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Teacher claims £1mn over farting chair

The media has been full of reports that a deputy headteacher is suing a city council for £1mn because it refused to replace a chair which apparently made a “farting” noise every time she sat down. She claimed that this made her the butt of regular jokes. She asked for a new chair which she did not get, while the two other deputy heads, who are both male, got new executive chairs.

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