 | 'Asbestos is the UK's greatest cause of work-related death, killing around 2,000 a year. It can take up to 60 years after exposure to the fibres for mesothelioma to show up. There are many victims, 79 teachers died of the disease between 1991 and 2000, because they taught in schools where asbestos was used.' Paul Routledge in the Mirror, 5 th September 2008. |  |
Speculation is rife about an impending by-election in Glenrothes and Labour faces defeat, say pundits.
But nobody talks about John McDougall, its Labour MP who died of mesothelioma, the cancer you get from exposure to asbestos.
Well, they do here. In his relatively short time at Westminster, John became a friend. A lifelong trade unionist, a stalwart of the Labour Party, and council leader in Fife, he worked in the shipyards where he must have caught the disease.
Asbestos is the UK's greatest cause of work-related death, killing around 2,000 a year. It can take up to 60 years after exposure to the fibres for mesothelioma to show up.
There are many victims, 79 teachers died of the disease between 1991 and 2000, because they taught in schools where asbestos was used.
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