Review of the year: August 2008

Ensuring our armed forces receive the respect they deserve is one of the reasons I'm standing for election, and in August I met with two local pensioners who had served our country during the Second World War and who sought my help to claim their Veterans Badges.

August marked the tenth anniversary of the introduction of the National Minimum Wage which the Conservatives told us would add millions to the unemployment lines but instead served to lift hundreds of thousands of our lowest paid workers out of poverty.

And despite some very poor weather during most of August, the Roehampton Festival, organised by local youth charity Regenerate was held on a pretty decent day.