THIS Mothering Sunday it is 100 years since a fire spread through Saunderton Railway Station, thought to have been started by militant Suffragettes.

Back in 1913 the BFP reported a fire on March 10 in the early hours of the morning at the station.

The morning after two placards were discovered at the scene which read, 'Votes for Women' and 'Burning to get the vote.'

But a team of ten policemen and railway officials could not find any other link to the fire with the Suffragettes.

It was not until 1928 that women over 21 were given the same voting rights as men.