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Gurkhas took their fight for the right to stay in the UK to the streets of Folkestone on Saturday (1 November).

Around 100 former members of the Gurkha regiment based at Shorncliffe barracks, gathered in the town centre collecting signatures for a petition which they hope will carry one million names when they deliver it to Downing Street.

The soldiers who were originally from Nepal, recently won a High Court battle to stay in the UK.

In 2004, those who retired after that date won the right to stay in Britain but the High Court ruled last month that the government's policy not to honour those soldiers who retired before 1997 was unlawful.