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In the long-term local people, church groups and police came together to offer support. But in the aftermath there was anxiety. Five hours after Rigby's death, I had arrived at the mosque. It was about 7.15pm, just before prayer time, and I was helping to make snacks with a colleague when I heard a loud bang. I looked out of the kitchen window and saw smoke pouring out downstairs. … [Read more...] about Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by extremists

Woodhead believes many previously faithful Catholics began questioning church teaching in 1968, when Pope Paul VI overruled the advice of his own papal commission to restate the church's opposition to any artificial birth control. Combine that with the child sexual abuse scandals that began to surface in the 1980s – and the Vatican's reaction to those scandals – says Woodhead, and you begin to see a slow dissolution of the church's moral supremacy. "It's not so much the fact that clergy were abusing children – dreadful though that is – because it was happening in secular institutions too, it's the fact that the church covers up that undermines the authority of church leaders even more." … [Read more...] about The year Pope Francis allowed Britain’s Catholics to break cover

In the West Yorkshire findings, illegal examples included mozzarella that was less than half real cheese, ham on pizzas that was either poultry or "meat emulsion" instead of pork, frozen prawns that were 50% water, minced beef adulterated with pork or poultry, fruit juices that contained illegal additives, counterfeit vodka, and a herbal slimming tea that was neither herb nor tea but glucose powder laced with a withdrawn prescription drug for obesity at 13 times the normal dose. … [Read more...] about Half of meat product samples contained DNA of wrong animals, council finds