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Lime Street, Hull.
Twenty x two hundred litre drums of phosphono butane tricarboxilyc acid gassing off hydrogen due to inappropriate containers causing rise in pressure. Four BA and gas tight suits in use to approach drums and release pressure through opening ventilation caps. Main jet laid out for covering not required. Decontamination tent in use. Incident left with on site personnel.

Erin Brockovich: chemical spill answer to twitching NY teens - The Week UK

The Week UK

Erin Brockovich: chemical spill answer to twitching NY teens
The Week UK
ENVIRONMENTAL activist Erin Brockovich believes that a 1970s chemical spill may be behind a mysterious affliction causing vocal and physical tics among teens in New York state. Brockovich, made famous when she was played by Julia Roberts in the ...

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Health and safety officials alerted to chemical spill - stv.tv

stv.tv

Health and safety officials alerted to chemical spill
stv.tv
The Health and Safety Executive has been alerted after a woman was injured in a chemical spill. A woman suffered eye injuries in an amonia leak at Dalcross Industrial Estate on Thursday afternoon. Police set up a 200m cordon while fire crew cleared up ...

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Deadly chemical discharged into Chinese rivers - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

Deadly chemical discharged into Chinese rivers
Telegraph.co.uk
The chemical spill in Guangxi is the latest in a long line of incidents that have rendered China's rivers and waterways some of the most polluted in the world, despite efforts by Beijing to pressure local authorities to shut down polluting industries.

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Tourettes-like syndrome SPREADS among high school students as activist lawyer ... - Daily Mail

Daily Mail

Tourettes-like syndrome SPREADS among high school students as activist lawyer ...
Daily Mail
She has suggested that a chemical spill from a train derailment in the 1970s near the site of the school may be the cause. She has sent scientists to collect soil samples around the high school. School administrators would not disclose exactly what ...

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One injured in chemical spill at industrial estate - stv.tv

stv.tv

One injured in chemical spill at industrial estate
stv.tv
One person has been injured in a chemical leak at an industrial estate in Inverness. Police have set up a 200m cordon to keep people away from the amonia leak at Dalcross Industrial Estate. Emergency services were called to the leak at around 4.10pm on ...

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Inverness chemical leak contained - BBC News

Inverness chemical leak contained
BBC News
A woman was taken to hospital, following a chemical leak at an industrial estate in Inverness. Emergency services were called to tackle a suspected leak of ammonia from premises at the Dalcross industrial estate at 16:10. Highlands and Islands Fire and ...

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Olympic commissioner Meredith Alexander resigns on air - BBC News

BBC News

Olympic commissioner Meredith Alexander resigns on air
BBC News
She told the BBC's Newsnight why she was resigning: "I feel I was part of a lobby which legitimised Dow's claims that it had no responsibility for Bhopal." Thousands of people died and suffered serious ill health as a consequence of a chemical spill at ...

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OLYMPICS: Resignation over Games sponsorship - East London and West Essex Guardian Series

OLYMPICS: Resignation over Games sponsorship
East London and West Essex Guardian Series
Meredith Alexander told the BBC current affairs programme Newsnight, that she was quitting the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 to bring attention to the “toxic legacy” of the chemical leak in Bhopal in 1984, which claimed the lives of ...

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Olympics commissioner resigns over Dow stadium sponsorship - The Drum

The Drum

Olympics commissioner resigns over Dow stadium sponsorship
The Drum
Last night Meredith Alexander appeared on the news programme to tell Paxman (and the world) that she held Dow responsible for a 1984 chemical leak in Bhopal India which led to the deaths of 20000 people. Alexander said: "I feel I was part of a lobby ...

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Industrial units in Irlam evacuated after unmarked container leaks fluid - Manchester Evening News

Industrial units in Irlam evacuated after unmarked container leaks fluid
Manchester Evening News
Part of an industrial estate was evacuated this morning following reports of a potential chemical leak. Firefighters were called to a unit just off Liverpool Road in Irlam at 8.15am following reports a thousand litre container was leaking fluid.

Oswaldtwistle chemical plant blaze was started deliberately - Blackburn Citizen

Oswaldtwistle chemical plant blaze was started deliberately
Blackburn Citizen
Previous owners Nipa were fined £20000 in 1998 after a chemical leak which sent a cloud of acidic gases above the plant and forced 2000 people indoors. That incident was one of two leaks at the plant in 1998.

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Looking back: Ten, 20 and 30 years ago - Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News

Looking back: Ten, 20 and 30 years ago
Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News
o VILLAGERS living in the shadow of the explosives factory at Puriton were calling for an independent inquiry following a chemical leak from the plant early Sunday morning. Emergency services spent more than five hours at the British Aerospace owned ...

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Dry ice leak prompts evacuation of hospital building - stv.tv

stv.tv

Dry ice leak prompts evacuation of hospital building
stv.tv
Firefighters were called to the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh following reports of a chemical spill. By Gordon Darroch Alert: 25 firefighers were called to the scene before declaring it safe. A hospital building has been evacuated after a ...

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Chemical spill "threatens River Pang" - Newbury Weekly News Group

Newbury Weekly News Group

Chemical spill "threatens River Pang"
Newbury Weekly News Group
... a ditch at the bottom of Churn Road in Compton. "The Institute is working with the Environment Agency to minimise any potential impact of this spill, which was quickly halted from further spread thanks to the rapid actions of staff." chemical spill.

CBRNE News

Man jailed over ricin recipe find
A Bolton man is jailed for possessing a recipe for the deadly poison ricin and documents about how to make bombs.

Noisy jets surprise residents - Uxbridge Gazette

Noisy jets surprise residents
Uxbridge Gazette
"Residents will hear the Typhoons but I don't envisage it will cause too much disturbance," the Gazette was told. During July, August and September this year several Eurofighter Typhoons will be based at RAF Northolt, in case of any terror alert during ...

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Arrest warrant sought against second terror suspect - Pattaya Mail

Arrest warrant sought against second terror suspect
Pattaya Mail
... concerned agencies to set up a committee to compile information and assess the situation for the tourism minister and a joint committee of the state and public sectors on tourism to determine how to handle with it if the terror alert continues.

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Typhoon jets to fly over borough in Olympic test - Uxbridge Gazette

Typhoon jets to fly over borough in Olympic test
Uxbridge Gazette
During July, August and September this year several Eurofighter Typhoons will be based at RAF Northolt, in case of any terror alert during the London 2012 Olympic Games. Pilots will need to familiarise themselves with the base and the local landscape ...

The great 2012 disk shortage - ITBusiness.ca

The great 2012 disk shortage
ITBusiness.ca
Even the Bangkok terror alert was met with initial skepticism, and while the embassy has close to 40000 Twitter followers, many of those were not in the area of the threat," he writes. What's your opinion? << Back.

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Thai bomb factory is found after terror alert - Evening Standard

Evening Standard

Thai bomb factory is found after terror alert
Evening Standard
A terrorist suspect today led Thai police to a bomb factory containing 8800lb of fertilizer and 10 gallons of liquid ammonium. Officers raided a warehouse after the US issued an "emergency message" warning of an imminent threat to Americans in Bangkok ...
Thai Terror Alert Prompts Warning From Foreign Office Huffington Post UK
Man held in Bangkok terror alert The Press Association
Thai police 'thwart terror plot' MSN News UK

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President warns of terror alert - MSN News UK

President warns of terror alert
MSN News UK
AP The Philippine president has warned of a possible terrorist attack during an annual Catholic procession in Manila that may draw more than a million devotees. President Benigno Aquino III told a news conference that several terrorists planning to ...

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