School uniform is expensive all for the sake of the school badge. You shouldn't have to buy everything with the school crests on. Quality of the uniforms are not as good as the ones from high street/supermarkets. Children should only need to buy the badge and be able to put that on a normal school jumper/cardigan. Stop taking loads of money each year of parents. Wouldn't mind if the money went back into the local schools but it doesn't. To try and help families save a lot from the amount of money which is spent monthly/yearly those who have children in schools.

This is important to every resident in Charles street, there has been 3 very nasty speeding accidents in the last 3 months, next time could be different

Our son who is now 14 falls between severe and moderate learning needs, he is autistic, has chronic lung disease, requires gastric tube feeding and is prone to infection. He also is partially deaf and cannot process words easily. Surrey Education agreed with us that home education was his best option due to the issues he has. However this removes access to speech and language therapy and other communication support as the budget goes to the special needs schools, not the child. This has to change to allow his parents to provide the best support for him. We can of course go private but due to cost this is not a viable option. We need the law changed to give the education and special needs budget to the child. Educating at home is not an easy option to choose, but to limit our options is not only unfair but boarding discrimination.

This is important as each year the 109 and other local buses are becoming more and more overcrowded and with out investment into a new bus route this problem will get worse, most times during rush hour people are waiting over 25 minutes to get onto a buses.

A planning application was submitted to Highland Council to construct an 18-hole international golf course on Coul Links, Sutherland but the applicant is not Trump Golf. The target lies within Loch Fleet Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Protection Area for birds & international Ramsar wetland, which is predominantly estuary. Coul Links is one of very few expanses of undeveloped & largely unspoilt sand dunes remaining in Scotland, & its special wildlife & landforms are protected by those UK & European legal designations & international treaty. Development would be at odds with Highland Council’s environmental policies. The government’s conservation agency, which objected, describes SSSIs as “areas of land & water that Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) considers to best represent our natural heritage - its diversity of plants, animals & habitats, rocks & landforms, or a combination of such natural features. They are the essential building blocks of Scotland's protected areas for nature conservation … It is an offence for any person to intentionally or recklessly damage the protected natural features of an SSSI." Trump got official approval to destroy Foveran Links SSSI after exaggerating economic benefits, much shenanigans & Scottish Government intervention. That site will probably be denotified as SSSI (confirmed Dec 2020). The present speculator is Coul Links Ltd. led by Mike Keiser, President of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Oregon, Trump Golf’s main global rival, & entrepreneur Todd Warnock who similarly claims 'I can make this environment better'. From Oct 2015, press articles publicised proposals for the golf course. Developers blithely spoke of perceived advantages to golf & economy, ignored conservation designations but mentioned new nature trails & wildlife ‘information’. Development propaganda has not informed the public what wildlife, habitat, landforms & amenity will be destroyed & degraded. Exhibitions in Aug 2016 & Oct 2017, to elicit public votes of support, paid scant attention to wildlife & presented flawed ecology. The former relegated a habitat survey to just a tiny cryptic map at Scottie dog eye level. The less truth people know the less insensitive the plans appear. Golf course construction would be an unnatural catastrophe. It would mean excavating, recontouring, burying wet slacks, reseeding with introduced grasses, addition of plastic membranes, irrigating & intensively mowing 40.5 ha, habitat fragmentation, under-grazing & eradication of (valuable grazers & browsers) rabbits & deer, fertilising & herbiciding (& run-off), with substantial collateral damage, immediate & insidious, & bulk habitat & species translocation of 4.5 ha. dune heath, with insects & rare lichens, & 100 rare dune juniper, with displacements on receptor areas, contrary to government's 'A Habitats Translocation Policy for Britain' (2003) recently relaxed. Size & connectivity of habitats are ecologically critical, affecting species populations, diversity, interaction & survivability. Construction traffic, borrow pits & sand-moving would disturb & damage the geomorphology, hydrology (water quality & seasonality), low-nutrient profiles (on which plants rely) & habitat biodiversity over a much wider area. Fine irregular patterns of topography, micro-habitats & vegetation mosaics, like dry hummocks & wet slacks, would be destroyed, displacing specialised, scarce, rare & vulnerable plants & insects. Human disturbance would reduce bird populations in surviving habitats. Dunes naturally have cycles of erosion & deposition. Plans include greens & fairways constructed near foredune crests & a burn outlet, eliminating important species & weakening natural sea defences regardless of risks. This would probably necessitate adding a culvert & an artificial expanse of boulder rip rap, leading to beach narrowing (part National Nature Reserve) & coastal erosion nearby, the judgement of leading geomorphologist Dr Jim Hansom of Glasgow University. Compromise from 'invasive' species, the result of management neglect & rejected SNH grant aid (£230,000 since 2010), & regenerating North American lodgepole pines (misidentified by golf's ecologists as Scots pines), is being grossly exaggerated to excuse 'remediating' so much natural vegetation with manicured mediocrity. Naturalness is a key criterion in SSSI selection. Bracken, gorse, tall herbs & rank grassland support more wildlife than lawns: https://butterfly-conservation.org/files/habitat-bracken-for-butterflies.pdf. Fonseca's seed-fly, thought endemic to Sutherland dunes, requires 'weeds'. Claims about biodiversity net gain from moving fragile habitats & species, controlling Scots Pine, rare & native at Coul, & cessation of duck shooting are ludicrous. Threatened habitats outside the SSSI, in a golf 'remediation' area, are of comparable biodiversity, including Fonseca's Seed-fly, Baltic Rush, Rough Horsetail, Moonwort, Skullcap, Butterwort, Fragrant, Frog & Creeping Lady's-tresses Orchids, Small Blue butterfly & plants at their northern UK limits, like Restharrow & abundant Rock-rose, the food-plant of scarce Northern Brown Argus butterfly. The developers talk of 'sensitivity', 'minimalism', ‘naturalness’, 'utmost care' & the high repute of its designers, but Oregon track record conflicts: https://oregoncoastalliance.org/bandon-dunesbiota-bulldoze-roads  Leading dune ecologist Dr Tom Dargie describes the developer’s surveys & Environmental Statement as ‘unfit for purpose’. He judges the site worthy of (European) Special Area of Conservation (SAC) status, which would have prevented such development being considered.  There is a superfluity of coastal golf courses in Scotland, many undersubscribed, some closing, mostly eroding. The environmentally responsible option is to avoid development within such special, rare & fragile habitats.

In Dec 2015 a young player in Essex was killed from a head injury on a hockey pitch. In October I had written to the FIH telling them I was so scared by the rules that I would not let my own children play and warning that it was only a matter of time before someone was killed by a head injury. I had been writing to the FIH on this subject for over 8 years. A year earlier a 27 year old narrowly escaped death from a hockey ball to the head with an emergency operation, and back in 2012 a young lady was hit by a ball and died instantly. The Mail campaigned on this in Dec 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2873726/Following-death-Lizzie-Watkins-does-hockey-refuse-protect-players.html However the unnecessary risks in this game are, in my opinion, far more threatening to children. Consider the fact that children must wear a gum shield, which plainly indicates that incidents around the mouth are a threat. However a ball or stick in the mouth will not normally kill but a ball or stick to the temple or throat can, and does, kill and a gum shield will do nothing to protect from that danger. Young players are closer to the surface and hence closer to the danger. They do not know the best ways to avoid the dangers, however they or their counterparts are able to learn skills today that used to only be accessible to expert player, and which are now legal and life threatening. Whilst I was at school a boy was killed by a ball to the head and another needed facial reconstructive surgery. That was just what I knew about. Hockey has had 35 years since these incidents to make this game safe and whilst they made good headway initially, over the past 17 years they have steadily relaxed the rules and consequently made the game more dangerous, even in schools. In 2015 the FIH removed the rule that prohibited playing the ball at or above head-height. England Hockey has a veto for all rules in domestic games. They canvassed hockey participators. Over 6000 players, coaches & umpires (parents were not specifically canvassed) responded. 59% stated that this was unsafe for use with children. However in Aug 2015 England Hockey ignored the warning and implemented this rule change across the 11 aside game – including with children. Club players can choose whether to place themselves in danger by entering a pitch, however school children are generally forced to play, commonly without them or their parents realising the mortal danger they face - and completely unnecessarily so. Former GB international and England captain Sarah Blanks, now director of sport at King Edward VI High School, Birmingham, stated, "Even in schools hockey, we see plenty of split heads. At Olympic level, it's more extreme still. You don't go into it without understanding the physical pain you'll encounter." GB Gold Medal winning keeper Maddie Finch stated ‘Any hockey goalkeeper who says they’ve never closed their eyes for a second and thought, “please don’t hit me” is lying,’ and that is for a heavily protected keeper compared to an outfield player who also ends up in the line of fire and is allowed only a gum shield and shin pads! Kate Richardson Walsh had her jaw fractured during GB’s first match at the 2012 Games. She had surgery to insert a plate — but returned just three games later wearing a protective mask. Something not allowed to other players and which does not protect the vulnerable and lethal temple or throat areas. The solution is not just about physically protecting players - it is about the simple process of making the game safe, or at least immensely safer, through simple, and in some cases obvious, rule revisions. Hockey is not like Football, in that the rules have not changed for decades, the FIH changes the Rules of Hockey almost every year and often in a number of ways. Indeed last season the FIH made 4 rule changes which resulted from issues and recommendation I had raised, 2 from 2009 & 2 from 2016 - however none of these improved safety and the many recommendations I made regarding safety in the same period were ALL ignored. Rule changes are simple to implement in Hockey and if the FIH will not implement them then schools should adopt a safer set of rules before they allow our children to face lethal consequences. If you are still not convinced at the dangers then before you let your child play hockey at school or anywhere else take a look at the pictures in the second half of this Mail news story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3748170/Captain-fell-team-mate-goalie-called-Mad-Dog-vegan-star-striker-Great-Britain-hockey-stars-going-glory-tonight-today-s-game-sheer-savagery.html It is not just the threat of death that worries me, injuries are very common in the game. My professional warning (as an insurance expert) is that a) we do not know how common injuries are because they are rarely, if ever, reported to the insurer (people who have been negligent and allowed an injury do not want to admit that they could be sued) and b) we should not expect that a morbid injury will be protected and supported by insurance, because I doubt the cover in place will ever pay out. So please don't let your child be the next to hit the surface and not get up - support my campaign and let's get this great game made safe and enjoyable for everyone! Risks and Proposed Solutions People are asking what rules need changing and why? If you are interested read the following blog https://saferulesforschoolshockey.wordpress.com/ or see a set of proposed simpler and safer rules at: https://saferulesforschoolshockey.wordpress.com/proposed-safer-rules-for-hockey/ You can also see some of the ball and stick hazards below: https://youtu.be/DzDGUVjIprw

It is time for a new humanitarian approach. The French have done everything possible to prevent refugees entering the UK, although you wouldn't get this from the anti European UK press, so change the approach, stop spending on penning people in and help them with a job, training and a proper roof over their heads.

It was announced today that the renovations to the Palace of Westminster will cost up to £4billion and involved the MPs moving out for 6 years. This will leave us (the British people) with a magnificent looking building, but a parliament in the same state it is now with MPs involved in a scrum to attend each morning to bag a seat! In addition, the UK is already too London centric; despite rhetoric about building a "Northern Power House" the government has yet to do anything practical in this direction. The current debating chambers are not fit for purpose; there are insufficient seats for every member of parliament. A new building could provide to the needs of a 21st century and offer both space as well as technology solutions such as telepresence so that MPs can be involved in debates while not attending in person; allowing better use of their time as well as allowing a better family life / work life balance. Cost and time overruns are likely to make renovations cost much higher than the estimated £4 billion and we will still be faced by an antiquated building not fit for purpose. So lets look to the future not to the past and consider what is BEST, not what is convinient for individual MPs.

All recent evidence shows that social mobility is stifled rather than encouraged by grammar schools. If you truly want to be a government for the people then please do not choose an education policy that has been clearly shown to reduce social mobility.

Innocent women and children and being killed everyday, this is a war crime and must be stopped now!

It is another step to privatisation of the NHS. Walk in centres are all-new buildings financed by local taxpayers. They alleviate pressure on A &E. It is always very busy and its usual for an hour's wait to see a nurse which proves how well used it is

Due to the recent closure of our beloved club Fabric due to drug related deaths, we feel that it is important that councils across London should treat all public venues with the same level of severity, if they wish to remain consistent with their "values". This is important as it is believed by many that rules are applied over excessively for some cases, namely pubs and music venues or anywhere a council chooses to re-develop. But at the same time chooses to ignore almost completely if great levels of wealth are attached. If you want us to believe that you really are doing this for the safety of the public, then you will have no problem revoking their license or imposing security measures that will heavily combat "the drug problem" that is causing human fatality there.