The Royal Mile Market is Edinburgh's only permanent, 7-day, indoor marketplace. It is home to over 15 local businesses, brands and traders, all of whom are based entirely in Edinburgh. The market hosts: Artists, Designers, Muralists, Jewellers, Weavers, Musicians, Printers, Historians, and many more.... Now, a multi-million pound, London-based company have put in a bid to take the Tron Kirk away from us to use as a 'gift shop'. As the current tenants, we have the right to renew our lease at the current market rate before any other offers are considered - which we want to do! PLEASE, Edinburgh Council, don't take the livelihoods away from small-scale, Edinburgh-based businesses. We NEED the Tron Kirk. Between us we employ over 50 local people on top of providing a unique shopping destination and tourist attraction. In addition, many of our profits go directly back into the local economy. We have nowhere else to go. Thank you, The Traders of the Royal Mile Market WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: https://vimeo.com/178314147

Privacy for private hire drivers when off work and stops our vehicles getting damaged and vandalised when parked unattended!!! *Drivers should have a choice to use magnetic decals Instead of permanent stickers* *Ultimately it's cost private hire drivers who want to change their vehicle or change the firm they work for as the stickers can damage paintwork when being removed* *These stickers are extremely difficult to remove once they are on and have a tendency to damage the body work of the vehicle. It could cost a driver hundreds of pounds to have a respray job on both doors every time they want to move firms or change vehicle* "We think these are unreasonable costs being put onto the trade." *As far as public safety is concerned, you have to prove it. You can’t just say it’s for public safety. How does it keep the public safe?” Taxis in Wolverhampton are already well marked up. We have licenses in the front window with the plate number and a plastic plate fitted on the rear of the vehicle and are ‘easily identifiable! We also have a ring back and text service so that a customer can be texted or called and customers get full information of the job dispatched name of driver his picture,registration number of vehicle, colour of vehicle,make and model of vehicle. What more safety do they need??? “We are pre-booked, meaning a customer can expect a certain car from a certain company only! When they do get the ring back text, they will get the details of the driver,the vehicle make and model, registration number of vehicle etc etc There’s no chance of anyone getting into the wrong car.” We feel that the industry has become ‘OVER REGULATED'

In light of recent losses to our cityscape it is vital that this parade of Edwardian shops which defines the character of the whole street should remain intact.

A local Post Office is at the heart of a community. But in the last year, both the Pontllanfraith and Penllwyn Post Offices have closed - leaving our residents without access to the wide range of services that many of us rely on. We believe that the Post Office has a public duty to provide its services in every community. So we the undersigned call upon the Post Office to restore provision of local Post Office services to Pontllanfraith as soon as possible.

Chris Packham is a much loved and respected naturalist and presenter, who campaigns for wildlife and conservation. The Countryside Alliance and other organisations are calling for the BBC to sack him, in other words silence him, for speaking out in his campaigns. We think his campaigns for wildlife are justified, as they are based on scientific evidence, and he keeps his campaigning and role at the BBC separate.

The ACC are pitching to build a new school in Torry when we have a perfectly good school that they have abandoned and left to rot. Instead of trying to find another location in Torry and demolish this one, we need to put the £20 million into restoring this beautiful building and reopening it. The ACC simply cannot keep destroying our heritage.

In the interest of safety and security we request that the switching out of lights in residential streets between midnight and 6 am be withdrawn and that LCC follow the example of Doncaster Borough Council by replacing lamps with energy efficient LED lights that will reduce electricity costs by 70% and reduce maintenance costs due to their long life (25 years compared with 6 years). Residents are very concerned that the creation of dark spaces in the town at night will encourage burglaries, anti-social behaviour and accidents. Do let us know of your concerns and any experiences you have related to the lights being out.

There are students who may struggle with the format of GCSE and find Functional skills easier to understand yet it is not recognisable like GCSE. Why not? I want to know why it is not possible to be a recognised examination process, as Edexcel GCSE? I struggle with GCSE. However I find Functional skills less confusing. I am wondering if it could by a recognizer for students with mild to moderate learning difficulties or have discaculia or dispraxia?

Our kitchen is non funded completely volunteer run and serves over 40 homeless, isolated and vhuranable people a week for free. We have build relationships with business who donate food. We have created relationships with people who are on the outskirts of our society. We have continued & will continue to offer communtiy on the street but we fear we will lose our homeless members of we can't provided a warm dry place to eat together.

If these companies are allowed to follow through with these proposals then the entire way of life of the residents of Ardersier will change for ever. The high level and type of vehicle they want to use before and after construction will damage not only the roads but the 200 year old properties which are along this route. These properties need to be preserved not destroyed. Help us stop these companies from destroying our historical village.

I trained as a nurse and qualified in 1967. This was how I was trained. It would remove the need for Agency staff and thereby save millions! I am concerned that standards of care are falling because of volume of patients, plus lack of supervision/knowledge by ward managers! You do not need a degree to Care, and that will never change with technology. Having spoken to other nurses of my era we all feel the same. Hunt is not listening!

Building memories for our children and making the street look cleaner it's an eyesore