Margo Cameron: started Silicone Support UK Group:

Ms Cameron, now in her 40s, had silicone injected into her lips as a pre-wedding gift from her fiancé.

The hoped-for wedding never happened.

But just a few months after the operation, she started to suffer from headaches and nausea.

She also found she was less able to get around.

Looking for explanation, she saw a specialist in America shortly after she became ill.

He told her that the silicone had spread throughout her body.

But she says when she returned to the UK, British doctors refused to accept the existence of silicone poisoning.

In 1993, she formed the Silicone Support UK Group in 1993, to persuade the British Government to ban silicone implants.

She now suffers from multiple sclerosis.

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Glasgow woman Margo Cameron asked him for help after suffering years of ill health as a result of silicone lip injections.

She now suffers from MS and claims to have had up to 50 different illnesses over the last decade.

She says the effects of the injections made her so ill she had to cancel her wedding.

She claims her career was destroyed and her son's education damaged because he was forced to spend so much time caring for her.

Cameron took her fight to Westminster and lost.

But Bill Miller this week secured a massive victory in the campaign to crack down on cowboy operators who make a killing out of the implant industry.

He won the backing of EU chiefs to have unsafe silicone products outlawed across Europe.
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Women wanting enhancing operations will also be given counselling before and after surgery to pick up any problems, and Europe will also consider imposing an age limit on such operations.

Thanks to Miller's campaign - prompted by one woman from Glasgow - thousands of women across Europe who opt for implants will be safer than before.

Bill Miller this week proved that the European Parliament can make a real difference to the lives of ordinary Scots.

Too often Brussels is blamed for the decisions we don't like, and when it does improve our laws, ministers at Westminster try to grab the glory.

European decisions are crucial to the two big issues dominating the political agenda.

Decisions in Brussels will help farmers recover from the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and determine the future of the fishing industry in Scotland.

Yet when a group of MSPs travelled to Brussels this week they were accused of junketing by euro-sceptic commentators.

The real scandal is that they don't go there more often to put Scotland's case.

Please visit Sue of England's page ... she honors Margo's Work