Jack backs Gurkhas with £20k donation

Wolves former owner Sir Jack Hayward is backing a campaign to allow all retired Gurkhas to settle in the UK, it emerged today. The multi-millionaire has donated £20,000 to the cause and said it was to “repay the debt” the country owes them. More than 2,000 former Gurkha soldiers have been refused permission to live in the country because they retired before July 1997. But last month a High Court judge ruled the Government’s policy was unlawful and needed a review. The Nepalese fighters want parliament to change the ruling and have started up the Gurkha Justice campaign to try and bring about change. Mr Hayward, who has a personal fortune estimated at £160 million, is now Wolves life-president after selling the club to Steve Morgan for £10 in 2007. The 85-year old was a former RAF Flight Lieutenant during the Second World War... [read full story]