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174 women working for the city of Birmingham historic court decision win on equal pay, and pavements for similar credits

tens of thousands of cooks, cleaners and restorers can appeal against the employers pay the same after a decision of the Court of Appeal that their applications should not be too strictly limited time.

decision that the case be heard by the High Court, as well as working in the courts where there is a six-month limitation is a historic victory for 174 women who worked for the City of Birmingham.

recent legal victories for women at low wages, especially against Sheffield City Council, helped establish a precedent that women working in cleaning and caring jobs must be the same wages as men in male-dominated professions such as garbage collectors, the street sweepers, road workers and gravediggers.

Birmingham City Council had appealed against the decision of a deputy judge of the High Court in December last year that the High Court had jurisdiction to resolve claims.

The Council argued that the cases are heard in the Labour Court, where cases have been filed within six months after leaving employment contract or a job change, compared to a six years of requests made to the Supreme Court.

three judges, Lord Justice Mummery, Lord Justice Davis and Dame Janet Smith, dismissed the appeal. It unanimously ruled that Birmingham Council had not demonstrated that the construction of the deputy judge of the Equal Pay Act of 1970 or otherwise deficient.

However, only workers who are employed or had recently stopped working were entitled to make claims. Those who had more than six months before they were surprised by a period of six months to file claims in court, judges heard.
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In the fourth part of our series Secret Diary of a playwright Steve Waters examines the concept of theater as homes and new home meets Bush Theatre

the arrival of close-up: 40 years in the Bush Theatre has caused mixed feelings in me. This beautiful book brilliant, filled with the collaboration of students from the London theaters - art directors, writers, actors and designers - creates a strange compression of time and space in your images and memories. For me, the most troubling is the repeated image of the original theater itself, in a shooting along the seam between the Shepherds Bush Green and Goldhawk Road. The final funeral rites were performed on space, in fact, even when I sat down last week in the hall funk Bush marks new incarnation in Uxbridge Road, a project manager confirmed that the transfer was complete: Bush Mark One was no more.

I worked on a number of theaters and now none of them are in the state met for the first time. Artistic directors have moved or are in place, casting directors are sticks, administrators literature have become playwrights or have had their position terminated. Change is inevitable. But the biggest change is the loss of terminal space. My first house in the theater was dead at the Hampstead Theatre, Swiss Cottage and the house was in his building, rather, two-storey temporary mobile with glorious tumult of the last pulse Finchley Road

Fears Bush's new headquarters were completely demolished for me to play while watching Tom Wells, the kitchen sink recently, the library area. Here indeed was a play on the old nursery and planted in the new garden bursting into glorious life. In fact, it is no small compliment to all participants that the experience reminded me most was to see Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey, the headquarters of the age - some of the same delicacy, sincerity and absolute commitment of nature is also evident in this case, and the production of Tamara Harvey, a tribute to the age skillfully executed in the environment changed again.

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It's official, we only have five years to act on climate change, however, is the chancellor for a strong economy and dirty

Imagine you are on a boat which is below the waterline and the elements of the list. Then you notice the race leader hit smaller holes in the hull of a desperate, though obviously false, the supply to keep the boat afloat. Welcome to Britain in the winter of 2011.

In August 2008, based on the best available information and conservative projections few colleagues and I felt that the world was 100 months before it would be "likely" (a definition of risk used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) that may contain global warming below the temperature rise of two degrees - the target agreed by the EU and other

For some at the time it seemed spectacular alarmist. We were pointing to the inevitable physical and chemical properties of greenhouse gas emissions are increasingly accumulating in the atmosphere.

Then two weeks ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IEA), usually a conservative voice, concluded that the time for meaningful action on climate change was also said. In our countdown, December 1, 60 months ago or five years to go. And five years is what the IEA also says that we have left.

In 2008, we face a financial crisis and volatile energy prices. There was then an opportunity to re-regulate the financial sector and to use public investment and the new ownership of banks to boost the economy. Job security, stability, carbon reduction, and energy is within reach - to lay the foundations of a modern economy capable of facing future challenges. Under the previous government refused this option.

the name of economic growth, Osborne seems nostalgic for the dark satanic mills era of England, and an approach to the labor market related to the celebration of someone's head in water and urging them to swim.

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Who are the winners and losers of bird species? Breasts are doves, but they are on the brink of extinction in the UK

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Some of the most emblematic birds in the UK are in danger of disappearing as farmland birds fell to the lowest figures ever recorded in Britain.

birds that feed and nest around farms fell by 52% over the past 40 years, with some species such as doves, partridges, gray, starlings, sparrows, buntings corn and more 80% during the period.

data published today by Defra, the British Trust for Ornithology and the RSPB.

The turtle is now endangered in the United Kingdom of farmland birds in danger of being completely removed from the British landscape.

Data are collected by an army of volunteer ornithologists across the country trying to cllect representative samples of each bird species on the sites.

The BTO says that the decline in farmland birds is

disturbing evidence that the conditions in the agricultural land do not improve despite adequate environmental protection. The situation is complex, without changing a single in agriculture, guilt, and the decline of certain agricultural specialists like the tortoise also due to problems in their wintering grounds in Africa. Other species (eg, Wood Pigeon) have prospered because of new crops such as rapeseed, but refuses to deterioration of agricultural species, such as those associated with grasslands and margins (Starling and Kestrel) are of great concern .

Other agricultural species, including the wagtail, greenfinches and lapwings are also worrying decline. Although most species undergo changes in land use and agricultural practices, the greenfinch is a victim of the disease, trichomoniasis

However, some birds have done very well, especially the "generalists" who are more adaptable to change. Sop, species such as blue tits, robins and blackbirds, which can live in gardens and other places dominated by men. The warmer weather allows general distribution, while specialists are species that is more difficult.

Meanwhile, the forest bird populations increased between 2009 and 2010, but says the BTO:

numbers of many long-distance migrants (cuckoo, nightingale, Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher) continue to decline as the number of specialists in forest Willow Tit. There are many ongoing research to determine the cause of these declines and the factors at both ends of their migration routes (here and in Africa), it seems likely

The BTO has some useful information on trends of breeding birds and wintering waterfowl trends.

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The number of wild birds in cropland decreased by 52% throughout the past 40 years, with the doves in danger

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fell to their lowest figures ever recorded, despite efforts in some parts of the country to protect them from adverse changes in their habitats.

The number of birds that feed and nest on land under cultivation has dropped by 52% throughout the past 40 years, with some species such as doves, partridges, gray starlings, sparrows and wheat by 80% during the same period.

The turtle is now endangered in the United Kingdom of farmland birds in danger of being completely removed from the British landscape, environmentalists said.

Other agricultural species, including the wagtail, lapwings and finches, are declining concern. Although most species undergo changes in land use and agricultural practices, the greenfinch is a victim of the disease trichomoniasis.

"The decline of the turtle is of particular concern," said Martin Harper, Director of Conservation of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). "It's a beautiful bird, which has a symbolic connection with the English countryside are only now beginning to discover what is causing their populations drop dramatically."

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more fully and effectively has affected birds feed on weed seeds and agricultural land, especially in the winter months, and some farmers have tried to limit the damage lines of flowers wild and planted areas skylark, leaving the stubble without plowing during the winter, and overgrazing of the land.

The number of forest birds have declined by one fifth since 1970, but there were no winners and losers in the group. Seven species, including nightingales, warblers and willow tits, fell 70%, while the populations of green woodpeckers, warblers and hawks have more than doubled.

global warming seems to be taking a toll on some species. Although birds are 30% by number in 1970, some fared much worse than others. Of particular concern are the gulls, which fell 34% in Britain, and suffer a similar fate in continental Europe. The declines have been linked to warmer temperatures in the sea surface were transferred from tape on plankton in the North Sea, resulting in a decline in sand eels feed the birds.
Arctic skuas was well between 1970 and 1985, but its numbers have been halved. Guillemots was better, rising 168% during the period.

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With climate change is already claiming human victims, the world must come to an agreement outside the UN conference in South Africa

UN Summit on Climate Change Annual decreased Durban, South Africa, this week, but not in time to avoid the tragic death of Qodeni Ximba. The 17-year-old was one of 10 people who died in Durban on Sunday, the night before the UN conference opened. Torrential rains hit the coastal city of 3.5 million. Seven hundred homes were destroyed by floods.

Ximba was sleeping when the concrete wall next to it collapsed. One woman tried to save a baby shaking a year whose parents had been crushed by his house. She could not, and the baby died, with both parents. This, more than 20,000 politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, scientists and activists went to what may be the last chance for the Kyoto Protocol.

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the conference have prevented the death? A better question is, how could the massive flooding, which fell on the heels of other deadly storms this month, will be linked to climate change induced by man, and what is the Durban meeting on this subject? Durban has received twice the normal amount of rain for the month of November. Trends indicate that the extreme weather conditions will worsen.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a group with thousands of scientists who volunteer their time "to provide the world with a clear view on the current scientific knowledge on climate change. "The group won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Last week, the IPCC released a summary of its findings, clearly linking climate change to extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, heat waves and sea levels. The World Meteorological Organization has published a summary of its latest results, taking into account so far is 2011, the tenth warmest year history, the Arctic ice is at its lowest volume this year and that 13 of the warmest years on record have occurred in the last 15 years.

that takes us to Durban. This conference is the 17th of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, or just COP17. A signal achievement of the UN process to date is the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty provisions to limit emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. In 1997, when Kyoto was adopted, China has been regarded as a poor developing countries, and as such, had much less the Kyoto obligations. Now, the United States and others say that China should join rich countries, developed and comply with this set of rules. China refuses.

is one of the most important but by no means the only stumbling block for the renewal of the Kyoto Protocol. (Another problem is that the biggest polluter in the history of the world, the U.S. signed Kyoto, but not ratified by Congress.) South African novelist Alan Paton wrote of apartheid in 1948, the first year of the system, anticipating a long struggle to turn around, "Cry, the Beloved Country, these things are not still in its the end. "The same determination is growing in the streets of Durban, to provide the leadership necessary to monitor, air conditioning, the site of the COP17.

. Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column

© 2011 Amy Goodman Distributed by King Features Syndicate

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