Gary Crompton has been sacked for poor time-keeping by the company which only weeks ago backed his marathon slog from St Albans to Wigan in aid of prostate and womb cancer.

The 44-year-old from High Street, Standish, claims it was an unfair blow relating to illness and exhaustion following last month's event.
But his former employers, Fourth Dimension Renovations of Leigh, said the issues relating to his dismissal had nothing to do with his charity work and pre-dated the bed push.

Plasterer Gary raised thousands of pounds with his bed push and despite his current woes, he says he would do it all again tomorrow.
The push has led to an offer from former Wigan rugby player Nick du Toit to join a charity bike ride next year. Meanwhile, Gary is looking for work.

He says the push left him ill and unable to sleep and when he asked for two weeks off to recover, his employers suggested instead that he worked a later shift.
But then he developed a chest infection.
His GP told him to fill out a self-certification form at work so that he could then get a sicknote for a week.

He said he was led to believe Fourth Dimension was satisfied with that arrangement, but then half way through his week off sick he received a letter saying he was being dismissed with immediate effect because he was not getting to work on time. Gary, who worked for the company for four months, said: "I feel treated very unfairly.

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