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TV shoot-out defended

by Nigel Burnham

DURHAM Cathedral this week defended its decision to allow the BBC to use it as the setting for a fatal shoot-out in the finale of the series Inspector George Gently, a police drama set in the 1960s. 

In the episode - broadcast on Sunday of last week, and watched by 4.3 million viewers - young choristers were seen escaping before characters were shot dead in the central nave.

The newspaper The Northern Echo reported comments from critics such as Avril ...

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