Wounded soldiers appeal started

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An £8m appeal has been launched to improve facilities for the growing
number of wounded UK service personnel.

A "non-political" charity, Help for Heroes, wants to build a gym and full-sized
pool at Headley Court rehabilitation centre in Surrey.

It is the idea of cartoonist Bryn Parry who served in The Royal Green Jackets.

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[John A Silkstone]

In the old day a team of Royal Enginers, and every other type of tradesman would have been down there doing jobs at no cost to labour. You purchase the bricks and we will lay them. But I'm sorry to say that those days are over.

Silky