News Archive
| What better way to spend next Friday evening, 2nd Nov than at Gail’s jazz concert at the Corn Exchange – see the article about it in this week’s Newbury Weekly News and look at the Corn Exchange website for details of how to buy tickets. |
NOVEMBER 5, 2007: YOUR LAST CHANCE TO MAKE A CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION |
| If you wish to make a claim to make good your losses from the Ufton Nervet train crash or to apply for funding for counselling or other treatment, there is a 3 year deadline for doing this. You will have to register your wish to a solicitor by 5th November. The Network co-ordinator (Liz Capewell, 01635 30644) can give you names of solicitors known to be dealing with other survivors and who are therefore familiar with the crash and the workings of the Motor Insurance Bureau (MIB). The crash is regarded as a road crash and MIB has accepted liability for claims. Drysdale was an uninsured driver and MIB is an agency set up by the industry to deal with claims against uninsured drivers. |
| At last, the crash was reported on the 6.00pm National TV and radio News today (17th Oct, 2007) as well as Thames Valley/South Regional News. |
| Survivor's Shock WHY IS THE 2nd INQUEST OF A JUDGE’s DEATH IN SOMERSET more deserving of coverage on national radio news in recent days than THE INQUEST INTO A CATASTROPHIC TRAIN CRASH WITH CATASTROPHIC RESULTS and of major importance to people across the country and the travelling public in general? This was a crash involving 281 passengers from around the UK and beyond, with 7 traumatic fatalities, 120 injured and many more traumatised. Issues of safety which are of vital importance to the public in general are being discussed. Survivors have been shocked by the lack of coverage nationally and in regions where a significant number of survivors and bereaved live. As one person badly affected by the crash said: “The inquest is certainly giving me a lot to think about - specifically the lack of national coverage (especially because the recent content was just the sort the national media loves?!) Is it because of other high profile Inquests or because someone in power somewhere has demanded that the laminated glass issue is not given air-time? David Main's interview was extremely moving & should have definitely been on the national news. Grrrr” |