Land and Property Services Kill Link Academy CIC 5 years ago we opened link Academy a Community Interest Company in the heart of the city to provide artistic space for musicians. A Community Interest Company which is non-profit and to provide access and space for young musicians to create. As we are not recognised as a charity we had to apply for an re-evaluation and exception in Business Rates from land and property services, as we were not for profit, music education, working with young people and working in the fine Arts this is possible as rates exemptions have been allocated in the past under similar circumstances. After lengthy discussions and little movement form the Land and property services the process was long and detailed, we had to prove our worth providing documentation accounts and numerous meetings in the building. After four years the land and property services give us an exemption for future operation, and became the first Community interest company to receive an exemption in Northern Ireland, however did not give us a full backdate and are looking for us to pay for the year 2012 and partially of 2013 (City of Culture Years), this amounts to £11,000. Our legal team who helped us with obtaining the exemption done fantastic work, but felt this was the best deal on the table and work forward with the exemption and try repay the back dated fee. We tried to negotiate a repayment deal but the Land and property services would only go into a short-term repayment deal which is impossible to achieve. Where the problem exists. As a community interest company the directors can be paid, however we decided to alter our articles of association to reflect this and insert a clause to prevent directors from collecting remunerations from the company. However never since our incorporation no directors have been paid for any services or collected remunerations from the company. We have all worked voluntary for five years to sustain the Artistic hub and Space. All our accounts to company house submitted annually show that no directors collected remunerations since our incorporation. The land and property services have backdated the exemption to the date where we inserted the clause to prevent directors from collecting remunerations. And no exemption for the period when the company was operating when it was possible to pay directors for services. (Note no Directors have ever or intended in the future to receive pay. This was a decision by the company and not one that was enforced by the land and property services). After consideration and conversations with people in the land and property services, legally and politically about the reasons we did not receive an exemption for the initial period, it is evident that we have support. However today no legalisation exists to protect community groups like us from governmental services. During the period to which the property services are looking to recuperated rent we received funding from three different bodies, The Ireland Fund, the British Council, and the Derry and Arts Councils. Why is it possible for the government to give with one hand and not protect with the other who it gives to? Also it is clear that this is costing the government more in fees and working hrs. of staff, We at at link believe that we have operated the company in a non profit ethos with the emphasis on music , education and youth, and no directors have been paid. We have worked tirelessly to maintain a building in the centre of the city to provide access to the arts culture and music, knowing that this is an essential hub for many young musicians. Next week Thursday 8th, the land and property services will move to bankrupt the company in the high court for the amount of rates not recovered. Today I am asking you for your help to stay this judgment and encourage the property services to revisit the issue for full exemption. Thank You Kindly, From all the musicians and artists at Link Academy CIC

A family has been torn apart for the past 11 months because of the UKVI / Home Office's refusal to abide by a judge's decision that his mum should be granted a visa. A 3 year-old British boy has been shared between his mum in China and his dad in the UK. This is having a detrimental effect on him, he is confused and upset and needs a stable family unit, which was supported by the tribunal judge, who was also fully satisfied that this applicant meets all of the UK Visas and Immigrations requirements for a spouse's visa with a right to a family life in the UK. The Home Office claims that the appeal was abandoned when Mary returned to China whilst the appeal was pending, however, the tribunal permitted the hearing to proceed after Mary submitted a request to them for her husband to represent her. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-38012751?SThisFB http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/hswallingfordnews/14922259.Wallingford_family_missing_mum_who_is_stuck_in_China/ http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2016-11/28/content_27508080.htm

Plans to ban obese patients or smokers in North Yorkshire from getting NHS care are being drawn up. NHS bosses have tried this before, but after a public outcry, they backed down. We need to tell them a final time that these plans are unfair and cruel. Obesity and smoking are often symptoms of stress, long term physical and mental illness, trauma, bereavement, loss of job, financial stress and many other factors. Inflammation in the brain compounding, even causing depression, anxiety and other symptoms which make it impossible to assert healthy behaviours for many, depending on the severity of the illness. Medications used to treat illness also often cause the side effect of obesity. The move from the Vale of York CCG is heartless, poorly researched and in my opinion cruel punishment which will inevitably cause a painful death. I think these NHS bosses are unfit for purpose to even consider it, so we need to tell them to stop the plans. They would be better charged to work on prevention rather than a 'cure' which is only geared towards cutting costs by targeting the most vulnerable. The NHS is not a business, contrary to proposals. We and our forefathers pay and have worked for it. It is Governmental duty to administer what is the best, overall, health system in the world according to global studies. All these points are well documented in multiple vigorous research studies, found by a simple search on some of the keywords.

France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks. There is food banks in most towns and cities across the UK and like France the wasted food could be donated to them. Almost 50% of total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our home. We throw away 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year in the UK, and more than half of this food and drink we could've eaten and this 7 million tonnes of food wasted is equal to over £17,000,000,000 of worth of food each year, yes you heard me £17,000,000,000 which could be all given to those in need. It is also terrible for the enviroment. It takes a land mass larger than China to grow the food each year that is ultimately never eaten – land that has been deforested, species that have been driven to extinction, indigenous populations that have been moved, soil that has been degraded – all to produce food that we then just throw away. In addition, food that is never eaten accounts for 25% of all fresh water consumption globally. Gulp. Not only are all of the resources that went into creating the uneaten food wasted (land, water, labour, energy, manufacturing, packaging, etc), but when food waste goes to landfill, which is where the vast majority of it ends up, it decomposes without access to oxygen and creates methane, which is 23x more deadly than carbon dioxide. Every which way you look at it food waste is a major culprit in destroying our planet, and in fact if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the USA. Millions upon millions people are starving every year all around the world and we all will be affected by global warming,that's over 7,00,000,000 people! Saving these unused foods can resolve this problem immensely.

I live beside the Park and walk my dogs there every day. Not knowing much about this problem, at first I thought I might be selfish objecting to the expansion of the Football Club. But then I realised that Meadow Park had been given to the town over 100 years ago for the community to use - not to be owned by an exclusive corporate company for profit which, needing to expand again, should be accepting national guidelines and moving further away from a town centre anyway. It should certainly not be taking community property of such practical and intrinsic value to the whole community who may or may not follow the league. A couple of weeks ago, there was a 13 strong flock of geese making a pit stop on our little park which prompted another impromptu discussion about the value of every blade of grass or tree contained there. Non of that is up for sale or lease to anyone. Obviously this little oasis in the midst of cement, patrimony of the community, antidote to the stress of urban living and venue for community events right in the middle of the town is valuable. The Boreham Wood Football Club has been allowed to gradually encroach on the park and now wants to take, fence off and profit from our space so what is left cannot accommodate traditional town events in the future Besides the need to protect dwindling urban park space (Borehamwood is growing alarmingly), Meadow Park is anyway used for many other outdoor activities. And there are football youth groups playing every week (they are not permitted to use 'the expensive' Football Club facilities which are private). If lots of us come together to sign the petition, we might be able to convince the council to stop the plans.

Many people over 65 are members of the 'baby boomer' generation retired with good occupational pensions as well as the state pension, often living in warm comfortable houses which they bought on mortgages much cheaper than they are now. They don't need the £100 to keep warm but there are others less fortunate and often much younger who can't even afford to rent a property never mind own one and some of them are sleeping on the streets in the winter cold. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/07/one-in-six-pensioners-is-a-millionaire-official-figures-show/ Many retired people, like me, send the money to charity but others never get round to doing it. Many others will just feed it into their frivolous lifestyle without a thought about how it could do more good elsewhere. Perhaps if they were given the option by the DWP to send it to a good cause instead much more of this money could be sent where it could really make a difference. Nudge Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory) now being used by various government departments could possibly feed millions in this direction. Even better, since if you give to charity yourself with Gift Aid the government adds another 20%, perhaps they should send £120 for each person who selects the option. Obviously it will take some time for the government to set this up if we do persuade them; certainly not before the middle of next year. So if you are reading this and you are a pensioner like me who can easily do without the payment, and you haven't already sent it to a good cause, maybe you could send it to a deserving charity too?

We are supposed to be a United Kingdom. Why have we got different regulations from the rest of UK?

The government must make clear that attacking abuse survivors is not tolerated. Condoning his behaviour could discourage other victims from reporting abuse.

There are no independent live music venues in Rugby

Bleach is highly dangerous and babies/toddlers can be attracted to the bright colours. So we are campaigning to make the bottle dull colours such as black or white so babies/toddlers won't be attracted to the As it is highly dangerous. Do it for the children. Our slogan is don't make it bring make it bright.

The section from the junction with Shelford Road to the junction with Addenbrooke's road is now much more built up than previously. Many children cross this road to attend Trumpington Meadows primary school. Reducing speed by 10mph will reduce the risk of death in a collision by 40%.

WE ARE A VIBRANT, CLOSE -KN IT COMMUNITY THAT LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER AND ARE INVOLVED IN MANY LOCAL EVENTS THAT WOULD BE IN JEOPARDY IF OUR BOROUGH WAS SPLIT UP. THERE WOULD BE COMMUNITY SERVICES THAT WOULD SUFFER ALSO, SO CHANGING THE BOUNDARIES OF MITCHAM, MORDEN AND COLLIER'S WOOD IS PURE VANDALISM AND MUST BE STOPPED.