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Disabled son of a veteran challenges Rishi Sunak to apologise
Steve Purse has asked the Prime Minister to say sorry for abandoning D-Day, and turning his back on nuclear veterans
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MoD accused of letting nuclear veterans 'go to their graves' without justice
The MoD faces being hauled to court to explain why officials have ignored legal moves by the forgotten heroes of the Cold War
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Nuked blood scandal could wreck £20bn Trident deal warns ex-MoD minister
The nuclear deterrent may be indefensible without the full truth of what befell Britain's atomic veterans, Parliament is told
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Nuked blood: 'State secret' files due to be released
Documents about blood and urine testing of British troops during radiation experiments are due to be published, campaigners have been told
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Nuked blood: Ministry of Defence spent £250,000 to bury records
Tens of thousands of files about blood testing of UK troops in the Cold War were pulled after the Mirror launched a medal campaign
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NUKED BLOOD: MoD releases 4,000 pages of secret files as scandal bursts open
A minister has ordered the urgent release of 'politically radioactive' files about medical testing on British troops during the Cold War
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Nuked blood data is declassified, 24 hours after legal papers served on MoD
150 documents which the Ministry of Defence had insisted were a state secret have been declassified, just a day after veterans served notice of their intention to sue for their medical records
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Nuclear bomb test vets serve legal papers on MoD after 70-year campaign truth
Veterans of Cold War nuclear bomb tests are taking the Ministry of Defence to court, claiming that blood samples taken during the trials may prove they were irradiated, and are now being illegally withheld
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Rishi Sunak snubs 'nuked blood' veterans 12 TIMES
The Prime Minister promised to back nuclear veterans - but now faces a lawsuit as he says he is 'too busy' to meet them
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Nuked blood: Minister finally allowed to see secret files while officials watch
The Atomic Weapons Establishment is being forced to open its most secret files, which campaigners believe will prove the nuked blood scandal
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Ministry of Defence ordered to hand over nuclear veteran's blood tests to family
Terry Gledhill died in 2015, but his daughter Jane O’Connor argued that she was able to exercise his legal rights to see the blood test results - now a tribunal ruled in her favour
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Tory minister blocked from seeing nuked blood files by his own department
Officials at the Atomic Weapons Establishment are said to be blocking a ministerial review of secret records about blood tests on Cold War troops
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Nuked blood: Minister says 'state secret' documents hold no useful information
Defence minister Andrew Murrison was accused of a "disgraceful response" on whether the government holds records of blood and urine tests on its own troops
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Veteran nuked blood records a 'state secret', admits government
Records of blood testing of nuclear servicemen have been locked away for decades as a state secret, the Mirror can reveal
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Veterans win official review of nuked blood 'cover-up'
More than 100 documents about blood and urine tests of troops which the MoD previously denied existed will be reviewed, Parliament has been told
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PROOF: MoD official rewrote the science on nuke veteran cancers
Documents show civil servants demanding rewrites of a scientific analysis, over fears it would give nuclear veterans "a bonanza"
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Tory minister tells veterans "there is no cover-up" of missing medical records
Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer faced accusations of "dereliction of duty" for not helping nuclear survivors find their missing medical records, but accused others of "politicisation"
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Eco-tycoon Dale Vince backs nuke vets and tells Rishi Sunak 'now it's your turn'
Ecotricity founder Dale Vince is in a fight to make Britain fairer - and says it starts with the nuclear test veterans' search for their missing medical records
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Nuclear test veterans left to organise their own medal ceremonies
Heroes of Britain's nuclear tests have had to organise their own presentation ceremonies after the government failed to do so
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New documentary tells the story of nuclear weapons tests around the world
'A Thousand Cranes' will compare the stories of Britain's nuclear veterans and indigenous victims of atomic testing, but needs £100,000 to continue filming
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MoD admits it may hold almost 5,000 nuked blood files
The MoD has finally admitted it may hold almost 5,000 individual files on blood tests taken during nuclear weapons trials, but says it is too expensive to check them
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Nuke veteran, 86, delighted to get his medal from the King's man
Great-grandad Jackson Hasson was presented with the nuclear medal by his local Lord Lieutenant, but Tory ministers are still stalling on arranging a Royal event for other survivors
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Labour promises the bloody truth to nuke veterans
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner pledged full accountability to nuclear veterans battling for the truth about their missing blood records
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Nuke veterans' long fight for a medal must never be repeated, vows Labour
The nuclear veterans' five-year fight for official recognition has led to a promise of wholesale reform of the medal system
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