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
A widow is looking for answers after her husband developed terminal cancer mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos. Alan Cook, a former laboratory technician from Dudley, was diagnosed with the disease in March 2015, and died on September 26, aged 68. Before his death, he instructed
Former colleagues of a man who died from asbestos-related cancer are being urged to help with an investigation into how he came into contact with the harmful substance. David Clegg, a former teacher and factory worker from Knottingley, was diagnosed with mesothelioma just a week
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 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 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,
