WAR veterans in the Royal Hospital Chelsea retirement home celebrated the start of the festive season by tucking in to Mull of Kintyre cheddar cheese.
The Chelsea Pensioners joined in a ceremonial celebration of British cheese with First Milk donating 3.9kg of Mull of Kintyre and Isle of Arran mature cheddar.
One pensioner tuck ing in with special pride may have been David MacIntyre, a former Dalintober Infants and Campbeltown Grammar school pupil and ex-Scots Guards piper, who moved from Campbeltown to the Royal Hospital Chelsea retirement home last year.