Like millions of others around the world, I have been glued to my television set watching the truly awful images coming from Japan.

We are being told time and time again that Japan is the best-prepared nation in the world for earthquakes & tsunamis but the fury of nature made a mockery of all these statements.

Over the next few days and weeks, the full extent of this disaster will come to light. I can only hope and pray that the human suffering is at a minimum and that the world can put its differences aside and help Japan through this nightmare.