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British actress and Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley is welcomed on her arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, 26 July 2009.

A high profile campaign led by the actress Joanna Lumley in May won many Gurkha veterans the right to settle in the UK.

Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

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