More asbestos has been discovered in a disused tip uncovered when the Boxing Day floods caused a landslip. Scout Road in Mytholmroyd has been shut since the hillside started to slide under the force of floodwater. It uncovered asbestos buried in a council tip decades
Workers “downed tools” at a major housing development after five lorryloads of soil possibly contaminated with asbestos were dumped on the site. Workers “downed tools” at a major housing development after five lorryloads of soil possibly contaminated with asbestos were dumped on the site. The
A FORMER building manager died of asbestos-related cancer, an inquest has heard. Ralph Hubert Rogers, 89, of Heron Close, Thornton-le-Dale, died on November 15. Dr Juliet Walker, who had performed a post-mortem examination, said the cause of death was candidal pneumonia and mesothelioma, a cancer caused
Bernard Dawson spent more than half a century teaching maths and science at secondary schools in Greater Manchester and Lancashire and was diagnosed with the incurable cancer mesothelioma following his retirement. A former teacher who died of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos is thought
