30/07/2017 London News

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The first Church of England vicar to marry a same-sex partner carried

The Reverand Andrew Foreshew-Cain will leave his parish in Kilburn,

but branded the church institutionally homophobic,

after being denied the chance to move to another parish.

This is no ordinary service, more like the front line of a battle

After 19 years as the vicar in this parish in

Kilburn, today's Reverend Andrew's last day.

He feels the Church of England is forcing him to, because he

upset today, I imagine, or do you not feel upset?

One is sadness at leaving a parish which I really love.

My other emotion is perhaps one of relief, at no longer being in an

organisation which treats homosexual people quite so badly as it does.

When his husband's job took him to Manchester,

wanted to be, but a stark warning from the church's hierarchy meant

getting a new parish was never going to happen.

I've been officially disciplined for getting married.

And when that happened, it was made very

clear to me that were I ever to leave these parishes I would never

work for the Church of England again.

The Church of England is without a shadow of a doubt

It has policies and practices on its books

and in the way it behaves that directly discriminates

We did ask the Church of England for an interview,

but instead we got a statement from the Bishop of Edmonton.

Three paragraphs of unadulterated praise

But not one single mention of the issue as to

The fact is, although civil partnerships are

acceptable, for the Church of England, marriage

is solely the union between a man and a woman for life.

The Reverend's battle between heart and soul

him or his parishioners, but for the Church

of England it's a line that

A number of families in Reading are spending a second night

in temporary accommodation, after a crane collapsed

And today expert engineers from the Netherlands travelled

to the UK to assess the damage, as Joe Campbell reports.

As the emergency operation was scaled back today people might have

It could be 12 o'clock, it could be three o'clock,

it could be eight o'clock, I don't know.

Residents of around 60 flats have been forced out of their

There were some parents with children and so on, so we needed to

get them off the streets, which we did.

Luckily, the Greyfriars Church over the road had opened their doors

and helped us to receive the evacuees in the very, very short

term, and then we moved them onwards from

the Greyfriars Church to

a local evacuation centre at a hotel.

The police helicopter revealed the full scale of what has happened.

The 60 metre long crane jib resting across the top of Primark's

BW, the firm refurbishing the site, were today

referring all enquiries to Thames Valley Police.

Who are being assisted by the Health and Safety

Executive as the investigation into why things went

The crane was putting heavy items on the top.

But unfortunately the item was very heavy and it slid.

Damage to the building was today plainly visible to

The crane has now been righted, as you can see, but the

question is just what damage, if any, it suffered when it fell

After an inspection by its Dutch owners, they

found it could not be retracted under its own power.

This afternoon experts began the lengthy process of

And it was the final day of RideLondon today.

25,000 people cycled through the capital.

Roads were closed throughout the day,

but, good news for drivers, all roads have now re-opened.

And a quick looks at tomorrow's weather, well, it's sunny

spells for most of us, with the odd short

It'll be breezy, but feeling a bit warmer than today in the sun,

with maximum temperatures of 23 degrees celsius.

That's it from the late team. Assad will be here from tomorrow morning

from six with Breakfast, but from all of us here, goodbye.

There has been a lot of heavy and at times fund showers around, but over

the next couple of days we will start to see a little more in the

way of sunshine come the showers coming few as well. This picture was

taken by a Weather Watcher in Devon, not a bad day to be on the beach,

but a different story inland. Okehampton has about a month's brain

in about six hours, this rather innocuous line of peninsular showers

have been there for a while. Some thick cloud moving the Aristide to

move some downpours into Wales and Northern Ireland and Scotland as

well as Northern Ireland. They are easing in intensity later on and

towards the south-east it may well be dry and clear, temper just 12 or

13. Quite a sinister at the many areas of England and Wales, but

there will be a few showers blown in as well, but not as