We're Left Waiting for a Decision ; Asbestos Victims Are Still Reeling After Jack Straw's Delay to Decide Their Future. Joanne Butcher Explores the Government's Mixed Messages On Pleural Plaques
Evening Chronicle › July 23, 2009
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HUNDREDS of Tyneside asbestos sufferers were yesterday left deflated and angry after a Government U-turn.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw had promised to tell victims of the illness, a scarring of the lungs caused by asbestos, whether they would regain the right to claim compensation.See the full content of this document
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We're Left Waiting for a Decision ; Asbestos Victims Are Still Reeling After Jack Straw's Delay to Decide Their Future. Joanne Butcher Explores the Government's Mixed Messages On Pleural Plaques
Pay-outs were snatched away by a House of Lords ruling in 2007.
But on Tuesday, the last day before MPs went on t...See the full content of this document
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