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On Trauma and Homelessness
I recently attended the Greater Manchester County Royal British Legion conference, where an issue was raised by a member, who highlighted her motivation for having joined the British Legion over twenty years ago. She had been spurred on by her brother’s experience, who having served in the Falklands War in the early 1980’s, returned home to Britain and havi…
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Veteran sent to jail to survive cold
A court sentenced a homeless former soldier to prison to help him “get through the hardest part of winter” as magistrates felt society had “completely let him down”. Neil Carpenter, who lives in the woods, made dozens of “nuisance” phone calls to 999 – just so he could be sent to jail. Cambridge Magistrates’ Court also heard how Carpenter, 45, finds his fo…
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