wales news bulletin: Concern for cleric.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  September 15, 2008 ;     127 words ......Marsh, attended the United Church in Penarth and joined the Rev Fox's former congregation for morning and evening services. He told...people draw comfort from those who stand by them. Following Rev Fox's disappearance on June 23, mountain rescue helicopters were...

Minister goes missing abroad.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  June 28, 2008 ;     184 words ......listed as missing. Church secretary Margaret Oliver said that Rev Fox, 52, loved to walk and that he had been looking forward to the...said. We are praying he is going to be found safe and well. Rev Fox has been minister at the church for six years and has a prominent...

Flock's prayers for missing reverend.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  July 23, 2008 ;     273 words ......A spokesman for the United Reformed Church said that many of Rev Fox's congregation at Elfed Avenue United Reformed Church, Penarth...be discovered. His congregation thinks about him constantly. Rev Fox has been minister of the Penarth church for seven years, and...

LETTER: Please tell us the truth.(Letters)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  May 12, 2004 ;     114 words ...Byline: Rev Graham Murphy REPORTS on British care of prisoners in Iraqare apparently only available to certain...George Bush,but ne ver enough to correct the meagre and insulting level of state pensions. Rev Graham Murphy,Liverpool L16

'Clergyman left wife' probe

Lincolnshire Echo;  April 19, 2008 ;     151 words ......wife of 46 years to set up home with his church secretary. Rev Graham Firth (69), from Beckingham, near Gainsborough, left his wife...bishop has withdrawn his permission to officiate from the Rev Graham Firth owing to certain allegations made against him, which...

'Shadowmancer' author receives GBP2.2m for film rights.(Rev Graham Taylor,...

M2 Best Books;  March 30, 2004 ;     77 words ...M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Rev Graham Taylor, whose debut novel 'Shadowmancer' became a bestseller, has sold the film rights to the book for GBP2.2m. Taylor, who plans...

Suicide rev's mystery letter.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  January 8, 1998 ;     53 words ...A VICAR hanged himself two days after receiving a mystery letter from an ex-parishioner. The Rev Graham Plastow, 57, was found dead by his wife Susan in Hadley Common, Barnet, Herts. She told an inquest yesterday she did not know the...

Deliver us from yobs; VICAR DOESN'T WANT NUISANCE YOUTHS CONGREGATING -...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  December 12, 2003 ;     302 words ......church, leaving rubbish and vandalising the building. The Rev Graham Marcer, 51, and his congregation have to clean up almost daily...of our tether. CAPTION(S): AT THE END OF THEIR TETHER: The Rev Graham Marcer (centre) with churchwarden Gloria Long and parishioner...

Capill not convicted

The Nelson Mail;  April 13, 2005 ;     32 words ...Former Christian Heritage Party leader Rev Graham Capill has admitted sexually abusing a young girl but has not been convicted of the charge as reported in yesterday's Nelson Mail. The error is regretted.

NEWS IN BRIEF: Prayers for David.(News)

Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales);  September 14, 2008 ;     90 words ......Wales today for missing minister David Fox. The cleric vanished on a walking holiday in Slovenia three months ago on June 23. Rev Fox was minister at Avenue United Church in Penarth. The leader of the United Reformed Church, Rev John Marsh, is joining the Penarth...

Funerals kill tragic vicar.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  August 1, 1998 ;     62 words ...A VICAR who was depressed by funerals drove to France to commit suicide, an inquest heard today. The Rev Graham Friend, 58, became low spirited by the language of funerals and the number of services he had to conduct, said his widow Kathleen...

Vicar banned for illicit love between the hymn sheets; Caught on the...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  April 18, 2008 ;     428 words ......banned from taking church services after leaving hiswife for the woman who helped him choose his hymns. The actions of the Rev Graham Firth, 69, have devastated his wife of 46 years,who is recovering from breast cancer. Mr Firth, who had been priest-incharge...

Net in front of the kids; General Assembly 96.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  May 23, 1996 ;     42 words ...A minister quoted a girlie magazine yesterday as he called for a clampdown on Internet porn. The Rev Graham Thain of Polmont Old, Falkirk told the Assembly there's a lot of it about - a phrase from soft porn mag Penthouse - as he demanded Internet warnings for parents.

NO HIDING FOR WIFE BEATERS.(News)

Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 5, 1997 ;     73 words ...A Scots police watchdog says the law is coming down heavily on wife-beaters. The Very Rev Graham Forbes, Lay Inspector of Constabulary, said police no longer dismissed such incidents as `domestics'. If you assault your partner...

Tam Cowan: It's one for the book.(Sport)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  November 13, 2004 ;     68 words ...Byline: Tam Cowan ASK any football anorak (or, indeed,the Rev Graham Spiers) and he'll tell you that Queen of the South are the only football team mentioned in the Bible. So big Marvin Andrews was...