Champion Nick's piste de resistance

Captain Nick Binnington (30) from Thakeham suffered a shrapnel wound to his leg after a Taliban ambush attack when on patrol last year.

He said: I have the bit of shrapnel removed from my leg and it sits on my desk and sometimes that's a bit of a reminder of where I've come from and what I have achieved subsequent to that.

In January and February he was successful in the divisional and combined services skiing championships and then went to championships in Serre Chevalier, France where he became army champion.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette March 5