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John Pickering and Partners Charitable Trust Makes Donation to Greater Manchester Asbestos Victim Support Group
4 Nov 2018, 12:03 p.m.
The John Pickering and Partners Charity has recently donated £1,850 to the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victim Support Group to fund their ‘Living Well with Mesothelioma Group.’
The group meets once a month in Manchester City Centre at The Central Hall on Oldham St. It is a collaboration between the …
read moreCape Asbestos Acre Mill: Exposure as a child leads to mesothelioma
4 Nov 2018, 11:53 a.m.
Allan Harris of West Yorkshire was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an asbestos related cancer, in November 2017. As is usual, his doctors asked him about his work history but Allan could not remember being exposed to asbestos in any of his jobs. The only contact he could recall with asbestos was …
read moreAsbestos in the NHS - Interview with Dr Jennifer Hoyle, Consultant Respiratory Physician at North Manchester General Hospital
4 Nov 2018, 11:46 a.m.
What is your role at North Manchester General Hospital?
I am a Consultant and the Occupational Lung Disease Lead for what was previously part of the Pennine Acute NHS Trust now the Northern Care Alliance. On a day-to-day basis, I run clinics at the hospital, which are anything to do …
read moreAsbestos Law Partnership Newsletter Autumn 2018
4 Nov 2018, 11:37 a.m.
The Asbestos Law Partnership LLP's Autumn 2018 Newsletter ALP Review is now online. Click this link to open a PDF version ALP Review Autumn 2018
Inside this edition:-
- Asbestos in the NHS- Interview with Dr Jennifer Hoyle
- Cape Asbestos Acre Mill - Exposure as a child leads to mesothelioma. …
Retired GP receives compensation for mesothelioma.
23 Oct 2018, 6:23 p.m.
Our client, worked for the National Health Service his entire working career. In his earlier days, he worked in hospitals in Aberdeen, Scotland before becoming a GP and settling in the Midlands.
He was a student in the mid-1960s and like many students both then and now, during his summer …
read moreFormer F L Sanderson's employee receives compensation for Mesothelioma.
18 Oct 2018, 2:35 p.m.
Our client, Bernard Wilson was exposed to asbestos whilst working for a firm called F L Sanderson from Bradford in the 1940’s and 1950’s. He was taken on as an apprentice plumber and worked in different mills and houses throughout the Bradford area. In 2017 he developed mesothelioma from his …
read moreBT Pay for Mesothelioma Immunotherapy
18 Oct 2018, 2:18 p.m.
Geoff Watkins worked for the GPO and then British Telecom from 1969 to 1996 as a telephone engineer in Birmingham. He was exposed to asbestos dust when rewiring the Post Office Tower in the mid 1970’s. The areas between the floors of the tower were crammed with hessian sacks containing …
read moreAppeal For Witnesses In Mesothelioma Claim For Lab Technician Exposed To Asbestos At Glaxo SmithKline In Ulverston
8 Oct 2018, 5:13 p.m.
Our client, a retired lab technician and process manager, appeals to Glaxo SmithKline’s Ulverston site employees who remember asbestos in particular in the older part of the site to help him seek justice for contracting mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung, caused by exposure to asbestos dust. …
read moreWitness Appeal: Asbestos Exposure At Kalamazoo Birmingham Causes Electrician’s Mesothelioma
1 Oct 2018, 8:40 p.m.
John Swadling of Bromsgrove, appeals to his former colleagues who worked as electricians at Kalamazoo’s Mill Lane premises in Birmingham to contact his solicitor, Fozia Hussain at specialist mesothelioma law firm, The Asbestos Law Partnership, who is investigating a claim for John’s mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the …
read moreGordon Marriott Memorial Golf Day Raises over £11,200 for the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victim Support Group.
1 Oct 2018, 8:35 p.m.
On the 7th September 2018, the family of Gordon Marriott who tragically died of mesothelioma, ran a charity golf day at Blackley Golf Club to raise vital funds to support the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victim Support Group.
The day started before 8am, with golfers turning up to take on the …
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