The current 389 bus service through Ridge Hill from Arlies Lane currently operates hourly from 8:01am. Transport for Greater Manchester are implementing a change to an hourly service from 7:33am at the end of the month. We are calling on TfGM to reconsider this change as many residents that live on Ridgehill rely on the 389 service. Not least children that need to get to school on Yew Tree Lane at 8:22am for start of form time at 8:40am, who will now either have to get to school an hour early, with knock on effects for the school or risk being late.

Please sign the petition demanding a public consultation on the use of the Central Library building as both an adult education facility and a much reduced public library service. We have campaigned, along with other organisations, for 2 years, to save Stockport's 109 years old Central Library with all of its services. We were overjoyed when a meeting of the full Council, in January 2022, voted to object to the resolution of the Cabinet to go ahead with ending the public library services at the Carnegie endowment library despite petitions totalling over 8,000 signatures; opposition to closure in the Council's own pubic consultation; and opposition from 3 of the Council's scrutiny committees. Despite the Council resolution, the Cabinet pressed ahead regardless, However, at the Annual Meeting of the Council in May 2022, the old Cabinet was ousted. Shortly afterwards, the new Council Leader, Cllr. Hunter announced that the policy on Central Library would be reviewed. We wrote to him calling for the review to be "an ambitious, not a defensive one", asking that consideration be given to redeveloping the Borough’s heritage Central Library, as other Councils have done, instead of moving library services to the Council owned Merseyway shopping centre, as the predecessor Cabinet had intended. We also called for the proposals emanating from the review to be put to public consultation. Cllr. Hunter replied, outlining the new plan and rejecting the call for consultation. He reiterated the Cabinet’s rejection of the call for public consultation in reply to a public question which we put to the full Council meeting on 6th October 2022. The question and reply can be viewed on the official webcast (see https://tinyurl.com/ytyxr2me or https://fb.watch/gc4W2ATenP/) The plan has now been approved by the Cabinet, without public consultation. It will, if implemented, move the greater part of Central Library services, including the Local Archives and Heritage Library, to the Merseyway shopping centre. The remaining book stock at the Carnegie would comprise only "the most popular adult fiction titles"; "a selection of non-fiction that will complement the adult education services" and "a selection of junior and children’s fiction". The reference to adult education services relates to the new plan’s proposal to move the Stockport Continuing Education service into the Carnegie building from another grade II listed heritage building, the former Hollywood Park school. This announcement tells us nothing about the intended fate of the vacated school. Floor plans submitted to the Cabinet show that only 18% of the floor area of the Carnegie building would comprise the reduced library service. The new plan would see almost a third of opening hours at the Carnegie library being unstaffed. This system, called by the Council ‘Open+’, has been introduced already in a number of branch libraries, in order to make budgetary cuts in staffing costs. Moreover, a Manchester Evening News article, dated 7th October 2022 reports a ratcheting up of this process, “Libraries service review - £180,000 Under this proposal there would be an increase in self-service (Open Plus) hours at libraries across the borough - meaning longer periods during which facilities are unstaffed. This would see a roll-out of self-service technology as well as a review of the amount of money spent on new books”. Finally, the ‘elephant in the room’ for the Council leadership is surely the question : ‘How will the future of the Archives Service, the Heritage Library, and the overwhelming bulk of the book stock and services of Central Library, be safeguarded by moving these facilities to a shopping centre which, having been valued at £86 million upon its acquisition in 2016, is now valued at £15.6 million and which requires £5.5 million expenditure on prevention of structural deterioration and rainwater ingress from its roof top car park?’ {Sources : Council Statements of Accounts, 2017/18, pages 64/66 and 2021/22, page 79; https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/stockport-to-sign-off-5-5m-merseyway-works/ } . On 6th October, we wrote to all Councillors calling for their support for public consultation (see the letter here https://tinyurl.com/vd3wemp6 ). This would be entirely consistent with the stand that the Council took in January and is appropriate in view of the far reaching nature of the new plan. We will petition and campaign for support for this demand. Please share the petition widely with friends and colleagues. Stockport United Against Austerity

We need this sporting/recreation land for our young people and future generations

This campaign is important as it is the principle of airlines doing what they like and thinking they can get away with breaking the law knowingly. Many hundreds of posts I have read on Facebook shows that passengers are not receive compensation on the timescale agreed by law and often many are chasing them up endlessly or taking them to the small claims court in the UK to retrieve their entitled money. No one should have to do this and spend more money to receive the money!! Wizz Air needs to be held accountable for their actions

Ministers are planning to ban solar farms from most of England’s farmland. The new Environment secretary wants to stop panels being built on large amounts of farmers fields. Currently solar panels are allowed to be built on farmland that are rated a 3b level - where the land is designated as middling to low quality. Right now most solar farms are built or planned for this type of land, so if these plans go ahead it would block most new developments of this green energy source. At a time when we're facing energy crisis, and even the threat of energy blackouts this winter, it's unbelievable that the Government is considering plans that would make it harder for us to expand our energy supply. The Government must rethink this ban on solar.

Despite pre-tax profits of £44.1 million, Stagecoach have decided to re-arrange Services from Barnstaple to Exeter via Tiverton by removing bus 155; and adding extra services to cover Barnstaple to Southmolton, and Southmolton to Tiverton. They have also changed the bus between Southmolton and Tiverton to service 346 and reduced the number of services in a day, from 9 to 7 - removing these vital bus journeys needed for workers and College students living in the rural areas between these destinations. This is against the transformation of bus services, simpler fares, thousands of new buses, improved routes and higher frequencies promised by the PM in 'Bus Back Better: national bus strategy for England'. We request that all cuts to this service are stopped and services returned. A Case Study - a student at Exeter College living between Barnstable and Tiverton will now have to leave home at 6.15 to get to College by 9 and will have to wait around for over 1 hour for College to start. A similar wait will happen on return which means they won't get home until 19.40pm. This will further negatively impact on students with support needs whose safety has not been considered in this decision and whose safety will be compromised leaving home in darkness and returning home in darkness. There will be many such cases across the area the former 155 service covers. The worst but very real scenario is that passengers are being made vulnerable by this decision. Our Campaign for Change will make sure Bus Services are returned to their previous times and routes so individuals can travel freely and safely. People before profits. Stop Rearranging Services. Keep and make users safe.

We know fracking damages our countryside, causes earthquakes and pollutes the air we breathe - and all for nothing, as experts don't think it'll boost the UK's energy supply. The founder of a fracking company has even said it will not work in the UK. Jacob Rees-Mogg, you’ve said you would welcome fracking in your garden. Well, we do not share your view. And we simply do not give our consent to fracking going ahead in our local community. Ever.

Black history is our history. Teaching school children the stories of Black people in Britain down the centuries should be just as an important part of history lessons. Black people have lived in Britain for centuries. Black communities have been on these islands since the 1500s. They include a trumpeter in Henry VII’s court, a seaman in the battle of Trafalgar and soldiers fighting for Britain in both world wars. Britain’s involvement in the slave trade also spanned more than two centuries. Yet Black history is rarely taught in history lessons in UK schools. In 2013 then Secretary of State Michael Gove effectively made the teaching of Black history optional by removing the national curriculum’s compulsory section stating that students must study the British history of colonialism and slavery. While the current curriculum gives schools the option to teach Black history, few incorporate it into the syllabus. Recent data found that less than 11% of GCSE students are studying modules that refer to Black people’s contribution to Britain. Out of the 59 GCSE history modules put together by the nation’s biggest exam board, Edexcel, AQA and OCR, just five reference Black history in Britain.  Failing to teach Black history in schools deprives all students of the knowledge that will enable them to relate to their peers and live in today’s diverse Britain. It also has damaging implications for Black British students, impacting on their own self-identification and sense of belonging. Click here for our brilliant website packed with stories featuring characters from Black history - and Black future: https://blackhistory.shareyourstories.live

Students are being discriminated against. There is NO risk to the public above the level of a fully trained driver when they are being supervised by qualified driving instructors. If they are unable to practice - they will fail their driving tests This malpractice forms Discrimination on the basis of age as most learner drivers are 17-21 years old

Many children are still missing out on a full meal. My daughter is entitled to free school meals and the daily allowance is set at £2.50 a day . In her school they have just taken on a new private catering contractor. A small chicken burger costs £2.40 thus leaving her no money to buy a piece of fruit or dessert or even a drink. I am having to either send her in with additional supplies or as I am currently doing, adding money each week to her account (which can only be done at a minimum of £5 at a time , thus penalising vulnerable families with a double edged sword so to speak).

If we can get a few million supporting this petition it would encourage the decision maker and the team around him in the Palace to make a case for the Government to reconsider their ban on him going to COP27. We want the UK to be fully engaged in working for net zero by 2050

To future proof the planet to sustain the lives of future generations, and literally not leave our descendants with a scorched earth. What use is financial security when we have destroyed the earth's resources.