A landlady has been awarded £60,000 compensation after being unfairly sacked from her job at a Hampshire pub.

Lorraine Copping was fired from her £24,000 live-in post at the White Horse Pub in Otterbourne. She fears that she may never see a penny of the compensation after the company that employed her and used to run the pub went into liquidation.

A tribunal in Southampton heard that the 47-year-old mother of two was locked out of her home and had her heating and water turned off by bosses after they had sacked her.

Tribunal chairman Donald Cowling said: "This is one of the most disturbing cases we have ever heard.''

He added that Mrs Copping had been treated "in the most awful manner".

Full story on page five of tonight's Daily Echo