4 March 2021 • 12:02am
Lady of the manor, 11th-century Godiva, cradles a cat at St George’s church, Woolhope
Credit: Liam Bunce/Alamy
SIR – The Rev David Keighley says: “It is sinful not to sell empty churches” (report, March 2). By his definition, my local parish church is “a museum gathering dust”. I beg to differ.
Our congregations rarely exceed 30, other than for major festivals and (in non-Covid circumstances) weddings and funerals, but possibly they have not done so for centuries past.
Yet the church has been at the heart of the village since before the Norman Conquest and, God willing, will remain so for at least another millennium.
Welcome to our first weekly round up of crime across Gloucestershire. It s been a busy week for the police with incidents ranging from a car being seized in connection with a murder probe, a woman being threatened with a stun gun to a burglary at a fire station and stones being thrown at moving cars. Police rely on witnesses with information to come forward. If you have any information please contact 101 or fill in a report using the website, quoting the crime reference number if given. Or, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Two men charged in connection with burglary
Last Friday (February 5)