The physical presence of a data centre impacts the infrastructure of its surrounding area: • Grid Overloading: Data centres consume unprecedented amounts of electricity. A single large facility can consume as much power as a small city, placing immense strain on local energy grids and increasing the risk of blackouts for residents.  • Water Scarcity: Many facilities rely on evaporative cooling systems to keep servers from melting. This consumes millions of litres of fresh water daily, which can deplete local reservoirs and water tables during droughts. • Chemical Pollution: Data centres rely on massive industrial diesel generators for backup power. Regular testing and prolonged emergency use release high volumes of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter into the local air. 

Providing free bus travel would help ease the financial burden on families during the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, making it more affordable for parents to take their children out during weekends and school holidays. Free bus travel would also encourage greater independence for young people, improve access to sports, libraries, and community activities, reduce social isolation, and promote the use of public transport from an early age. Investing in this initiative would support families, strengthen local communities, and ensure that children across Kent have the same opportunities and benefits as those living in London. I  regularly see parents trying to take their children out on the bus during the school holidays, only to be told they must pay a fare for them. Today, I witnessed a particularly upsetting situation. A mother and her son had been waiting at the bus stop, and after a delayed bus finally arrived, the driver informed her that she would have to pay for her son's journey. The mother quietly explained that she simply couldn't afford the extra cost. With no alternative, she had to get off the bus with her son. It was heartbreaking to see how disappointed and anxious the young boy became, knowing that their day out had been cut short before it had even begun. No family should have to experience this during the school holidays. At a time when many households are already struggling with the rising cost of living, free bus travel for school-aged children in Kent would help families access parks, libraries, community activities, and other essential services without worrying about transport costs. Our children deserve the opportunity to enjoy their summer break, regardless of their family's financial circumstances. It's time for something to be done.

This amazing monument belongs to us all - we should have opportunities to visit and experience it without charges. Stonehenge is English Heritage’s largest single income source.  The Estimated annual Stonehenge visitor revenue is £25–38 million. The visitor centre at Stonehenge cost £27 million. We call on English Heritage to create more free opportunities for people to visit Stonehenge and experience the wonderful stone circle without restrictions. At present a visit to view Stonehenge from behind a rope barrier costs upwards of £26. The only chances people get to properly experience this ancient and sacred site (without charge) is at the winter and summer solstices. These can be very crowded events. https://www.sarsen.org/2026/03/the-stones-are-losing-their-pull-whats.html?utm_source=copilot.com

AI data centres are using evaporative cooling to maintain their equipment, drawing on our limited clean water supply, running it through their systems and losing large quantities to evaporation. Larger data centres can use up to 5 million gallons of clean water per day – enough for a town of up to 50,000 people. This directly threatens the survival of people living near data centres and our climate.  While large swathes of the general public are under a hosepipe ban, AI datacentres are allowed to use and waste millions of gallons of clean drinking water a day, simply because they don't feel like investing in less wasteful systems. In a country that experiences annual droughts (in part due to water company incompetence but lets not even start on that) this is not acceptable.  They have chosen this method because it is cheapest and easiest for them, least impactful for the company's bottom line. But alternative methods exist that can reduce water consumption by up to 70%, it would just require effort and investment on the part of the company.  If AI companies want to use British land for their technology, they will need to invest in protecting the environment here.  AI is coming, we will only end up with more data centres. This water wastage will only increase while our supply stays the same. Who loses out? The British public. 

Our rivers can't take any more Big Chicken. Now is the time to act, not plan to make the problem worse. Across the UK, rivers are already paying the price for industrial chicken farming. Every year, over 1 BILLION chickens are reared in the UK producing 3.5 million tonnes of chicken manure. In many areas there is already more waste than the land can safely absorb. When fields become overloaded, rain washes pollution into rivers, fuelling toxic algal blooms, killing wildlife and devastating precious habitats. At the same time, much of the feed used to raise Britain's industrial chickens relies on imported soya linked to the destruction of some of the world's most important rainforests. Yet instead of fixing these problems, the Government is backing more industrial chicken production.  But where will all the extra chicken waste go? There is no credible plan. There isn't enough capacity to safely process the manure produced already let alone all the extra waste, and there isn't enough suitable land to spread it without increasing the risk of river pollution. We don't need a plan to produce more cheap chicken, we need a plan that supports farmers to produce good food without polluting our rivers.  Growing the poultry industry without a sustainable plan for managing its waste is reckless. We need a better approach. It's time to stop #BigChicken choking our rivers.

Living in London costs more than living outside of the capital.  In-work poverty is rising leading to increased use of food banks by working people. More than 20 London NHS trusts are already accredited Living Wage employers  – the Royal Free Trust is not yet accredited The Royal Free Trust is responsible for many NHS facilities across North London and employs thousands of people We clapped for our NHS workers during the pandemic - now we ask the trust to pay all who work for them the Living Wage

This data centre will massively create a deficit in safe drinking water, create mass pollution and loud noise that’ll disrupt both humans and animals residing in Southall west London. It is only speeding up the climate crisis. Please sign to prevent this.

St Mary’s Church, built by local people, to serve as the ‘mother church’ of Kirkintilloch, has stood, majestically, at the very heart of the town, for over a century.  Worshippers have shared their time, talents and resources in this fine building for the greater glory of God.  St Mary’s has been a place where life’s highest and lowest moments have been marked by many thousands over the years, both within the Parish and beyond. St Mary’s beautiful building has always warmly welcomed worshippers to services and wider audiences for performances and events. Incorporating superbly crafted furniture and artworks, St Mary’s is also notable for its remarkable collection of stained and painted glass windows, gifted to the building and admired as among the most significant in any Scottish church.  Now the Church of Scotland has decided to close St Mary’s and to sell the building off. If you want to help save St Mary’s for its congregation and for future generations in Kirkintilloch, please sign this petition. Please also guide others to sign this petition and encourage as many of your family and friends as you can to sign up. Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you.

The announcement that funds are to be withdrawn from the iconic Jodrell Bank is bound to be anathema to many of us, whether scientists or not. The research carried out there has done so much over so many decades to help us understand better the workings of the universe of which we are part. Call for a reversal of this pointless policy. It won't even save much money. Everyone is affected by lack of understanding of our place in the world/solar system/cosmos in these increasingly divisive and troublesome times. Trump is trying to shut down science in the US (in the name of the 'great god dollar'), we must not allow right wing influences to do the same here in Europe.

We spent 4 to 5 months building bike jumps and trails in our local park and the council have knocked them down continuously. We kept rebuilding them time after time after time, but this time they knocked them down and said if we get enough signatures on our petition they will think about building us a bike track at our local park.

Don’t sink our ferry! The West Lynn Ferry is under threat, with an estimated £1.8m needed for essential works to make the landing stages safe and keep the ferry running. The borough council has allocated £800,000 to the ferry from the Community Infrastructure Levy – a charge paid by housebuilders when they undertake new developments. But another £1m is needed from the two local authorities – King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council and Norfolk County Council. Records show there has been a ferry running between Lynn’s town centre and West Lynn since 1285. The ferry is a vital service, providing a sustainable transport link for residents and tourists and reducing the number of unnecessary car journeys. The Borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk has demonstrated its commitment to the ferry crossing by including it in its Masterplan and it is hoped it will fund its share of the works.  This petition calls on Norfolk County Council to commit £500,000 which will be crucial in order to complete these works so the ferry can keep operating for generations to come. 

Lincolnshire Police are now rated worst Police Service in England and Wales.   Marc Jones was responsible for appointing Paul Gibson as Chief Constable of Lincolnshire, between them the force has continued to fail catastrophically. Marc Jones has been catastrophic as Police and Crime Commissioner. The performance and service of Lincolnshire Police is appalling to the people of Lincolnshire. Since 2016 Marc Jones has done nothing to improve our Police Service and has had lots of complaints lodged against him with soft touch punishments from the very weak Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel.  We require someone who cares about our Police Service and will make sure the Chief Constable will deliver the service and performance expected by the residents of Lincolnshire and His Majesty's Inspectors of Constabularys.