Saturday, June 21, 2008

Vicars 'must stick up' for bells

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7463767.stm

[BBC News] 21 Jun 2008--Vicars should stand firm and should not bow to pressure to have the bells in their churches silenced, a Conservative MP has said.

Mark Pritchard, who represents The Wrekin in Shropshire, said he would fight any attempt to stop bell-ringing.

He said in some areas, people had taken the Human Rights Act "to extremes".

"There are over-eager public officials, some weak-kneed vicars and some human rights advocates... who want to silence this nation's bells," he said.

Mr Pritchard was speaking in the House of Commons in the wake of reports that environmental health officers were investigating noise from a church in the Suffolk town of Aldeburgh.

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