VICE Chairman Brenda Graham greeted a happy group of ladies to the October meeting at the Ladybird Inn, and everyone sat down to a meal of roast lamb with mint sauce. After the loyal toast had been drunk and a few announcements made, the speaker, Sue White, was introduced.

She and her husband had owned a haulage business for a number of years before deciding to sell it recently. During the early years, Mrs White had busied herself with bringing up a family of three children but was asked suddenly one day to take the place of a driver who had gone off sick.

This entailed driving a small lorry to Inverness and her six-year-old son volunteered to go along and navigate for her as he was on school holiday.

Mission accomplished successfully - you can almost guess the rest! Mrs White was persuaded into taking two more driving licences which enabled her to drive even the most fearsome sized vehicles here and abroad.

She was all of five foot nothing and cheerfully drove these massive articulated lorries all over Europe, up mountains, through tunnels and on and off the ferries, until she earned the ultimate accolade of being invited to the Woman of the Year Luncheon in London - not once but three times!

Truly the title of Lady Driver is a compliment. Pippa Spalding gave the vote of thanks.