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A woman who flew to Canada for work and goes on holiday by plane for holidays can't sue her employer on environmental grounds, a judge ruled.

Hilary Bannerman worked as a ranger at the Land Restoration Trust, a charity which manages green spaces. She claimed she was discriminated against for her belief in social and environmental justice.

But when she tried to sue the company on those grounds she failed when a judge decided her views did not amount to a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. Her evidence about how she upholds her belief was "unconvincing", the Manchester Evening News reports.

A preliminary hearing was told Ms Bannerman tried to clai

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