On the BBC Global News podcast this morning they interviewed a Professor at a West Australian University. He is 102 but he doesn't want to retire. The university considered him a health and safety risk because his office was upstairs and they would have to send someone to help him down the stairs in the event of an emergency.

He has been allowed to continue working, but they have moved him to a ground floor office at a another campus closer to his home. He is not happy, there are no other science related people at his new location and there is nobody he can talk to about scientific matters.

It's nice that they tried to accommodate him, but just a shame they didn't try a little harder. After all, the arrangements probably weren't going to need to be *that* long term.