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Keeping the peace in Cyprus is like "playing the role of the parent with arguing teenagers", says Lieutenant Colonel Paul Gilby, commanding officer of the Mercians.


A total of 150 soldiers, made up of regulars and reservists, many of them from Nottinghamshire, the home of the regiment, sit in the middle of 2,500 heavily armed soldiers from each side of the 40-year-old divide which has torn a country in two.


Operation Tosca patrols Nicosia's section of the "buffer zone" – a...