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Were Councillors and the BBC misled over asbestos test results?

April 26, 2017asbestos BBC councillors misled results Test

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Were Councillors and the BBC misled over asbestos test results?

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Jayne Barrett of BBC North West Tonight reports that residents in Rochdale are today calling on the office of Deputy Prime Minister to for a Public Inquiry because they suggest that developers have seriously misled town councillors and the BBC over important facts about asbestos contamination This concerns the former Turner and Newall site in Spodden Rochdale where there are controversial plans by a consortium, headed by Countryside Properties, to build over 600 homes and a childrens nursery on the site of the worlds largest asbestos textile factory Campaign group Save Spodden Valley say new documents prove that over the past 3 months developers have seriously mislead town councillors and the BBC, on repeated occasions, about the presence of deadly asbestos on the proposed development site. Independent tests that have just emerged, conducted in April 2005 by the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in Edinburgh confirm that 4 of the 32 samples taken were positive for asbestos. One