The Herald -
Nimrod crew’s funerals delayed
The grieving families of the Scottish-based Nimrod crew will have to wait "days and perhaps weeks" for the remains of their loved ones to be returned for burial, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
The Duke of Edinburgh and the Defence Secretary, Des Browne, were among those who attended a moving repatriation ceremony at RAF Kinloss yesterday. But within hours of the remains arriving in Scotland – where the 12 aircrew among the 14 victims of the crash were stationed – the coffins were flown back to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire last night to await post-mortem clearance......
Up to 100 hearings are still to be held by the single Oxford coroner's court approved by the MoD and the Home Office as fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan mount and the overloaded system is swamped by the rising casualty toll.....