Image source, Trevor Skingle Image caption,

Trevor Skingle joined the army aged 17 and says he hid his sexuality for years

By Lauren Moss, LGBT correspondent & Josh Parry, LGBT producer

BBC News

Campaigners are urging the government to immediately release the findings of a review into the treatment of LGBT veterans who were forced out of their jobs as a result of being gay.

Until 2000 it was illegal to be gay in the British military - with more than 5,000 veterans thought to be affected.

Some have given evidence to a review launched last year but are concerned the report has not been published yet.

The government said it would consider the recommendations "in due course".

One veteran told BBC News she wants the government to apologise because gay officers' lives "were robbed" by the ban.

Carol Morgan and other veterans had hoped for an update at an event they were invited to at London's Imperial War Museum on Thursday evening.

Veterans minister Johnny Mercer and the chairman of the independent review, Lord Etherton, gave speeches but no new details were released and no further timeframe was given for the report's publication.