The number of workplace fatalities has dropped to a record low
figure, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said.
A total of 151 workers were killed at work between April 1 2009
and March 31 2010 ...
Victims of mesothelioma
in Rochdale have offered their approval ahead of an asbestos
awareness day being held next month.
Campaigners said the Rochdale conference on July 2 was
particularly apt...
A multimillion-pound payout has been awarded in a medical
negligence case in which a child was left wheelchair-bound
after his difficult birth.
Jensen Carter, six, was born in 2003 at the Univers...
E Coli awareness among people who visit the
countryside is low, with two-thirds of visitors having no knowledge
of the virus, a survey has revealed.
Two-thirds of rural residents and visitors to
th...
A six-year-old boy has been awarded a multimillion-pound
settlement after complications at birth left him disabled.
Jensen Carter - son of the late ex-Sunderland goalkeeper Tim
Carter - suffers fro...
A firm has been fined almost £300,000 after an employee was
killed in a brick factory
work accident when his head was crushed by a conveyor belt.
Peter Clarke, 57, was only on the site in ...
The Welsh Assembly Government risks allowing
another E Coli crisis due to a lack of funding, according to the
mother a five-year-old boy who died in an outbreak in 2005.
The Government has failed t...
Andrew Morgan , partner in our
mesothelioma and asbestos
department , will co-chair the Annual International
Asbestos Litigation Conference.
The conference, organised by Butterworths,...
More than 500 patients in Yorkshire are to undergo testing after
it was revealed that a healthcare worker who treated them may have
been infected with HIV.
Officials at three NHS trusts have claime...
Asbestos has been discovered at a hospital in
Guernsey - but members of the public have been assured they are not
at risk.
Some staff at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital
may have been exposed to the...