School apologises after teacher blamed girl students wearing short skirts for sexual harassment

Secondary school apologises after female teacher blamed girl students wearing short skirts for encouraging sexual harassment Video showed an unnamed teacher talking at Lytchett Minster School in Dorset Girls at the school had complained boys were looking up their skirts on the stairs But the teacher was filmed saying girls were wearing skirts that were ‘too … Read more

GlaxoSmithKline sacks US vaccine tsar over sexual harassment claims

GlaxoSmithKline sacks US vaccine programme boss over sexual harassment allegations By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 24 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 24 March 2021 A GlaxoSmithKline executive who was poached to run the US vaccines programme has been fired by the British company over sexual harassment allegations. Moncef Slaoui, … Read more

Lonely Planet travel guides accused of ‘downplaying’ the harassment women travellers suffer from men

Lonely Planet travel guides often ‘downplay’ the harassment that women travellers suffer from men, a new research paper argues. The paper, by Middlesex University, states: ‘Lonely Planet often downplays harassment and the idea that it is not worth getting angry about presents itself again and again in the entries.’ Researchers studied the free online version … Read more

Lonely Planet travel guides accused of ‘downplaying’ the harassment women travellers suffer from men

Lonely Planet travel guides often ‘downplay’ the harassment that women travellers suffer from men, a new research paper argues. A paper by Middlesex University states: ‘Lonely Planet often downplays harassment and the idea that it is not worth getting angry about presents itself again and again in the entries.’ Researchers studied the free online version … Read more

Noisy neighbour guilty of harassment for ‘using three leaf blowers and whistling Rolf Harris song’

Retired panel-beater Micheal Hall, 67, ‘destroyed the peace’ of the ‘tranquil’ Cheshire street with his ‘deliberate and vindictive’ campaign of noise, magistrates were told A noisy neighbour infuriated residents on a quiet cul-de-sac by using three leaf blowers at once, playing his radio on full blast and by whistling a Rolf Harris tune through his … Read more

Nicola Sturgeon faces more sexual harassment cover-up claims as SNP chief whip resigns

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today confirmed she was aware of concerns about SNP chief whip Patrick Grady before a formal sexual harassment complaint was made about him. The Glasgow North MP stood aside as chief whip in Westminster last week following claims he groped two male researchers at an SNP Christmas party in 2016. … Read more

Nicola Sturgeon faces more sexual harassment cover-up claims as SNP chief whip resigns

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today confirmed she was aware of concerns about SNP chief whip Patrick Grady before a formal sexual harassment complaint was made about him. The Glasgow North MP stood aside as chief whip in Westminster last week following claims he groped two male researchers at an SNP Christmas party in 2016. … Read more

Culture of bullying, racism and sexual harassment exists at Sellafield nuclear plant, workers claim

‘Toxic culture’ of bullying, racism and sexual harassment exists at Britain’s largest nuclear plant Sellafield that could lead to ‘disaster’ whistleblowers claim Workers said behaviour could lead to a ‘disaster’ at the Sellafield site in Cumbria One employee claimed that managers did nothing when he was ‘racially taunted’ Another said a manager asked if she … Read more

Bachelor Nation producers address the ‘inexcusable’ harassment and online hatred of Rachel Lindsay

Just days after Rachel Lindsay deleted her Instagram after getting hateful comments regarding her interview with The Bachelor host Chris Harrison, the reality franchise’s producers are finally responding. Lindsay, 35, who became the first Black Bachelorette in 2017, interviewed Harrison on Extra in mid-February, where the host defended current The Bachelor contestant Rachel Kirkconnell for … Read more

Alex Salmond ‘will refuse to appear’ at sexual harassment inquiry

There is ‘no chance’ Alex Salmond will give evidence to a inquiry into the Scottish Government’s handling of harassment complaints amid a censorship row, sources claim. The former-First Minister says his allegations against successor Nicola Sturgeon are being censored. He will refuse to provide witness testimony to the inquiry until his explosive dossier of accusations against Ms Sturgeon are … Read more