Teacher blames her terminal brain cancer on toxic chemicals at former school in Lanarkshire

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A teacher diagnosed with terminal brain cancer believes her illness was caused by blue water and toxic chemicals at her former school in Lanarkshire.Jeana Watt, 48, taught maths at the Skills Academy in Coatbridge, which was built on an old industrial waste site.It shares a campus with Buchanan and St Ambrose high schools, where blue water was previously discovered running from taps and staff and pupils claimed to have contracted serious illnesses as a result.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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I’m one of them - I have brain cancer.“When the blue water came to light, it also emerged that four teachers from Buchanan High who worked in the same corridor