TAKING FIRST WORLD WAR COMMEMORATION INTO THE FUTURE

That this House congratulates Neil McLennan, University of Aberdeen and instigator, and Thoren Ferguson, composer, on both performing in Birkenhead as part of the town's Wilfred Owen Commemoration and, together with Associate Professor Paul Ferguson, Edinburgh Napier University and musicians from George Watson's College and Tynecastle High School for anchoring a global orchestra with musicians throughout the world that demonstrated the power of cross-border co-operation 100 years after the First World War ended.