Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

 Click here for audio.  I love it when local news becomes national news. A problem with wheelie bins in a sleepy Cornish fishing village shouldn’t really be breaking news on our web feeds and newspaper columns, but that’s what happened a couple of days ago. The wonderfully named village of Mousehole hit the national news [1] when the local Cornwall Council changed the wheelie bins for new ones. But the trouble is that they didn’t take the old ones away. Apparently there have been 10,000 requests to the council to get them taken away, but it still hasn’t happened. So what was described by poet Dylan Thomas as one of England’s prettiest villages, “Mousehole” has become dubbed “Binhole” due to the rather unattractive wheelie bins that are accumulating in the streets and getting covered in seagull poo. Photos show them in clusters down the street, or stacked on top of each other waiting for the council to come and take them away. Somehow in the summer months between the Tru...

  Click here for audio.  "There is only one thing I can say - I'm sorry”. These are the words of Conservative MP Suella Braverman after the general election results last week. “I'm sorry that my party didn't listen to you. The Conservative Party has let you down. You voted for us over 14 years and we did not keep our promises. We have acted and we need to learn our lesson because, if we don't, we will have many worse nights to come. The country deserves better and I will do everything in my power to rebuild but we need to listen to you - you have spoken very clearly." Well I’m not into politics, and possibly you aren’t either. And maybe sometimes apologies can feel a little hollow. But in politics, in personal life, in public and in private, it’s good when we get things wrong to say sorry. Beyoncé, Madonna, Madness, UB40, Guns and Roses, Justin Bieber, they’ve all got songs called “Sorry”. As Elton John sang “Sorry seems to be the hardest word”. You f...