• Why does the government allow adult illiteracy to ruin lives and cost the UK £37 billion a year?
    Two years ago I was one of the nine million adults in the UK who can't read. I could not read my daughter's school report, and I could not read the manuals for the machines I service at work. Now with the help of a reading charity, Read Easy, and its volunteer coaches, I can read well, and write this petition. Now I can help my daughter with her homework, and I have been given more responsibility by my employer. I have tried to encourage people by talking to newspapers, on the radio, and on TV. Now I am asking the Education Minister to ensure that the sort of assistance I was given will be available for all of those nine million people that want it. If you are fortunate enough to find reading easy, you probably had no idea how many people in this country find it impossible. Please sign this petition to help me put pressure on the government to help those people, and hopefully make the changes to their lives that I've been lucky enough to have.
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  • Let people use the toilets
    How would you feel if you were dying for the toilet and couldn’t go? On top of that to hold it in can make you very ill. You would get arrested or fined if you did it on the street and not everyone can hold it in!
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  • Stop ScotRail removing fast trains from Inverclyde
    ScotRail are proposing to end the fast, limited stop, servcies between Glasgow and Inverclyde. This will affect both the Gourock and Wemyss Bay lines. This would have a detrimental effect on people who rely on the trains and would represent a significant reduction in service in Inverclyde and in the quality of those services. At a time when we are trying to persuade people to leave their cars at home, this risks undermining these messages and putting more pressure on Inverclyde's roads. It also undermines local economic development and projects currently being undertaken by the UK and Scottish Governments and Inverclyde Council to reverse depopulation. We are addressing this petition to both Scotrail and the Scottish Government, who own ScotRail. By joining this campaign you can make your voice heard and tell ScotRail and the Scottish Government that we do not want these services cut.
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  • Save the 87 bus service!
    People across East End Park, Burmantofts, Harehills, Cross Green, Richmond Hill and Saxton Gardens rely of the 87 bus route to get them to and from town, St James's hospital and other parts of the city. First Bus needs to reconsider its decision to cancel the service on evenings and weekends and put people living locally before profits.
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  • Save our Disability Hubs Shop Mobility
    Please help us save our Disability Hubs Shop Mobility Antrim. In a few months time we are losing our funding. People rely on this community service to be able to get out and about. People are going to be suffering alone and become more depressed without this service. It is a vital service in our community for people with disabilities. Please please help save our service.
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  • Bring Our Bees Back
    The Bee Team has been an important part of Heron Hill school for many years. Please sign this in support of the wonderful work they do in the hope that something can be done.
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    Created by Corrin Mason
  • Ofcom: Hold GB News to account
    Boris Johnson has announced he is joining GB News and will be hosting a show during the UK elections. Our media regulator, Ofcom, has rules that TV stations can’t use their broadcasts to influence viewers to vote for any party or person. A former Prime Minister on a channel that has breached impartiality rules before could be a recipe for disaster for our democracy. We don't have to agree with everything GB News does or says, but we should expect them to be held to the same high standards that other UK news outlets have to follow. Instead we're seeing a slippery slope where GB News could become the Fox News of the UK. A huge petition signed by thousands of us calling on Ofcom to make sure their rules are strong enough to hold ALL news stations to account and make sure that GB News doesn't drag down the standards of news in the UK would show Ofcom that we expect them to do their job properly and stop UK news sliding down to the sorry state it is in the USA.
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  • Stop the giant Chickerell Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)
    As well as fire and environmental damage, the noise pollution from the site will be a continuous buzzing from the air conditioning units, and the 600 shipping containers (equivalent to about 40 full size football pitches!) housing the millions of lithium ion batteries will ruin the landscape as seen from Weymouth looking back up towards the countryside beyond.
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    Created by Kay Kelsall
  • Reallocate the £8m King's portrait fund to the NHS
    We all depend on the NHS and want to keep it going. Pictures of the King don't save lives; medical equipment does.
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  • Give monetary value of the King's portrait directly to schools
    Children need education more than they need to know what the King looks like. With budgets tighter than ever, public money must be spent wisely, on things that truly benefit the British people.
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    Created by Vicki Harris
  • Please help to Stop your Lowfield Lane wildlife being Lost
    This development will cause a substantial loss of biodiversity and greenspace with barn owls and other fantastic wildlife so close to our local community. The access proposals will only lead to greater congestion and danger for us all. It is owned by the local council and is a fantastic opportunity to protect this biodiversity and enhance its value as green space for us all to cherish and enjoy; more in line with the policy of the council and national government
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    Created by Des Kay
  • Bring back phlebotomy services to Pontarddulais
    This is a change that has been implemented by the local health board and has a wider impact on services across Swansea. We have received an overwhelming number of complaints by residents who are unable to reach services in Gorseinon. It is also having an impact on the community car & bus services. We are also seeing a lack of availability within these clinics which inevitably leads to missed appointments and pressures within these clinics.
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    Created by Kevin Griffiths