Phoebe Keane

Oct 25, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Phoebe Keane

I’m rummaging in my make-up bag, checking the ingredients of face powders, eyeshadows and blushers. The reason I’m covering my rug in sparkly beige powder is that these products containing talc could also have traces of something that shouldn’t be there, something deadly: asbestos. The spark for this interest was Hannah Fletcher, 48, a mother-of-two from Oxshott, Surrey, and once a City high-flyer. In 2017, she was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer that had affected the lining of her abdomen.