Nuclear Test Veterans' Struggle

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'Starmer, meet us before it's too late' say nuclear test veterans

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'Starmer - meet us before it's too late,' nuclear test veterans say.

Last few of 22,000 personnel who witnessed UK 's nuclear bomb tests are still fighting to find out what it did their bodies.

Thousands of the men have suffered cancers and other conditions that other nuclear states have recognised as probably linked to the now-banned testing.

BBC film, to be broadcast this Wednesday , details their battles for what the dwindling band of men believe is a hidden truth.

The men's lawyers believe they have a case for a failure to disclose medical records.

At worst, they may have had glimpses of a cover-up locked in the bowels of archives.

If they sue, the case could take years that the men do not have.

They have proposed an alternative time-limited one -off tribunal to find answers.

Both Labour and Conservatives governments have maintained no records have been withheld from the veterans.

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