Google generally produces elegant simple technology that's quickly adopted by the masses because it's easy to use. But OMG Google Meet's break out room function makes me want to pull my hair out. It is WILD that when splitting calls into breakout rooms it doesn't just split the people on the call into equal rooms, instead it also puts all the people who were ever invited to a call in a room treating them just like live attendees. It means that live attendees are scattered randomly between rooms on their own, or massively over subscribed rooms. What's more, as a host of a call you're constantly left floundering in front of a big group call as you wrestle with the bonkers user interface. We give you all of our data, the least you could do is give us some nice tools in exchange.

Many of your customers do not have access to online banking, those that do use it still require a branch for some transaction. If the branches close this will impact the elderly, people with mobility issues and additional needs being forced to travel long distances to the nearest city.

We live in an ever advancing technological world; without consistent access to devices that work and have access to the internet, a young person's education, development and opportunities to learn are adversely impacted. Would you consider a young person for a job if they brought in a hand written CV instead of applying online? Digital access is now one of the basic necessities, like food, shelter and an education! All young people have the right to the basic equipment and tools to allow them a fair chance to succeed and not be left behind. Digital poverty in young people exists where a person doesn’t have access to the online world and therefore doesn’t have access to the vast amount of information and opportunities that exist within it. An estimated 11.7 million (22 per cent) people in the UK are without the digital skills needed for everyday life; 9 million (16 per cent) are unable to use the internet and their device by themselves; and 3.6 million (seven per cent) are almost completely offline. Basic digital literacy skills are needed by every citizen to become ‘digitally literate’ to participate fully in an increasingly digital society. - ‘Tackling the digital divide. ‘House of Commons, 4 November 2021 Digital poverty has increased since the coronavirus pandemic. It has also been shown that the lack of access to suitable devices or software, reliable and affordable connectivity, suitable learning spaces has affected a higher proportion of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) learners. In a young person, it can result in a poorer education, poorer health, increased loneliness, isolation, an adverse effect on job prospects and even a lower life expectancy. The impact of digital poverty is that it intensifies the class divide keeping the poor in a cycle of poverty with no means of escape. This cause is important because after lockdown we saw the effects on young people without access to devices and the effect it had in their mental health as a result. The impact of the pandemic on learners’ mental health has been considerable with a significant increase in requests for mental health support reported by the providers we spoke to. Mental health issues are impacting learners across the board including those from more affluent backgrounds. Figures show15 that as many as 10 million people in the UK, including 1.5 million children, are thought to need new or additional mental health support as a direct result of the pandemic. However, we know that the pandemic is having a disproportionate impact on BAME groups who have suffered a “triple whammy of threats” to their mental health, incomes and life expectancy16. Children and young people from BAME backgrounds are showing greater increases in depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal thoughts than white peers during Covid-19 pandemic and Black males are more than twice as likely to experience mental health issues than their White counterparts. Exploring the impact of digital and data poverty on BAME learners , Charles Hutchings and Marianne Sheppard, 2021

Our survival on a human friendly planet partly depends on trees. Trees are vital contributors to global decarbonisation, as in the daytime they suck CO2 out of the air and produce Oxygen and vital sugars, which overcompensates for their respiration at night to reverse the process. And there are billions on the planet. Recently it has been discovered that they are extensively connected underground through the fungal mycelium that can transmit information as chemical products, to form a connected network. Trees have always been important to us for our own purposes , in manufacture and food production, and also in providing a calming and refreshing environment in streets, parks and wild places. So it is all the more appalling that institutional vandals cut them down. In Sheffield and Plymouth within recently, large areas of mature trees have been destroyed in the city centres. I have visited Plymouth last year and found it very run down and neglected, but the saving feature was Armada Way running down to the centre, a wide boulevard with a central area of urban woodland, grasses and plants left to nature, with large mature trees. The trees have since been destroyed and it is likely the wild area will be filled with rubbish or removed completely for yet more traffic. In both these cities the vandalism was carried out by the Council, against strong popular opinion, and secretively at night to avoid detection. No reasons have been given in either case. This is an appalling misbehaviour of democratic bodies. Councils do have Tree Protection Orders for certain varieties of trees, to prevent property owners from removing them. They can be over-ruled by planning applications and in public areas they may be ignored by the same councils. As the examples show, councils and their agents seem impervious to the law. So, there should be legislation by a criminal statute, to ensure the protection of trees, so that trees are given rights appropriate to living beings like animals and persons rather than pieces of property, because their importance seems unappreciated by the uneducated.

We the people of the Vale of Glamorgan implore the Vale Planning Committee to refuse the application made by Mr Danter to build a Holiday Camp on land he has purchased. This land is situated beside Ty Hafan Children's Hospice and used by families with very sick children who have life limiting illnesses. These children and their families very much need the beauty, peace and tranquillity that the hospice and its grounds give at the worst times of their journeys. They do not need the noise that will come from people in a camp (shouting, screaming, laughing, possibly also music playing loudly), when their child is dying. Also the increase of traffic and possibly, lost holiday makers turning up at the hospice, and inquisitive holiday makers trespassing onto the grounds from the front and back of the site. On the other side you have Beechwood College, school for Autistic young people, who again do not cope well with noise of any description and may be put at risk with the increase of traffic brought to this peaceful area. There are many other more suitable areas that could be considered in order to bring back a Holiday Camp or Hotel to the Town of Barry, but not at the expense of the wonderful work Ty Hafan has provided to families enduring the most challenging times, or to Beechwood College and the fantastic work they are doing. I write this from the heart, having experienced the wonderful place Ty Hafan is and the loss of our brave little Grandson. How upsetting and devastating it is to think it would even be considered to put a Holiday Camp in this location. As a family, we have experienced first hand the wonderful work Ty Hafan do and how special the beautiful, tranquil grounds are to sit in and reflect on the pain of the journey being gone through - and in some cases the loss of a dear child, as we lost our Darling Grandson. We are forever grateful for the love and support Ty Hafan gave and still give to not only our family but many many others. Please God that no one reading this has to experience what we and many other families have to experience in losing a dear child. And I can tell you that the very last thing we would have wanted to hear at that time would be holiday makers loudly enjoying themselves, screaming, shouting, laughing, or heavy machinery digging and increased traffic noise when your world is ending or ended. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please say No.

Please do sign this petition now. As a local city and county councillor, I have not yet been able to secure a guarantee, the store will remain open trading as Co-op and there are real concerns it will cease trading as a co-op. Retail can move fast. It is vital we let the Co-op Board and Directors know how important and successful this store is, how valued and treasured it is, a flag ship for the co-op brand and very much part of the Claines community.

This petition is important because it calls for a review of the community governance structure in Penrith, with the aim of improving transparency, accountability, and citizen participation in decision-making. It also suggests the creation of smaller parish councils serving the diverse range of distinct communities across Penrith, which would bring more local-focused councils for the communities and likely lead to substantial reductions in costs and parish precepts for households on the annual council tax bill. The petition highlights the fact that the community's voices have not been heard, and their needs have not been adequately addressed by Penrith Town Council. The community must have a say in the governance of Penrith, and a community governance review would provide an opportunity for the community to be heard and have a meaningful say in decision-making.

I have set up this petition to draw attention to this crisis! North Lanarkshire Council are preparing to remove our beloved & highly qualified early years practitioners from their current positions in council nurseries. They are looking to replace with lower paid and newly qualified practitioners, who will not have the years of experience & bond with our children that our current practitioners have. We need to draw as much attention as we possibly can to do our best to prevent this from going ahead. This does not only affect parents, child and early years practitioners directly also our whole school/nursery community. They have helped us immensely with our children's development, self confidence and relationships that they build with other children and most importantly the practitioners who look after our children. North Lanarkshire Council have the power to stop this going ahead so us as parents, practitioners and community need to draw their attention to how wrong this is. So please please please sign this petition to help with this!!

Pilgrims Way is not only a residential road, but also houses a doctors surgery, two entrances to Hesketh park and the start of the footbridge to The Leigh Academy along the length of it. Vulnerable patients using the health centre are put at risk when crossing this road. Before and after school, hundreds of students use this road, having to dodge the traffic. Users of Hesketh park, including young children and members of Dartford Cricket club and Hesketh park Bowls club also deserve a safer road. - Surprisingly, there are currently no safe crossing points along the whole stretch of this road and the speed limit stands at 30mph. - As a Newtown councillor I have spoken to local residents who advise that drivers often use this road as a cut through, tending to speed along without consideration of the children and often vulnerable pedestrians crossing over. - Active travel such as walking and cycling should be something that is being promoted, but with such an unsafe road, people are being discouraged from using these alternatives to driving for getting around. Residents, patients using the health centre and children walking to Hesketh park to use it's excellent facilities and The Leigh Academy have a right to feel safe when crossing over this road. Prompt action needs to be taken by Kent County Council in the form of a safe crossing point and lowered speed limit, in order to safeguard pedestrians and reduce the likelihood of a serious injury occurring.

Uckfield Leisure Centre and swimming pool is being threatened with closure. For many Uckfield residents, the Leisure Centre is not just a gym and pool, but a vital part of the community. It is where our children learn to swim and where many of their parents learnt, too. Older residents remember paying for the pool, donating to the Uckfield Indoor Swimming Pool Trust in the 1980s. The Leisure Centre is not just a council building; it is our pool and we want it protected. With thousands more homes planned for the Uckfield area in the next 5 years, we need more public services - not less. Our Youth Centre has already been shut, leaving our young people without an indoor social space other than the pool. It meets their curriculum needs of learning to swim, saving school time by reducing travel to other towns for lessons, and the environment. Like our young people, families and older residents also benefit both physically and socially from swimming and the many other sporting activities provided at the Leisure Centre. It serves the whole community like few other places do. We know that times are tough. Many of us are feeling it more than we ever have before, and are making difficult choices as a result. We ask that Wealden District Council does the same, by finding a way to look after our Leisure Centre and save our swimming pool. We see that money, many millions in fact, can be found for our neighbours in Crowborough and Hailsham, and we are pleased for them. We all deserve good, local public services. We just ask for some of the same. Please, protect our pool and save our swimming.

The BBC is trying to hide the sixth episode by relegating it to iPlayer viewing only. Apparently it examines precisely who and what is destroying our wildlife and gives examples of rewilding which is opposed in some right wing circles.

The episode which features conservation and the challenges faced and features some of the destruction of nature in Britain will receive a limited showing. This is due to political pressure, it's alleged. If you signed for Gary Lineker can you sign for those who are truly without a voice? We can make sure that the whole series of 'Wild Isles' gets an airing by signing this petition to the Director General of the BBC.