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Families affected by disasters and national scandals have threatened to withdraw support for a new bill the PM promised them would bring an end to cover-ups.
Withholding records has been ruled unlawful. Jane’s amazing strength and persistence has set a precedent for every other veteran family - not just of nuclear testing but ANY service.
Well we'll be starting this again, this time without my home address on it. Here is Katie's pamphlet. 
In 2018, when I found the first doc discussing blood counts of servicemen at Maralinga, the MoD said it was "unable to locate any information that suggests... staff took blood samples for radiological monitoring at the [weapons] tests".
PM @RishiSunak promised the medal in November. More than 1,000 veterans, and 500 families, have applied for one, and were told they'd have it by 'late summer'. Now they're told it won't even be in production by then.
Mirror video supremo @EddieHenryJames and I are with them - wearing the #MissingMedal @thehuwedwards 
It is the medal that should have been given to those who delivered the nuclear deterrent in 1952.
The explosives detonated, the beryllium tamper compressed the blast wave and forced it back inwards, and the atoms of uranium and plutonium were split with a force equivalent to 18,000 tons of TNT.
Hopefully it would mean more honours for rank-and-file servicemen, who get thoroughly overlooked by top brass who are up to their necks in gongs.
