7 hours ago Mark Ansell and Steve Jones, Yorkshire Handout Rick Oakes, pictured here with his wife Rachel, died from a rare cancer linked to asbestos The widow of a former Kirklees Council worker who died from cancer caused by exposure to asbestos through his job has received more than £1m in compensation. Rick Oakes, from York, died in 2024 aged 67, having been diagnosed with mesothelioma two years earlier. Law firm Irwin Mitchell established the dad-of-four's exposure to asbestos and subsequent illness was linked to his work as a joiner in schools in Kirklees years earlier.…