A Crewe widower, whose wife died from asbestos related cancer, has received a "substantial sum" after proving contact with dust 50 years before caused his wife's condition.

June Probin, 67, died from mesothelioma in April last year. Caused by exposure to asbestos, mesothelioma is a cancer of the lungs with no known cure, and often very little life after diagnosis.

Mrs Probin, a trained nurse, knew that contact with asbestos was needed to create the condition, and recalled how she was exposed to dust from her father's overalls 50 years ago.

June's mother, Gladys Bemon, confirmed to the court that her husband worked with asbestos during employment with Crewe Works, then part of British Rail Engineering.

Arnold Bemon had no idea that coming home for lunch every day was spreading the dust to his daughter, whose diagnosis came as a shock to childhood sweetheart, Jack Probin.

"It is terrifying to think that the whole family was exposed to asbestos dust from her dad's overalls, yet he was never warned by his employers about the dangers," said Mr Probin.