The Latest Breaking News from Royal British Legion

Veterans can get Royal British Legion grant of up to £2400 to help with energy bills

Royal British Legion scheme set to help the UK armed forces families who are struggling with the cost of living

Chronicle Live · Oct 19, 2022

Thousands of families can claim new £2,400 cash grant to help pay bills - who is eligible

Charity Royal British Legion is offering £200 a month to help the Armed Forces community - which includes those who have served, or are serving, in the Royal Navy, British Army or Royal Air Force

Daily Mirror · Oct 13, 2022

Royal British Legion announces new grants to help pay energy bills

Over the last 12 months the charity has issued 20% more grants to help with food and basic living costs than in the previous year

Wales Online · Oct 13, 2022

Widow fears for future of pigeons as homing society faces eviction

The Hooton homing society face being turfed out at the end of the month

Liverpool Echo · Sep 5, 2022

'Reluctant hero' veteran who survived D-Day at just 19 years old dies aged 97

Tributes are being paid to Jim Healy, who was just 19 when he guided Allied landing craft onto the Normandy beaches

Manchester Evening News · Sep 1, 2022

Couple planned to sell home to get premature baby home from Turkey

Louise Crawshaw-Bowen, 37, and husband Stephen, 27, were stranded in Antalya after little Wolfe was born seven-and-a-half weeks early

Wales Online · Aug 4, 2022

'End of an era' as iconic club demolished to make way for retirement home

Developers had the original plans rejected in 2021

Liverpool Echo · Aug 1, 2022

Pigeon fanciers' anger as British Legion brings in £100 rent for birds

"It’s only the pigeons and the guys at the club that are keeping me going really, so if I lose all that, I don’t know what I’ll do”

Liverpool Echo · Jul 29, 2022

Following in the footsteps of the heroic Stockport milkman who helped bring WW2 to an end

The Cockleshell Heroes mission retraced - 80 years on

Manchester Evening News · Jul 17, 2022

Man buys £150,000 first home at just 21 - using only his £13,000 salary

Max Woodvine, a Tory councillor, claims he saved £800 a month by living carefully and says others should follow his lead - but some local residents branded his comments 'disgusting'

Daily Mirror · Jul 8, 2022