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 Fresh start: 15-year-old Vicki Bell with a bouquet for the Princess Royal at a service to celebrate the work of the disability charity Livability (formerly John Grooms and the Shaftesbury Society) at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday ANDREW DUNSMORE/PICTURE PARTNERSHIP |
 Sustainable footing: the Victoria tower at Truro Cathedral, which is said to need a £2-million restoration. The Cathedral this week announced an operational financial surplus for 2007 of £12,500. It is “probably the first surplus in its history”, a cathedral staement said |
| Support our troops, says Peterborough diocese PETERBOROUGH diocesan synod has called on Christians to lobby the Government, MPs, and local authorities for greater practical support for those in the armed forces. The motion, carried earlier this month, which spoke of the diocese’s pastoral experience of these issues, called for “due public recognition for troops returning home”. Millions earmarked for palace at Wells MORE than £1 million has been earmarked in a “Stage One Pass” by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a £4-million scheme to develop the Bishop of Bath & Wells’s palace and gardens into a tourist attraction. The grant has been matched by a grant of £1.1 million from the Church Commissioners, who own the property. The Stage One Pass means that the larger grant is allocated, but is not released until the fully developed application is passed. Bishop warns against ‘gutter politics’ THE Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Revd Nicholas Reade, is urging voters to eschew the “gutter politics of racial hatred” in next week’s local elections. Writing in a letter to be read out in all churches in his diocese on Sunday, he urged Christians to reject the “divisive policies of far Right political factions”. Comment Professor McGrath to move to London THE Revd Professor Alister McGrath has been appointed to the newly created chair of Theology and Education at King’s College, London. Professor McGrath, a former Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, is well known for writing more than 30 books, including The Dawkins Delusion? (2007), co-written with his wife, the Revd Dr Joanna Collicutt McGrath. He is currently Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford. Divert arms spending to go green, says Noah THE faith-based environmental campaigning group, Operation Noah, has called for ten per cent of the UK’s £33-billion defence budget to be reallocated to fund investment into renewable energy and home insulation. Vicar placed on sex-offenders register A PRIEST in the diocese of Worcester has been given a three-year community rehabilitation order, after indecently assaulting a teenage girl. The Revd Nduna Mpunzi, formerly Vicar of St Barnabas’, Rainbow Hill, and Christ Church, Tolladine, has also been placed on the sex-offenders register for seven years. Church wedding changes debated NEW rules, that would give couples a wider choice of churches in which to be married were considered by the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament this week. The Marriage Measure has been give final approval by the General Synod (Synod, 13 July 2007), and a report of the Ecclesiastical Committee’s discussions will now be drawn up to be debated in Parliament. |
