Ulster Unionist Basil McCrea, a policing board member, has claimed that police in Northern Ireland are claiming nearly £60m in compensation for hearing loss mainly suffered in the Troubles. He said the figure was so large that it could not come out of the police budget: "The only people that have the resources to bail this out is the Westminster government".

Mr McCrea said this was a legacy of past troubles and these were not fraudulent claims.

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