The Serpentine path in Hyde park is enjoyed by pedestrians, tourtists, and visitors to the festivals and events. It is also an important hub for the London roller skate community, who have come out to their express creativity, community and the joy of skating, every weekend for over 50 years. This is an important grassroots community, of all ages and backgrounds, who are famous worldwide and delight tourists with their tricks and roller dancing.  Lime bikes, Forest Bikes and other rented electric e-bikes are currently completely unregulated. They can be ridden by anyone regardless of cycling ability - they go at speeds of 15 miles an hour (much faster than regular bikes), can be hard to control and are extremely heavy. When ridden along pathways, particularly in London's parks, they are a danger to both skaters and pedestrians. E-bike riders often speed down the Serpentine path in huge groups, with no regard for pedestrians or skaters, and have become a menace. Several skaters have recently been directly crashed into by these e-bikes and injured. Whilst cycling is an important part of London's transport network, many of these e-bike riders clearly do not have any experience riding a bike, are intoxicated, or riding carelessly or too fast.  From a commuting/transport perspective, there is also no need for e-bikes to use this path, as there is a cycleway directly parallel to the path along South Carriage Drive. This is a road clearly designated for bikes and much safer than them riding along the Serpentine where children and families are walking.  We call on Westminster Council / London Royal Parks to ban these dangerous e-bikes along the Serpentine path, making it a 'red zone' so they can't be ridden or their speed is restricted - and restoring the path as a place of enjoyment and community where pedestrians can walk in safety and skaters can continue to enjoy the community and health benefits of skating without fear of being injured. Many London parks restrict the use of e-bikes along pathways and we urge Westminster Council / Royal Parks to do the same.

My child struggles with sensory but she isnt the only that struggles with week.  Tights have always been a struggle and yet i pushed for her to fit into the struggle to meet school policy which is tights to be worn at a minimum of 40+ denier but in extreme heat how can this be fair?  I'm very aware most young girls pull skirts up and was happy to enforce this struggle but why cant they wear p.e kits when it comes to extreme weather conditions.  I find it ludicris children are being refused to wear shorts in such weathers especially when parents only option is to keep them home an expect fines, this leads me to believe there must be reasons? But what is the reason?  They are not working with tarmac or fire pits in school and nylon tights would not save skin even if this was the case. What can possibly be the reason to it? Honestly I find it a worry there has been no explaniation behind it other than it's policy. I am sure I'm not the only parent given the local chats this week.  No child can be expected to focus or store information in such extreme weather conditions so again i ask what is the reason behind this?

All over the country, I am sick of seeing motorcyclists, young and older people, just wearing shorts and t-shirts. Too many riders are taking it for granted that they are infallible. Making protective gear a legal requirement will help stop gravel rash and bones being ground away.

The "Stealth" Pathogen Argument: Bartonella henselae mimics dozens of automated autoimmune, neurological, and psychiatric conditions, making full-spectrum screening necessary to rule it out. • The "Stealth" Pathogen Argument: Bartonella henselae mimics dozens of automated autoimmune, neurological, and psychiatric conditions, making full-spectrum screening necessary to rule it out. • Economic Benefit: Universal upfront screening prevents years of expensive, incorrect treatments for misdiagnosed conditions. • Advanced Testing Availability: Modern PCR and specialized multi-species testing make wide-scale screening more viable than older culture method Because Bartonella perfectly duplicates the physical presentation, laboratory markers, and imaging results of these other illnesses, clinicians will naturally diagnose the more common or prominent condition first. The primary factors driving this incredibly high potential for misdiagnosis across all these conditions include: 1. High Diagnostic Failure Rates (The Testing Gap) Standard diagnostic tools routinely miss active Bartonella infections, leading doctors to rule out an infectious cause prematurely:  • Serology Limitations: Standard blood antibody tests (ELISA and IFA) have highly variable sensitivities, regularly dropping below 70%. In chronic or atypical presentations, patients frequently test completely negative for antibodies while still harboring the bacteria in their blood or tissue. • Elusive Microbe: Bartonella henselae is a fastidious, slow-growing, intracellular bacterium. It hides inside red blood cells and endothelial linings, making it virtually impossible to catch on standard blood cultures. 2. Pathological Mirroring (The Imaging Trap) Bartonella does not just mimic symptoms; it physically alters tissue in ways that mimic other chronic diseases: • Granulomas: It triggers the formation of necrotizing granulomas, which a pathologist looking at a biopsy can easily mistake for Tuberculosis or Sarcoidosis.  • Angiogenesis: It forces the body to rapidly grow abnormal new blood vessels. On an MRI or a skin biopsy, this cellular proliferation is incredibly difficult to differentiate from vascular cancers like Kaposi Sarcoma.  • Lymph Node Mimicry: On PET scans and CT imaging, Bartonella-induced lymphadenopathy shows the exact same metabolic hyperactivity and structural swelling as active Lymphoma or Leukemia relapses. 3. Neurological Overlap Because the bacteria can cross the blood-brain barrier and cause severe localized inflammation, the resulting nerve degradation and cognitive dysfunction are structurally identical to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) or ALS. Without specialized testing (like advanced PCR or metagenomic sequencing), there is no clinical way to distinguish the symptoms from a primary neurodegenerative disease

Achieving this will be of immense benefit to every aspect of our economy, helping every household and business, and will massively boost UK growth. Electricity is fundamental to our lives, yet successive governments over decades have been prepared to accept that we pay some of the highest prices in Europe. This is a fundamental failing of our governments and shows a complete lack of strategic thinking. Lower energy prices are necessary if the UK is to take advantage of technologies like AI. It is necessary if we are to move off of gas to help tackle climate change, and it is necessary if we want to reduce the benefits bill (for example, the winter fuel allowance should not be needed if electricity is affordable). There are many other benefits that would arise from lower energy costs. If other countries can gain these benefits, then why can’t we?

It uses existing tracks, and Hitchin is closer to London than Reading — which already has these fares. Sadiq Khan lives on the route, so he knows how unfair high prices are. This will make travel cheaper, fairer and easier for everyone. Right now fares are too high and unfair — we pay more than places further away. Cheaper travel helps families, workers and local businesses. We deserve the same fair deal as everyone else on the TfL network.

Operation Fearless has flooded Handsworth with racist policing, stop-and-search and immigration enforcement, tactics which since the 1980s have only served to deepen inequality in our community. Police brutality has already been officially reported since the Operation began. Hotspot policing is a tried, tested, and failed tactic that those living in Handsworth for decades are all too familiar with: In the 2000s, when stop-and-search was expanded in Handsworth, did that stop the decline of our communities? Did increased police powers in 2022 stop the selling off of our community centres? The closing of our A&E units? The selling off of our council homes? Or are things worse than ever as a result of decades of cut services and criminalisation of those at the receiving end of those cuts? Crimes of desperation are symptoms of deprivation. If you treat these symptoms as criminal offences, rather than addressing the root cause, it just traps vulnerable communities in cycles of fines, criminal records, and marginalisation, blocking access to housing and employment. As we heard on 23rd May, at the Stop Operation Fearless protest, the Handsworth community is already aware of all this. It’s no surprise that countless homeless people have been harassed by the police as a result of Operation Fearless. No surprise that asylum seekers and migrant workers have reported that they are scared to walk the streets due to the immigration raids of the Operation. And no surprise that residents report the parks empty, and report disgust at the brutality they’ve witnessed from the police. The one thing Operation Fearless does, however, is provide councillors and MPs with neatly packaged short-term statistics for their reports while turning a blind eye to the long-term deepening of poverty caused by Operation Fearless, which cost nearly £1 million. This is money that could have gone to any of the underfunded medical centres in the area, such as Orsborn House, an already ragged safety net for mental health, without which the slope into homelessness becomes a pipeline. You cannot police away poverty. Black and Asian people are the first to be targeted by stop-and-search, while the most vulnerable amongst us such as asylum seekers and migrant workers bear the brunt of the violence of immigration enforcement, largely unseen and unheard. Yet, Labour boasts about their record levels of deportations since being in power, over 60,000. All the while, the drivers of poverty are left untouched, and in fact are deepened by criminalisation. We have to counter the lie that more police equals safer streets. The police are institutionally racist and sexist, as evidenced by the multiple counts of sexual abuse of women by West Midlands Police officers, reports spanning decades on the police's treatment of trans people, and the violent brutality shown by police when defending racist groups like Britain First. From Paddy Hill, to Satpal Ram, to Kingsley Burrell, to Marcus Meade, it is clear that 'safety' is the last thing that comes from 'more bobbies on the beat. The police's role is to protect private property and the needs of capital, and in times of crisis it becomes necessary for them to ramp up their violence against working class people to maintain the capitalist status quo. Handsworth has long suffered poverty caused by underinvestment, insecure housing, collapsing public services, the hostile environment and unemployment, which all come together to create conditions in which people can be exploited into the worst paid jobs. When migrant labour is not needed by the economy, they are violently expelled. When the consequences of these conditions show up in our neighbourhoods, those responsible, the British state, send police instead of resources, showing what they think of us. So let’s loudly let the West Midlands Police, Your Party director Ayoub Khan MP, and Labour, Green & Independent councillors Shuranjeet Singh, Ed Freshwater and Rinkal Shergill who support Operation Fearless know what we think, just like we did on 23rd May! Sign as an individual or get in touch to lend your organisational support below. STOP OPERATION FEARLESS NOW! Organisation Signatures as of 25.06.26 Regularise Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Birmingham Life of a People Project Indian Workers' Association (GB) Birmingham Queers For Palestine India Labour Solidarity Young Struggle Birmingham Kashmir Diaspora UK

The elected chamber should have primacy over House of Lords (unelected) in all cases if our Parliament is to be democratic.

This could be a memorial garden, plaque, bench, information board, or named green space acknowledging the history of Storthes Hall Hospital and the people connected to it, including former patients, staff, families, and those buried nearby at Thurstonland. This is not a request to stop redevelopment. It is simply a request that the history of the site and the people who lived, worked, suffered, recovered, died, or were laid to rest in connection with Storthes Hall are not forgotten. Storthes Hall is not just an old site or another redevelopment project to me. I have personal memories of spending time there and visiting with my nana for outpatient appointments. Because of that, the place has always felt like more than just abandoned buildings or land waiting to be built on. Storthes Hall was once a major hospital site with a long and difficult history. Over many years it was connected to thousands of patients, families, nurses, doctors, support staff and local people. Some people recovered there, some worked there, some visited loved ones there, and some sadly never came home. There is also the wider history of people associated with Storthes Hall being buried nearby at Thurstonland, many with little public recognition. Whatever people think about the old hospital system, those individuals still deserve dignity and remembrance. This petition is not about stopping new homes or standing in the way of redevelopment. It is simply asking for a respectful acknowledgement of the history of Storthes Hall and the people connected to it. I do not want to decide what any memorial should look like alone. Ideally, it should be shaped by people with direct connections to Storthes Hall, including former staff, families, local history groups and the wider community. A memorial garden, plaque, bench, information board, or named green space would be a small but meaningful way to make sure those people are not forgotten.

We've had enough of drivers thinking its ok to mount the pavement (big no) then DRIVE ALONG the pavement (HELL no). We’ve also had enough of drivers speeding down Copse Cross Street towards the High Street - it's dangerous, arrogant, idiotic and quite frankly extremely frustrating. It takes seconds for a child to run out the door of a shop - as parents of three little ones whom are naturally naïve to the dangers that come with speeding and mounting pavements (because it's illegal, they shouldn't actually have to be aware at 5 years old how insane the human race has become in a battle to get around - "let's just break all laws because I want to get down this road faster than you" 🫣)  Not only is this actually dangerous for children, for our customers, customers of the shops and restaurants around us, but for anybody who dares to walk up the Hidden High Street - young or old. In fact, we've spoken to multiple people who will purposely walk around the back of the Hidden High Street and across the beautiful St Marys Gardens because they don't like walking along this section of the High Street. As business owners, we are continually losing trade because it's not an enticing street for footfall, people walk with their head down to watch their footing or are staring at the cars to make sure they are safe - the amount of locals who still don't know we exist or where we are simply because of this is tremendous. Every day we see drivers generally right outside our window (yay) arguing, swearing (teaching great lessons to the next generation by the way) and just generally acting in a manner that is just confusing. All we're asking for is humans to put a little more conscious thought over their seemingly humongous egos for the sake of our community, our businesses, just our town in general. 

We are a group of residents who feel the same frustration about our facilities. We know that a great many people feel the same and we want to join our voices together to be heard. We love this community and know that we deserve better. Shopwyke Lakes was developed with two community spaces (The Pavilion & the Community Centre) designed for residents for community use such as activities, clubs, parties & gatherings.  The spaces were intended to help Shopwyke to grow and to reflect the vibrant place that it is. We residents call on CCDT to work for the community in delivering these spaces as they were intended, and that we see at similar developments up and down the country, including the CCDT managed spaces at Graylingwell and Roussilon Park. We ask CCDT to provide evidence of consultation with residents before they occupied the Community Centre with The Bike Project and we ask them to outline how the permission granted to alter The Pavilion with an internal wall (halving the internal space) responded to the findings of the Thinking Day, and why residents can't hire out what is left of the space in the late afternoon/evening during the week. Shopwyke is a vibrant, close knit community of residents, the fact that we can't host any of our community events in either of our 2 community centres (such as our annual Christmas Carols) clearly demonstrates that these spaces are not presently community centres.

Females on Fortnite don't get treated to equal to men male skins get built-in emotes every time a bundle comes out it's always the men skins that get the built-in emotes female skins get left always it's not fair on females