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  "value": "MP praises Sunday Times reporting",
  "statement": "Jack Ashley, the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South, told the House of Commons on November 29, 1972, that The Sunday Times had run a series of articles on thalidomide that he called brave and brilliant.",
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  "evidence_quote": "a series of articles in The Sunday Times which was both brave and brilliant",
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  "subject_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1972-uk-sunday-times-thalidomide-injunction",
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    "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1972/nov/29/thalidomide-children",
    "final_url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1972/nov/29/thalidomide-children",
    "title": "Thalidomide Children, House of Commons debate, 29 November 1972",
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    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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