Compo adds up in school; DAMAGES.MORE than pounds 2.1million in compensation has been paid to school staff and pupils in five years by Scots councils, it emerged yesterday. The huge bill was mainly for injuries or damage to clothes or mobile phones. One teacher whose trousers were burned on a radiator got pounds 50 in Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway (Dùn Phris agus an Gall-Ghaidhealaibh in Gaelic) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. To the north, it borders onto South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England. . And an East Ayrshire East Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir an Ear in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. It borders onto North Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway. pupil got pounds 25 for losing a training shoe on a cross-country run. Labour's shadow education minister Rhona Brankin said: "This is a waste of taxpayers' money and needs to be stamped out." |
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