Health club

ENTERPRISING sixth formers at St Paul's Catholic school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, have set up a health cluh for use by other pupils, staff and parents. The club, which has exercise bikes, rowing machines, a treadmill and various work-out stations, was opened this week by the Great Britain international 400m runner Phil Brown.
STREET cleaners and refuse collectors in Liverpool put out the red carpet this week for a visit by Archbishop Derek Worlock and his Anglican counterpart Bishop David Sheppard. The two met workers in Knowsley before joining a parents' activity day at Knowsley Teachers Centre in Huyton.
THE Catholic bishops' conference Committee for Other Faiths has re-issued its guidelines on relations with other religions in the aftermath of the Gulf war. The move was made because of fears that the public perception of the war could place the improving relationship with British Moslems at risk.
THOUSANDS of people are expected to attend the 21st Whitekirt — Haddington pilgrimage in Scotland on May 11, one of the country's foremost ecumenical events. Archbishop Keith O'Brien of St Andrews and Edinburgh will preside at a mass at St Mary's, Haddington, while a simultaneous Reformed rite Lord's Supper will he celebrated under the same roof by parish minister the Revd Alasdair Macdonell.
PAST and present parishioners of the Church of Our Lady, Heston, will gather there on May 11 to pay tribute to their parish priest of 31 years, Canon Peter Moore. He presided over the building of the church in 1962, and a parish school and social centre followed.
CHRISTIAN Life communities in Birmingham diocese have set up a trust fund to buy an outboard motor for Fr Alan Fortune, a Birmingham-born Jesuit working in Guyana in South America. Many of the villages in his parish, which is half the size of Wales, lie along the Pomeroon and Essequibo rivers, so a boat is the best means of transport.
RONALD Reeves, a parishioner of St Anselm's and St Cecilia's, central London, was last week given the freedom of the City of London. Mr Reeves, a trader, is a member of the London and Home Counties Showman's Guild, and has helped raise over £100,000 for children's charities.