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MoD under fire over 'atomic beach'

THE Ministry of Defence is facing a barrage of ferocious criticism, accusing it of botching its monitoring of the so-called atomic beach at Dalgety Bay.

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The MoD has been accused of handling the situation so badly that it missed more than 400 radioactive hotspots, including some of the most lethal ever found on public beaches.

Former Government experts, current advisers and senior politicians have condemned the MoD's monitoring of the Fife site as inadequate, ineffectual and incompetent. According to one of the MoD's own former radiation scientists, the ministry can no longer be trusted to do the job – though it must pay for it.