Paying respects a small gesture yet a deeply powerful one...

This past week I have spent time across the constituency and in Parliament remembering and honouring those who fell in the First and Second World Wars, but also thinking about all who have served, and continue to serve, in conflicts across the world.

- Kate Osborne

From the event at Saltwell Park to laying a cross in Westminster's remembrance garden and of course this Sunday at 11am we will all pause for two minutes' silence - a small gesture, yet a deeply powerful one.

It is a moment to reflect, to remember, and to carry forward the lessons of the past as well as honour sacrifice and service.

Across the country, at war memorials, in schools, in churches, and in our streets, we will gather, lay wreaths, and remind ourselves that freedom is never free.

We all feel the weight of remembrance, the stories passed from parent to child: the young men who left home never to return; the mothers and fathers left behind; the communities forever changed by loss.

Many families here still carry that silence-the empty seat at the dinner table, the unspoken grief. But we also carry pride: pride in those who stood, who fought, and who served.

My family pay tribute to my great uncle Frederick who was one of the first British soldiers to go in and liberate the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp on April 15, 1945, and my youngest son Freddie is named after him.