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Dodgy accounts?
Isn't that how some notorious business entreprenuers got themselves a room in Alkatraz?

I'm sure Mr Bridle has been scrupulous in his Tax Return when accounting for all this foreign travel for Asbestos Watchdog Ltd.

I agree Boris

for the benefit of english speakers- I too couldn't find any reference to a John Bridle receiving Professorship from Russian Academy of Sciences.

I did find a reference to Asbestos Watchdog via the russian chrysotile association:

(the english version has the funny name (in American terms) "Ass-Chrysotile":

 http://www.ass-chrysotile.ru/home.htm

 http://www.chrysotile.ru/ and one of its major contributors Uralasbest

www.uralasbest.ru

The english language link to Asbestos Watchdog in great Britain can be viewed at-

 http://www.uralasbest.ru/eng/inet.php

Г-н Бридле

Скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я вам скажу, кто вы.

(You can tell a person by the friends they keep)

Is this how this John Bridle character sees himself?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLh5kpkP6HA

It sounds as though others have a few different names for John Bridle when he flies out of the Chrysotile Institute's hollowed out volcano...
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w_DqhpMuFY

There are always 2 sides to every story, and isn’t it just a bit worrying that in amongst all the hype about John Bridle no one has thought to question who’s creating this hype? And why is it so hollow and vindictive; something to hide maybe?

This is a topic too long to go into here, but the following are just a couple of points that it is worth giving some thought:

1) Jason Addy claims to be a good guy helping victims of asbestos with his Spodden Valley campaign, but doesn’t it put a different perspective on it that he is a claims lawyer, standing to make money from each individual asbestos sufferer he meets. It makes you think that maybe these campaigns make more than just headlines from asbestos - using customers to make asbestos claims whether they are real or not.

2) Isn’t it also concerning that the BBC program in question has the feel of being put together with the help from people who have many financial interests in seeing asbestos demonised, not least of all asbestos removal companies and asbestos insurance companies (who put millions away in funds and make huge profits from this).

3) Conveniently the MP Michael Clapham works with Lawyer Laurie Kazan Allen who runs million pound ban asbestos conferences, yet appears to have no independent source of income. Her brother, however, is one of the biggest asbestos claims lawyer in the US – doesn’t it make you wonder who’s scratching who’s back within the ban asbestos lobby?


A word to the wise for everyone jumping on the bandwagon, don’t believe everything you read. Take the time to consider the motives of the ban asbestos lobby; saving lives is important to everyone, but when sufferers become exploited to line the pockets of lawyers surely that is what John Bridle is trying to stop?

From:  http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,,1643974,00.html

Ten years ago, Derek Addy held his father as mesothelioma cancer of the lung lining overwhelmed him. He had always seemed such a healthy man, but he weighed just 38kg (6st) when he died at 68. "It's a horrible way to go," says Addy.

Asbestos, mined in places such as South Africa and brought for processing to Britain, was a favourite construction material for most of the 20th century, because it is inert, fireproof, fibrous, pliable, cheap and was readily available. The Health and Safety Executive estimates that half a million workplaces and millions of homes still harbour some form of it, and that more than 3,500 people in the UK die annually from mesothelioma or asbestos-related lung cancer. It is the UK's biggest work-related killer and, because the cancers can take years to develop, the number of deaths is increasing every year - the Trades Union Congress predicts a rise to 10,000 each year by 2020.

Addy's father worked at what was the world's biggest asbestos textile plant, Turner & Newall, in Rochdale's Spodden Valley just outside Manchester. Now largely derelict, in 1924 it was the scene of the UK's first recorded asbestos death, 33-year-old worker Nelly Kershaw.
At its height, the plant employed 2,000 factory workers and 2,000 administrators. For 115 years, the town relied upon it, and it still dominates the valley, even though the works closed in 1994. How many people died from asbestos-related illnesses there will never be known, says Hilda Palmer coordinator of the Greater Manchester Hazards Centre. "Asbestos-related conditions have not been properly diagnosed and lung cancers may not have been ascribed to asbestos exposure, a factor that many people believe is ongoing."

Today, contaminated rubble, asbestos dumps and buildings containing asbestos litter the 72-acre site. To local people's horror, some demolition waste has been removed on flatbed trailers or open trucks.

Walking the footpath through the nearby woods, Addy and his neighbour, Alan Somerville, recalled how asbestos dust, "white like snow", used to hang from the trees.

Waste and contamination

Down towards the river bank, asbestos fibres are still visible on the steep wooded ground. In 1942, the river Spodden was rerouted and the old river bed was used as a dump for the factory waste. At least one of the mine shafts that pepper the site is filled with asbestos waste.

There were at least 40 plants processing asbestos in Britain in the 1970s - only a very few specialist companies are left - and decontaminating the land and the buildings they occupied is proving problematic and extremely expensive.

Across the Pennines from Rochdale, in the small market town of Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, asbestos brakes and belting were to the town what woven asbestos was to Rochdale. Three large-scale plants processed asbestos in the town, making it by far the biggest local employer. Now the sites are gradually being regenerated to make way for new industry, often at great expense to the developer.

At Hartshead Moor special school, Cleckheaton, former asbestos workers meet every week at the British Belting and Asbestos (BBA) over-40s keep fit club, which has seen members die because of asbestos. "The company was very open about it," says Ronnie Longfield, who worked at the BBA plant for five years. "People had died from it. When you went into BBA, you knew there was a possibility you would get it, but it was just that they paid so well. I've a few friends that I used to work with that I lost with it, but I'm 65 and I'm feeling quite confident."

Pecket Well, west Yorkshire, was used as a dump by Cape, another of Britain's big three asbestos manufacturers. It has now been capped with clay, covered with soil and planted with trees in a government-sponsored project.

The government, though, prefers remediation of old asbestos sites through the planning system, at the expense of developers, but the T&N site in Rochdale suggests this approach has serious flaws.

Last year, locals were shocked to find that the current owners of the old T&N site, MMC Estates, working with a Jersey finance company and brownfield land developers Countryside Properties, had sent a team of contractors into the woods north of the factory. An application was being prepared to build 650 homes on the site. When the planning application was put in at the end of last year, the summary claimed: ". . . of particular note is the absence of any asbestos contamination".

The residents, knowing the woods were close to asbestos dumps, and had been dusted with asbestos fallout in the past, could not believe the application. Jason Addy, Derek's son and spokesman for residents' group Save Spodden Valley, says: "For decades, they've obfuscated the dangers of asbestos on that site and history seems to be repeating itself."

SPS used independent soil testing and the Freedom of Information Act to show that there was asbestos in the woods. "We've been poisoned, diseased and abused by that site and it's not going to go on any more," says Jason Addy, a lawyer.

Last week MMC admitted that the woods were significantly contaminated with asbestos and apologised publicly for the "confusion and concern" that its actions had caused.

Ken Smith, Rochdale council's chief planner, says the company was told to provide information about contamination on the entire site "but ignored the most contaminated part". The application is now in abeyance.

Rochdale's council taxpayers, meanwhile, are feeling disheartened. The local authority's contaminated land team lacks the necessary skills and knowledge, and - at a cost of £35,000 - it had to employ environmental consultants Atkins Global to review the application. Submitting the application cost the developers £5,500.

Rochdale's environmental health officers charged with enforcing the contaminated land regime say they do not have legally watertight data on which to base their investigations. The Environment Agency, working to provide the information on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has prioritised developing soil guideline values (SGVs) - figures for acceptable levels of common contaminants in soil - for 55 common contaminants and special guidance for asbestos, but just 10 of the 55 are complete, and there is nothing on asbestos. Councils have been waiting for guidance since 2000.

Alan Higgins, president of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and chair of its standing conference on contaminated land, says: "We do have SGVs from the US and Holland, but they're produced in a different context. It's not particularly advisable to use them."

Higgins adds: "Inevitably it will affect brownfield regeneration. Defra should be taking the lead and the Environment Agency should be the lead technical authority. We've made that clear to them. Local authorities and the CIEH have tried to support the process, but we do feel it is extremely slow, and we're not confident at this point that it will speed up." The standing conference's offer to consult on asbestos has been declined by the agency.

In June, Liberal Democrat Rochdale MP Paul Rowen pressed Jim Fitzpatrick, a minister in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, to give guidance on land contamination and testing methods for asbestos. Rowen says the microscopic methods used in testing for the fibres are ineffective and that methods that identify much smaller particles should be employed. He is still awaiting a reply.

One contaminated-land consultant working with local authorities, who asked not to be named, says the SGV taskforce set up by the Cabinet Office 18 months ago offered some hope, but had yet to achieve much. "The agency doesn't recognise its responsibility as the national technical lead authority on contaminated land."

Somerville says Spodden Valley needs more than just apologies and promises to do better. "We're frightened to death," he says. 'This isn't going to kill people today or tomorrow, it's going to kill people in 50 years' time. We're not going to be around, but our grandchildren are."

Bridle is obviously somebody to bridle about nevertherless:

The Beeb perhaps should be a tad more circumspect in its investigations relating to the rip off asbestos removal industry. I would suggest a cursory examination of "Air testing certificates" issued for "work" carried out at broadcasing house in London circa 1982-85 by the now defunct Heath Technical Services Ltd operated by the now dead Harry Judd, will reveal they were not worth the paper they were written on. I worked for HTS for 2 weeks during this period and witnessed during my "training" ,certificates completed and handed out down the pub! following "controlled" asbestos "removal"...the information supplied on these certificates were absolute falsified rubbish and technically meaningless.
my two-pennies' worth

The freedom of information act is a wonderful thing...

unfortunately the asbestos removal industry, its collaboration with "independent" laboratory test houses (and cross ownership both ways) ,the indifference of the HSE together with the fig-leaf of respectability of UKAS makes for a FAR more frightening situation today.

Comments from “Concerned from Kent” have just been drawn to my attention. They are false and libellous. If this person would supply me with their real name and contact details I will commence an action in defamation against them.