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Nicola Mott emailed me yesterday to say that her article would appear in today’s Telegraph. So naturally I had to buy one. I’m not a regular Telegraph reader.

What on earth are they up to? The topic is about the Veteran’s Lapel Badge, not me. Fair enough if they wanted to publish a picture of me but so large? My point was about the badge, the certificate and who was eligible to receive both! Not me!

I was also disappointed that there was no mention of the decision not to make the award to a surviving spouse of a veteran who had died or was killed on active service. Nor was there a mention of the anonymous certificates that accompanied the badges. Yet she made a great play of the clasp that defeated me even though she KNEW (because I had told her) that the clasp problem was down to me, old fingers and not as good as new eyesight. She also quoted words attributed to me by the Veterans Agency that I did not make. If that’s the best that the Telegraph can do well ………………..

She couldn’t even make her mind up who Bryan Thompson was. In the article he was the President of the Darwen Royal British Legion. In the email he was branch secretary. Maybe he was both?

However her email yesterday also informed me that the branch secretary of the Darwen branch of the Royal British Legion had invited me to attend their next meeting on 3rd August. You can bet your sweet life that I will be going.

I will see what 3rd August brings and then it will be a phone call to Granada, the BBC and a few emails to the National Press.