Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

Well MP Matt Hancock’s appearance on “I’m a celebrity get me out of here” has been very controversial. Some from his Haverhill constituency (not far from here) have called it a disgrace that he’s gone on the programme, and others have said he should resign. Even a mild-mannered relative of mine wrote “stupid man” over his photo on a newspaper cutting that she sent to me! A few on the other hand, have valued his time in the Jungle said that it’s been important to see that he’s only human like everyone else. But fellow contestant, and TV presenter Charlene White tackled him directly on how he had flaunted the very lockdown guidance he had asked others to follow: "My aunt died from Covid in the first wave. So, we couldn't go to the hospital to go and visit her. I had to sit by myself in the church at her funeral. We couldn't hug each other because we were following guidance. And I get that you fell in love, I understand all of those things, but sorry for a lot of...

Did you know that in vaults of the Bank of England there are around 400,000 bars of gold worth over £200billion! Only the Federal Reserve in New York has more gold than that! It’s so heavy that there are special purpose-built shelves to hold it all up, and of course lots of security, and as a result no gold has ever been stolen from the Bank of England. Italian Job, Oceans Eleven, sorry! However, in Victorian times there was a close miss! You can read about it on the Bank of England’s website . In 1836 the Bank of England’s Directors received anonymous letters from someone claiming to have access to their gold. In fact they offered to meet those directors inside the vault whenever they chose. Sure enough at the appointed time there was a noise heard from beneath the floor, and a man popped up through the floorboards. He had been doing repair work and had discovered an old drain that ran underneath the gold. Billions of pounds worth of gold was at his disposal, but he cho...