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• 'No increased cancer risk' for Greenock plant staff 

Workers at a Scottish semiconductor plant are not at increased risk of developing occupational cancers, new research has suggested.

The Health and Safety Executive said long-held concerns about occupational cancer at the National Semiconductors UK factory in Greenock were unfounded.

Campaigners said they were disgusted at the report and branded it a "cover-up". . . .

Fears of a cancer link at the plant were first raised in the late 1990s. In 2001, the HSE revealed higher than expected levels of lung, stomach and breast cancer in women and brain cancer in men who worked at the plant.

However, its study did not look at other factors such as diet and smoking.

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