Steve Boggan

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Steve Boggan |Chris Pollard

Deadly asbestos kills three times as many Britons as road accidents and is rife in hospitals and schools, a new report has warned. The probe compiled 381,398 separate inspections and found there are at least 150 million asbestos items hidden in public buildings across the UK. The data has been turned into an interactive map that shows the prevalence of asbestos and mesothelioma - an incurable cancer caused by inhaling asbestos fibres - in each area of the country.

Oct 28, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Steve Boggan

Last week, the Mail launched a landmark campaign against the scourge of asbestos in Britain's public buildings by highlighting the plight of our schools. Today, Steve Boggan reveals how the increasingly dilapidated state of our hospitals – 90 per cent of which contain asbestos – means that healthcare staff are three times more likely to develop the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma than the general public. Just as people of a certain age know where they were when John F.

Oct 20, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Steve Boggan

Once a year, primary school headteacher Roger Tweed used to take his board of governors on a tour of asbestos hot spots in the buildings where he taught, proudly reassuring them that they were all perfectly safe. 'I realise now that I actually knew sod all about asbestos, except what I'd been told on a health and safety course,' he says. 'That was: 'If it's all sealed and painted over, then don't worry about it – it's safe.

Oct 20, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Steve Boggan |Chris Pollard

Hundreds of thousands of people will die from exposure to asbestos in Britain's schools, a bombshell report claims. Pupils and teachers face a 'tsunami' of deaths after being exposed to the 'hidden killer' every day, the authors warn. The Mail today launches a campaign to strip the toxic material from all public buildings – starting with hospitals and more than 21,000 schools where it is present.

Oct 18, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Steve Boggan

This month 335 new MPs began their first full year in Parliament blissfully ignorant of the danger lurking around them, even in the Commons chamber where they sit. Few, if any, will know that the Palace of Westminster, which houses the Commons and the Lords, is riddled with asbestos, a deadly building material banned in all forms since 1999 yet never removed from hundreds of thousands of public buildings in the UK, including 90 per cent of hospitals and 83 per cent of schools.