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Gurkha veterans have launched a legal battle for the same pension as other servicemen.
 

Judges were told the Ministry of Defence pays 24,000 veteran Gurkhas just a third of the pension of retired British soldiers.

Current rules say Gurkhas who retired before 1997 cannot join the Armed Forces Pension Scheme and they have to stay in their own scheme which pays substantially lower benefits based on the cost of living in their Nepal homeland.

The veterans claim they are victims of discrimination.

The MoD says that Gurkha pensions can be paid from the age of 33 and they claim that over the course of their retirement veterans do end up getting the same money.