A COUNTY Durham soldier has been sampling life in the central American jungle on a six-week Army exercise.
Sergeant Alan Robinson, 27, from Trimdon Village, is in Belize on Exercise Native Trail.
A member of the Royal Corps, his normal duties are to prepare helicopter landing sites and provide communications for the unit.
However, in the jungles of Belize, Sgt Robinson has been learning how to live off the land.
Sgt Robinson has been in the army for ten years and has also served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and the Gulf
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