In England, 15% of children aged 2yrs - 15yrs are classified as obese. This is an outrage!  The 'children's cereals' sections in supermarkets should be banned, because they encourage children to eat more sugar, with obvious consequences like obesity, diabetes, tooth decay and more.  Manufacturers make sugary cereals because they know sugar is addictive, but I think they should prioritise healthy options, ie high fibre, low sugar and low fat and make them attractive to children and stop making the sugary cereals. Supermarkets stock items they know they can sell and parents buy food they know their children will eat. However, if there were no special 'children's cereals' section in supermarkets, the temptation to buy sugary cereals would be greatly reduced.

The majority of Bolton's roads and pavements have had work carried out by utility companies, but they are leaving the roads with awful, shabby workmanship. This is a massive problem all around Bolton, and probably across the whole of the UK.

In particular, we want the Council to investigate reasonable restrictions on operating hours and repetitive high-power flying, measures to avoid prolonged flying over residential areas wherever practicable, and whether quieter aircraft or effective noise-reduction measures could be required or encouraged. We are not asking for Fife Airport to close. We are asking for a reasonable balance between aviation activity and the right of local residents to enjoy their homes and communities without being subjected to repetitive aircraft noise for hours at a time. For many residents living around Fife Airport, a nice day now comes with a downside: hours of repetitive aircraft noise. The problem is not an occasional aircraft arriving at or departing from the airport. During suitable weather, aircraft used for activities such as parachuting can repeatedly climb under high engine power, descend and then do it all over again, hour after hour. On a recent Sunday, these operations began at around 10am and were still continuing at 7:30pm. That is almost an entire day of repeated aircraft noise affecting people in their homes and gardens. We accept that Fife Airport is an established airfield and that some aircraft noise comes with living within the surrounding area. What we question is whether residents should reasonably be expected to tolerate repetitive high-power recreational and commercial flying for nine or ten hours at a time, with seemingly very little protection from excessive noise. It is particularly frustrating that there are detailed rules and guidance intended to minimise the impact of activities such as model aircraft flying, yet residents can feel almost powerless when the source of considerably greater and more persistent noise is a full-size aircraft. This isn't about stopping people enjoying aviation, nor are we asking for Fife Airport to close. We're asking for balance. We want Fife Council to establish exactly what permissions and conditions apply to these intensive operations and to work with the airport and operators on practical ways of reducing their impact. That could include reasonable operating hours, avoiding prolonged repetitive flying over residential areas wherever possible, reviewing climb and flight patterns, and encouraging the use of quieter aircraft and noise-reduction measures. People who enjoy flying and skydiving should be able to enjoy their hobbies and businesses — but the people living underneath them should be able to enjoy a sunny Sunday in their own gardens too. Please sign this petition if you agree that a better balance needs to be found.

“The government’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Lisa Nandy, has revealed that they’re planning to introduce new legislation that will have the power to force the likes of Google and Apple to introduce mandatory Age Verification measures on Smartphones. The goal is the stop children sharing nude images of themselves, but it will also impact adult users.” The reason for it seems good, prevent children from taking indecent pictures, or sending them.. But it also means that Our Private images are at risk. Instead ban the USE and SALE of camera enabled phones and Tablets for Under 16s OR force parents of children to use Parental control apps or services on the devices that can allow them to block the use of the cameras until they are of 16+ age. I can see Banning kids from taking indecent images on camera phones is good, But at the same time, it has inherent flaws and some aspects are Overlooked completely with the way they want to do it... Myself and many others, use their camera phones to take photos of personal things, private documents, house layouts, passwords, phone numbers and many other strictly private info/images... And with this "Scanning for Nude images" Law or Legislation that the goverment wants to force on big phone tech, will be OS (android, IOS) level and not just within an app, and will be pushed onto everyone. This would mean that, yes, you could prevent the children taking those indecent  images and that would prevent harm... but without scanning everything, how do you find those harmful images... And not only that, WHO or WHAT is checking those images, storing them, seeing them, and sending them to other places.. We wont know, no one will, as it will be done in secret.. (Data always leaks) On top of that, this scanning tech, is known, to produce false flags, how long before innocent people or even kids taking innocent photos of a plushie or something get flagged as trying to send indecent images... Its not a perfect technology.. for Millions of photos a day, and having a human or humans check, is indecent and puts those people in a position where they have to find and look at indecent images of children, which nobody of sound mind would ever want to do. It could harm more people and cause more issues than what the Law is trying to prevent. The Best way I think to stop the children from taking or sending inappropriate images is to Prevent them from owning a Camera Enabled device OR force parents to Enable a more advanced Parental control that Locks the use of the camera until they are 16+

This is encouraging some drivers to speed dangerously along this stretch of road. The situation is dangerous and must be addressed before someone is badly hurt.

As a Scottish person the traffic cone became a staple piece to Scottish culture during and after the World Cup and now when I talk about it there is not a emoji to represent it.

The planned rises in the state retirement age to 67 and 68 are completely out of touch with the reality of public health in the UK. Across the country, rising poverty, a strained healthcare system, and regional inequalities are causing healthy life expectancy to stall or drop. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that people in deprived areas can expect to live in good health only into their mid-50s. This is no longer just a regional issue; as poverty spreads, even areas historically considered affluent are seeing health outcomes decline. Forcing people to work into their late 60s means many will spend their final years in sickness or pass away before ever reaching retirement. Lowering the retirement age to 60 is a fair and practical solution to two major crises: • Opening up the job market: Allowing older workers a well-deserved, earlier retirement immediately frees up entry-level positions, apprenticeships, and career pathways for young people struggling to find secure work. • Securing health justice: It ensures that every working-class person, regardless of their postcode, has the chance to live a fulfilling, active, and enjoyable retirement before their health declines. • We urge the government to stop treating retirement as a luxury. Lower the state retirement age to 60, give our youth a future, and bring dignity back to the British workforce.

Then four demands, in the order a decision-maker can actually act on them: 1. Ban the destruction of edible surplus. Supermarkets above a set floor size must offer unsold, in-date food to charities and redistribution partners before it goes anywhere near a skip. 2. Require a donation agreement. Every large store signs a standing arrangement with at least one local food charity or redistribution scheme — no more "we couldn't find anyone to take it." 3. Make food waste reporting mandatory and public. Annual, audited, store-level figures published by every large food business, so over-ordering shows up in black and white. 4. Set a legal reduction target with penalties for missing it. Voluntary pledges have had their decade. There is currently no legal bar on UK supermarkets destroying edible food and no statutory duty to redistribute it — the system runs on goodwill, which is our strongest single line of argument. ukpolitics And France has done exactly what we're asking for since 2016: large stores are forbidden from destroying unsold food and must donate it instead, so this is a proven policy rather than a hypothetical. The Guardian letsrecycle I'm a chef. Twenty years in high-end restaurants and catering, and I'm 37 years old. I know what goes into a single crate of vegetables. Someone grew it. Someone picked it in the cold. It was washed, graded, packed, chilled, driven across the country. By the time it reaches a shelf, dozens of people and hundreds of miles are standing behind it. And then, because a store ordered more than it could sell, it goes in a skip. Still good. Still in date. Still exactly the food I'd have been proud to cook and serve. In my kitchens, wasting food is a sackable failure. We cost every portion, we use every trim, we plan our orders around what we'll actually sell. If a restaurant ran the way supermarket ordering runs, it would be closed inside a year. I'm not asking supermarkets to do anything my industry hasn't done for decades. I'm asking them to stop treating perfectly good food as disposable — and to be made to prove they've stopped.

Every day in Bourne I witness the looming dangers posed by the constant stream of large lorries navigating the A15 through the town centre, passing close to two schools on the way. The current traffic situation is not only perilous for the children and teachers attending these schools but also for the parents and guardians trying to ensure their safety. The relatively narrow road up to and through the town centre is a challenge for these massive lorries which are becoming increasingly frequent.    In recent years the size and number of the lorries has grown, making the journey to the town centre along South Road an exercise in anxiety for those on foot. Mothers with push chairs must be ever watchful as these sixty ton monsters navigate the twists and turns veering dangerously close to pedestrians as they meet on a bend, forcing pedestrians to take evasive action.    More over, the attraction of the town centre is overshadowed by the congestion. Shoppers and residents alike face risks when merely trying to cross the street, their safety compromised by the narrowness of the roads trying to accomodate these enormous vehicles.    This issue extends to cyclists as well who find the roads far too dangerous and choose to ride on the pavement instead, inadvertently putting pedestrians at risk. It’s no way to foster a safe, pleasant, and healthy commute.    In addition to the danger from the size of the lorries young children and adults alike are exposed to the dangers of particulates in the air from the large amounts of exhaust fumes from these lorries.  

In the UK, BuzzBallz's drink containers cannot be recycled. They should be banned from sale in the UK for this reason until and unless BuzzBall's manufacturer comes up with a feasible recycling scheme or changes the design or build of their containers.

This is a cynical attempt by Barnsley Council to impose further hardships on the people who can least afford it. Perhaps other cuts pertaining to Council expenses could be substituted instead. As a disabled pensioner myself I am very much aware of what cuts like this could mean.

The best thing I can do to explain this is to get you to read the Guardian article. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/03/jodrell-bank-observatory-artists-writers-scientists-letter A world leading facility being shut down by a government department  with a budget of £10bn to save a mere £2.8m / year. It's a UNESCO world heritage site playing a key world-wide role in astronomy.