I Have Never Seen Such Devastation in 20 Years of This Job ; the Derby-Born Humanitarian Director of Oxfam has Just Got Back From Haiti, Where She has Been Overseeing the Charity's Aid Effort. Jane Cocking Spent a Week in the County's Capital, Port-Au-Prince, Which Was Flattened by an Earthquake. She Spoke to Reporter Claire Duffin About Her Experiences.

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WALKING past a pile of rubble that was once a house, Jane Cocking was hit by the all-too-familiar smell of dead bodies.

Three weeks after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, rotting corpses were still trapped inside ruined buildings.

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I Have Never Seen Such Devastation in 20 Years of This Job ; the Derby-Born Humanitarian Director of Oxfam has Just Got Back From Haiti, Where She has Been Overseeing the Charity's Aid Effort. Jane Cocking Spent a Week in the County's Capital, Port-Au-Prince, Which Was Flattened by an Earthquake. She Spoke to Reporter Claire Duffin About Her Experiences.

As Ms Cocking surveyed the destruction, she said she had to distance herself from the heartbreak and concentrate on the job at hand: co-ordinating Oxfam's huge aid effort there. She said: "A lot of it is like being a good nurse: you have to show compassion but you...

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