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British Lung Foundation appoints agencies for asbestos push

The British Lung Foundation has appointed integrated agency Targetbase Claydon Heely and media agency Mike Colling & Co to handle a high-profile national asbestos awareness campaign, after a pitch.

The two agencies pitched together as part of a team led by marketing consultants Bottom Line Ideas (BLI).

There were no incumbent agencies working for the charity.

The campaign kicks off with a 30-second TV ad on Monday (26 March) and comes ahead of Easter weekend, the traditional start of the DIY season.

The educational campaign urges amateur DIYers to “Take 5 and stay alive” by explaining the risks associated with asbestos in the home. The campaign includes online advertising, advertorials and social media.

Charlotte Guiver, fundraising & marketing director for the British Lung foundation, said: “Many people think asbestos is a thing of the past but this hidden killer is still lurking in many British homes.

March 26, 2012 7:54 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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New asbestos compensation complications

Asbestos-related disease victims face losing a quarter of their compensation to pay towards legal costs.

The Government’s Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, which is before Parliament, are aimed at reducing Government spending on the legal system.

It proposes to allocate 25 per cent of injury victims’ damages towards their legal cost; this will also include asbestos-related disease victims.

The daughter of an Armley asbestos victim June Hancock slammed the move as “outrageous”.

Rachel Reeves, Leeds West MP, whose constituency covers Armley where the JW Roberts’ factory spewed deadly asbestos dust over the community, is campaigning with Jamie Hanley, a Leeds lawyer.

A cross party group in the House of Lords also opposes the proposal.

June Hancock and her mother died of the incurable, asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma after living near the JW Roberts factory.

March 15, 2012 9:21 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Former shipyard worker dies due to asbestos exposure

An inquest heard that a former Barrow Shipyard worker died following exposure to asbestos.

Robert Grant died at his home in Worcester Street, Barrow, on the 1st of December.

An inquest into the 82-year olds death heard from a pathologist’s report, the report said the cause of death was a blood clot caused by the underlying conditions of asbestosis and heart disease.

Mr Ian Smith, coroner for South and East Cumbria, said he was satisfied Mr Garnet was exposed to asbestos in the shipyard and in another job working as a fireman on the railways.

He recorded a verdict of industrial disease combined with natural disease.

Roberts’s daughter, Elaine Garnet told the Evening Mail following the hearing at Barrow Town Hall on Monday:

“I’m glad they found out what the cause was.

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Ship Worker dies from industrial disease

Working with asbestos on ships in the 1950s caused an 82 year-old man’s death.

On December 16, last year, Ronald Kennedy of High Street in Theale, died. Ronald was suffering from malignant mesothelioma.

Deputy coroner for Berkshire, Ravi Sidhu, read a statement made by Mr. Kennedy before his death, the statement was for a civil court case in relation to working with asbestos.

In the statement Mr. Kennedy explains how he worked with asbestos aboard ships for 56 hours a week and slept in an engine room.

Reading his statement, Mr. Sidhu said:

“I can’t recall where the asbestos lagging on board the ships came from, but I can recall that moving of the asbestos would be performed.”

He went onto say:

“I’d then have to apply it to various pipes – mix asbestos powder with water and apply it as a paste.”

March 7, 2012 8:47 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Event to remember asbestos victims at Derby Cathedral

The names of more than 120 asbestos victims will be projected onto Derby Cathedral later.

This event, organized by the Derbyshire Asbestos Support Team (DAST), aims to raise more awareness of asbestos dangers. They will be projecting the names onto the South side of the cathedral tower.

The victims, whose names are being projected, all died of mesothelioma a cancer which is usually caused by exposure to asbestos. They all lived in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire or Northamptonshire.

William Hunt, who lived in Ripley and was exposed to asbestos while working as maintenance engineer in Derby, was one of the victims.

His daughter Margaret Bailey, who also lives in Ripley, said:

“He had a really horrible death and it was caused by mesothelioma. It was dreadful.”

“I do feel very angry that other people who go to work have to die because of something they have been exposed to at work.”

February 29, 2012 8:53 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Families of asbestos victims back “last resort” fund

Families of two men who died from an industrial disease have backed calls for a “last resort” fund.

Statistics published this week revealed that more people have died of an asbestos related cancer in Blackpool than in most other parts of the country.

These figures were releases by the Office for National Statistics, showing that, 31 residents died from mesothelioma between 2006 to the end of 2010.

That is the equivalent of 2.7 deaths in 100,000 people, 0.2 above the national average of 2.5 for the same period.

Two years ago the Government promised a “last resort” fund, this fund would be available for victims who cannot trace insurers.

David Jones, owner of The Henson Hotel on Clifton Drive, Blackpool, lost his dad, Albert, to mesothelioma last year.

He said; “I am surprised to hear Blackpool is above the national average, my dad was exposed to the substance as a barrel maker at the ICI in Salford and later in Scotland.”

February 28, 2012 9:10 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Second highest asbestos death rate for Medway

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Medway has Britain’s second highest rate of asbestos linked deaths.

The Government has been accused of dragging its feet in offering help to victims whilst they are still alive.

Results from a freedom of information request to the UK’s office of statistics made shocking reading for a company of compensation specialist.

It found only Barrow has a higher death rate for its population, with 8.4 dying per 100,000.

The national average is 2.5 deaths, therefore Medway is almost triple that, with 6.5 deaths.

The soaring number of cases of mesothelioma have been contributed too by heavy industry in the past, including, power stations, an oil refinery and of course the Royal Navy Dockyard.

Gravesham’s death rate of 4.0 is 23rd in the list, with Maidstone 32nd, and Tonbridge and Malling 33rd, both with a rate of 3.7.

Sevenoaks is 36th with 3.7; Thanet 42nd with 3.7; Shepway is 68th with 3.2; Dartford 92nd with 3.0; Swale 114th on 2.8; Canterbury 139th on 2.6; Tunbridge 199th at 2.2; Ashford 240th at 2.0; and Dover 278th with 1.7.

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Asbestos-covered work clothes kill’s wife

A wife whom had washed her husband’s asbestos-covered clothes for a decade, died because she was exposed to the deadly dust.

Jill Bolstridge would shake off the dirt from overalls worn by her husband James, who worked at Derby engineering firm S Robinson and Sons, on a weekly basis before putting them in the washing machine.

Jill died of mesothelioma after following the same routine of washing her husband’s clothes for a decade, her husband was not affected.

An inquest heard that Jill, 56, was in good health until last May, when she started to become out of breath. Doctors confirmed that she was suffering from malignant mesothelioma of the pleura, an asbestos-related cancer affecting the lining of the lungs. Jill underwent major surgery.

Jill, died in October, only two days after her family helped her put together a statement of her condition.

After the hearing, her daughter Carla, 22, paid tribute to her mother.

She said: “My mum was a loving, affectionate, warm and a beautifully-giving woman who was always willing to put others before her.”

February 27, 2012 8:38 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Cambridge University payout in asbestos cancer case

Workers were secretly filmed demolishing a barn made of asbestos cement

Cambridge University has paid compensation to one of its carpenters who contracted an asbestos-related cancer.

Bob Murphy, who has terminal mesothelioma (a cancer of the lung lining caused by inhaling asbestos dust), takes a cocktail of 30 drugs a day to controls his pain.

He worked in the estates department between 1989 and 2006 and claims he was given insufficient protection.

The university has denied liability and said the payout is not an admission of negligence.

‘Ignorance’

Mr Murphy, 65, told BBC Look East: “I was just a worker. At the end of the day you’re given a job and you just get on with it and now in hindsight I would have touched nothing.

“I am suffering because of my ignorance.

“All we was given was a paper mask – and also a special hoover which we thought was an asbestos one.”

A BBC investigation has discovered other breaches in the university’s handling of white asbestos.

February 24, 2012 8:45 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Engineer Killed by Asbestos

Asbestos-related disease has killed an electrical engineer whom served on the Royal Yacht Britannia and later repaired fork lift trucks.

Richard Rendell joined the navy as a boy seaman and served for a further 14 years after that. He trained in electronics and was with the Britannia for eight years.

He was discharged in 1964 and worked for several forklift truck firms, carrying out servicing, repair and maintenance work before he eventually set up his own company.

An investigation into his death showed that he was in good-health until May last year, when he suddenly developed a chesty cough and suffered from breathlessness.

The 77 year-old died 6 months later.

Mr. Rendell made a statement saying that he had been exposed to asbestos during his time in the navy and throughout his career afterwards.

After the inquest at Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner’s Court, where assistant deputy coroner Paul McCandless recorded a verdict of death due to industrial disease, Mrs Rendell said her husband was a “lovely man and a true gentleman”.

February 20, 2012 8:59 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Asbestos takes another victim

A former, Midlands daily newspaper, deputy editor has died as a result of being exposed to asbestos.

A journalist for almost 30 years at the Burton mail, Andy Parker, died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 58 after being diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma, a cancerous tumour of the lining of the lungs and chest cavity.

An inquest heard that his illness was a direct result of breathing in asbestos whilst working as a labourer for Burton building firm Thomas Lowe and Sons in 1973 and 1974.

Andy worked on sites where asbestos was present, including a hospital and a high school, with duties such as sweeping up debris which was likely to contain asbestos dust.

His widow, Sally, told the Burton Mail that he had not been aware of the risks to his health from his past work until his was diagnosed in April.

She told the Mail:

“When I met Andy his days were numbered but none of us knew. People who get this illness were usually exposed to asbestos in the 1960s and 70s, when people weren’t aware of the risk. It makes me angry, but there’s nothing I can do about it, and Andy was never angry and never moaned. He was very accepting that it was his time.”

February 14, 2012 10:13 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Family hit by tragedy after exposure to deadly asbestos dust

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A family hit by tragedy after discovering eight siblings were suffering from an incurable asbestos-related lung condition linked to their father’s job have suffered a double blow with the deaths of two of their number.

The siblings have developed pleural plagues – scarring on the lungs due to exposure to asbestos. Their father worked for an asbestos factory in the 1930’s and brought deadly dust home on his overalls.

Marjorie King, 67, one of five girls and five boys in total, died from malignant mesothelioma and just six months later her sister Cecelia also passed away.

An inquest into Marjorie’s death heard she was exposed through the dust her father Korah Leah, a foreman at Cape Asbestos in Hebden Bridge, brought home. When Mrs. King died at Overgate Hospice in Elland, on July 30 last year, a tumour was found on her right lung and asbestos bodies were discovered in lung tissue.

Deputy Coroner Professor Paul Marks concluded she died from the industrial disease.

January 18, 2012 8:59 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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Asbestos fund still on agenda, says government

The government has assured people suffering from asbestos-related disease that a ‘fund of last resort’ is still on the agenda, nearly two years after a report called for its creation.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) minister Lord Freud is understood to be in negotiations with the insurance industry about setting up a fund for victims who cannot trace insurers. A spokesman for the department said: ‘We continue to talk to stakeholders and we plan to make an announcement in due course.’

In February 2010, a DWP consultation paper found that thousands of sufferers of asbestos-related disease were missing out on compensation through no fault of their own.

January 12, 2012 9:30 am - Posted by Asbestos News  | Comments ( 0 )
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