If you're renovating floor tiles, make sure they do not contain asbestos. An expert tells us how to find out if the mineral ...

asbestos would also be used everywhere for insulation purposes, as well as around boilers, steam pipes and everywhere else where the heat-retaining yet thermally stable properties were very useful.

Once considered a miracle mineral, asbestos was used in construction industries for strengthening cement, in insulation, roofing, fireproofing and sound absorption. But by the mid-20th Century ...

Corrugated sheets were dumped on a drain embankment, the council says Sheets of asbestos have been dumped near a Hull primary school, prompting an appeal to trace those responsible. The corrugated ...