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Electric cars may be the ‘future’ of British motoring, but meanwhile, more of them are catching fire. From 131 blazes three years ago, there were 232 blazes needing a fire brigade last year – a 77 per cent increase in just two years. Electric car fires are more dangerous than petrol or diesel car fires,...

Last month we considered how, when we are invited by the priest to come and receive Holy Communion, our immediate response is one of being overwhelmed with the enormity of what we are being offered. We recognise how unworthy we are, to even be in God’s presence, never mind taking Him in our hands and...

The House of Bishops, which met recently in York, issued a statement on the situation in Gaza. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” (Matthew 5:9) Recalling our Easter Statement (14th April) following the Government of Israel’s bombing of the Anglican Al Ahli Hospital, we cry out in protest at...

** Day trip? A north country choirmaster was rehearsing the hymns for Sunday, telling the choir the hymns they were to sing, and the tunes to which they were to sing them.  He concluded the list and said, “Now then, ‘Come ye that love the Lord’, to Southport!” A moment later a voice called out,...

It can be easier to notice things away from home, when we are relaxed and surrounded by unfamiliar sights in an exotic location. But sometimes the same wonders are there in our own back yard. GK Chesterton was a great advocate of intensive observation, and he invited his readers to take a fresh look at...

Tea-drinkers in the UK are being asked to help change the “woefully inadequate” wages and working conditions of the estate workers on tea plantations around the world. The Fairtrade Foundation’s new ‘Brew It Fair’ campaign is based on the findings of a report which sets out just how many workers on tea plantations live in...

Do you know anyone with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)? It is very likely that you do. For when NHS England recently gave its first public estimate on the prevalence of ADHD, it reckoned that it could affect one in in every 23 people across the country. And that means almost 2.5 million people in...

Do you see a lot of murders? On TV, that is. According to the star of Gavin and Tracey, James Corden, television these days has become pretty much “wall-to-wall” murder. Corden believes that audiences deserve more programmes that feature love and kindness, instead. He says: “If there was an alien species that came to Earth,...

Qualities for our world leaders< With a summer of Sport in mind… Miscellaneous observations on our Christian pilgrimage… Miscellaneous observations on life today… ** With our world leaders in mind…. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln Self-praise is no recommendation....

If you led a wild life before your conversion, then Olaf is the saint for you. Indeed, anything you have done could hardly match him, for he was a brigand and pirate who roamed the Baltic and Normandy around 1015 AD, maiming and killing, stealing and destroying, feared by all. Then on one particular raid...

During the 18th century many people in England were involved in the campaign to abolish the slave trade.  The CofE remembers especially William Wilberforce, Olaudah Equiano and Thomas Clarkson – three very different but all tireless campaigners against the evil practice. Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was an Anglican clergyman and one of the most prominent of...

Daniel 9:5, ‘We have sinned and done wrong … turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.’ In this chapter the prophet Daniel, an exile in Babylon, prays one of the Bible’s truly great prayers of national repentance. Knowing that Judah and Jerusalem had fallen to the enemy and that 70 years of exile lay ahead...