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A father-of-two who twice beat cancer died after being exposed to radiation – from a Cold War US plane that crashed while carrying nuclear weapons. An inquest heard how in 1968 a then 21-year-old Petter Lilleby, from Barrow, in Cumbria, unwittingly worked near contaminated barrels of radioactive ice and wreckage from the crash site.
Mirror 8th April 2016 read more »
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