The Queen Continues Her Recovery

The Queen enjoyed a morning drive at her Sandringham estate as she continued her recovery after doctors urged her to cancel all official appointments for a fortnight.

The 95-year-old monarch donned a headscarf as she sat in the passenger seat of a Range Rover while she was driven around the grounds.

One of her corgis also made an excursion, but had a Land Rover to itself, peering out of the rear window during the jaunt around the grounds.

The head of state is expected to spend the weekend at Sandringham while she has some time off amid her determination to be fit for Remembrance Sunday.

Her Majesty last week pulled out of a planned visit to the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow and instead recorded a video message from Winsor last Friday, which was played to world leaders on Monday.

And her 105-mile flight to Sandringham for the weekend comes after insiders said the Queen was determined to host her family at the estate for Christmas this year after the pandemic forced them to scrap last year’s event.

The Queen and Prince Philip used to escape to Sandringham every year around the time of Halloween so that they could have some quality time together at Wood Farm on the estate.

And although her dear late husband, as she referred to him this week, died in April, the Queen has chosen to honour those treasured memories together by going back to the estate.

Wood Farm is where Philip, her husband of 73 years who passed away aged 99, mostly spent the last few years of his life following his retirement.

A countryman at heart, he loved Sandringham and enjoyed the relative simplicity of Wood Farm, where his only concession to modernisation had been to put in a new kitchen, and if it hadn’t been for the pandemic, which saw him move to Windsor to be with the Queen, it’s likely to have been where he would have spent his last days.

A royal source told a newspaper outlet that the Queen had been hoping she would be able to spend the weekend at Sandringham and was delighted her doctors had given her the all-clear to travel, and it was said that the Queen was looking forward to receiving her family at her Norfolk home for the Christmas holiday and much preparation had to be done in time to accommodate everyone that has been invited.

But a Land Rover for a Corgi, and we’re supposed to believe that they support climate change, although the Corgi has probably done more for this country than Boris Johnson has.

Perhaps it’s a good thing that the Queen couldn’t attend the COP26, and even though she’s trying to get involved with climate change, this only highlights the royals extravagant lifestyle, private jets, the use of helicopters to hop from one grand place to another, private jets and cavalcades of SUVs. They really shouldn’t get entangled in this sort of thing because it will just show their hypocrisy.

And I can’t believe that the Corgi got its own Land Rover, but then this doesn’t surprise me when it comes to the elites who preach to the minions, and what a nice way to protect the environment if you’re an elite.

Of course, dogs are beautiful creatures and the Queen can have them chauffeured around the property, but I wouldn’t be lecturing the masses not to take their plane, car or helicopter and then do the opposite, that would seriously be a bad call, and perhaps it’s time for the monarchy to go.

COVID Gets A Triple Boost Now

Faster booster jabs, a wonder pill and falling infection rates delivered a triple boost in the fight against COVID.

From Monday the double vaccinated will be able to book their third dose a month earlier than before, and in a second significant development, a new antiviral pill has been found to cut the risk of vulnerable people being hospitalised or dying from coronavirus.

And official figures revealed that the infection rate and the R rate have both fallen, and cases have dropped by a third in a fortnight, from 49,298 to 34,029.

One expert said the latest figures suggested that coronavirus infections may now have peaked across England, and ministers have met with fierce criticism over booster jabs, with the sluggish pace of the rollout blamed for high case numbers.

So far third doses could only be booked when they became due, six months after a second jab. That resulted in people waiting six weeks for a convenient appointment, at a time when their immunity was fading.

But next week the vaccine can be booked a month in advance online or by calling 119.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid told a newspaper outlet that ahead of the peak winter season three really important developments gave them hope and that the best thing that anyone could do, to keep the virus at bay, was to get jabbed if they haven’t already or their booster as soon as they’re eligible.

He added that COVID 19 vaccines were the best way to protect ahead of the challenging winter and that this shift in the booking system would make it as easy as possible for people to book their booster jabs.

He said that this would expedite the booster programme and ensure that the NHS was able to vaccinate people as quickly as possible, and more importantly help more people maintain protection against COVID 19 as they know that immunity will decline over time, and they advised people not to delay and to come and get the jab to keep the virus at bay.

Ministers had expected to offer boosters to 32 million people by Christmas but this is looking increasingly doubtful – only nine million have been given so far.

Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s health spokesperson, has written to Sajid Javid asking for more community pharmacies and walk-in clinics to give boosters and children’s jabs. He warned action was needed to tackle the pitifully low vaccination rate in youngsters – only one in four 12-15-year-olds have been jabbed, despite a target to vaccinate them all by October half term.

And the COVID industry just keeps on growing. I would love to know just how much this new industry is turning over per annum.

You can’t stop a virus, but with vaccines, it can be lower the rate that people catch it but it will never become extinct, and vaccines are used to help reduce it as much as possible, and we might end up with more than one type of vaccine to help fight the COVID virus, but it will never stop the virus completely. This means that some people will still get infected, although nowhere as many people as before.

So, how many vaccines will people need to have? Well, that’s like saying ‘How long is a piece of string?’ And it might just be that everyone will have to be jabbed several times a year or just once a year along with the flu jab.

But of course, some people won’t be able to have the jab because some people will end having severe reactions to the vaccine. So, do we refuse the vaccine, or have it done at our own risk?

Johnson Faces A Third Investigation Over ‘Wallpapergate’

Boris Johnson is facing the threat of a new inquiry into the excessive overhaul of his Downing Street flat by the Commons sleaze watchdog he’s tried to undermine.

The Prime Minister was forced to dismiss claims that his botched attempt to overhaul the standards process had been a pre-emptive strike on Kathryn Stone.

Cabinet minister Kwasi Kwarteng suggested the parliamentary standards commissioner’s position was untenable in the wake of the row over Owen Paterson.

Now it can be revealed that the Prime Minister himself stands to be investigated by Kathryn Stone.

A newspaper outlet understands that the commissioner will decide on whether to launch an inquiry into the funding of the refurbishment as soon as a separate probe being conducted by the Electoral Commission has been completed.

The Commission has handed over its initial findings to Tory party chiefs who now have an opportunity to respond.

Tory donor Lord Brownlow paid an invoice to cover some of the costs for the works, effectively giving Boris Johnson a loan, before the Prime Minister finally settled the bill himself. However, this was not declared until after a newspaper outlet published a series of exposes. Eco-friendly interior designer Lulu Lytle was hired to transform the flat with gold wallpaper costing as much as £840 a roll.

Lord Geidt, the ministerial standards adviser, earlier this year found that Boris Johnson hadn’t breached the ministerial code but acted impulsively in allowing the refurbishment to go ahead without more rigorous regard for how this would be financed.

The Electoral Commission is carrying out a separate investigation into whether donations to the party were properly declared.

An inquiry by Kathryn Stone would be the third inquiry into the matter if she goes ahead. Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner requested in June that she investigate. Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former chief aide, alleged in a tweet that the Government’s attempt to change the standards process to spare Mr Paterson from being punished was a pre-emptive strike by the Prime Minister on the EC (Electoral Commission) and Kathryn Stone.

But No 10 denied the planned overhaul had been designed to protect Boris Johnson’s interests. The Prime Minister has frequently clashed with Parliament’s sleaze watchdogs, and in July, he was criticised for failing to disclose how a £15,000 holiday to Mustique was paid for.

He was also found by Kathryn Stone to have breached the code of conduct over the 2020 New York break but escaped with a slap on the wrist as the committee on standards overruled her, and in this COVID era, it appears that the Government have given themselves unprecedented powers and it’s gone to their heads, and they genuinely believe that they can get away with anything right now, but then this is the type of Government that some people voted for, and it now appears that we have a bent Government and they must be driven out.

Boris Johnson was a Bullingdon Boy. He’s full of self-entitlement and indignation. He’s most elite, detached from reality and a chancer in his profession and his personal life.

Educated to the highest standard but sadly for the country that high standard was way above his capacity to learn, and he has to go – the whole Tory Government has to go because we desperately need new leadership and honesty and that can’t be found in the Tory Party, but can it be found in any party that people vote for and what a sorry state of affairs it is when all parties are much of a muchness?

VERY GOOD NEWS

A metal detectorist has discovered a tiny gold Bible which is believed to have belonged to medieval royalty and is worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Buffy Bailey, an NHS nurse from Lancaster, was exploring farmland near Sheriff Hutton Castle in North Yorkshire with husband Ian when her detector picked up a strong signal close to a footpath.

The 48-year-old dug five inches down expecting to discover little more than a sheep’s ear tag or an old can pull ring, but instead, she found a solid gold Bible which has left scholars stunned.

The small object, that’s only 1.5cm long, weighs around 5g and is either 22-carat or 24-carat gold, dates back to the 15th century and is believed to have belonged to a relative of King Richard III.

Experts have equated and connected it to the Middleham Jewel, a gold pendant that was discovered by a metal detectorist 40 miles away near Middleham Castle, the childhood home of Richard III. It was sold in 1992 for £2.5 million.

Experts believe that both items may have been engraved by the same blacksmith and gifted to the same owner, a female relative of the King who was about to give birth.

Much like the Middleham Jewel, it has engravings of medieval patron saints of childbirth, including St Margaret of Antioch.

The gold book is understood to have been discovered near Sheriff Hutton Castle, another property that belonged to Richard III who frequently stayed there.

Buffy Bailey said that she and her husband go all around the country metal detecting, and they decided to visit York because they knew it had a lot of history.

She said that when they arrived at the farm, the landowner asked if they wanted to go out straight away and they said that they did, and she said that metal detecting isn’t a particularly sociable hobby and people frequently try to begin a conversation by inquiring if they’ve found anything good.

She said that she just wanted to concentrate on detecting, so she turned her back to the footpath so walkers wouldn’t talk to her and just as she did she got a signal in that exact spot, and that she dug down five inches and it was just there, and that she didn’t believe it was anything special, and that she just thought it would be an old sheep’s ear tag or a pull ring.

The gold Bible is beautiful, and it was a pretty lucky discovery, and let’s hope that it’s kept locally or in the United Kingdom, although it was a bit of a stretch to call it a golden Bible. It’s a Christian amulet with the images of saints and it made the percentage of deaths in childbirth in the 15 century startlingly real, and it should make us appreciate the modern health service we have now.

It wasn’t much fun being a woman in those days, or a man for that matter, whether you were a serf or an aristocrat, all they had were a few herbs and magic, and we should be grateful because life itself is so extremely vulnerable and fragile.

The discovery is a fabulous piece of artwork, so small, yet the engravings are considerably detailed, and it was a wonderful find, but I’m shocked that after all this time it was only found 5 inches down from the surface.

We have so much history in this country and it’s a shame that our young don’t want to discover it and that the woke are so ashamed of it, and it wouldn’t surprise me if most Britons today didn’t even know what a Bible was.

Al Pacino Was Arrested For Attempted Robbery, While Frank Sinatra Was Accused Of Seduction And Adultery

A remarkable set of iconic police mugshots comprising some of the world’s greatest stars and famous personalities have been released in a never before seen colourised form.

The collection, including David Bowie’s 1976 jail photo for marijuana possession and Jane Fonda’s act of rebellion against trumped-up drug charges, have been brought to life in meticulous detail.

The pictures captured some of the world’s most well-known people during their worst moments ever, including actress Patty Hearst when she was captured after a year on the run with a group of leftist kidnappers, and legendary talk show host Larry King being charged for grand larceny.

Originally all taken in black and white, the photos from various police departments have been digitally enhanced by adding colour to each pixel of the picture and using intensive research to match their skin tones, hair and clothes.

Photographer Jason Baker, 40, from Boston, Massachusetts, used original photographs of high profile names such as music legend David Bowie, gangster Al Capone and actress Jane Fonda, with each taking up to 10 hours to perfect.

Jason Baker said that he was a huge fan of celebrities, and was intrigued by the photographs of stars in their worst moments ever and that he aimed to make everything as clear as possible and bring a whole new dimension to the photographs.

He said that he thought by adding colour the pictures told the stories a bit better and that hopefully, people would see new things in them.

Jason’s work has been widely acclaimed on social media, with users saying that the work gave a whole new dimension and historical significance to the previously seen photographs.

For the renowned drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, and crime boss responsible for hundreds of murders, being behind bars wouldn’t have been a pleasant ordeal, but this iconic mugshot from 1977, Pablo Escobar is seen smiling for his arresting officers at a regional Columbian National Police station in Medellín.

The circumstances of the picture, thought to be Pablo Escobar’s only ever mugshot, were unclear but it’s assumed his image of happiness came from knowing he wouldn’t be in jail for long.

It’s been reported that Pablo Escobar and several of his men were arrested after police supposedly found 40lbs of cocaine hidden in a spare tyre, but when it came to handling the case, it was pushed between various judges but none of them would touch it for fear of reprisals. Finally, it was dropped and Pablo Escobar walked free.

Iron Man Robert Downey Jnr battled drug addiction and spent time in jail in the late 1990s, and Mark Wahlberg served three months in jail when he was just 16 years old and was given a three-month sentence in jail for attacking two Vietnamese men while trying to rob a convenience store.

Al Pacino’s energy is fabulous and he’s delighted cinephiles in an astounding display of roles, to say nothing of the countless awards it’s netted him, but the star has also managed to escape the tabloids by keeping himself out of trouble and keeping his private life private, and handling things like the professional that he is.

Frank Sinatra had these scintillating blue eyes, as did Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, but unfortunately, some colourisation fail them, and all these stars had appeal in their own way, even Mick Jagger.

But why did the girls think that Mick Jagger and David Bowie were sexy in the 1970s?

I guess sexy is a matter of opinion and different people have different views and different perspectives of people they find attractive, but then I suppose people were drawn to them because they were attracted to their wild artistic rebellion that Robert Redford could never dream of having.

Twitter Suspends Newsmax White House Correspondent

A Newsmax White House Correspondent has been barred from Twitter after declaring COVID 19 vaccines contained Luciferase that enables people to be tracked and then guided her followers to the New Testament to see how it ends.

Emerald Robinson maintained on Tuesday in a recently taken down tweet that the vaccines contained a bioluminescent marker called Luciferase so that you can be tracked.

She retweeted a post by user Limitless Boundaries that claimed the Moderna vaccine contained the marker.

According to Forbes, despite its misleading moniker, Luciferase has nothing to do with the biblical devil. It’s a bioluminescence marker that’s in a class of enzymes that can produce light in a chemical reaction.

According to the CDC, the marker isn’t an ingredient listed in the Moderna vaccine and has never been.

According to Reuters, the marker was used in COVID 19 research back in the summer of 2020 but has never been an ingredient in any of the available vaccines.

Emerald Robinson also called on her fellow Christians’ to read the last book of the New Testament to how it concludes.

The Book of Revelations showed the prophet John visions of the apocalypse and how it destroyed the world.

She didn’t refer to which of the 21 chapters she was relating to.

Following the questionable tweet, Newsmax announced a statement distancing the organisation away from Emerald Robinson’s misleading assertions.

Executive vice president and chief content officer at Newsmax Elliot Jacobson said in a statement that the company was a strong proponent that COVID 19 vaccines were overarchingly safe and effective.

He maintained that they’ve seen no proof to suggest Luciferase or Luciferin was present in any vaccines or they’re used as any sort of bioluminescent marker.

In a separate statement to Hill, Elliot Jacobson reemphasised that the company didn’t believe the vaccines contained any toxic substances or tracking markers.

Emerald Robinson has posted several questionable tweets in the past regarding vaccines and that it doesn’t work as advertised.

Last week, the Newsmax correspondent tweeted that there was ample clinical proof that the new vaccines didn’t work as advertised, and that it was the biggest story around the world and it was being suppressed.

Twitter marked the tweet as misleading and linked to a string of CDC and WHO posts on the website to learn more about how the COVID 19 vaccines work. The social media giant also disabled all interactions with the post, excluding retweets.

Quite honestly, this tracking ploy is what they want people like Emerald Robinson, and people like her to talk about to make them sound a little cuckoo and not really with it, but she might actually be onto something because perhaps these people have motives, not just to track us, but to limit reproduction, even if it does take a few generations before people start seeing the full impact.

Everyone with a brain cell can figure out that the universe is running out of resources and the future means that there will be mass hunger and the end of both the human race and the environment, and they have Bill Gates talking about population control, depopulation, vaccines and tracking, yet we accuse people of being conspiracy theorists with tin foil hats.

People should be free to voice their views no matter how wacko they are, but social media only allows those that fall in line with them, and all those self-righteous commenters that act like someone’s deranged if they say anything, they criticise but don’t want to research what’s going on, and this might be our downfall if humanity goes on trusting people like Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, and big pharma is out there to make lots and lots of money.

Wrap Up Warm For Bonfire Night!

Parts of the United Kingdom could see snowfall as the country faces its first frost of the season with temperatures as low as 26F.

The last of the weekend’s heavy rain, followed by gusty winds of up to 25 mph, cleared through Monday after more than half a month’s rainfall fell in some parts over the weekend giving way to plunging temperatures by the end of the week.

Brits woke up to a chilly Wednesday morning after clear skies last night meant temperatures plunged as low as 28F (2C) in Oxfordshire.

Daytime temperatures in parts of the Pennines could sink as low as 41F (5C) later in the week, colder than the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, where daytime highs of about 45F (7C) are expected.

Meanwhile, the Met Office is predicting snow will fall in parts of Scotland with more anticipated later this month.

Meteorologist Helen Roberts of the Met Office asked if there would be snow from midnight tonight – the answer was there would be, with some warnings, but that it wouldn’t be continuous.

She said there’ll be showers on and off, over the very highest parts of the Cairngorms and probably also parts of central and south Highlands, but that they would be focused for the time being on just the highest peaks.

Helen Roberts said it’s likely there would be more snow later this month.

As the week progresses, Brits will have to wrap up on Bonfire night as forecasters have predicted temperatures will fall below freezing, with temperatures possibly going as low as 26F (-3C) in southern parts of England.

Aidan McGiven, from the Met Office, said that there would be plenty of bright weather around throughout Wednesday although not entirely sunny in many places.

He said there will be further showers as well and it would feel cold especially around the coast and under any cloud cover, and that there will be wind coming from the north with temperatures below average across the board and it’s been a frosty start in areas already and it will continue to feel cold.

He said the winds have shifted course slightly so they’re seeing several more showers coming into the North Sea coast and a cluster of clouds arriving from the North Sea, so it’s going to remain mostly cloudy across parts of central and southern England.

This is pretty typical weather for this time of the year, and our changing seasons are beautiful, and we have some of the most wonderful images of our English countryside here, and do we have to be told to wrap up when it gets cold?

Our chilly Guy Fawkes night is nothing like I remember back in the ’70s and ’80s, and I can remember when the snow came I would have to go to school in Wellington boots because the snow was up to my knees, but not anymore, and since when has frost been anything out of the ordinary?

Bonfire night is always usually cold, and I can remember watching fireworks in a friend’s garden as a child, wrapped up in a coat, mittens, hat and scarf, with a numb, frozen face, it’s hardly something new that we have frost in November.

In other words, it’s winter folks and we all expect it to be cold, but I thought the world was warming up according to climate activists. It must be a shock to them that November gets cold and it’s been like that for a pretty long time.

Greta Thunberg Pledges To Use No Swear Words

Greta Thunberg, who’s turned the air blue while campaigning in Glasgow, has vowed to go net-zero on swearing.

The teenage activist spoke about people being pissed off by protests and was also filmed crooning ‘You can shove your climate crisis up your arse’ while outside COP26.

But the 18-year-old Swede, who’s accompanied by PR advisers and supporters wherever she travels, made a tongue in cheek promise to compensate for her use of bad language, and she pledged to go net-zero, a phrase normally used by those trying to balance out the harm they cause on the environment, by saying something nice every time they swear.

Announcing her promise to her five million followers on Twitter, the 18-year-old said that she was pleased to announce that she’s chosen to go net-zero on swear words and bad language, and she said that if she should say something improper, she would say something nice.

It came after the teen campaigner was filmed leading protestors in a mantra of ‘you can shove your climate crisis up your arse’ at COP26 in a newly emerged video from her demonstration.

Outside in Festival Park, Greta Thunberg gave an intense and foul-mouthed speech, telling demonstrators that inside the COP26, there were politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously. No more blah blah blah, no more whatever the fuck they’re doing inside there, and as heads of Government from around the globe discussed what could be done to save the planet from ruin, the Swedish eco-activist seemed to place the blame for looming natural disasters squarely on them as she angered her fellow activists with a singsong of ‘You can show your climate crisis up your arse’.

A Scottish attendee appeared to suggest chanting ‘You can shove your rules up your arse’ before Greta Thunberg put her own spin on the popular tune of ‘She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain When She Comes’.

It was the second time in a week that Greta Thunberg had turned the air blue, after letting out a swear word on the BBC.

The activist was being interviewed by Andrew Marr when she was quizzed about the recent demonstrations by eco-zealots Insulate Britain, and she said to make it clear that as long as no one got hurt, sometimes you need to anger some people.

Greta Thunberg is an entirely classless young woman who offers nothing definitive to the discussion, and if she were a boy, she would be referred to as nothing but a low life, and I find it quite fascinating how people cling onto every word and action this young woman spews.

She’s addicted to the attention, so I wouldn’t keep turning up to where she has no consequence, but the media keep giving her the attention that she wants. She has no solutions and if the media stopped reporting about her activities, then she would eventually go away, but it seems that even foul-mouthed Swedes get attention.

At the moment she’s like a mini Katie Hopkins, although she tries to act like Mother Teresa. Imagine what she’ll be like when she grows up!

How pathetic her supporters must be if they expect a young girl, barely an adult to solve the worlds climate crisis single-handedly.

Unfortunately, most people are hypocrites to some degree or another, but what’s sad about Greta Thunberg is that she’s attention driven, and she has very little knowledge about climate. However, she’s pretty good at reading and remembering a prepared speech, and as a child, her big mouth was considered charming and entertaining, but now she’s an adult and a lot more will be expected of her.

Downsizing Will Be Encouraged For Pensioners

The housing minister said that old people knocking around in homes that are too big for them will be encouraged to downsize.

Chris Pincher told the House of Lords that almost four in ten homes are under-occupied and could be better used by younger families with children, and he said that the Government was keen to encourage housebuilders to create more developments suitable for pensioners, freeing up space in semis and freeing up more places for first-time buyers.

His comments to the Lord’s built environment committee came amid growing concerns that young people were unable to get on the housing ladder due to soaring prices and a huge deficit of suitable homes.

The Government has promised to build 300,000 homes a year but radical plans to accomplish this by shaking up the planning system are set to be watered down after a revolt by Tory politicians and voters in affluent areas.

Mr Pincher was asked by Baroness Bakewell, former ‘tsar for the elderly, what thought was being given to the increasing numbers of older people who may want to downsize.

He replied the challenge was that in the early 1990s, something like 31 per cent of properties was under-occupied and they were too big for the number of people rattling around inside them.

He said that now there’s 38 per cent, so it was a pretty significant number of homes where they see under occupation.

He continued that he believed there was an opportunity to encourage downsizing, promote the growth of the later living sector to free up homes in the middle of the market, those two and three-bedroom semis so that those properties can be moved into.

And he said that if you open up a three-bedroom semi for occupation, two or three steps back in the chain, it’s likely to open up a first-time buyer property.

Mr Pincher said steps to tackle the problem include a stipulation that one in ten homes built under the Government’s £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme must be specialist or adaptable, which includes later life.

But he was warned by peers that the punitive levels of stamp duty that must be paid by buyers are stopping older people from selling their large homes, and that downsizing has come to an end in some regions of London.

The minister replied that he was keen to make sure that they look at all the barriers that exist.

So, here comes the minister of unnecessarily large houses, so that they can boot you out of the home that you’ve worked for and spent much of your life in because they need those big houses for all the new immigrants with over eight children.

And I suspect that those who are advocating this, live in big under-occupied homes themselves, and how many of the great and good, including politicians would give up their homes in this way so that we can house bigger families, or is this yet another example of them telling us to do one thing while they do another?

Our country has become a dinghy people paradise, and our Government have given nothing to this country, and if we say anything we’re accused of being racist, and that’s what’s happening in this country, and taking pensioners homes to house large immigrant families just demonstrates the vulnerability of a government that can’t control its borders.

And now the government want to motivate people into giving up their homes. In the end, they will either tax you out or increase energy costs so high they’ll freeze you out – either way, the motivation will be a punishment, not a golden goodbye.

A Teenager Was Fired For Being Too Young

A British teenager has become the youngest person ever to win an age discrimination case after being fired from her Saturday job for being too young.

Hazel Cassidy worked two shifts in a cafe in Ayreshire when she had just turned 14.

While the majority of age discrimination claims involve employees being too old, the teenager said she was told she was being dismissed on health and safety grounds.

She told an employment tribunal in Glasgow she felt offended, upset and distressed over the sacking.

The panel ruled she was the victim of direct discrimination and ordered the firm involved to pay her £2,800 in damages.

In December 2019, Hazel Cassidy had completed a trial shift at an equestrian centre owned by the Daimler Foundation near Kilmarnock, which has a cafe and restaurant.

The panel heard that she’d given her age when she applied for the position and filled in forms that included her date of birth.

At the end of her shift, where she waited on tables and worked at the till the front of house manager Malcolm Easy told the teenager he was satisfied with her.

The following Saturday, under the impression she’d passed her trial shift, Hazel Cassidy worked for four hours.

But as she was taking an order at the till another boss told her she shouldn’t be doing that and she was given two plates to deliver to a table instead, and the panel heard that she was sent home early because the cafe was quiet.

Mr Easy later called her to say he enjoyed working with her but she was being dismissed as the accountant had said she was too young for health and safety reasons.

The company claimed she was dismissed because the role was too demanding.

However, the panel ruled that there was no indication of high demand, as the teenager had been sent home when the cafe was quiet.

The board, headed by Employment Judge Sandy Kemp, concluded that Mr Easy said that he’d told her that the role was too severe and too stressful and that she wasn’t able to cope with the severity of the job.

Initially, he said that he’d sat her down, but later he said that it had been by phone.

The tribunal decided that it was far more plausible that Mr Easy had said something to the effect that Hazel Cassidy was too young for the role, and that the accountant had said that it was for health and safety reasons.

I can kind of see an argument from both sides, but if she was staying away from cooking appliances and only serving or working the till et cetera then that should have been fine, and all young people should be allowed to have a part-time job before they leave school because otherwise, we’d just be wrapping teenagers up in cotton wool, and it’s better than entering the workforce for the first time after they leave school and not being able to cope.

The problem is there isn’t a lot of jobs for teenagers these days. Years ago people used to have newspapers delivered, but barely anyone has a newspaper delivered these days, and employers have to leap through hoops, including having DBS checks, suitable breaks, shorter working hours et cetera, and for an employer, it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

The essence that revolves around this is that the company actively hired her knowing her age and then backtracked and you can’t just dismiss someone because you made a decision and then you change your mind.

Teenagers should be allowed to spread their wings because it gives them character building and hard work, which means that they have to be focused and confident, and many children were working down the coal mines at that age, there was no health and safety back then!

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