Summary
A SCOTTISH rescue team has accused British officials of hampering the Japanese aid effort with red tape after 14 disaster relief workers were forced back from the country because of delayed paperwork.
However, the 12 members of the International Rescue Corps (IRC), based in Grangemouth, arrived home in the UK last night only to find the Foreign Office had performed an about-turn and produced the letter that would have allowed them access to the area devastated by Friday's earthquake and tsunami.See the full content of this document
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Red Tape Row As Rescuers Are Denied Entry to Japan
The rescue corps, which has worked at more than 30 other disasters worldwide - including the 1995 earthquake that killed 6000 people in Kobe - had apparently secured the permission of Japan's London embassy before it d...
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