Liz Tanner was one of the 2000 guests at the ecumenical "National Service to Celebrate the Year of Engineering" held at Westminster Abbey. The address was given by Dame Anne Dowling OM DBDE FRS FREng President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. One of the lessons was read by Chris Grayling, the Secretary of State for Transport. The service ended with the Young Woman Engineer of the Year reading the Poem "What is an Engineer" by Varun Navayanan. The guests left the Abbey to a full peel of bells being rung.

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