8th November 2010  

Last week was a busy one in Westminster, but I was pleased to be able to welcome a group of students from Yeovil College who came up on Monday afternoon to find out a bit more about how Parliament works. I travelled back home to Somerset on Friday morning, and my first visit of the day was to Lockwood Court, on Stiby Road in Yeovil, to meet Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes whose 100th birthday was on 10th November. Mrs. Barnes has lived in Yeovil for much of her life, and I was interested to hear about her experiences in the 1930s and during the Second World War. We tend to think that we have now lost our links with the First World War, but of course Mrs. Barnes would have been 8 years of age when that dreadful conflict came to an end in 1918! That generation certainly lived through a frightening and dramatic stage in human history.   My best wishes and congratulations to Mrs. Barnes for...