A disabled woman who was discriminated against on a disability awareness course run by Liverpool Council won £2,000 damages for injury to her feelings in an out-of-court settlement last week.

Rosemary Walker was awarded the cash on the day her case against the council was due to be heard at Liverpool County Court.

In 2003, Walker, who uses a colostomy bag, attended a two-day training course run by the council as part of her then job as a youth worker for Merseyside Youth Association.

On the first day of the course she was forced to tell delegates about her condition when she was unable to change her colostomy bag in a nearby toilet because there was no sanitary disposal box.

She then had to search the building looking for a box but failed to find one. Eventually, a course delegate organised for one to be brought to the building.

Walker brought the case against the council under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and was supported by the Disability Rights Commission.