Brown Promises Decision On Asbestos Compensation

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The law should be changed to allow former dockyard workers suffering from an asbestos-related disease to claim compensation, says a city MP.

There has been continuing pressure on the Government to end what campaigners say is the injustice done to victims of pleural plaques, a scarring of the lungs caused by breathing in asbestos fibres, and reinstate the right to payouts, halted following a controversial ruling by the House of Lords in 2007.

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Brown Promises Decision On Asbestos Compensation

Plymouth is a hotspot for asbestos-related deaths, many of the victims being f...

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