Britain: Former British prime minister Sir Edward Heath was hailed yesterday as a man of integrity in seeking out truth and turning it into action.
This accolade was delivered by former foreign secretary Lord Hurd at a service of thanksgiving for the life and work of the former Tory prime minister in a packed Westminster Abbey in London.
Sir Edward died on July 17th aged 89. He had retired from the Commons in 2001 after around half a century as an MP.
Nearly 2,000 people gathered in the abbey to pay tribute to the man who took Britain into Europe.
The congregation included the only two remaining living ex-prime ministers, Baroness Thatcher and Sir John Major, former speaker of the Commons Betty Boothroyd and former Conservative cabinet minister John Profumo. - (PA)