RELATIVES of an electrician who died from asbestos-related cancer want his former workmates to come forward and help with an investigation into his exposure to the toxic substance. Barry Walker of Little Hulton, died in July 2015 at the age of 71 just a few months
A high street firm has been fined £45,000 after staff at its Liverpool branch were exposed to asbestos-riddled store rooms. A high street firm has been fined £45,000 after staff at its Liverpool branch were exposed to asbestos-riddled store rooms. Environmental health officers found boxes of shoes stashed in
A RETIRED Barrow shipyard joiner suffering from asbestos-related lung cancer has launched a hunt for answers about why his former employers allowed him to be exposed to deadly levels of the toxic dust. Douglas Newby is appealing to his ex-colleagues for any information about the working conditions they
Woman is diagnosed with terminal cancer 30 years after she was exposed as a 7-year-old to asbestos when she helped her father build a garage. When Serafina Salucci was seven years old she played with the asbestos sheeting her father used to build the family’s
A NEW school is set to be built for more than 500 pupils forced out of their old buildings because of an asbestos scare. Sutherland Primary Academy, in Blurton, closed in October because of the ‘potential of a major asbestos fall’ from the ceilings. Since
A young Grantham mum says she should not have to face another day in her council flat after workmen found asbestos in her bathroom. Briony Green, 23, says she is frightened that she and her two-year-old daughter, Bella, may have been breathing in asbestos fibres
THE scourge of asbestos-related fatal illness is not some historic malaise that can be consigned to the past, because people are still suffering today. That will be a key message in the hard-hitting speeches to be given at an International Workers’ Memorial Day memorial gathering
A concerned mother is urging house hunters to check for asbestos in their homes before they move in. The mum-of-two Marie Sandhu, 31, and her husband, Jazz, had planned to re-lay their floor with carpet when the shock discovery was made. The family moved into
A grieving brother and sister are appealing for help after their mum, a former factory worker, died after suffering from an asbestos-related cancer. Cherrill Bradshaw, from Northampton, passed away at the age of just 62 in October 2014 leaving a devastated son, Gary, and daughter,
Labour calls for Worcestershire County Council to remove all asbestos from schools by 2017 CALLS are being made to remove asbestos “riddled” in nearly 350 Worcestershire schools – with angry politicians saying enough is enough. The Labour group at Worcestershire County Council says it wants a major
