Caroline Smith FixMyStreet is a fantastic website where you can upload (including photos) reports of litter, fly-tipping, broken glass, broken street lamps and broken paving labs, and anything else that is blighting your beautiful town or village. Created by techy experts, the reports get sent straight to your council and you are then notified of updates….
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how to make bus transport more appealing
Buses are safe and cheap, yet far less popular than trains, and councils often have dire bus services (many towns have no services at all on weekends). Yet they are a great way to remove traffic off our roads and usually more local than train stations for rural areas. It’s important to invest in good…
where to find free & low-cost legal help
Geraldine Burles Hopefully most of us don’t need legal help often. But if you do find yourself needing help from lawyers or solicitors, it can be a very costly business. So how do you access free or low-cost legal help that’s any good. Find out in this post, which also covers where to find (more…
the best methods to prevent cigarette litter
Caroline Smith Cigarette butts are the world’s most common litter, with around 4.5 trillion cigarette butts thrown out each year, but the filters are made from cellulose acetate (a plastic that takes over 10 years to break down and meanwhile leaks toxins into the environment, when butts fall down storm drains). Butts in oceans make…