At its meeting in May, Derby City Council agreed to declare a climate emergency in response to overwhelming evidence that we have 12 years left to make the necessary changes to limit a global rise in temperatures to 1.5 degrees C.
Across the globe, across Europe, across Britain and across Derby there are growing calls for real action to combat climate change. We are already experiencing extreme weather events and action is needed now, as they will become more frequent and more severe.
Worldwide, it is estimated that one in ten children has a mental health problem. In the UK, only 5% (one twentieth) of mental health funding is spent on children and the NHS has a target to treat just one in three of the children who need help.
After four years of delay and uncertainty from Labour over what to do with the Assembly Rooms, it seems a solution is still not in sight.
Recently the British Heart Foundation have released a report showing that over 8000 women die as a result of unequal heart attack care per year across the country.
