Our investigation looked at how old asbestos cement water pipes were in the UK, how often they were bursting and what percentage of asbestos cement water pipes there were in each water company area.
Here's what we found: https://t.co/RA0UM8Aoqx
Proud of our cross-border investigation, supported by @journalismfund, on asbestos in water pipes. Thanks for @FerretScot for publishing ⬇️ and to Clydebank Asbestos Group and Prof Andrew Watterson and Prof Arthur Frank for expert comments
🔴 NEW: As asbestos cement pipes supplying drinking water degrade across the UK, experts ask whether they pose a risk to human health.
Read the full story: https://t.co/MbVXaNJ9GN
I'm thrilled to share my review of The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby.
It's a fascinating novel, highlighting social injustice and prejudice; one that stays with you. Have a look!
https://t.co/eOAtWKo2HI
#HistoricalFiction#BookReview#BlogTour@KatharineQ
Wow! My debut novel, The Low Road, @unbounders, is a fiction pick of the week in @smh, "a well-crafted and intensely dramatic novel, with characters you care about facing circumstances so dire a contemporary audience might strain to fully imagine them":
https://t.co/w3RvFxb6d7
Is asbestos in drinking water safe? A year ago, @journalismfund awarded our cross-border team a grant to investigate whether asbestos fibres from old pipes leaching into drinking water was safe: I wrote the UK investigation for @BBC_Future 1/ https://t.co/JKrwikymIN
The @BBC_Future longread (part one) by me, edited by Richard Gray, looks at the UK - and international - situation and asks why so little research into the possible risks of ingesting asbestos has been done: #AsbestosInDrinkingWater#AsbestosLethalLegacy
https://t.co/JKrwikymIN
Welcome to Day 1 of our exciting 🌟new🌟 blog tour for
༻*·The Low Road·*༺
by Katharine Quarmby!
Check out today's first tour stops, sharing enticing excerpts, a fascinating guest post & a fab interview!
https://t.co/KMpixJi5nq
#HistoricalFiction#BlogTour@KatharineQ
The lovely people @Shepherd_books asked me to suggest books about female characters who rise from the ashes - here’s my list, featuring @Marikacobbold, @MichelleLStyles, #MaryWollstonecraft, #Nawal el Sadawi and Jane Austen https://t.co/MypGxsztuu
25 December 1937 | A Duch Jewish girl, Liesbeth Prins, was born in Amsterdam.
In October 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
Gary has contributed to the special Christmas Day edition of BBC Radio 4's 'The Reunion' programme on Band Aid. The feature brings together the key players to share memories of this huge cultural & philanthropic event. The programme is aired on December 25th at 9am.
22 December 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Margaretha de Groot, was born in Amsterdam.
In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
I’ll be tuning in to hear @KatharineQ talk about her fab @unbounders award winning coffee pot book club @cathiedunn 19th century historical novel #thelowroad - from rural Norfolk, to the refuge for the destitute in London to Australia as a convict #feminist#lesbian#histfiction
📻 Happy Friday! We sincerely hope you're WFH today and tuning into @KatharineQ on @RobertElms show on
@BBCRadioLondon @ 10.30! https://t.co/OGqe2te0vH
Katherine's spectacular romance 'The Low Road' is available to buy from our website: https://t.co/4CXvDDpCXn
❓What are the consequences for women of being adopted?
It can mean you don’t have a birth family history to offer doctors.
Journalist @katharineq speaks to @JessCreighton1 about her experience.
Listen on @bbcsounds ⬇️
On day Truss confirms she will take £125,000 per yr for life as a former PM & Tory MP Scott Benton is suspended for attempted corruption, we learn Sunak has got rid of the role of minister for disabled people
Because some people don’t matter much while others enrich themselves