Golden retriever Zane is one of a kind: he works as a trained guide dog but he’s also able to alert his diabetes-suffering owner when her blood-sugar levels are low.

CLOSE to 40 visually impaired workers at Blindcraft yesterday won a last-minute reprieve from redundancy after the Government agreed to provide a new strategy for the agency.

The threatened closure of a state factory which employed blind people was averted by Health Minister Michael Martin tonight.