brow SchoolWhen parents park in these places it leaves those crossing the roads unable to see and be seen as they create blind spots for both drivers and pedestrians. Even worse is when parents are forced to walk into the road at the busy junctions with their children in tow, often with push chairs because drivers have left no space on the pavement (such as the bottom of Hillcroft Rd). These drivers also create a nuisance to neighbours, making life during the week stressful and upsetting. These inconsiderate drivers do not care, and despite Mr Merrell (the headteacher) doing his best to control the situation the drivers of the cars just do not care, even ignoring him when he stands at the school gate to try to deter this behaviour. He receives around 6 parking complaints a day, so it is time we helped and made our voices heard. Mr Merrell has been asking the council to make our area into a category B parking area which will mean we will have parking attendants to deter the bad parkers and make them park further away from the school. Please help us and help yourselves and your children by signing this petition! Once we have reached 100 signatures it will be sent into Trafford Council. So many of us are fed up and angry with the terrible parking happening on our doorsteps and outside of our children's school. Please help make a difference by signing the petition and campaigning for traffic wardens to be in force at school pick up and drop off times.137 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Sabrina Brown
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Keep open the Soho and Covent Garden Housing OfficeIf the Soho and Covent Garden Housing Office is closed services and staff will be relocated to Lisson Grove, a long way from Soho and Covent Garden, particularly for the elderly and those with disabilities. Closing the office would be another local public service loss suffered by residents59 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Paul Dimoldenberg
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Hastings BHS to become PrimarkThe reason I thinks it's important is because the people who lost their jobs in BHS could be re employed for primark. Also we love primark.2,595 of 3,000 SignaturesCreated by Coral Neal
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Dropped Kerb Disabled AccessDropped kerbs make a huge difference to my life and those of other disabled individuals where they are available but this availability is patchy at best with individual roads often having them only in some spots but not in others rendering overall access little better than if there were none at all. Dropped kerbs affect individuals who use crutches or walking sticks or frames or wheelchairs or mobility scooters and also affect parents with prams too so they matter to a considerable section of the community. Dropped kerbs need to be protected from careless parking by means of double yellow lines or they may be rendered useless even where they are otherwise available and these need to be rigidly enforced too. This amenity is particularly important in relation to buildings where disabled access is a necessity yet, taking my local hospital as an example, outside that complex there is no dropped kerb and an over eight inch drop to the road from the pavement. This is a far from uncommon experience and highlights the need for fresh action to put these matters right. Disabled people struggle enough to get around as it is without making this any more difficult thanks to the patchy and ill thought through provision of dropped kerbs that we currently have. Central government action and matching funding is needed as well as local government action to put the work into place.196 of 200 SignaturesCreated by David Nash
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Save our Local ClinicWe have a local clinic which used to be used for all sorts of things such as physiotherapy, baby clinic, many other uses but most importantly as a warfarin clinic. Warfarin patients are overwhelmingly at the older end of the spectrum and can find it more difficult to get about. The new arrangement is in the next village, Kippax, has insufficient parking and can only be accessed by bus for some people. The excuse is that our building is unfit for purpose (it has been neglected for years but is still sound) and necessitates additional travel by the professionals. We started the campaign for Norma & Joyce. Norma is 90, 91 in December a very independent lady who doesn't like to ask for help. Her husband Charlie 88 was starting with dementia had a fall in October last year & fractured his hip. They will have been married 70 years in December & for the first time in 69 years it meant they were apart for over five weeks whilst he was in hospital & rehabilitation. Up until recently Norma was attending the warfarin clinic every two weeks sometimes weekly. With Charlie having dementia Norma can't be trailing to Kippax on the bus risking being away from home for long periods of time. When she attended the warfarin clinic at Garforth she would get the bus to Main Street then walk to the Clinic, she was in & out within 10 minutes. Two friends now take it in turns to take her to Kippax although Norma wouldn't ask. Friends have to make sure they ask Norma when her appointments are so she isn't away from home too long. Joyce unfortunately was taken off her warfarin & had massive stroke & died but when she was attending Garforth clinic she could make her own way there. When the warfarin clinic moved to Kippax Joyce became stressed & her levels became erratic & difficult to control. Her daughter used to have to take time off work to take her or if she wasn't able to our Neighbourhood Elders' Team would arrange for transport. Elderly people shouldn't have to be made to feel the way Joyce was made to feel. The NHS claims to want to keep people in their own homes & as independent as possible yet is taking away one of the major means for them remaining independent. Having a clinic in Garforth meant elderly & disabled people could be independent by attending under their own steam. Many could go on scooters or use walkers & take a steady walk, they can't walk to Kippax. Another lady has epilepsy and attended Garforth Clinic for physiotherapy & in the past counselling. Many people in Garforth know her & know if she has a seizure she will come round & be fine but, when she's out of the area, ambulances have been called & she's ended up being taken to A & E when there's no need. She wasn't even offered Kippax when she was referred for her most recent physiotherapy yet we had been told we could access the same services as Garforth Clinic had offered. They offered her Meanwood, Middleton, Pudsey, Whetherby & Wharfedale, right across the other side of Leeds, a large, busy city. We've had people attending Kippax who've been turned away as they cannot cope with the number of patients. One patient attended physiotherapy, checked in with the receptionist half an hour prior to her appointment, waited over an hour, then was told the physiotherapist wasn't there. These are only a small sample of the disruption, stress and inconvenience caused by this ill thought out decision. We have fought it but feel powerless in the face of such a huge organisation making a corporate decision with finance seeming to be the driving factor, not the wellbeing of the users of the service.117 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Jacqueline Simpson
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Rethink Hinkley PointBecause 1. Buying Hinkley Point is a colossal mistake 2. Mrs May inherited the project from Osborne & Cameron, keen to develop Chinese trade, 3. but now finds it politically embarrassing to back out of this very bad deal Consequently, we need to inform the public 1. why the deal is bad 2. that there are better alternatives and 3. the Chinese and French can be placated while serving British interests Why is Hinkley Point such a bad deal? 1. It is far too expensive 2. There are undeclared costs associated with the nuclear legacy which make nonsense of published costs – we will have to look after the abandoned reactors and radioactive waste for centuries and nobody knows how to do it or cares how much it will cost 3. There is a huge risk of failure – no such reactor has yet been completed and the ones started (Finland 2005, France 2007) are unfinished, in deep technical trouble and seriously (by billions each) over budget 4. The risks are ultimately borne by us, not the French contractors or Chinese financiers – the project is too big to be allowed to fail by the Government of the day (not Mrs May) 5. Nuclear technology is in any case the wrong choice for filling our anticipated supply gap: nuclear energy gets more expensive as new ideas to improve safety are incorporated in the design; in contrast other well established methods of electricity generation such as gas or coal-fired turbines and particularly offshore wind and solar energy get cheaper by the day owing to accumulating experience and rapid technical development 6.IF it has to be nuclear, the Hinkley Point reactors are too big (small modular reactors can be built instead as needed, at a fraction of the cost and in much less time) and probably also the wrong technology (a debatable, but only secondary, point) Why is the Government pursuing it? The above problems with the Hinkley project are well known to Mrs May and her advisers, but 1. Mrs May inherited it from Messrs Cameron & Osborne, who promoted it mainly in order to develop tempting business relations with China. 2. Brexit makes such relations even more important as proof of GBplc's viability outside the EU Are there any alternatives? Technical alternatives are set out above, but how to meet the political and commercial imperatives? We must persuade the public, and thus influence the Government, to 1. Abandon Hinkley even at this late stage and with possible compensation costs and offer the Chinese and French Governments partnerships in implementing the chosen technical alternative (the Chinese are leaders in solar cell development and production and both the French and Chinese may be interested in offshore developments, small reactors and advanced research). 2. Maximise the benefits to UKplc by ensuring that a good share of work is retained (for example involving UK contractors and Rolls-Royce if small modular nuclear plants form part of the chosen technical mix). Balint Bodroghy BASC DIC (nuclear engineering) 5 Palmeira Avenue Mansions 17-19 Church Road, Hove, BN3 2FA REFERENCES Why Hinkley Point is a nuclear folly of Titanic proportions New Scientist 28.07.16 Michael Le Page Forget the economics of Hinkley Point, the politics are convincing Daily Telegraph Matthew Lynn 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 6:21PM If there’s one sure-fire way to irritate de Rivaz of EDF, it’s to mention Christmas turkeys. Emily Gosden, energy editor, Daily Telegraph 17 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 8:00PM Let's ditch Hinkley Point and HS2 to get more bang for our bucks, Daily Telegraph Liam Halligan 17 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 12:59PM Hinkley Point fires up Britain's nuclear ambitions Daily Telegraph 17 September 2016, 8:00pm Rolls submitted designs to the Government for Small Modular Reactors capable of generating 220MW, that could be doubled up to 440, a 10th of the size of a traditional nuclear power station. Rolls Royce Publicity: For some 50 years, Rolls-Royce has been helping Naval and utility customers maximise plant operation and safely extend plant lifetimes. Britain is “ideally placed” to take a global lead in the SMR market, which could be worth £400bn,216 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Balint Bodroghy BASc DIC (Nuclear engineering)
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End privatisation at the Imperial War MuseumIn 2014, the Imperial War Museum privatised its visitor & security services. the company they appointed (Shields Guarding) had no experience in running museums and the results have been catastrophic impacting on workers, the services delivered to visitors and the care of collections. Workers have endured two years of mismanagement, as well as payroll and pension administration problems. The original contractor, Shield Guarding, has now gone bust and has been taken over by multinational Noonans. They also have no experience in managing museums and are focusing on cutting jobs for profit rather than improving services. Workers & the PCS Union have raised numerous Health & Safety concerns that go ignored. It is now an urgent for the Imperial War Museum to end privatisation. PCS members have raised alarming concerns about security and safety arrangements at the museum as a result of cost-cutting and the potential for a major incident to take place. The PCS culture group supports the call for a review of privatisations in the sector and for these contracts, like at the National Gallery, the British Museum or Tate, to be brought back in-house.1,230 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Clara Paillard
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Hospital ParkingMany European countries, with more space than the UK, build parking under squares, hospitals and public buildings, while we do not - preferring to take up valuable space with multi-storey monstrosities. Huge centralised hospitals, with large catchment areas, are becoming the norm, necessitating the use of private transport for a great many, yet there is never enough parking for day patients, staff and visitors.4 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Chris Mann
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