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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Crumb of comfort? Dorset baker wins £15k after being sacked for holey bread

Leakers Bakery in Bridport
Customers of Leakers Bakery in Bridport complained they were struggling to make decent sandwiches with Artur Piaszczynski’s loaves – or butter toast. Photograph: Graham Hunt/BNPS

The head baker at a 300-year-old artisan bread shop in a Dorset seaside town has been awarded more than £15,000 after being sacked for making loaves with too many holes in them.

Artur Piaszczynski, who argued during an employment tribunal that bread-making was an art and not a science, lost his job after complaints that customers were struggling to make decent sandwiches with his loaves or successfully butter toast.

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