Two ex-servicemen from Kent travelled to Downing Street in a bid to get justice for nuclear test veterans. Terry Quinlan from Leybourne and Brian Unthank from Erith, near Dartford, were both teenagers when they served on Christmas Island in the South Pacific during Britain’s nuclear test programme in the 1950s. Mr Quinlan, who was a driver with the Royal Army Service Corps, was injured with shrapnel kicked up by one of the H-bombs – even though it was detonated 20 miles away. Almost immediately after completing his National Service he began to suffer from cancerous lumps that have plaqued him …
