Martin Syms from Porth in Rhondda was recently awarded ??80,000 in compensation after suffering from severe back injuries sustained after a fall from a chair at Cardiff Central Station Mr Syms, a driver for Arriva trains at the time, was sitting on a plastic molded chair in the station's mess room at the time, when it collapsed, causing him to land heavily on his back

British trades people could be putting themselves at risk of incurable cancer from exposure to asbestos without even realising it, says a recent study published by the British Lung Foundation Mesothelioma, the cancer caused by asbestos, kills one people every five hours in the UK; twenty trades people die of the disease every week, making the disease Britain's worst workplace killer

The Government introduced the compulsory seatbelt law 25 years ago It says that this has saved prevented 60,000 deaths since 1993

There are four phases that occur during a whiplash injury and all four take place in less than one half of a second The injury itself is determined by the different forces that act upon the body at this time

Despite a Swedish study in 1995 that suggested that the risk of whiplash in children is as high as two-thirds of the likelihood of an adult suffering the condition, less than 2% of whiplash literature is actually devoted to children Considering that the strength of a six year old??™s spine is only around 25% of the strength of an adult's, clinical research begs the question as to why more children are not admitted with whiplash injuries