Gavin Drake reports on what practical steps churches can offer to the young unemployed in the week that new figures show a rise in the number of young out of work. The Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4
Month: March 2012
Climate threat to Britain’s ancient buildings
A combination of the prolonged spells of extremely cold weather during the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11; and the recent dry summers is posing a significant risk to the nation’s historic buildings. The church of St John the Baptist has stood for around 1,000 years in Woodhurst, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, but last week part […]
Pupils escape Lichfield Close blaze
An exploding laptop is being blamed for a fire that tore through a historic part of Lichfield Cathedral School, although the Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service says that investigations into the cause of the blaze are continuing. More than 200 children, aged between eight and 12, were moved to safety after the fire broke out […]