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Confront Series One: Asbestos. Investigating the asbestos industry and its harms.
Introducing series one of Confront: Asbestos. Original journalism exploring the harms of the asbestos industry on communities worldwide.
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Negligible compensation for Turner & Newall’s asbestos-exposed African workforce
A trust compensating people who contracted asbestos diseases from British company Turner & Newall has seen few claimants from Africa, despite the company’s significant presence in the region.
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University of Manchester to pay settlement to former worker diagnosed with mesothelioma
Another ex-worker at the University of Manchester has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, with the university settling the claim for £400,000.
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Understanding the UK’s asbestos disaster
Profit-hungry industry, complicit governments, and overly bureaucratic unions. Tom White, author of Bad Dust, provides his insights into the UK’s asbestos disaster and why the issues with asbestos refuse to go away today.
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Serious asbestos management failings at Oxford University, documents reveal
The University of Oxford was ordered to release documents on its asbestos management, which showed the university was in breach of regulations designed to protect people from potentially fatal asbestos exposure.
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The family whose campaign defeated the Colombian asbestos industry
Colombian asbestos companies insisted their asbestos posed no risk. They were wrong.
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How asbestos killed thousands of British carpenters
Carpenters working in the 1950s to 1970s, like Denis Brown, were largely left unprotected from asbestos exposure. Thousands of deaths followed.
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The harmful legacy the asbestos industry left in UK universities
Decades after it was fully banned, asbestos is still an issue across the UK’s higher education system.
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“We were just playing with death.” Inside a South African town poisoned by asbestos
Residents of Mafefe, South Africa, are still dealing with the toxic legacy of the apartheid-era asbestos mines.
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Millions paid out in compensation for asbestos exposure in prisons
The Ministry of Justice disclosed they’ve received 22 claims for asbestos exposure within their prisons since 2021.
