Union in talks with charity after claims of a financial crisis

Kibble Education and Care Centre has told employees it is in "financial crisis" days after confirming it spent tens of thousands of pounds on a defamation case.

- EDEL KENEALY

The Paisley-based charity told staff on Tuesday of its financial challenges as it sought to downgrade their pay and working conditions.

The news was delivered just days after Kibble confirmed it had covered the legal fees of two of its employees, Jim Gillespie and Mark MacMillan, who launched a defamation case against Alan Wardrop.

Judge Lord Clark last week accepted that Mr Wardrop’s accusation that the pair—Kibble’s representatives on the board of St Mirren FC-had covered up a secret plan to build a wellbeing centre on club-own land was defamatory.