{"id":1902,"date":"2012-12-13T16:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1902"},"modified":"2012-12-13T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:08:43","slug":"military-charity-to-get-1m-govt-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/military-charity-to-get-1m-govt-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Military charity to get \u00a31m govt donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A charity that provides help to wounded British soldiers is to get an early Christmas present in the form of a &pound;1 million government donation.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher House will use the cash injection to build housing for the families of injured servicemen near Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, so soldiers' loved ones can be near them while they receive treatment, the Sun reports.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will total &pound;1 million and is coming from the &pound;35 million worth of fines paid by banks in the wake of the Libor rate-rigging scandal earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister David Cameron told the newspaper: &quot;It took about two minutes for the chancellor and I to decide what we wanted to do with the money from bankers who have been misbehaving. 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