Shutdown of churches and ban on weddings during Covid crisis has cost CofE ‘£150MILLION’ and could trigger a cull of parishes Sources suggest Church of England lost £150m in donations during Covid crisis Money-saving reforms could include cutting number of bishops to less than ten Parish boundaries could be redrawn to reduce the number from … Read more
Focus must shift to getting schools and universities open again in September after exams chaos, Church of England says Bishop of Durham, Paul Butler, said students have shown immense resilience He said the exam fiasco risked diverting attention away from reopening schools The Church of England ‘fully welcome’ the reopening of schools in September By … Read more
Two sisters found dead in a London beauty spot two days after a birthday party were stabbed ‘multiple times’, police said today. Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found in Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, on Sunday afternoon. A post-mortem yesterday gave the cause of death for both women as stab … Read more