Students' union bans Christian Union

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[Times Online] January 26, 2006--The mermaid in the fountain of the 1920s Guild of Students building at Birmingham university, the country's first purpose-built students' union, could be forgiven if she is weeping this week. As reported exclusively in The Times this week, The Guild council has suspended one of its societies, the Evangelical Christian Union, and frozen its the CU funds in its bank account after the CU refused to open its membership to people of all religions. After the CU instructed lawyers and threatened court proceedings, the Guild has agreed to return the money. Several thousand pounds are at stake. But the CU is continuing with its legal action because of the Guild's refusal to reverse its decision to derecognise, or in effect abolish, the Christian Union at Birmingham University.