FORMER miners with crippling industrial injuries are being targeted by a Welsh law firm which wants to charge them £345 for a free service.

A guest speaker from Hugh James Solicitors attended a meeting of the Barnsley Vibration White Finger Group at Highstone Road WMC this month.

And the firm has sparked anger by sending flyers to Grimethorpe WMC urging miners to contact them for help claiming a disablement pension for miners' knee.

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