A gay vicar is to be introduced into a prime-time soap. ITV's Coronation Street is to feature Daniel Brocklebank as 'Rev Billy', who joins character Emily Bishop's church; St Mary's in the ficti...
Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank has admitted viewers were shocked by his vicar character's drug use. The ITV soap sparked complaints with a scene in which vicar Billy Mayhew took heroin in ...
null Coronation Street has been cleared by Ofcom after more than 200 people complained over a scene in which a vicar took heroin in a church.The broadcasting watchdog ruled in its investigation that ...
The actress Morag Siller, who played a vicar in TV soap Coronation Street, has died from cancer. She was 46 and had been battling the disease for five years.A statement from her agent said she died i...
Raising a child to the age of 11 in the UK costs more than £83,000, according to research from Halifax. In its latest Cost of Children research, released annually, the bank said the figure...
A Christian charity says the cost of poverty to the taxpayer in the UK is around £78 billion. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, originally a Quaker group, is behind a new report, conducted by He...
Brits are more likely to believe in God when they're admitted to hospital, a study has found. The latest British Social Attitudes survey also revealed 52 per cent of the general public considered the...
The first ever female Archbishop may be appointed next year by the Church of England if the bookies' favourites of who will replace the Archbishop of York are c William Hill has named the bishops of ...
A council has agreed to reconsider its ban on a Christian couple adopting after they said a child should have a mother and a father. The local authority had previously said they were not suitable to ...
An English council has bowed to public pressure and scrapped its controversial 'Winterfest' branding for its festive events. Stoke on Trent Council will name this year's celebrations 'Love Christmas'...
Plans to transform part of a sprawling former sausage roll factory in Newcastle into a church have been rejected by planning officials. Tyneside Vineyard Church was informed by the City Council its p...
A Scottish local authority has been accused of 'religious discrimination' after it decided to restrict who can go to Catholic schools. Falkirk Council says only baptised young people will be guarante...
A survey has showed that barely half of Britain's councils now send Christmas cards which actually mention Christmas. Only one of 200 local authorities asked, Banbridge in Northern Ireland, was sendi...
A proposal to stop Christians and other pro-life advocates from meeting outside an abortion clinic in west London has won the backing of the local borough. A range of measures to deter activists will...
Flintshire Council has given a Baptist minister one week to take down a sign outside his church, because it's classed as advertising. According to the Daily Post the council told Rev Bob Marshall (ab...
Christian pro-life supporters may be prevented from distributing leaflets from outside an abortion clinic in west London, under a proposed measure to be discuss Ealing Council is due to discuss on Tu...
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been condemned by the Council of Christians of Jews after a video from 2013 emerged showing him accusing some Zionists of having The video was taken from the Palestinia...
The Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) is calling for more to be done to address prejudice towards the Jewish community. Concerns of anti-Semitic behaviour have continued to escalate recently, with...
A Welsh council has rejected the Catholic Church's plans to tear down a 140 year-old church in Aberystwyth. At a council meeting last night, Bishop Tom Burns of the Diocese of Menevia told councillor...
A church in Truro has accused the council of being "very spiteful and petty" after it removed and damaged one of the church's banners. All Saints Church in Highertown put up a banner in a bid to enco...
