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• Church bill 147x higher

  Castleton Baptist Church, near Newport, was charged almost £44,000 by SSE for energy usage, despite normally paying around £300 a month. The church had not seen a letter confirming the bill, because the building has no letterbox to receive post.

  Church treasurer, Nathan Evans saw that the massive direct debit had been taken when he examined the church accounts, and upon recalculation, SSE admitted the church should have been charged just £304. SSE have apologised for the mistake, and offered £500 compensation.

• Police busker warning

  Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Ian Paisley, son of the former First Minister of the same name, has said that the Metropolitan Police should ensure their officers are ‘aware of the rights of all the citizens of this United Kingdom’, after a volunteer police officer told a Christian in Oxford Street, London that she could not sing worship songs outside of a church.

  The officer had told Harmonie London, a gospel singer with over 296,000 followers on Instagram, that ‘you’re not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds, by the way.’ The police force has said the officer was mistaken, and apologised for any offence caused, and that the issue should have been unlicensed busking, and not the content of the songs.