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City solicitor's cycle marathon puts spotlight on 'hidden killer'
STAFF from Irwin Mitchell Solicitors in Sheffield turned out to support a colleague this week who is cycling 1,200 miles to highlight the dangers of a 'hidden killer'.
Asbestos solicitor Katrina London has teamed up with another legal specialist, Paul Glanville, of John Pickering & Partners, and campaigner Jason Addy to ride from Glasgow to Southampton to raise awareness of the plight of asbestos-related cancer sufferers and to support the call for a national research centre.
The trio are cycling through regions of the country whose communities have been most blighted by the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.
Starting in Glasgow, they arrived in Sheffield on Monday and are due to finish in Southampton on Saturday.
Colleagues from Irwin Mitchell and members of the Sheffield and Rotherham Asbestos Group supported the cyclists and cause at the Workers Memorial Day Tree and plaque outside Sheffield Town Hall.
Yesterday the campaign team planned to hand in a petition to the Canadian Consulate in Birmingham. Quebec still mines and exports asbestos.
Cycling 100 miles a day, they also hope to meet the MPs who have been doing invaluable work around asbestos issues in Parliament, joining Mick Clapham, MP for Barnsley West and Penistone and Rochdale MP Paul Rowan.
Katrina said: "It is a staggering fact that asbestos-related cancers remain one of Britain's biggest workplace killers in 2009, yet there is practically no dedicated research funding into these cancers. The main aim is to show the terrible impact asbestos has upon the victims of mesothelioma, to raise funds for research and show our support for the campaign to set up a national centre for asbestos-related diseases."
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