Coronavirus: Only 5% of £12m Stormont childcare scheme spent
BBC News
Education Committee chair Chris Lyttle reveals a huge underspend of the key worker childcare fund.
[[] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53083774 ]
Twelfth of July: This year Orange Order makes ‘Battle of the Bug’ the key message
Belfast News Letter
[[] https://www.newsletter.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/twelfth-july-year-orange-order-makes-battle-bug-key-message-2888965 ]
Jim Allister: I welcome Loughinisland ruling, which confirms that police have a right to expect probes against them to be properly conducted
Belfast News Letter
[[] https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/jim-allister-i-welcome-loughinisland-ruling-which-confirms-police-have-right-expect-probes-against-them-be-properly-conducted-2888958 ]
Concerns about choirs not singing
Classic FM
Further coverage of a letter from musicians, including three cathedral organists, calling on church leadership to find a way for choirs to resume singing. The Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, is also quoted
[[] https://www.classicfm.com/composers/rutter/chilcott-letter-singing-choir-cannot-fade-coronavirus/ ]
Action on Church’s handling of allegations
Christian Today
Further report on action taken earlier this week following information supplied to the independent review into the Church’s handling of allegations against the late John Smyth.
[[] https://www.christiantoday.com/article/former-archbishop-of-canterbury-lord-careys-permission-to-officiate-revoked-by-bishop-of-oxford/135044.htm ]
Irish Priest in California calls Bishop ‘Racist’
Church Militant
And that we needed the Church to be able to breathe,” McAleenan said. … … Had to leave Ireland because because he said anyone who dislikes the Black Irish is racist.
[[] https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/ca-priests-calls-bishop-racist ]
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