Remembrance Sunday

Like most MPs, and no doubt hundreds of thousands others, up and down the country, I attended two remembrance day services this Sunday morning. First, at South Leith Parish Church, a well attended and moving service - and in the afternoon, the annual Remembrance commemoration in the Leith NHS Community Treatment Centre - held there because the Children's Wing of the old Leith Hospital was built as war memorial for those who died in the 1st world war.

Both reminders of those who died in the wars - and also their effects on those who at home and left behind. Reminders also of the horrors of war for all nations and peoples involved, and the need for the world community - and political leaders - to try and work for a more peaceful world.