Blair to give book profits to injured troops

TONY Blair is donating all the profits from his forthcoming memoirs to a new sports centre for injured troops, it emerged.

The former British prime minister is handing over the reported £4.6 million (€5.6m) advance he received for the book, A Journey, as well as any royalties.

A spokesman for Blair insisted he always intended to donate the proceeds to recognise the “courage and sacrifice” of the armed forces.