CHRISTMAS was just another day for Scarborough soldiers serving in Afghanistan with military duties carried out as normal in the notorious Helmand province.
Soldiers tried to make the day special by salvaging festive food from their ration packs and welfare parcels or prepared freshly slaughtered chickens which they bought especially for the occasion from the Afghan people for a few dollars.
Sgt Major Mike Scott, from Skinningrove near Whitby, said his men would enjoy a ...