From Today's Daily Mail.......
I've written before about the way in which elf'n'safety is targeting churches, forcing bell-ringers to wear protective helmets and ear muffs, and insisting that vicars put up 'no smoking' signs and instruct worshippers to mind the step on their way out at the end of the service.
Mail reader June Lower tells me she called in at St Peter's, Derby, recently for a few minutes of quiet reflection.
Wondering why there weren't the usual hassocks on the pews, she was told they had been removed on the orders of elf'n'safety.
They said the church would be held responsible if anyone tripped over a hassock or fell off one and hurt themselves,' June writes.
Have you ever heard of anyone falling off a hassock? Are A&E departments the length and breadth of Britain teeming with people suffering prayer-related injuries?
It won't be long before they're insisting that all members of the congregation have to wear skateboard-style knee pads before taking communion.
