A World War Two nurse paid tribute to a nursing heroine this month.

Raissa Baker, 92, from Weybridge, was the special guest at the memorial on Sunday, October 12, which included an annual wreath laying ceremony at the Edith Cavell statue in central London.

Mrs Baker trained aged 17 at a hospital school in Belgium run by Ms Cavell, and moved to England after meeting her Royal Air Force husband John in Brussels in 1946.

She said: "I am really pleased to be here. This is the first time I have been here, and it is only by chance after meeting someone who told me about it.

"It was much more of a service than I expected, really on a grand scale."