Telly veteran Johnny Ball is calling for National Service to be brought back – 60 years after it was axed.
Johnny, famed for presenting science shows and Play School, left the RAF in 1959, a year before the forces took their last full intake of national servicemen.
The 82-year-old said: “National Service was the making of me.
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