St Clare’s Catholic Primary School in Clacton is celebrating becoming the first school in the town to achieve the prestigious Platinum award in the Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) Primary Programme. The award recognises the school’s commitment to creating rich, inclusive and adventurous play opportunities, with pupils benefiting from exciting new outdoor spaces that encourage creativity, resilience and wellbeing.
'This draft legislation undermines respect for the innate value of human life, could lead vulnerable people feeling pressured into ending their lives, and risks putting many hospices and care homes into the position of no longer being able to operate.'
Caritas Diocese of Brentwood is inviting parishioners, clergy, school staff, catechists, volunteers and young adults to a range of stimulating in-person events on the environment, homelessness and the cost of living, and refugees.
Stephen has been the organist at Brentwood Cathedral for 33 years and has played at Notre Dame and St Peter's Basilica in Rome. At an event marking his retirement, Vincent Thompson, a former High Sheriff of Essex, former Deputy Lieutenant of Essex and a trustee of the Brentwood Cathedral and Choral Trust for over 25 years, paid tribute to Stephen’s “extraordinary technical skills and dedication”.
Jimmy Lai is a British citizen whose ‘crime’ was to voice concerns, engage in peaceful protest, and publish a newspaper which was critical of oppressive new laws in Hong Kong. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Bishop Paul McAleenan, Lead Bishop for Migrants and Refugees for the Bishops’ Conference, has welcomed new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s comments on migrant Channel crossings this morning in Dover, 3 August, in which he recognised that “we also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes
