Straits between them

WHY the area is called The Straits is not very clear, but it was a mining and quarrying area in Worcester diocese, and St Andrew’s was built as...

‘We do walking’

YES, THEY “do walking”. Nick and Janet Nelson have walked from their home in Ross-on-Wye in Hereford diocese to Canterbury.

Education and expectation

THE diocese of Gloucester has its first C of E secondary school. Bishop’s College, which will take 900 11- to 16-year-olds, was opened at the beginning...

Giving away to keep

THIS young man, Matthew Lay, aged five-and-a-half, recently gave away his mother, Jocelyn, at her marriage to Jonathan Spencer.

Criminal carelessness

STEALING the copper lightning conductor is one thing; pulling down the top eight feet of the spire is quite another.



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