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29 Jun 2009 - Boss wins £160,000 payout after being shot and fired on the same day

Ex-pat Sean Daley, 31 has been awarded £160,000 after he was shot four times and sacked by his employer on the same day.

The High Court heard that Mr Daley was employed to run a struggling mill in Kyrgyzstan central Asia and was paid irregularly by Camco Corporation Ltd, a business and management consultancy firm based in Caerphilly, south Wales.

The court heard that Mr Daley would often borrow money or use his own funds to keep the mill afloat due to a lack of operating funds, He was told to sell the mill and eventually found some buyers from Khazakstan in May 2005.

On the 6th July 2006 Mr Daley was shot by unknown gunmen while leaving his home in the Kyrgyzstan capital, Bishkek. While in hospital he received a letter from Camco, dated the day of the attack, informing him that he had also been made redundant. A bullet was lodged in Mr Daley's liver and he was flown back to the UK for treatment. Doctors had to remove one kidney and part of his other kidney.

In 2008 Mr Daley took his claim to Oxford District Registry court where he was awarded £161, 559 in back pay, £49,470 in interest, plus "reasonable contributions" to his pension fund.

Camco appealed the decision accusing Mr Daley of fraud, but the High Court upheld the original ruling and ordered the firm to pay his heavy legal costs, £40,000 of which he should receive immediately.

22 Jun 2009 - Bananas Banned at School due to Staff Member’s Allergy

A school Plymouth has told it’s pupils not to bring in bananas because a member of staff is allergic to them.

Plymouth City Council's leader, Vivien Pengelly branded the move by Stoke Damerel Primary School as "over the top"

A spokeswoman for the council said the school community had supported the request, adding that the staff member would be leaving school in September and bananas would be "welcome back".

The council said it advised the school in 2007 to ask pupils not to bring bananas in because the allergy was potentially life threatening. "These are very unusual circumstances but the school community has been supportive and understanding over the last two years,” said the spokeswoman.

"Most people know that individuals can have allergic reactions to substances, with nut allergies being particularly well-known. Reactions can be extreme in some cases, including anaphylactic shock, which can lead to collapse and even death."

Mrs Pengelly, who only recently learned of the banana boycott, said she would be asking officers to investigate. "This is the first I have heard about this and it does sound a bit over the top to me.
"It's my experience as a head teacher that when there are allergies in a school we encourage children to manage the risk around them. I shall be asking officers to look at this particular case again to see whether anything else might be done," she said.

15 Jun 2009 - Employee's arm thrown away after Bakery Accident

A bakery is being sued after they allegedly threw the severed arm of an employee into a bin after it was amputated in an accident.

In a statement made on Wednesday the Workers Commissions said that Bolivian immigrant Franns Rilles had lost his left arm on May 28, in an accident with a kneading machine at the Rovira bakery in the eastern Valencia region.

While Rilles was being taken to a hospital the union is alleging that someone threw his arm into the rubbish. They added that the bakery had then cleaned the machinery and continued production.

The union said that the Police had recovered the arm the following day, but it was too late and doctors were unable to reattach it. They claim that Rilles had worked illegally at the factory for two years, earning €23 (around £19) a day, and had not been properly trained on the kneading machinery.