Just an aside. The local newspaper is going to run with a letter this week, that was copied to the head of chaplaincy at the hospital, who gave me a heads up.

Embarrassingly for him and his multi faith team, a local councillor has written to say that we are a Christian country and only the Christian chaplains should be state funded and if members of foreign faiths want pastoral care, they should pay for it.

The saying that the Church of England is the Conservative party at prayer isn't quite so funny sometimes.....