A breast cancer patient has won a harassment case after her female boss joked she was ‘lucky to have a free boob job off the NHS’. Recruitment worker Aggie Kownacka, 39, felt ‘violated’ after managing director Sharon Paul, 59, asked her if
An aristocrat has won the first round of her High Court battle with a solicitor who she claims ‘tricked’ her out of her £2m life savings – after telling the judge she has to ‘beg, steal and borrow in order to be
Dog makes late entry into Utah high school relay race and WINS Competitors took part in the Grizzly Invitational in Logan, Utah, on April 17 The girls’ 4 x 200m relay event turned into the most dramatic race of the day Holly the
A judge awarded Natalia Dudenko (pictured) £14,000 after determining she was unfairly dismissed from Costa Coffee in Edinburgh A Costa coffee shop manager has won a £14,000 payout after she was fired for taking her jacket with her when a fire alarm
NHS executive who was fired after complaining her colleagues ‘kept breathing on her’ and ‘making distracting noises’ wins £19,000 payout for unfair dismissal Gifty Poku has won £19,551 in compensation after she was unfairly dismissed She complained her colleagues kept making ‘distracting noises’
A Tesco delivery driver who was sacked for taking a toilet break at home during one of his shifts has won a £17,000 payout for being unfairly dismissed. Billy Fitzsimmons, from Kilmarnock, Scotland, suffered from a number of medical problems that meant he
A woman who was shackled to a hospital bed by her wrists and ankles while giving birth has won a $750,000 settlement against the City of New York and its police department. The unnamed mother-of-two was arrested two days after her due
Bear Grylls has been granted permission to install two ‘Private Property’ signs warning tourists to stay off the Welsh island where he and his family live part-time. The television personality, 46, purchased the island of Saint Tudwal’s West on the Llŷn Peninsula,
A senior sales executive has won a sex discrimination claim after her boss suggested she should retire because her husband ‘earns well’. Sarah Stannard – who was just 45 at the time – was asked her plans by company director Timothy Jones
A Sky employee who told a colleague that two young girls wearing short skirts would be raped ‘if this was Pakistan’ has won an unfair dismissal case. Retail advisor Raja Minhas, 44, made the comments about the teenagers as they walked past