The UK has recorded more than 50 confirmed cases and four deaths from silicosis, an irreversible, long-term lung disease.

Campaigners have issued urgent warnings over quartz worktops after workers were linked to a deadly incurable disease.

DEATHS from an incurable lung disease linked to trendy kitchen worktops are rising – as doctors warn that cases have surged 450 per cent in a year. Young stonemasons, many of them in their ...

The Health and Safety Executive has announced new guidance in an attempt to prevent avoidable deaths of stoneworkers from ...

Trendy fake stone worktops linked to dozens of deaths have finally been banned as new rules are introduced to keep workers ...

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, ...

A dad-of-three who developed a lung disease after years of cutting kitchen worktops in "appalling working conditions" has died. Marek Marzec had recently shared the devastating impact on his health ...

Granite worktops come in a range of colours including black, cream and pink. It's a non-renewable natural stone, so it requires a significant amount of energy and generates a lot of pollutants during ...

Engineered quartz can cause a fatal lung disease in construction workers. Here are the best alternatives Olivia is a freelance writer and regular contributor to The Telegraph's Interiors and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “You look at it and suddenly think: oh my God we’ve got a piece of Vietnam in here,” says Marcelo Carvalho, a ...