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24 Apr 2021
LIFE OF SERVICE: Fr Ian Grieves at St Osmund’s Catholic Church in Gainford
Father Ian Grieves is retiring as parish priest for Gainford and Barnard Castle. He will be remembered for switching from Anglicanism to Catholicism and taking nearly all of his congregation with him. Editor Trevor Brookes spoke to man who was once described by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as a “quite exceptional priest”.
WHEN he was training to be a priest, Father Ian Grieves was told he needed to see “real life” before the church would let him go any further.
Its something that still rankles today. Being brought up in Trimdon Grange, he reckoned he had seen enough of life already.
13 Apr 2021
In this week s Mercury:
In the only parish council election called in Teesdale, 16 candidates will battle it out for the 12 seats available on Barnard Castle Town Council
Gainford s Father Ian Grieves has called time on an eventful 40 years as both Anglican vicar and Catholic priest
A family has spoken of their anguish after a memorial bench to a loved one was vandalised
A dale history buff has returned First World War memorabilia he came across in Barney to the descendents of an Australian serviceman
Meet the chefs who are cooking up hundreds of meals for the dale s elderly and isolated
TEN years ago, this week, the family of a man who killed a customer outside their North-East pub saw its opening hours dramatically reduced. Durham Police were monitoring the Beehive, in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, before Maurice Rowell, 27, killed Stephen Wilson, 48, early on August 10, 2009. A police application to revoke the licence at Durham County Council’s Spennymoor offices failed - but did result in several changes. As well as closing three hours earlier at weekends, the licensing committee decided that a licence holder must be present at all times after hearing Rowell’s sister, Rachel Rowell, the designated premises supervisor, had left when Mr Wilson was hurt.