{"id":398633,"date":"2025-09-05T00:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398633\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:44:27","slug":"uk-news-in-brief-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398633\/","title":{"rendered":"UK news in brief"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAP express concern over \u2018unaffordable energy bills\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY<\/a>\u00a0(CAP) has warned that the two-per-cent increase in the energy price cap will lead to millions of people of households on the\u00a0lowest incomes\u00a0<\/a>struggling to pay their winter fuel bills. The charity estimates that increases this year have already \u201cadded an extra \u00a335 per year to an average household\u2019s energy bills, increasing them to \u00a31,755\u201d. \u201cMany millions across the UK are already in crisis, unable to afford basic essentials like keeping their homes warm and the lights on,\u201d CAP\u2019s chief executive, Stewart McCulloch, said.\u00a0Comment<\/a><\/p>\n

Tributes to bishop\u2019s mother after fatal accident<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 at the scene. \u201cI know that all members of the Church in Wales<\/a>, and all those who 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,\u201d the Archbishop of Wales<\/a>, the Most Revd Cherry Vann, said.<\/p>\n


Barred priest gets three years for GBH<\/strong><\/p>\n

GEOFFREY BAULCOMB, 79, of Eastbourne, who was barred from ministry last year, has been jailed for causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) through extreme body modification on another man in January 2020, and filming it. He was sentenced to three years in prison at the Old Bailey on Monday. The term includes six months for possession of child pornography, to which he had already pleaded guilty. He was barred from ministry last year for possession of illegal substances (News, 13 June<\/a>).<\/p>\n


Iona\u2019s Kathy Galloway dies, aged 73<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 first woman elected to lead the Community, in 2001, which she did until 2009, and then again in the 2010s. She was also Head of Christian Aid Scotland and a patron of the Student Christian Movement.

Barnsley church steels itself for the future<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE theft of lead from the roof<\/a> of St John\u2019s, Penistone, in Sheffield diocese<\/a>, in 2007, continues to cause problems. The church could afford only short-term repairs at the time and now needs to raise \u00a3175,000 for the roof, which has deteriorated. \u201cThe insurance wouldn\u2019t pay up the amount we needed,\u201d the Team Rector, the Revd David Hopkin, told the BBC. \u201cThe felt has not held out against the elements, leading to water ingress that now threatens the structural integrity of this historic site.\u201d The Grade I listed church was built in the 1300s. So far, \u00a3100,000 has been raised from grants and events to install stainless-steel protection on the roof.<\/p>\n


Correction. <\/strong>We reported last week that the National Safeguarding<\/a> Team had emailed all those affected by the Redress Scheme data breach with advice on support services. The email was only sent to people who had signed up to its Safeguarding Newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAP express concern over \u2018unaffordable energy bills\u2019 CHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY\u00a0(CAP) has warned that the two-per-cent increase in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-398633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148925578496016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}