PREVIOUSLY classified papers reveal that [...].

PREVIOUSLY classified papers reveal that then Tory minister John Profumo hushed up the disclosure that soldiers deployed to Balmoral to guard the monarch were being used as unpaid beaters for royal shoots. Squaddies are still asked if they will beat for shoots, whispers a source. But they now volunteer for the task, rather than being commandeered, and pocket a beater's fee to boot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]