Offensive cross(2)

In the Times today, Russell Jenkins

reports on the latest TV wedding, in Coronation Street. The setting was the beautiful 14th century church

of Nether Alderley in Cheshire. The vicar is incensed, reports Russell: 'It was not the absurd storyline... 

Nor was it the ornate horse-drawn carriage, the dry-ice machine used to create atmosphere or even the 

harpist in the nave.'  The Rev James Milnes is upset because the producers, not wanting to cause offence,

covered up the solid brass cross on the altar.