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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jamie Grierson

Shoreham air crash: coroner apologises over long wait for inquest

Emergency services working on the A27 at Shoreham in West Sussex on 26 August 2015 following the disaster.
Emergency services working on the A27 at Shoreham in West Sussex on 26 August 2015 following the disaster. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

A coroner has apologised to the families of 11 men who were killed in the Shoreham airshow tragedy for having to wait so long for an inquest into their deaths to resume.

The West Sussex senior coroner, Penelope Schofield, expressed her “deepest regret” that delays to the inquest had added to the ordeal endured by relatives of those who died.

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