MILITARY officials were condemned yesterday for risking the health of people on a beach near Fife contaminated with radioactive waste following the leaking of a suppressed report.

Campaigners said the Ministry of Defence had known for months it should be warning people off the beach at Dalgety Bay, contaminated with sold-off military landfill used by the county council to shore up the eroding coastline, unaware of its toxic composition.

The clinker and ash which has made its way into the area includes bits of instrument dials coated in radium.