An insider view of the Maxwell saga

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As a founder trustee of the Maxwell Pensioners Trust, Jane Newell played a key role gaining settlements for 32,000 scheme members. Here are her personal recollections of the Maxwell years

In June 1992, while working as the administrator of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, I received a message asking me to telephone the permanent secretary at the Department of Health and So...

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