"We have had a very welcome interim payment from the SFL last week and we are fortunate because of what we have done to date in not spending what we don't have, " said Nixon.

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Mr Garner said the firm had already secured "an initial interim payment" for one seriously injured child, to pay for treatment, adaptations to her home to make it wheelchair accessible and to fund a suitable vehicle.

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