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Save Field End Flyers Community Cycle ClubI am a concerned parent. My 8 year old son Matthew attends Field End Flyers Community Cycle Club. This a fantastic cycling club that is based in facilities at Field End Junior School, Field End Road, Eastcote. The Club has access to a cycle track next to Field End School. This was built next to the school in land held by Hillingdon Council for the school. TFL helped to fund the building of the cycle track which is used by lots of children to cycle in safety away from the roads. Field End Flyers meets there every Saturday. There are coaches who are trained by British Cycling and volunteer their time to teach all children to cycle. Once they can cycle safely they join in the club activities. There are games and skills teaching sessions, all conducted in a purpose built environment. As a cycle club Field End Flyers attracts children from all backgrounds. We have children with disabilities and those with learning difficulties. The fact that the track is a safe and gated secure environment means that all children can enjoy using their own or borrowed bikes and trikes to join in. This club really is open to all and a fantastic part of our community. The club has a waiting list of over 60 children to join up and be taught to ride with the patient coaches using club owned balance bikes without pedals to build confidence and get a “feel” for cycling. My son joined over 3 years ago and is a very competent cyclist. He shows a good level of safety and control and this is all due to the fantastic coaching from Field End Flyers Community Cycle Club. The school has achieved the Beacon Award for Cycling, Healthy Schools Hillingdon Award and TFL Sustainable Travel Accredited and recognised Higher Standards Level. I feel that this is due to the success of the Cycle track which is also used by an after school club attached to the school for pupils only. 30 children attend 3 evenings a week. In fact the after school club is used to full capacity with the supervision from the British Cycling accredited Coaches who volunteer there. On Thursday 3rd December Field End Flyers received a letter from the Head Teacher of the Junior School, Ms M Halpin to say that the Cycle Club should cease. We have since been told we need to empty the site of our bicycles (for Children’s use at the Community and after school clubs) and associated cycling equipment. It will be disposed of if not moved by the deadline. We have been told that both clubs must close. We have been told that the track will be used to store building materials and there are plans to develop the area by the school BUT I have checked the Hillingdon Council website and there are no planning applications for the area. As you can imagine the Club which has over 90 members is worried that we will lose our home and a safe place for our children to cycle. Hillingdon encourages cycling as a sustainable mode of transport. Recently there has been widespread media attention on those cyclists who have been killed or injured on London’s roads. Our cycle club is preparing the safe adult cyclists of the future. It is also helping to get children outside and involved in a healthy pursuit, helping to extol the virtues of exercise. With child obesity and sedentary hobbies in favour among children it is wonderful that the children who attend the club are enjoying exercise, team building, safety training and friendships that will help them so much in their futures. I ask that you contact Ms Halpin to intercede on behalf of our Community Cycle Club as its loss would be a real blow to sport, cycling and the children themselves.14 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Tara Chalk
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Save our local bus services in OxfordshireALL SUBSIDISED bus routes in the county are set to lose their funding from Oxfordshire County Council under proposals approved in November 2015 by the Council. The subsidies are paid to bus companies and community groups so they can run 118 bus routes, mainly in rural areas, that would otherwise not be commercially viable. The bus network is vital to the health of local communities and especially important to vulnerable members of the community who use the network to access support and care and avoid social isolation. These cuts are totally unacceptable and a false economy as they will have hidden costs in terms of additional social care and health spending to support those who currently use the bus service to access support and life opportunities. The cuts also make a mockery of the County Council’s integrated transport plan and environmental targets. We are calling on the Leader of the County Council Council and the Prime Minister, who is MP for Winey and who has in correspondence questioned whether the cuts to front line council services are necessary in Oxfordshire, to resolve their disagreement about council funding and withdraw these cuts proposals before the new County Council budget is agreed in February. Deadline for completion January 12th (to be presented to the Council’s Transport Advisory Panel on the 14th January).1,764 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by David Radford
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Ask David Cameron if he believes he upholds the 7 Principles of Public Office.By the Government's own definition (31st May 1995, Committee on Standards in Public Life) the 7 Principles of Public Office are "the basis of the ethical standards expected of public office holders". By this we take to mean that all politicians in Her Majesty's Government are expected to abide by the ethical standards set out in this document; and are therefore accountable both to the public and to the members of parliament if they can be seen to have failed in doing so. In the light of large bodies of evidence which can be presented to highlight the fact that the Prime Minister has failed to uphold the 7 Principles of Public Office, I would like the the Leader of the Opposition to personally raise the issue with him, in parliament, in order to hear his response.177 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Anthony Saggers
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E. U. Relief funding for Cumbrian FloodingIt is essential that people's lives recover speedily,lessons learnt and infrastructure updated.9 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Jonathan Miller
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SAVE OUR NHS BURSARYThe government have announced they are removing the NHS bursaries for student nurses, midwives, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, podiatrists, radiographers, dietetics, ODP's. This means we will be left with THOUSANDS of pounds worth of debt, which could take years to pay back from a salary which has been repeatedly frozen and capped. Healthcare degrees are like no other, we work 50% of the time on placement and 50% in university. Our hours are long and demanding both academically and professionally. To have our bursaries removed is insulting and upsetting. Furthermore, these loans will act as a deterent for people going to university who do not want to be saddled with extortinate debt. Healthcare courses appeal to a wide range of students from all back grounds and these high costs are very daunting. Already people are saying they are fearful of these costs meaning people are losing their dreams. This is NOT fair.137 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Nursing and Midwifery Society
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Lucy Allan please step down as MP for telford and Wrekin after lying about death threats.She represents the good people in the Telford and Wrekin area and has knowingly lied about such a serious matter. Namely that she was sent a death threat. This is unacceptable and MPs should not be allowed to be so liberal with the truth. MPs are accountable for their actions and this is morally wrong and a misuse of her position in government.2,165 of 3,000 SignaturesCreated by Gareth Roderick
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Change The Law: No More Naming of Revenge Porn VictimsBeing a victim of revenge porn is a devastating experience. It is not fair that victims who take the brave step of pressing charges against their abuser currently risk being named in the media, particularly in coverage of the court case. We want the Government to change the law to ensure victims get the protection they deserve.16,303 of 20,000 SignaturesCreated by Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire
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Make bad driving a thing of the past!!It will serve to make our roads safer and will make work easier for the Police. It will potentially help to drive down insurance premium costs.6 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Aled Brewerton
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No More Pylons on AngleseyAnglesey is already blighted with a corridor of Pylons across the Island. The National Grid are proposing to erect another line of Pylons across the Island to deal with the new supply of electric from Wylfa Newydd. It appears that they have already decided upon this option as it is the cheapest and most straight forward solution, they appear to dismiss out of hand the alternative of underground cables despite the objection of local residents to yet more Pylons affecting the visual impact and the concern of possible links to Cancer in the local population, including young children. Anglesey relies a great deal on Tourism, more Pylons blighting the Island can only have a detrimental affect. Please show your support for the use of Underground Cables only!330 of 400 SignaturesCreated by Norma Ede
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Pets on EurostarPets on Eurostar believe that non drivers are being discriminated against by this ban from Eurostar. If you agree, please sign the petition on our home page. We intend to approach not only the directors of Eurostar but our Ministers for Transport at Whitehall and Brussels.176 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Martha de Monclin
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Don't privatise student loans64% of us don't want student loans to be privatised - the government needs to listen. This plan doesn't make financial sense and needs to be scrapped. Martin Wolf from the Financial Times explains ‘Why the UK should not sell its student loan book’: “The UK Treasury is, it is reported, considering the sale of parts of its student loan book. This provokes a big question: when should the UK government sell such an asset – given that it is both immortal and solvent? The best answer has two parts. First, it must be believed that the asset would be better managed by the private sector. And, second, it must be believed that this superior private management can only be introduced by selling the assets – rather than introducing some type of private management contract. Thus, if the government decided to privatise the Royal Bank of Scotland, it should be because the value of the business would be higher under private ownership than it would be under public ownership. What the government paid for RBS shares is irrelevant: those are sunk costs. Similarly, the case for selling the Royal Mail is that it would be more valuable as a private business than in government hands. What of the student loan book? Would a buyer be able to offer more to the government for this stream of income than it is worth in public hands? No, because no private party has a lower borrowing cost than the government, since the government is the most creditworthy entity in the country. So the value of the student loan book to the government, given its low discount rate, is higher than to any potential private buyer. That might not be the case if the Treasury suffered from a genuine – as opposed to a purely artificial – borrowing constraint. In that case, the marginal cost of borrowing might be much higher than the average cost. That could justify selling existing assets, to replace them with more valuable assets. But the government suffers from no such borrowing constraint. So why do it? It is yet another example of a bigger problem: the manic concentration on the government’s overall debts – the totemic public debt ratio – rather than the whole balance sheet. Selling the book flatters the net public debt level in the very short term. Yet who would be impressed with a company that reported only its debts, but not its assets? It is not a sensible way to manage one’s activities. The student loan book should be left exactly where it is."3,931 of 4,000 SignaturesCreated by Cat Hobbs
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Keep racist Donald Trump out of UKWith his remarks wanting to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, Donald Trump has shown himself to be a dangerous racist behaving in a way likely to incite violence. As such his presence in the United Kingdom would not be conducive to the public good.589 of 600 SignaturesCreated by Dave Jackson
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