A 64-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with terminal asbestos-related cancer is seeking answers to questions about how she may have come into contact with the lethal substance during her working life.

A woman who was exposed to asbestos during her time working for Midland Bank from the 1970s to the 1980s, and who later developed an asbestos-linked cancer, has been handed £900,000 in compensation by her former employer’s successor company HSBC.

A significant development in the ongoing story around claims about asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talc powder products occurred on Tuesday 3rd October, when an appeals court in New Jersey tossed an earlier $223.8 million (£184.7 million) verdict against the company.

A construction company has been hit with a fine of £90,000, as a consequence of its actions when carrying out a renovation project that caused people to be exposed to asbestos in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Find out more about this case.

Here we report on the deeply saddening case of Barbara Morris, a former sales assistant who was the focus of an article by The Sunday Times in August.

Discover how a man has avoided incarceration after being convicted in relation to the fly-tipping of 61 tonnes of waste in Middlesbrough, in an incident described as “one of the worst” the Teesside town has ever seen.