The evidence of the effects of existing Unconventional Gas Extraction operations around the world is a serious cause for concern. The potential exists for toxic and radioactive water contamination, severe air pollution, tens of thousands of wells, pipelines and compressor stations devastating the countryside and blighting communities. The geological stability implications are also well documented. This form of unconventional gas extraction is short lived , whilst the environmental impact would last for generations. Fresh water supply requirements is another area of concern, potentially causing widespread drinking water shortages, reduced water quality and driving up prices. Without full disclosure of the long term risks, enabling the people to determine the costs and benefits, licenses cannot and should not be granted. Many European countries and others further afield have issued blanket bans on unconventional gas extraction operations. The reasons for this need to be evaluated in order to decide whether 'we' in the UK are prepared to take the risk. The only way this industry can take hold in the UK is if we allow it, in an open and transparent debate and being aware of the risks. There are many alternative methods of energy generation which can be researched and developed. By declaring Bridgend County free from fracking we will be leading the way to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
We can set a precedent for other local authorities by showing that we are making responsible and positive changes in our community. Fracking is not the answer to the UK’s energy challenges. It has been linked to water contamination, air pollution, earth tremors, health problems, decreasing house prices, climate change as well as hundreds of more lorry movements around fracking sites – and crucially, isn’t likely to bring down energy prices, nor create sustainable jobs. The days of private companies destroying our communities to make a fast buck should belong to the past. Fracking is deeply unpopular and keeps us locked in to more fossil fuel use at exactly the time we need to be pursuing clean energy sources such as the sun, wind and waves which provide long term sustainable quality jobs for our communities as well as improving our environment for everyone both now and in the future. A future based on and renewable technology and cutting waste could provide many jobs: renewable energy could support 400,000 jobs across the UK by 2020 and an energy efficiency programme could create 71,000 new jobs by 2015 as well as lifting thousands of families out of fuel poverty. The environment and our communities must take top priority over all else!

Returning fireworks to the visual performance of the true firework production professionals (1970's/'80's) WON'T reduce emergency service costs; (most firework accidents are stray rockets, rockets don't always go BANG. SO colourful non noise producing fireworks can still go into a crowd); reduced work sickness (anxiety / depression won't be reduced, as anything else can cause bouts of this to come on also) Why is this important? Fireworks with an explosive bang excite ex-service people, I now plenty that buy these fireworks themselves!. Pets and people go missing around the time of Diwali, Halloween, Bonfire night , Eid, New years (all), other parties they also go missing around any other time of the year. I would say if you let animals out during these seasons legislation on noisy fireworks won't keep these pets safe as the owners can't do what is best by them for these few weeks a year?. The loud bang is necessary to the firework's impact if that is what you like. You could argue that the colourful part isn't necessary to the effect of a fire work if your are blind or not interested in pretty colours. . Please save our planet's freedom of choice and get this noisy element kept. Let's enjoy the whizz ssshhhh of fireworks and embrace the shotgun effect.

If you are going to have UKIP in the debate the SNP must be included as they have 6 times the amount MP's that UKIP has, they are also have the third biggest membership in the UK so it's only democratic they are included.

Councillors have drawn up and progressed this option with no consultation or briefing with school staff, or any regard whatsoever for the 300 children who will be directly affected if the MAE becomes a residential or commercial property. We are alarmed by the speed of Merton's decision-making and distressed that Councillors have failed to consult - let alone consider - our school community in moving forward to identify their preferred option in isolation. We, the parents, carers, relatives and friends of Joseph Hood Primary School, demand that Merton rethink their "preferred option" until a full consultation has been carried out with the parents and staff of our school as well as with the school's neighbours. #JoHoSaysNO

Whilst new therapies are expensive for children and adults with ultra orphan diseases the number affected in England are usually in the tens and never total more than 500 affected individuals. These ultra rare diseases affect many organs of the body and usually result in death in childhood or early adulthood. Today even though the European Medicines Agency gave Marketing Approval for an Enzyme Replacement Therapy for children and young adults with MPSIVA, Morquio disease in April 2014 and the health departments in France, Germany, Austria, Italy and even Turkey are paying for Morquio sufferers to receive Enzyme Replacement Therapy, 77 children and adults in England are denied Enzyme Replacement Therapy and to be treated at home.

ANGUS COUNCIL ROADS DEPARTMENT SET TO PUT AN END TO SMALL BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN THE SCOTTISH TOWN OF BRECHIN – HELP US TO STOP THIS NOW!! The people of Brechin should be aware of the workings within their Council, as they are about to demolish several small business lock-ups on the East Mill Industrial Estate, in preparation for the forthcoming River Defence Scheme. Their plan is to construct an earth embankment on this site, necessitating the demolition of several small business units thereon, when a wall along the bank of the River Esk would provide adequate flood prevention. At the inception of the Scheme in 2010, drawings were provided showing this wall, but the Council has backed out of this on the basis of cost, DESPITE BEING AWARDED >£13M for the project! In so doing, they are forcing the small businesses to close up, with no relocation plans or offer of realistic compensation. MP’s and the Scottish Parliament have been asked to intervene to help protect the rights of the people involved - none of whom objected to the Scheme in principle - but no positive responses have been received to date. The consequences of this are dire for those entrepreneurs, who have nowhere to go and are powerless to fight the Council, whose advice is to SCRAP YOUR BELONGINGS AND GET OUT! We have to demand that the Council provides alternative accommodation for those enterprises or reverts to its original plan of erecting a Flood Defence Wall before the BULLDOZERS ARRIVE IN JANUARY 2015. Please show your support by signing this petition.

Everyday people are looking for housing and need somewhere to live. In this day and age why is it acceptable to refuse housing to people in receipt of housing benefit who through no fault of their own are disabled and are good tenants with references. But do not qualify simply because they have no choice but to claim housing benefit due to being too disabled to work. It is time to end this injustice.

It is essential that tve public are informed of all events that may affect their wellbeing. Our government, banks, business, law and so on must be held accountable and a free press us a big part of that. The UK press fails in that task. It is controlled by global corporations and hides and misrepresents situations to serve their interests. Government is supported, bullied and manipulated by them. The public don't get a look-in. There is no democracy in this. Important issues go unresolved and people suffer.

Currently loving, capable, and willing parents with equal parental rights and responsibility are being denied access by their ex-partners. In turn children are being denied the love and care of both of their parents regardless of their wishes or welfare. The current legal system is grossly flawed, biased, outdated, and prohibitively expensive, protracted, and complicated.

Like many other people who watched the news on Wednesday 5th November, I was shocked by the article on children and young adults with autism locked away by councils in institutions across the country, far away from their families, where they were bullied and mocked by staff and in one case attacked by a fellow inpatient with a history of committing murder. As a nation we should protect these doubly vulnerable young people: under age and with mental health issues. We need to increase spending in this area so that preventative care can be given in the community; so that care homes are radically improved, and made available locally where needed; so that the people working in them can be properly vetted (salaries in the care industry generally need to increase hugely - not just those of managers, but workers on the ground) and finally so that there are sufficient facilities that children can be housed according to their needs, e.g. children with records of violence (especially of murder) housed separately to those without histories of violence. If bullying does take place the staff involved should be sacked, not simply 'retrained', but this can only happen if staff are paid a higher wage, their working conditions improved and there isn't such a dearth of people in the sector. On a separate but related note: the law which prevents parents from visiting their own children in these institutions should be reconsidered.

Such a fund ensures that any accrued money would not be frittered away on day to day expenditure. It would be built up over time, as in Norway. Any interest would be used as a resource to bolster schools, road infrastructure, poverty initiatives, social projects, etc.

i have been a carer since 1993 with very little recognition or reward is time for this to change as the 6.5 million carers save the government 120 billion per year this Government will have saved 600 billion by the election by denying carers what all other workers have. its time that changed for good