Decision Underlines Importance of Honouring Military Covenant ; the Government has This Week Scrapped Proposals to Drop the Post of Chief Coroner, a Move That has Been Applauded by Lyn Barton

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Amid noisy protests, it seems to have taken just one quiet, resolute and dignified voice to have tipped the balance.

Kirianne Curley's hero husband Stephen, a corporal in the Royal Marines, was killed last year while serving in Afghanistan with Tauntonbased 40 Commando. When his widow, who lives in Exeter, this week urged Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene and ensure proposals to scrap the role of Chief Coroner were abandoned, she clearly touched a raw nerve.

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Decision Underlines Importance of Honouring Military Covenant ; the Government has This Week Scrapped Proposals to Drop the Post of Chief Coroner, a Move That has Been Applauded by Lyn Barton

Mrs Curley said she acted for hundreds of forces families in trying to save the vital post, which would ensure inquests of service personnel killed in action are held quickly and were overseen by people with the righ...

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