[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7855035.stm ]What do we think of this then?[/url]
I think a less contentious approach would be to recognise you can't compensate for the loss of a loved one. And don't.
Riddiculous...as someone who has lost friends or had others maimed during the troubles....what on earth are they thinking???
£12k why 12k??? Where was that sum plucked from?
What price a life lost? A disfigurement a disability?
Money is not what these people want or need....they long to have their loved ones back!
We should be moving on!
We should be moving on!
I agree entirely. This is their motivation apparently:
[i]“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it,
and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.” [/i]
Margaret Fairless Barber (b. 1869, d. 1901)
I dont get it. It comes across as a naive act.
will it include the families of the police and armed forces who lost their lives too? they're just as dead after all.
My grandad had a heart attack due to the stress, looking forward to claiming.
ill conceived nonsence - well, no change there then.