On 6th April 2007, the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph reported that companies responsible for an asbestos which closed a school have been fined £100,000.
Southfield School for Girls, in Kettering had to close for seven months, because asbestos was distrubed during refurbishment work. Pupils lost coursework, and teachers lost notes, and all of the school's computers were ruined by the work which took place during the summer holidays in 2003.
Northampton-based Briggs & Forrester Electrical was fined £60,000, B&W Asbestos Removal Specialists, of Bedford, £30,000 and its director Marcus Buckle was fined £10,000 after admitting breaching health and safety rules.
The refit eventually cost £6.5 million and a civil case is still to be settled.
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http://www.northantset.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2231098&SectionID=661
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