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Tired tiles and weary nails “RIGHT ON cue, a tile slipped off the roof,” says the Revd Peter Babington, Vicar of St Francis’s, Bournville, in Birmingham. Subscriber only	Making things happen “WE ARE a little church alongside the Roman Catholics and the Church of Scotland,” says the Revd Ian Barcroft, Rector of St Mary’s Episcopal Church in... Subscriber only	Bright and beautiful “‘ALL THINGS bright and beautiful’ on a fairground organ produces some strange rhythms and harmonies,” said Canon Andrew Deuchar, “but it is the traditional... Subscriber only

Shaved at the airport HE DELIBERATELY sets out to be a maid-of-all-work at Gatwick Airport. Subscriber only	Well-versed President SINCE she became President of the Mission to Seafarers in 1984, the Princess Royal has visited 43 of the Mission’s centres, some of them several times... Subscriber only

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