Nina Farooqi, 37, from Bradford, missed work after her friend offered her a last-minute ticket to the game on Wednesday.... Unfortunately on this occasion our employee lied, taking one day off sick to attend the football match on Wednesday 7 July." This was in breach of her employment contract and so we had no choice but to take the appropriate action.... As a business we value honesty and integrity, and we don't tolerate any employee taking advantage of our policies." Like many businesses wil

The sheer number of days people take off work for sickness is, well, just sick.... The number of these days grew by close to 7% during the two years of the pandemic and has pretty much stayed there.No wonder public-sector productivity is going backwards, with all this absenteeism.... Yes, part of it is people with stressful or boring jobs being badly managed and working in poor conditions....

Martyn Smith was sentenced today after pleading guilty to two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm to the two emergency service workers after they were called out to his home in Wolverhampton last summer.... I just said to her ‘please don’t let me die’ and she replied ‘I’m not going to let you die’.... And as my back was facing him he then stabbed me in the back." If the police hadn't been with us I don't think we would have been her today to be honest.".....

The incendiary comment was made on Twitter by James Dornan, who represents Glasgow Cathcart at Holyrood.Mr Rees-Mogg tweeted a video of himself visiting the UK Border Force National Command Centre, ahead of a new borders bill.He added the caption: “ The bands of blighters bringing illegal entrants to Blighty will be broken up by this brilliant border bill.” The remark enraged Mr Dornan, first elected to Holyrood in 2011, who lashed out at the practising Catholic.He replied: “ Hope you remember t

BRITAIN will be hotter than Athens this week as temperatures reach a sizzling 30C.... 14 Sunbathers enjoy the scorching sunshine at the seaside resort of Lyme Regis in Dorset Credit:？... It's moving up from the south which brings up the heat and humidity from the near continent and the temperatures are set to climb day on day....

BRITAIN has baked on the hottest day of the year as temperatures soared to 32C-before huge hailstones battered the country. The Met Office issued four weather warnings for thunderstorms as well as extreme heat alerts today while temperatures rocketed to 32.2C at Heathrow Airport.... London Northwestern cut speeds on its main line from London Euston, with Chiltern Railways also affected on the London Marylebone to Oxford line, and Northern Rail hit between Hull and Bridlington, East Yorks. Netwo

BRITAIN is hotter than Barbados today as temperatures could hit a blistering 33C. But thunderstorms are set to batter large parts of the country-sparking a 11-hour flash flood and lightning warning.... London Northwestern cut speeds on its main line from London Euston, with Chiltern Railways also affected on the London Marylebone to Oxford line, and Northern Rail hit between Hull and Bridlington, East Yorks. Network Rail said: “ Rails expand as they get hotter.... Graham Hunt 16 Jana Drbohlavo