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http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Charity-s-hotline-pledge-despite-closure-plans/article-3556749-detail/article.html
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/ChildLIne-closure-deal/article-3547274-detail/article.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13345468
2. We Support cycling routes on the University of Leeds Campus 
Evidence shows that providing cycling facilities such as cycle lanes encourages people to cycle. It also makes it easier and more pleasant for current cyclists.
3. Save Headingley and Burley Park Stations
It was reported in the Yorkshire Post on 27 August 2010, in an article by Paul Jeeves titled 'Faster journeys in prospect after meeting with train firm', that "[An] initiative [by Northern Rail] could see services streamlined between the spa town [of Harrogate] and the West Yorkshire city [of Leeds], quickening journeys by as much as seven minutes – about a fifth of the time it currently takes to travel between the two.
A meeting was held yesterday [28th August] between Northern Rail, which runs services between Leeds, Harrogate and York, and senior council and business officials.
Within three years, some services may not stop at Burley Park and Headingley stations in Leeds".
Such a move seems particularly flawed when you consider that usage of Headingley station alone has been approximately *double* that of two stations which are to benefit from such a move and has been at this level for the last 3 years*.
Meanwhile Burley Park has a usage level approximately equal to that of Hornbeam Park, Pannal, and Starbeck combined*.
In fact the only station of the four beneficiaries and two victims which can rival Burley Park's usage is Harrogate itself*.
The station usage does not justify reducing services to Headingley and Burley Park, the effect on those who depend on these services does not justify reducing services to Headingley and Burley Park, and the decision to penalise these two stations appears to be completely without justification.
*For evidence of this please see:
http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529
PETITION FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROMES (HMS) AND EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME (EDS) SERVICES AT CHAPEL ALLERTON (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust)
As you are all aware Professor Bird retires after serving the above community of patients at the end of September 2010. Our information indicates that the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust do not intend to continue with the service that our community accesses. So with the loss of Prof. Bird and the highly skilled multi-disciplinary team, the existing and 300+ new patients a year, will no longer have access to what is widely recognised as a designated HMS/EDS Clinic.
This will have a devastating effect on the needs of those of us who access the current service in Leeds. Additionally this will lead to an increase in referrals to the other three existing designated HMS/ EDS Clinics in the UK, namely Glasgow, UCH in London and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. There is no doubt that many of us despite the difficulties in travelling and the extra cost will wish to attend a specialised service in a designated clinic, (especially considering the difficult journey that the majority of us undergo to gain a diagnosis in the first place). It is also apparent that this patient group in fact needs more designated clinics, run by knowledgeable and skilled staff who are up to date with research and who participate in research in attempts to best indentify how to manage and treat what can be a condition which significantly impacts on a patients physical, emotional, financial, family and social lives. It is not in the interests of this patient group to attend ordinary rheumatology appts, so with that in mind we are asking that you all sign this petition for the following reasons;
1.The continuation of a fit for service fit for purpose designated service/clinic for people with HMS/EDS at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
2.The need for more designated clinics for people with HMS or EDS.
5. Leeds College of Art should Pay Up
In 2004, the University & College Union signed a national agreement that produced a new improved pay scale for lecturers. Initially, only around one third of the colleges implemented this new pay deal, leading the union to take widespread industrial action in 2005 to improve this.
As a result, the great majority of colleges have implemented, or are in talks to implement, the improved pay scale. But around 60 colleges continue to refuse to do this. Leeds College of Art is one of them.
Our college has refused to put in place better pay for its staff. The college continues to secure LSC funding, but it has made a decision to pay staff less than colleagues at other colleges.
6. Traffic Signal Request for Hwy 78 and Carolyn St, Leeds, AL
In recent years the entrance/exit to the Cahaba Hills subdivision from Hwy 78 onto Carolyn Street seems to have become an unsafe area. There is a definite need for some sort of traffic control at this conjunction.
The residents in this area feel that once the roadway improvements and the new High School are complete the percentage of traffic accidents will increase. Therefore, the residents are requesting that a measure of traffic control be placed at the said location.
7. Fox Sports to broadcast Leeds Utd FC playoff games LIVE
Leeds United FC are once again this year vying for a position to move up a division. Leeds currently play in the Coca Cola League 1 and are in the playoffs to move up to the Coca Cola Championship, a league in which Fox Sports already broadcast certain games through the Sky Sports (UK) feed.
Fox Sports have secured the rights for these playoffs but, currently, will not be showing the LEAGUE ONE games (which includes the dismissal of the mighty Leeds United). Leeds are widely supported in Australia and these playoff games would gain a MUCH bigger audience then the Championship games. Last year their highest audience in the playoffs was Leeds United vs Doncaster Rovers - even though this was delayed by an hour!!!!!!!!
Just to take a step back...Leeds United is a massively popular football club in Australia and all around the World and even though they currently play 3rd tier football, they are still arguably among the top 10 most popular football clubs from England and definitely one of the most popular clubs within Australia.
Australia has had a massive connection to Leeds United in the past, with Australian Players such as Harry Kewell, Mark Viduka, Paul Okon, Jacob Burns and Tony Dorigo, who all played for the club. They also have current Socceroo Neil Kilkenny playing for them at the moment who represented Australia at the 2008 Olympic games.
This time last year, Leeds United fans from all around Australia, swarmed to show their support for the club they love as they were in the same position as they are now. Unfortunately Leeds were unsuccessful in the play-off campaign. As Fox Sports are aware, alot of fans last year emailed Fox Sports to demand these matches be shown. To their credit, they did show the Play-off Final, even though it was delayed by 1 hour. As mentioned above, this game got a larger audience than ALL other playoff games from the Championship. Fox Sports have already said that if enough interest is shown then they may reconsider the matter!!! I think last year that we proved it was viable for these League One playoff matches (especially Leeds) to be shown in Australia, LIVE and DIRECT on Fox Sports. I am sure, it would be in the best interests of all Leeds United Fans and Football fans in general and yourselves as an entity for these matches to be shown Live and Direct.
It's a proven fact that these games broadcast live would be a big hit for Fox Sports and their customers will no doubt continue supporting them if they support us...
Im certain that when Leeds go up to the Championship, more Leeds United fans will be jumping on the Foxtel bandwagon, to watch the mighty Whites next year.
8. Parking Campaign for CF patients at Leeds General Infirmary
The paediatric (children’s) hospital services will be transferring in stages over the next few years from St James Hospital in Leeds across to the Leeds General Infirmary which is based in central Leeds.
The city centre location will mean that parking will be extremely limited.
Parents/carers currently have good parking and access at the current hospital site, but so far no dedicated parking provision at the new site has been agreed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
One example of a service which will be affected by the move is young patients who have Cystic Fibrosis (CF). CF is a long term condition which affects primarily the lungs and digestive system making it hard to breathe and digest food.
This group of patients will typically visit the Regional CF Unit every 6-8 weeks for outpatient’s appointment and have frequent inpatient stays as often as every 3 months.
Therefore, parking accessibility and cost are extremely important to the parents /carers of these children who travel from across the region to access specialist care.
Ideally this would include concessionary parking, which is accessible and close by to the CF Unit to combat the expense of travel.
The Hospital Trust should also ensure that there is adequate parking provision and agree a fair level of designated spaces to be set aside for parents/carers.
9. Save the Centre for Joint Honours (CJH) - University of Leeds
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At a meeting of the Senate on February 4th 2009 at the University of Leeds, the decision to disband the Centre for Joint Honours was put to final vote and passed.
If you value the pastoral, academic, and other general support that the CJH offers you at university, show your support for your joint honours team on this group.
10. Save Quality Journalism In Yorkshire
Management at Johnson Press, owners of the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post, are trying impose cutbacks to these papers which will reduce the quality of coverage, with fewer editions, making journalists redundant and smaller budgets.
Johnston Press’s Edinburgh-based executives claim that the firm is in financial difficulty. While the business does have huge debts, run up by acquisition-hungry managers, it is still making multi-million pound profits.
Those executives now want to spend less money on “your” papers so they can service that debt. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) are taking action to protect their jobs and those of their colleagues, and to ensure the continued quality of your newspapers.
Please sign this petition to signal you support for our fight.
11. Diagnosis Service for Asperger Syndrome in Leeds
Asperger Syndrome is a form of autism, a lifelong developmental disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to others.
As with autism, people with Asperger Syndrome experience difficulties in:
• Social interaction
• Social Communication
• Social imagination
However people with Asperger Syndrome usually have fewer problems with language than those with autism, often speaking fluently though their words can sometimes sound formal or stilted.
People with Asperger Syndrome are often of average or above average intelligence.
Because their disability is less obvious than that of someone with autism, a person with Asperger Syndrome is, in a sense, more vulnerable.
As they get older they may realize that they are different from other people and feel isolated and depressed. People with Asperger Syndrome often want to be sociable and are upset by the fact that they find it hard to make friends.
Bearing all this in mind it seems incredible that although there will be over 2000 individuals in Leeds with Asperger Syndrome there is very little help or support for them.
12. Second Storey Ruin to Play Reading Festival 2008 OR Festival Republic to put on a local band stage!
Ok we dream of playing at one of our hometown's biggest gigs and we feel that there's more interest of unsigned acts!
Why not have a local band stage for Reading, Leeds already do!
VOTE NOW!
HERE IN BRADFORD, OUR NEAREST H&M IS IN LEEDS!!
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WELL NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
14. Bring back Raw Talent to BBC Radio Leeds
A week of canvassing and three days of this petition have lead to a success of the campaign. BBC Radio Leeds have decided to make a re-broadcast available in West Yorkshire on the Monday following each Sunday live show. Public support, and this petition, have been crucial. well done to all! If you want to add your name as a supporter - please do so. I will close the petition down at the end of the week. I have adjusted the wording of the petition itslf to reflect the new situation. Thanks, too, to the responsive and positive response of BBC Radio Leeds, who must get credit for being strong enough to back down. The original story was:
"From November 11th 2007 BBC Radio Leeds stopped broadcasting the new music programme "Raw Talent" on either of its FM and DAB channels in the Leeds and West Yorkshire area.
It did this on the day that Leeds' new stars Middleman were playing a live session from the BBC Hull studio. The programme is no longer advertised (as it had been) as BBC North output and can only be heard in Leeds from a low quality web stream from BBC Humberside.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/entertainment/music/raw_talent/rewind/index.shtml
The pity of this decision is that Raw Talent's producer (Katy Noone) and its presenter (Alan Raw) have worked on the programme for five years - years in which Leeds and West Yorkshire have been crucial to their content and in which Leeds and West Yorkshire have been helped to develop into being the most creative and vibrant new music area in the UK today.
Names like Napoleon IIIrd, ¡Forward, Russia!, iLiKETRAiNS, Stateless, The Cribs, The Pigeon Detectives, Sky Larkin, The Sunshine Underground (and so many more) have been given first-class professional opportunities to develop their media confidence and profile through Raw Talent's efforts.
With Leeds out of the Raw Talent ambit as far as identity and quality audio broadcasting goes, the Humberside region will become more isolated, and Leeds will lose a major source of support for its strong music community. At a time when live music audiences are growing again (especially in older age groups) the BBC is missing a rare chance to win new listeners in the dynamic Leeds area.
Over and above their weekly two hour programme The Raw Talent team have been significant in establishing and presenting a highly successful new music stage at Leeds Festival for the last three years - featuring 30 new artists from the North each year and broadcasting examples of their live sessions on the programme. Loss of the Leeds connection casts a cloud on this huge (and nationally acclaimed) achievement.
Also at the national level BBC Humberside's Raw Talent has recently become part of the BBC Radio One Introducing network. Again, the recognition implied by this move is adversely affected by loss of the full integration of Leeds into its identity and audience.
BBC Radio Leeds have cited audience profile and technical demands in telling us that there are no plans to review their decision to axe Raw Talent. We would say that in the weeks before the decision Raw Talent was accessible via DAB in and around Leeds. In the years before that the BBC Leeds FM signal was used. What has been possible could surely be restored if the will were there. As to audience, more adventurous scheduling or attention to marketing might (and should) be explored.
The people are there, the enthusiasm is there, the BBC could devote their ingenuity to putting the programme within their reach."
15. Leeds United's 15 point penalty is bad for the game
Six years ago Leeds United reached the semi-finals of the Champion's League and finished forth in the Premiership.
Now they find themselves in the third flight of English football in financial turmoil.
16. Say No to the Racist Lecturer
21st March, 2006
Frank Ellis is a lecturer at Leeds University in the department of Russian and Slavonic studies.
A recent interview in a student newspaper has led to national coverage of his views, which include the notion that black people and women are genetically inferior and that homosexuality should be "weeded out".
He has connections to white supremacist organisations and has stated that the BNP are "a bit too socialist" for his liking.
17. Free the Ra! and let Ra come to Leeds!
Ra's mum won't let Ra come to Leeds with us. Without Ra, Leeds is Ra-less...therefore we have no Ra, and without Ra there is no Ra. Her mum is not letting her come for very silly reasons, all of which are easily sorted out.
If we get a few signatures, Ra's mum will reconsider and beg for mercy.
Ah thankyou.
