Article: Company fined [pounds sterling]20,000 for asbestos breach.

Workers stripping out old Littlewood's store in Bedford exposed.

Bedford magistrates have fined a company [pounds sterling]20,000 for exposing workers to asbestos.

Galamast Ltd, based in Bromley, Kent, was convicted last Thursday of two breaches under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

The company was carrying out a 'strip-out' of the old Littlewood's store in Bedford's Harpur Centre in March 2006 when verbal instructions ...

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