The Sunday Times reports that former pupils and teachers are dying after exposure to asbestos in classrooms decades ago, while children continue to be taught in schools full of the material.

The paper cites one estimate that as many as 10,000 pupils and staff may have been killed by exposure to toxic asbestos fibres, since the 1980s. It says it’s starting a national campaign to have all asbestos removed from buildings over the next four decades. It says that although asbestos was banned in the UK almost 25 years ago, more than six million tonnes may still remain.