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'My mum Dame Vera Lynn did incredible things in her final years but she never sang - not once'

'My mum Dame Vera Lynn did incredible things in her final years but she never sang - not once'

It is five years since we sadly lost Dame Vera Lynn, but carrying on her famous parent's charity work, Virginia Lewis-Jones speaks to Siobhan McNally about the nation's Force's Sweetheart, and downsizing after a life-time of memories

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