£1.3m payout after bridge deaths

A court has approved a seven-figure compensation settlement for the families of four workers killed when they fell from a motorway bridge. The GMB general union brought the case on behalf of their families.

A judge at Bristol Crown Court approved the settlement in April. The men, Paul Stewart, Ronald Hill, Andrew Rodgers and Jeff Williams, died when they fell 80 feet from a gantry while carrying out strengthening work to the M5 Avonmouth bridge in September 1999. The families will receive £1,372,500.