Injured soldier tells prince: "I'm lucky to be alive"

Senior aircraftman Mike Goody was trapped under the vehicle he was driving for three hours following the blast in Kandahar in October.

The 23-year-old was flown to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, where he has been receiving treatment for a foot injury for the last six weeks.

He chatted with Prince Charles as he paid a visit to the centre last Tuesday to meet injured soldiers and the staff who treat them.