GREATER Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has called for a public inquiry into the Christmas Island nuclear bomb tests that some people claim caused the premature death of hundreds of veteran soldiers.
Mr Burnham said: "We are still not at the point where the full truth has been told."
This came as he presented a Nuclear Test Veterans' Medal to Martin Blackburn on behalf of his father Norman, who died of stomach cancer in 1985 at the age of 55.
As an RAF driver, Norman was sent to Christmas Island in 1957 and watched six nuclear explosions.
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