• Preserve St Neots' Green Belt Land
    These unreasonably extensive developments present numerous environmental and infrastructure issues: - Additional congestion on local roads, inclusing an already overcrowded and dangerous A428 - Insufficient infrastructure and facilities on the existing Loves Farm site - Insufficient provision for infrastructure and facilities on the proposed new sites - Destruction of an enormous piece of green-belt land - Destruction of the habitat of many species of animal, bird, plant and insect over this vast area. - Inadequate neighbour consultation - Destruction of arable land - A lack of communication from HDC to St Neots Town Council and local residents
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    Created by D Porter Smith
  • David Cameron why will you not publicly condemn Israel for slaughter of civilians?
    War crimes may have been committed, the country need to know the the British government are in no way complicit and condemn such actions.
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    Created by Philip Wall
  • Student Loan Final Year Reduction Should Be Fair for Healthcare Students
    Healthcare students are at university for a longer period per year than an average student, our terms and academic year are substantially longer for all three years of training. Students completely understand that the government cannot fund them via the student loan once they finish university and therefore will not fund them over the summer after they have taken final exams. However the current standard reduction in the amount available under the student loan of £513 is based on 3 months less funding for students which is not representative for the healthcare student population. For healthcare students this should be a pro-rata reduction, determined by their academic year end date and not the national average. I am a student nurse and my pro rata reduction should be £134 which equates to 3 weeks. My friend is studying physio and her pro rata reduction should be £268.14 which equates to 6 weeks. The reduction in our loan should be directly comparable to how long we spend at University as the current system is inequitable. During my final year I will be placed under increased financial pressure. Rather than increasing the stress of the next generation of healthcare students, why not ensure our transition from student to newly qualified healthcare workers is not plagued by how am I going to pay my rent for the final few months? This rate has been calculated by looking at the full amount a healthcare student (i.e. Nurse, Midwife, OT, SLT, Physio etc.) is entitled to receive per annum in their first and second year from the Student Loan Company (SLC) which is £2324 as a Maintenance Loan. I have then calculated that to be a weekly rate of £44.69. In the final year SLC are offering £1811 which is a reduction of £513 on the previous year. The reduction of £513 equates to a removal of funding for 83 days, about 11 ½ weeks.
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  • Bring the Royal Iris home to the Mersey
    The Royal Iris is sitting on the Thames rotting away and we the undersigned want it brought back to the Mersey to restore for use or to be turned into a museum.
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    Created by Mary Wheeler
  • Terminate contract of BHCC housing contractor Mears Group
    It is important that unions play a role in working with providers of Council services so that a living wage is achieved and maintained to lessen the benefit burden on taxpayers.
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    Created by Phillip David Jones
  • Protect people from becoming unwittingly involved in murder - Ban organ tourism to China
    Dear friends, please take time to read this, I wish for you to be aware of this terrible crime which is often being ignored and kept from the media. It really does affect us all. Killed for Organs: China’s Secret State Transplant Business “It’s being called “abhorrent” and a “crime against humanity.” Allegations of forced organ harvesting in China started to surface in 2006. Since then, mounting evidence suggests these allegations are true—and even worse than originally suspected.”… innocent people are losing their lives, the largest group being the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvAOOwvJMZs Here is a useful link:- Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) aims to provide the medical community and society with objective findings of unethical and illegal organ harvesting. Organ harvesting, the removal of organs from a donor, without obtaining prior free and voluntary consent, is considered a crime against humanity, as well as a threat to medical science in general. www.dafoh.org/petition-to-the-united-nations
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  • Stop the sell off of public land
    The Government’s new Infrastructure Bill removes control over decisions to sell, or develop, publicly owned land from our local Councils. This is our land. It contains a clause ending the rights of local Councils to grant, or deny, planning consent - while cancelling any rights of way or any need to ask the people of England and Wales if they mind losing their; parks, playing fields, allotments or village greens to developers or road and rail builders. The Infrastructure Bill contains a clause which will allow ALL public land to be privatized and Schedule 3 of the Infrastructure Bill states, “the property, rights and liabilities that may be transferred by scheme include … property, rights and liabilities that would not otherwise be capable of being transferred or assigned.” In plain English, this means all preceding regulation, legislation and other protections are null and void. From the government’s perspective, it’s all about speeding up planning decisions and avoiding the delay caused by local ownership in the decision making process. However, this hands even more power to Eric Pickles and his unelected Planning Inspectors to bully and ride 'rough shod' over locally elected Councils and residents. This Government promised a “Localism Agenda”, but is delivering the greatest shift of power from locally elected people to a burgeoning, remote, Central Government since the signing of the Lisbon Treaty. We must not be resigned to the situation - we must insist our voice is heard
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    Created by Peter Grace
  • Stop the £1.2 billion sell off of Staffordshire's cancer and end of life care
    This is important because People who are at the end of there life do not need the stress of having to pay for their care. Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/02/cancer-care-nhs-outsourcing-ccgs-unison-virgin
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  • stop all UK non-stun slaughter
    Non stun slaughter should be totally banned and all sales of animal products produced by this method should be outlawed for sale within the UK. The Government's own Chief Veterinary Officer has stated that non-stun slaughter causes unnecessary suffering to animals. Currently, all animal products should be clearly labelled indicating the place and method of slaughter. Please look online and make a comparison yourself and read the many accounts from animal welfare organisations. While a ban is being sought, please vote with your feet and refuse to purchase products from Non -Stun Slaughtered animals. Let retailers know how you feel.
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  • Stop America topping up Israel's bombs
    If Philip Hammond could pressure America to stop supplying additional arms to Israel as the massacre uses up Israel's stock, maybe Israel would have a weaponless space to think about how dangerous they are making the world for all of us Israelis do not apparently see pictures of the devastation. I hope that America does, and that Americans may not be too happy that their government is implicated in massacres that will probably be shown to be war crimes
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    Created by Alison Brown
  • Stop the Gaza killings
    Innocent people, particularly children, are being killed in this conflict and a refusal to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state legitimises these killings. Palestine is not a political or ideological football, it is a country that is the home of suffering people.
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  • Support Your Firefighters
    The government is threatening to change firefighters’ pension schemes, meaning all members will pay more, work longer and still get less. Pay more Before 2010, firefighters already contributed one of the highest proportions of their salary towards their pensions (11%), and in April this year it increased for the third year running. Firefighters typically now pay over £4,000 a year from a £29,000 salary, and the government has announced they will impose another increase in 2015. Work longer Firefighters will be expected to work until they are 60 however the government’s own report by Dr Tony Williams, published in December 2013, recognises that two thirds (66%) will not meet the current fitness standard. Firefighters, who are forced to retire at 55 due to a natural decline in fitness, could lose up to half of their pension or face the sack. Get less Firefighters will only receive the full pension they signed up for if they work for 40 years in the service which given current retirement and fitness rates is unlikely for the majority of firefighters.
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    Created by Liam Reed