10th May 2019
A grieving son has told how he lost his ‘best mate’ when his dad died of asbestos-related cancer. Now Guy Cheshire is trying to find out how his beloved father, Keith, contracted deadly mesothelioma which ended his life. Father-of-four and grandfather-of-13 Keith, 73, from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, worked for several years in the merchant navy on…
28th February 2019
A Grandmother who worked in a ‘dusty’ basement at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospital has died from mesothelioma. Ann Higginson, 77, who managed the medical records at the hospital from the mid to late 1990s, told how there was “dust in the atmosphere” of the basement where the files were stored. Colleagues also reported how staff…
29th November 2018
A father-of-one who survived cancer twice died when he contracted it for the third time after being exposed to asbestos. John Rogerson, 65, survived Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Prostate cancer and joked that the disease would ‘get him in the end’. In a tragic twist John, from Northfleet, in Kent, died just weeks after being diagnosed…
24th July 2018
The family of a 47 year old woman are appealing for help after she died in March this year from mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Her partner Kevin is hoping that her former work colleagues can come forward to help with information. Previously Tara Busbridge, a mother of two children,…
27th June 2018
The widow of a retired cable layer is looking for old work friends of her husband who can give answers about the exposure to asbestos which caused his death. Mr Del Charles Maynard, known as “Fat” or “Charlie” to his colleagues, worked for Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company as a cable layer between 1959 and…
