A worker told he has just weeks to live after developing a lung disease brought on by years of cutting kitchen worktops is taking legal action against his former employers. Dad-of-three Marek Marzec, ...

It may now be time to ban artificial stone - a firm favorite for kitchen worktops in the UK - to ward off the incurable lung disease caused by its manufacturing and fitting, say a team of doctors in ...

The first UK cases of a deadly lung disease in tradespeople working with a stone popular in kitchen worktops were revealed by The i Paper in February 2024. Since then, the weight of scientific ...