http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2246188.0.0.phpTHE UK government has made an 11th-hour intervention?in?the long-running dispute between the Scottish NHS and anti-nuclear campaigners over the release of childhood leukaemia figures.
Justice secretary Jack Straw's department was given leave to intervene earlier this month when the landmark case reached the House of Lords.
Whitehall said the case raised "important" issues and is challenging parts of the original decision to publish the statistics.
The saga can be traced to a freedom of information request lodged in January 2005 by the Scottish Greens for a breakdown of leukaemia statistics for under-15s in Dumfries and Galloway.
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