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Home Secretary John Reid said there was no need for public alarm over the discovery of radiation at several locations associated with the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. In an emergency Commons statement, Mr Reid said the nature of this radiation was such "that it does not travel over long distances - a few centimetres at most. "There is no need for public alarm over the fact that radiation may have been found, since there is such a short distance encompassed in its effect." The statement came as it emerged that three people have been sent for urgent...

Newport News Daily Press September 16, 2002 A Week Of Atomic Tests, A Life In Medical Hell By Rick Rogers With eyes closed, Jim Lyerly recounts landing at Hickam Field, Hawaii, in January 1955 as if retelling a dream. He breathes deeply and names the island smells - orchids, pineapple and sugar cane all swirled by sea wind. The young man from east Rockingham, N.C., with an eighth-grade education had just been dropped into the lap of paradise - and he knew it. Lyerly enjoyed the Navy, but Hawaii made him love it. He decided on the spot that the...