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Bring back the Home Nations ChampionshipAfter the home nations doing so well in the 2016 Euros. It's about time the competition got re scheduled into the football callender. N Ireland won the last one in 1984 and bringing this back would help to Unite the home countries in a time where we all seem to be distancing ourselves from each other. We have it in rugby. So why not again in football?8 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Charlie Gibbons
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Keep UKIP OUT of No 10As British and most of all being human, we have no room in our society for racism, it is a backward policy. We have hope that entry of a racist party into Downing Street is not possible, as the electorate is now becoming more cautious. However the result of the 23rd gives us cause to act. We need to protect this country for the greater good.18 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Ina Shambles
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London to secede from United KingdomLondon is one of the world's great cties, full of people from all over the planet, and each one of them enriches the city's great atmosphere. London is a cultural hub, a business hub, a a place with a great history and - as part of a wider global community - a dazzling future. Please let's not allow this phenomenonal city to lose the very things that make it what it is - its open-mindedness, its inclusivity and its forward facing outlook.42 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Scott Hadley
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STOP OUR KIDS SEEING VILE CONTENT IN CO-OP STORESMy 8 year old daughter loves kids magazines and always looks at them in our local CoOp (where they are placed right by the till). She is a prolific reader. I've recently noticed her also looking at the 'women's weekly' magazines. These are placed directly at her eye level and immediately above the kids magazines. This is the case in both our local CoOp store and others I have visited around the country. To my horror, I realised she was reading the headlines... headlines such as "Mum muffled my cries after Dad raped me" and "Sex beasts in my room at bedtime". There have also been images recently of women who have been severely beaten - accompanied by headlines such as "Beaten by thug ex - his poor son saw it all..." As a mother, I do not want my daughter to be bombarded by this sort of content every time I pop for a pint of milk. Displaying this content in such close proximity to children's magazines is, in my view, utterly irresponsible. I asked the manager of my local store to move the magazines to the top shelf out of young children's eyeline. The top shelf currently displays many 'innocuous' titles such as 'Ideal Home' and 'House Beautiful' which could easily be swapped for the 'offending' titles. The manager was sympathetic but advised he could only do this with authority from Head Office. I have tackled the CoOperative Food Head Office about this repeatedly to no avail - in fact, it is a struggle even to get them to reply to my E Mails! Despite their profession to be a 'socially responsible organisation', they have finally indicated that one complaint is not enough for them to act!! With your help, I'd like to show them that more than one of their shoppers/members is unhappy with this stuff being displayed in this way. Please sign up to make the CoOp do the socially responsible thing and protect our young children from this horrible content. Thank you98 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Judith Thomas
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Publish retractions on the same page as misleading articles.During the current referendum campaign, there has been a serious lack of balance in the popular press. Certain papers, notably the Mail, Express and Sun have deliberately mislead a significant proportion of the voting public by printing articles containing what have been proved to be lies, or at best, misrepresentation of the truth.27 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Ken Larkins
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Removal of Webspace & Email Address'sLot's of people of a certain age still use email to communicate to the wider world. Email is an old friend, it's more personal than a text and you have a permanent record of whats been said if required. Why are the big companies like BT, EE and Virgin Media removing this service for their customers saying it is no longer required. Lets prove them wrong. Please support this campaign. Thanks11 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Ronald Dryden
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Return the Elgin marbles to GreeceOn a recent visit to Athens and the new Acropolis museum ,I became aware of the significance of these sculptures to the national cultural identity of Greece.(If a similar thing were to happen to a British monument such as Stonehenge there would be an outcry). The UK has a long and friendly history with Greece and the Greek people.Returning the sculptures would lift morale in Greece and help to strengthen that relationship. The marbles should take their rightful place in Athens where they truly belong.88 of 100 SignaturesCreated by STEVE MARTLEW
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Phase out single-use plastic at eventsEver had that feeling at the end of a gig or festival when you see the ground strewn with hundreds of crumpled plastic cups that it shouldn't be this way..? Ever been frustrated that every time you go to the bar, they give you a new cup, whether you like it or not..? It doesn't have to be this way... Every year UK music venues, festivals and sporting events collectively send millions - maybe even billions (there are no figures kept, unsurprisingly) - of plastic cups to landfill needlessly. Cups made in a far-away factory, transported long distances, only to ever be used once, for just a few minutes, before being thrown away, but which will remain in landfill sites for hundreds of years. A 2013 study found that one in six fish in UK waters contained plastics in their bodies. Every piece of plastic that has ever been made still exists as it takes 500 years for plastics to break down. The good news is that in the past year, many progressive venues and organisations, including Glastonbury Festival, Primavera Festival and The Oval Cricket Ground, have either gone plastic-free or started to introduce re-usable cup schemes, in an effort to reduce waste. There's no reason every other music and sporting event can't follow suit, and put an end to the great plastic waste madness, which has ultimately led to the Great Pacific garbage patch and even a prediction that (by weight) there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050. If venues and festival organisers won't do it voluntarily, then there must be legislation to help them do the right thing. We therefore demand, by law, a complete phasing out of single-use plastic at all major UK venues and events by 2020.26 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Joe Lean
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Improve access to the Leny FallsIt is an area of natural beauty with a lot to offer. The falls are impressive and evocative. But can not be appreciated fully due to the present difficulties with access. The forest walks have stunning views and great potential which is yet to be realised.2 of 100 SignaturesCreated by William McGinley
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Tesco: Keep Irish food on the shelvesThe Irish Post has reported that Tesco plans to do away with Irish food sections at 200 of its stores, and cut the number of specialist Irish food products available from 58 down to fewer than ten: http://irishpost.co.uk/tesco-remove-irish-food-section-200-british-stores/ For many of the hundreds of thousands of Irish-born people living in Britain, being able to access a taste of home can be very important. Whether it's Tayto, Club Orange, Barry's Tea, Clonakilty pudding or barm brack, Irish food can provide a link to home and family. Tesco is planning to close the specialist Irish food sections at 200 of its stores from July. It has already halved its Irish product range from around 160 down to 58, and is now going to cut this even further to around ten of the most popular products. These will also be added into the mainstream range, making them harder to find in supermarkets. With Tesco removing these products, they'll be much harder to source and will be missed by people who no longer have access to them.23 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Christine Quigley
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STOP the Neighbourhood and Infrastructure BillEnactment of such a bill runs counter to the commitment by the current government to the active preservation and enrichment of our diverse historic environment, as it will arguably severely undermine already denuded curatorial provision within the current planning system, on a local and national level. At its worst, the bill will ultimately sacrifice our joint historical and ecological resources in the name of short term profit and speculative economic stimulus, encouraging large scale development without adequately making provision for assessment of the presence of, and likely impact upon, known, as well as currently unknown, archaeological and ecological resources to hand. This can, and almost certainly will, lead to the wholesale destruction of important archaeological and ecological resources, with no regard to the potential benefit they offer to the wider academic and communal knowledge base relating to our shared historic environment, not to mention the long term economic potential such resources may offer to the nation as a whole and local communities alike. On the contrary, in most cases, this will undeniably result in their absolute and irrevocable destruction, to the detriment of all.34 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Adam Tinsley
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Stop West Ham ground being turned into unaffordable flatsThe old West Ham ground is set to become 800 luxury flats. We are being told that they will be affordable but "affordable" housing never actually is in anyone's budget but the rich. Upton Park is already hugely overcrowded with services pushed to breaking point. The West Ham site being reinvented is a great chance for the council to build more services for local people and take some pressure off of existing ones. One measly community centre being built on the site is not good enough when 800 more families will be moving in to the site.28 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Georgia Bell
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