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Bishop Lane celebrates the legacy of women’s suffrage, 100 years after women secured the vote

“FREEDOM for women is not freedom to be done to or for — but freedom to be and do ourselves,” the Bishop of Stockport, the Rt Revd Libby Lane, has said at a service to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage

23 Nov 2018

The Lord’s work gives way to the beautiful game at York Synod

THE central hall at the University of York which acts as the General Synod’s debating chamber was filled with jubilation on Saturday afternoon, not after some testing debate, but after England’s World Cup quarter-final victory over Sweden

08 Jul 2018

Firefighters on Saddleworth Moor praised after ‘apocalyptic’ fire rips through 2000 acres

FIREFIGHTERS on Saddleworth Moor were thanked this week by the Archdeacon of Macclesfield, the Ven. Ian Bishop, and the Bishop of Stockport, the Rt Revd Libby Lane, after a fire ripped through thousands of acres of land on Tuesday

29 Jun 2018

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