News reports this week confirmed the tragic deaths of four young people in the North East, reportedly as a result of drug use. Last week...

It's difficult to avoid the latest twists and turns of Covid 19 lockdown and testing policies, and the impact this is having on many...

National Safeguarding Adults Week is from November 16th- 22nd, so this is some early notice. The web-link below can give you a flavour...

A glorious day to start the rule of six. What will be the impact? Places of worship will continue to be allowed to open, and it’s clear...

Sunday’s lectionary reading was one of those hard passages from the old testament about keeping a watch out for sinful behaviour and all...

The 1st of September. That significant staging point that comes around every year, drummed into us by school and for us Methodists, the...

Last week the focus was on Alex Salmond and his acquittal on all 13 charges of a variety of sexual assault types, brought by 9 different...

It would be difficult to avoid the elephant in the room of exam results this week. It’s not for this column to comment on the...

For Methodist ministers on the move this month it’s a hectic time. Removal vans coordinated, and storage arranged if the timings are not...

Trained and ready to go The current Covid 19 crisis doesn’t mean that we can forget about keeping up to date with our safeguarding...

The news today is of changing travel advice about travelling to Spain. It’s advice that seems to have changed about three times in three...

Readers of this column may recall my disappointment a couple of months back about not being able to visit an art exhibition at the Turner...

Are teenage dreams so hard to beat? The first line of the Undertones’ 1978 anthemic hit ‘Teenage Kicks’ conjures up a sense of living...

We won’t talk about the football so move on. The news this week is about re-opening churches and the guidance that sometimes runs to...

The Methodist Conference is meeting this week – in its strangely virtual way this time. Each year there is a report presented by the...

Mining my knowledge of 1960s beat music, I recalled this song by Hedgehoppers Anonymous released in 1966 and thought it would be a good...

Safeguarding can sometime feel like a bit of trek. I enjoy a long walk but sometimes it’s a tedious tramp, at other times it’s an...

You may think it a tad odd to be writing about holidays. Quite when, where and how we shall holiday this summer is not at all clear. ...

Football’s coming home, it’s coming home to South London’s Number One in SE25. The third match after restart will be the home match...

I hope you have been enjoying socially distanced sunshine over this last weekend. Although we had the briefest shower of rain on...