Two Keighley soldiers were among those deployed to help maintain the peace at the annual Drumcree Parade in Northern Ireland.

Corporal David Kane and Private Phillip Horton, with colleagues from the 1st Battalion Prince of Wales's Own Regiment, supported the police operation.

The unit, in its first stint at Drumcree, staged vehicle checkpoints and patrols on the approach roads to Portadown.

Since 1995, Drumcree has been plagued by confrontation between sections of Northern Ireland's Catholic and Protestant communities.

The Portadown Orangemen are banned from marching from their annual church service down the mainly Catholic Garvaghy Road, and the situation has resulted in violent clashes.

Trouble flared this year when crowds tried to pull down barriers erected to prevent access to Garvaghy Road.

Police and army personnel came under attack, but managed to bring the situation under control.

Corporal Kane, 36, who is married with two daughters, enlisted in the army in 1985.

He is a fully qualified military driving instructor.

Private Horton, a former pupil of Holy Family School, joined up in 1999 and has served in Sierra Leone. He is on his first two-year residential tour of Northern Ireland.