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Evening Standard
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Robbie Griffiths

Chelsea’s Todd Boehly vs the veterans: the development battle raging in London’s richest borough

“We have been deployed as armed forces overseas, to defend whatever we needed to defend,” says one veteran who lives next door to Chelsea football stadium. “But who is defending us?”

Dozens of British veterans from the Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions now fear homelessness — after the building their community has been in for more than 100 years was sold to Chelsea Football Club for redevelopment last October.

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