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A former custody officer at Gatwick airport has been awarded over £100,000 compensation after she was bitten on the face by an HIV infected asylum seeker, reports the BBC.

One of the UK's main professional health and safety bodies is warning that British businesses are failing to tackle the risks of injury and illness in the workplace.

Fines totalling £18,700 have been handed down after a foreman died when an excavator bucket filled with concrete fell on him at a London construction site.

Workers could be at risk of recurring injury in a proposed trade-off against business costs, a not-for-profit campaign group has warned.