Four former social work staff are claiming unfair dismissal after being sacked for distributing a joke e-mail of convicted paedophile Gary Glitter, according to the BBC.

They have raised an action against South Lanarkshire Council alleging their sacking was "disproportionate" to what they did.

Another social worker at the council, William Simpson, was banned from practising by the Scottish Social Services Council for forwarding this and other emails.

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