Successful Campaigns

UPDATE: 6/11/14: A victory! Plans to quarry in Hopwas Woods have been withdrawn because of public opposition. This is really great news for everyone who supported the campaign by signing the petition and getting involved through the Facebook page. You can read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-29854109

05/06/15 Petition starter David followed up the campaign with a Comment is free article in the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/05/pride-parade-ukip-queer-activists-lesbians-gays-miners-racism. This campaign and other pressures from across the LGBT community led to the organisers of Pride announcing that UKIP's application to march had been rejected: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/05/ukip-banned-from-gay-pride-march-after-partys-inclusion-stokes-anger

10/04/15: Historic Scotland recently announced that "We have now put on hold indefinitely preparations for introducing admission charges at the Cathedral".

We won, the proposal was withdrawn by east lothian Council. What a result for the community of Haddington.

21/04/2015 Following on from a 6,000 strong petition, skateboarders in Norwich rejoice as the council over-turns plans to ban the sport in the city centre http://38d.gs/1HfmkNH

UPDATE: 19/06/15 - The surgery has been saved. An agreement has been reached with NHS England.

Today Kent County Council voted to restore all night streetlighting with the much more efficient LED lighting in a roll-out programme. This is a great win for all those who campaigned for the Big Switch-off to be abandoned via the online petitions and the doorstep campaigns we ran in various parts of Kent. This shows grassroots campaigning works! Thank you for signing the petition Keep the lights on in Kent!

UPDATE: THE COUNCIL WILL WRITE OFF ALL FINES http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Drivers-caught-Dorchester-Street-bus-lane-fines/story-21033373-detail/story.html

10/07/14 -Great News! North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust have suspended their proposals to reduce Ambulance cover on nights in Carlisle and the Rapid Response Vehicle RRV in Penrith on nights as part of a cost improvement plan. Indeed they have decided to suspend all frontline service cuts throughout all of the North West. The reason is that NWAS have received additional monies that is non-recurrent but will cover the cost of reducing frontline services for this year. Our campaign has therefore been successful but will continue again next year if NWAS decide to adopt similar proposals. Our petition was presented at No 10 Downing Street last week and totalled 11,500 signatures which included this online petition. Thank you for you support. Read more http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/11352023.Ambulance_service_is_spared_cuts_of___2_2m/

Thank you for signing the petition Local and Live 2014 - Let's ensure it's back in 2015! The petition was presented to TWBC on October 15 and received a very strong welcome at the Council meeting on Wednesday. We are pleased to let everyone know that Local & Live got a strong endorsement and a commitment of support for next year.