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By Mikey Smith Campaigners have been given £350,000 to build a monument to honour LGBT armed forces veterans. Following pressure from the Sunday Mirror and charity Fighting With Pride (FWP), Rishi Sunak last year apologised to the 20,000 service personnel who were jailed, dismissed for their sexuality or outed against their will before the gay ban in the military was lifted in 2000. The memorial is proposed to be situated in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, a 150 acre site and part of the Royal British Legion, and will commemorate all LGBT service personnel, including those im…

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