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Record fight is on!

A proud history of campaigning – and getting the results – is being celebrated by the Daily Record.

The paper has declared that it won’t stop fighting for its readers until it gets the results they deserve.

It has fought on drugs, asbestos, Hepatitis C, bus workers’ pensions, asylum seekers and car number plates.

The flagship campaign has been over drugs, where the paper has helped the Scottish Executive to having a bigger say and more funding to tackle the problem.

From 2000 the Record has named and shamed dealers, gathered community support and taken drugs to the top of the political agenda.

It also founded the Scottish Communities Against Drugs in partnership with the Scottish parliament.

The Record fought for families affected by asbestos when an insurance firm ceased trading and compensation claims were halted. Reporters put pressure on the Government to sort out substantial pay-outs for victims and the fight continues.

The Record has also tackled what it labels the “greatest injustice” in the Scottish health system.

More than 500 people have contracted Hepatitis C from routine blood transfusions and the paper has called for compensation – winning an assurance from the NHS that compensation is on its agenda.

Privatisation of Scottish Transport Group left a £118m pension fund to be shared out between ex-workers but bungles have held up the payments and the Record is pushing Scottish Executive ministers to sort out the mess.

The Record is also campaigning for a greater understanding of difficulties faced by asylum-seekers and better facilities for the community after difficulties following the murder of an asylum-seeker in Glasgow.

And on number plates, when an EU directive banned Scots from having car number plates with SCO on them, the Scottish Executive and the Record were furious – and the authorities did a u-turn on the ruling.

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