A senior firefighter has won more than £40,000 after he was sacked for calling
his boss a 'buffoon'.Paul Renforth had a reputation for being 'quite an angry
individual' and had 'bad blood' with managers, an employment tribunal heard.
Metropolitan Police officers 'recognise' a link between football games and a
rise in domestic abuse cases, a police chief has said. Met Commander Melanie
Dales said extra resources are deployed specifically for large sporting events
to deal with a 'spike' in cases............
One of Britain's widest cycle paths which is even larger than the lanes on the
road it runs alongside was today condemned as 'shambles' by local residents
with drivers having to pull over to avoid crashing. The cycle path, which is 11ft
2in across, was created in Wimborne, Dorset, by drastically narrowing the
width of a busy B-road alongside it - leaving buses, lorries, buses and
emergency vehicles with only 9ft 5in wide lanes.
