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A woman who battled for two years for a payout after contracting an asbestos-related disease has died a day after a judge said she should be paid £240,000. Dianne Willmore, 49, from north Wales, passed away on Thursday from malignant … Continue reading →

            Proposed prison site in Caernarfon DEVELOPERS insist asbestos contamination should not have halted the building of a prison in Caernarfon as they vow to develop a “jewel in the crown” housing and leisure project … Continue reading →

ASA rules against a government agency, the Health and Safety Executive, after complaint about asbestos warning ads A dispute over the number of people expected to die from exposure to asbestos fibres has led the Advertising Standards Authority to uphold … Continue reading →

Asbestos has been found at a County Durham quarry during an investigation into illegal waste dumping. The discovery was made at Hangingstone Quarry, near Burnhope, after dawn raids by 150 police officers and 50 experts from the Environment Agency. Twelve … Continue reading →

Its still not too late to register for your pair of open dated Alton Towers tickets.  Just send an email to newsletter@northerninsulation.com putting ‘Alton Towers’ in the subject column.  The draw will take place on 25.09.09 at 12 noon, all … Continue reading →

The world famous La Scala opera house in Milan has had to close a section of seating after deadly asbestos was found in the ceiling. The opera house has blocked off a seating area in an upper gallery so that … Continue reading →

UNION chiefs are calling for more to be done to safeguard teachers and pupils from asbestos in schools.  Eighty-eight per cent of the borough’s 69 schools have been found to have traces of the building material.The figures, gathered under the … Continue reading →

A fifty eight year old woman from Birmingham in the UK is thought to have contracted the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma, as a result of hugging her father as a child and being exposed to asbestos fibers and dust from … Continue reading →

YOUNGSTERS at a Doncaster school will see their summer holidays extended into next week because of asbestos problems. The potentially deadly substance was found under the floorboards at Edlington Victoria Primary School as heating engineers carried out work to improve the … Continue reading →

The widow of a former train driver who was diagnosed with mesothelioma in April 2008 and died, aged 74, in June 2009 has described how her husband’s colleagues used to make “snowballs” from asbestos. At his inquest at Derby and … Continue reading →