A BLIND army veteran from Barnsley is fronting a new video campaign for a military charity that helps veterans battling severe sight loss.

Vision impaired veteran Stewart Haywood, 79, is the star of a video by Blind Veterans UK which follows his journey from his initial experience at diagnosis to discovering a life beyond sight loss.

The three-and-a-half minute film has been made to raise awareness of the free support and services the charity offers for vision impaired veterans - regardless of when they served or how they lost their sight.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle