This is a fantastic resources for everyone interested in food, healthy eating and cooking. It helps counter the advertising and power of the food industry and encourages millions to cook and eat healthily

People in small towns and villages need internet just as much as people in big towns and cities. An adequate broadband connection is essential for everything from paying bills to running businesses such as my own. But for some places in the UK, the internet speed is either painfully slow or non-existent. Here in Upper Rissington for example, despite 300 plus new homes now largely occupied, broadband speed is worse than 96% of the UK. (checked 16/05/2016 using http://www.dslreports.com/) It's time the government stepped up and fulfilled it's promise of decent broadband for everyone. I suggest this should mean a speed of c.5 megabit/sec download and c. 0.75 megabit/sec upload, ie roughly the median rates for the UK. That's asking for 5 times faster download and 1 to 2 times faster upload than we have in my part of the Cotswolds. Please Sign Up! Fraser Morphew.

Fair-trade needs support. Fairtrade needs our support and in order for us to support them we have to be able to buy their stock. If supermarkets do not stock their products then how an earth can we but the products and support Fairtrade? In addition to this, awareness to why supporting Fairtrade cashew nuts is so important needs to be raised. Predominantly in India but also Africa and Brazil, due to the mass demand, the cashew nuts is hand processed in over crowded factories in incredible poor areas. Now when the kernel is extracted from the skin during the ‘deshelling process’ an allergic phenolic resin, anacardiac acid is released. This is a caustic liquid that burns skin known as a ‘Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis’. Because the demand for cashew nuts is so high and the factories are under so much pressure, the factories are packed to the brim with workers who are not provided with adequate skin protection and as a consequence during their de-shelling of up to 50-60kg of nuts a day they are constantly burned. Either the factory owners are not aware of these adverse health risks of cashew nut processing or they simply cannot afford to supply such high numbers of workers protection and workers are forced to tackle their skin protection themselves by bandaging their hands. So not only are these workers working in over crowded, appalling conditions, being paid roughly 30p a day for but suffering from permanent damage from the cashew nut burns. This is not right and people need to be made aware of this. That by purchasing non fair-trade cashew nuts they are indirectly supporting this act of negligence of the basic human right. Fairtrade needs to be pioneered and that’s what I am trying to do. In order for problems such as the appalling working conditions of factory workers in India to be tackled, supermarkets need to stock Fairtrade and people need to start buying! People all around the world need our help and if its simply to buy a packet of cashews a few pounds more than the normal packet so be it! It takes so little to help in such a massive way. People need to start to become active citizens and to stand up and help tackle these worldwide issues. Without people working together, raising awareness and striving for change then problems like this will remain hidden and people will continue to suffer.

The current caricature statue in the new development is receiving almost unanimous criticism and in no way reflects the history of our valley as a world-leading producer of special steels. Industrial relics around Attercliffe and within the grounds of Northern General Hospital create a great deal of interest and are meaningful to the area. We should emulate this idea. Once erected, the monument would be indestructible requiring no maintenence and would generate a lot of interest and pride in the industry which was responsible for the very existence of our town.

Starbucks have never paid full tax - in case you hadn't noticed, tax-dodging is losing our economy over £8 billion a year in lost revenue. Our infrastructure including hospitals, police force & schools are at breaking point following drastic cuts to their funding by our Conservative government. We, the residents of Hythe do not want another tax-dodging big business to do business in our town, taking custom from the owners of our unique independent (tax paying) cafes. Hythe is sought after place to live BECAUSE it has a unique high street. Uglyfying our high street will also effect local property businesses as it will become a less attractive place to live. We do not want to become a bog standard, ugly high town with generic, plasticky shops like every other. Where is it all going to stop?

His work has been life changing for so manyof our unsung heroes and he, and the continuing work he has instigated deserves the countries recognition.

The BBC has never been under such threat. It's being wound down with a view to the private market taking over areas that previously the BBC was responsible for. It always was a bastion of impartiality but that has been undermined by the Government choosing who is on the BBC Trust board! As such it's become nothing more than the official state broadcaster but under the guise of an independent organisation! This is dishonest broadcasting and it must stop!

The dressage horse Uthopia is a massive part of the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics, where he helped Team GB win team gold in the dressage. However, he is due to be auctioned off as part of a bankruptcy asset sale by trustees Keenan Corporate Finance and HNH Group on 27th May 2016. Please don't let this happen. Uthopia deserves to retire in peace with his rider Carl Hester, who has cared for him for the last 11 years. Uthopia's welfare is also at stake, in that he has healthcare needs that are unlikely to be met if he is sold in this manner. For more information: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/uthopia-sold-auction-533879

All Hallows Hall (AHH), a vibrant community hub in Easton in Bristol, is under threat from closure from it's current owner. That's why we are calling on the Bristol City Council to support our application to turn All Hallows Hall into a community asset and thereby protect it for use by the community. Without this protection, All Hallows Hall, a fantastic Grade 2 listed building, risks being turned into flats, or lost completely. Run by volunteers, the site has been transformed over four years from a derelict eyesore to become a venue that has had 25,000 people visit to enjoy live music, theatre, circus performances, markets, art installations, and more. It's a venue that has become a space for community groups to run clubs and activities - from Aikido to choirs. "I am just one of thousands that has been positively effected by the hall presence. It has given me a place to offer inner city young adults free drama training through Tank Theatre and the now legendary M.C.Beth performances. And it continues to support these and other emerging artists by offering us free and cheap rehearsal spaces. It is vital and the only space in Easton where Theatre and Circus can thrive." Dave Lovatt, Theatre Director Please help us save this beautiful building that provides a vital community resource for the future use of the people of Easton and Bristol. Thank you for taking the time to read this. For more information on the different ways you can help support AHH please visit www.save.allhallowshall.co.uk To check out our current program of events visit: www.allhallowshall.co.uk

The Church has a commitment to justice for the poor who are already suffering the worst effects of climate change and have done little to cause it. More frequent and intense hurricanes and flooding, longer and more frequent droughts and sea-level rise is already a reality that millions face across the globe, especially in the developing world. Climate changing is having a negative impact on food security leading to famine and conflict. In addition to the thousands of fatalities caused by these climate disasters many more people are forced from their homes. We accept the science that climate change is being driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. We acknowledge that this is primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels. We accept, as has been internationally agreed, global temperature rise should be limited to less than 2°C to avert the worst impacts of climate change. The fossil fuel companies have 5 times more coal, oil and gas in their reserves than we can safely burn and stay below 2°C global temperature rise. If no action is taken then these reserves will be burnt and the resulting climate change will be catastrophic. We must keep the oil in the soil, the coal in the hole and the gas beneath the grass. The church should take a moral stand and withdraw its investment from the fossil fuel industry.

An injustice against all the 96 people who died was inflicted upon the bereaved families. Their efforts to bring out the truth behind the deaths has been heroic, persistent and unbelievably difficult. They deserve public recognition of their service to British justice.

Continuing to enforce this ban will impact on the very essence of Museums, to teach and to educate. In the Museums' own words, the new exhibition 'A world of fragile parts' aims to “question the relationship between the copy and the original in a society that privileges authenticity”. How is this possible without document? There is no issue of copyright, nor of (usually) entrance fee. The Museum claims that unclogging the gangways will lead to more visitors. I argue it will lead to less, and destroy part of the soul of the Museum, for after all, to quote Le Corbusier. “Drawing in a sketchbook,” he wrote, “teaches first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover … and it is then that inspiration might come.” Please continue to allow the people to learn in these ways.