FOLLOWING the Citizen's article in June I went to Buckingham Palace on Friday November 16 and was presented with my MBE for 40 years-plus service in the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, including 41 years with the meals on wheels, serving in Longridge and Garstang residential homes, and voluntary work in hospitals which I still do. I helped to organise the patients' library service with trolley visiting wards at the Royal Preston Hospital.

Thank-you for your earlier article. Much appreciated.

Joan Hardcastle, Sharoe Green Lane, Fulwood, Preston.