Over 12,000 people have signed a petition started by a 15-year-old girl to keep climate change in the national curriculum for under 14-year-olds. Esha Marwaha from Hounslow in west London said she was outraged that the draft key stage 3 geography curriculum for English schools had vastly scaled back discussion of the phenomenon.

"Climate change is the most pressing and threatening issue to modern-day society. Through lack of understanding from generations before us, we are having to fix it. And how can we do this without education?" she wrote in a Guardian blog on Tuesday, which echoed the petition to the education secretary, Michael Gove, on the website change.org.

"Our government, part of the generation who bear much of the responsibility for this problem, intends to not only fail toUK’s Sunday Times Rich List records massive increase in wealth

By Simon Whelan

26 April 2013

The latest Sunday Times Rich List recorded a massive increase in wealth for the super-rich in the United Kingdom.

The numbers of billionaires stands at a record 88—up from 77 last year. The combined wealth of the richest 1,000 UK residents has reached £450 billion, a total increase of £35 billion on the previous year. The wealth of the top 200 richest residents in Britain and Ireland amounts to an incredible £320 billion.

The degree to which London in particular has been turned into a playground for the international financial oligarchy and an on-shore tax haven is reflected in the dominance of those born outside the UK, mainly from Russia and India, in the top ten places.