Instead of addressing the energy crisis through home insulation and cheap, green options like wind and solar, ministers have doubled down on dangerous fossil fuels by trying to revive the failing fracking industry. Fracking will have no impact on energy bills for those struggling this winter. It will only make our homes less safe, pollute our environment and industrialise our countryside. Not to mention the fact it will accelerate the climate emergency exactly at a time we urgently need to end our dependency on oil and gas. The government believes that paying a community to accept fracking is the same as consent. Now ministers are planning to bypass the democratic process altogether and ignore the views of local residents that have stood firmly against fracking in the past. We need to show them this is wrong. Our local communities have rejected fracking time and time again. We want the final say on what happens in our local area, and we won’t take no for an answer.

There is currently no measures to control the traffic and restrict speed limit outside Langmoor Primary School in Oadby. With no speed bumps and only a tiny sign indicating there is a school there, many drivers drive 30+ miles per hour. This regularly occurs during start and end of school time. Heavy vehicles such as trucks, lorries and vans drive pass the road during school drop off and pick up times, creating hazardous situations for primary-age children. With the school on one side of the road and park/playground on the other, and with the parents' cars parked on the road (temporarily) the passing heavy vehicles and frustrated drivers, who want to speed up as usual and make their way through, create high risk for families to walk by. Local authorities should have already put measures in place to control the traffic and restrict speed outside this school just like all other schools in Oadby and Wigston. It's time for the Council to take action to protect safety of our children before a regrettable incident. Please join me and sign this petition in the hope we can make a change, not just for our own kids, but for the safety of other kids going to this school in the future.

The Government should be focusing on providing support for ordinary people around the country - not city bankers. Millions of people up and down the country are struggling to make ends meet. As energy, food and fuel prices continue to go through the roof, many of us will be forced to make the impossible choice between heating and eating this winter. This is the wrong policy at the wrong time. Why should city bankers be first in line for help when millions of people around the country don’t know how they’ll keep the lights on over the coming months? These caps on bonuses were introduced to provide a more balanced economy - and to get away from a culture of bankers taking “excessive risks”. If Liz Truss believes in ‘levelling up’ the whole of Britain, then she should prioritise places outside of the City of London and put ordinary people at the front of the queue for support.

Turtles live a long time, and normally cover thousands of miles. Laying thousands of eggs. Yet sadly Lulu is unable to do that in her tiny tank. Sealife in UK aquariums has no chance to exhibit natural behaviour. Instead, circling, head bobbing and spiralling. All evidence of zoochosis. Due to stress and boredom. It is time for the UK government to bring an end to turtles being held captive in the UK. Sealife belongs in the sea, not in tiny tanks. Over 80 years in captivity - 'FREE LULU' - It's time for Lulu and Gulliver to be free.

When purchasing any animal or aquatic creature, a responsibility is taken on to care for that creature humanely for the duration of its life. It is costly looking after creatures, nonetheless, at the point of purchase a commitment is made to adequately meet its needs for food, shelter, and giving a stimulating environment. The recent announcement that the animals and aquatic creatures of Southend’s Sealife Adventure and Wild Centre may be euthanised due to the rising cost of their care with the energy price rises is therefore not acceptable. This letter urgently calls on Philip Miller to seek alternative means to recover costs, safeguarding the welfare of these creatures throughout the winter, and to not euthanise any creatures on the grounds of affordability of looking after them. By joining voices we can persuade the owners of Sealife Adventure and Wild to save the lives of tens of creatures, including meerkats, monkeys, and sealife creatures, who may be euthanised due to cost saving measures.

A document which is supposed to inform future housing policy in our area should be clear and precise. Paragraph CH9 does not achieve this. If the wider community had been given the opportunity to engage at the time when the policy was amended, clarity would have been sought and a better outcome achieved.

Our energy bills are being capped to an average of £2,500 a year. But the Government is planning to loan energy suppliers, like British Gas, EDF and E.ON, tens of billions to keep their prices down. Instead of making energy giants like BP and Shell cover the cost by taxing the enormous profits they’ve been making, we’ll still all be paying for it via taxes or artificially inflated energy bills for years to come. We need the Government to tax their enormous profits to fund proper support so everyone is warm this winter, and it is energy giants rather ordinary working people like nurses, teachers and those already struggling with the cost of living who foot the bill.

The area outside Gingeros coffee is a very popular place with visitors and locals to be able to sit and chat while having a coffee watching the dolphins in the bay. The removal of the seats would have a detrimental effect on the tourism industry as tourists would find elsewhere to visit and locals would not have a communal area to sit and meet for a chat and coffee which could impact their mental health. We need the tourists and locals to get involved in order to save this much needed area in the village.

I have experienced, in someone I know very well, the helplessness of a young Boro fan suffering from the uncontrollable need to gamble, accompanied by the guilt, the shame, the increasing debts, and the deep depression that gambling addiction causes. Ex-Boro star Paul Merson said “gambling addiction is a baffling, cunning, hideous disease that gets hold of you. Gambling addicts think they are bad people but they’re not, they’re ill people who need to get well.” I have read the research about how the rational part of the gambler’s brain is overcome in a microsecond and the chilling facts about the gambling industry spending £1.5 billion a year on advertising, and that the industry makes 86% of online profit from 5% of gamblers – those suffering from gambling addiction, some of whom will be Boro fans. The recent fine of £17 million for Entain (the firm that owns Ladbrokes and Coral) over its multiple failings and inaction to do necessary affordability checks is only one example of how gambling operators exploit their customers. Boro must have nothing to do with such an industry. We need to stand together to demand that Boro has nothing to do with an industry that encourages addiction. Boro football is too good to be making money out of products that cause mental illness. This petition is not against gambling, nor the choice of Boro supporters to choose to gamble but, since gambling addiction is recognized as an illness in the way that nicotine addiction is, we need to kick gambling adverts out of Boro football in the same way as we have kicked cigarette adverts out of sports years ago. In the words of one of our Boro songs that I have adapted: “We’re the red army from Middlesbrough And we stand and sing, Kick gambling adverts out of Boro footy, You are my Boro, my only Boro. Kick gambling adverts out of Boro, You’ll make me happy When skies are grey.”

On Wednesday 27 July at around 10pm an eight-year-old cocker spaniel named Lucky was taken from her garden in Ouston, near Chester-le-Street, County Durham. Some hours later the much-loved family pet was found with more than 70% burns to her body in the village of Lanchester, about 10 miles away from her home. She was rushed to a local vet before being transferred to a veterinary specialist. Harrowing photographs showed Lucky with a burnt pink nose, a blistered ear and a red eye, and her paws covered in bandages. Due to the extent of her injuries and poor prognosis for survival, her heartbroken owner - a woman in her mid-50s - had to make the difficult decision to have her pet put to sleep. Five suspects were quickly identified and questioned by police. They have been released under investigation. A month on, there is growing concern that no one will ever be prosecuted for Lucky's death. It has been widely reported that the attack on Lucky was an act of revenge by a group of men with a grudge against members of her family following a 'war of words' on social media. By directing their anger at a defenceless and innocent animal whose only crime was to be owned by an 'enemy', we believe that these so-called gangsters have crossed a boundary, however. If unpunished for this, they will undoubtedly feel empowered to commit more violent crime, racking up more and more victims. A CLIMATE OF FEAR Lucky's callous killing has repulsed and outraged right-thinking members of the local and wider County Durham community. There is, however, a reluctance to come forward with information due to fear of retribution. Witnesses are effectively being intimidated or even terrorised into silence by a handful of dangerous offenders. This is inexcusable in a civilised society. OUR EXPECTATIONS The purpose of this petition is to ask the Durham PCC to ensure that every effort is made to bring Lucky's killers to justice especially as there is a wider issue at play here. It's time to send violent criminals a message that their behaviour will not be tolerated and that they will be prosecuted and punished for their wrong-doings. At the same time, the wider community needs reassurance that they will be protected from retaliation when they speak up. Durham Constabulary have clamped down hard on the criminal fraternity in the past and that tactic has proved very effective both in terms of criminal justice and in bolstering public confidence. We would like to see that approach revisited now. Lucky the dog was the innocent victim of an act of pure unmitigated evil by a group of men with a grudge. Anyone capable of that level of senseless cruelty will be a danger to everyone. By signing this petition, you will send a clear message to Durham Constabulary that you want her killers prosecuted and put behind bars. Monsters like these need to be off the streets.

1. Reduce Car Travel on the A76 between Cumnock, Mauchline and Kilmarnock / Glasgow and beyond. 2. Increase and Boost Tourism to the East Ayrshire Area. 3. Reduce Accidents on the busy A76. 4. Increase Train travel, which is better for the environment.

Penrith residents have suffered the odour nuisance the Penrith 'pong' far too long. We want it to end. We want to be able to open our windows, breathe fresh air, lead normal (odourless free) lives !