Good evening, these are the latest ECHO headlines on Tuesday, April 12.
Man died after choking on steak sandwich in pub
A Wirral man died after choking on a steak sandwich he was eating at a pub.
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Graham Douglas died in Arrowe Park Hospital four days after choking on his steak sandwich at the Dinorben Arms in Bofari. Customers and staff at the pub tried desperately to help Mr Douglas but by the time paramedics managed to dislodge the food he had been unconscious for over half-an-hour.
An inquest in Ruthin today heard the popular 73-year-old retired instrument technician, known as 'Chunky', died at Arrowe Park Hospital on November 14 last year. Mr Douglas, of Summertrees Road, Great Sutton was with 15 members of the Wirral branch of the Triumph Owners Club on the day.
In a statement read at the inquest one of the group, Colin Robertson, said that Mr Douglas had just started eating his steak sandwich when he suddenly started to choke. Two other customers attempted the Heimlich manoeuvre but he then lost consciousness.
An off-duty nurse carried out chest compressions until paramedics arrived and though they managed to dislodge the piece of meat he had been without oxygen for too long. Mr Douglas was taken to Glan Clwyd Hospital and later that day transferred to Arrowe Park.
Teacher sacked after 30 years at Liverpool college 'devastated' as she loses appeal
A teacher whose sacking led to protests last month has lost her appeal to be reinstated into her previous position at the college she worked at for 30 years.
Nina Doran, 52, was fully dismissed from her position at the City of Liverpool College in March after being suspended the previous September, with the college citing gross misconduct and a breach of confidence as the reason for her suspension and later dismissal. Protests led by her former colleagues followed her sacking, with unionised colleagues accusing the college of ' trade [union] victimisation'.
Nina since appealed to the college board against the decision to dismiss her. But last Tuesday she was informed that she had not been successful in these efforts.
Nina joined the college in September 1991. Alongside her teaching positions, she was also a representative for the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) branch at the city college, and would liaise with the UCU’s national office to organise union workers during industrial disputes.
Speaking about her appeal loss, she said: "I'm devastated. I think I'd been hopeful because obviously it's last chance saloon for the internal processes available and because our arguments were so vast I thought that at least one would convince the employer to reconsider their disciplinary ruling.
"I was just devastated. I still haven't read the whole ruling through thoroughly because I can't bear it. I can only read parts in the morning so that I can then still sleep at night. But I just haven't got round to doing it, I've just read the beginning and the end.
"The appeal is the last chance internally, then you're on the outside and you only have the external route really."
Girl, 14, 'punched by security staff' during Bootle fair chaos
A 14-year-old girl suffered a black eye after she was 'attacked by a member of security staff' at Bootle fair.
The teen's mum, who wishes to remain anonymous, said she received the "worst phone call" of her life - telling her that her daughter had been "assaulted". She rushed to the scene to collect her daughter and find out how she had received a black eye.
Officers were called to reports of a fight at the event, on Acorn Way, at around 8.05pm on Monday, April 11. Security staff claimed a gang of teens and young people gathered outside the fair and challenged them and a witness at the scene believed the violence was triggered by a row between girls on the bumper cars.
The mum told the ECHO : "My daughter and her friend were thrown out of the fair, now I don't know the reason behind why, and I do not condone it, she is now grounded for that reason. But what I don’t condone either, is grown men hitting these kids.
"My kid was knocked to the ground by a full force punch off a man who works at the fair. Her eye is terrible, she fell back and banged her head.
"You can see at the end of one of the videos that he punches her, and his colleagues are trying to drag him back to stop him from hitting the kids. He had already pushed my daughter's friend to the ground before he punched her."
She added: "I don’t know how she got out of there with the marks she did, because it was very violent everywhere. The kids went into a riot because two of them had just been attacked by adults, of course that is going to cause a conflict.
