According to the NHS, more than 2,700 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma each year in the UK, and these cases are most commonly diagnosed in people aged 75 and over.

As many as 10,000 UK school teachers, pupils and school staff have died of lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure in school buildings in the past 40 years, according to an investigation by the Sunday ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today launched a consultation on proposals to improve the application of the Control of Asbestos Regulations and guidance around asbestos management to help ...

Spodden Park Ltd said that by entering the site, "trespassers risk disturbing the material and put themselves at risk". Part ...

Being diagnosed came as a complete shock. You do not imagine that you are going to go into a school to teach children and come out with an industrial disease. Carole Hagedorn had taught foreign ...

Asbestos in British schools will lead to hundreds of thousands of people dying, states a new report. “When asbestos containing materials are in a poor condition, they are more likely to release ...

For decades Johnson and Johnson covered up the fact that their talcum powder was contaminated with asbestos and was allegedly ...

Children and teachers at thousands of schools across the UK could be at risk of developing cancer thanks to a policy of leaving asbestos in place, MPs have heard. Campaigner Charles Pickles warned the ...

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The message could not be starker – Britain faces a potential 'tsunami' of asbestos-related deaths in the years ahead unless action is taken to curb the threat. That was the warning from a major new ...

Debris from a fire at a derelict former nightclub in Kent contains asbestos, according to a local authority. Gravesham ...

A damning report claims that hundreds of thousands of people are set to die in a "tsunami" over the coming decades from asbestos in UK schools which are now crumbling ...