Magistrates ordered Galamast of Bromley, Kent, to pay £36,140 after an asbestos incident.
 
The company was carrying out a stripout of an old Littlewood's store in the Harpur Centre, Bedford, in March 2006 when verbal instructions were misunderstood, leading to its employees, sub contractors and health and safety inspectors for the client exposed to asbestos.
 
The work was being carried out on behalf of Primark who took over several Littlewood's stores during 2005/6.