Day: July 21, 2011

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Cardigan vet Dewi Wyn Lewis suspended over TB tests

A Ceredigion vet has been suspended for five months after regulators found he did not perform bovine TB tests properly and took short cuts. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) said Dewi Wyn Lewis, of Priory Veterinary, Cardigan, was guilty of serious professional misconduct. He appeared before its disciplinary committee to deny the charges. …

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‘Shall I hit the hound or you?’

Somerset huntsman loses unfair dismissal case A huntsman who claimed the Hunt Master’s foul-mouthed language in the hunting field and elsewhere was a breach of contract lost his claim for constructive dismissal yesterday. Mark Parsons, kennel huntsman and first whipper-in with Mendip Farmers’ Hunt told an employment tribunal of the tense relationship between himself and …

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