Yesterday, the European Court of Justice issued its judgement in the case of Karsten Kaltoft, a 5ft 7in child minder from Denmark who, in his 15 years in that role, has never weighed less than 25 stone.
Mr Kaltoft's employment was terminated, and he felt that it was on the grounds of his obesity.
The European Court of Justice was asked to rule on two key questions: First, is it unlawful to discriminate against someone on the grounds that they are obese? Second, can obesity amount to a disability, which it is unlawful to discriminate against?
This footage shows how onshore and offshore personnel will be able to train and exercise for oil spills.
The North Cape Maritime Training Centre in Honningsvåg in Norway now contains the world’s only oil spill simulator where onshore and offshore personnel isolated or together, can train in the tools and stages of oil spill combating operations.
It has been created by Aptomar together with Transas in close cooperation with the North Cape Maritime Training Centre in Honningsvag.
An offshore worker has been airlifted to hospital from a platform 130 miles east of Aberdeen.
The man was flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he was met by an ambulance and a team from the coastguard.
An Aberdeen coastguard spokesman said they received a call at around 1.30pm on Monday afternoon.
