ali15son got in touch to send me this article from her scrapbook collection, and to say I could post it here. A bit of research led to the date and source as well!
Date: Tuesday 13 January 1981 Source: Daily Mirror newspaper, UK; British Newspaper Archive records
I'm wondering if it's connected to some more well-known information, which is that LC was accepted as fit enough for the SAS (passed all the tests, I think) but not allowed to join because as a celebrity he was too high-profile... Perhaps that was the "even tougher unit" that he tried to join. If this is 1981, then it was at the height of Pros on tv.
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