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Lethal workclothes

Another woman dies from washing her husband’s asbestos-impregnated work clothes. A Gloucestershire coroner has ruled this the cause of death of Sylvia Foster. Aged 88, the question of compensation is unlikely to arise, but this is another reminder of the long and wide effects of asbestos.

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