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Portrait of the week | 4 June 2011

This week's Portrait of the week

issue 04 June 2011

This week’s Portrait of the week

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The Court of Appeal ruled that Sharon Shoesmith had been sacked unfairly in 2008 as head of children’s services in Haringey after the death of baby Peter; asked if she blamed herself for the child’s death, she said: ‘I am not into the blame game. I don’t do blame.’ Southern Cross, Britain’s biggest care home company, caring for 30,000 people, agreed with its landlords to defer 30 per cent of its rent for four months. Four people were arrested after a Panorama programme about abuse of patients with learning difficulties and autism at a residential hospital in Bristol. In the first quarter of the year 300 cases of measles were recorded, four times last year’s incidence. The Health and Safety Executive served the animal health laboratory at Pirbright, Surrey, with two ‘improvement notices’ after two incidents, in one of which a flask containing foot-and-mouth virus cracked and leaked, and in the other liquid leaked from cows being incinerated.

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