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More than £13bn set aside for infected blood and Horizon scandal victims

Some £11.8 billion will be set aside for infected blood victims, and £1.8 billion to compensate those caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Evening Standard

Do public inquiries work? What comes after Grenfell and other UK disasters

People involved in some of the UK’s highest-profile recent inquiries discuss what they achieved and what was left undone

The Guardian - UK

Victims of UK’s infected blood scandal to start receiving payouts by end of year

Those affected by contaminated blood transfusions and products in 1970s and 80s to finally receive compensation

The Guardian - UK

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Victims of infected blood scandal to receive first compensation payments by end of 2024

More than 30,000 patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis between 1970 and 1991 as a result of the scandal

The Independent UK

Grenfell and other bereaved families demand next PM act on public inquiries

Bereaved from scandals including tower block fire, infected blood and Covid-19 gather calling for guarantee that recommendations don’t gather dust

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: The history of the contaminated blood scandal; Iranian president confirmed dead

In today’s newsletter: After years of failure to recognise how badly the victims were treated, their stories are finally being heard. But is it enough for the families who have fought for years?

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: key files shredded as UK government panic grew over infected blood deaths lawsuit

Lost documents prevented victims from finding out the truth, official inquiry told

The Guardian - UK

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Infected blood inquiry: study that said risk was seen as ‘tolerable’ omitted patient death

Exclusive: 2003 study was cited as evidence that risks of hepatitis C could not have been foreseen at the time

The Guardian - UK

‘Plasma was called liquid gold’: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal

Documents examined by inquiry show officials knew people were being given infected blood products, but sanctioned their use

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak must now compensate infected blood scandal victims, politicians demand

After the prime minister acted to help hundreds of postmasters wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office, he has been told to roll out compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal

The Independent UK

Infected blood scandal: victims’ families call for action amid Post Office injustice

Many of those affected are frustrated their cause is not getting the same attention as the Post Office Horizon scandal

The Guardian - UK

Bereaved relatives in compensation plea as Government figures face blood inquiry

Commons Leader and former paymaster general Penny Mordaunt is to give evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry on Monday.

The Independent UK

Bereaved relatives of victims of blood scandal to deliver letter to Number 10

Ahead of Rishi Sunak’s evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry, they are calling action on setting up a compensation body.

The Independent UK

Final four members of ‘depraved’ 21-person child sex abuse ring jailed

Seven children aged under 13 were abused over a period of nearly 10 years.

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The Independent UK

Ransomware attack affects Dallas police, court websites

Authorities say Dallas was hit with a computer ransomware attack that brought down its Police Department and City Hall websites and caused some jury trials to be canceled

The Guardian - UK

Infected blood victims and families urge UK government to drop defence

Exclusive: Claimants say government can no longer defend treatment disaster in light of inquiry’s damning interim report

The Independent UK

Eight women among 21 members of ‘abhorrent and cruel’ child abuse ring

West Midlands Police said victims 12 years-old and younger had suffered ‘shocking ’ abuse over almost a decade

The Guardian - UK

Twenty-one convicted in West Midlands child sexual abuse inquiry

Investigation uncovered ‘appalling catalogue of sexual abuse’ against seven children over almost a decade

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Daily Mirror

Infected blood victims told they can't bring laywers to meeting with minister

Jason Evans, of the Factor 8 campaign group, said victims had been invited to a meeting with Paymaster General Jeremy Quin on Tuesday - and lawyers had been due to attend

The Independent UK

Infected blood scandal: ‘Another day of upset’ for victim’s son

A man whose father died says he found out about the Government’s interim compensation payments in a press release.

The Guardian - UK

‘My family was destroyed’: relatives of blood scandal victims get nothing

Four families tell of how their losses and the lack of government compensation have affected their lives and mental health

Daily Mirror

Hillsborough Law unites people fighting the state in every corner of Britain

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham's Hillsborough Law brought together different people fighting the state for justice in every corner of the land - including Margaret Aspinall, whose son was one of the 96 victims of the Hillsborough tragedy

Daily Mirror

Victims of Hillsborough, Grenfell, and nuclear tests unite to demand an end to cover-ups

MPs and campaigners for Covid-19 bereaved families, Zane Gbangbola and contaminated blood are fighting for a new law that would end official cover-ups

Tribune News Service

Texas governor signs disaster declaration for 16 counties ripped apart by tornadoes, storms

DALLAS — Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a disaster declaration for 16 counties where severe storms swept through Monday, tearing open schools and leveling homes.

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