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However, Gary Webster, who was infected with HIV and hepatitis C as a Hampshire schoolboy, said people feared they would not live to see the payments which he said were "too slow" and apparently allocated at random.

Justine Gordon-Smith, whose father Randolph died after being infected with hepatitis C, said those less directly affected by the scandal felt as though they were "at the back of the queue" for compensation.

Starbase will be a Type C city - a category of municipality of fewer than 5,000 people and a designation that among other things will allow officials to levy a property tax of up to 1.5%, according to the Texas Municipal League.

"It was one of the things that we always say about the electorate in Australia - it's a small C conservative and maybe the radical right message was just in the end, too radical and seemed too disruptive."

"If they have to, and they need the money, which most of us do, then C'est La Vie - that's what they're gonna have to do, you know?" he said.