A group of injured service personnel are taking part an exercise in Cyprus designed to aid recovery.

Operation Nightingale is an archaeology scheme part of Exercise Artemis, a joint project between Cypriot archaeologists and the UK Defence Archaeology Group.

It is hoped the dig will help veterans suffering from physical and mental injuries.

They have been working alongside Cypriot and UK archaeologists at a site near Akrotiri believed to date back to the seventh century.

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