On Wednesday 16 May there will be a memorial service at St Martins in the Fields in Trafalgar Square for the Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin. Marie was killed during an attack in Homs in Syria in February. The service begins at 11.00am.
Marie was the first recipient of the Women of the Year Window to the World Award in 2001 for her bravery and raising awareness of the war in Sri Lanka.
Read Marie Colvin’s incredible speech, made in 2010, about the importance of reporting from war zones.
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