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FILE NAME: Neighborhood Exposures (NE) DATE: 1995 DOC#: NE102 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Neighborhood Mesothelioma Case Compensation in UK-June Hancock 0 0 -d e S frZ -O N X M /X J. 'i'y't U - L U iib ./n .7 U > ' ' the TIMES SATURDAYOCTOBER281995 W om en win for compe from asbes Bv f u a . W h i ms TWO wtavtcn yesterday be- two years to live. Sh cnrtvi the first to w*n compen her ciuKi 13 month ag< sation tor the effects of her.iQ(ber hatf died In jajrbjjsto^, eviai though neither Jaaic ailipicmi soon aft had worked with the material. KcttHTwits" diaxnoscd Their High Comjt victory in lim. S1e said after the Leeds againt the Brimfc- mcni that she was ba.vcd multinational TN. adding: "l. fought Ibis "pft whose conduct of its cs> wrts behv.lf oi my mother and Ml severely crirU'in'd by the live ushers who cannot judge. JouU ix&CJtsai**L. here." claims w0rrr"Vji.^n)4 w-ikuc Ado?fi Byiijjrn, Mrs llan*. nrs\y^V.K^v*Ti>^rv:Jth cancer- . ovtfci oJ;rtiw. aid it was causifig ajbcJios wm fivUjg; fcaridalous that the case had I oiUiy susipiy lo ob>tvuci nearhTicimyprodutfaii \i. ; needed to Come to court- "Thi* . plaintiff'road". TAN, Vrtiicn Wfi called: is a landmark efrystan," he ^ Th* judge >id {he elf a n \X 'Hiroer A N'cwall until 1967.: said, adding tha ir here were a> suibcxfo were known as for has ahe^ty paid 1250 million. least 3T u> 40 other coses ba-iV a W33. When re^u!a< worldwide lo people directly i>endii^Jn. Ow 'A rrti^y. area cians ^ruernlrig working with ft/fc%ned by asbesfosis 'afore" B possibly fCQ ji were kvn'jducod. Rt'scarch other related discue$. nahiixuU/- r , t n tin t had Indicated th*i T h t test Cities were brought * Evelyn Margcrcson. 09, vuim*rwilk>` of young p0i?ie by two people who had speni: was awarded (50.000 fur ibe tu ii a h ^ th c opn^xiny muse jhur dhiUthoKl more iY.ar> *X) dau b lour yours >v of her huvi.* knrywn iht ^hiklrvn years <t0 living uniter Ihy husband. Arthur, a lorry driv rogutariy ptaytxl nvut by. It xlttdow olthe T&N jratoidta/y; er. H r Timi had nKsdlhetknna. was guilty of breach of lio JW Roberts and had deujfl- She took up the claim h r had same duty of care t vwxf to its op-sd asttestiUs-provoVfjd abn' o/iginahy begun in iw). M r worker*' iiwicfelhe factory. cars in later Ilfc. TheJactow in Nfn>*orft|Cin n<wJ lived near The noun h r d evi- the AnrtleU distrirt 1 1 ^ $ the factory from soon after Jiij <k;rte that mkoy-cidiit<iior made insulating myUi**V#r. birth in 1925 until die J'Jffl- /uni> bed simply i*w l ftn? stfrarn cn g ^ 1 ?Qnefrit'citecd[~ Boih women had KU*l aid. la h a n d u iflo rhe outside air, Tim9. ~ *"WTib jivdgment. M i lu&ike w h V ~ tt" col'^Cfed "in* the June Hancock. 5*>, who wa$ Holland .taid that Roberts had s tr e e t 'Jhc xiiSgc said1"Cfii- awarded 65,000. dying rA j j d for less licittion to toh^wrol like fibres .. blow in mcsolhelloma. a cancer o ftiu oontnjnmg asbcstoc duyt than the wind and ooKc\:im2 In chest lining. As a child iji.lhe t<l\cr"fooc>i4r One Survey gutters nnd against thi oor- late tOX^ and eariyJfWOls, h a trtid ira w d ih*t it could nor* af buildlncs. which a P & y e a lA a t^ liK <*? Xmlvu / d u ral the cscajx** by child could wnA did kvck **He drifted from Roberts's into the up to 8S per coni. Instead. it Added; Children of ibat era surrounding birth to-tytfk $e*v ChSiSfeJo pay-blgher.c.a2t4 to lived m confined huus^s. stir* race*. Her doctors have told ov^rcon(>c_wrvdoyccs' fears.of rounded by compaT^slvely her has little more than ttHTfcig~a:nn elTccis of oepo- safe streets, pievitubty. dtey Jaiis `on road Ttim iin s prisons is Es Bo:haiH> l o a n liftAll: I'MtRtiPOHTXtHT Jane U & uvck. dying nf said she elated after spem much time in the latter, playing in rcxipa. particular ly during the summers.H Erie Hudson, a scltoolho)- in Lite l*30s. Kmwmhered u g.itV ering like snw in the play ground of the Armfey Clock Sihool where children had tried lil SCOOPH Up lox MVjviballs to throw at each other. >'.umce BriidtLy, 57, rcmcmbered usin^ iiCHS full of wAste Almtos to bounce on. "Wben we jumped Ob the sacks. I can THE tir^nrdijnt n-i>r>n on jiit Sivriij< was ij<nuurnvtl yesMrtay by (h4 Chief Insps-ctix of PriM*n$. w1u) said tfa-v t s^ed oper-ed "ibe row! to the con- centration campv. Jnd^e Stephen . Tbinim urged'the H,mic ScciVttiy to disregard the thrust of ihe rcpviu. vVik:h he suvJ had tl'rt hilaJiic wrong bfiwcen security Hod humanity. Thej outburst., can as The Timcs\ Je^Vn* that die Privm iervioc ana Mich;\cl Howard have ' been Tent warnings about:lax security *kStrongc* ways jail irk Maihosier Duong a,'uxvnf vtsrf. fih.m- hers Of ihtf ptisoi^s iihptvtfif- a\e went alw vttd bv wad- couatc Peafebaa at the jail, nh.li can- boJd up id 9ik> imnacc*. x*d poor moniioring of cloied-circuit iclcvisien. Immcdiattly niter the in- usbostocinrcUled cancer, being aw arded 65.000 Spictifl7 hoy at out iheir concorii* in a lctlcr io Rirbiu'd tat, then OincctuT of Security for Prbon*. with a copy to rhe Homji Secretary- The ja*!. remember grey-blue dust cominft out ctf thcin->fC we jumped hard enough. (i?KtMigs &ccnti of riots in 1WO.Tuopwred last )j*ar after wn E60 million imxfepiia,tkjn poigCAmmi burst cipen" that .meliidrd installation of Other iviaiieni5 hail vuftu& ih t security ystma. the <iAi(ani need to di^tt their Sin John Lenrtont*ii report /KiincT, furnilurc * iped c h u t ihh?the brrakoul from tlie lop. wuold ivced another dusting security rrk)iurt prison l\atf <MvUm: later Ana cuve raadL- more than >00 recom- Tempu5.tp6e$ maji's pink bedroom w turm d Wm? h^>the duij. TikN shares fair. 2S njc)datlons. They included buiiJiug &maximum-^t-eurity jail lo hold the most danger ous, Somaies aiul coftiidferahon 2 ; of -arnvid response team* and f llic j9.il prij. "1ph' Sior *kv yciv Sir wri the ear ani hu mt ihc do vet fkon on wi oft Sams hadj false leg : searched J MICHAEL SAMS, the convlcted kilter and Iddnjpper, Juad his aniltdal leg rcOiOved and searched for weapons after he as&aultud a prqbatieo ofltuer la prison, sieT lom e OfRoe conCirmcd yc#wrday.` The brief search look p/nce after Sam i, 53. attacked Julia FfoCk lost Monday. Hi* artifi cial right teg was reitfaced after the search and he fe now in soUtory oonfmemcm. H o is serving life sentences for <bc murder of Julie Dart And the VUtrtipymu of Hueesiahr agcnl Str)h^lfi Slater. Sam* attacked. Mra Slack, the wifo of the Aietwicacon of PD!fcfnu.*t. at WakeTuHd pris on. Colin Slaier, chairman ot me WakefieW bra neb of the Pnsiyt Ofttocr' Assocfaifon. said: '"Sams Is a very, very untov*ilar prarmcr. Had piUon staff not goi there, prison- wcvjld have. ta L n care of him tbemsoWes. He jvas movTd from C> wing because he had bt'cn Lmimiaating to nula memlAirs of staff." Gems of potato world are stolen Bv Mic h a e l H o r n &by. agkiculti;r i: CXiRRESpqivDENrr SCIENTISTS h aw appealed U? thieves *o return rare pota toes stolen from a research centre Vn N orthumt^rtand. Some may be irreplaceable. About a am of s d pota toes, incUiding more than 150 different varieties, was taken during a break-id at (tie Potato MulUplfoatioft Vole of the National Institute of Agri cultural Botany at M orpeth David Young, a trial* Of ficer mi the renrn*. said: "The tragedy Is that the thieves will probably u y to sell the potae toes lor eatmg. T h o 3re very small and would probably not letch more than L2O0 as ci\ter*. Yti some of tho vaviet' b i 4re very rare and m oy be impossible in replace. vVe a.K stib doing a check, to see exactly what **: Have lost. The potatoes are each boat I k sire of a targe egg And come in a variny of colours, red. purple, white ami even spotM- Th pala- toes were being stored at Mirepedr "before being seal to be planted on cjqpmmmta! foetus swm C am bridge where they are used to train inspec tors jn the jecognftkm of differed! varieties and to build up a collection of rare types. M r Young said: "The north of England is seen ms a highgrade seed potato area, main ly because of ihe dimate and lack of disease rir-fc*. We have bad a spate of brcak-ios> for bis> ol iiiaelhrrtfy and \h t like but this is the Cnit time | pofatoer havr been jjk e u ." Tbc thieves* b?u) Is tlioujjtii to \ncU*Ae such unusual vaci- i d ie s m majestic, golden woV dcr and edzclt blue. A police spokesman skl"We want anyone who is Offered unusually shaped ur coloured potaW$ to cuntnct i5. nicy were ptrekvxf into W bcown pftpor bagv each with u 8iu>Upink label naming the variety.- THE VRlNCUn.ES OF {NFGR is 1 attention to S0`d ETCrSSSSTt'TS ik V tf^ a u ia ii 01 N O U d O U I l 3 S 0 H 3 WO H d :HH( iHUIlhu T-ihKI L Z -.O Q 6 6 1 - 1 - 1 3 0 HOil SOO'd ESWON XH/XI LZ'- LO S6/ie/0f THETIMES SATURDAYOCTOBER281995 W om en win fight for com pensa^-- from asbestos nrimi v Paci.W> *,Nst>N TWO win! yesterday be- two years to live. She cams ills first to vein comped- her aCluto 13 mombs eg sallun lot the effects of her mnitier had diwl Ire asbestos, even though TU-'ithec atime ailipeAK~siti aft bad worked with Ihe material. hersetf was "diagnosed vrc Their High Court victory in Um. Slut said after the Lewis against the British- meni that she was "toy, based multinational TN. adding; fought this , whose conduct ot Its tse e.:cs bubiilf otjtuy r..cil\c and ; severely tflfisi'd by tlte lite others who csnnot I Judge. Jouiil fCi^gcr jiocea of._ claims 'nWfTvietinii wsfewe Adrian liudacn, M rs Mah- fijK-rthr. 'air, it wit, fEirrehrttMSTlSt fife case had needed to cocao to court. "IW* '^TWbtJ^WTisrfr wee ^ ra ile d , is a Jgfidmarfc tfeeisfim." he mrwtr a Newall until 19gJ,: said, adding that mere were at has alretniy paid L2S.J million , k a a 3ft to 40 other cases worldwiile to people dfreefly affected by ashestests and 'alooc Eartd possiSi}^ ^ ^ , other related diseasesThe test eases were brought: by two people .who had spent I thuir childhood more than til years a jd living under die itin k w a lth e T&N i-Kluldiare; JW Roberts and bad deufSoped athestos-pvo-.OVcd flip eera in later life. Ths factaiy in the Armley district W made glSulwlTiEnun*: , 'w W e w iiH fflinifs.Tnai nationally. ' 1Evelyn- Atatgereson.. 69, wax aw-arded tSO.iXX) Fur me ilci.it, taut yc.it! -ny, of her husband, Arthur, a Uirry driver. H e too had mesoihclioTM. She took up the claim He had originally begun in 1905 M r Margcreton h a d lived near the factory from soon niter Jus birth in 1925 until die JiJWs- BomjMJiimiraiUClLAlaid. * TB ms jttoemens. M r tusVcr Stine Hancock. 5`>, who tvaii awarded 63,000, is dying at mcsolbelionta, a cancer o f chest lining. As * child in the late TOiOa and cstIv l`>lLfc. sue Holtaivlsaid that Robcrtsbaa .Paitf far J e s s attention to totitolKngasi I r a - te a s e r a r I3 tr-50TMy" stJnttri.n..t.f..e..T..t...d. " that it could b,a.-vi'ye. reduced the cgMcaujtes by drifted froriritoiwrts? iiitu the up co SS per cent. Instead, d svuTtomdlng b h to-tMftt tec ta * . H er doctors have retd her *b# has little more than surety hstyc-xioti rie ..ud i tip, irto Vrtniio'theiMiW'j'-Xy to which it wax oaiaxt ana uttmtcdKU' dans by any su-jns Brndbic. lEitrtMe or othcrvrixj. e a W wcartiuwn down by am itton" to. lawyers had "remorsels^y persisted in isklog had points, appre,;tic sifuply to bstrun tte plaintiffe' M d " The judge sail! (hce/fiXTS of ssbcisfos were known as Sf back StofffiS. when rtlgidatiens ^oscfnirig working with it were vrnducrd. Efsearch even then had Indicated tito vulni.-nsii-.lfe of ything people to it an d tbs imitany muse have known that chiktrea regularly pliyil nein by, It was guilty of a breach of Hie samo-duty of care iurw ciltoiti workers inside Uw factory. The Mint had heard vy deuce that jniy-csU itot A ra barf simpty n w a l me tnhal dust nioe oUtsSir^r rtreis. Ilie pnig sadi C<ntcf-Xrv.i-iikc fibres ., blew in the wind *nd oollected in gainers tinti aglaailnst the toorIters of buildings, whbitht a child could and did kktt." He aided; "Children of that era lived in confined houses, sur. rounded by comptHWrlvsSy Ja ils `on road Tumim s prisons is Et Rp:tL\jtt>FQ*U .FH&mIVORREIPOWMXT THE Skarrrtont irt\>on OH$*H jifviirily V/as kmainiX'd ys- KidiWiby ih* Cbtet Inapvtfor afPrisixrts, vvmjsanitfc.Vit fc&<$ opalini 'li)* rwl to.tfi con^cTKraiifin tamii*. Jn<J$e Stephen, . KtanUn . vLT^nt'fhc Home St&v&ry &> dsrcs;ird he thrust of ihe reparti wkfch he stria hutf 501 th blani wtoiiu teoveen frurty htimanity. The| tafajftt, carote s The Times} JvJrm tfcat the Priviti iSrviOf aria Michael Howard hv ' ixon .svm waroings aipoutlu tiiriy ai Stranie* uays jaii iii Marchi;-. (Buoni} SfYcecnfvfsrf, tm m - Xbars f tftt'PYisWif jotegmiEMS. lite ri^e >:$ araym&J by &a<i- jwl rc Srafctes at th jai pris fi fian? JwW u p io 99& ff k u m itt' and pr ittufliiirtn$ SiOf of ctosttf-crcuit televi5ieri, .Tiwwcdialtiy afrer ite m- iiey ,3 01 their <k>v onwrruf in avller 10 Ricftfd ytu J u n e (PBorfr. d ying o f asbcstds-rclaietl cancel', Kilt, pton Diteci* ^ Scettrily Sir said she w as elated after being aw arded 65.000 ri PrisOBii. witb k rtrf tt>th \m- Hoiui Secret*ty- The jasl. the spem much Sme ln the lattar, reniembar >rrcy-b5ue dust sicncof r t o in W90, o^cnd <3X pls-vliig in groppa, particulsr- coming out of them. ,K we la$C y^ar after an 80 mtlion ani SS iy ilafing Ihs Summers." iumpedhard enough. ;!|1- bags mt'tlirrti?avtk3n jKVgxTcmm* Erte Hudson, a schoolboy i burst i^en." Lhat .ineludffd mscaltation of ho Ilio toSOs. remesthered it gat- Other resiitenishad luca'ted l<t scrnty ystewa. aring like stlitw in the 1ay- the currttant need to dijst their Sic John tM itrtont1* report grourid of thu Armfcy Clock homes, fhmfitirr wiped clean Woth hrftaXout from il* iop do Schani whcre children had would need another posting wcuiiiy FariJiw tf prisca vei tt iod la scoop li u.p fer swtov- haWatvhinis later *tVX one raadfe more than JOO reoom- bulls io thnuv ar eaeh other. tnajs's pink bcdroctn rocidationsu They ineiudwi ft >'.i,,iice Rrudfer. 57, rtvbftt- turned Nue by the duy. buitine SLmaximum-teurwy on bured usine icks full of w*Mb j'a1n io n u ihc r m \ danger-* aslwitsK to bour.ee on, "WhxO TSiN shares fair, ijutg* IS ous inmates and cvflgid&r&tion wt wojutttped Ofl. ?he aacks. 1can Temper, ipage 2$ j of armed response tfcims and Ofi Sams had false leg i searched | MICHABL SAJVtS, the COilvicted kilter and kidnapper, h a d Ids artifeial leg removed and searched for weapatis after he ex-nulled a probation officer in prison, tfic .Hoitie Office cortfiimcd yesterday. The brief search look pines after Sam*. 55. attacked Julia Fleck last Monday. Hi artifi cial right teg was reiuacsd after the search and he is now ra solitary confinement. Fin is serving life sentences tor fee murder of Julie D art and the Stephanie Slater. Sams attacked Mra Slahk. the wife of tlte Archdeacon of Pontefract, a; Wakdield pris on. Colin Slater, chairman at the Wakefield branch of fee Prison Officers' Association, said: -Ssrns is a very, very unpopular ptisonev. H ad ptlon staff nw got there, ptisoo<vr would h-lVC. takcU Itotp of him tBcmsuKes. He ivas moved froth P w m e because he had been intimidating foh iile members o f staff. Gems of potato world are stolen Bv M ichal H osuvsbv. aorici i n ,n r: coRRESPOivOEteT SCIENTISTS hare appealed to thieves to return rare pota toes stolen fiotti a research centre toi NortlrumbtilanU. Some may be irreplaceable, About a ts a o f seed pot*- toes, mdyding more than 150 different varieties, wn taken during a break-io at fee Pillato Multiplication Unit of the National Institute of Agri cultural Botany at M orpeth DaVid Young, a trials af flua- at the nere, said; " th e tragedy 1that the thieves Will probably <Vto self the pota toes lor eating. They are v o y small and would probably not letch more than 200 *s enters. Yet some o f the varier te sre very rare an d m>i be Impossible to replace, "Vfc am still doing a check to see exactly what we nave lost. The potatoes are each about the se of a large egg and come in a variety of colours, red, purple, white and even spood- The pois- toes were being Stored at Afprocth before firing rent to be planted on experimental !n n i nwrcCambridge, wb ore they are used to train inspec tors its fee recognfiiod ot different varieties and to build up a collection o f rare types. M r Young said: "The north of England IS seen a a highgrade seed potato area, main ly because o f the- climate and lack of disease risks- Vc have bad a spate Of tweak-inx for bits of tnachinwy and the lHte b u t this is (he first time potatoes hare been!," The thieves* haul is thought to include such unusual vari eties ns majestic, golden won der and edeell blue. A police spokesman said; "We want anyone w ho la Offered unusually shaped or coloured potato; to contact us. ite jrv n e p a tM iirie lfiP brown wiper bags, each with a stnall p~ ~ ----- variety." T H E P R I N C I P L E S O F Si F O R 0 ~d T lE 8 8 S T trT 8 Ol N O I I t o m i B S tH D O-IOdd - : si n , I H l i u k u 1CHH51 5 :6 0 6 6 T ~ l - 3 Q und I