Flower power
	9:52am Sat 10 May 08
	Tudhoe celebrates St Charles's 150th anninversary with over 50 floral displays.

Shepherd's delight

9:16am Saturday 26th April 2008

The column went along to Holy Trinity church in Coverham for the annual lambing service

Marian faithful

10:53am Saturday 12th April 2008

A blizzard didn’t stop church folk in Newton Aycliffe taking part in a rosary procession. The column tagged along

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From industry to ministry

12:57pm Saturday 5th April 2008

IN the 17th Century, it's said, the notso- good folk of South Shields were so greatly disinclined to attend church that the vicar - one Patrick Watt - would drive them there with drawn sword and imprecations.

The good fight

9:20am Saturday 29th March 2008

A goodly crowd – mostly women – congregated to mark the annual memorial service for a famous suffragette

Cross purposes

9:14am Saturday 22nd March 2008

The crowd who joined a wind-blown Good Friday procession in Chester-le-Street may have found the words of their vicar hard to hear, but the Easter message was loud and clear

Paradise regained

10:41am Saturday 15th March 2008

The At Your Service column attends the opening of a church in a village once condemned to death

Mothers superior

8:57am Saturday 8th March 2008

The column visits a Mother’s Day cafe church service to see what youngsters these days say they’ve learnt from their own mums

Closer encounter

9:55am Saturday 1st March 2008

A joint Anglican-Methodist operation, Woodhouse Close church, in Bishop Auckland, celebrates its community festival WOODHOUSE Close is a post-war housing estate on the edge of Bishop Auckland with problems of drink and drugs, poverty, petty crime and what the phraseologists call social incohesion. It could be the estate of the nation.

High fidelity

10:21am Saturday 23rd February 2008

With its 150th anniversary approaching this year, the congregation of St Paul’s church has much to celebrate

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