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Epidemic! Asbestos threat 'underestimated', say scientists
Published on 2010-01-15 04:25:00
The lethal threat from asbestos fibres may have been seriously underestimated, medical researchers are warning, as thousands of people with asbestos-related illnesses wait to hear whether they can sue for compensation.The Ministry of Justice is expected to reveal this week whether it will reverse a landmark judgment that prevents those diagnosed with pleural plaques – an early indicator of contamination – from taking legal action.Although as many as 90,000 people a year may be developing the
Asbestos in the Houses of Parliament
Published on 2010-01-04 06:57:00
Visitors to the Houses of Parliament, MPs, peers and officials working in the 170-year-old building are at risk of exposure to a dangerous form of asbestos fibres, according to a safety report seen by the Guardian.A detailed investigation of the service shafts and piping ducts hidden behind the neo-Gothic committee rooms and chambers warns of "significant dangers" to "all persons" in the Palace of Westminster.The study - produced by Goddard Consulting, London-based health and safety experts, for
No Asbestos Bill before General Election
Published on 2010-01-04 06:53:00
Despite the first reading of the Damages (Asbestos- Related Conditions) Bill taking place in the House of Lords on 19 October 2009, the government failed to include it in the Queen’s Speech after it ran out of Parliamentary time. A Private Members’ Bill was set to bring back payments for victims of pleural plaques but it failed to make it through the Lords before the end of the last Parliamentary session. The failure to mention the Bill in the government’s proposed legislative programme fu
