Asbestos Claim
February 24, 2009
A new drug can double the life expectancy of people suffering from a lung disease caused by exposure to asbestos.
Around 1,700 people each year in the UK are affected by mesothelioma, which is a cancer of the membranes around the lungs. Victims are left struggling to breath and in great pain.
The scientists behind the breakthrough stress they have not found a cure, but say their treatment improves the quality of life for sufferers and makes breathing easier.
The disease affects five times more men than women and is typically found in people aged between 50 and 70. Experts fear the disease is on the rise and by 2020 the number of new cases every year could double.
Many sufferers were exposed to asbestos while working in heavy industry such as ship-building. The disease can take up to 40 years to show symptoms. Mesothelioma is difficult to treat, not very responsive to radiotherapy, and is usually inoperable.
A patient treated with the traditional anti-cancer drugs could expect to live between six and eight months.
Research carried out at Newcastle University has found patients treated with a new drug combination have survived for around 13 to 14 months and in a handful of cases, for three years or more.
It seems though the British Goverment are turning their backs on pleural plaques sufferers, as many hundreds protested outside the house of commons in October last year, 2008.
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However, the Scottish, as is often the case are looking after their own people, something we have forgotten how to do……
Chesterfield ex-pc Murdered
December 18, 2008
James Hardy, 31, was found dying at his home in Bradgate Croft, Hasland, in the early hours of Saturday 6th December.
Emergency services were called to his home around 2am on Saturday.
Paramedics were told he was suffering breathing difficulties, but he died at the scene and was later found to have been stabbed in the chest.
Mr.Hardy was a former disgraced Derbyshire Police Officer. Two years previously he has been working at Police HQ in Derby and caught passing on sensitive information.
Police set up a covert surveillance operation as suspicion was that Hardy was abusing access to the Police National Computer.
In May 2006 they discovered Hardy was intending to pass on the addresses and details of a number of people to Martin Jolley, a former boxer.
Jolley, who had a string of convictions for violence, including one for assaulting a police officer, was involved in arguments with all of the men named.
Hardy admitted a charge of conspiracy to commit misfeasance in public office and was given a 28-week jail term, suspended for two years.
Unusually the Court of Appeal increased the sentence to 9 months’ imprisonment, and Hardy was stripped of 25 per cent of his police pension. Normally courts are extremely lenient on police officers.
Michelle Doherty , of Lawn Villas, Calow, (Hardy’s then girlfriend) , 27, appeared in Chesterfield Magistrates Court accused of his murder on December 8th.
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Chesterfield Magistrates Court
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She spoke only to confirm her name and address and did not enter a plea to the murder charge.
There was no application for bail, and she was remanded in custody to appear before a judge at Nottingham Crown Court on December 15.
Are we miserable?
September 7, 2008
People living in North East Derbyshire are amongst the most miserable in the country, according to a new study.
Researchers named the area as the third least cheerful place to live in the whole of the UK !
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New Stadium for Chesterfield
July 3, 2008
The proposed new Stadium for Chesterfield FC has been given the go ahead !
The majority of the audience attending the meeting at the Winding Wheel held by the council gave rapturous applause to the decision.
This will give a big injection of cash , jobs and exposure to Chesterfield as a whole in our opinion at Chesterfield.TV
The scheme is estimated to cost approximately 12 Million Pounds.
Tragic Road Death
June 13, 2008
Jessica Iddon, who was just 17 & lived in Darley Dale, died on Monday, June 2, as a result of a road traffic accident on June 1st.
The former Chesterfield girl’s funeral took place at the town’s crematorium on Thursday, June 12, followed by a party to celebrate her life at The Pump in Barlow.
Princess Anne Coming To Town
June 10, 2008
The Princess Royal will be visiting Chesterfield later this month.
She is to visit Derbyshire Probation Area’s Chesterfield offices on Wednesday, June 25, in her capacity as patron of the Butler Trust .
