Mr Fluffy asbestos: More than 100 homes demolished so far under ACT buyback scheme
The ACT’s Asbestos Taskforce has passed another milestone, with the demolition of more than 100 homes in Canberra. More than 800 blocks have been...
Gwynedd villagers’ fears over asbestos stored near their homes
Sealed containers were placed on land opposite houses at Deiniolen near Caernarfon by housing association Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd. Asbestos filled containers placed on land...
Police Scotland told to remedy ‘asbestos issue’
Police Scotland has been told to take “remedial action” over the presence of asbestos in some of its buildings. The Health and Safety Executive...
Government grants to remove asbestos from schools
Deadly asbestos is to be removed from two Bishop’s Stortford schools and Leventhorpe in Sawbridgeworth. The work is being financed by the Government as...
Schools asbestos ‘scandal’ still threatening lives – report
Decades of lax attitudes towards tackling deadly asbestos in schools is a national “scandal” threatening the health of former, current and future schoolchildren, a...
Deadly asbestos killed Derby Mountain Rescue hero Steve Hilditch, inquest hears
A FORMER head of Derby Mountain Rescue died after contracting cancer while working for Rolls-Royce. In the weeks before his death, Steve Hilditch said...
Worker claims retaliation over asbestos report
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A maintenance worker in Yellowstone National Park said a park concession company retaliated against him after he reported that he...
Angus cancer victim is dying from asbestos in his lunchtime sandwiches
Cancer victim, 66, is dying from the asbestos in the lunchtime SANDWICHES he ate while working as an engineer. A 66-year-old former engineer is...
Asbestos fear at 88 Stoke-on-Trent schools
EVERY school in Stoke-on-Trent is to be tested for asbestos – after an academy was closed down for health and safety reasons. The firm...
Parents threaten legal action in asbestos row
Parents are removing their children from a nursery and threatening legal action due to health fears over toxic asbestos. The asbestos removal work was...
