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An allotment holder has been told he must dig up his plot to determine whether asbestos has been buried underneath it.
The Environment Agency (EA) is yet to discover whether the toxic substance is buried at the Coton Fields allotment site – despite the health and safety body having been informed nearly a month ago.
Last month the Post revealed how environmental bosses had been inundated with claims from ‘members of the public,’ that asbestos had been buried at Coton Field allotment.
A CREWE man who was exposed to asbestos as a 14-year-old apprentice has received a substantial sum in compensation.
Albert Greenwood, 84, worked as an apprentice fitter and turner and then as a qualified fitter at Crewe Railway Works.
He was exposed to asbestos daily but was never warned about the dangers or provided with adequate protective equipment.
The great-granddad to six was diagnosed with asbestosis in May last year after suffering from breathing difficulties.
Following his diagnosis his trade union, Unite, instructed national asbestos claims experts Thompsons Solicitors to pursue a claim for compensation.
Thompsons settled the claim out of court.
A CREWE man who was exposed to asbestos as a 14-year-old apprentice has received a substantial sum in compensation.
Albert Greenwood, 84, worked as an apprentice fitter and turner and then as a qualified fitter at Crewe Railways Works.
He was exposed to asbestos daily but was never warned about the dangers or provided with adequate protective equipment.
The great granddad to six was diagnosed with asbestosis in May 2010 after suffering from breathing difficulties.
Following his diagnosis his trade union, Unite, instructed national asbestos claims experts Thompsons Solicitors to pursue a claim for compensation.
Thompsons settled the claim out of court.
COVENTRY and Warwickshire residents who have suffered asbestos poisoning at work have just a few days left to claim compensation.
In June 2010, the Ministry of Justice launched a scheme allowing workers who had developed pleural plaques – scars on the lungs caused by asbestos – to claim £5,000.
But the application must be made by August 1.
Law firm Irwin Mitchell has represented many Coventry workers whose health has suffered because their bosses exposed them to asbestos.
Its head of asbestos disease litigation, Adrian Budgen, said the expiry of the scheme was a “devastating blow” for those with pleural plaques and urged suffers to contact the solicitor who had handled their claim as fast as possible.
He said: “When pleural plaques is diagnosed, it’s a calling card that a person has been exposed to deadly asbestos dust and that they have a small chance of developing a more serious asbestos-related disease like mesothelioma.”
Source: Coventry Telegraph
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Plans to make asbestos victims pay their own legal costs in battles for compensation have been branded offensive by a Bradford support group.
Former Bradford textiles union leader Terry Briton, of the Bradford Asbestos Victims Support Group, says the Government should be ashamed.
“Victims have already taken the risk, they’ve already paid a price with their health and they should not have to face forking out any more,” he said.
Mr Briton, of Tong Street, who was the Trade and General Workers Union textiles branch secretary in the city for more than 30 years, said he had lost many colleagues over the years to mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung caused by exposure to asbestos.
Last week the Government unveiled proposals as part of a Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill which could see personal injury claimants having to pay legal costs previously paid by the defendant when found at fault.
A warehouseman who developed an asbestos-related lung cancer 40 years after first being exposed to it in East London is appealing for former workmates to help his legal fight.
William Howlett, now 67, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in October and believes his illness has been caused by exposure to asbestos while operating forklift trucks in the 1960s, 70s and 80s at book and magazine distributors Gordon & Gotch in Plaistow.
“The atmosphere was really dusty,” he recalls. “People walking through would leave as soon as possible. Bits of asbestos would flake off whenever the walls were brushed up against.”
His lawyer Nick Greaves, an industrial disease specialist at Fenton’s solicitors, hopes to trace three workmates, Ted Morgan who would now be in his 80s and Ken Meakin and John Hobbs—or any staff who can remember the asbestos dust who could help identify the firm’s insurance company.
He said: “Mr Howlett and his wife are naturally devastated. All he did was work diligently and as a result has developed this dreadful illness.
“His family may not get compensation unless we can locate the firm’s former insurers and prove he was exposed to asbestos.”
The law firm is appealing to anyone working between 1964 and 1982 at Gordon & Gotch, which is thought to have changed its name to Dawson, Royle & Willan in 1986.
Source: East London Advertiser
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