What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.

Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.