Animals need woodland habitat. Riversides need trees to help prevent flooding. Humans need trees and the oxygen provided. A lot of these woods have been ignored for about half a century and are now 'semi-natural'. Suddenly timber is very valuable again (woe to woodchip boilers but that is another campaign...) Lovely Scots pine teeming with red squirrels and pine martins and cross bills and so much other wildlife. My home is right beside one of these woods which is earmarked for clearfelling the last of the trees in the immediate area (Corgarff, Aberdeenshire). It is unbearable to imagine the woodland gone and this seems to be the norm across the park. How can we do this in a national park? We criticise people in other parts of the world for clearing forest and still we do it in our own national parks? Lets stop this!!!

Following the closure of the majority of local pubs in the area, we must put a stop to the erosion of the fabric of our local community through the systematic demolition/re-development of our local pubs in Hackney. We have seen many pubs disappear in Hackney in recent history (19 within a half mile radius in the last 20 years!), to make way for unaffordable housing and developments which have no connection to the local area or its history. We must act now to save one of the last public houses in our area from closure - and in doing so, keep our community from being dismantled by big businesses who have no knowledge or respect for our heritage.

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE MY PETITION, AND KEEP SHARING. We demand the State pension is re-linked to male average earnings, or inflation, whichever the higher to protect the value of the State pension against means testing, this link should be restored. Britain's WW2 Veterans particularly, but of course all pensioners, including pensioners living overseas should be included, because they have also contributed to Britain's economy over the decades and State pensions should be increased as British prosperity increases, or inflation increases, whichever the higher. Without this Generations past efforts and sacrifices during WW2, none of us would be here today. I have drafted a petition standing up for our living WW2, Veterans, because we all owe our very existence today to the efforts and sacrifices made by this generation of pensioners during WW2.. BUT my petition also demands better State pensions for ALL pensioners, giving a level of State pension they can live on, including overseas pensioners whose pensions are "frozen". They have also contributed to the British economy over the decades. So instead of our Government throwing money into overseas aid that buys fancy cars for dictators, or benefits countries that don't need it, and stop other ways our government waste money... So far Government have refused to act saying there is no money, but there is plenty of money gets sent abroad for various things that could and should be spent back on us, the British people. Particularly we owe the WW2 Generation of pensioners everything we can give them, because they made the ultimate sacrifice, for us! We ask Jeremy Corbyn & Parliament to include woman who stayed at home raising families, and who have paid little or no contributions due to not doing "paid" work, but who worked hard at home bringing children up, raising families, and making sure their husband's had a home to come home to at the end of the War. Also remember the impoverished and neglected war widows.... Also the woman during WW2, who worked in the fields and the Factories, their efforts must not be left out! This Generation have given us everything. They fought for our freedom during WW2. Yet we give them nothing but misery, made to live on a pittance of a State pension. HOW MANY WORLD WAR TWO PENSIONERS ARE GOING TO DIE OF COLD AND/OR STARVATION THIS WINTER BECAUSE THEIR STATE PENSION ISNT ENOUGH TO LIVE ON. ?. Winter deaths claim 200 pensioners every day. Millions of elderly people in Britain today are living in poverty, having to choose between eating, and heating their homes because the UK's State pension is so low. Britain’s War veterans have been forgotten by this and previous Tory Government’s. We urge the Government to increase the basic State pension to at least £300 a week, and the State pension should have increases linked directly with male average earnings or inflation, whichever the higher. “OUR WW2 VETERANS FOUGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF EUROPE; THEY WERE SHOT & STABBED ON THE BEACHES IN NORMANDY””. WHEN THE WAR ENDED THEY PAID INTO THE SYSTEM THROUGH THEIR WORKING LIVES. AND WERE PROMISED “CRADLE TO GRAVE” CARE, WHICH THEY ARE’NT GETTING.... THEY LIBERATED FRANCE AND THE REST OF EUROPE – AND YET BRITISH PENSIONERS RECEIVE THE LOWEST STATE PENSION IN WESTERN EUROPE THANKS TO MARGARET THATCHER IN 1980, BREAKING THE LINK THAT KEPT STATE PENSIONS INCREASING DIRECTLY WITH BRITISH PROSPERITY... AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WHO HAVE MILLIONS TO SPEND ON LAVISH EXPENSES; AND THE GERMAN PENSIONERS GET FOUR TIMES MORE THAN UK PENSIONERS IN WEEKLY STATE PENSION. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”;

Huddersfield is one of the largest towns in the UK. It has a growing economy and thriving student population. To take away the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary A&E will undoubtedly cost lives (with Calderdale Royal Hospital being the 'nearest' A&E). It will increase the burden on Primary Care, especially in rural areas where resources are already limited. Latest news reports suggest this could be the start of a bigger plan to demolish the HRI completely, which would be catastrophic not only in terms of job losses but potential lives lost, and again increasing the strain on over-stretched Primary Care services. http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/live-huddersfield-royal-infirmary-set-10739008

The Lake District is the country's most lucrative tourist spot after London. The damage caused by the December floods to the A591 have effectively haemorraged the cash flow to vital tourist towns. And yet the Government tell us that the necessary repairs cannot and will not be finished until May.... The Lake District holds such a special place in the hearts of so, so many people and just now, like poor Peter Rabbit, both the place and the people must be feeling 'given up for lost' and more than ready to 'shed big tears'. The Lake District holds not only hearts but also livelihoods.... The owners of the Lakeland businesses are not just 'playing shops' for a hobby or pastime.... Whole families take part in the day to day running, organising, stocktaking and customer relations, and with no reasonable access for tourists (the A591), shops and businesses will be bankrupted and some very special places, for example the famous 'Grasmere Gingerbread Shop' will close and may never be able to re-open. Grasmere without the gingerbread? A whole generation of children who will never know the bedtime rhyme 'to bed to bed and dream about the gingerbread'?. The Government appear to be happy with their role of Mr McGregor, and unless the necessary repairs to the A591 are completed quickly, then many traditional Lakeland shops and shop owners, may just end up if not actually put into a pie, then either exiled or left to fade sadly away to a derelict whisper on the fellsides.

The Housing Bill together with measures already proposed by the Chancellor threaten to bring to an end the availability of affordable housing which has to date been available for a third of the population. Without a truly affordable rented sector, people will have to find a solution to their housing needs from the uncontrolled and increasingly expensive private rented sector or open market of housing for sale. No civilised country can operate without an affordable rented sector. The USA offers a warning: affordable housing there means trailer parks or "projects" with a growing but still very small community land trust sector. It was their attempt at "sub-prime housing" provision which caused the banking crisis.

Government have announced the closure of 86 courts and tribunals in England and Wales. If this closure programme goes ahead 38.5% of courts and tribunals will have closed since 2010. These closures will restrict access to courts and tribunals for many court users and will add unnecessary stress for victims and witnesses. The plans that were subject to consultation over the summer contained a series of errors including underestimates of journey times to alternative courts and a lack of detailed cost benefit analysis with many of the proposed closures making no financial sense. Many courts set for closure have better facilities for court users than the ones they are being proposed to be moved to. The Government case for the closures is driven solely by cost and is underpinned by digital processes in the early stages of implementation with the usual associated problems. This decision leaves a justice system in real danger of becoming so divorced from the people who need access to it that it can no longer be considered to be true justice and will undermine public confidence.

Stealing doctors from poorer countries who need them more is morally indefensible, and insufficient doctors for the NHS means over long hours for those we have and less safe practises. Doctors who pay for their own training feel free to leave Britain immediately which is a drain on reserves.

The derelict pub on Gainsborough Square (Lockleaze, Bristol) is an eyesore and a waste of a valuable site with great potential.

Numerous times it has been requested by bother parents teachers that a crossing is put on Damson Lane and refused. 2 children in the past 6 months have been involved in accidents within a few feet of one another and many more have had near misses. The Land Rover traffic and the bus route of the 966 means that children and parents have to weave between cars to get accross and often don't have a clear view of the other side and further down due to the busses and delivery trucks and lorries passing during school hours. There are two infant and junior schools nearby as well as shopping facilities that are frequented nearby making it a high traffic area for both pedestrians and cars. It's only a matter of time before another child/adult is hurt there, a crossing would stop traffic for them to cross safely. There are moms crossing with more than 4 children and a school walking bus with more than 10 children to cross to Yew Tree School on Wherrets Well Lane. A crossing is definitely warranted for the safety of everyone and will allow for the children and parents to get across without having to dip between traffic to get to the other side.

The Eel Brook is an important part of community life in SW6. It was built in 1892 and has been serving pints to locals ever since. If this pub is important to you, please sign to let our council know. For more information visit https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheEelBrook or follow on Twitter @SaveTheEelBrook UPDATE: the new owner of the Eel Brook has been in touch with the Save the Eel Brook Campaign and we have good news. The plans are to retain the ground floor as an eating and drinking venue, while the flats above will be redeveloped. Plans about the first theatre space are as yet undecided. The new owners are locals too, and not faceless developers, and are keen that the pub works for the people who use it. We have passed on the feedback about the pub we have received through this campaign and we will keep in touch with the new owners as they draw up more concrete plans. Thank you all for your support and for the love you have shown for this pub. Here's hoping we can work together with the new owners to make this place work for all of us. Watch this space for more info!

Volunteer doctors and nurses from MSF were working in one of the few functioning hospitals in Afghanistan. The hospital was targeted by American bombers in an act of complete bungling incompetence. 42 patients and staff were killed by the Americans in their attack. MSF believe that a war crime was committed. Those responsible need to be held accountable for their actions: not only the air crew, but their commanders as well.