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Some 175 years ago, on 16th April 1850, Madame Marie Tussaud, a French artist known for her wax sculptures, died. She was the founder in 1835 of Madame Tussauds wax museum in London. Born Anna Maria Grosholtz, she was taught wax modelling in Paris by Philippe Curtius, from whom she inherited two wax museums. Imprisoned...

Has your child been scammed online? If so, they are not alone! A recent poll for the UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) has found that a staggering 46 per cent of children have been taken in by an online scam. And a study by Vodafone has found that nearly one million 11-to-16-year-olds in the UK...

– the man who proved there is a God Anselm is a good saint to remember next time someone asks you to prove that there is a God. His brilliant and original Proslogion, written 1077-8, sets out the ‘ontological’ proof for God’s existence. Nearly ten centuries later, it is still studied by theological students as...

Have you noticed something unpleasant since the Covid lockdown? There is more dog mess around. In fact, dog fouling has increased by nearly ten per cent nationwide. In some areas, dog fouling complaints have more than tripled. One council in Shropshire reported a 208.5 per cent increase over a three-year period. Authorities are trying to...

In CS Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the lion Aslan is put to death by the White Witch. The stone table on which He is killed cracks in two, but Aslan meets with Lucy and Susan alive again. He explains the Witch’s failure: ‘her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of...

The Church of England has launched the National Survivor Participation Framework. It is a guide for all Church bodies and any victim or survivor who currently participates – or wants to participate – in the safeguarding work of the Church. The development of the Framework started with a survey which heard from 171 victims and...

The English have a patron saint who isn’t English, about whom next to nothing is known for sure, and who, just possibly, may not have existed at all. But that didn’t stop St George being patriotically invoked in many battles, notably at Agincourt and in the Crusades, and of course it is his cross that...

It was 250 years ago, on 23rd April 1775, that ground-breaking British artist J M W Turner was born. The London-born watercolourist and printmaker transformed the established methods of painting, sweeping aside classical preoccupations of form and order. Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was a child prodigy born to...

Have you seen the film How to Train your Dragon? It’s set in a Viking village under attack from dragons, who steal livestock and burn down houses. Hiccup, the village Chief’s son, invents a machine to capture dragons. However, when he catches one of the most dangerous dragons, he cannot kill it, when he sees...

Young men don’t like being told that they give you the ‘ick’ feeling. The ‘ick’ word describes a feeling or disgust or repulsion at a specific behaviour. It was popular slang until last year, when it entered the Cambridge Dictionary. The word is currently very popular with young women, who use it across social media...

The Saint of an English Army before he was Patron Saint of England, St George may have been a soldier, but he was no Englishman. Some stories say that he was an officer in the Roman army under Diocletian, who refused to abandon his faith during the Terror, and was martyred at Lydda in Palestine...

“Unless I see the nail marks in His hands and put my finger where nails were, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe it.” (John 20: 25) How patient Jesus was, in giving ‘Doubting Thomas’ a second chance!  Earlier, the risen Christ had said to His disciples, “Peace be with you!”...