A worker at a Bradford supermarket who was sacked after setting up a website criticising the company has lost his claim for unfair dismissal.

Christopher Brown, 21, took Farmers Boy - a subsidiary of Morrisons - to an employment tribunal yesterday but lost and was ordered to pay £150 costs.

The Clayton man - a former factory operative at Farmers Boy in Cemetery Road - was sacked for gross misconduct last October after launching a website featuring the Morrisons logo and containing accusations of low pay and poor conditions.

Mr Brown, who represented himself at the hearing, told the tribunal he had set up the website over a grievance with the company.

"I didn't set the website up out of revenge, but out of a grievance with them," said Mr Brown, who had worked at the company for more than four years.

"At Morrisons, they weren't listening to me. I wanted them to sit up and listen to me for a change. I did one silly thing and was dismissed for it."

After his dismissal, Mr Brown appealed twice and attended hearings with Morrisons personnel director David Ward and David Hutchinson, chief executive of manufacturing activities. Both upheld his dismissal.

Farmers Boy general manager Harry Hellam said Mr Brown's behaviour in setting up the website destroyed their trust and confidence in him and he had done it out of revenge.

Stuart Robertson, representing Morrisons, said there was no mention of Mr Brown's grievances on the website, on which Mr Brown stated: 'we have put this website on the net to shame Morrisons supermarket'.

Chairman of the tribunal panel, A J Simpson, said: "It was well within the respondents' rights to terminate the employment of the applicant. We would have been very surprised if any employer faced with the information that Mr Hellam, Mr Ward and Mr Hutchinson were would not have come to the conclusion that they did."

Following the hearing, Mr Brown, who now has another job as a factory worker in Bradford, told the tribunal: "I still don't think it is resolved and I am very disappointed at the outcome."

Morrisons declined to comment.