By Lizzie Yates

Shropshire star newspapers

A clean-up operation to remove debris containing asbestos did not begin for a week after a massive fire showered ashes on parts of Telford, an inquest heard

By Pia Akerman

The Australian

October 20, 2007 06:00am

TO most people, the face of asbestos disease is male and worn with signs of a hard life labouring in construction or on a factory line.

But a new tide of victims - increasingly female and dubbed the "third wave"- has arrived, and its numbers are tipped to rocket.

Children who played around