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Tory minister lashes out over National Service plan in blow to Rishi Sunak
Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker distanced himself from Rishi Sunak's announcement, leaving the PM to decide whether to sack him after he said it was 'sprung' on ministers
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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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Veterans get £350k for monument to honour LGBT forces after Mirror campaign
The memorial is proposed to be situated in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, a 150 acre site and part of the Royal British Legion, and will commemorate all LGBT service personnel, including those impacted by the ban
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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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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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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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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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Rishi Sunak u-turn on plans to cut taxpayer spending on 'helicopter addiction'
Spending was due to be cut from September with the Government promising not to renew a £40million contract which funded the flights - but we can reveal the deal has been extended
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Military to use 'Dad's Army' of older troops as it fails to recruit youngsters
Tory Defence Minister Andrew Murrison revealed plans for a more 'flexible' approach to the workforce including raising age caps and hiring more neurodiverse people
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Dame Kelly Holmes joins LGBT+ veterans in welcoming Rishi Sunak apology
The Prime Minister and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace both made apologies in the House of Commons for the shameful treatment of troops under the military gay ban
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Tory row over delivering the nuclear veteran medal
The long-awaited honour was promised in summer, but the Ministry of Defence says the "timescale has been revised"
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Nuclear veterans are 'the wrong sort of heroes' for a medal, claim campaigners
Campaigners are furious after the Ministry of Defence confirmed not every veteran who took part in Cold War nuclear tests will get a medal