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...London’s Christians have a history of hospitality dating back to Norman times (the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Limehouse, just beyond the Roman city walls, has provided bed, board and worship since...
...I live in a civil parish in Oxfordshire, smaller than Sedgley, and can list all its local attractions in order of popularity....
...She added that many children were going hungry at holiday times without school dinners....
...It’s also Britain’s strongest legacy of the social democratic 1945-79 era, present in almost every parish and catering to almost the whole population....
...Whether it be a parish council, school or multinational corporation, the non-executive board, he writes, plays a critical part in their success: “They do not run it; they watch over it, they supervise it...
...Sharon Tighe-Mooney was still in school when the Pope came to Ireland in 1979....
...“They’re from parishes up in north-east Louisiana that have private parish jails. And they’re waiting for somebody to get convicted....
...Building peaked in 1968 at about 426,000 homes, while Grenfell was on the drawing board....
...For 38 years we have survived every economic downturn by reinventing ourselves, taking on board new suppliers, creating new products and ramping up our export drive....
...“When I was a kid I would walk to school and all the houses were occupied. Now they are all empty. There are so few locals left.”...
...His Open Society Foundation provided heating fuel last winter to schools, orphanages and old people’s homes....
...After a happy childhood, Chancellor says her confidence took a knock when she was sent to board at St Mary’s School, a convent near Shaftesbury....
...“I ran for school board in a district that was 30 per cent white, and I was elected twice. I don’t want to say we are ever beyond that, but that it’s no longer the first lens that is looked through.”...
...But if every parish and hamlet had joined in, Potterne would have been unperturbed. They are the epitome of the new cricket....
...She credited a spartan boarding-school education with toughening her; she lived without “extravagant” central heating even in old age....
...When they’re transformed, they tend to be better for everyone across the board – but it has to happen in a reasoned and inclusive way.”...
...The Coal Board and the local council built housing estates and schools to cope with the exploding population....
...So at St Giles’s church in Shipbourne, Kent, there is now a regular farmers’ market with local produce sold on boards lying on the pew tops....
...Built in the 1820s for Sir Charles Coote, for much of the past century the house was a boarding school....
...According to the state-owned Louisiana Seafood and Promotion Marketing Board, the industry is worth more than $2.4bn to the state....
...But I always felt the call to get back to the sea, and the Mission to Seafarers had always been a sponsored charity in my parish....
...The neighbourhoods to the south will benefit when a school and the city archives, currently housed in the castle, are moved to the area....
...“We want to write to all parish councils in England and send them lists of the recipients of farm subsidies in that parish,” he told me....
...But they are not the only quadrupeds treading the boards: Christmas is a time when our furred and feathered friends often take centre stage....
...He was educated in a parish school, and moved to London in 1849....
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