Infected blood scandal: Calls for faster payouts to victims

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Campaigners have delivered a letter to Downing Street calling for faster payouts to the victims of the infected blood scandal.

It follows a government defeat in the Commons when MPs voted in favour of a new compensation scheme.

Thousands of people died after being given contaminated blood in the 1970s and 80s.

But decades later many bereaved families are still waiting for final settlements.

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