CAP express concern over ‘unaffordable energy bills’
CHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY (CAP) has warned that the two-per-cent increase within the energy price cap will result in hundreds of thousands of individuals of households on the lowest incomes struggling to pay their winter fuel bills. The charity estimates that increases this 12 months have already “added an additional £35 per 12 months to a median household’s energy bills, increasing them to £1,755”. “Many hundreds of thousands across the UK are already in crisis, unable to afford basic essentials like keeping their homes warm and the lights on,” CAP’s chief executive, Stewart McCulloch, said. Comment
Tributes to bishop’s mother after fatal accident
CONDOLENCES have been offered to the Bishop of Llandaff, the Rt Revd Mary Stallard, on the death of her mother in a road accident on Tuesday. Daphne Stallard, 89, was hit by a refuse lorry in Llandudno on Tuesday and died on the scene. “I do know that each one members of the Church in Wales, and all those that know Bishop Mary, will join with me in offering their sincere sympathies and their prayers for her and her family at this very sad time,” the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Cherry Vann, said.
Barred priest gets three years for GBH
GEOFFREY BAULCOMB, 79, of Eastbourne, who was barred from ministry last 12 months, has been jailed for causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) through extreme body modification on one other man in January 2020, and filming it. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison on the Old Bailey on Monday. The term includes six months for possession of kid pornography, to which he had already pleaded guilty. He was barred from ministry last 12 months for possession of illegal substances (News, 13 June).
Iona’s Kathy Galloway dies, aged 73
THE Iona Community has announced the death of a former leader, the Revd Kathy Galloway, aged 73, on 26 August from cancer. She was the primary woman elected to guide the Community, in 2001, which she did until 2009, and nonetheless within the 2010s. She was also Head of Christian Aid Scotland and a patron of the Student Christian Movement.
Barnsley church steels itself for the longer term
THE theft of lead from the roof of St John’s, Penistone, in Sheffield diocese, in 2007, continues to cause problems. The church could afford only short-term repairs on the time and now needs to lift £175,000 for the roof, which has deteriorated. “The insurance wouldn’t pay up the quantity we wanted,” the Team Rector, the Revd David Hopkin, told the BBC. “The felt has not held out against the weather, resulting in water ingress that now threatens the structural integrity of this historic site.” The Grade I listed church was inbuilt the 1300s. So far, £100,000 has been raised from grants and events to put in stainless-steel protection on the roof.
Correction. We reported last week that the National Safeguarding Team had emailed all those affected by the Redress Scheme data breach with advice on support services. The email was only sent to individuals who had signed as much as its Safeguarding Newsletter.
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