SO, the Ministry of Defence has paid out nearly £48,000 damages to the family of a woman who contracted asbestosis through assembling gas masks in the Second World War (LT, august 1).

These are the same people of various shades of governments that said all asbestos was safe.

Then brown asbestos wasn’t safe, but the others were. Then they said blue wasn’t safe but white was.

Finally, they said that all asbestos wasn’t safe for use in either homes or factories.

Not to mention how they allowed a factory to operate in close proximity to a housing estate, where dust from it would cover the surfaces in homes.

Why is it that these cases all too often drag on for years when, morally, they should be fast-tracked so that any beneficiaries have reasonable expectation of enjoyment of the monies that are rightfully due?

Woolywords (via website).