The PM's chief aide Dominic Cummings is facing calls to resign after it emerged he travelled from London to his parents' home in Durham with coronavirus symptoms during lockdown. Mr Cummings and his wife, who was also unwell, stayed in Durham, while self-isolating. Labour demanded No 10 provided a "swift explanation" for Mr Cummings' actions. A source close to Mr Cummings denied a breach of the coronavirus rules, saying the couple needed childcare help. They told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg that the couple had stayed in a separate building at the property. Downing Street declined to comment on Friday night, after the Guardian and the Daily Mirror newspapers first reported Mr Cummings had made the more than 260-mile journey. Who is Dominic Cummings?Scientist quits role after 'undermining' lockdownWhat are social distancing and self-isolation rules?The government has ordered anyone with coronavirus symptoms to self-isolate at home and not leave - even for essential supplies - for seven days. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in March that children should not be left with older grandparents or older relatives "who may be particularly vulnerable or fall into some of the vulnerable groups" . A Labour spokesman said: "If accurate, the prime minister's chief adviser appears to have breached the lockdown rules. The government's guidance was very clear: stay at home and no non-essential travel. "The British people do not expect there to be one rule for them and another rule for Dominic Cummings." Mr Cummings has attended meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - the scientific body which gives independent advice that shapes the government's coronavirus response.

Throughout the pandemic, thousands of NHS workers have been working around the clock, putting their lives at risk to protect the public. Yet the average nurse in the UK has lost 20% of their income the last 10 years. It’s not surprising that there are 100,000 vacancies within our NHS. And that many of us NHS workers are using food banks to get by. NHS workers have played a pivotal role in keeping this country going during the pandemic. It’s only fair that NHS staff are properly awarded for their hard work, and that’s why we’re calling for a 15% pay rise for all NHS staff. Earlier this year, the Government announced a pay aid rise for public service workers ‘in recognition of their efforts in tackling Covid-19’. But more many NHS staff including nurses, porters and cleaners were not included - this is inexcusable and has truly shown how little we are valued as a whole NHS organisation by this Government.That’s why we’re asking the NHS Pay Review Body to urgently review the pay of ‘Agenda For Change’ staff and take into consideration the 10 years of pay caps/freezes and acknowledge their extraordinary efforts throughout the pandemic. We believe that NHS workers should have a 15% or £3,000 pay increase (whichever is greater).This pay rise is needed. It’s more important than ever as we are now overwhelmed in a second wave of Covid-19 and, with morale at an all time low amongst staff. A recent survey showed that 36% of nurses were thinking of leaving the profession. We cannot afford to lose any more valuable staff. One of the NHS key values is prioritising quality, but quality of care will most certainly suffer as a result of staff shortages.An increase in pay would attract staff into the vacant positions - more staff would equal a reduction in waiting times and the NHS would be better equipped to meet national targets. Wards wouldn’t be understaffed and services would be able to run to capacity.Clapping for NHS staff is a nice gesture - but it doesn’t pay the bills. Please show your real appreciation for NHS staff by helping us get this crucial pay rise for NHS staff that work so hard.If you agree that NHS staff deserve a restorative pay rise, please sign this petition! If you want to get more involved with our campaign follow us on twitter @NurseSayNO and join our Facebook group. Kind regards NursesSayNoTeam #NHSPay15

To lose a loved one is devastating. To lose a loved one to murder is horrific. To be denied their funeral causes unimaginable suffering. I have endured this nightmare for almost 28 years. Ian Simms is serving a life sentence (on overwhelming forensic evidence) for the murder of my daughter Helen McCourt, aged 22, on 9 February 1988, in Billinge, Lancs. For almost three decades Simms has refused to reveal the whereabouts of Helen’s body – denying us the chance to grant her the dignity of a funeral and resting place.The case made legal history as only the third ever UK murder trial without a body. Sadly, as killers go to ever-desperate lengths to hide evidence and evade justice such cases have become more common. Without stiffer penalties they will continue to rise. In January 2016 a Parole Board will decide on Simms’ application for freedom. As it currently stands, the English legal system does not require a convicted murderer (at the end of their determined tariff) to admit guilt or reveal the location of a victim’s remains before being released. If parole is granted, my hopes of finding my daughter may never be realised. No other family should live this ordeal.I, hereby, petition the Prime Minister Theresa May and Home Secretary Sajid Javid to acknowledge the pain and distress caused to the families of missing murder victims by: Denying parole to murderers for as long as they refuse to disclose the whereabouts of their victim’s remains Passing a full life tariff (denying parole or release) until the murderer discloses the location (and enables the recovery) of their victim’s remains Automatically applying the following rarely-used common law offences in murder trials without a body*; preventing the burial of a corpse and conspiracy to prevent the burial of a corpse, disposing of a corpse, obstructing a coroner (*as in the case of R v Hunter, 1974 (from Archbold, Criminal Pleading Evidence and Practice 2015) Denying a funeral is, surely, an infringement of basic human rights. Please support me. Picture by Chris Neill

There are plans to start charging NHS staff to pay for parking at the place they work again, after the risks these people take every day this is an absolute travesty. NHS staff should not have to pay to park outside the hospitals they work in, they should not be a cash cow for private parking firms. NHS staff threatened with parking fines for parking at work should see their fines paid by our Government whilst you look at new legislation to make parking free for the whole of Britain. During the Covid-19 pandemic we've been clapping these people, now let's actually help them. Please remember to sign and share, thank you.

China is one of if not the worst country when it comes to animal cruelty, each year thousands of animals are brutally killed and in front of each other. Did you know regularly in China dogs are stuffed into small cages before being hanged up by their paws and skinned alive, this happens in front of other dogs and those dogs see what's going to happen to them and they start barking and wailing in fear and for what so some rich people can wear fur clothing? This has to stop every animal can feel pain people need to stop thinking that because they can't speak they can't feel either and that means we control them but we don't! Animals were here first this is their world not ours we need to respect them! In the photo attached to this petition you can see a dog very much still alive having a leg sawn off and there's more to come for that terrified dog and many other animals. Pets are actually stolen off of the street, taken from their loving homes and killed in the most painful ways possible. I am absolutely disgraced to be human if that's what other humans will do for no good reason. Some of us clearly have no humanity in us if we can do this to poor defenceless animals or just sit back and pretend it's not happening because it is happening... right now! So please be the right kind of human and have humanity, sign the petition do these animals good and pass it on so we have a greater chance of stopping this. Please help them, because they need you to care.

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the UK, and Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, were today issued fines for breaking lockdown regulations. Boris Johnson is believed to be the first Prime Minister to have broken the law whilst in office. I do not believe that anyone who breaks the law should be allowed to remain Prime Minister or Chancellor. At the same time that No. 10 were partying in the Downing Street gardens, I was working 12 hour shifts in the NHS - in full PPE - in the corridors of hospitals that had started to resemble battlefields. In May 2020, my colleagues and I were struggling to save lives. There were too many patients and nowhere near enough staff. Boris Johnson has said that Downing Street was full of “people working phenomenally hard under phenomenal strain”. I do not believe that in 2020 their jobs were more stressful than our jobs, on the front lines. I do not understand why this means they were allowed to break the rules whilst myself, and my colleagues, worked hard to keep people safe. While members of this Government were partying and drinking, we were at the coalface, saving people’s lives. It was a horrible time. We weren’t thinking about partying. We were just missing our families. It was so stressful and there was nothing we could do to make things better. Please sign my petition today if you agree with me that Prime Ministers and Chancellors should not be allowed to break the law and remain in office.

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died on June 17 2020. He was a young, beautiful, innocent six year old boy who was subjected to unsolicited, cruel, and ruthless torture by Thomas Hughes and Emma Tustin. They did not want him; and rather than sending him into the care of somebody else they used him as a physical and mental punching bag. Arthur was starved, beaten, deprived of food, drink, and sleep.. and eventually died of a brain injury caused by Emma Tustin smashing his head off of a hard surface. This poor child was filmed crying that nobody loved him, hours before he was killed. ARTHUR WAS SIX. He was six and died thinking he was abandoned, unwanted, and unloved at the hands of two people that should have been trusted with him the most. Please sign this petition so that we can send this to parliament to argue that these MONSTERS deserve to see out the rest of their living days inside a cell.  Thank you. 

Key workers have to brave the very thing everyone is sat at home isolating from. They go to work to help keep the economy from completely collapsing. Whether it's saving lives on the frontline, food and packaging, policing, looking after and caring for the elderly or less abled. If it wasn't for the key workers the whole country would be flat on it's face.  It's great people are standing and shouting from their doors to show appreciation for the key workers. But surely the country can do better as we all know a little extra in the pay packet goes a long way.  These people go to work to keep the country turning whilst everyone else can self isolate and get paid 80% of their wages. Show some love to the key workers and give them a bonus for the effort they put in.  

Please everyone sign this. There are ex servicemen on our streets. The Army Barracks are sitting empty not being used! If they open them, they will have a roof over there head somewhere safe to sleep, they can maintain the up keep and anyone suffering with stress disorder can help eachother. No one who served for our country deserves to be failed by the system

Petition to get Good Immigrant (Nikesh Shukla) and Why I’m No longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge), on the GCSE reading list. The current English GCSE reading list consists of authors ranging from 19th Century writers such as; Charles Dickens, George Elliot and Charlotte Bronte. Shakespeare dominates a large portion of reading lists, and modern prose shows a little more diversity with Meera Syal and Maya Angelou amongst George Orwell and John Steinbeck. Although these lists of literature span a wide range of content, they do very little to reflect our current society. Current books on the curriculum - https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/tag/gcse/ With recent events in America (the murder of George Floyd by a police officer), we need to look closer to home on how we can learn from these acts of horror, and how we can lead by example to be the change we want to see, so we can prevent these events from happening again.  Education is where it starts. Although you can have debates and go on marches in the hope of battling closed minds, school is where minds are opened and where we should grasp the opportunity to teach students about diversity and our current society, including the injustices.  That is why I am proposing the following books be added to the GCSE reading lists -  The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla - A collection of essays written by a wide range of the BAME personalities voicing their experiences of racism in this country. The contributors range from actors, to journalism, musicians and writers.  Each essay offers a different perspective and view point.  Why I am no longer talking to white people about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge - This books spans a wide range of issues relating to the institutional racism of this country. It confronts British history, feminism and the class system. This book started out as a blog post and after such a wide response, Eddo-Lodge decided to expand her response. It’s had international success.  These two books wouldn’t only contribute diversity to the current GCSE reading lists, they would also highlight our current society’s diversity, inequalities and opportunities for change. Highlighting this to young adults will hopefully ignite a desire to be part of the change and also stamp out ignorance towards diversity.