The High Court later awarded her £175,000 damages.But it was when Brian McDermott bled to death following a stomach cancer operation in October 1997 that a clinical audit of his work was undertaken, resulting in his suspension three months later.Such was the volume of ensuing complaints that Professor Donaldson, then Northern and Yorkshire regional director of the NHS Executive, launched the independent inquiry to decide whether the trust was at fault and whether there was a case for disciplinary action.The inquiry's report, which ran to 2,000 pages, was never published after Mr Ingoldby won a High Court injunction, arguing that the report should not be used in disciplinary proceedings as it had been carried out by the NHS Executive rather than by his employers.The report's value was thus greatly diminished as both the hospital trust and the GMC decided not to rely on its findings for their own disciplinary action, setting back the inquiry still further. Even when the hospital began its own inquiry from scratch in September 1998 further legal wranglings delayed a conclusion until last month, when Mr Ingoldby was sacked.Mr Ingoldby's case was only the second to be dealt with by GMC's interim orders committee (IOC), which provides greater powers for action pending the council's professional conduct hearings.

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The IOC ruled that Mr Ingoldby should not undertake surgical procedures except in A&E departments and should notify employers of such conditions. It did not provide an insight into its reasoning, which is understood to be based on the fact that A&E work will call only on Mr Ingoldby's technical skills - not his abilities in pre and post-operative care."The idea of him turning up at an A&E ward is astonishing," said David Russell, of the Wakefield firm Towells, which is representing families. "Though he must disclose his position to a prospective employer there is no provision for disclosure to any patient he might treat.". Pop star Robbie Williams was attacked in a bar brawl which left one of his friends stabbed, it was reported today.

Pop star Robbie Williams was attacked in a bar brawl which left one of his friends stabbed, it was reported today. The singer was hit over the head with a chair in a 20-man punch-up in the upmarket resort of St Tropez in the South of France.He had been staying in the town on a three-week holiday with former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, who was not present at the brawl.Robbie was drinking with 10 friends in a bar when three men began taunting him, according to reports.A waiter at the bar, Le Gorille, said: "Tables were being pulled up and everyone was fighting. It was likely being in a Western film but more serious."A chair was smashed over Robbie and one of his friends was stabbed," he told The Sun.Robbie was said to have emerged from the brawl "completely unscathed" but a friend is believed to have needed treatment for stab wounds to his leg.The star, who had a number one hit earlier this month with Rock DJ, later flew to Germany to perform at a concert.Police were called to the bar but no arrests were made.. Betty Buckley strode purposefully on to the Donmar stage, curtseyed to all three sides of the tiny auditorium, and proceeded to rewrite the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim's "Not a Day Goes By". Not perhaps the best way to sneak-preview the Donmar's Christmas presentation - Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" But put it down to second-night nerves. She picked up some of the pieces with "Just the Way You Look Tonight", lingering over the phrase "because I love you" as if she might never let him or it go.

But it wasn't until "Come Rain or Shine" that she and her marvellous trio - Kenny Werner (piano), Tony Marino (bass), and Jamey Haddad (drums/percussion) - tightened their grip and the Buckley "belt" (designed to part your hair at 40 paces) kicked in. Betty Buckley strode purposefully on to the Donmar stage, curtseyed to all three sides of the tiny auditorium, and proceeded to rewrite the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim's "Not a Day Goes By". Not perhaps the best way to sneak-preview the Donmar's Christmas presentation - Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" But put it down to second-night nerves. She picked up some of the pieces with "Just the Way You Look Tonight", lingering over the phrase "because I love you" as if she might never let him or it go. But it wasn't until "Come Rain or Shine" that she and her marvellous trio - Kenny Werner (piano), Tony Marino (bass), and Jamey Haddad (drums/percussion) - tightened their grip and the Buckley "belt" (designed to part your hair at 40 paces) kicked in. The Buckley sound will forever be associated, in my mind, with the song she didn't sing on this occasion; "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" from the Burt Bacharach/Hal David show Promises, Promises, which she brought to London in the Sixties. A bar or two of the introductory vamp, and I can hear it still - the nasal country twang, the little sob-like breaks in the sound Once a Texas girl, always a Texas girl. It's probably why the best numbers in this show were the country-type ones, such as the beautiful Mary Chapin Carpenter song "Come On, Come On" told like a story, shared like a secret, with all the homespun sentiment she could muster.It's interesting that she plays up to her "sophisticated" London audience at the expense of her Mid-West countrymen - telling you that she's a "honky-tonk" kind of singer, yet laying on the "dumb Texan" jokes.