People in North Nottinghamshire are being advised to keep their windows and doors shut as firefighters tackle a blaze at an industrial estate. Four...
Shipyard workers urged to speak up as asbestos deaths in Barrow are triple the national average.
THE widow of a shipyard worker who died from lung cancer linked to asbestos exposure wants to know why more wasn’t done to protect...
AUSTRALIA: Everything Australian renovators need to know about asbestos
Asbestos was embraced wholeheartedly by Australians. After all, we found rich deposits in Western Australia in the 1930s and had an industry keen to embrace a...
Hundreds of asbestos-hit Derbyshire schools cost council £400,000
Hundreds of Derbyshire schools containing asbestos has cost a council more than £400,000 in compensation and with outstanding claims still to be dealt with,...
Teachers’ unions tell government to remove asbestos from Norfolk schools.
Teaching unions have today launched a campaign urging the government to defuse the “timebomb” of asbestos in Norfolk’s schools, as it emerged that nearly...
Parliament electrical engineer who kept diaries about his safety concerns is killed by asbestos
A former electrical engineer at the Houses of Parliament who died from asbestos-related cancer kept dairies for nearly 20 years detailing his safety concerns about the building. Frederick...
Crowd-funding investment bid for asbestos detector
AN innovative South Devon company has developed what is believed to be the world’s first real-time asbestos warning device. The groundbreaking, portable, hand held, piece of...
Night club owner fined over asbestos exposure
A Bolton night club owner has been sentenced after admitting a failure to carry out a survey for asbestos before starting on the refurbishment...
Fury over ‘dangerous’ asbestos dumped in Nottinghamshire wood
A walker has told of their anger to find asbestos has been left in a Nottinghamshire forest for weeks, despite appealing to authorities to...
Asbestos cowboys’ deadly waste dump in Blackpool street
Cowboy fly-tippers have dumped 600kg of deadly asbestos in a Blackpool street. The illegal load was left at the rear of Idlewood Place, off...
