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It was revealed at the tribunal that the events came to light after Mrs A was denied a pay rise in March last year. She complained to the managing director that she felt the refusal was because she had rejected her manager’s advances.The panel rejected Mrs A’s claims of discrimination over pay and that grievance procedures for women were insufficient, but awarded Mrs A pounds 500 damages against Mr X for sexual harassment.. Until The Last Seduction was released, film noir hadn’t had it so good since the 1940s The time was ripe for a revival. But why now? Was it latter-day sexual politics and shifts in gender roles which made the figure of the femme fatale so alluring? Had our morals taken such a battering that in turn we were only able to identify with amoral characters up to their thighs in greed and debauchery? Or was it just that it was a long time since a thriller had been quite this nasty, abrasive, intelligent, and – most of all – sexy?

You’re inclined to plump for the last reason. The tribunal in Reading, Berkshire, was told that the manager of an international freight company based near Heathrow, west London, begged the married female assistant to go out with him and then asked if he could touch her hair.
The panel was told that the incidents between the two individuals, known as Mrs A and Mr X, occurred over a period from December 1993 to early 1994.

He would have captained journeys to such destinations as the United States, the Caribbean and Sri Lanka.”. A manager who touched a woman’s hair was fined pounds 500 for sexual harassment at an industrial tribunal yesterday. A friend of Mr Harriss’s said that the pilot was “very upset” about the failure of his second marriage.Inspector Colin Wilbond, of Hampshire Police, said yesterday: “There have been no sightings of either the sailor or his dinghy.”We are investigating two theories – one is that he has gone somewhere in his dinghy, the other is that he fell overboard into the sea for some reason.”A spokesman for Solent Coastguards said: “The search is being run down, almost terminated. It is now being treated as a missing-person inquiry.”A British Airways spokesman said tonight that Mr Harriss was a highly experienced senior captain who had joined the company in 1971.

He said: “He has experience with various long-haul aircraft and flew DC10s. But the hunt was scaled down after search teams failed to spot anything in the water or on the shore.Last night it was learnt that Mr Harriss and his second wife had separated three weeks ago. A major air and sea search was called off after no trace could be found of Norman Harriss, 46, an airline pilot, whose 35ft yacht Jetstream Flyer was discovered on mudflats with her engine still running. The boat’s tender dinghy was missing from her stern and coastguards believe that Mr Harriss, a father-of-two, could have rowed to safety.
The alarm was raised after the yacht was spotted on Thursday on the shore of Southampton Water, Hampshire, near the entrance of Ashlet Creek.British Airways pilot Mr Harriss, of Tadworth, Surrey, had set off from Port Solent, near Portsmouth, earlier in the day, heading for a marina on the Hamble River, near Southampton.Coastguard teams carried out a search on foot of the banks of the Solent near the Esso oil refinery jetty at Fawley, where Mr Harriss’s yacht was discovered. Told she would receive a loan rather than a grant for the bomb damage, she decided she could not afford further repayments. She lives in a bare flat without carpet, curtains or adequate furniture..

Police were yesterday investigating the disappearance of a man after his deserted yacht was discovered beached on the south coast. Her children have had to change schools because of the distance from their old school.”They wake up in the night and burst out crying,” she said. She receives pounds 104 social security benefit and is paying pounds 13 per week for a Social Fund loan she took out when she moved to Lantern House. My daughter had to stay off school today because she was very upset by a nightmare and we didn’t know what to do with her.”A single mother with six children lost carpets, washing machine, Christmas presents, curtains, bookshelves and lampshades. He and his wife, Khatun, have four children still living at home. Mr Rahman, who is retired, had lived at Lantern House for several years and had decorated every room in the flat.He applied to the Social Fund for a grant of nearly pounds 5,000, which he estimated he had spent in refurbishment.

His application was turned down but he was given a loan for pounds 959 for “high priority needs”, which he is to pay off at pounds 28.50 per week out of his pounds 154.25 income support.”I am worrying about how I can survive,” he said “The children are still very upset. There were over 550 families affected by the blast …”I know of many families who haven’t applied to the Social Fund because they are already repaying loans or they know they can’t afford the repayments.”`I am worrying about how I can survive’CASE STUDIESShafiqui Rahman, 61, was among those evacuated after the blast and rehoused in east London. In one case, instalments required were pounds 30 per week out of social security benefits of pounds 150 per week, where a couple had three children to support.Stephen Molyneaux, a Tower Hamlets councillor, said: “The families from Lantern House are really just the tip of an iceberg. All were turned down and instead offered a loan to be repaid out of social security benefits. However, the force of the blast also damaged personal property, with families reporting that curtains, bedspreads, furniture and floorings were damaged by flying glass.Of the 17 rehoused, eight applied to the Social Fund, the government’s fund for “easing exceptional pressures on a person and his family”, for a grant to furbish their new houses.