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The men and women still living in fear of redundancy, as the future of scunthorpe steelworks hangs in the balance. This time, it felt very different we was at the edge of the abyss. And the week the world came to yorkshire to celebrate a festival of cycling. Many professions have a level of risk, but firefighters face an invisible threatjust as deadly as the flames that they tackle every day. Our reporter tracy gee has been given exclusive access to research being done into harmful toxins found ...

Health screening sessions for firefighters in mid and west Wales in line with UCLan study.

Today firefighters from across the UK will gather in Glasgow for a mass demonstration against a programme of swingeing cuts to the Scottish Fire and…

Fire Brigades Union raise issue of firefighters contracting range of cancers 20 years before other people would

The results will be used to detect cancers and other diseases at the early stages.

Life-saving firefighter cancer monitoring is to be launched as part of a new UK-wide research project commissioned by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU).

Wayne Crossman, a firefighter deployed to the oil depot after the huge explosion in 2005, suspects firefighting foam contributed to his myeloid leukaemia

A recent study commissioned by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in the U.K. has found that firefighters are not just putting themselves in harms way of flames but also fatal health risks. The study was independently

They are also more likely to die from heart attacks and strokes, researchers say.

FIREFIGHTERS in Scotland are