THE Consistory Court of the diocese of Carlisle has granted a faculty, despite the opposition of the diocesan advisory committee (DAC), for a hatchment to be hung in St Michael’s, Bowness-on-Solway, ...

LINCOLN CATHEDRAL will be celebrating a milestone in its musical history this weekend: the 30th anniversary of the introduction of girl choristers. They first sang on 21 November 1995, St Cecilia’s ...

WHEN asked during an interview last week about the focus of his ministry, the Archbishop of Sudan, the Most Revd Ezekiel Kondo, had a simple answer: “To see that my people survive.” Visiting the UK ...

I WORKED as a BBC producer for 22 years — first in radio, then mostly on the Everyman documentary series. I also spent a year with the Horizon science series. I loved my job, and thought myself ...

MAYBE it was a Monty Python sketch that first introduced the idea of competitive grievance. Four Yorkshiremen tell stories of their deprived childhoods, each trumping the other in exaggerated ...

TOURISTS almost only ever go to the Via Garibaldi if they are hopelessly lost. It is a long way from the world of San Marco and the Rialto, which most people think of as Venice. They are especially ...

IN THE 1960s, Andover, in Hampshire, was one of the towns earmarked for expansion as part of London overspill: a policy, initiated in the 1930s, under which more than one million Londoners were ...

THE making of a documentary film exploring the history of the Jewish blood libel in medieval Norwich, and the cathedral’s involvement in perpetuating it, has led the Chapter to agree to remove 1990s ...

IN 1969, Michael Stancliffe arrived from St Margaret’s, Westminster as the new Dean of Winchester. Three years later, he invited his former organist from St Margaret’s, Martin Neary, to join him. By ...

AS A Roman Catholic child living on the Franco-German border, I learned the language of faith long before I understood its meaning. Words such as “holy”, “glory”, and “virgin birth” were markings on a ...