New Route

I launched the third Tour De Leicestershire today.
Special features.  We will pass...

Groby Pool

Stoneywell

Mount St Bernard Abbey

Charley - An area in Charnwood with a great name

Beacon Hill

Quorn Baptist- Hoping they can help us

Mountsorrel Quarry

Route goes between the two quarries

Gaddesby  Chruch

Marefield Viaduct

From the days when every village had a station

Lowesby Hall

Quenby Hall- home of Stilton they say

Hungarton at its best

Gaulby Church

Kings Norton Church- just 1/4 of a mile away

Sign up at www.openhandsleicester.org.uk

House in Kibworth then...
Wistow. Another Leicestershire Village with
a big house and a church  and nothing much else

Foston.  Big house- church- nothing else,
and our third stopping point?

Letter to the Independent (Published)

Dear Editor

As a committed Independent reader, and a Christian, I concur with the views expressed in the editorial of 2 January.  

Over the centuries commentators have noted that the favouring of Christianity by Emperor Constantine came not only with advantages, but also with costs. I feel that Christianity’s place in our society is shifting to one which is potentially closer to that described in accounts of the early church.   

I do not object to pictures of the Pope kissing a lacquered baby Jesus (picture on the front cover of 2nd January), but whenever The Independent challenges abuse of the poor, exposes corruption, and promotes minority rights, it perhaps unwittingly promotes “true religion”. 

Andrew Starr

Leicester