UNITED KINGDOM News
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June 06, 2011
The Government's chief scientific adviser, Prof Sir John Beddington, has given the green light to the white asbestos scam, says Christopher Booker.
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March 23, 2011
You would be forgiven for thinking that in order to be an asbestos surveyor you are legally required to be BOHS (P402 etc) or UKAS accredited.
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March 12, 2011
A rulling by Lord Phillips, president of the Supreme Court, could open the floodgates for an asbestos bonanza, says Christopher Booker.
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March 17, 2010
Many of the visitors to this subject of the sustained attacks on Prof John Bridle of Asbestos Watchdog may be curious as to why he should be targeted with such aggressive harassment.
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September 29, 2009
The Advertising Standards Authority [ASA] have recently upheld our complaint about the HSE’s massive advertising campaign claiming that asbestos kills 4500 workers every year. That was further refined to claim that 9 plumbers, 9 carpenters, and 9 electricians will die every week from asbestos exposure. The HSE must now stop making these exaggerated claims.
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September 28, 2008
It is not often one journalist accuses another of killing his readers, but that was one of the charges levelled against me in an extraordinary tirade last week by The Guardian's environmental columnist George Monbiot.
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June 25, 2008
A group of senior farmers are battling to save their industry from a red-tape disaster which could cost it an estimated £6 billion, and which the country's leading independent experts say is wholly unnecessary.
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May 10, 2008
The Asbestos Watchdog recently released a report called "Casitile- The New Asbestos" which gave good evidence to suggest that when white asbestos is mixed with cement, it changes its chemistry and structure to become significantly different to the banned fibre. If the science was accepted it would affect 90% of all the banned asbestos in the world . Unsurprisingly, vested interest groups have tried to discredit the report.
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December 03, 2006
The bizarre effort by Radio 4's You and Yours to discredit the whistleblower who (along with this column) campaigns against the "great asbestos scam" seems to have backfired.
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August 06, 2006
A major battle is going on behind the scenes over a proposed change in the law that could end a commercial racket costing Britain's homeowners, including local authorities, more than £500 million a year.
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