A packaging company has been fined £24,000 for failing to remove potentially lethal asbestos from its factory. Smurfit Kappa UK Ltd, which has a site in West Auckland, County Durham, which employs about 170 people, pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to manage and remove the asbestos, at...
Insurance firms are “buying off” future compensation claims from asbestos related victims, a Glasgow MSP has warned. People suffering pleural plaques, a scaring of the lungs, are being offered cash with a clause attached they can’t make a fresh claim if they later contract mesothelioma or lung cancer...
The death toll from York's asbestos timebomb is still rising, latest figures have revealed. Thirty people died last year from the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma in the York, Harrogate, Scarborough, Selby and Hambleton area - up by 25 per cent on the previous year...
The North East’s toll of absbestos-related illness is increasingly affecting white collar and local authority workers - such as teachers and office workers - a solicitor has warned. Industrial workers have previously been most affected by the tragedy, because of the region’s legacy of heavy industry...
A demolition and licensed asbestos removal company has been fined after it sold a boiler found to contain asbestos, the HSE has reported. Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard that in May or June 2012, Anglian Demolition & Asbestos Limited was the contractor for the demolition and asbestos removal work at...
A Stockport heating engineering firm were sentenced after two of its engineers were exposed to asbestos while working at a Manchester school, the HSE has reported. Trafford Magistrates’ Court heard Flueclean were contracted to replace boilers in the boiler room of the school...