Posts Tagged ‘Barking’
More than 60,000 people killed by mesothelioma in the last 50 years
In the fifty years to 2021 more than 60,000 people have died from mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos. A great many of those victims were poisoned by asbestos products made by Cape. Last Monday representatives of the UK Forum of Asbestos Victims’ Support Groups gathered at the memorial to those who have died from…
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Last Monday members of the UK Forum of asbestos support groups visited the memorial to employees of Cape who have died as a result of exposure to asbestos in Cape’s factories. The memorial is in Barking, where Cape had one of their factories until the 1960s. They were one of the leading manufacturers of asbestos…
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