The scientific evidence of the risks and harms of unconventional gas development mounts every year and we believe that fracked gas has no place in Wales's low carbon future. The 2015 Paris climate agreement, the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act of 2015 and the Environment (Wales) Act of 2016 all make it clear that a swift transition to renewable energy is needed. This is the direction that Wales should firmly take.

The 2015 Paris climate agreement, the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act of 2015 and the Environment (Wales) Act of 2016 make our moral and legal obligations clear - in the face of potentially catastrophic climate change, we must act now to protect future generations. This transition is totally feasible, both technically and financially, and such a bold programme could be transformative for Wales. It would attract green investment, create tens of thousands of jobs and give Wales ownership of its own energy generation and distribution systems. This would be true energy security and it would give Wales political and economic freedom like never before in its history. ------ Mae Cytundeb Hinsawdd Paris 2015, Deddf Llesiant Cenhedlaethau'r Dyfodol (Cymru) 2015 a Deddf Amgylchedd (Cymru) 2016 yn glir iawn ei ddisgwyliadau moesol a chyfreithiol - yng ngwyneb newid hinsawdd a allai fod yn gatastroffig, rhaid i ni weithredu yn awr i amddiffyn cenedlaethau'r dyfodol. Mae'r trawsnewidiad hwn yn gwbl oddifewn ein gallu, yn dechnegol ac yn ariannol, ac fe allai rhaglen uchelgeisiol o'r math fod yn drawsffurfiol i Gymru. Fe fyddai'n denu buddsoddiad gwyrdd, creu degau o filoedd o swyddi a rhoi i Gymru berchnogaeth ar ei systemau ei hunan o gynhyrchu a dosbarthu ynni. Byddai hyn yn wir sicrwydd-ynni ac yn rhoi i Gymru ryddid economaidd a gwleidyddol na fu ganddi erioed o'r blaen.

This is a dreadful decision to close the main post office in Aberystwyth which is always very busy to my knowledge, and much needed by the local community. Please support this campaign to reverse this decision.

Villages have lost their local shop, pub and post office. A village hall is the final strand which holds a village community together, often providing the only opportunity for the elderly and lonely, in particular, to enjoy social interaction. Volunteers give hours of their time on committees to protect this last vestige of village life. To add the additional cost of water rates could be the straw which breaks the back of village hall finances and deals a death blow to small communities. Many halls were not even made aware of what amounts to a stealth tax and therefore not given the opportunity to protest. If the Scottish Government is serious about social cohesion this unfair, unecessary financial burden, which will raise very little income but prove extremely costly to local communities, MUST change it's mind.

The alternative 'restoration' plans can not in any way be considered a restoration, merely a 'tidying up' of a site which has devastated and industrialised a rural area which once had wheatfields and rare species habitats. Overbearing tips, totally out of character with the rest of the valley will remain together with a dangerous void, flooded to a depth of over 108 metres. The latter will be the deepest 'lake' or reservoir in England or Wales and will remain as an ongoing hazard within a couple of hundred metres of communities. The only way to make the site safe is to fill in the void with the onsite tips. We want our countryside returned. We want our roads and footpaths reinstated together with bridleways and cycle tracks. This might in some way compensate for the endurance of the local communities who have suffered the opencast, providing profits from more than 4 million tons of coal for the private operator, for twenty years and more. The company has ravaged the valley in reaping the coal and though it signed agreements and gained consents with promises of full restoration, when the time came to 'put it all back' it refused to do so. The local authorities have been floundering unsuccessfully to achieve restoration since 2008 and have finally thrown in the towel and are on the verge of accepting an unsafe, unsatisfactory and inadequate alternative to restoration. It is time that promises were fulfilled. Government intervention is needed to find a way of securing the only acceptable restoration based on the Welsh Government funded Restoration Scheme of April 2013. We have three governments at Wales, Westminster and Brussels; £162 million net goes to Europe on a weekly basis from this country, surely there are funds somewhere to restore this monstrosity, to invest in a decent legacy for the future, to increase biodiversity, develop tourism and leisure, to enhance the local environment, to reinstate and improve the cross valley links. Prior to privatisation, the Secretary of State overturned the local government decision to refuse consent for Park Slip West and therefore Westminster has a direct responsibility for at least half of this site. The presumption for opencast mining in the planning system has led to this devastation, along with inadequate strictures at time of privatisation to guarantee the restoration of opencast mines - a guarantee that was there under the nationalised industry. It is time for the government to take on the responsibility for securing the only acceptable restoration of this site. What is currently being offered is no restoration of any kind. Please support this petition asking the Welsh Government to take on the responsibility for securing the restoration, as promised since 1993 and earlier, of this outrageous insult to the local communities and their environment.

Hunting and conservation are contradictions in terms. If societies need a figurehead they should have someone who shares their views and not a two-faced, cynical, murderous, bloody-thirsty person such as the UK's Prince William.

Rotherham has been blighted by a succession of 19 protests by the English Defence League and other racist groups over the last 2 years. Businesses have suffered as footfall in the town has been significantly reduced on protest days. The local community has been terrified to venture into the town centre and there has been a significant increase in the incidence of hate crimes in Rotherham as a direct result of the far right protests, culminating in the brutal murder of an 81 year old. As a town we have had enough but one of your pubs - the Bridge Inn is actively encouraging far right groups to return to Rotherham. Most recently on 26 March 2016 the Bridge Inn was the venue for the EDL's regional demonstration. whilst the rest of our town turned their backs on the EDL your pub opened its doors to them. The Bridge Inn has a long tradition of being a community pub. Old Mill Brewery has owned the pub for 20 years, during which time it has continued to be a hub of the local community. That has now changed and the Bridge Inn is seen as a pub that welcomes racists and fascists. The Bridge Inn is now regarded as a pariah amongst the Rotherham community and is being boycotted by many of its traditional customers. Please make sure that your pub will no longer be a venue that welcomes racist/fascist groups and give an undertaking to the people of Rotherham that the scenes of 26 March, when the Bridge was an EDL protest venue, are never repeated.

Residents are sick and tired of their lives being disrupted by bad and inconsiderate parking, when Church services are taking place, and the danger of emergency vechicles not getting through, and access blocked to a joining courts.

Herriot-Watt University released a survey this week showing that the majority of the wider "Yes" campaign was to the left of the SNP. This is a new party that was built to address the concerns of voters who feel as if there isn't a party that fully embodies their values or desires for the future. We feel that if the far-right UKIP are to be included in debates, then the true left option of RISE needs to be included also.

Abandoning codes of practice for farm animal welfare is not in the best interests of the animals or those who will ultimately consume an animal raised in poorer conditions. The RSPCA said it has been voicing concerns for the past three years about the “downgrading” of the guidelines from statutory codes to industry-led guidance and criticised the lack of transparency around the process. The meat industry has had many scandals over the years and weakening regulations can only increase animal suffering and impact those consuming meat reared under poorer quality conditions.

The small pool at the Health Hydro, with its size, depth & length remains best teaching pool in Swindon. It is used by schools, lessons, swimming clubs, adult swim clinics, parent & toddler, etc. Thousands, myself included, learned to swim there. And until January hundreds of children & adults continued to be taught, trained and had fun there. There is not the capacity or the equivalent facilities in Swindon to undertake all of the activities the once took place here. Although the Health Hydro is one of the oldest swimming pools in the country both of its small & large pools provides facilities that are not found elsewhere in Swindon or the surrounding area. Since GLL took control there have been a number of closures to both pools as they have been slow to maintain the centre. Most recently when all of the five internal boilers failed the pool was closed while an external boiler was fitted. I and my family, along with many others, are regular swimmers at the Health Hydro. These pools should be maintained and kept open not primarily because of history. Situated at the heart of Swindon the Health Hydro provides unique facilities that are not available anywhere else in the area. GLL should show their stated commitment to the centre and complete the work. Swindon Borough Council who handed the centre over to them should be ensuring the centre is maintained and continues to provide its unique service to Swindon. Please consider signing this petition.

We the undersigned hereby call on all at Teignbridge District Council - district councillors; Simon Thornley, Ian Perry, and the other planning officers; Nicola Bulbeck, the chief executive officer; and Cllr Jeremy Christophers, the council leader - to put the safety of human lives in Dawlish first, before any further houses are built in the DA2 development. The three separate developers involved in Teignbridge District Council’s DA2 draft framework agreement, planning to build over 1000 new houses on adjoining land plots, are permitted to build and sell 50 houses each on their 3 separate developments, before Teignbridge considers it necessary to start to build the link road, from the Gatehouse Farm housing development, over the Shutterton Brook, through the Secmaton Farm housing development, and to the roundabout at Sainsburys to join the A379. Until then, Teignbridge District Council think it is acceptable to have all the construction traffic over residential roads such as Elm Grove Drive and Sandy Lane. With this logic, the people of Dawlish would be required to wait for 150 houses to be built, sold, and inhabited, before the new road is started. 150 houses will not appear overnight, so the people of Dawlish, especially: - residents on Elm Grove Road, Elm Grove Drive, and Sandy Lane; children attending the Gatehouse primary school, Dawlish Community College, Red Rock Youth Centre, and Dawlish United Youth Football and Mini Soccer FC; and people attending the leisure centre and playing fields - would have to endure many months of colossal amounts of heavily laden construction trucks, contractors’ vans, noise, extra traffic, and pot holes. These residential roads are not designed and built to endure months and years of heavy vehicles. Indeed they are already crumbling with numerous pot holes. We call on Teignbridge District Council to show the people of Dawlish the respect that is shown to Newton Abbot and Teignmouth, and to find the funds to build a service road for construction vehicles to use before any further building in the DA2 area developments. These funds will be repaid by the developers as they build the houses. If Teignbridge District Council can find in its reserves £13 million for a new shopping centre in Newton Abbot, and £2.5 million towards the Pavilions in Teignmouth, then the cost can surely be found to build a ‘base core’ service link road to be built before the construction of 150 new houses begins. Devon County Council has already agreed to funding the main bridge costs. The people of Dawlish should not have to wait for a fatality to happen on our streets before Teignbridge District Council realises that human lives are worth a whole lot more than 150 houses.