STUDENTS from two schools met with MP Jeremy Hunt at Milford Cemetery last Friday as part of a national initiative to encourage schools and constituents to visit their local Commonwealth war graves.

It is hoped the initiative will help youngsters gain a greater understanding of the scale and magnitude of the First World War and the impact it has had on today's society.

The call is spearheaded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the all-party Parliamentary War Heritage Group and the "In From The Cold Project" that maps more than 300,000 Commonwealth war dead by each Parliamentary constituency.

Mr Hunt, the Tory MP for South-West Surrey, met with pupils from King Edward's School, Witley, and Haslemere's Woolmer Hill.

For full story, see this week's Haslemere Herald.