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Soldiers, normally based in Kent, have been on patrol in the heat and dust of Afghanistan along with Pip, a springer spaniel trained to sniff out arms and explosives.

You can get some idea of what conditions are like for Pip and the troops from the video (in the window on the right) of one of their stop-and-search patrols.

Members of B Company, The Argyll and Southern Highlanders, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, have been providing security to the town of Lashkar Gah, provincial capital of Helmand Province, since March.

Lance Corporal James Johnson, known to his friends a Jimmy, tells of the difficult and dangerous tasks facing him and his colleagues on a daily basis

"It is really long hours out here, all of the patrols and operations, the heat and the dust and all of the kit is physically just hard, " he said, " but you know you have to stay alert and keep the guys alert."

Members of B Company are due to return to Howe Barracks in Canterbury this autumn

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