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Schools contain deadly asbestos

May 3, 2009 by Ann-Marie Waters · Leave a Comment
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Asbestos Timebomb (Daily Mirror)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fifty percent of the UK’s 25,000 schools were built between 1945 – 1974, a time when asbestos was widely used. Teaching staff dying of mesothelioma peaked to 18 percent a year from 2001 - 2005.
This alarming evidence indicates that thousands of school children are likely to have been exposed and are at risk of developing [...]