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• "For every teacher who's exposed, how many children are there?"Rowen said: "I was responsible for building in my secondary school and I know first-hand that management of asbestos is not up to scratch.
• "There's a long latency period and children are more vulnerable if they are exposed early in their lives when their lungs are still developing.
• Bousted said: "Our asbestos register has over 500 members who know they have been exposed to asbestos but we believe that's a drop in the ocean and there will be many, many more teachers exposed who just don't know it."The campaigners want the government to carry out immediate air sampling of 100 schools in England and Wales, built at different times, to see whether asbestos is present.
• Building Schools for the Future doesn't automatically remove asbestos and local authorities aren't treating it seriously.
• They will also argue for an independent public body to be set up to look into and advise on asbestos in schools.
• According to Cancer Research UK, just over 2,100 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma, which is virtually untreatable, in the UK each year.
• Three-quarters of schools in England and Wales contain asbestos, and nearly 300 teachers and lecturers have died of mesothelioma – a cancer related to asbestos exposure – since 1980.
• Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, who is leading a joint campaign of all the teaching unions, said: "We've known about this issue for a while and have been campaigning for the last two years but it's really coming together now."She will join Paul Rowen, Liberal Democrat MP for Rochdale, a former deputy headteacher who has raised the issue in parliament, and asbestos expert and campaigner Michael Lees, whose wife died of mesothelioma in 2000, to urge Brown to carry out a national audit of asbestos in schools.

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• Apartments Attorneys for some residents of the town of Libby blame tremolite asbestos from the vermiculite for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.
• Miners carried asbestos home on their clothes, vermiculite used to cover school running tracks in Libby and some residents used vermiculite as mulch in their home gardens.
• The company and its one-time heads were accused of knowingly endangered the lives of mine workers and other residents of Libby, and ignoring warnings by state agencies to clean up the vermiculite mining operation.
• Gayla Benefield of Libby, who suffers health effects from asbestos exposure and lost both parents to asbestos-related lung diseases, said she doesn't know what the next step will be.
• The company knew about the health hazards of asbestos, but covered it up "so they could continue making money as well as avoid liability," Assistant U.S.
• The town at the hub of an area with about 10,000 residents now has a health clinic devoted to asbestos-related disease.
• Libby has held asbestos "health fairs" and a local company got into the business of manufacturing backpack-style carriers for oxygen tanks used to aid the breathing of people with asbestos-scarred lungs.

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• and three former executives were acquitted Friday of federal charges that they knowingly allowed residents of northwestern Montana town to be exposed to asbestos from its vermiculite mine.
• Attorneys for some residents of the town of Libby blame tremolite asbestos from the vermiculite for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.
• Miners carried asbestos home on their clothes, vermiculite used to cover school running tracks in Libby and some residents used vermiculite as mulch in their home gardens.
• The company and its one-time heads were accused of knowingly endangered the lives of mine workers and other residents of Libby, and ignoring warnings by state agencies to clean up the vermiculite mining operation.
• Gayla Benefield of Libby, who suffers health effects from asbestos exposure and lost both parents to asbestos-related lung diseases, said she doesn't know what the next step will be.
• Grace knew about the health hazards of asbestos, but covered it up "so they could continue making money as well as avoid liability," Assistant U.S.
• The town at the hub of an area with about 10,000 residents now has a health clinic devoted to asbestos-related disease.
• Libby has held asbestos "health fairs" and a local company got into the business of manufacturing backpack-style carriers for oxygen tanks used to aid the breathing of people with asbestos-scarred lungs.

Source From : Jury acquits W.R. Grace, 3 execs in asbestos case

• Maryland-based chemical company Grace and three former executives are accused of conspiring to hide health risks posed by asbestos in vermiculite that Grace mined years ago near Libby, in northwestern Montana.
• Attorneys for some Libby residents blame tremolite asbestos for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.
• Human memories fade, McLean said, but the information on paper reveals some of what the company knew about asbestos hazards and shows that Grace sought to build a bank of information on which to draw if the company eventually was challenged about asbestos exposure.

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• and three former executives were acquitted Friday of federal charges that they knowingly allowed residents of northwestern Montana town to be exposed to asbestos from its vermiculite mine.
• Attorneys for some residents of the town of Libby blame tremolite asbestos from the vermiculite for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.
• Miners carried asbestos home on their clothes, vermiculite used to cover school running tracks in Libby and some residents used vermiculite as mulch in their home gardens.
• The company and its one-time heads were accused of knowingly endangered the lives of mine workers and other residents of Libby, and ignoring warnings by state agencies to clean up the vermiculite mining operation.
• Gayla Benefield of Libby, who suffers health effects from asbestos exposure and lost both parents to asbestos-related lung diseases, said she doesn't know what the next step will be.
• The company knew about the health hazards of asbestos, but covered it up "so they could continue making money as well as avoid liability," Assistant U.S.
• The town at the hub of an area with about 10,000 residents now has a health clinic devoted to asbestos-related disease.
• Libby has held asbestos "health fairs" and a local company got into the business of manufacturing backpack-style carriers for oxygen tanks used to aid the breathing of people with asbestos-scarred lungs.

Source From : Attorneys in WR Grace asbestos trial present closing arguments…

• Maryland-based chemical company Grace and three former executives are accused of conspiring to hide health risks posed by asbestos in vermiculite that Grace mined years ago near Libby, in northwestern Montana.
• Attorneys for some Libby residents blame tremolite asbestos for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.
• Human memories fade, McLean said, but the information on paper reveals some of what the company knew about asbestos hazards and shows that Grace sought to build a bank of information on which to draw if the company eventually was challenged about asbestos exposure.

Source From : Jurors hear closing arguments in asbestos trial

• Closing arguments start in Grace asbestos trial.
• asbestos trial are under way in U.S.
• They're accused of conspiring to conceal dangers posed by asbestos in vermiculite mined at Libby years ago.
• Grace closed its Libby vermiculite mine in 1990.
• Some of the northwestern Montana community's residents blame asbestos exposure for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths.
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• Helen Llewellyn, previously Frost, was aged 69 when she was diagnosed with mesothelioma five years ago.
• Mrs Llewellyn, who lived in Newcastle, is thought to have been occupationally exposed to asbestos in the course of her employment at the English Electric Company factory at Butt Lane between 1967 and 1968.
• Her family want to trace former colleagues who can confirm the nature of the work performed at the factory which would have brought Mrs Llewellyn into contact with asbestos dust.
• Her son, John Frost, aged 52, who lives in Ronaldsway Drive, Newcastle, said: "Mum started feeling unwell about five years ago and she went to see a specialist who diagnosed her with cancer caused by asbestos.
• "We checked through her employment history and the factory in Butt Lane was the only place where we thought she could have been exposed to asbestos.
• "Before she passed away she was a bit disillusioned that no-one had taken responsibility for her catching this awful disease and she insisted we kept on asking and pushing for answers." There are a variety of conditions which are thought to be caused by inhaling asbestos and they can take many years to develop.
• Mesothelioma, which Mrs Llewellyn suffered from, is an aggressive cancer which most commonly occurs in the lining of the lungs and is extremely rare in the absence of asbestos exposure.
• The Government has started handing out compensation to asbestos sufferers in some cases and Helen was writing a letter to the Prime Minister but unfortunately she was too unwell to finish it.
• We need her old workmates to come forward and tell us what kind of work Helen used to do so we can take this forward." The family's solicitor, Helen Childs said: "We need to locate former colleagues who can confirm the nature of the work performed at the Butt Lane factory which would have brought her into contact with asbestos dust.

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