Housing Charity Celebrates 100 Years with 100 New Homes
A charity that houses homeless veterans is celebrating its centenary year - by building 100 new homes. Stoll was set up by theatre manager ...
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Military Life D-Day Hero's Emotional Return to Normandy
A D-Day veteran has paid an emotional visit to the grave of his friend, who was killed during the Normandy landings in 1944. Hugh Maguire ...
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Military Life Royal Marines Battle for Clay Pigeon Shooting Supremacy
Royal Marines have been battling it out on the firing ranges - in a charity clay pigeon shoot.Teams competed in the second event to be held ...
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Military Life Charity: 'Large Rise In Veterans Seeking PTSD Help'
Military charity Combat Stress is reporting a large rise in the numbers of veterans being referred to them with PTSD. They claim an increase ...
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Military Life How Gardening Is Helping Tackle PTSD
Green fingered ex-soldiers are using gardening to help them cope with their post-traumatic stress disorder. The Forces Welfare team went to ...
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Military Life Soldiers Tackle Highlands to Mark 300 Years of the Sappers
Six intrepid soldiers are covering 220 miles of the Scottish Highlands on foot and bike to mark 300 years of the sappers. They set off from ...
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Military Life Images of War: ABF's 2017 Calendar Competition
A bomb disposal dog, the light glinting off a sniper’s rifle, and the moment an artillery shell is fired…just some of the images chosen to ...
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Military Life WW2 Veterans Prove You're Never Too Old To Skydive
Skydiving for charity is nothing unusual - but skydiving at the age of 90 is. Two second world war veterans did just that for the Taxi ...
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Military Life Rome to Home: Duo Complete Epic Bike Ride For Forces Charity
Former Royal Scots soldiers Martin Burnett and Willie Malloy have completed an epic cycle trek from Rome to Edinburgh for a forces charity. ...
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Military Life Meet The World's Most Unusual Go-Karting Team
A team of wounded service personnel have taken on a gruelling 24-hour go-karting race. For six years the charity, KartForce, has been ...
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Military Life Q+A: Erskine's Century of Caring for Veterans
Erskine has been caring for veterans for 100 years, after the horrors of the first world war laid bare a glaring need for proper hospital ...
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Military Life Injured Veteran Lives Out Boyhood Dream
An injured veteran is living out his boyhood dream after qualifying as a professional helicopter pilot. Chris Kirk is now an instructor with ...
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Military Life Taxi Charity Veterans Board The Bluebell Express
Veterans of the Second World War have been given a nostalgic treat with a day out on the Bluebell Railway. They were guests of the Taxi ...
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Military Life Veterans Aid In 60 Seconds
Veterans Aid is has been helping veterans for 84 years. Here's a 60-second guide to the charity and what it does to change lives.
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Military Life Robbed WWII Veteran Returns To Fundraising
Cyril Banks, 92-year old veteran of D-Day and the Arctic Convoys, had his life savings stolen. Just days later, he was in London giving up ...
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Military Life Purple Warriors Paddle To Recovery
The Forces Welfare team have been to meet the Purple Warriors, a team of serving personnel and veterans who use dragon boat racing as part ...