Rose Hall is backing calls for the hazardous material to be removed from all public buildings.
By Chris Baynes, Abbie Walker and Oli ConstableA woman is calling for asbestos to be removed from all public buildings after she was diagnosed with incurable cancer having been exposed to the material.
"It's a hard thing to have to live with, knowing I'm never going to be cured," the grandmother told the BBC.Asbestos was widely used for insulation before it was banned over health concerns in 1999. In a joint letter, they said: "Asbestos is one of the great workplace tragedies of modern times and it is a national disgrace that Britain has one of the highest mesothelioma mortality rates in the world."
"To think that in 400 years' time we might still have asbestos in buildings really is completely unacceptable," he added.Ms Hall's school has been demolished and rebuilt since she was a pupil, but documentary evidence showed the original building had contained asbestos.
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