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By Susie Boniface The Ministry of Defence has been ordered by a judge to hand over the blood tests of a nuclear veteran to his family. The MoD spent more than a year fighting the relatives of Squadron Leader Terry Gledhill, who wanted to see if blood samples taken before and after he flew through five mushroom clouds led to his later decades of ill health. Terry died in 2015, but his daughter Jane O’Connor argued that, as his executor, she was able to exercise his legal rights to see the blood test results. Now a Freedom of Information tribunal has ruled in her favour. “I’m over the moon, and …

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