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The Irish Sun
4 days ago
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Parents are racing to a major store to snap up back to school essentials – & they bag a mega haul for under £10
Including the exact location where you can find the cut-price goodies at the store CLASS ACT Parents are racing to a major store to snap up back to school essentials – & they bag a mega haul for under £10 WHETHER your kid is heading to primary or secondary school in the next few weeks, sending the children back to the classroom isn't cheap. According to a report by financial provider Shepherds Friendly, the total cost for school uniform across your child's education can hit nearly £5,000 - while after school clubs, holiday childcare and school meals bump the cost up further. 2 Parents are racing to get their hands on cut-price pens, pencils - and more Credit: Getty Images - Getty 2 A major store has slashed the price of all the necessary back to school essentials Credit: Facebook This means millions of cash-strapped Brit parents are on the lookout for affordable ways to slash the expenses wherever possible - and now, one savvy shopper has come to the rescue with a purse-friendly buy. According to Samantha Scott, a major UK superstore has slashed the price of all the necessary back to school essentials - and you can bag a mega haul of stationery for under a tenner. So, if your little one keeps losing their pens, pencils and other school must-haves, you may wish to plan a trip to the nearest Tesco pronto. During her visit at the popular retailer, the lucky shopper got her hands on a huge variety of stationery, including pencils with eraser tips, pastel ballpoint pens, sharpies and more. read more on parenting NAME GAME Top 100 baby names revealed and Muhammad tops the list… is your tot's on there? Showing off the incredible haul on Facebook, Samantha said: ''Stationery all reduced in Tesco. ''Less than £10 for all this.'' In the post, Samantha - one of the 2.6million members of the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK group - revealed she had also purchased cut-price finger paint set, Tipp-Ex, several sticky tapes and neon sticky notes. Other wallet-friendly bargains in the epic sale also included glue sticks and colourful highlighters. In total, the Tesco customer had bagged more than 30 different items for the bargain deal of less than £10. According to Samantha, fellow shoppers can find the jaw-dropping price reductions in the general aisle - and not near the back to school shelves. Amazing Back-to-School Deals You Can't Miss! She went on in the comments: ''Some items were on the original shelfs with yellow stickers the rest were just marked down on the shelf.'' Uploaded less than 24 hours ago, the post has already taken the internet by storm, winning Samantha a whopping 1.3k likes. Keen to snap up the goodies, more than 300 members of the page flooded to comments, where many tagged their friends and family. I've only ever bought one jumper and a shirt Janine McDonald uses swaps and local community resources to find school uniform for her two daughters – now 13 and 15. They're both in different schools, with different uniform, but Janine, who is a single mum, has limited the expense by swapping and finding donated items to fit both girls. She says: 'At both schools, they have a pre-loved uniform section, so you can go in and either swap something or buy it for just literally a couple of pounds.' In Manchester where Janine lives there are Gateway centres which are a 'one-stop-shop' for a wide range of council and community services. She added: 'The local gateway hubs hold a uniform Donation Point so you can just drop off any uniform there, and then anybody is free just to come and have a look and take anything that they need. 'I find they last absolutely fine, so I don't need to buy new. "I reckon that has saved me a couple of hundred pounds for each child.' Janine, who has taken her recycling expertise and turned it into a decluttering business Clear the Clutter Now, says that setting up or joining a community WhatsApp group is another way to get cheap uniform. The mum explains: 'In the streets around where I live at the end of the school year, we'll put on there, whatever age trousers we've got from whichever school, and then people just give them to each other.' She recommends that parents, as well as looking for free uniform, take school uniform lists with a pinch of salt. 'You get the uniform list, and sometimes it recommends, five pairs of trousers, or X number of this, X number of that,' she says. 'Realistically, you don't need that many. "You can always buy one to start with and top up if needed.' One cried after realising they had paid the full price: ''We shopped to soon.'' ''Love a bargain,'' someone else chimed in. A third exclaimed: ''OH MY GOOD LORD, I AM GOING TO END UP LIKE A KID IN A CANDY SHOP! THANKS FOR THE POST!'' A fourth warned: ''Not reduced in Coventry today but fab bargain if they are in your area.'' ''Cost me 35 pound for my kids,'' a mum had seen the post too late.
Scottish Sun
4 days ago
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Parents are racing to a major store to snap up back to school essentials – & they bag a mega haul for under £10
Including the exact location where you can find the cut-price goodies at the store CLASS ACT Parents are racing to a major store to snap up back to school essentials – & they bag a mega haul for under £10 Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) WHETHER your kid is heading to primary or secondary school in the next few weeks, sending the children back to the classroom isn't cheap. According to a report by financial provider Shepherds Friendly, the total cost for school uniform across your child's education can hit nearly £5,000 - while after school clubs, holiday childcare and school meals bump the cost up further. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Parents are racing to get their hands on cut-price pens, pencils - and more Credit: Getty Images - Getty 2 A major store has slashed the price of all the necessary back to school essentials Credit: Facebook This means millions of cash-strapped Brit parents are on the lookout for affordable ways to slash the expenses wherever possible - and now, one savvy shopper has come to the rescue with a purse-friendly buy. According to Samantha Scott, a major UK superstore has slashed the price of all the necessary back to school essentials - and you can bag a mega haul of stationery for under a tenner. So, if your little one keeps losing their pens, pencils and other school must-haves, you may wish to plan a trip to the nearest Tesco pronto. During her visit at the popular retailer, the lucky shopper got her hands on a huge variety of stationery, including pencils with eraser tips, pastel ballpoint pens, sharpies and more. Showing off the incredible haul on Facebook, Samantha said: ''Stationery all reduced in Tesco. ''Less than £10 for all this.'' In the post, Samantha - one of the 2.6million members of the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK group - revealed she had also purchased cut-price finger paint set, Tipp-Ex, several sticky tapes and neon sticky notes. Other wallet-friendly bargains in the epic sale also included glue sticks and colourful highlighters. In total, the Tesco customer had bagged more than 30 different items for the bargain deal of less than £10. According to Samantha, fellow shoppers can find the jaw-dropping price reductions in the general aisle - and not near the back to school shelves. Amazing Back-to-School Deals You Can't Miss! She went on in the comments: ''Some items were on the original shelfs with yellow stickers the rest were just marked down on the shelf.'' Uploaded less than 24 hours ago, the post has already taken the internet by storm, winning Samantha a whopping 1.3k likes. Keen to snap up the goodies, more than 300 members of the page flooded to comments, where many tagged their friends and family. I've only ever bought one jumper and a shirt Janine McDonald uses swaps and local community resources to find school uniform for her two daughters – now 13 and 15. They're both in different schools, with different uniform, but Janine, who is a single mum, has limited the expense by swapping and finding donated items to fit both girls. She says: 'At both schools, they have a pre-loved uniform section, so you can go in and either swap something or buy it for just literally a couple of pounds.' In Manchester where Janine lives there are Gateway centres which are a 'one-stop-shop' for a wide range of council and community services. She added: 'The local gateway hubs hold a uniform Donation Point so you can just drop off any uniform there, and then anybody is free just to come and have a look and take anything that they need. 'I find they last absolutely fine, so I don't need to buy new. "I reckon that has saved me a couple of hundred pounds for each child.' Janine, who has taken her recycling expertise and turned it into a decluttering business Clear the Clutter Now, says that setting up or joining a community WhatsApp group is another way to get cheap uniform. The mum explains: 'In the streets around where I live at the end of the school year, we'll put on there, whatever age trousers we've got from whichever school, and then people just give them to each other.' She recommends that parents, as well as looking for free uniform, take school uniform lists with a pinch of salt. 'You get the uniform list, and sometimes it recommends, five pairs of trousers, or X number of this, X number of that,' she says. 'Realistically, you don't need that many. "You can always buy one to start with and top up if needed.' One cried after realising they had paid the full price: ''We shopped to soon.'' ''Love a bargain,'' someone else chimed in. A third exclaimed: ''OH MY GOOD LORD, I AM GOING TO END UP LIKE A KID IN A CANDY SHOP! THANKS FOR THE POST!'' A fourth warned: ''Not reduced in Coventry today but fab bargain if they are in your area.'' ''Cost me 35 pound for my kids,'' a mum had seen the post too late.
RTÉ News
02-07-2025
- Business
- RTÉ News
Manager who sent cleaner home over blue hair dye wins €10,000 at WRC
A manager found by her employer to have produced a "fraudulent" training record after sending a cleaner home for turning up to work with blue dye in her hair has secured €10,000 in compensation following her sacking. Michelle Murray lost her job as a client services manager with Cagney Maintenance Service Ltd, trading as Cagney Contract Cleaning, last August, following the findings of a company investigation into her conduct, which were found to be "reasonable" by the Workplace Relations Commission. However, the tribunal concluded that although dismissal was a "reasonable" sanction, the company had erred by failing to allow her cross-examine her accusers, rendering her dismissal unfair. The tribunal heard that suspicions were raised when a HR manager noticed "a swipe of Tipp-Ex" on a document recording that the worker sent home had received induction training covering rules on "extreme hair colours". The tribunal heard that since 2012, Ms Murray had been in charge of a "flagship contract" at a prominent site in Dublin City, run as a joint venture in the events industry between the Office of Public Works (OPW) and a private enterprise. The tribunal heard that in mid-March 2023, a team leader working under Ms Murray, Sylvia Sanchez, arrived to work at the site with some blue dye in her hair. Ms Murray said she was contacted by staff of the client site telling her this was not allowed, and that she told Ms Sanchez this was "against the dress code" and that she "would have to change it". Ms Sanchez "was upset and left the site", she added. "Your hair is lovely, but I can't allow this on [the site]," Ms Murray wrote in a text message of 11 March 2023 to the worker, which was opened to the hearing. Ms Sanchez quit a few days later, the tribunal heard. Around this time, in the spring of 2023, Ms Murray had a number of absences due to family reasons, force majeure and illness, the tribunal was told - spending six weeks out of work before returning on 4 May 2023. Ms Murray said she was "ambushed and blindsided" when the firm's managing director called her to a meeting on her first day back and told her she was multiple further allegations before suspending her. Ms Murray said in her evidence that she was "confident" Ms Sanchez was aware of the company's policy on hair colouring as she had "undergone induction training on two separate occasions". Ms Sanchez, who was called as a witness by the company, said she was not aware of the ban on hair dye and told the WRC she had other colleagues with dyed hair – including one with "purple and green" in her hair. Gareth Kyne of Management Support Services, who appeared for the respondent, questioned Ms Sanchez on a document stating that she had been at an induction course covering hair dye policy. The worker told the tribunal she did not have the induction training and that her signature was "forged" on the document. She told the hearing she had observed Ms Murray "yelling" at her co-workers and said that some workers had "left the job because of the treatment they received" from Ms Murray. She added that the company would not let her back to work unless she changed her hair colour. A former HR officer with the firm, Nicole O'Carroll, carried out an investigation into complaints against Ms Murray. She told the tribunal she noticed "a swipe of Tipp Ex" on one of the attendance sheets and wondered whether the document had been "doctored". Ms O'Carroll said her investigation findings included "clear fraudulent information provided in a grievance to mislead an investigation" - confirming that the "fraudulent information" she referred to in her report was Ms Sanchez's training record. Among other allegations were reports of Ms Murray "shouting at colleagues" and using "vulgar and expletive language", she noted. Ms Murray's position in evidence was that she "did not falsify any document", "did not use Tipp-Ex on any document" and had "no knowledge of how it got onto the document". "I'm not changing my story. It is how it is, and it did not happen," she said – telling the WRC the behaviours she was accused of "did not take place". Ms Murray told the tribunal she had given Cagney "100% at all times over the 17 years" only to have her livelihood and her "good work and name" taken away. She said the WRC hearings were "the only opportunity she got to speak". Adjudicator John Harraghy expressed "reservations" about the investigation, but concluded it came to "reasonable conclusions" and the decision to dismiss Ms Murray was also "reasonable". However, the dismissal was rendered unfair because Ms Murray was denied the right to cross-examine her accusers during a disciplinary meeting, he concluded. Mr Harraghy ruled the unfair dismissal complaint "well-founded", concluding: "I am not convinced that the respondent's disciplinary procedure was fair and in compliance with the principles of natural justice." Ms Murray had sought "the maximum award" of compensation of over €118,000 - but Mr Harraghy noted her evidence that she had opted to work just one day a week following her dismissal "to avoid exceeding the earnings threshold to qualify for Carer's Benefit". He decided €5,580 was "just and equitable" compensation in the case. He awarded Ms Murray a further €4,500 for a breach of the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 on foot of a finding that the company had failed to furnish Ms Murray with a full statement of her terms of conditions of employment when she was hired in April 2006. Further employment rights complaints by Ms Murray were either withdrawn or dismissed by the tribunal. Robert Donnelly, BL appeared for Ms Murray in the case, instructed by solicitor James Kavanagh of Padraig Hyland & Co. The company was represented by HR consultancy Management Support Services (Ireland) Ltd.
Mail & Guardian
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Mail & Guardian
The unfinished business of Rhodes Must Fall, Sarah Baartman and Jameson
#RhodesMustFall protest. Ten years ago, on the slopes of Table Mountain, known long ago as Hoerikwaggo, the mountain rising from the sea, the #RhodesMustFall student movement at the University of Cape Town achieved its first aim: the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was removed, but echoes of fissures remain. On 9 April, the university held an official commemoration attended by the vice-chancellor, a deputy-VC, a dean, a chair and select There are several Rhodes Must Falls in #RhodesMustFall. We can hear multiple voices in Rhodes Must Fall, that are diverse and discursive, colliding and competing, that contest and oppose each other, even and especially within the same movement and same place. Under the differences was this movement's ability to critically engage across differences and act with clarity, cohesion, precision and tenacity . A diaspora of MustFalls flowed from this place on the mountain. The movement created a language for addressing tangible and intangible, cultural and material, individual and structural, symbolic and embodied, ideological and curricula issues that people faced in many other places and forms. #RhodesMustFall was not only about the statue, it was also about imperialism. And a removal is not only an end, it is also a beginning. It's been a decade since #RhodesMustFall emerged from here. What work remains? How do we remember the past and make better futures? What do South Africans do with public memory? What does the university do with the public memory of Rhodes Must Fall? How does the University of Cape Town treat it? Look at some ways we've done so before. Bury it, deny it? Discard it like body parts left on the side of the road to rot, like the dead dogs left on the sides of Joburg's highways? Or put it in an ossuary and tack it onto a coffee shop like the Prestwich Memorial in Cape Town, which holds thousands of bones in brown boxes, the remains of people who were enslaved and mass-buried in District 1, taken from the earth and put on shelves? Or just … forget it? Forgetting is not an action one can 'do', it happens if conditions are met for a memory to be forgotten, for it to lose its charge, for it to heal. It can happen when what haunts us is dealt with. Forgetting is different from erasure and silence. Erasure is a speech act of writing over one text with another; painting over ink with Tipp-Ex, rubbing out pencil markings, deleting information on a computer. Erasing does not remove what was there before but rather re-addresses resources; it marks the resource-storage-address as free so that new data can be written over the old data. Silence is like erasure — an act of covering up something; striking through text and writing over, often called 'blank space'. In both cases, traces remain of what was there before. While South Africans try to (or are gaslit to) forget certain things, erasure by way of strategic silence in official statements, media releases and so forth, abounds. These missing and misleading pieces of information shape memory and history, and often haunt us. Perhaps what South Africans do after years upon years of deafening, haunting silence is better. They build a monument, a memorial, have a press event, an exhibition or move some graves from here to there. Or put photographs on the internet of some skeletons held by the university. Or remove a name off a building and put up a new one for use — only to not do so in other places. I am talking about the building that is the face of the university and where students have their graduation ceremonies. Jameson Memorial Hall was renamed Sarah Baartman Hall in December 2018, with the old name coming down and the new name going up in August and September of 2019, with no public announcement or ceremony at the time. It took two more years for there to be a ceremony for this renaming — in 2021. It was one of three Khoi cleansing ceremonies: one at the Rustenburg Remains site, a slave memorial; one where the Rhodes statue once stood at UCT on Table Mountain; and one at Sarah Baartman Hall. But there are still places where the old name lives. It seems Sarah Baartman is not allowed to grace the library. Why delete the old name in some places and not others? Is this how to deal with public memory? Surely deletion must be from all devices, formats, databases, libraries and servers? In whose interest is it to erase new public memories; at whose cost? So that is South African public memory. It confuses. And this confusion works against the work of re/pairing our histories, and futures. Her name was summoned. Her memory. That bears ethical responsibilities. Sarah Baartman is a historical, biographical person who has been 'made into' a public figure in our national memory. A diaspora of voices also flows from her. Is this the way to treat her, and them? The university is now a hybrid institution. The dynamics of hybrid institutions, governance, accountability and dissent are important for us to consider at this 10th anniversary of the MustFall moments, alongside an embodied, increasingly digital planet. Perhaps many people no longer use the library, perhaps no one noticed this contradiction, perhaps people don't mind. I do. I mind. One needs to ask, what is at stake? Truth, memory, dignity, rolling back the story, and the accountability of institutions to its publics. Histories and memories and bodies are written over. Silence. Erasure. Deletion. Sarah Baartman remains missing, somewhere. Vikram IK Pancham is a public artist, researcher and educator, and a PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre at Leiden University and the Centre of African Studies at Edinburgh University.
