Survivors of contaminated blood scandal awarded interim payments

Ministers accepted urgency of need of those infected in 1970s and 1980s, who are dying at the rate of one every four days

• My family was destroyed': relatives of blood scandal victims get nothing

Survivors of the contaminated blood scandal have been awarded interim government payments after a 40-year battle, but thousands of parents and children of the victims have still received nothing.

Ministers have accepted the urgency of the need to make the 100,000 payments to about 3,000 surviving victims, after being warned that those mistakenly infected with HIV and hepatitis C were dying at the rate of one every four days.