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Seventy years ago, on 31st January 1953 and stretching overnight into 1st February, the worst North Sea flood on record took place. North-western Europe was hit by extensive flooding when severe gales combined with a spring tide and very low pressure. Over 1,800 people were killed in the Netherlands, over 300 in Eastern England, and...

Amid the hectic, busy lives we lead, many people fall under the control of ‘the hurry syndrome.’ We have to do ‘A’ as soon as possible, and we have get to ‘B’ as soon as possible. And along the way, we have phone calls to make, emails to open, and Facebook and Twitter and all...

Church aims to double number of UK Minority Ethnic Head Teachers A very hard winter for many: bishops respond to recent Autumn statement Millions of people in touch with church community action Domestic abuse must not be a taboo subject Church of England commits £2m to enable charities to purchase housing More than one million...

If your Christmas and New Year break included just too many people and even a bout of indigestion, then St Anthony may be the saint for you. He was a hermit-monk with a reputation for making poorly people feel better. Anthony was born in Coma (Upper Egypt) in 251, and at 20 became an ascetic....

Here is a very worthwhile New Year’s Resolution:  consider doing some First Aid training this year, especially if you are a parent with young children. In a survey by the British Red Cross, 96% of parents agreed that their main fears were of their children choking, or of finding them unconscious – when seconds could...

The Choral Evensong Trust has just relaunched its website to help you find a choral evensong near you. Just visit: www.choralev:ensong.org During its seven years of existence, choralevensong.org has had 30,000,000 hits from 600,000 visitors, accessing services on offer at over 350 churches and cathedrals on Sundays, and also every weekday in most cathedrals and...

He died ‘lang syne’ – long ago, back in 1796, but the Scottish poet Robert Burns is still remembered each January, over many a ‘Burns Night’ supper of cockaleekie soup, haggis, neeps and tatties – and whisky. Scots and other Burns lovers throughout the world, from Canada to the USA to Russia, still celebrate the...

Not many teenagers, on becoming a Christian, will devote themselves to winning others for Christ in a foreign land. Amy was such a person. She left Britain to live in a tiny village in Southern India. Here, for the next 56 years, Amy rescued hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children, and served her Lord in...

Just 125 years ago, on 14th January 1898, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English author, poet, photographer and mathematician, died of pneumonia. His pen name was Lewis Carroll, and he was best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and the poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. A brilliantly inventive writer,...

The Church of England is seeking to double the number of UK Minority Ethnic (UKME) Head Teachers in all its schools in England over the next five years. The Leaders Like Us scheme (https://www.cefel.org.uk/leaderslikeus/) launches this month (January 2023). Applications are now open to teachers from all schools. The scheme aims to equip UKME teachers...

Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester from 1062 to 1095, occupies a unique place in British church history. He was the last surviving pre-Conquest bishop, the first bishop to pay homage to William the Conqueror after the battle of Hastings, and one of the few Saxons to keep high office to the end of William’s reign. On top...

Two hundred years ago, on 26th January 1823, Edward Jenner, the British physician and immunologist who created the first vaccine (for smallpox), died of a stroke. He was the son of a Gloucestershire clergyman and the brother of another – who brought him up when his father died. He was also a violinist, a poet...