Article: Church matters.(Sport)

Byline: By Francis Wood

When the lights went out

On Tuesday, at 5.30pm in common with thousands of homes on Tyneside the electricity failed, the lights went out and didn't it go quiet? I sat for nearly four hours in the dark using a torch to read like a Boy Scout in his sleeping bag. I thought of going round to the corner shop to buy four candles but I thought they might offer me fork handles.

It was the silence that got to me. No telephone, no radio, no telly, no computer. No noise. At first it was difficult to live ...

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