Today, I was both moved and inspired. At 1930 a huge congregation of all ages met at the Drill Hall on Portland for an evening of Remembrance organised by the Reverend Tim Gomm and his team of volunteers. None of us were sure of the programme until it revealed itself during the evening. A combination of hymns, prayer, Remembrance, film, acting, dance and song kept us on an emotional roller-coaster for nearly two hours. Children from the Atlantic Academy and All Saints were quite brilliant. A local dance troupe performed their interpretation of life in the trenches quite superbly. I was told later that one of the boys is blind, but you would not have guessed that, so talented were they all. It really was touching. A local lady, whose name I did not quite catch, sang some wartime songs quite beautifully. She told me she'd been on stage with the comedian Michael Macintyre. Terry Shakespeare's volunteers from St John Ambulance were on parade, showing us the different uniforms and equipment the charity has used over the years. The evening was made even more special by the presence of the Lord Lieutenant, Angus Campbell, who arrived in his uniform and took the salute. Hundreds of parents and children attended this spectacular show I cannot praise the organisers enough for presenting such a poignant commemorative event so professionally. I drove home in the pouring rain, truly humbled.