A Wolverhampton councillor and former fire authority chief who had claimed for years that he had served as a Royal Marine has finally issued a public apology for misleading people about his military record - but in a 'watered down' way.

In a typed and signed letter of apology, submitted by Councillor Greg Brackenridge to the council the night before a meeting to consider a report into the affair, he admitted publicly what he had previously confessed to BirminghamLive - that he had NOT passed out or achieved the fabled green beret and had NEVER been a Royal Marine. He had only ever undergone training.

He had been ordered to apologise as part of a set of findings by the council after an investigation. That inquiry found he had breached the councillor Code of Conduct in four ways by emb

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