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,
A Hertfordshire based contractor has been found guilty for a series of safety failings across two separate sites. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) received a complaint in March 2014 from a member of the public living close to the former Chesham Community Hospital site
It has been only one year since Martin Swinburn renovated the kitchen in his Asquith family home, and yet the shiny new space could soon be little more than rubble. Mr Swinburn’s is one of 91 NSW homes that has tested positive to loose-fill asbestos
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
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
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
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A maintenance worker in Yellowstone National Park said a park concession company retaliated against him after he reported that he and five other employees were exposed to asbestos at a more than century-old lodge. Jon Kline told The Associated Press on
A widow has won hundreds of thousands of pounds damages for the death of her husband – who was struck down by asbestos-related cancer after years spent working as a carpet fitter. Colin Wolstenholme, of Bury , died aged 70 after a long struggle with mesothelioma –
