5 Live Investigates
5 Live Investigates
BBC Radio 5 Live
Gulf War Illness & Assaults on Prison Staff
49 minutes Posted May 4, 2014 at 12:00 pm.
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A former soldier wins Legal Aid in his fight to identify what caused his Gulf War illness. He's hoping to go to court to force the Ministry of Defence to reveal what it knew of the risks the vaccines given to soldiers being deployed to the first Gulf War might have posed. And Government figures reveal a sharp rise in the number of prison staff assaulted over the past year. What's causing the increase in attacks?