Norwich Evening News 17th February 2007 reported the plight of a widow who has launched landmark legal action against Norfolk County Council, after her husband died from exposure to asbestos while working as a school caretaker.
Legal experts warn that the case could open the floodgates for other school employees or pupils to come forward with claims.
Education bosses have previously admitted that every school in Norfolk, except those built since 2000, contains some form of asbestos and it could be decades before it is cleared.In recent years, scientists have established that breathing in tiny fibres of asbestos directly causes the untreatable cancer mesothelioma.
Last March it was claimed nationally up to 15 teachers are dying of the disease every year due to breathing in the toxic dust in the classroom and that thousands of children are also at risk. Scientists have warned that every drawing pin stuck in the wrong classroom ceiling released 6,000 asbestos fibres in the air and that the risks in these rooms were immense.
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