Three military veterans slept out in the strong winds and heavy rain last night
outside Stamford's War Memorial on Broad Street in support of the Great Tommy Sleep Out. Led by a member of Stamford's Armed Forces and Veterans Breakfast Club, which marked its 6th anniversary last weekend. And they had limited protection from the elements.
‘Three of us in a two man bivvy. We've got some waterproof jackets and a couple of golf umbrellas. But the thing always to remember with these things, there are people. We passed people this evening walking in here who are sleeping in doorways with a blanket over them. We're not roughing it by comparison to those who are genuinely sleeping rough. We're just doing it for one night whereas they do it every night and people say why sleep in very bad weather? Well, the homeless people have got no choice, have they? They're here every night and I hate to say it, but successive governments send our men and women to war. It is fine because it is what they signed up for, but they don't look after them when I come back and that's why I have to have shows like this or less of them and it shouldn't happen’.
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Miles for Mindspace fundraisers finish their final mile.
