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Austwick Church news: With the Government’s national ‘Step’ Regulations progressively enabling more activities to restart, we are now gradually reintroducing services of worship in our churches. Initially these are combined services to include everyone in the parishes of Clapham, Keasden, Austwick and Eldroth: Sunday, April 25, 9.30am, Austwick; Sunday, May 2, 9.30am, Eldroth; Sunday, May 9, 11am, Keasden. Ascension Day Thursday, May 13, 10.30am, Austwick; Sunday, May 16, 11am, Clapham. Parish News: The current edition can be found on the link below or from the village website: driv...

Austwick Church news: There will be no church services until further notice. Please join our online services each Sunday at 10.30am on Zoom by clicking: bit.ly/Church-online. The weekly newsletter is available for you to read and join in worship in your own time. Copies can be found in church porches or online at bit.ly/churches-weekly-newsletter. Clapham, Austwick and Eldroth churches continue to be open for individual prayer on Sundays and Wednesdays during daylight hours. Please check church noticeboards or future issues of this newsletter for updates. Church of England daily prayers fre...

Lawyers’ silence on Porter has been deafening Save Share The silence has been deafening. The nation’s legal associations and its peak body, the Law Council, have gone to ground since historic rape allegations were made against Attorney-General Christian Porter. Given the issues at stake – the presumption of innocence, trial by media, conflicting views on the best way forward – their contribution to the debate has been eagerly sought. Myanmar, but not the Attorney-General: Law Council president Jacoba Brasch, QC.  Tertius Pickard In fact, legal voices were among the fir...

Wright said that, as the first law officer, the attorney general should be held to a similar standard. Any inquiry would look at “fitness to continue in the role as opposed to criminal guilt”, she said, and thus would not conflict with the criminal law. “It is not looking at his criminal guilt,” she said. “It is looking at whether or not he is of that very high standard that we expect of ministers, particularly of the first law officer. “There would be numerous examples where individuals are accused of inappropriate behaviour where it is not referred to the police necessarily,” ...