I am a passionate advocate of walking – it is free, keeps you fit and is good for the environment. For years, my wife and I have enjoyed exploring the UK’s breathtaking scenery on foot and now as Minister responsible for sport and tourism it seems my hobby could not be more apt. May is…

Journalist Kate Adie shares her inspiration for her contribution the the Path of the Remembered. Mary Sangster filled shells with TNT twelve hours a day. Work in a munitions factory was demanding and dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of women like her were hard at work throughout the country, supplying the voracious demands of the WW1 battlefields. They were ‘doing their…