No. There is no asbestos in Romana. Ahead of bringing in the first group of volunteers on Wednesday to get busy removing tiles from the bathrooms a question was posed as to the possibility of there being any asbestos in any part of Romana. Steve the Architect thought not. Romana was both built and opened in 1992 – which should well and truly mean that no asbestos would be present. But just to be sure Mark Hislop took some tiles, tile glue samples and anything that looked likely to be an offending article to be tested locally at a lab. The relief when the samples all came back this morning with a ‘negative’ verdict was pronounced!! We roll on ……………