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Wales' finance minister Mark Drakeford has urged the UK Government to put right a "pension injustice" affecting ex-steelworkers who worked at a Cardiff steel plant in a huge boost to pensioners who have worked tirelessly for justice.

The ex-workers at Allied Steel and Wire, which went bust in Cardiff in 2002, have fought for decades to put right something which has seen them receive a fraction of what they expected through their pensions.

After ASW went bust in 2002 the company told staff there was a £21m shortfall in the pension scheme and their pensions would need to be reduced by 85%. Just shy of 900 people who worked at ASW were left in the same position, facing a bleak end to

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