The case is being hailed as a victory for mothers forced to work

The case is being hailed as a victory for mothers forced to work long shifts to the detriment of family life. A SINGLE mother who could not look after her baby properly because she had to work 16-hour shifts at Heathrow Airport won her claim for sex discrimination yesterday. What was left of the body was a little bit further away."An ageing lioness thought to have led the attack and a male have been tracked and shot.David, due home in October, was on a gap year before going to university. He had had a teenage dream of working in Africa and was employed by a company called Under Canvas in Africa.The nephew of the Earl of Radnor, he has a sister 15, and a brother, 17.. The tracks indicated two lions in his tent and possibly others outside.

This is something we wish to come to terms with privately."Staff from the British High Commission in the capital, Harare, are at the 338,000-acre reserve to help the investigation and David's mother, Victoria, is believed to have flown to Zimbabwe yesterday.David, described by a friend as a "bright, genial young man with a taste for adventure", had recently extended his stay in Zimbabwe to work in the safari park whose publicity claims it has "the highest concentration of lions in Africa".A Zimbabwe parks spokesman said: "It seems the young man was taken from his tent in an attack by a group of lions and killed in the darkness. "We are going through the most unbearable and appalling family tragedy. The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, Richard Pleydell-Bouverie, said David had been killed in his tent on Saturday night in the remote Matusadona National Park where he had been a safari tour assistant. "We have spent an awful night - we don't know the details," Mr Pleydell- Bouverie said at the family home in Kimpton, near Luton. A FATHER spoke yesterday of his family's "unbearable and appalling tragedy", the death of his 19-year-old son in a lion attack at a Zimbabwe safari park.

"Reservoir levels are mostly above 90 per cent, which is very good for this time of year. Ground water levels are falling, but only within the normal sorts of range," he said.. Both said supplies across Britain are healthy."Nobody is anticipating any problems over the summer," said Water UK yesterday after surveying its 29 member companies.Giles Phillips, of the Environment Agency, said supplies were "generally pretty healthy". "We were given a temperature forecast that was 10 degrees too low," Mr Clifford said. The firm is considering applying for a hosepipe ban.The problem in Kent is an aberration, according to the Environment Agency and Water UK, the umbrella body for the industry. "I haven't seen any of these tankers and I find it difficult to get into the village in any case," said Jane Knight, 68, who lives five miles from Kemsing "I have been without water all weekend. I haven't been able to wash or even flush the loo."The company, which serves half a million people, hopes supplies will be back to normal later this week.It is blaming its computer mistake on an incorrect weather forecast from the Met Office.

Over the weekend it spread to West Kingsdown, Kemsing and Otford. On Saturday, as demand soared with the temperature, the company hired a plane to tow a banner reminding people they needed a licence to use a sprinkler. Water supplies failed at several farms, including one with 2,000 sheep, which had to be supplied by tanker.Consumers were extremely angry, especially those who live in isolated houses. "The panic is spreading across the county," Mr Clifford said.The problem began in the village of Plaxtol on Friday. We appeal to our customers not to take any action that might cause others to suffer."The company believes the hoarding is the reason for shortages yesterday in three Kent villages, Biddenden, Tenterden, and Charing. I think they're putting in it the bath, in water butts in the garden, in all sorts of places.

"People are building up their own water stocks for fear of future cuts. Water had to be taken to consumers by bowser and tanker.But it believes the problem is being aggravated by some householders hoarding water, thus preventing the refilling of the underground reservoirs that keep the system running."It's panic storage," said the company's spokesman, Brian Clifford. This new social phenomenon - the equivalent of panic buying groceries, candles, and other necessities in times of emergency - was highlighted by the independent Mid Kent Water Company. Around 10,000 of its customers are without water, while supplies nationally are said to be good.The company admits it wrongly programmed its computer model for water demand near Sevenoaks last week, resulting in supplies failing in several villages over the sweltering weekend. CONSUMERS WHO have resorted to "panic storage" were blamed yesterday for aggravating a water shortage in parts of Kent.