They have faced improvised bombs, been ambushed by guerrillas and shot at by al-Qaeda. Now, British troops training for their next battle with Afghan insurgents have been foiled by German nature lovers. Allan Hall reports from Berlin for The Times.
Plans to erect mock Afghan villages in the heathland of Gütersloh, northwest Germany, to prepare the Army for close-contact warfare were put on hold this week after a German court ruled in favour of the rare sand lizard and the even rarer blue-winged grasshopper.
Continues at: timesonline.co.uk - British Army meets its match as German nature lovers halt training
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