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'Asbestos newsletter' reported on this programme: "This thirty minute documentary examined the on-going problem of asbestos in London schools, apartment and civic buildings. It highlighted the pioneering work of Mrs Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID (the Society for Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases), who has been warning since 1982 of the mesothelioma epidemic only recently identified by British epidemiologist Professor Julian Peto. The program was followed by a one hour discussion and phone-in on local radio in which Mrs. Tait, Professor Peto and Nigel Bryson of the General Municipal and Boilermakers Union answered callers' queries and debated the issues raised. The radio 4 BBC series: Face the Facts broadcast a special forty minute program on March 4 which looked at the history of asbestos in the UK."

BBC 'Watchdog', 8 March 1999

Correspondence and papers re BBC 'Watchdog' programme on asbestos, broadcast 8 March 1999. The bulk of the file is audience response.

Includes

  • a little correspondence with the BBC, copies of programme information from Radio Times, print-out of BBC webpage
  • overviews of number of enquiries, new OEDA cases resulting from the programme, address lists etc.
  • response report indicating that at least 342 information packs had been sent out at request
  • register of telephone inquiries
  • register of inquiries by letter

Later Nancy Tait observed that 'Not many of the calls following the Watchdog programme were from people who needed OEDA', concluding that she recently found 'that if OEDA is mentioned at all, especially by the media, we are overwhelmed' (letter to Colin Ettinger, 25 August 1999).

Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from a BBC Newsround South East feature on asbestos. Includes:

  • correspondence with Fiona Bruce, BBC, including re individuals affected by asbestos-related disease who are willing to talk to the BBC, and re material from the T&N corporate archive, received through Chase Manhattan Bank's legal team
  • overview of response, listing of respondents
  • inquiries by telephone, inquiries by post (both in alphabetical order); includes the occasional death certificate

Three series:

  • materials relating specifically to Nancy Tait and her charity
  • corporate records including SPAID trustee correspondence, OEDA management committee correspondence and minutes of meetings
  • assessments of the organisation, business plans and measures of improvement

The section closes with a file relating predominantly to SPAID / OEDA's status as a charity.

SPAID Trust Deed is at "Early correspondence with SPAID trustees" (OEDA/A/2/1/1). OEDA Memorandum & Articles of Association is at "Correspondence with L B Horam, 1988-1995" (OEDA/A/2/3), January 1994.

Correspondence with Jill Morrell of CancerBACUP re their publication ‘Understanding mesothelioma’ and its launch. Nancy Tait was an invited speaker. Includes

  • draft of the book with extensive corrections and suggestions by Tait
  • copy of programme for the press conference on the occasion of the launch

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage) arising from articles by Christopher Booker, in particular the article in The Sunday Telegraph, 17 March 2002, discussing the debate on health & safety at work (especially asbestos) in the House of Commons, 14 March 2002. Includes:

  • OEDA letters/faxes to the editor of The Sunday Telegraph
  • letter to Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
  • section with copies of Booker's articles re asbestos, January-October 2002

Indicates that OEDA at that stage had a website.

Letter to Nigel Spearing with Christopher Booker copied in, furnishing scientific evidence that Booker is wrong to downplay the danger of white asbestos. This is Nancy Tait's reponse to Booker's articles on 'The great asbestos scam', Sunday Telegraph 6 August 2006 and 15 October 2006.

Also includes earlier letter to Booker (1998) and photocopy of Hansard report of parliamentary debate on ‘methods of monitoring asbestos and progress made in developing alternatives’, 1981.

Correspondence and papers, among them press coverage re Prof. John Bridle (considered Britain's leading practical expert on asbestos), Asbestos Watchdog (the company set up by Bridle to give honest advice on asbestos), and scientist Dr John Hoskins, whose views on asbestos received support through Christopher Bookers articles.

Includes

  • background research on Lord Black of Crossharbour who put together the Hollinger group, which owned the Daily Telegraph
  • copy of draft proposal (by the Health & Safety Commission) for a domestic ban on asbestos, 1999
Brakes
  • photocopy of M G Jacko and R T DuCharme (March 1973 / 1978) ‘Brake emissions: emission measurements from brake and clutch linings from selected mobile sources’ (Bendix Research Laboratory for EPA, Rept. 68-04-0020)
  • press coverage, press releases, excerpts from literature and Mintex product information, 1978-1998
  • copy of Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited (1989) 'Guide to regulations on control of asbestos at work' (booklet)

As early as 1977 Nancy Tait and her charity had given evidence to the Simpson Committee about the risks of chrysotile in brake linings, drawing attention to the high level of risk to garage workers. It was not until 1985 that the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) took action.

Copies of the 'British asbestos newsletter' (or 'BAN') 1990-2007, with intercalated material including correspondence.

Incomplete set; the following numbers are missing:

  • ?2, ?4, 6, 9, 27, 37, 43, 44, 50, 51, 54, 55, and 66

BAN was founded and edited by global anti-asbestos advocate Laurie Kazan-Allen.

Allen, Laurie, Kazan-, b. 1947, anti-asbestos campaigner