Swimming is an essential skill that can save lives, promote better health, and be an enjoyable hobby for all people, of any age, gender, or cultural background. For example, disabled people with limited land movement particularly find swimming an essential activity. If this pool closes, the sole remaining one is far too small to cope with everyone who would wish to use it, services would have to be limited there, to allow for lessons, clubs, and a reasonable amount of time still allocated to public use. Derby is a city of approx 250,000 people, one public swimming pool in town is not enough. There has been other options and suggestions made by local people, but they feel that their opinions are being ignored.

Would you prefer a multifunctional venue that could host films, orchestras, bands, dance, theatre, and community events in the heart of Hemel Hempstead, as did the much-lamented Pavilion, rather than merely a multiplex cinema? (as currently proposed by DBC). If so, please sign this petition to Andrew Williams, Leader of DBC. Yours sincerely, Mike Ridley Chris Ridley Instigators, “Hemel Hempstead Hub”. (HHH) Please forward this petition to all your friends, and let’s bring back the cultural heart of Hemel Hempstead!

Many skateboarders and BMX riders rely on Hartsdown Skate Park to practice their sport. As well as being one of the first of the 1970's historic skate parks in the country, this is a very important place for many people. Many young local people start skating and riding here, it's a social meeting place as well as a place for sport and artistic talent. World professional riders and skaters have learned their sport at this very spot. Thanet District Council have proposed to move the skate park elsewhere and to demolish and fill in the original site. It's far more sustainable and cheaper to repair and upgrade the existing site than to destroy it and make a new one in another location.

Safety for our children. This is a really dangerous crossing with cars coming from a blind bend too fast and major building works about to start. It is a major crossing point for a lot of people. Since there has been an absence of a lollipop man/lady, it has become difficult to cross the road safely for the children. Also I have seen on several occasions children just running out into the road, sometimes oblivious to oncoming traffic! Luckily the driver wasn't one of the many idiots we get driving around these back roads like its a rally course! Please get a lollipop man/woman to help patrol the road before and after school times. The lollipop person provides a much needed service at a crucial crossing point. There has been a Lollipop lady/man there as far as I can remember back to the early 70's. Not to mention the countless health and safety risks that would be introduced by not having a lollipop lady/man. Without the added safety of a Lollipop lady/man there is a genuine concern that serious injury or a fatality may result. Please sign this as it is really important we don't lose these Lollipop Patrol.

This is important because members of the public and the business community are ill informed about the damage being caused to the world by the constant search for profit. They are complacent about the risks of climate change, and no one is telling people the truth. It is business as usual, when the reality is that we need to start making some serious changes to our way of life. We need to stop cutting down all the trees in order to grow money making crops. Business leaders need to learn to respect the environment.

I am a retired midwife and promoting breastfeeding has been one of the passions during my career. Much evidence exists on the health and financial benefits of breastfeeding. In 2012, Unicef published "Preventing disease and saving resources: The potential contribution of increasing breastfeeding rates in the UK" which looked at how raising breastfeeding rates could save the NHS money through improving health outcomes. Although overall breastfeeding rates (at birth) nationally has increased between 2005-2010, breastfeeding drop-off rates at 6 weeks, 3 months and 6 months continue to be high. Guidance recommends that for optimum health benefits, babies should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life (The Public Health England 2013 Report). The Equality Act (2010) says that 'A business cannot discriminate against mothers who are breastfeeding a child of any age.' Although Louise Burns was not asked to leave the premises, the fact she was asked to cover up made her feel uncomfortable and humiliated whilst discreetly doing what comes most naturally to her as a mother. Far too often, one hears of breastfeeding mothers being discriminated by ignorance, prejudice and practices out of step with what defines a progressive society. Any company that has such a policy should be targeted.

The Archers has been a part of the rhythm of my life for the last 40 years, the characters are more like friends than fictional constructs and the complete change in the tone of the story lines and the numerous cast changes has turned the series from a beloved friend into a monstrous carbuncle.

Without this, singles will be wide open to discrimination in employment, housing, credit facilities, leisure facilities etc.

many of us older skaters in the uk still reminisce on death-box and remember the boards we had as children that shaped us into the people we are today , for some it was powell or santa cruz or any other of the usa brands, but for a lot of us death-box was the best , and had the best look and was cutting edge , if you where a powell kid or a santa cruz kid , you can now go to your local skate shop and pick up a reissue of the old board you had as a kid , either to hang or to shred ,for us die hard death-box fans there is nothing if your very lucky you can find a shredded up board on ebay for a crazy price because there so rare , there is a massive community of people on line that would love to see death-box come back , we all gave as kids by saving our pocket money begging and pleading with our parents to get us that cool new deck , all we ask is you give something back after so many years , i personally even have death-box tattoos and have been searching for my grail deck death-box mac hitler deck for years with no joy , and i have heard the same from countless other collectors who are searching for there sacred death-box deck, its important we see this iconic UK skate brand reissued and the memories saved in the future instead or fading away in the past ,..

John is in his 70s. Has lost both his wife and his daughter and has tirelessly walked the streets of Sheffield raising money for Macmillan Cancer. He is out rain or shine and deserves this honour for his hard work and dedication raising money for this worthwhile cause.

To volunteer to travel to an Ebola infected country, in order to treat patients infected with Ebola virus, takes a level of bravery which is beyond words, and is equally comparable with many military bravery medals. That high level of altruistic bravery cannot go unrecognized by the country at large.

Because substances are being sprayed from planes into the environment which spreads in the wind and drops down to earth. All who breath are affected by these projects and until we know what harm or good these projects do then they need to be stopped. All those long lasting trails in the sky are NOT condensation trails but trails of some sort of chemical substance. With the continued crazy weather conditions worldwide and the increase in ill health amongst humans, birds are dropping from the sky, whales and dolphins are washing up in areas they are not supposed to, bees are dying off, fish are dying in record numbers, surely this is no coincidence. I did a rain water test in my back garden and the aluminium content was a staggering 990ppm, over 700ppm above the deemed safe levels. This has to stop now for the sake of all our children and for the sake of our planet.