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The Spotlight this week is on GED students and who they are. They could be anybody. Many are successful business people, and many of them can't read. Penny Chastain, an...

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The cabinet minister who is pushing through the expansion of Heathrow last night hit out at celebrity environmentalists who talk green politics while flying across the globe.Transport secretary Geoff Hoon picked on the Oscar winner Emma Thompson who emerged as a leading figure in the campaign to stop the third runway at Britain's biggest airport.In an interview with the Guardian in which he also urged Barack Obama to change american attitudes to climate change, Hoon was outspoken in his criticism. 'She has been in some very good films. Love Actually is very good, but I worry about people who I assume travel by air quite a lot and don't see the logic of their position, not least because the reason we have got this problem in relation to Heathrow is that more and more people want to travel more and more,' he said.He added: 'BAA do not wake up in the morning and think 'we need a bigger airport' and airlines do not say 'we need to put on more flights' unless there is a demand for it. So th