A Carlisle man is suing retail giant John Lewis for up to A 150,000 compensation, claiming he contracted terminal lung disease after prolonged exposure to asbestos during his 30-year career at a textiles factory.
Marion Potts was head of English at The Romsey School, in Hants,but retired two years ago due to ill health The 63-year-old, who had worked at numerous schools across the country and abroad, died in June from mesothelioma, a cancer associated with the …
Newly diagnosed victims of mesothelioma the aggressive and fatal cancer caused by asbestos will receive help for the first time through a new support scheme, as part of a bill currently going through Parliament.
But little did Marion Potts know that during her time in the classroom she was being exposed to deadly asbestos – which would go on to claim her life.
A carpenter and joiner, he had worked for British Rail in Eastleigh for 33 years and also served an apprenticeship at Harland and Wolff in Southampton.
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Home renovators are being encouraged to extend their ‘DIY’ skills and take a free online course to help them identify and safely handle asbestos.
CHRISTENSEN, K. L., T. F. BATESON, AND L. KOPYLEV. Low levels of exposure to Libby Amphibole asbestos and localized pleural thickening.
If anybody should understand what caused her lung cancer, it’s New York Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy .
Railway workers have been exposed to potentially hazardous asbestos after the deadly dust was found in locomotives brought in from China.
A Plymouth hospice has been given more than A 7,000 in damages from the Ministry of Defence after it cared for a man who worked at the city’s dockyard for more than 30 years.
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THE daughter of a factory worker is appealing for her late father’s former colleagues to help shed light on his death from the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.
Lyn Adams nursed her dock worker husband Terry through his battle with malignant mesothelioma, triggered by deadly asbestos dust he encountered, before it eventually claimed his life.
THE man at the head of a new government asbestos agency has warned that home renovators and DIY heroes will keep Australia’s asbestos-related death toll rising until the 2030s.