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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Boarding school fined £50,000 after pupils and staff overexposed to high levels of radioactive radon gas

A private boarding school has been fined £50,000 after exposing seven children and two staff members to high levels of radioactive gas.

Five pupils were exposed to levels of radon almost eight times the legal limit, while boarding at Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset, in 2019.

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