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Homeless veteran house thanks to team effort A VETERAN with who found himself homeless now has the keys to his own flat thanks to a team effort. Paul Nixon was born and brought up in Rossendale and in 1997 he joined the Horse Guards Cavalry and was posted to Windsor. In 2010 he joined the 4th Battalion Parachute Regiment and during his service he served four tours in Bosnia, the Falkland Islands, Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. Incidents that happened while he was serving, including losing comrades to friendly fire in Iraq, left Paul with PTSD. He said: “I got jobs in security, but I could see visions of things that weren t there and so I had to leave.”
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