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The House: Fire warning

Thursday 04 February 1999 00:02 GMT
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The House: Fire warning

RISING PENSION payouts have financially crippled firefighting in London, Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham, warned. Dr Cable said: "If there is a major emergency then the fewer fire tenders there are, the fewer firefighters there are, the greater the response time and the greater the risk of death."

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