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For more than 50 years, BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours has been a voice for ordinary consumers, exposing injustice, challenging powerful organisations and helping listeners navigate often complex issues. Now, its future is under threat. At a time when millions of people are struggling with the cost of living, rising bills, scams, poor customer service and unfair treatment, we need You and Yours more than ever. The programme does something that few others can. It gives ordinary people a national platform, investigates the problems they face and demands answers from businesses, regulators and politicians. Whether it is exposing unfairness in the energy system, investigating consumer scams, challenging companies over poor treatment or explaining people’s rights, You and Yours provides a vital public service. At a time when consumer advice and enforcement services are already stretched, its role in helping people understand their rights and exposing problems that need wider action is more important than ever. For many listeners, particularly older people, disabled people and those facing financial hardship, trusted and accessible consumer journalism can make a real difference. Moving consumer journalism towards digital-only platforms (as the BBC suggests) risks excluding some of the very people who need it most. Its investigations have helped recover millions of pounds for victims of crime and driven reforms to banking security, gambling regulations and insurance practices. Its impact reaches far beyond the radio, delivering real change for consumers across the country.  You and Yours also provides an invaluable platform to bring evidence of unfair practices and systemic problems to national attention. Without it, charities and campaigners would lose a vital route to help hold powerful organisations and decision-makers to account. It is a show that simply could not be replicated in the private sector where sponsorship and advertising can influence the agenda and the BBC must protect independent, accessible consumer journalism.

Swifts are in trouble. Their UK breeding population fell by 70% between 1995 and 2024, and they are now on the UK Red List of birds of conservation concern. We are volunteer swift conservationists who have witnessed what can happen when building work threatens nesting swifts and nobody takes responsibility for intervening in time. At Regent House in Dorking, a long-established swift colony was threatened during demolition. At another site in Banstead, scaffolding and building work obstructed access to an active swift nest. We reported our concerns, but encountered uncertainty about who should act, what evidence was needed and who was responsible for protecting the birds. When a swift's nest entrance is blocked, every hour can matter. Swifts spend almost their entire lives in flight, returning to the same nesting places year after year. If adults cannot reach their eggs or chicks, the consequences can be devastating. The law already protects active nests, but protection is of little use if nobody intervenes until the work is finished and the evidence has disappeared. Every year, throughout the swift nesting season, reports emerge from across the country of building work threatening occupied nests, obstructing access and putting these remarkable birds at risk. We need a clear, coordinated emergency response that protects occupied swift nests before it is too late. Please sign to help make existing wildlife protection work when it matters most.

It’s unfair that drivers can end up paying significantly more than the advertised parking price when they use an app. These extra charges can quickly add up for people who rely on their cars for work, family life or everyday errands. The total charge should be clearly and fairly shown, with no extra fees hidden away or added at the last minute.  Stopping unfair parking app fees would be a simple, tangible change that could make a real difference to people’s lives, especially when household budgets are tighter than ever. The UK Government should act to make parking charges fair and transparent, and ensure councils put those protections into practice.

Saffron Walden families need affordable childcare - not just a change to the £100,000 earnings cap. Dear Mrs Badenoch, As parents, carers and residents of Saffron Walden, we are writing to ask you to champion better childcare provision for local families. You recently announced a Conservative policy to remove the £100,000 income ceiling on funded childcare, at an estimated national cost of £700 million a year. We recognise that the existing cliff edge, introduced in 2017, is unfair. It can leave parents substantially worse off when their earnings increase, discouraging work and career progression, particularly for women. It needs reform. But lifting the earnings cap alone does not solve the bigger problem. We estimate your proposal could benefit as few as 40 Saffron Walden families.  Yet our town has around 930 children under five, whose families also need accessible nurseries, affordable wraparound care and breakfast clubs that help parents work and children thrive. Our town currently lacks the early-years infrastructure available in some other communities. The Government is investing in new school-based nurseries and rolling out free breakfast clubs to every state-funded primary school. We want Saffron Walden to benefit fully from these programmes. We recognise your responsibilities as Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, but Saffron Walden also needs a strong constituency voice from our MP to champion the needs of all local families. We therefore ask you to: 1. Explain how your proposed £700 million childcare commitment would benefit the wider population of families, rather than simply extending benefits to those excluded by the £100,000 threshold. 2. Champion new school-based nursery places in Saffron Walden, working with Essex County Council, local schools and the Department for Education. 3. Secure a clear timetable for free breakfast clubs at every local state-funded primary school, and support affordable before- and after-school care. 4. Press for a proper assessment of local childcare needs, including nursery places, waiting lists, costs and the impact of new housing developments, alongside better-integrated early-years and family services. We would welcome your public response, including the practical steps you are prepared to take on behalf of families in your constituency. Yours sincerely, Parents, carers and residents of Saffron Walden Supported by the undersigned. Notes on the figures The estimate of 40 families potentially benefiting from the Conservative proposal is based on local population and household estimates, with an allowance for the proportion of families earning over £100,000. The figure of approximately 930 children under five is based on the latest population estimates for Saffron Walden. These are indicative estimates in the absence of official counts of childcare eligibility. 

It will help those in our local area be able to get to school without paying extortionate prices, and be able to support families who struggle getting their children on the bus.  For the price they pay - often being over £900 - the bus system is unreliable.

Shouldn't our public spaces be clean, safe and enjoyable for everyone? Why should something as preventable as dog fouling be allowed to make our grass verges and streets unpleasant and potentially hazardous? These are problems that could be addressed through more accessible dog-waste bins and regular grass cutting. It's incredibly frustrating going out and accidentally stepping in dog poo or trying to prevent your dog from eating things in the grass. I'm asking for more dedicated dog-waste bins across Cardigan and regular grass cutting to make dog fouling visible and easier to avoid. Our town deserves cleaner, safer public spaces for everyone and their dogs. It's disgusting that there are people are leaving their dogs' mess behind for everyone else to deal with. It's unhygienic, unpleasant and completely unnecessary. This affects everyone, other dog walkers, local residents, families with children and anyone who wants to enjoy our public spaces without encountering dog mess.

I have one child at Mosshead Primary and another who will be starting soon. Like a lot of families here, we'd love our children to be able to walk, cycle or scoot to school. At the moment, the streets around the school don't feel safe enough for that. A lot of cars come down Stockiemuir Avenue at school times, and many of them come fast. I've been on my bike, and stood at the gates, and watched cars fly past children on the pavement, overtake abruptly, and park on the zigzag lines outside the school. Others park up in the side streets next to the school. It isn't the kind of driving anyone would expect on roads full of primary school children, and it happens regularly. East Dunbartonshire Council already has an answer. Its Traffic-Free Schools scheme closes the roads outside a school to traffic for 45 minutes at each end of the school day. The council has made it permanent at four schools and extended it to three more, reporting less traffic and more children walking, cycling and wheeling. Residents keep their access with a free permit.

Summerhall is home to over 100 small businesses, artist studios, the Edinburgh Fringe, arts & science organisations, designers, photographers, casting directors, illustrators, film makers, sports and martial arts and many many more. It's a major hub for creatives & innovators in Edinburgh, an essential part of the Fringe, and it's under grave threat of closure. We hope to appeal to Edinburgh City Council planning department and convince them to refuse permission to AMA property developer's current plans. We want to keep this thriving ecosystem at Summerhall, and not drastically cut the arts and cultural use of this space. Please add your name to the petition.

This park was constructed as part of the regeneration of the North Peckham Estate to honour the memory of Damilola Taylor and as a mark of respect to the community. Since its installation, over 10 years ago, there has been zero maintenance, with removal of at least 8 items when they needed repair. Regeneration has been replaced with degradation. Repair the roof covering/walkway using capital funds, and replace removed playground assets: roundabouts, spinners, spring rockers, table tennis table, A frame. IMPORTANT INFO FOR SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS: THIS PETITION IS PRIMARILY FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD, AS THE COUNCIL PETITION CANNOT BE SIGNED WITHOUT A MYSOUTHWARK ACCOUNT. The reason given by the council for removing the long slide is, 'the increased footfall' caused by children accessing the slide! The slide itself is structurally sound. Yes, the slide is popular. It is loved by both children, adults and their families.  Being constructed after the terrible local tragedy of Damilola's death, it is a massive insult to the local community to literally strip every asset needing any attention at all. The whole park has been utterly neglected for the entirety of its existence, a period of approximately 16 years. The basket ball hoops on Kelly Ave Park courts are also bent and battered and have had zero attention since installed. It is a further slap in the face that similar local family parks in affluent parts of Southwark are extremely well maintained, with fully refurbished basket ball courts etc. 

The You and Yours programme broadcast on Radio 4 has played a vital role over 56 years in standing up for the rights of citizens and consumers. It has been a source of help and advice for thousands of people by holding businesses and public bodies to account for malpractice and unfairness. Now the BBC has announced that the programme is to be axed without giving any real information about how it will be replaced, except for a reference to a possible 'digital-first' substitute. Many of the listeners to the programme are too old or are simply unable to access digital resources. These are the people who most need the help and information that You and Yours gives.

This programme is presented by Winnifred Robinson and the team who do a wonderful job, the programme numerous topics and is very informative and extremely helpful to the general public. I have listened to this programme and several others on Radio 4 for many years and feel the cuts announced should not go ahead.