Toxic substance found at No10... AND NO, IT’S NOT THERESA MAY
IT’S every druid’s nightmare... not being able to see the sun rise on the winter solstice. And yesterday it came true for many who got locked out of Stonehenge in a parking drama.
The ancient
Wiltshire site proved such a popular draw that the car parks filled up early.
So scores of visitors were unable to see the magical moment the sun rose between the stones. Senior druid King Arthur
Pendragon said: “You can’t celebrate the sunrise when it’s already risen, can you?”
Happily, thousands were able to gain entry and enjoy the experience. THERESA May’s Number 10 Downing Street home contains the deadly building material asbestos.
The toxic substance is also in No11 next door where Chancellor Philip Hammond lives but there are no imminent plans to remove it from either building.
But the Government has spent £45,000 in the last two years stripping asbestos out of Dover House, headquarters of the Scotland office.
Every year the toxic fibre is responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people from asbestos-related illnesses. The fibre was used in building projects across Britain for a century but banned in 1999.
Industry expert Dave Hughes, from Fibre Management, said many buildings were refurbished in the 1960s and 70s with the insulation material.
He said: “Many government and public buildings will have an asbestos legacy given their age.”
He said carpenters, builders and IT engineers are at risk “when they go into an older property to lay cables or undertake refurbish- ment works”. In 2012 it emerged that £1million was spent removing asbestos from Buckingham Palace.
And 86 per cent of our schools are said to contain the material, linked to the deaths of hundreds of teachers.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said the removal of two forms of asbestos from Dover House should be completed in January.
The spokesman said asbestos was present in No10 and No11 Downing Street but no projects to remove it were currently underway.