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Under th plans. Tory "ade minster" ‘oul lnseDetwoon the busines dapat | ‘he Deparment for inanatena Deveopmant ‘The Guardon, 23 Nov 000 TES Drax is Brain's biggest power sinton. Infact Ws westem Europe's bogea! produces 7% of the coun’ elect by burning Sa! For yours has ‘romized fo rplace soma ofthat coe ith localy own Divo! But ast week. ie che! ereeutee, Borethy Thompson sppeared tear ip tase plane 14s Boas biggest emitrof carton soxdo— about 22m tons ina tps! year. ms 22 much CO? a ‘one quater ofa Sita’ care, and more thon te lanes thing of ram Heathrow in yor The company has boon ae green credential fr yeas, Now, lat soon take of Intenions\sheed of tis week's company taut, ‘Tompson sai plans to convert pat of Dra fe co: bhuring tute and coe! crovgh fo ut ts GOP femissions by 25m tons are on hod. Ratt nom, ihe company appears to be roving backward fat bom ter promos ‘The Guarsan 25 Feb 2010STUDENT'S NAME: HOJA DE RESPUESTAS PARA EL ALUMNO a COMPRENSION ESCRITA- INGLES. NIVEL AVANZADO-CONVOCATORIA ORDINARIA [ HEADING TEXT NUMBER Gleaner power stations-may-not-be able to suppiy-allthe-countnys A reeds, Aninsistence on considering the importance of environmental changes. Contribution to Climate Deal isin serious danger. Expecting a ‘notin favour, not against’ voto, Green changes that haven't become true. Promises to stop worsening Global Warming, PPuting off the vote on the emissions plan. ‘The Government considers gas emissions more important than other health issues, a | ‘The Government is working on reducing ges emissions.ue Iraqi interpreters left without help because of rigid guidelines 8y Debors Hayne “The Government's policy for helping interpreters and others in Iraq who worked for Britain has undoubtedly saved lives, but a fallure to make the scheme more responsive to individual cases has loft scores without assistance, It algo sets a worrying precedent for interpreters working for ‘the British in Afghanistan, ‘As with the much-orcised Gurkhas resettiement scheme, the Government drew up stict ‘duidelnes for Iraqi candidates that remain resolutely rigid barring anyone who did not work for {12 consecutive months, even if he cleaty risked his life. Anyone forced to quit before the end of 2005 would also fal to make the grade even though the kilings and threats had slarted before then. Mark Brockway, a former Army warrant officer, hired 18 interpreters after he arrived in Iraq in 2003. Of them, 12 are dead and the other six are living overseas, including three in Briain. He hhas been campaigning for the assistance scheme to become more flexible. Tha Prime Minister introduced the initiative only aftor Tho Times highlighted the plight of interpreters in 2007. Tho majority of about 20,000 Iragis who worked forthe British in Iraq over the past six years were labourers who experienced minimal risk. The number of addtional people who would benefit if the rules were relaxed is thus not huge, probably a few dozen at ‘est, and their families. Most do not want to move to Britain as Basra becomes calm. They Simpiy want compensation forthe pain and trauma they have suffered Patrick Mercer MP, the Conservative chalitman of the Commons counter-errorism sub- ‘committee, said the policy was devised in a narrow way. "The interpreters in iraq and Afghanistan are as much @ weapon oF a resource as any other solder, sailor or aman", he said, “Many of them have been killed or inured. We cannot afford at this stage not to treat them propery. The legacy we leave in raq has got to be a good one’. ‘The Foreign and Commonwoalth Office said: "The Locally Engaged Staff Assistance Scheme is for people with a substantial employment relationship with the British Government. This is defined as working in a professional and public role alongside us for a year or more, Those who have worked for shorter periods are not eligible. We think this is reasonable". Both the Foreign Office and the Home Office said that there were no plans to review its policy, Hundreds were rejected and received nothing. All appeals must be heard by June 30. A {cision has yet fo be made on how lang to Keep the scheme open for Irais sill working for the Bish mission as it winds down, ‘capes tom © THE TIMESae STUDENT'S NAME: aes Iraqi interpreters left without help because of rigid guidelines, 0. | Broadiy speaking, the Government's paley for helping tho Betis iroq-has beor-very- sol. x The Briish scheme has shown that alinterpreiers have ‘A. | benefited from this new policy. ‘The violence agains interpreters helping the British started in| 2006. ¢ | Mark Brockway states that the Government should make its assistance policy less severe. “The British Government di not prapase the scheme on ts own p | initiative ‘Now thal the condlans are not so set, many people wil E | beneft from the assistance policy. “The majority of the Tragis who work forthe Brlish are keen on boginning new lives in Britain, Patrick Hercer, MP, supports the scheme as Is, since represents a powerful measure agains terrorism. ‘Wir Mercer, declared that Brish soldiers should not be reckoned 4. | 25more necessary than any intrpreter. The Locally Engaged Stalf Assistance Scheme isnot ikely to Be 1 | changed! ‘Although assistance has been largely denied, some cases are sill under considerationae ” The city that looks and smells like a landfill site A Slice of Britain: Take one council, cut the pay ofits binmen, then sit back and watch the rubbish pile up By Richard Oseyn Leeds The rats are having a field day. The scavengers have been pigging out on the rch pickings of the refuse collectors’ strike in the suburbs of Leeds. For two months the rodents have been fattening themselves up forthe coming winter. They are the only ones who are anything ike ‘content. \with wheelie bins overfowing, particularly in student districts such as Headingley and Hyde Park, the rats have been helping themselves to a rich banquet of September's soggy pizza crusts, and mouidy lasagne thrown out weeks ago. ‘he fat rats have boon the beneliciaris of a bittor industrial dispute and stke action by the city's refuse collectors. The unrelenting nature ofthe protest the length of the stand-off has inevitably drawn parallels wth militant walkouts in the 1960s ~ has let Headingley shrouded in the whiff of lanai The root cause of the dispute also seems to be a throwback to another generation: the Liberal Democrat and Conservative-run council is attempting to equalise pay between male and ‘emale workers. But instead of raising the pay of female staffers, it wants to cul the salaries of male workers. The frst proposal was a £4,000 drop for some. What's more, the councl thinks the workers need to increase their work rate, ‘The strike, which has gone some way to forcing the council to scale back demands for wage cuts in racant days, could soon be miored elsewhere In the country: bn collectors in Brighton {are also due fo walk out this week with simlar griovances. ther local authorities are still working out how to meet new regulations to balance inequalily in pay between the sexes, Postal workers are newly back on the streets after walking out in the national strike over pay and conditions. Firefighters across South Yorkshire are also locking homs with management So far, everyone in Leeds is assiduously avoiding phrases that begin withthe words “winter (of, But walkouts last week in Doncaster and Sheffield are concentrating people's minds. More& deco andr si son a expe a Few of the students in Headingley were alive in 1979. The term “all-out strike is just the stu of poliical history textbooks. And so, unknowingly, they sit atthe centre of what future books may call a new wave of industrial action. They're not enjoying it Jess Johnson, a 20-year-old music student, has “lipped”, to use her own phrase, Looking out of her bedroom window on to the back alley of Headingley Mount, sho is so angry atthe sight Of glants slabs of mouldy food that she Is bagging it up herself "if | don't doit, who is going to fo Ht? I's gane an so fong that if something isn done right now, the problem wil just get too big for anyone," she says. "i's disgusting’ ‘She knows her efforts may be for naught: bin bags that don't fit in the whole bins risk being Tipped apart by foxes or, as the most recent street craze has it, blown up with fireworks. And so she struggles outside the redbrick terraces, where university students cram in six to @ house, to hold back a waste tide of pizza. "We've bagged our stuf up so it's not cur eubbish" says Layla-Jane Gabriel who lives in the next street." know it might not be the right atitude but | don't want to be picking up other People's rubbish. Some people have just come along and dumped it, didn't even put tn a bag” Other areas ofthe city have fared better, cleansed by small cadres of refuse workers who were finally talked back into work atthe end of the week and a hastily arranged substiute team of ‘ew recruits hired by the councl to break the strike ‘Some areas are heading towards sanity but the patched-up patrol has clearly not reached all comers. It's not obvious why some areas have been left out. The students are muttering that the area they have colonised has been shifted to the botiom of the list because they don't pay council tax Adapt tom © THE INDEPENDENT, Sundey, 8Novombor 2000 4 HEADING [TEXT 2 3 75 x 7 x = z z z ¢ 3 7 = E = F 7 é > ee eal | sa aSTUDENT'S NAME: ‘The city that looks and smells ike a landfill site QUESTIONS, 0.-The refuse collectors strike has 2. allowed rats and other kins of animals to feed themselves freely b. loft only Headingley covered in rubbish. ©. made the number of rodents increase, 4.-Tha caunell wants al ofits workers to 2. accopt a more equitable pay scale between the sexes. allow women to eam more than men, ©. work longer for less salary 2-The torm “alLout strike” 2. belongs toa distant past. ». is familar to students in Headingley. «. Is anew way of socal action against unpleasant potical measures, 3 Jess Johnson 2. admits that students are partial responsible for the situation. b. ishortifed by the state ofthe street around where she lives. ©. lives with fe other students, 4 Students from Headingley 2. are responsible for most ofthe rubbish lft inthe street. b. have taken no action against the state oftheir neighbourhood. . moan about the behaviour of other people, 5 Some areas of Leeds 2, are being discriminated against due tothe type of resident. '. have sorted the problem with private teams of refuse workers, ©. struggle to keep the streets clean because they have students living in the peepee Fo