{"id":293,"date":"2011-07-28T08:09:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T08:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=293"},"modified":"2011-07-28T08:09:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T08:09:44","slug":"uks-nuclear-test-veterans-compensation-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s nuclear test veterans&#8217; compensation fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_296\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Christmas-Island-detonation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-296\" title=\"Christmas Island nuclear detonation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Christmas-Island-detonation-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mushroom cloud over Christmas Island<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UK government is fighting a multi-million Euro compensation claim with British military veterans who witnessed nuclear test explosions in the 1950s and 60s. Medics say many of them have developed severe health problems like cancer as a result of radiation. I met one of them in the town of Burntwood, near Birmingham in the English midlands. Here&#8217;s my report for Newslink on Deutsche Welle Radio:<br \/>\n<object id=\"boo_embed_423921\" width=\"400\" height=\"129\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F423921-uk-nuclear-test-veterans-fight.mp3%3Fsource%3Dembed&amp;mp3Author=lbevanger&amp;mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F423921-uk-nuclear-test-veterans-fight&amp;mp3Title=UK+nuclear+test+veterans%27+fight&amp;rootID=boo_embed_423921&amp;mp3Time=07.53am+28+Jul+2011\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/423921-uk-nuclear-test-veterans-fight.mp3?source=embed\">UK nuclear test veterans&#8221; fight (mp3)<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government is fighting a multi-million Euro compensation claim with British military veterans who witnessed nuclear test explosions in the 1950s and 60s. Medics say many of them have developed severe health problems like cancer as a result of radiation. I met one of them in the town of Burntwood, near Birmingham in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}