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
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A RETIRED carpenter who worked with asbestos in a prison has received a six-figure compensation pay-out after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The pensioner, who has not been named but is from County Durham, worked in various prisons between 1963 and 1995, carrying out maintenance
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Nearly 300 new homes could be built on the site of a former power station – on land which is heavily contaminated with asbestos. Local protester Joanne Bell said 600 tonnes of asbestos had been left on the site of the East Yelland Power
Toxic material still being used at government buildings as recently as Febuary. CBC News has learned a federal government department has banned the use of asbestos in all new construction and renovation projects at buildings it operates — a new policy that came into effect on April
A FATHER of four who has an asbestos-related cancer believes he picked it up while working in a former Caterham hospital. And lawyers acting for Mervyn Waiton have appealed for others who worked at St Lawrence’s Hospital at around the same time to get in touch. Mr
A BELFAST company has been fined £9,000 after admitting a series of health and safety breaches linked to asbestos being disturbed whilst renovating a bar. The family-run JDM Property Limited, based on Belfast’s Lisburn Road, was contracted to carry out construction work on the Devenish
A SECURITY guard may have died after being exposed to asbestos in the wake of an IRA bomb attack. Stuart Packard, who lived in Broomfield with his wife and two children, was deployed as part of the clean-up operation near Manchester’s Arndale Centre shopping complex
A Berkshire roofer has been fined for removing asbestos without a licence. Reading Magistrates’ Court heard how Michael Wilkie was contracted by a householder to replace the covering of the flat roof of the garage adjoining their house, and subsequent remedial work. This included the
