Wells Cathedral is marking the anniversary of its medieval Chained Library by launching a limited edition gin inspired by the first botanical text – one of the library’s most important exhibits. Dean Turner’s New Herball Gin is now on sale at Wells Cathedral Shop. It was made in...

I confess (if I may use the word in this context) that I had little regard for the late pope. I took against him, as it were, early in his papacy when I saw his reaction to some Muslim outrage (or outrage committed by a Muslim),...