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When the Vents Blew: How Armley's Dust Killed a Neighbourhood
When the Vents Blew: How Armley's Dust Killed a Neighbourhood
A tiny industrial town became a slow-moving crime scene: blue asbestos from Midland Works settled on roughly 1,000 houses, coated windowsills, gutters and garden soil, and children played with the white dust that later killed them - so why did the vents keep blowing and the company keep quiet? What did the two people who never set foot inside the factory uncover about a neighbourhood sacrificed by profit and silence?
In this episode, we tell the story of the Midland Works on Canal Road in Armley and how its blue asbestos emissions…
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