Focus, which took over Do It All, reached an out-of-court settlement with Glyn Atherton, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, just before the case was due to be heard by the High Court in Sheffield.

Mr Atherton won a six year battle for compensation after he contracted a rare disease, psittacosis, from an African grey parrot.

Although Mr Atherton - an assistant manager at Focus Do It All, in Bulwell, Nottingham - did not work in the Pet World section of the store, he often walked through it and past the parrot during the day.

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