Convenience stores run by Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons, which tend to be in the centre of cities and towns as well as rural areas, have been found to charge more for the same product compared to their bigger stores.  Not everyone has access to transport or the time to head to the bigger cheaper store. So customers are being forced to shell out way more just for their basics each week. Consumer group, Which! found that the difference in the price of goods can run to hundreds of pounds over the course of a year. They justify the higher prices by citing higher rent and operating costs, but when these companies are making billions in profit, should they really be charging customers more?  You may live near a big supermarket and be lucky enough not to have to rely on a smaller convenience store like others do. But that choice in supermarkets also means you have the power to pressure these stores to do right by all their customers.

Tower Hamlets Council is proposing to remove Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTNs) schemes that cost over £2 million to implement. These include pedestrian areas, pocket parks, bike lanes, and new planting that covers an area from the iconic Arnold Circus in the West through to Cambridge Heath Road in the East. These LTNs, implemented with funding from TfL, protect both residents in the borough and visitors. They create safer roads for cycling and walking while also improving air quality. These improvements are vital for achieving the targets outlined in the Mayor of London's Transport Strategy. Removing these LTNs would set a damaging precedent for London as a whole and waste £2.5m of public funds. By intervening, the Mayor would be upholding the integrity of London-wide transport policies. This action would ensure that individual boroughs don't undermine progress towards safer, cleaner streets. • Tower Hamlets has the highest rate of hit and runs in London • 66% of households in Tower Hamlets don't have access to a car • The schemes have improved air quality and significantly reduced through traffic • Three public consultations showed strong support for keeping the LTNs both from local people and more widely. • Barts Health Trust, Metropolitan Police, TfL, local schools, GPs, and 82% of businesses support keeping the schemes “The way the street is now, it gives me hope for my kids’ future.” Nimao, local resident “I’ve lived in the East End all my life, and this is the best thing that’s ever happened to it.” Spencer, local resident “I think the existing scheme has helped to protect the health of everyone in our community.” Dr. Burman, respiratory consultant and local resident Sign this petition to urge the Mayor of London to protect these LTNs and stand up for a safer, cleaner, and greener London. Your support can prevent a damaging precedent which could then be followed in other places and ensure public funds are used wisely.  Background and key points On 20 September 2023, Lutfur Rahman, the Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, decided to rip out the recently introduced Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Bethnal Green and Shoreditch, including pocket parks and the only segregated cycle lane in the area, despite strong local support for the schemes and evidence that the schemes were meeting their aims of safer, cleaner streets for residents. The High Court is going to consider whether this decision is legal in November after a request by Save Our Safer Streets Tower Hamlets. But even if the court finds in favour of keeping the safer streets in this case, Tower Hamlets Council could still remove the schemes. The Mayor of London has legal powers he could use to stop the council from carrying out its ill-thought out plans. He could compel the council to rethink and develop plans that fit with his London-wide policies and that protect the health and wellbeing of residents in Tower Hamlets and surrounding boroughs.  We are asking the Mayor of London to stand alongside the Metropolitan Police, Barts Health and Transport for London who say that removing these schemes would cause harm, and that a rethink is required.  The decision to remove these safer streets schemes undermines the goals of clean air and safer streets in the borough. This is especially important because Tower Hamlets has the highest amount of hit and runs in London[1] and among the highest rates of mortality linked to air pollution in the UK[2]. Important Facts and Figures: • Three public consultations (2019, 2022 and 2023)[3] showed strong support for keeping the LTNs. The most recent consultation revealed 58% of local residents and over 75% of all respondents favoured maintaining the current schemes. • Tower Hamlets has the highest rate of hit and runs in London.  According to the Mayor’s 2021 Vision Zero Action plan update, 70% of road deaths and serious injuries occur on borough roads[4]. We believe that LTNs are crucial for improving road safety and working towards Vision Zero. • 66% of households in Tower Hamlets don't have access to a car[5]. LTNs have made streets safer and healthier for everyone with improved air quality[6] and significant drop in through traffic on roads in the area[7]. Children walk to school more safely, breathing cleaner air. Elderly and disabled people are using new community spaces to socialise. •  Barts Health Trust, the Metropolitan Police, Transport for London, local schools, GPs, and 82% of businesses all support keeping the schemes[8]. They cite improvements in health, safety, and reductions in anti-social behaviour. • The LTN scheme cost over £2 million to implement in 2020-2021. Their removal will cost at least another £2.5 million, which is not currently budgeted for[9]. This is a scandalous misuse of public funds.  • The main powers we refer to in this petition are given to the Mayor of London under Part IV of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. These legal powers enable him to intervene in borough transport policy where a borough’s policies do not align sufficiently with the London Mayoral policies as laid out in the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy. These powers exist to ensure that London-wide goals for transport can be achieved. In this case, Tower Hamlets' decision to remove Low Traffic Neighbourhoods directly contradicts the Mayor's strategy to promote active travel and reduce car dependency in London. The decision to rip out the low traffic neighbourhood risks encouraging other boroughs in London and Local Authorities across the UK to roll back progress in combating air pollution and unsafe streets. While this particular situation is based in Tower Hamlets, the outcome will have implications across London and beyond.  At a time when the Mayor of London is in danger of not meeting his own targets for his transport and climate policies, it is vital he takes a robust approach to ensuring that all boroughs are working together towards the same goals and that boroughs aren’t moving backwards.  By signing this petition, you're calling on the Mayor of London to stand up for a safer, cleaner and greener city. 

This is important to save lives and be safer for everyone. The Kessock Bridge in the highland capital of Inverness has seen a number of suicides over the years and this year alone there has been an increase. If they were to raise the side barriers higher this would make it harder for people to attempt it.  Please look into this as a matter of great importance.

My poor grand daughter  Gutted beyond words 😢  So proud of how brave you have been sweetheart. Nanas girl. Love you so bloody much. My heart is broken 💔 😢  DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN USE LAZERS!!  Another child was bought a lazer light as a birthday gift and took it to school. And it was accidently shone into Lily's right eye.  This is the state of her right eye now. The macula has hemorrhaged and it also has a lazer burn which has left scarring.  This scarring, the burn and the bleed has left her permanently without any focal or centre vision in the right eye. She only has a small amount of peripheral vision left in her right eye. She may as well be blind in that eye as she cant see out of it!  We've spend the last 5 days in and out of hospitals. She has had multiple scans, drops, tests the lot. 5 different consultants all coming to the same conclusion. Her eyesight can not be saved.  The macula is a small, round area at the center of the retina in the back of the eye that controls central vision, color vision, and fine detail. It's made up of many photoreceptor cells that detect light and send signals to the brain, which interprets them as images.  This could have all been avoided if a child was not given a lazer light as a toy.  These are so dangerous and I'm only thankful that it's only one eye and not both or my beautiful girl would be completely blind!  Please, never let your child have or use/play with a lazer light. You could potentially be saving someone's eyesight.  It's too late for Lily's vision but it's not too late to save someone else's.  I'm so incredibly proud of how lily has handled everything thrown at her this past week. She is such an inspiring young lady.  Me and Ryan Harrison are so proud of you Lily-May ! (Mum and dad)

As students move up into KS4, there will be far more on their minds than spending 4% of their lesson time per week doing sports. While Year 10 students can be using this time to prepare for important assessments or even their mock exams, Year 11 students can be using this time to revise for their official exams which will completely shape their future. Considering there are approximately 39 weeks in each UK school year, 2 hours of PE per week would add up to 78 hours of wasted time in school. 78 hours can make a massive difference to academic achievement and boost possibilities for students.

Medical blister packs are difficult to recycle  and millions are sent to landfill, incinerated or littered with all the negative effects resulting from single use packaging. Alternative sustainable, recyclable packaging is urgently needed.   

People are having to travel far greater distances now this tip has closed. It is possible that this closure will also cause an increase in fly tipping. Neighbours often helped elderly neighbours by taking their refuse to the tip for them, because of the greater distances this is not happening causing rubbish to accumulate or causing pensioners to incur extra costs by hiring skips or specialist refuse companies to collect their rubbish.

The current compensation is inadequate and embarrassing when we take into account their duty’s. It's not only morally right, but increasing the pay will also inevitably foster more interest in enlisting in our armed forces, which has seen a significant decline over the years. Our national security should be a priority and financially supporting those who protect us is a critical part of that commitment. it's time we rectify this injustice.  By signing this petition, you help ensure our armed forces are justly rewarded for their invaluable contribution to our nation's security. 

This is important because people can not afford to have their wages deducted due to illness and people should not be forced to work when they are ill because they won’t be able to pay their bills. The stress and impact this has on someone’s mental health is unacceptable. Companies should have a duty of care to look after their employees.

Why should this happen, many people need to get to work and education (school, college or university) but can't access it without walking from keresley village into ash green which can be 15 minutes to 1 hour depending on which part of the village that people live.

I am a freelance writer in the tabletop gaming industry, and I am very concerned about the new proposed changes to AI copyright law. Generative artificial intelligence has already cost my industry, and many other creative industries, a great deal due to the unprecedented need for new laws governing these models and the ability of tech companies to bypass them due to ambiguities in legislative wording.  I have personally lost hundreds of pounds in monthly income as a direct result of generative ai models over the last 2 years, and these models are trained on creative works which they have no ethical right to use.     I am asking you to stand up and speak out against relaxing laws on tech companies being able to train their models on copyrighted works (as is being suggested), as this would be disastrous for every creative industry, and only work to cement the dominance of these tech conglomerates in global society at the expense of one of the most uniquely human endeavours in existence; the creation of art. 

1. the area has become a serious health and safety risk for Pedestrians and Motorists due to the abundance of large crane -adapted HGV vehicles and suspected unregistered Forklift trucks operating  and parking up on the Road and Pavements( without due care or attention )  2. all businesses requiring  access to and from the area are being affected and subsequently their customers too 3. the area due to storage and dumping of building material has attracted fly tipping as well as homeless individuals; resulting in unsightly littering issues also 4. security issues with regards to vulnerable premises Darul Barakaat, Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque are compromised due to high stacked material and lack of vision due to the obstructions  5. the peace and tranquillity and beauty of a place of worship ( Darul Barakaat , Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque)  has been compromised with constant activity by Cambabest directly outside the establishment  as well as unsightly Building Material being placed there. It is inexcusable.  6. issues of rightful access for both Mosque members arriving or leaving in cars and on foot is compromised  7. building debris is strewn all across the pavements and public road causing damage to cars and hazards to pedestrians  8. Dangerously stacked and loose heavy building material on the Road & pavements is a Hazard for members of the public walking within this area 9. legitimate access for waste collection services  or even Emergency service vehicles is compromised due to the abundance of HGV vehicles and building material blocking the Roads 10. There is a desperate need for pedestrian safety barriers to be installed by Birmingham City Council to safeguard &  protect pedestrians and prevent any obstructions being placed on the pavements