Two families have won groundbreaking claims to compensation after loved ones died from cancer following exposure to "low level" asbestos.
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the relatives of Dianne Willmore and Enid Costello, who both fell victim to malignant mesothelioma.
The ruling is expected to pave the way for similar claims from many other cancer sufferers exposed to "low levels" of asbestos.
Mrs Willmore, from North Wales, died in October 2009, aged 49, the day after a judge said she was entitled to £240,000 compensation.
The mother-of-two contracted the cancer after apparently being exposed to asbestos dust while a pupil at Bowring School in Huyton, in the 1970s.
Mrs Costello also fell victim to mesothelioma and died in January 2006, aged 74. She is said to have breathed in dust containing asbestos when she was a secretary at a packaging factory in Ellesmere Port.
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