Teams are out across the UK for what's expected to be the busiest night of the year for emergency services. The final Friday before Christmas is the most popular night for office parties and other fe...
A prominent church leader has called for more resources to tackle youth violence and knife crime. Revd Les Isaac, helped found the organisation Street Pastors in 2003 to reduce inner city gun and k...
Street pastors are set to save the NHS millions of pounds as they divert drunks away from A&E during the festive period. On most British high streets a group of Christians will patrol the night time ...
A street preacher has been arrested in Somerset, just weeks after he successfully appealed against a public order offence conviction. Mike Overd from Bridgwater was detained in the town's shopping ar...
A Christian street preacher who was arrested in east London on Tuesday afternoon and interviewed under caution has been released without charge. David Lynn (pictured above holding a placard, library ...
A pastor who was accused of hate speech and had his Bible taken away by police, has been awarded £2,500 in damages. Christian street preacher Oluwole Ilesanmi has been offered the money in exemplary...
A Christian street preacher has been found guilty of a public order offence while preaching on the streets of Taunton. Michael Overd from Creech St Michael, in Taunton, was said to have made offensiv...
Image by simonholliday.com Mike Overd, a street preacher from Somerset, has been arrested after being dragged off the street by a police officer.The evangelist, who was with three others, was speakin...
A Scottish evangelist has been cleared after being charged with threatening and abusive behaviour for sharing his views on homosexuality on the street. Gordon Larmour was handing out leaflets on the ...
A Christian street preacher found guilty of a public order offence while preaching on the streets of Taunton is to appeal his conviction. Michael Overd from Creech St Michael, in Taunton, was said to...
A street preacher from Kent who was arrested after displaying a placard which expressed love for Muslims but strongly criticised Islamic ideology will not face Prosecutors have informed Ian Sleeper,...
A Christian street preacher has successfully appealed against a conviction for using "threatening and discriminatory language" in Lincoln. The city's Crown Court overturned a ruling handed down by Li...
Two men fined over preaching to shoppers in Bristol city centre last summer have successfully appealed against their convictions. Michael Overd, 53, and 51 year old Michael Stockwell were acquitted a...
Two street preachers are appealing in court today against public order convictions after a case in which a prosecutor claimed publicly quoting parts of the King Michael Overd and Michael Stockwell we...
A Christian in Somerset has appeared at Taunton Magistrates Court, accused of three counts of using abusive language and behaviour in his street preaching. Michael Overd, 49, denies the charges. He h...
An inquiry has found that the former headmaster of a Roman Catholic boys boarding school walked into the sea due to the stress of his job. The act led to his de After a year in the position, 49 year ...
Strictly contestant the Rev Richard Coles has said it makes "no sense" that anyone would resist having same-sex couples taking to the dance floor in the hit BBC Coles, who was one half of the 1980s b...
Strictly Come Dancing hopeful Rev Richard Coles is returning to his musical roots after 30 years away from the studio. The Parish Priest of St Mary's Church, Finedon, Northamptonshire, is the only vi...
Strictly Come Dancing's head judge has added her voice to former contestant Rev Richard Coles' call for the hit BBC programme to allow same-sex partners to comp Shirley Ballas said she "couldn't thin...
A special tent manned by Christians is helping music lovers at the Glastonbury Festival stay safe and encounter God. A team of 70 believers are holding daily prayers and worship and offering free wat...
