3 CHEERS

FOR Dame Vivienne Westwood who has donated one million pounds to the Cool Earth project which protects rainforests in Peru, the Congo Basin and Borneo from logging. Dame Vivienne, a leading fahion designer and international businesswoman, made the donation to coincide with the Climate Change conference in Durban, South Africa, and as a protest against the slow-moving international response to climate change. She appealed to the public to “donate a fiver” to the Cool Earth campaign to preserve the key role of rainforests in the global climate.