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 Rode-side witness: the Revd Philip Hawthorn is to complete a willow cross tomorrow outside St Lawrence’s in Rode, in Somerset, next to the busy A361. The willow rods, worked on throughout Lent, come from people and groups connected to the village, symbolising the weaving of their community |
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Faith ‘makes people happier’ PEOPLE who believe in God are more content than those who have no faith, and are better-equipped to deal with disappointments in life, a new study has indicated. Data collected from more than 30,000 Europeans was presented at the Royal Economic Society’s annual conference. Researchers said that believers enjoyed higher levels of satisfaction and were less likely to be psychologically damaged from experiences such as the death of a partner or the loss of a job. Cameron ‘would penalise poor’ THE Bishop of Bath & Wells, the Rt Revd Peter Price, has criticised the proposal by David Cameron to increase health-visitor provision by cutting funding to the Government’s Sure Start programme. In a letter to the Tory leader, Bishop Price highlighted the success of a Sure Start centre in Weston-Super-Mare in his diocese, and said any downgrading of the scheme would undermine family life, and affect those from the poorest and most marginalised communites in the UK. |
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