A Hertfordshire care home has been fined after it failed to ensure asbestos was removed from old buildings before demolition work. The unsafe working practices were revealed after a complaint last spring from a member of the public living close to the former hospital site on Hospital Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire....
Campaigners and politicians have called for drastic action amid revelations that some eight out of ten schools in Sheffield contain asbestos. Figures obtained by the Sheffield Star revealed 86 per cent of primaries and 35 per cent of the city’s secondary schools contain the potentially deadly dust. The problem is so...
Asbestos found on the site of a proposed hospital will have to be removed as hazardous waste. The recommendation has been passed on to contractors due to start on the St Luke's project in Market Harborough...
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...